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Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.
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Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache
Pluto Security has raised $42 million Jump Capital, TLV Partners, Ansa Capital and angel investors.
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Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B
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MIT startup says it can turn diesel trucks into cheaper hydrogen haulers — see it at Disrupt
Diesel is expensive and polluting, and LNK Energies says it has come up with a way to replace it with hydrogen, all while undercutting diesel on cost.
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Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine)
Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.
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Building resilient AI-powered software, and planning for when things go wrong
How to handle uncertainty with AI vendors and disaster recovery (DR) approaches to consider. An excerpt from the book Building Resilient Distributed Systems by Sam Newman
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Gemini 4 Argon
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879
Points: 340
# Comments: 277
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Running RAG with a (small) language model in the browser
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A plea not to use uv-build
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Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality & Value?
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Quoting Geoffrey Huntley
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Apple HomeView
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017
Points: 437
# Comments: 548
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A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070593
Points: 169
# Comments: 73
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Keep calm and call clone with Rust
Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as developers' most loved language by providing psychological safety fo
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Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
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RJ Mitte has died
Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063831
Points: 165
# Comments: 51
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AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Article URL: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427
Points: 248
# Comments: 216
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A modern web app in c
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Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods
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Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694
Points: 154
# Comments: 95
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Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11
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512 bytes at a time: reconstructing IBM i save-file checksums
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Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
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WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
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your c is not standard c
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What I've been seeing lately (in software)
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Muse Wonder
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115
Points: 328
# Comments: 149
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A Modern Web App in C
Article URL: https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528
Points: 198
# Comments: 80
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web-edit 0.1a0
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Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
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Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
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datasette-ports 0.4
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Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped, AMA" (2024)
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Tello's GameSir T1d controller as a Linux Xbox controller
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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
Article URL: https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312
Points: 224
# Comments: 119
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Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
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Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Reckoning’ is off to a weak start
What does this mean for a fall full of movies starring villainous tech CEOs?
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D-Bus Hell
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The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Article URL: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422
Points: 222
# Comments: 355
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Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
Article URL: https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047091
Points: 171
# Comments: 31
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TechCrunch Mobility: A roadblock clears for self-driving trucks
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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Dawn Myers is making it easier to style, detangle, and care for curly hair
Richualist is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies!
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Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis
This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children
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I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here
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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043682
Points: 220
# Comments: 108
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Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
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Hacking the Eufy Doorbell and Base Station
Here is the follow-up dive into the base station
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I paid people to try and follow my README
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042219
Points: 204
# Comments: 107
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Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
Article URL: https://nitter.net
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041682
Points: 294
# Comments: 134
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Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
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Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions
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Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5
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Byte Language Models: Scaling, Emergent Abstractions, and Information Allocation
The paper challenges the assumption that language models need explicit tokenizers to be efficient demonstrating that standard flat Transformers can process raw byte sequences and actually outperform traditional subword models as parameter sizes scale. The prevailing thought in the field has been tha
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
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Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
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Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
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Petra Power looks to modernize energy for data centers and defense vehicles
The startup says its fuel cells are super efficient and cut fuel costs during a time when the tech industry can’t get enough electricity.
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3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders. Plus, 250+ speakers are ready to share insights across 200+ sessions. Register before doors open to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.
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Reporting vulnerabilities to Estonian companies
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culpert - rust heap profiling with span awareness and regression tooling
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Bitwarden Dual License Model
Article URL: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033407
Points: 338
# Comments: 244
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dasSDL3: Idiomatic SDL3 bindings for daslang
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I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
Article URL: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-property-taxes-fall/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032758
Points: 205
# Comments: 493
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Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
Article URL: https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031653
Points: 241
# Comments: 215
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`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
Article URL: https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031269
Points: 292
# Comments: 166
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Computers Cannot Make Decisions
Article URL: https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:computers_cannot_make_decisions
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029982
Points: 157
# Comments: 132
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Elon Musk intensifies attack on Ambani over Starlink India launch delay
Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.
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Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
Article URL: https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029123
Points: 286
# Comments: 145
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Quoting The New York Times
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Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
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Deno is joining Cloudflare
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Long live the mechanical keyboard
Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.
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Lifeguard: A static analyzer for Python lazy imports compatibility
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The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
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The importance of communities around software
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Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR
Requesting the currently-removed post for https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare be restored. Thread: https://lobste.rs/s/8hauxs/deno_is_joining_cloudflare
My reasoning: It isn't just PR, but significant tech news that Cloudflare is buying up open source teams while dismantling the projects they maintain.
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YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid-him-a-visit-after-he-built-flock-style-camera-to-track-cops-2000824306
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026555
Points: 407
# Comments: 219
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Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands.
carrier-explode also contains decoders and explanations for all the common baseband configurations, etc.
There’s still quite a bit of work to be done in checking my assumption
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Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
Article URL: https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023450
Points: 270
# Comments: 206
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Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
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We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."
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Tesla renames ‘Full Self-Driving’ to ‘Tesla Assisted Driving’ in Europe
The name change is enough for Germany's transport minister to start advocating for Europe-wide adoption of the driver assistance software.
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Unison Cloud is now open source
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Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
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Quoting Matthew Green
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A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages
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US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-international-criminal-court-hours-after-former-judge-wins-2026-10-09/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021066
Points: 323
# Comments: 169
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A tale of four theorem provers, or: A (reasonably) opinionated comparison of Isabelle/HOL, Lean, HOL4, and Agda
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Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?
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Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
Article URL: https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/yandex-takes-a-second-data-center-hit-in-48-hours-now-its-biggest-russian-site-is-damaged-23277
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020927
Points: 170
# Comments: 180
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Our $445M Series D
Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020014
Points: 333
# Comments: 128
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A new feature for my blog, built using my voice
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Taking a look under your agent’s hood
Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries between software development and production workflows, and navigating emerging challenges in AI security and tokenomics.
