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The Internals of PostgreSQL
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 21:51
Article URL: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702 Points: 37 # Comments: 1
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The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 21:40
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358582 Points: 104 # Comments: 11
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Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 21:39
Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358562 Points: 161 # Comments: 104
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US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 21:26
Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-tech-giants-hidden-ai-debt-swells-90-to-3.2tn-in-6-months Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358422 Points: 77 # Comments: 23
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Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 21:16
Hey HN, Ayan here from Finic. We’re launching Kairos, an open source alternative to Sift, Sardine, and other real-time fraud decisioning platforms. Kairos addresses two of the biggest problems facing traditional decisioning tools: a lack of labeled data to train on and dealing with fraudsters that are constantly changing their tactics. 1. Traditional fraud solutions use ML models such as XGBoost to detect fraud, but these models are dependent on quality labeled data which many businesses do not have. We address this by using “System One” decision models in additional to traditional models such
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Pratt parsing is a black box
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 20:07
Article URL: https://vinipsmaker.github.io/blog/article/pratt-parsing-is-a-black-box/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50357457 Points: 26 # Comments: 13
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Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 19:32
https://docs.flipper.net/one Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50356994 Points: 148 # Comments: 72
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macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 19:27
Article URL: https://wadetregaskis.com/macos-27-golden-gate-does-not-actually-support-corestorage-or-hfs-volumes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50356944 Points: 72 # Comments: 39
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Ireland fact of the day
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-03 19:26
Almost half of Ireland’s corporation tax haul comes from just three companies: Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft. Here is much more from Jude Webber at the FT, on why Ireland does not always feel or operate like a wealthy country. The post Ireland fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Introduction to Programming in ATS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 19:25
Article URL: https://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/book1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50356913 Points: 42 # Comments: 7
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How I use AI (Oct 2026)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 18:11
Article URL: https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/how-use-ai-oct-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355767 Points: 53 # Comments: 50
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Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 17:22
Article URL: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354960 Points: 52 # Comments: 14
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StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-11-03 17:15
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Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-11-03 17:01
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
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Tuesday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-03 17:01
1. Jason Furman on AI and the CEA. 2. Matt Kahn uses Refine and gets results. 3. Cyril Hilsum, RIP (flat screen TV, NYT). 4. How much of the return to education is in fact a return to genes? 5. Essay contest on how AI will affect developing economies. 6. AI sanity from Nicholas Decker. […] The post Tuesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 17:00
Article URL: https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?ashby_jid=695b1ce6-c375-4fad-94ef-61b50a3fbd28&utm_source=hn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354582 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 16:47
Article URL: https://neufangled.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358 Points: 285 # Comments: 115
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Gitbook Breached
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 16:45
We opened a ticket with support about Gitbook availability issues and got this in reply. We have yet to see any official customer communication or breach notification. Apologies for the formatting, did the best I could as it's a mobile paste. Update: GitBook security incident update Hey , The GitBook app, the GitBook API, and published docs are available again. A few services may still be degraded as we finish restoring everything to full performance. *What happened* GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents. At 19:00 CET, November 2, the attacker g
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USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 16:40
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02618 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354250 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-11-03 16:35
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Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-03 16:29
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper found that frontier models, in particular GPT-6 Astra, can both interpret and modify the raw weights of a machine learning model - literally a text description of the model containing a bunch of floating point numbers. I've been playing with one of the examples from the paper and I'm delighted to share that Qwen 3.8 27B running on my laptop can do this as well! Weight-Space Programming Here's the highlight
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Quili AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:49
Article URL: https://www.quili.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353475 Points: 83 # Comments: 50
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Show HN: Interactive notes on RLHF, attention, LoRA and LLM evals
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:48
Article URL: https://concepts.laxmena.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353468 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:41
Article URL: https://hissingkitty.com/hacker-churn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353386 Points: 31 # Comments: 16
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Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:41
Article URL: https://blog.bear.app/2026/11/bear-turns-10-and-it-still-feels-like-day-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353383 Points: 34 # Comments: 19
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Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:38
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/study-estimates-75-nfl-players-died-15-year-span-may-cte-rcna605975 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353335 Points: 82 # Comments: 41
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Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:29
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-admin-sues-utah-to-save-kalshi-from-the-states-total-ban-on-gambling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353229 Points: 115 # Comments: 68
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Schools that block Google’s A.I. will lose student access to its search engine
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:25
https://archive.ph/RuwsB https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/educatio... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353192 Points: 178 # Comments: 155
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Tiny Basic for Arduino
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 15:17
Article URL: https://dilshan.github.io/tiny-basic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353073 Points: 28 # Comments: 9
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Handles are the better pointers (2018)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 14:54
Article URL: https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352767 Points: 15 # Comments: 8
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Mac at Any Scale
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 14:53
Article URL: https://namespace.so/blog/mac-at-any-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352758 Points: 120 # Comments: 47
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OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 14:53
My company is pretty paranoid about leaking IP to the frontier labs through prompts, so we've all been diligent about disabling data sharing in Codex/Claude Code/etc. But yesterday my coworkers and I noticed that the setting had been silently reenabled in Codex. None of us knowingly opted back in. You can check your settings here: https://chatgpt.com/settings/data-controls. Look for "Improve the model for everyone". Curious if this is an isolated issue or something more widespread. EDIT: looks like this has been noted before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643556 EDIT: apparently you ca
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Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 14:41
Article URL: https://jivx.com/yt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352577 Points: 18 # Comments: 8
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 12:42
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/charles-tandy-the-mastermind-behind-radio-shack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351319 Points: 84 # Comments: 59
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The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 12:21
Article URL: https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351111 Points: 694 # Comments: 160
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Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-03 12:18
My Subaru was showing its years so I recently bought a Tesla. My thinking was I can buy a car or I can buy a car+driver for the same price. Simple choice. I’ve driven about 2000 miles including one long trip (6 hours) to North Carolina and back. FSD is incredible. I don’t mind driving […] The post Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Accelerating engineering for the physical world
OpenAI News · 2026-11-03 12:00
Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.
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How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI
OpenAI News · 2026-11-03 08:00
Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.
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Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI
OpenAI News · 2026-11-03 08:00
Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.
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The economics of tips
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-03 07:58
Tipping is large and growing, but we know little about its consequences for workers and firms. We link point-of-sale and payroll records at 20,000 U.S. firms, which lets us observe tips from customer payment to worker earnings. We find that tips are a nearly constant share of revenue, which means hourly pay moves with revenue. […] The post The economics of tips appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 07:56
Article URL: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/algorithmic-improvements-chess.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349276 Points: 283 # Comments: 136
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uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 07:36
Article URL: https://cornfieldlabs.github.io/posts/ublock-stop-techcrunch-autoplay-video/post.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349155 Points: 59 # Comments: 15
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Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 07:04
Article URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348962 Points: 41 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 06:24
Article URL: https://margeux.com/rb338.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348740 Points: 17 # Comments: 8
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I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-03 05:32
I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them against ADS-B data to find the exact location of the video based on their speed, distance, and gaps between different flights. Via Lobste.rs Tags: privacy , youtube
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October sponsors-only newsletter
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-03 05:28
I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The vulnerability apocalypse gets hot LLM releases API credits for $100+/month subscriptions What I'm using right now My software releases My September newsletter can now be seen here , as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter
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Are economists declining in status?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-03 05:22
That is the theme of my latest Free Press article. Excerpt, which offers the beginning of the story: If we look at the 1960s, the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson administrations brought James Tobin, Robert Solow, Kenneth Arrow (all three later Nobel laureates), Arthur Okun, Walter Heller, Gardner Ackley, Otto Eckstein, and Walt […] The post Are economists declining in status? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Cloudflare experiencing multiple active incidents
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 04:57
Article URL: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348260 Points: 46 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 03:10
I made hjkl to help myself remember Vim commands. It’s a little browser game you can play when you want to unwind and get a bit of Vim practice in. There are still a lot of commands I want to add, but I hope someone finds it useful in the meantime :) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347552 Points: 27 # Comments: 24
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Open-Source 5G Ran Platforms: A Dual Perspective on Performance and Capabilities
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 02:58
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25820 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347464 Points: 30 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 01:53
I thought it would be fun to browse HN as if it were a newspaper. The site updates once an hour. Enjoy! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981 Points: 248 # Comments: 76
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DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 01:33
Article URL: https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849 Points: 184 # Comments: 45
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Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 00:09
I filled out the web form for the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club but it's probably been circular-filed... I gave some info about a large collection of radio gear that needs to be removed from a home or it will be put into a dumpster. A lot of it brand-new. If you know anybody at the club, please tell them to check whatever it is that receives their webform input. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346164 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
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Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-03 00:08
Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/the-intel-stock-collapse-is-getting-worse--and-the-37-trillion-chip-rout-is-spreading-212154947.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346153 Points: 39 # Comments: 12
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Transformers Model Integration Contracts
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-11-03 00:00
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CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-11-03 00:00
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OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
OpenAI News · 2026-11-03 00:00
Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.
