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391. Large Hadron Collider finds evidence of one-in-ten-billion particle decay

Posted by simonvreeman on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:15AM
from the home.cern dept.

https://home.cern/lhcb-finds-evidence-of-one-in-ten-billion-particle-decay/

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392. Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

Posted by apress on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:23PM
from the bostonglobe.com dept.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/

( Read More... | 238 comments | 169 points | on HN )

393. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

Posted by francisofascii on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:51PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://tng.episodle.com/

( Read More... | 80 comments | 12 points | on HN )

394. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

Posted by Tiberium on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:38PM
from the arkm.com dept.

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8

( Read More... | 1273 comments | 1760 points | on HN )

395. Mintype – Free, zero-knowledge notes app with whiteboards (AGPL)

Posted by project59 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:39AM
from the mintype.app dept.

https://mintype.app

( Read More... | 1 comment | on HN )

396. H.264 Is Magic

Posted by ea016 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:53AM
from the sidbala.com dept.

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

( Read More... | 168 comments | 20 points | on HN )

397. Google extends voluntary buyout offers to employees in several countries

Posted by andy99 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:31AM
from the reuters.com dept.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/google-extends-voluntary-buyout-offers-employees-several-countries-2026-11-04/

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )

398. Switch Lowering in GCC

Posted by signa11 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:02AM
from the xoranth.net dept.

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/

( Read More... | 52 comments | on HN )

399. AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them

Posted by dorianniemiec on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:52AM
from the newsletter.signoz.io dept.

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling

( Read More... | 511 comments | 46 points | on HN )

400. Never Complain, Never Explain

Posted by gregsadetsky on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:55AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_complain,_never_explain

( Read More... | 71 comments | 145 points | on HN )

401. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

Posted by entryleveljobsc on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:08PM
from the finance.yahoo.com dept.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/the-intel-stock-collapse-is-getting-worse--and-the-37-trillion-chip-rout-is-spreading-212154947.html

( Read More... | 230 comments | on HN )

402. Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

Posted by galadran on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:03AM
from the emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com dept.

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html

( Read More... | 413 comments | 93 points | on HN )

403. Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

Posted by mhb on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:19PM
from the formlabs.com dept.

https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/

( Read More... | 191 comments | 92 points | on HN )

404. Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 open letter on Israel

Posted by olirex99 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:12AM
from the commons.wikimedia.org dept.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_and_others_letter.jpg

( Read More... | 6 comments | on HN )

405. The Story of How McDonald's First Got Its Start

Posted by bookofjoe on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:12AM
from the smithsonianmag.com dept.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-how-mcdonalds-first-got-its-start-180960931/

( Read More... | 3 comments | on HN )

406. Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

Posted by dverlaeckt80 on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:49AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-cup/

( Read More... | 2 comments | on HN )

407. ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

Posted by Zariel on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:49PM
from the help.openai.com dept.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits

( Read More... | 175 comments | 7 points | on HN )

408. Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

Posted by costco on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:29PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve

( Read More... | 114 comments | on HN )

409. DoorDash to Acquire Instacart

Posted by WalterSobchak on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:33AM
from the about.doordash.com dept.

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart

( Read More... | 655 comments | 173 points | on HN )

410. AlpineBSD

Posted by bradley_taunt on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:30AM
from the wiki.alpinebsd.org dept.

https://wiki.alpinebsd.org

( Read More... | 248 comments | 40 points | on HN )

411. Trapped in the Technologist Factory

Posted by luu on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:30PM
from the ideolalia.com dept.

https://ideolalia.com/essays/trapped-in-the-technologist-factory.html

( Read More... | 31 comments | on HN )

412. Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

Posted by bogdanoff_2 on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:09PM
from the tibleiz.net dept.

https://tibleiz.net/copper/

( Read More... | 130 comments | 2 points | on HN )

413. Fossilized blood cells found in 115M-year-old dinosaur bone

Posted by GolfPopper on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:01PM
from the pnas.org dept.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2614248123

( Read More... | 7 comments | on HN )

414. Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo

Posted by modinfo on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:50AM
from the gist.github.com dept.

https://gist.github.com/skorotkiewicz/c59e591c26661cb52b06afc42d8ac546

( Read More... | 21 comments | 2 points | on HN )

415. Why Every AI Model Will Ship as a Torrent

Posted by ahoyychips on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:36PM
from the pirateface.co dept.

https://pirateface.co/articles/one-model-one-swarm

( Read More... | 4 comments | 3 points | on HN )

416. Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers

Posted by 882542F3884314B on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:42AM
from the dreamgroup.com dept.

https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers

( Read More... | 167 comments | 3 points | on HN )

417. Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

Posted by toomuchtodo on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:13PM
from the fullycharged.show dept.

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/

( Read More... | 225 comments | 4 points | on HN )

418. No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]

Posted by surprisetalk on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:20AM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRmSlcTq9c

( Read More... | 123 comments | on HN )

419. Quili AI

Posted by Shugyousha on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:49AM
from the quili.ai dept.

https://www.quili.ai/

( Read More... | 66 comments | 2 points | on HN )

420. Valve Steam: Updates to the Pre-Release Review Process

Posted by HelloUsername on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:27AM
from the store.steampowered.com dept.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/696528162820984745

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