HN&&LO - Hacker News update queue

Summary

Retried: 21. Updated (and retried): 11. Removed: 2. Dead: 0.

Total items in queue: 399. Highest retry count: 18.

This page was updated on 2026-09-26T15:48:25 UTC - [wat] - [key] - [Retry levels and counts]

Updates sorted by item age

#IdURLDomain SCR Item ageStatus% change
1. 49851776 Show HN: A game about fake news and memes unspin.app 15 11 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ‘7 15h36 ♻️  
2. 49851883 Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width ampdot.mesh.host 10β†’12 1β†’3 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’6 15h18 πŸ”„ 36.4%
3. 49851985 Linguistic humor, Foreign hotel signs ling.upenn.edu 18β†’19 8 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’6 15h03 πŸ”„ 3.8%
4. 49852717 We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians ⭐(7) terrytao.wordpress.com 189β†’245 263β†’340 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’6 13h01 πŸ”„ 29.4%
5. 49854161 Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? ⭐(13) safenotsafe.dev 62β†’87 16β†’27 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’4 8h15 πŸ”„ 46.2%
6. 49854382 Nobody wanted an "AI PC," so Microsoft stopped calling it that techspot.com 6 2 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄4 7h24 STT  
7. 49854399 CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American shkspr.mobi 75β†’79 74β†’78 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’4 7h20 πŸ”„ 5.4%
8. 49854827 The Emacs Cat: Running Emacs in MicroVM olddeuteronomy.github.io 3β†’4 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’3 6h14 πŸ”„ 33.3%
9. 49854875 How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs discourse.haskell.org 63β†’74 92β†’129 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’3 6h06 πŸ”„ 31.0%
10. 49855215 Stalker: Free Browser Fingerprint and Privacy Checker Tool geeksta.net 4 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ‘2 5h09 ♻️  
11. 49855238 Alex Karp: AI Models Are Stealing Your Data and the AI Safety Truth [video] youtube.com 3β†’4 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’2 5h06 πŸ”„ 33.3%
12. 49855644 Beyond Tokenmaxxing isaca.nl 1 1 πŸ”΄3 3h59 ❌=  
13. 49855725 The Cost of Blue Light: Multiorgan Pathology Induced by LED Exposure biorxiv.org 1 0 πŸ”΄2 3h45 ❌=  
14. 49855959 Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly blog.rust-lang.org 2 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄2 3h08 ♻️↓  
15. 49855969 Catching Rogue Agents in Real Time with Synchronous Control Monitoring max.ax 2 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄2 3h06 ♻️↓  
16. 49856691 Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts github.com 3 1 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ‘2 1h42 ♻️  
17. 49857041 CropCode – Convert UI Crops into Structured JSON for LLMs chromewebstore.google.com 1 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄1 1h08 ♻️↓  
18. 49857297 Show HN: Ephemeral runner for JEV-style models github.com 1 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄1 40m ♻️↓  
19. 49857303 The Flu Alarm Is Armed – and This Winter, It Gets Graded laggingtruth.substack.com 1β†’2 1 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’1 39m πŸ”„ 50.0%
20. 49857317 Rulers of the childless land: A response to the AGMAI proofsandprompts.com 1β†’2 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’1 38m πŸ”„ 100.0%
21. 49857423 The Unix Philosophy for macOS micahblachman.com 1 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄1 26m ♻️↓  
22. 49857427 Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming language futhark-lang.org 1 0 πŸŸ’β†’πŸ”΄1 26m ♻️↓  
23. 49857442 Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe ⭐(2) economist.com 3β†’15 1β†’7 πŸŸ’β†’πŸŸ’1 24m πŸ”„ 450.0%