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llm 0.37
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-02 23:49
Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes. I added gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra , plus a new llm openai endpoint add command to make it easier to configure additional models that use OpenAI-compatible endpoints. I switched the default model (if you have not set your own default) to gpt-6-luna - half the price of the previous default, gpt-5.6-luna . LLM's support for embeddings now accepts that different binary content may have different content-type - necessary for models
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Scaling Git at OpenAI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 23:47
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/scaling-git-at-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345924 Points: 216 # Comments: 121
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GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the built-in ROM
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 23:32
Article URL: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/GUI64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345735 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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WorkOS reports security breach
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 23:30
It's not on their website or Trust center yet, but we received the following breach notification from WorkOS: We are writing to notify you of a data security incident that we detected on October 30, 2026 and are continuing to investigate. We value your trust and want to keep you informed while our investigation continues. What Happened On October 30, 2026, at 16:39 UTC, WorkOS detected anomalous traffic to an internal business system. Our investigation identified evidence the attack was likely driven by ARTEX, an AI-assisted, autonomous penetration testing framework, from IP addresses based in
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Anthropic's growth just flattened
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 22:33
Article URL: https://www.regenerator1.com/p/anthropics-growth-just-flattened Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344958 Points: 150 # Comments: 181
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The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 22:30
Article URL: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344919 Points: 177 # Comments: 108
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V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 22:30
Article URL: https://github.com/pigeon-labs-stack/v100-sxm2-reference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344912 Points: 38 # Comments: 7
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SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 21:42
Article URL: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-10-29-slac-researchers-find-proof-altermagnetism-new-magnetic-phase Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344224 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
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*Fjord* and *Fatherland*
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-02 19:44
Both of these movies I found worth watching. Fjord won the Golden Prize at Cannes, and it concerns the rights of the family vs. the rights of the state, when it comes to raising children. As I interpreted the story, it was so right-wing and so based I am shocked it won. It is by […] The post *Fjord* and *Fatherland* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-11-02 19:36
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/4d91dbab-6fe4-45ab-beee-d77e091cb37f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342424 Points: 71 # Comments: 44
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Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 19:27
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/oracle-files-to-sell-20-billion-in-new-stock-bonds-to-finance-ai-buildout.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342284 Points: 152 # Comments: 113
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Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 18:54
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736 Points: 106 # Comments: 81
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Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 18:39
Article URL: https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341462 Points: 322 # Comments: 75
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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 18:21
Article URL: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174 Points: 1895 # Comments: 602
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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 18:12
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341028 Points: 103 # Comments: 35
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Skill to Create Product Videos
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 18:10
Article URL: https://github.com/aaitor/skill-video-studio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340992 Points: 68 # Comments: 20
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Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 18:00
OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.
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Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 18:00
OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.
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Making Peace with the Projective Plane
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:47
Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/02/projective-plane/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340629 Points: 27 # Comments: 15
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Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:47
Article URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619 Points: 88 # Comments: 25
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The Crisis in Poland
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:24
Article URL: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/11/the-crisis-in-poland/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340232 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:20
Article URL: https://polyend.com/whats-up/tracker-the-biggest-update-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340159 Points: 81 # Comments: 16
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Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:16
Hi HN, we're Aarush and Arnav from The Subvocal Company (YC F26). We’re building smart glasses that let you talk to your computer without talking out loud. You can mouth words silently and discreetly and the glasses decode them to text at the speed of speech. Here's a video of Dave from YC trying it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QdX1eObVYI (Edit: you don't actually have to move your lips or even open your mouth for this to work! Since the RF can see inside your mouth the system can be fine tuned on "internal speech". This isn't the automatic tongue movements that occur when "thinking"
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Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:16
Hi HN, we're Aarush and Arnav from The Subvocal Company (YC F26) ( https://subvocal.company/ ). We’re building smart glasses that let you talk to your computer without talking out loud. You can mouth words silently and discreetly and the glasses decode them to text at the speed of speech. Here's a video of Dave from YC trying it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QdX1eObVYI (Edit: you don't actually have to move your lips or even open your mouth for this to work! Since the RF can see inside your mouth the system can be fine tuned on "internal speech". This isn't the automatic tongue movemen
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Monday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-02 17:13
1. Why is it now so common to be asked about your food allergies? (GPT Pro answer) 2. Training for alignment, applies principal-agent theory. 3. Do people offload empathy when they think AI can give it instead? 4. The Wallace line. 5. AI can draw blueprints now. 6. Ed Glaeser review of the new book […] The post Monday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:05
Hey HN, we’re Wei-Wei and Jeff. We’re building Momentic, QA agents that autonomously plan, explore, and bug-bash controls and user flows in your web, iOS, Android, and (soon) desktop apps to catch bugs. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/BFsM-Se1Fh8 We’re both software engineers that spent our careers on dev tooling and infra across companies like Robinhood, Retool, WeWork, and Qualtrics. Testing was always a pain in the ass (esp Playwright and Selenium), so we built agents to do it for us. Modern day software has a ton of bugs and the change failure rate is only growing faster as coding agent ad
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Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Technical Graduates in Denver (Engineering/CS Focus)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 17:00
Article URL: https://bitmovin.com/careers/8660599002/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339827 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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My Favourite Laptop
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 16:59
Article URL: https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/laptop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339815 Points: 49 # Comments: 31
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Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 16:40
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339494 Points: 95 # Comments: 65
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US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 16:34
Article URL: https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397 Points: 54 # Comments: 28
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Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 16:25
Explore central Warsaw in voxels - slightly inspired by Minecraft, and MagicaVoxel. You can change the date, time of day and weather, explore the city, or click on a pedestrian to control them (here a bit of inspiration from Dungeon Keeper). Works best on desktop, but I tried to make it usable on mobile too. The initial load can take a while. It's based on several open datasets, including: - OpenStreetMap ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/52.02/19.14 ) - buildings, streets, sidewalks, tram tracks, etc - GUGiK / Geoportal ( https://www.geoportal.gov.pl/ ) - LiDAR for building heights and t
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Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 16:02
Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338747 Points: 94 # Comments: 48
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 16:01
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested
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Scaling Git at OpenAI
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 15:30
How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
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Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 15:01
Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-mathematics-physics-textbooks-so-insanely-hardcore-in-comparison-to-US-textbooks/answer/Scott-Miller-307?share=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337725 Points: 124 # Comments: 167
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LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 15:00
Article URL: https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337716 Points: 45 # Comments: 17
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Introducing the Grid Protectors Program
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 15:00
OpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect consumer electricity costs.
