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Last updated: September 19, 2026, 10:00 PM ET

Hacker News

A deep dive into Mayday Mysteries revisits unsolved aviation cases, drawing fresh community scrutiny. A 2013 explainer on Hacker News ranking resurfaces, detailing scoring, controversy penalties, and gravity.

Games & Language

Players can defeat the Dream Devourer in Chrono Trigger by exploiting an integer overflow, a clever quirk of the game's damage math. A Red Blob Games post examines the a vs. an rule in English, probing the edge cases that trip up writers and parsers alike.

Privacy & Cryptography

OONI invites contributors to measure internet censorship via its Probe app, building the largest open dataset on network interference. Researchers present ZK-JPEG, a scheme for zero-knowledge image editing and compression that lets proofs verify transformations without revealing the underlying pixels.