New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker

Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker
6 by tevans3 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
This is a (silly, little) app which lets you make noise music using a color picker as an instrument. When you click on a specific point in the color picker, a bit of JavaScript maps the binary representation of the clicked-on color's hex-code to a "chord" in the 24 tone-equal-temperament scale. That chord is then played back using a throttled audio generation method which was implemented via Tone.js. NOTE! Turn the volume way down before using the site. It is noise music. :)

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew

Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew
15 by epsteingpt | 15 comments on Hacker News.
Built an auditable AI (Bible) translation pipeline: Hebrew/Greek source packets -> verse JSON with notes rolling up to chapters, books, and testaments. Final texts compiled with metrics (TTR, n-grams). This is the first full-text example as far as I know (Gen Z bible doesn't count). There are hallucinations and issues, but the overall quality surprised me. LLMs have a lot of promise translating and rendering 'accessible' more ancient texts. The technology has a lot of benefit for the faithful, that I think is only beginning to be explored.

New top story on Hacker News: Claude's New Constitution

Claude's New Constitution
59 by meetpateltech | 20 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
46 by mkmk | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Notes on Apple's Nano Texture

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture
9 by dsr12 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google

Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google
11 by bobbiechen | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability (2023)

Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability (2023)
4 by kurinikku | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The thing that brought me joy

The thing that brought me joy
7 by monooso | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US

Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
30 by breve | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
76 by andsoitis | 33 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Alignment Game

The Alignment Game
8 by dmvaldman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYh9ZtEv4k7xoSXmtf1q...

New top story on Hacker News: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
25 by bblcla | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Analysis of Starlink Terminal GPS Spoofing/Jamming Detection in Iran

Technical Analysis of Starlink Terminal GPS Spoofing/Jamming Detection in Iran
23 by bazzmt | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
53 by evakhoury | 62 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: You Don't Need Mintlify

You Don't Need Mintlify
1 by nerdypepper | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
24 by CyberShadow | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Previous versions of OpenCode started a server which allowed any website visited in a web browser to execute arbitrary commands on the local machine. Make sure you are using v1.1.10 or newer; see link for more details.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage

Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage
6 by RyanZhuuuu | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
46 by david927 | 138 comments on Hacker News.
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

New top story on Hacker News: Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats

Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats
5 by akg130522 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas

Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas
4 by jesenator | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows

Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows
5 by noleary | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/cG2TdI9

New top story on Hacker News: China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW

China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW
11 by taubek | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela

Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela
64 by petethomas | 28 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/ufiYLlV

New top story on Hacker News: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io
9 by nkaz123 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript

How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript
13 by joshribakoff | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro

Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro
41 by SilverElfin | 30 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
72 by caminanteblanco | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time

Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time
13 by Alifatisk | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
91 by taubek | 41 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]
14 by vortex_ape | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
4 by sethbannon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Love your customers

Love your customers
46 by chmaynard | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp

Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp
3 by DarkForestery | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm not a geospatial expert — I work in AI/ML. This started when I was exploring LiDAR data with agentic assitince and noticed that different signal decomposition methods revealed different terrain features. The core idea: if you systematically combine decomposition methods (Gaussian, bilateral, wavelet, morphological, etc.) with different upsampling techniques, each combination has characteristic "failure modes" that selectively preserve or eliminate certain features. The differences between outputs become feature-specific filters. The framework tests 25 decomposition × 19 upsampling methods across parameter ranges — about 40,000 combinations total. The visualization grid makes it easy to compare which methods work for what. Built in Cursor with Opus 4.5, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-image, PyWavelets, and OpenCV. Apache 2.0 licensed. I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who actually works with elevation data. What am I missing? What's obvious to practitioners that I wouldn't know?