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C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 14:56
Article URL: https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337661 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
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WTF Ubuntu?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 14:52
Article URL: https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337608 Points: 781 # Comments: 396
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We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 14:47
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targeted-zone-builds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337558 Points: 58 # Comments: 22
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GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 14:44
Article URL: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-rosalind-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337503 Points: 38 # Comments: 34
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Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 14:40
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineers-as-openai-anthropic-ipos-near Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337454 Points: 74 # Comments: 91
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The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-02 13:31
I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies , a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on numbers collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. At the time I used that chart to demonstrate GPT-5 data analysis , and then to experiment with Claude's new Code Interpreter . I decided to try running those numbers again to see what had changed over the past year, and in doing so learned that the Bureau has fallen foul of Executive Order 14434 , aka the asinine Super Intelligence one. Fi
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If you love a website, back it up
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 13:25
Article URL: https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518 Points: 171 # Comments: 41
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Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 12:50
Article URL: https://twitter.com/OcanaSantero/status/2115442964574908902 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336138 Points: 90 # Comments: 86
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Expensive Pharmaceuticals for Targeted Diseases
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-02 12:16
My latest paper, The Price of a Cure: Luxturna and the Economic Dilemmas of Precision Medicine, is in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. I discuss the economics of the pharmaceutical industry and the special issues that arise with targeted drugs that cure. We are going to get many more of these drugs in […] The post Expensive Pharmaceuticals for Targeted Diseases appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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LifeVal
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 09:00
Introducing LifeVal, a benchmark measuring how well AI helps people complete everyday tasks, from finding childcare to managing finances and government paperwork.
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China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-11-02 07:27
Article URL: https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-china-ai-export-controls-announcement-48-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50334038 Points: 146 # Comments: 78
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Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-02 05:24
I am not myself religious, but let us consider the possible gulf between behavior and doctrine amongst those who are. It has long struck me as a kind of mini-puzzle why people feel so much grief for the departed, at least for the departed who are supposed to be headed for heaven (and yes there […] The post Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 05:06
After seeing Karpathy's Hackertube and Hackerbooks, I just had to make Wikihack. I scraped all mentions of wikipedia on hackernews and ranked them, and turn them into a scrollable feed to make it a bit more easy to digest / interact with. You can see where people submitted the articles and where people mentioned it in comments. The top shows the most frequently linked articles. Random is random but slightly weighted towards the more frequently linked articles (a little bit like Wikipedia actually). Rising is ranked towards the past 12 months. The entire site is served only through the frontend
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F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 01:59
Article URL: https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50332163 Points: 87 # Comments: 8
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AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 01:47
Article URL: https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50332086 Points: 78 # Comments: 60
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Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 01:31
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331957 Points: 35 # Comments: 3
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Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 01:09
Article URL: https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331784 Points: 67 # Comments: 26
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OccupySaaS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-02 00:17
Article URL: https://occupysaas.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331402 Points: 204 # Comments: 133
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OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 00:00
OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll to advise on responsible AI for national security modernization, cyber resilience, and collaboration with U.S. allies.
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Qodo builds context into AI code review with Codex
OpenAI News · 2026-11-02 00:00
Qodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.
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If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-01 23:24
I've been getting the occasional confusing Python dependency error since switching over to Python 3.15 and the rule I'm having to remember is: If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file Most of my projects are libraries which don't include a uv.lock file, since it's rude for a library dependency to lock versions for anything else that uses it. Running uv run pytest etc tends to leave uv.lock files lying around, which are listed in .gitignore and so do not get committed to my repositories. But... sometimes that uv.lock pins a version of a dependency that doesn't yet have a Python 3.15 wheel. An examp
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U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 23:20
Article URL: https://fortune.com/article/why-did-us-workers-just-take-home-smallest-share-of-capital-since-1947-lowest-ever-recorded/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330939 Points: 145 # Comments: 39
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AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 22:10
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/25/ai-delivers-zero-financial-payoff-to-most-companies-according-to-apollo-economist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330456 Points: 103 # Comments: 86
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As predicted, the ACA exchanges seem not to be stable
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-01 19:53
The average price of health insurance in the Obamacare marketplaces will rise by 13 percent next year, according to an analysis on Friday by KFF, the health research group. The Trump administration on Friday published new prices for 2027 in 30 states with markets managed by the federal government. Using that data and state figures, […] The post As predicted, the ACA exchanges seem not to be stable appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 19:35
I haven’t owned a TV in years and would like one that respects my privacy. Are there any TV’s which do this well? I am looking for something in the 60”to 80”range and would like a 4k display with at least 60hz display. I don’t mind paying a premium. I have heard good things about Apple TV as a better alternative to most smart TV native apps. Would some TV’s pair better with this than others for privacy? I don’t want the TV doing anything other than being the display for Apple TV. I am curious what success others have had. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328896 Points: 17 #
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It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 18:53
Article URL: https://blog.raed.dev/posts/proton-loser-thinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328488 Points: 59 # Comments: 17
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Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 18:53
Article URL: https://nurse.org/news/uber-for-nursing-gig-apps-report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328487 Points: 105 # Comments: 79
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US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 18:51
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-31/us-jobs-pickup-may-keep-fed-on-track-to-hike-rates-again Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328462 Points: 20 # Comments: 6
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Muse AI agent is a commercial surveillance network disguised as an AI assistant
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-11-01 18:33
Article URL: https://paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/metas-muse-ai-agent-is-a-commercial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328293 Points: 56 # Comments: 6
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Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 18:28
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328251 Points: 85 # Comments: 90
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Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 17:28
Article URL: https://www.vox.com/politics/508526/patrick-stewart-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-liberalism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327650 Points: 239 # Comments: 159
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I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 17:01
Article URL: https://chaosmanage.github.io/i-killed-unlimited-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327416 Points: 49 # Comments: 11
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Quoting Kyle Kingsbury
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-01 16:49
More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with suspicion—the signals we used to rely on as markers of a mature system are now easier to counterfeit. [...] In the age of LLMs, what can maintainers do to ensure correct software and accurate documentation? Having done that work, how can they demonstrate its quality to users? — Kyle Kingsbury , Jepsen results for ParticleDB 1.1.4 Tags: kyle-kingsbury , llms , ai , generative-ai , ai-misuse
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Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 16:46
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/frontierairlines/comments/1xl20e8/psa_email_scam/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327266 Points: 117 # Comments: 31
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Sunday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-01 16:31
1. Jakob Davidsen, The Individual and the Entire Tissue (song cycle). It is good. 2. The Oilers Entertainment Group pushed prices too high and here is what happened. 3. The “endless cruise” has ended. 4. Should driverless vehicles replace school buses? 5. Art Nouveau and more in Mexico City. 6. How are potential mathematicians responding […] The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 16:23
Article URL: https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327058 Points: 94 # Comments: 16
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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 15:58
Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page. To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc. It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me. C
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Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 15:33
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/01/landline-phones-will-switch-off-across-britland-in-100-days-no-extensions-openreach/5306673 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326609 Points: 126 # Comments: 98
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Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 14:36
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/police-chief-physically-unplugs-flock-cameras-after-the-company-ignores-contract-cancellation-city-takes-matters-into-its-own-hands-amid-privacy-controversies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326118 Points: 41 # Comments: 7
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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 14:34
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_just/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326099 Points: 63 # Comments: 24
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Novellas with Groff
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 13:51
Article URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325694 Points: 29 # Comments: 3
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AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 13:47
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-swarms-unleashed-in-minecraft-to-build-a-thriving-civilization-50-agent-teams-fail-after-falling-into-paralyzing-bureaucracy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325662 Points: 49 # Comments: 14
