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U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

2026-11-01 @ 23:20:31Points: 271Comments: 146

AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says

2026-11-01 @ 22:10:45Points: 214Comments: 212

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

2026-11-01 @ 19:35:27Points: 262Comments: 424

I have heard good things about Apple TV as a better alternative to most smart TV native apps. Would some TV’s pair better with this than others for privacy? I don’t want the TV doing anything other than being the display for Apple TV.

I am curious what success others have had.

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

2026-11-01 @ 18:28:42Points: 269Comments: 289

Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power

2026-11-01 @ 17:28:16Points: 410Comments: 292

Frontier Airlines Likely Breached

2026-11-01 @ 16:46:33Points: 197Comments: 75

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

2026-11-01 @ 16:23:26Points: 159Comments: 45

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

2026-11-01 @ 15:58:28Points: 1195Comments: 215

It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.

To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc.

It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.

Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions

2026-11-01 @ 15:33:49Points: 145Comments: 120

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

2026-11-01 @ 14:34:43Points: 448Comments: 157

Novellas with Groff

2026-11-01 @ 13:51:41Points: 120Comments: 51

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

2026-11-01 @ 13:24:49Points: 127Comments: 66

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

2026-11-01 @ 13:02:30Points: 206Comments: 49

OmniDiff can diff: code (25 languages), config, images, PDFs, archives, cursors, fonts...

It's fast. It can diff C++ files of tens of thousands of lines in under 100ms, on a 2023 ThinkPad T14s.

It's open source. AGPLv3.

It's based on real diffs. I looked at the 7400 repositories that are listed in Gentoo packages, sampled 2000 diffs and solved them manually to get a good understanding of what is needed, before putting together the diff pipelines for each content type. Incidentally, this also forms the basis of the CI pipeline, so the robustness of the codebase is quite high.

I'm still developing it. It's v0.3.0 at this time. But I have been using it daily as my git difftool for months now, and it works well.

AI Disclosure: Yes, I do use AI. No, I do not vibecode.

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

2026-11-01 @ 10:44:20Points: 69Comments: 49

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

2026-11-01 @ 06:06:19Points: 345Comments: 261

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

2026-10-31 @ 22:41:06Points: 788Comments: 203

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

2026-10-31 @ 20:21:55Points: 95Comments: 144

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

2026-10-31 @ 19:56:53Points: 2438Comments: 555

The She-Wolves of Jülich

2026-10-31 @ 17:29:39Points: 20Comments: 3

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

2026-10-31 @ 10:14:08Points: 143Comments: 46

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

2026-10-31 @ 09:49:42Points: 86Comments: 16

Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)

2026-10-31 @ 04:31:06Points: 46Comments: 24

Understanding Email Encryption (2025)

2026-10-30 @ 20:55:56Points: 130Comments: 28

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

2026-10-30 @ 19:09:33Points: 155Comments: 82

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

2026-10-30 @ 12:40:08Points: 39Comments: 20

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

2026-10-30 @ 04:17:06Points: 124Comments: 21

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

2026-10-30 @ 03:06:52Points: 67Comments: 32

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

2026-10-29 @ 15:22:41Points: 185Comments: 41

I'm in Minnesota, so i haven't had a chance to test it on a huge amount of terrain (the best I've found is the Mississippi River gorge in the twin cities... I need a trip up north), so anyone that's somewhere with some more bumps: please help!).

It's stuck in the Apple review queue, but it's up on testflight for anyone interested. Google approved it quickly and it's fully out on android (links to both on the marketing site).

edit: got a report that testflight was asking for an install code. Seems like a testflight app issue, but dismissing it and installing as normal seems to work!

Radiation Map of the World

2026-10-28 @ 20:06:27Points: 151Comments: 47

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

2026-10-28 @ 09:46:12Points: 103Comments: 16

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