Current queue (next hour), sorted by descending comment count

#IdURLDomain SCR Item age  
1.49836374 Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos launchvideo.io 414 217 🟒15 1 day    
2.49849141 How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance fnl.mit.edu 225 129 🟒8 19h51    
3.49846995 Tesla’s optimus hits snags in hands, suppliers as scale-up begins electrek.co 11 26 🟒9 22h54    
4.49850781 Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin spectrum.ieee.org 50 18 🟒8 17h20    
5.49848680 Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001) cs.cmu.edu 46 16 🟒9 20h35    
6.49851879 TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system robertsdotpm.github.io 19 15 🟒7 15h18    
7.49851435 Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave techcrunch.com 19 11 🟒7 16h18    
8.49850629 Hype Is a Business Tool jenson.org 17 7 🟒8 17h35    
9.49856750 I'm coding directly in production with AI and I'm not looking back joydemo.com 3 7 🟒2 1h37    
10.49839401 Snowden on AI Surveillance and Freedom of Speech [video] youtube.com 16 4 πŸ”΄14 1 day    
11.49852009 We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It's Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It wsj.com 18 4 🟒6 14h59    
12.49855980 Typed-lm: a Rust jev open source alternative github.com 2 1 🟒2 3h04    
13.49856004 Google's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power tomshardware.com 3 1 🟒2 3h00    
14.49856077 No Blind Trust: Type Systems and Formal Verification for AI-Generated Code wearecommunity.io 1 1 🟒2 2h49    
15.49856888 Vast Casino Secrets leak exposes inner workings of offshore gambling firms theguardian.com 2 1 🟒2 1h22    
16.49857390 A Constitutional Architecture for Synthetic Consciousness papers.ssrn.com 1 1 🟒1 30m    
17.49853879 It's a Jev's World bolna.ai 3 0 πŸ”΄4 9h03    
18.49854219 Flip Fluid on Flip Dots mitxela.com 3 0 πŸ”΄4 7h58    
19.49854806 Show HN: Aerofi – a rofi-inspired, scriptable launcher for macOS (Rust, GPUI) github.com 1 0 πŸ”΄2 6h17    
20.49854941 First DVD player announced Sept 26, 1996 dfarq.homeip.net 1 0 πŸ”΄2 5h53    
21.49855239 Show HN: Catescape catescape.dev 2 0 🟒2 5h06    
22.49855248 ChatGPT Maps chatgpt.com 3 0 🟒2 5h04    
23.49855315 Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free ⭐(1) gultsch.de 2 0 🟒2 4h52    
24.49855683 Show HN: Ollaya Web UI github.com 6 0 🟒3 3h52    
25.49855738 Show HN: Asα»₯sα»₯ Ọma, a free app for learning Igbo with native-speaker audio asusuoma.com 1 0 πŸ”΄2 3h43    
26.49855784 Chinese AI models surge in global popularity – and Washington is worried cnbc.com 1 0 πŸ”΄2 3h36    
27.49855816 Show HN: Blue Lock Farm – a Roblox wiki, database and tools bluelockfarm.com 1 0 πŸ”΄2 3h30    
28.49855974 LaserActive en.wikipedia.org 3 0 🟒2 3h04    
29.49856144 OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs' Lawyers of Funding and Laundering Copyright Evidence techdirt.com 2 0 🟒2 2h43    
30.49856988 Go Concurrency Distilled antonz.org 3 0 🟒2 1h13    
31.49857285 Show HN: Ogre MCP – Let your AI agent see your WoW Classic game state github.com 1 0 🟒1 41m    
32.49857287 The Nine-Person Game Team Will Soon Outperform a AAA Game Studio clairvoyanceai.com 1 0 🟒1 41m    
33.49857290 Show HN: I made HACKER AI for your vibecoded app netherite.uz 1 0 🟒1 41m    
34.49857403 Eras of SF Tech Culture noahpinion.blog 2 0 🟒1 29m    
35.49857414 Details of how BC school shooter used ChatGPT 'more disturbing' than prev. known cbc.ca 2 0 🟒1 28m    
36.49857421 Mahvex – An all-in-one platform for developers mahvex.githubpage.com 1 0 🟒1 27m    
37.49857543 New Release of FreePascal Book from Square One in PDF (2025) contrapositivediary.com 1 0 🟒1 11m    
38.49857552 Tipword – Hold a key and point at any word on your Mac to translate it tipword.app 1 0 🟒1 11m    
39.49857555 Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers techcrunch.com 1 0 🟒1 10m    
40.49857643 After the AI Hype – What's Real, and What's Next – Richard Campbell [video] youtube.com 1 0 🟒1 1m    

Top 20 retries by comment count descending, retry count descending, age descending

#IdURLDomain SCR Item ageNext run 
1.49836419 California is chasing wealth that has feet blog.landeconomics.org 283 831 🟒16 1 day 3h40  
2.49845977 U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk cnbc.com 468 808 🟒11 1 day 3h24  
3.49841563 Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS dawo.community 968 567 🟒13 1 day 3h44  
4.49831968 F-Droid 2.0 f-droid.org 1445 413 🟒17 2 days 3h19  
5.49849985 Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face ⭐(4) swarmtraces.org 568 363 🟒9 18h38 2h44  
6.49840054 Plan mode is dead ⭐(8) aymannadeem.com 380 340 🟒13 1 day 1h24  
7.49852717 We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians ⭐(7) terrytao.wordpress.com 245 340 🟒7 13h01 2h54  
8.49840314 Goodbye Google robert.ocallahan.org 251 315 🟒14 1 day 3h24  
9.49829650 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us theguardian.com 205 313 🟒18 2 days 4h00  
10.49850305 What even is an OS now? ⭐(19) sockpuppet.org 221 309 🟒9 18h11 1h49  
11.49832938 Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? dynomight.substack.com 560 289 🟒16 1 day 2h49  
12.49844786 Allow babywearing carriers on planes jefftk.com 197 269 🟒11 1 day 2h04  
13.49842487 The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy economist.com 200 261 🟒13 1 day 2h54  
14.49831690 Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' afr.com 137 223 🟒17 2 days 3h14  
15.49836374 Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos launchvideo.io 414 217 🟒15 1 day 45m  
16.49839664 What About Rails? jardo.dev 318 216 🟒14 1 day 1h05  
17.49834825 Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity cell.com 183 211 🟒16 1 day 2h54  
18.49832844 Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029 texastribune.org 116 196 🟒17 1 day 4h54  
19.49831175 Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error votebeat.org 101 194 🟑17 2 days 5h50  
20.49845998 Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? ⭐(22) quantamagazine.org 237 186 🟒11 1 day 2h54  

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==> setting 49857041 Β«CropCode – Convert UI Crops into Structured JSON for LLMsΒ» S:1 C:0 to 10800 seconds in the future
==> setting 49857297 Β«Show HN: Ephemeral runner for JEV-style modelsΒ» S:1 C:0 to 10800 seconds in the future
==> setting 49857423 Β«The Unix Philosophy for macOSΒ» S:1 C:0 to 10800 seconds in the future
==> setting 49857427 Β«Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming languageΒ» S:1 C:0 to 10800 seconds in the future

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