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Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 13:24
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325454 Points: 38 # Comments: 8
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The "Moon Trees"
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 13:20
Article URL: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325411 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 13:02
I have been researching what the ultimate diff tool would look like, based on actual diffs in open source repositories. OmniDiff can diff: code (25 languages), config, images, PDFs, archives, cursors, fonts... It's fast. It can diff C++ files of tens of thousands of lines in under 100ms, on a 2023 ThinkPad T14s. It's open source. AGPLv3. It's based on real diffs. I looked at the 7400 repositories that are listed in Gentoo packages, sampled 2000 diffs and solved them manually to get a good understanding of what is needed, before putting together the diff pipelines for each content type. Inciden
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What are the Worst MR Posts?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-01 12:18
What are the worst MR posts, most illogical, poorly reasoned, low value, inconsistent? From the Archives, written by ChatGPT: These are provisional candidates for weak reasoning, selected because there is a specific gap between the evidence and the conclusion. This is not an objective ranking of all 40,326 posts in the downloaded archive. Poor reasoning […] The post What are the Worst MR Posts? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 10:47
Article URL: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324388 Points: 593 # Comments: 338
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Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 10:44
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324371 Points: 53 # Comments: 47
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Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 10:44
Article URL: https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324371 Points: 34 # Comments: 26
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Those new service sector jobs?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-01 07:55
A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to stage armed robberies so that the purported victims could apply for U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims. From 2022 to 2024, PARTH NAYI organized and participated in hundreds of staged armed robberies at coffee shops, restaurants, liquor stores, and gas […] The post Those new service sector jobs? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Pac-Man's Siren Call
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 06:29
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/pac-mans-siren-call/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323187 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
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The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 06:06
Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323088 Points: 42 # Comments: 18
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Are LLMs good or bad Bayesians?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-11-01 04:17
Bryan Caplan: It seems like you and other AIs are bad Bayesians. When presented with counterevidence, you should move toward or against the presenter with roughly equal probability. It depends on whether the argument was better or worse than expected. In fact, you seem to either move toward the speaker or just not change. ChatGPT: […] The post Are LLMs good or bad Bayesians? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 02:19
Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 Points: 108 # Comments: 42
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OTape
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 02:18
Article URL: https://www.otape.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322169 Points: 25 # Comments: 14
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Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 01:46
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322022 Points: 78 # Comments: 36
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Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-11-01 00:10
Hi HN, I kept wiring Ben Eater's 8-bit computer wrong, so I built a realistic virtual breadboard editor. Some of the nice features are side-by-side diff, scope, schematics auto-sync, auto-router (BBRouter stands for breadboard router), and my favorites: upload from the real Arduino IDE and connect to your AI with MCP, let Claude & co build it or help you troubleshoot. The link is the SAP-1 running. You can orbit it, probe a hole with the scope, slow the clock down, play with the virtual displays for debugging, then you can actually build it following the step-by-step instructions. A side-goal
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Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 23:55
Article URL: https://emarzion.github.io/KSRT/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321436 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-31 23:15
How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML previews ), where interactive custom HTML apps are displayed in a sandboxed iframe. It's important that HTML in these stays tightly sandboxed to avoid untrusted code interacting with OpenAI APIs and accessing private data. Parameter found quite a complex attack chain. OpenAI use the MathLive JavaScript library as part of their graph support, and that library includes its
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When electric cars were for women
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 23:08
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321130 Points: 36 # Comments: 9
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Altoids Project
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 22:54
Article URL: https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321048 Points: 39 # Comments: 1
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Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 22:46
Article URL: https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995 Points: 81 # Comments: 39
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An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 22:41
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Points: 153 # Comments: 46
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datasette-llm 0.1a9
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-31 22:10
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default model used by LLM , which means you can start using Datasette Agent without needing to explicitly configure a default model: uvx --with datasette-agent datasette content.db --internal internal.db Previously you would also need to specify a model with -s plugins.datasette-agent.default_model gpt-6-astra . Tags: datasette , llm , datasette-agent
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AI text watermarking and quality loss
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 21:50
Article URL: https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320599 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
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ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 21:49
Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320588 Points: 109 # Comments: 49
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Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 21:07
Article URL: https://mashable.com/tech/anthropic-takes-steps-to-block-video-game-cloning-and-reverse-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320255 Points: 51 # Comments: 35
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Distributed Proofreaders
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 20:56
Article URL: https://www.pgdp.net/c/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320137 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 20:46
Article URL: https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320028 Points: 24 # Comments: 18
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Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 20:21
Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319749 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Surviving "The Graduate"
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 20:02
https://archive.ph/Eqn1F Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319563 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 19:56
YouTube-style UI over 6,454 videos sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007. https://hackertube.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510 Points: 312 # Comments: 124
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Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 19:39
Article URL: https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319358 Points: 72 # Comments: 15
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Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 19:18
Based on vermiceli's annotated disassembly of Contra: https://github.com/vermiceli/nes-contra-us . Thanks for the great work. I ported it in two steps. First to C: the game logic is translated routine by routine from the 6502 assembly, and checked frame by frame against the original in the Mesen emulator. Then the C code to WebAssembly so it runs in the browser. The cherry on top: online multiplayer, so two players can play co-op over the internet. Source: https://github.com/epoyraz/nes-contra-us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319169 Points: 27 # Comments: 15
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TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 19:16
Article URL: https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143 Points: 184 # Comments: 88
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Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 19:13
Article URL: https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319110 Points: 25 # Comments: 3
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The Duty of a Scholar
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 19:07
Article URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319061 Points: 64 # Comments: 17
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GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 18:50
Article URL: https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318871 Points: 133 # Comments: 138
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It's the Memory Latency, Stupid
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 18:38
Article URL: https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318720 Points: 69 # Comments: 19
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William Nordhaus, RIP
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-31 18:33
Here is notice from Yale, and from Paul Krugman, he was one of the true greats. For the pointer I thank several MR readers. The post William Nordhaus, RIP appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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And so it begins…
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-31 18:21
Researchers, I just uploaded a prominent QJE paper on climate change economics to @RefineDotInk and I loaded my critique of the paper. I asked the AI to offer an impartial verdict. I will make this report public. A new journal could collect these into “Special Issues”. That is from Matthew E. Kahn. The post And so it begins… appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-31 18:02
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318401 Points: 69 # Comments: 47
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William Nordhaus has died
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 17:59
Article URL: https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-climate-change-devoted-yale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318376 Points: 38 # Comments: 10
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UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 17:37
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-nuclear-power-policy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318189 Points: 42 # Comments: 8
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The She-Wolves of Jülich
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 17:29
Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318129 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 16:24
Hello everyone. I’m a mathematician by training, and I love mathematical and logical puzzles and brain-teasers. Inspired by popular games like Sudoku and Wordle, I decided to come up with an engaging game of my own. As it turns out, that’s not so easy! I had a few ideas, but beyond the core mechanics, a game also needs to be interesting and easy to explain — after all, nobody (including me) wants to spend a long time reading through rules. Let’s start with the concept, which came to me quite spontaneously: what if we represented letters like the digits on a digital clock — using lines, with do
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Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 16:22
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Enlightenment-0.28 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317534 Points: 23 # Comments: 8
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Saturday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-31 16:16
1. Organizing Intelligence. 2. World Bank African urbanization report. Building out African cities in a decent way could end up being the task of our coming era. 3. Summary of The Commanding Heights. 4. “Meanwhile in Armenia…” 5. “Female psychopathology has worsened despite increased resources and opportunities, suggesting it does not entirely reflect absolute deprivation, […] The post Saturday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 16:16
Article URL: https://a-side.social/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317484 Points: 17 # Comments: 22