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B-Trees Are Back: Engineering Fast and Pageable Node Layouts
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ttok 1.0
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Bevy 0.20
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President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation’s highest science prizes
Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration.
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Quoting Carson Gross
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Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
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ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011928
Points: 165
# Comments: 124
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Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.
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Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath
Your service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality. Level 5 is the infrastructure that lets you see your decisions, bound your spend, route and fail over between models, kill bad behavior in seconds — and the platform t
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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
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64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
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Theranos.world
Article URL: https://www.theranos.world/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009295
Points: 276
# Comments: 114
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Article URL: https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427
Points: 535
# Comments: 120
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The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies
Also: do us engineers truly enjoy ‘hard problems’, or do we really just want to solve those which attract promotions, new open models launch in the EU and US, and more
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A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-cons
Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served time in federal prison for securities violations, has launched Commissary Club, a startup that uses AI to help people leaving prison find jobs, housing, community and even dates.
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Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.
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Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost
Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks fishy.
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The history of the Hetzner Cloud network stack
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The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling
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Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of reach for most famili
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A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened
Agents don't build trust for another reason, structurally worse than the first. It isn't only that the tool keeps changing shape. It's that the feedback loop you would need in order to learn the tool is broken at the point of measurement.
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Extending Guix
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I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004790
Points: 233
# Comments: 128
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“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002008
Points: 532
# Comments: 534
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The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself
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Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
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Quoting Ben Affleck
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While VCs crowd into San Francisco, Endeavor Catalyst raises $320M for founders ‘elsewhere’
Endeavor Catalyst just raised $320 million to keep backing founders outside Silicon Valley. Half the profits go back to the nonprofit that finds them.
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The Mathocalypse
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton has died
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998895
Points: 699
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Claude Haiku 5.5
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Part 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory
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Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
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Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer
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Part 2: Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift
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Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer
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When Submarine Cables Go Dark: Understanding and Preparing for the Risks of Taiwan's International Internet Disconnection
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Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
Article URL: https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997161
Points: 273
# Comments: 272
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996437
Points: 675
# Comments: 337
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Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
Sam Newman joins me to discuss when to use microservices, how to build resilient distributed systems, and how AI is changing software development.
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CIA officer admits to creating fake top secret government program to steal over $190 million, including gold bars
CIA officer David Rush, who worked on highly sensitive intelligence programs, reached a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors after he was caught siphoning money and gold with a fake government contract.
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Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge
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Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material
Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.
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Creating distro build tooling for a small community
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GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994027
Points: 171
# Comments: 138
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Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look
The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.
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Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
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Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
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C for Rust Programmers
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Introducing Falcon ASR
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One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991227
Points: 347
# Comments: 204
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai
Article URL: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990470
Points: 217
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Quoting Jake Boggan
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When random is not actually random enough
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Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
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Is COSMIC DE mogging KDE Plasma?
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Quoting Victoria Kim
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llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0
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How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
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Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
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Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
https://github.com/openai/math
https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984923
Points: 370
# Comments: 303
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Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983703
Points: 170
# Comments: 261
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Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results
Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust issues, the critical role of well-organized documentation in providing verifiable
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Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing LLM roleplay falls short for market research and brand strategy.
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Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors
The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.
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The state of the tech industry in 2026
A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York
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OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
Article URL: https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980715
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Learn all about scaling, fundraising, founder how-tos, and more at TechCrunch Founder Summit, November 4
There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit gives founders the next-best thing: A packed day at Boston's SoWa Power Station, where investors and operators share how they
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kahawai - an open source, modular media system
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Scrimshaw Jukebox
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Release of Polars 2.0
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What is Codemode
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The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!
Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978116
Points: 452
# Comments: 53
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Mistral Large 4
Article URL: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979
Points: 803
# Comments: 471
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Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/metas-muse-is-an-adorable-privacy-and-security-dumpster-fire/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977588
Points: 229
# Comments: 118
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Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance
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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
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How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846
Points: 242
# Comments: 134
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Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
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Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667
Points: 211
# Comments: 163
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OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
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Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
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Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Article URL: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183
Points: 311
# Comments: 91
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Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
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spoonful: static site generator written in Nix
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Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?
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TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
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At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI
Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.
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You don't need an effect system
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Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards-and-may-be-skipped
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964303
Points: 349
# Comments: 189
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Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963385
Points: 184
# Comments: 96
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Web Search API
Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963171
Points: 366
# Comments: 178
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Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
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Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
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Protocol-aware recovery for consensus-based storage (2018)
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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Article URL: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116
Points: 315
# Comments: 202
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Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Article URL: https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957068
Points: 212
# Comments: 319
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ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
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Iroh global content discovery
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TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
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Obelisk 0.42: Durable Agents, Layered Sandboxes
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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Article URL: https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953495
Points: 166
# Comments: 69
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Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD
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The complement of true is true, except when it's false
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Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950554
Points: 208
# Comments: 201
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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially "Triumph of the Nerds". He will be missed.
Comments URL: https://news.yc
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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
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Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools (2024)
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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948254
Points: 225
# Comments: 135
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September sponsors-only newsletter
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Why don’t more developers "use the platform"?
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Customization: Optimizing Compiler Technology for SELF, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Language (1989)
Dynamically-typed object-oriented languages please programmers, but their lack of static type information penalizes performance. Our new implementation techniques extract static type information from declaration-free programs. Our system compiles several copies of a given procedure, each customized
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Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’
A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.
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Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
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Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946567
Points: 150
# Comments: 108
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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
Article URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393
Points: 212
# Comments: 55
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OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
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