Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version Hacker News

Hacker Times is an independent, hourly updated front page that repackages Hacker News submissions in a New York Times-inspired newspaper layout. Its November 2, 2026 edition draws on 89 eligible stories across three Hacker News pages. The lead is an early MIT CSAIL report that GPT-6 Astra could interpret and alter neural-network weights directly, with a small change reportedly improving a Qwen model’s math and instruction-following scores. Other prominent items include Andrej Karpathy’s searchable collection of 6,454 YouTube videos recommended on Hacker News, a server operator’s criticism of Ubuntu’s response to a security flaw, and concerns that AI-assisted bug reports are slowing PostgreSQL releases.

The edition also highlights a debate over how AI may change mathematics, including a call to value shared understanding over competition and individual credit. Its other sections range across privacy-focused television, smart glasses designed to turn silently mouthed words into text, preserving websites, AI companies’ finances and workplace use, a 3D voxel model of Warsaw, and a reported revival of an old Italian wheat from attic-stored seeds. The site says its lead is selected by total points, while other placements combine points, comments, and Hacker News ranking; topic sections and the discussion row use separate stories. Scores and comment counts reflect a fixed snapshot, and the page uses relevant images from linked publishers without bypassing paywalls.