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What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 16:09
Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317429 Points: 43 # Comments: 13
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Casio Watches of the 1980s
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 16:00
Article URL: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317363 Points: 108 # Comments: 49
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Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 15:56
Article URL: https://github.com/Koppar-AI/koppar-lte-modem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317331 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 14:29
Article URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volta-infostealer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316531 Points: 179 # Comments: 86
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The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 13:41
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/world/americas/mexico-seaweed-navy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316117 Points: 37 # Comments: 35
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Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 13:39
https://github.com/jepsen-io/particledb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316100 Points: 59 # Comments: 29
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My Barcelona talk
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-31 13:29
Wednesday, November 4, 18:30 Barcelona time, details here. I am honored to have won the Elinor Ostrom Prize from the Institut Ostrom Catalunya. Maybe see you there! The post My Barcelona talk appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 13:25
Article URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-startup-hacks-anthropic-in-12-hours-gains-access-to-employee-details-and-internal-messages-3025452-2026-10-26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315990 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-31 13:25
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-is-now-blocking-attempts-at-video-game-recreation-and-cloning-users-also-claim-non-malicious-generic-reverse-engineering-tasks-are-blocked Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315987 Points: 58 # Comments: 36
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Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 12:58
All the ideas came from the boot sector demo scene where people had been writing chess and BASIC games in 512 bytes, even a C compiler. I wondered what one can do using a neural network instead of a program and generating boot logs for non-existent hardware was something fun to try. Entire inference engine is 510 bytes of MBR, weights, vocab, and strings reside in the sectors following MBR. Small char-level neural network was trained on dmesg generated by machine, so machine produces Linux boot messages infinitely. train.py performs precisely the same integer arithmetic operations as the asm c
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Why Anthropic's Filing Crushed Tech Stocks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 12:32
Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-anthropics-filing-crushed-tech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315574 Points: 11 # Comments: 10
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Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 11:54
Article URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315226 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 11:53
Article URL: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in-power-grids-solved Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315217 Points: 94 # Comments: 38
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Shiny Object Syndrome
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 11:02
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314872 Points: 34 # Comments: 15
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We Took over ChatGPT Accounts
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 10:30
Article URL: https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699 Points: 75 # Comments: 32
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Molly(Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 10:23
Article URL: https://piefed.world/post/1503394 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666 Points: 82 # Comments: 38
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Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 10:21
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314654 Points: 372 # Comments: 221
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One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 10:14
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314617 Points: 117 # Comments: 39
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Switch Lowering in GCC
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 08:02
Article URL: https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314085 Points: 101 # Comments: 21
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The pass-through of retail crime
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-31 06:44
This paper shows retailers increase prices in response to organized retail crime. We match store-level crime data to scanner data from the universe of transactions for cannabis retailers in Washington state. Using quasi-experimental variation from robberies and burglaries, we find a 1.7–1.8 percent price increase at victimized stores and nearby competitors. This rise is not […] The post The pass-through of retail crime appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Digital Minimalism
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 06:16
Article URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661 Points: 113 # Comments: 72
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The unintended consequences of academic leniency
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-31 04:43
Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’ endogenous responses. This paper provides empirical evidence of the causal impact of relaxed academic standards on student effort and achievement. We find that academic leniency results in mechanical GPA increases, but significant reductions […] The post The unintended consequences of academic leniency appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Tell HN: Scribd Breached
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-31 02:46
Not seeing anything posted about this anywhere, received on Monday, 26th of Oct 2026: Subject: Notice of Security Incident This notice is being sent on behalf of Scribd, Inc., the parent company of Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable, by Epiq, Scribd Inc.’s notification partner. Hello, We are writing to let you know that Scribd, Inc. recently experienced a security incident that may have affected your data. We detected that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to certain user data in one of our systems. After investigating this activity, we found that the third party may have
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Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 23:51
Article URL: https://tng.episodle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311686 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
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Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 23:08
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/anthropic-expected-to-receive-high-junk-rating-from-credit-agencies-following-ipo-report-says/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311311 Points: 30 # Comments: 14
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dbreunig/nesformer
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-30 21:59
dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros (very slowly) running inside Qwen! In a comment on Hacker News Drew reveals the Opus 5.5 prompts he used to build this system: Read this article and any relevant source code: https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer. Then explore if you could emulate the chip and ram in a Nintendo Entertainment System (as people do today with FPGAs in MISTRs) using this technique. If so, what
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Linode Security Incident
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 21:57
Article URL: https://status.linode.com/incidents/nt58zhx3pmgm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310687 Points: 126 # Comments: 70
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Wall Street closes sharply lower as AI cash burn fears spark tech selloff
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-30 21:32
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nasdaq-futures-tumble-amazon-intel-results-deepen-ai-spending-woes-2026-10-30/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310431 Points: 53 # Comments: 8
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sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 21:30
Article URL: https://www.firezone.dev/blog/introducing-sanstun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310398 Points: 47 # Comments: 5
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AO3 Down for Maintenance
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 21:17
Article URL: https://www.otwstatus.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310258 Points: 80 # Comments: 13
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Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 20:23
Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309647 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
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Embraer's Atech aims to double in size by 2030 with drone traffic control
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 20:18
Article URL: https://www.bloomberglinea.com.br/negocios/atech-da-embraer-quer-dobrar-de-tamanho-ate-2030-com-controle-de-trafego-de-drones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309573 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 20:18
Article URL: https://pgrust.com/blog/programming-at-light-speed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309571 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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Product Managers aren't safe either
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 20:14
Article URL: https://lucaskostka.com/posts/ai-challenges-more-than-devs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309534 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Automatic deduction of FlashAttention kernel from ~25 lines of SQL
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 20:09
In this demo, we automatically deduce a FlashAttention kernel with ~25 lines of SQL, which just expresses vanilla attention. This is possible due to three portable SQL extensions that we’re building: - xarray-sql: a library that efficiently represents petabyte scale array datasets in the cloud as tables (relations). - ddx: a database extension that adds automatic differentiation in the style of JAX to standard SQL, assuming the above array data model. - einfold: a modular query planner for fast tensor contractions in vanilla SQL, again, assuming the above array data model. My hope is that the
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An Arrogant Way of Killing (2016)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 20:08
Article URL: https://magazine.atavist.com/2016/an-arrogant-way-of-killing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309470 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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Jules Verne's Lost Novel
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 19:55
Article URL: https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309314 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 19:51
Article URL: https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone-age-is-emerging-from-the-melting-ice/2713921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309266 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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Infinite Mac: BeOS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 19:30
Article URL: https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309029 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
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A Pickpocket's Guide to New York
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 19:26
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/02/a-pickpockets-guide-to-new-york Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308986 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
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Bunny CDN Security Incident
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 19:05
Article URL: https://status.bunny.net/incidents/p6gf1by9kr7m Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308697 Points: 44 # Comments: 13
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French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 19:01
Article URL: https://twitter.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308631 Points: 55 # Comments: 31
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GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 17:57
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pwxsjgnvrk6b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307723 Points: 115 # Comments: 42
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nemotron-halloween
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-10-30 17:57
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Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks?
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) · 2026-10-30 17:36
Last week coined the term “Black October“ after an onslaught of critical vulnerability disclosures, including PHP2Shell and GitLab, signified the moment when the cyber risks of AI models started to materialize.
