1. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 (www.theguardian.com)
World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red
2. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (www.smithsonianmag.com)
3. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
Biohub, DOE, NIH, and partners will generate open, standardized data to train AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.
4. A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (www.nature.com)
5. Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser (treylorswift.github.io)
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser.
6. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens.
7. People Holding Up the Internet (sheets.works)
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
8. OLED burn-in test: 30-month update (www.techspot.com)
9. New gTLD Application for .lan (newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
New gTLD Program: 2026 Round public application information, including application status.
10. Telnet BBS Guide (www.telnetbbsguide.com)
11. A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU (carette.xyz)
Update (28th of September 2026)
Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update the blog post and the code accordingly to that comment. Thanks Max!
I started a small experiment: writing a very basic kernel in Swift, and running on QEMU.
Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update the blog post and the code accordingly to that comment. Thanks Max!
I started a small experiment: writing a very basic kernel in Swift, and running on QEMU.
12. Time Travel in Braid (2015) (qntm.org)
13. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program (www.reuters.com)
14. Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) (github.com)
An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) - pingdotgg/ts-rust
15. A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew (github.com)
An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative. Contribute to zerobrewhq/zerobrew development by creating an account on GitHub.
16. Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man (opper.ai)
Six AI decision models played Pac-Man in real time against the classic arcade ghosts. See the leaderboard, watch their games, or play against them.
17. 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die' (www.theguardian.com)
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty rivers that reveals a lot about Britain today
18. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton (theconversation.com)
Powered robotic devices designed to enhance the wearer’s physical capabilities are being developed for an increasing range of uses.
19. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization (github.com)
Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and its follow-up LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026) - SamsungLabs/LittleBit
20. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com)
Kubernetes TUI you can click. Instant search, logs/exec/port-forward, 7 themes, context-aware AI. Single Go binary. - p10node/k10s
21. Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms (blog.pkh.me)
22. A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here (tidesdb.com)
TidesDB becomes available under project TideSQL for MySQL.
23. Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols (dat-ecosystem.org)
dat-ecosystem is a post-web p2p community of projects - Most projects are self funded. Some of the projects contribute maintainance and development to core pieces of the Dat ecosystem while others create high level applications built on top of p2p protocols.
24. 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking (interop-rank.fxdx.dev)
Rank the Interop 2027 features you care most about
25. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (www.tomshardware.com)
The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance.
26. Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances (cointelegraph.com)
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed a warning from Ethereum researcher Justin Drake that advances in artificial intelligence could threaten the cryptographic algorithms used to secure crypto wallets.
27. AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents (www.ahmath.org)
28. New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)
Maintainers now have more control over how repositories accept contributions. Two new settings let you manage pull requests to better match your project's needs. Disable pull requests entirely You can…
29. Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI (github.com)
A free photo editor. No account, no subscription, no tracking. RAW, masks and on-device AI for macOS, Windows and Linux. Self-hostable. - thesnarkitecht/rembrandt
30. Serverless Horrors $10,811.41 (serverlesshorrors.com)
Stories you never want to feel on your own skin