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Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 17:27
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307219 Points: 178 # Comments: 125
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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 17:25
Article URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307190 Points: 145 # Comments: 35
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Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-30 17:24
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/protons-ceo-cancels-ai-re-interviews/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307183 Points: 257 # Comments: 213
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Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 16:40
Article URL: https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442 Points: 129 # Comments: 93
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Friday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-30 16:16
1. Dwarkesh interviews Robert Caro (!). 2. New and pretty brutal results on CTE and football. 3. Interview with Dan Wang. 4. Updated version of the Saez-Zucman audit. Contestable and speculative assumptions are now separated from true defects. 5. Rosalind Arden interviews Greg Clark on social status. 6. GPTs vs. Claudes, in games. 7. The […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-30 16:13
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvwy72e0n72yo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306008 Points: 234 # Comments: 261
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Some Thing is Happening A note from the AI companies
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-30 15:53
Article URL: https://alanbellows.com/some-thing-is-happening/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305724 Points: 54 # Comments: 15
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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:52
Article URL: https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305693 Points: 388 # Comments: 298
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Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:48
Article URL: https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637 Points: 145 # Comments: 25
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The federated code forge
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:44
Article URL: https://tangled.org/blog/forge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305573 Points: 162 # Comments: 58
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Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:39
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/g-s1-150902/blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north-korea-to-6-3b-hack-on-binance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305480 Points: 157 # Comments: 101
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$300k for a personalized cancer vaccine
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:29
Article URL: https://rnafoundry.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305309 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
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What SBF's Anthropic investment would be worth today
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:28
Article URL: https://sbfindex.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305299 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:23
tl;dr: Agents can play Pictionary. You can connect your own agent, or just watch a game in progress here: https://sketch.wakeshift.ai/games/q5ucru Hi folks! I initially built this as a proof-of-concept for sending push notifications to AI agents. Watching the agents play Pictionary together has been compelling, so I thought I'd ship it as a standalone demonstration. In Sketch Stadium, your agent subscribes to game events. Agents take turns either drawing or guessing. Easy clues are 1 point, medium are 2, and hard are 3. It's entertaining to watch and some of the drawings are impressive (and ot
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Northflank Breached
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 15:10
Article URL: https://status.northflank.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305025 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
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Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 14:27
Article URL: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304419 Points: 68 # Comments: 25
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Neal Stephenson on AI and What Comes Next [video]
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 14:18
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii-aeW5pHPQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304280 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
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Speeding up planning decisions with AI
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-10-30 14:18
Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times
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Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 14:08
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304122 Points: 85 # Comments: 95
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5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 13:20
Article URL: https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/5-meo-dmt-sometimes-cancels-the-ebbinghaus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303488 Points: 25 # Comments: 22
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The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 12:50
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172 Points: 126 # Comments: 87
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US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 12:08
Article URL: https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-bubble-bailout-for-big-tech-commit-to-protecting-american-people-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302814 Points: 368 # Comments: 244
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Better Incentives, More Kidneys, More Lives
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-30 11:18
The organ procurement system has long been a miasma of inefficient monopoly providers. In 2024 I quoted some shocking facts from a great Statecraft interview with Jennifer Erickson and Greg Segal: “Organs are literally lost and damaged in transit every single week. The OPTN contractor is 15 times more likely to lose or damage an organ in […] The post Better Incentives, More Kidneys, More Lives appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 10:06
Article URL: https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301854 Points: 149 # Comments: 18
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How do you take a picture of a black hole?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 09:49
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301717 Points: 93 # Comments: 69
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Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences
OpenAI News · 2026-10-30 09:30
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.
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Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-30 09:17
Although AI lets us do much more, I feel considerably more tired than before. We need to keep track of many things happening in parallel and read enormous amounts of generated text. The constant guardrailing, decision making, and context switching overload me. I am pretty sure most of you are experiencing the same as me, but: Have you found ways of using AI without increasing mental overload? I would love to hear your tips, but still be relevant in this AI era, so my boss does not fire me. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301479 Points: 126 # Comments: 121
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elect.horse
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 09:14
Article URL: https://elect.horse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301462 Points: 449 # Comments: 114
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Community safety report and new protections for teens
OpenAI News · 2026-10-30 09:00
OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.
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'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 07:41
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/30/uk-house-price-growth-crypto-industry-6bn-binance-hack-eurozone-france-gdp-latest-news-updates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300853 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
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Are there too many misdemeanor convictions?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-30 07:33
Maybe so: Misdemeanors account for three-quarters of criminal cases filed annually in the United States, yet causal evidence on the impacts of misdemeanor conviction is scarce. We combine administrative and survey data to provide novel evidence of how misdemeanor conviction affects the socioeconomic outcomes of defendants and their families. Using data on nearly seven million […] The post Are there too many misdemeanor convictions? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 07:09
https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notic... https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563 https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683 Points: 222 # Comments: 326
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Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 07:00
Article URL: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300643 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Chronicle of Higher Education interviews me on AI and education
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-30 04:32
Scott Carlson did the work (gated, but free with registration), here is one excerpt: Cowen: …Another proposal I’ve made is that schools should let people do one class, only one class, AI-only — no professor, except a professor grades at the end. The professor grades not answers to an exam but the workflow of how […] The post Chronicle of Higher Education interviews me on AI and education appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 01:58
Article URL: https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298964 Points: 114 # Comments: 43
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Herdr has released native app
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 00:42
Article URL: https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298436 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Cormac McCarthy's Library
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-30 00:31
Article URL: https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298318 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
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Fair use benefits everyone
OpenAI News · 2026-10-30 00:00
OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.
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Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 23:25
Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM is turing complete btw) and exchange them with the actual operations, essentially creating an alternative to NumPy (a 65000x slower one). Thus, I am proud to present DOOMFORMER. Here are a list of things DOOMFORMER can do : It can classify MNIST digits, even if you write these digits on the map! It can talk(kinda) You can use it to make decisions, so, it can
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API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-29 22:48
API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API. OpenAI have now launched pretty much exactly the same deal: if you have a $100, $200, or $500 subscription plan with them you now get that same quantity of credits to apply to one of your API organizations. I maintain subscriptions with both companies, so this is great news for me! I may even ship some public-faci
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A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 22:26
Article URL: https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297089 Points: 44 # Comments: 7
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Google value plunges by $500B as AI fears rattle Wall Street
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-29 22:22
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm9qzdqpxy48o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297037 Points: 62 # Comments: 28
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The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 22:14
Article URL: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-great-american-rascal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296947 Points: 41 # Comments: 12
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Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 22:12
Article URL: https://chengela.substack.com/p/should-a-medical-diagnosis-reshape Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296920 Points: 35 # Comments: 3
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Lighthouses, War and a Puffling
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 22:11
Article URL: https://adcochrane.wordpress.com/2026/10/29/lighthouses-war-and-a-puffling-the-isle-of-may/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296905 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
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Building an AI-native engineering org
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-29 21:58
Article URL: https://twitter.com/sgondala2/status/2115832070274723875 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296730 Points: 104 # Comments: 136
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Proton goes all in on using AI
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-29 21:49
Article URL: https://convo.casa/@b/117525936178835007 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296602 Points: 77 # Comments: 69
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El Niño Is Flooding California's Coasts with the Highest Tides to Come
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 21:48
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/el-nino-is-already-flooding-californias-coasts-and-the-years-highest-tides-havent-arrived-2000832574 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296585 Points: 83 # Comments: 27
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We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 21:40
Article URL: https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296486 Points: 157 # Comments: 60
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Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 21:38
Article URL: https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470 Points: 724 # Comments: 431
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Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 20:59
Article URL: https://projects.freehackers.org/sylphide-os/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295868 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 20:56
Article URL: https://elementary.codes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295821 Points: 57 # Comments: 12
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A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 20:32
Article URL: https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295450 Points: 35 # Comments: 3
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Patrick Stewart has died
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 19:41
https://archive.ph/y4Egm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702 Points: 1466 # Comments: 285
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The importance of communities around software
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 19:27
Article URL: https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294507 Points: 62 # Comments: 58
- to find devices on local networks?" hacker news (front page) this popup has been a constant gripe of mine for years. i almost never want to allow this permission and there is no system setting to disable it globally and prevent the popup from interrupting your typing, etc. this tiny swift app i built will autoclose it in 1/4th of a second and leave behind a little notification that it did so. would love to hear feedback! comments url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294506 points: 51 # comments: 45">
Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?"
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 19:27
This popup has been a constant gripe of mine for years. I almost NEVER want to allow this permission and there is no system setting to disable it globally and prevent the popup from interrupting your typing, etc. This tiny swift app I built will autoclose it in 1/4th of a second and leave behind a little notification that it did so. Would love to hear feedback! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294506 Points: 51 # Comments: 45
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IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design [pdf]
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 19:25
Article URL: https://divergencelabs.com/publications/ige-preprint.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294486 Points: 23 # Comments: 10
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Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 18:10
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/turning-a-solar-power-system-into-its-own-backup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293437 Points: 44 # Comments: 15
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Can Artificial Intelligence Forecast Treatment Effects in Economics?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-29 18:02
I use LLMs to forecast treatment effects of research studies pre-registered on the AEA RCT Registry and the Open Science Framework. I focus on studies whose results were first publicly released in 2026 and elicit forecasts from models whose training or knowledge cut-off dates were before the relevant set of papers was released. First, LLM […] The post Can Artificial Intelligence Forecast Treatment Effects in Economics? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 17:48
Hi HN, I'm Ruud, co-founder of Lont. We turn company emails into personalized videos. Video captions cost us manual work twice: fixing misheard words, then fixing layout, like lines ending on “the”. Overtone uses multiple models to listen to the audio: gpt-transcribe, Azure STT, and Elevenlabs Scribe. When they return conflicting results, Overtone sends small clips to the models again, and then lets an LLM decide what was actually said. The LLM is like a human doing a sanity check on the transcription model. Humans would easily recognize a word to be different based on context. The LLM basical
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Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 17:43
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-... , https://archive.ph/K7bih Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293047 Points: 186 # Comments: 119
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After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 17:42
https://archive.ph/NCeML Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293023 Points: 73 # Comments: 47
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Claude Duet is the future of chatbot interaction
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 17:24
Article URL: https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292727 Points: 50 # Comments: 38
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Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-29 17:00
How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier models. Spawn is a massively multiplayer gaming environment where players can use prompts (to the in-game agent, Savi) to modify the game world. I fired it up on my phone for a few minutes and was able to prompt a castle into existence, then a dragon, then ride the dragon to fly around that castle. By Jacob's telling, Spawn
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An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI
OpenAI News · 2026-10-29 17:00
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
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Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 16:56
Article URL: https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-of-the-republic-d378468 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292233 Points: 149 # Comments: 14
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Are Stochastic Parrots Alive?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 16:36
Article URL: https://stefano.petrilli.xyz/are-stochastic-parrots-alive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291830 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
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Thursday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-29 16:19
1. “A whopping 79 NBA players are listed on today’s 2:30 PM injury report for tonight’s games. That’s roughly 15% of the entire league” This is just week one people! And some commentary. 2. Video making the case that AI has been fine for jobs. 3. John Repetti reviews The Rouse at Jacobin. 4. Is […] The post Thursday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 16:14
Article URL: https://16colo.rs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291421 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 15:56
Hi HN, we're Ahnaf and Seungmin from Simantic ( https://simantic.com ). We are building the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware without hardware. Before Simantic, we were ex-firmware engineers at companies like Neuralink and Tesla. We’ve worked on some of the coolest projects, like the Cybertruck and Roadster, back when they were still early prototypes. We started working on firmware back when ChatGPT didn’t exist yet, but over the years, we saw how much of the engineering and development work has been automated as the frontier models improved to this
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H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 15:53
Article URL: https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054 Points: 61 # Comments: 25
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Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 15:45
Article URL: https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290912 Points: 32 # Comments: 1
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Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 15:30
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off-limits-americans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668 Points: 75 # Comments: 44
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AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-29 15:29
Article URL: https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290652 Points: 83 # Comments: 22
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Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 15:06
Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290283 Points: 54 # Comments: 19
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LLM Voice
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 14:57
Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290177 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
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Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-29 14:29
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289692 Points: 81 # Comments: 33
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Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 14:22
Article URL: https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289590 Points: 24 # Comments: 1
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We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 14:13
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418 Points: 527 # Comments: 132
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Quoting Ben Hylak
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-29 14:06
every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much. we're special that way. — Ben Hylak Tags: model-context-protocol , ai
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‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 13:40
https://archive.ph/Ykfga Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867 Points: 357 # Comments: 250
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Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-10-29 13:37
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Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 12:41
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019 Points: 279 # Comments: 217
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DoorDash to Acquire Instacart
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 12:33
Article URL: https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919 Points: 194 # Comments: 345
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Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 12:31
Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287898 Points: 200 # Comments: 45
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If IPv4 were land
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 12:19
Article URL: https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775 Points: 279 # Comments: 385
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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 11:41
Article URL: https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448 Points: 164 # Comments: 131
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How Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok Have Changed Their Views on AI and Where They Disagree
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-29 11:17
From the Archives-written by ChatGPT. Both became dramatically more confident in AI’s capabilities while remaining optimistic about its economic potential. Their differences concern how benefits arrive, how seriously to weight emerging dangers, and whether AI might possess consciousness. Cowen emphasizes institutions, bottlenecks, and geopolitical competition. Tabarrok emphasizes inexpensive intelligence, scientific discovery, and—especially in his later […] The post How Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok Have Changed Their Views on AI and Where They Disagree appeared first on Marginal REVOLU
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The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 10:44
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/the-us-added-a-record-20-2-gwh-of-battery-storage-in-just-3-months/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287001 Points: 228 # Comments: 147
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Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 10:42
Article URL: https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987 Points: 146 # Comments: 66
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How we detect frontier model misalignment
OpenAI News · 2026-10-29 09:00
OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.
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Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 07:52
Article URL: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-keeps-dst-until-nov-2027.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285714 Points: 55 # Comments: 87
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AI dominates human peer reviews
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-29 07:13
We show that AI-generated article reviews are now better, by every measure we could construct, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts and judged to be of unusually high quality by journal editors and authors. We then discuss how this result may inform journal policy choices, with concerning downsides as well as potential paths to […] The post AI dominates human peer reviews appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 07:08
Article URL: https://smsofdeath.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285452 Points: 47 # Comments: 24
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How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence
OpenAI News · 2026-10-29 07:00
Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising clients.
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Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 06:47
Article URL: https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2026-10-the-last-proof-of-human-craft-browser-full-chain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285319 Points: 39 # Comments: 5
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My design Conversation with Roman Mars
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-29 04:41
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Roman Mars has built one of podcasting’s great empires out of noticing things everyone else walks past. His show, 99% Invisible, has racked up over 500 million downloads telling stories about the unnoticed design choices that quietly shape how cities and […] The post My design Conversation with Roman Mars appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 03:48
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/zillow-pay-2125-million-settle-class-action-over-failed-real-estate-venture-2026-10-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284342 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
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Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 03:33
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255 Points: 355 # Comments: 115
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MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 00:30
Article URL: https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282865 Points: 35 # Comments: 36
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Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-29 00:25
Article URL: https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838 Points: 82 # Comments: 15
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New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-29 00:16
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-new-york-times-is-adding-more-ai-features-to-its-cooking-app-and-users-arent-thrilled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282766 Points: 51 # Comments: 99
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Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-10-29 00:00
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Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-10-29 00:00
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Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot
OpenAI News · 2026-10-29 00:00
Credit Saison’s ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered 954% ROI. See how leaders and employees helped turn the results into companywide adoption.
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Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-10-29 00:00
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GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 23:45
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282544 Points: 81 # Comments: 27
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The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 23:45
Article URL: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/xreal-aura/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282538 Points: 32 # Comments: 26
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StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 23:35
Article URL: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454 Points: 105 # Comments: 135
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Quoting Ted Sanders
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-28 23:23
In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a single variable: model size. In general, models that are bigger will (a) be more performant / reliable, (b) cost more per token, and (c) have better recall of esoteric facts. As you note, our models are ordered: Luna < Terra < Sol < Astra [ ... ] These days, version number signifies a few things at once: the order of release,
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Claude Code found 145K photos I deleted from my iPhone sitting in a hidden cache
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 22:34
Article URL: https://twitter.com/coolerwave/status/2114088769112477849 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281902 Points: 28 # Comments: 4
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AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-28 22:27
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/ai-execs-may-be-too-out-of-touch-to-build-for-the-general-public/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281826 Points: 67 # Comments: 45
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Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 21:19
Article URL: https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281044 Points: 68 # Comments: 62
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A Health Update
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 21:13
Article URL: https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280974 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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The case of the 9 bit AES key
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 20:51
Article URL: https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280722 Points: 48 # Comments: 16
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Leak website releases data on DHS employees
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 20:46
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/leak-website-releases-data-tens-thousands-dhs-employees-2026-10-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280662 Points: 26 # Comments: 1
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Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-28 20:10
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/google-ai-gets-cagey-when-asked-who-won-the-2020-elections/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280178 Points: 111 # Comments: 55
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Evernote turns AI-driven discovery into paid subscriptions
OpenAI News · 2026-10-28 19:40
Evernote used ChatGPT Ads to introduce its note-taking app to people working with AI. The team tracked how often free trials led to paid subscriptions.
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Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-28 18:56
AI issues its judgment: 138 papers audited 2,035 problems found 147 serious enough to change a headline number 69% of papers have at least one 97% of major and moderate errors with a clear direction overstate the paper’s claim And on the method: Two independent audits of each paper. One by Claude Opus 5.5, one […] The post Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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How is AI shaping economic research?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-28 18:52
Does generative AI narrow or widen productivity gaps in research? We study the distributional effects of AI on research productivity in economics using evidence from three sources: NBER working-paper and publication records, text-based measures of LLM-assisted writing, and an original survey of 227 academic economists measuring AI use across research tasks. We first show that […] The post How is AI shaping economic research? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Scaling Hierarchical Networks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 18:07
Article URL: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/from-tokens-to-bytes-part-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278253 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
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Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 17:45
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-spiders-spin-silk-dope-into-natures-toughest-material-20261028/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277755 Points: 38 # Comments: 2
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Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 17:13
Article URL: https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276998 Points: 40 # Comments: 5
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MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 17:10
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-groundb... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276940 Points: 234 # Comments: 376
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Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 17:07
Why is it useful? - Present slides without sharing the screen and have every one be on the same page. - Present together with other cohosts and all control the current page. - Other features such as presentation collab features. Why should I not just vibe code my own solution? - Its a hassle to maintain a version online. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276883 Points: 18 # Comments: 7
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Gemini 4 Carbon
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 17:01
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792 Points: 386 # Comments: 331
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Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-10-28 17:00
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Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 17:00
Article URL: https://www.runconverge.com/careers/founding-platform-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276779 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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GitHub Octoverse 2026
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-28 16:45
GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the impact of agentic engineering on GitHub. In 2026, merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month. Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, with most of that increase in the second half of this year. New repository rate doubled this year, to 30.3 million per month. The report includes new nu
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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 16:01
Article URL: https://paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/meta-censored-the-no-kings-instagram Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275887 Points: 197 # Comments: 48
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Wednesday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-28 15:55
1. A new taxonomy of work, for the AI era. Thread here. 2. On Morel’s Invention (NYT). 3. Iranian brick architecture. 4. How do non-profits use cash windfalls? 5. The roots of earlier German industrial success. 6. Susquehanna Hat Company skit. The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 15:46
Article URL: https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275626 Points: 92 # Comments: 54
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Archive.today links going forward
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 15:31
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetoday_links_going_forward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275373 Points: 106 # Comments: 64
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-10-28 14:58
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CNC Stone Carving
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 14:38
Article URL: https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274409 Points: 256 # Comments: 83
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AlpineBSD
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 14:30
Article URL: https://wiki.alpinebsd.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274251 Points: 82 # Comments: 72
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The Agent SDK
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 14:02
Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-sdk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273731 Points: 59 # Comments: 64
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Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-28 13:56
Article URL: https://github.com/thomasunise/casecite Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273623 Points: 68 # Comments: 34
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The October inflection point for vibe game development
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-28 13:55
I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've reached a new inflection point in October 2026, and this time it's for vibe coding computer games . Tree Appreciator Emberwick Battle Drones Pumpkin Farmer, aka Quarter Sun Cove Four times as insulting What happens if someone actually puts the work in? You should build a game! Claude Opus 5.5 in particular exhibits meaningful improvements
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Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 13:41
Article URL: https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-using-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273396 Points: 301 # Comments: 356
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Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-28 13:27
Article URL: https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/27761/valve-responds-to-developers-fearing-ai-slop-and-clones Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273192 Points: 59 # Comments: 65
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Emacs Turns 50
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 13:25
Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273171 Points: 269 # Comments: 110
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OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows
OpenAI News · 2026-10-28 13:15
OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.
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Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) · 2026-10-28 12:58
A sort of review of the benchmarking industry and what's missing.
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Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-28 12:24
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/the-sleep-framework-a-new-way-for-llms-to-retain-knowledge-in-continual-learning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272479 Points: 56 # Comments: 3
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Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 11:54
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazon-signs-1157-billion-deal-satellite-firm-globalstar-challenge-starlink-2026-04-14/1157-billion-deal-satellite-firm-globalstar-challenge-starlink-2026-04-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272145 Points: 37 # Comments: 4
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US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 11:54
Previously: Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775183 - April 2026 (119 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272145 Points: 191 # Comments: 94
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Inequality in Equal Land
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-28 11:18
Adam Nash has a good post on wealth inequality: …Every year, we pull the most recent data from the US Census on household wealth, cut by age. …invariably, the students’ initial response is a reaction to the apparent disparity in wealth between households based on age. For many students, it just doesn’t seem fair at […] The post Inequality in Equal Land appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 11:08
Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271685 Points: 22 # Comments: 8
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Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 11:03
Article URL: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640 Points: 124 # Comments: 53
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Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-10-28 10:10
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe-is-on-the-other-foot-microsoft-and-epic-games-suddenly-agree-that-ai-is-theft-2000749316 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271271 Points: 65 # Comments: 24
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Quoting Terk Terkowitz
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-28 10:09
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for. — Terk Terkowitz , An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI Tags: amazon , generative-ai , agentic-engineering , ai , llms
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The future of the firm
OpenAI News · 2026-10-28 10:00
How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us.
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Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work
OpenAI News · 2026-10-28 09:30
See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.
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Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work
OpenAI News · 2026-10-28 09:30
See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.
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AI hacking risks
Marginal Revolution · 2026-10-28 04:38
That is the topic of my latest Free Press column (now there are gift links!), here is one excerpt, noting this is a worst-case scenario not a prediction: Yet current systems are likely to prove more robust than that suggests. For one thing, they use a variety of different methods of protection, including public key […] The post AI hacking risks appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 02:01
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36341 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268478 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Git for US Legislation
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-28 01:47
Article URL: https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380 Points: 137 # Comments: 68
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Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 23:53
Article URL: https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267569 Points: 39 # Comments: 8
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Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 22:31
Article URL: https://www.bettascore.ai/research/reliability-reviewers-vs-owners Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266780 Points: 12 # Comments: 13
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Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 22:23
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-partnership-gsa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266701 Points: 34 # Comments: 26
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One year of Dioxus fullstack in production: the good, the painful
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 21:19
Article URL: https://oxidt.com/blog/one-year-of-dioxus-fullstack-in-production-the-good-the-painful Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265960 Points: 17 # Comments: 10
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Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 20:50
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265609 Points: 77 # Comments: 67
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Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 20:48
Article URL: https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-3-w-pi-4-model-a/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265594 Points: 65 # Comments: 19
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Hex Raises $100M
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 20:36
Article URL: https://hex.tech/blog/hex-new-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265413 Points: 28 # Comments: 11
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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 20:35
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-servers-on-planet-earth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265393 Points: 72 # Comments: 19
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Four Months of Zig
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 20:13
Article URL: https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/four-months-of-zig/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265128 Points: 52 # Comments: 24
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Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 19:55
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264857 Points: 154 # Comments: 90
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Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 19:55
Article URL: https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264853 Points: 134 # Comments: 86
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Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-27 19:34
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year , the conference badge is a full-blown color screen computer. I've been hacking around with it again, and then I ran into with Steve Francia... who worked with Gemini to get a full NES emulator working on it, and then went a step further and deployed an emulator for both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color. Which means, if you can obtain the ROM, you can run The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on your conference badge! A neat feature of the badge is that you can turn it upside down and then use g
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US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 19:11
Article URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6175633-trump-bans-artificial-intelligence-term/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264228 Points: 40 # Comments: 35
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Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-10-27 18:44
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