TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-13 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 212 articles, 8 sources Top topics: General, AI, AWS ## News - Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/science-corporation-implants-its-vision-restoring-chip-in-its-first-stargardt-disease-patient/ - Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/cerebras-ceo-says-were-nearing-a-future-where-everyone-has-a-personal-ai-assistant-at-home/ - Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/industrial-next-wants-factory-robots-to-switch-tasks-in-minutes-not-weeks/ - Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/martin-shkreli-livestreamed-himself-violating-lifetime-pharma-ban-ftc-says/ - Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/13/anthropic-reinvents-source-control-as-claude-floods-the-world-with-code/5302943 - Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/cerebras-ceo-pushes-back-on-ai-doomsday-warnings/ - ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/esa-targets-anbernic-emulation-handhelds-as-superfake-piracy-enablers/ - Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/topgolf-saved-over-11-3-million-after-leaving-vmware/ - Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/helix-carbon-makes-iron-cheaper-by-upcycling-blast-furnace-pollution-see-how-at-techcrunch-disrupt/ - FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/fbi-arrests-openai-employee-accused-of-planting-hidden-recording-device-in-conference-room/ - CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/13/cisa-director-touts-private-partnerships-after-agency-killed-many/5302920 - Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/judge-orders-openai-to-turn-over-hiring-records-in-apple-trade-secrets-case/ - OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/openais-dot-assistant-burned-300k-tokens-in-a-day-without-a-single-prompt/5302913 - Cambridge Heavy Industries has been quietly building a desktop fusion device Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/cambridge-heavy-industries-has-been-quietly-building-a-desktop-fusion-device/ - Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/licube-wants-to-be-the-fuel-provider-to-the-fusion-power-industry-see-how-at-techcrunch-disrupt/ - Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trumps-taxpayer-funded-ads-kept-airing-on-tv-the-day-after-judge-blocked-them/ - Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/apple-unleashes-a-swarm-of-mac-minions-to-share-gpu-resources-for-large-ai-tasks/5302891 - Niobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakes Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/niobia-takes-the-guesswork-out-of-some-of-techs-most-expensive-mistakes/ - Rivian’s startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/rivians-startup-mind-robotics-hires-former-ford-ev-chief-doug-field/ - Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/flox-intelligence-is-building-ai-to-keep-wildlife-away-from-trains-airports-and-roads/ - Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/disney-offers-20m-for-character-ais-scandal-plagued-chatbot-tech/ - Skydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percent Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/skydances-discovery-prices-increase-by-up-to-20-percent/ - Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/facebook-is-giving-users-more-control-over-their-algorithm/ - Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/forget-rockets-longshot-wants-to-fire-cargo-into-space-from-a-gun-see-it-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/europe-shows-a-better-alternative-to-big-suvs-at-the-paris-auto-show/ - Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/pluto-security-raises-42m-as-ai-gives-enterprise-security-teams-a-new-headache/ - Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/13/claude-submitted-fake-murder-tip-to-philly-police-during-summertime-testing/5302842 - Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/10/google-wants-to-host-your-personal-vibe-coded-apps-in-the-play-store/ - Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/google-play-now-supports-private-vibe-coded-apps-built-just-for-you/ - MIT startup says it can turn diesel trucks into cheaper hydrogen haulers — see it at Disrupt Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/mit-startup-says-it-can-turn-diesel-trucks-into-cheaper-hydrogen-haulers-see-it-at-disrupt/ - Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/anthropic-conjures-another-threat-that-doesnt-exist-yet-to-stoke-fears-of-ai-apocalypse/5302866 - SpaceX and Google both said no. Now his software is riding a SpaceX rocket next to Google’s Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/satlyt-founded-by-a-former-google-and-spacex-product-manager-raises-8m-to-run-ai-on-satellites/ - Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset' Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/13/cheap-chinese-and-open-source-llms-could-trigger-trillion-dollar-ai-infrastructure-reset/5302774 - Under the hood, off the hot path: How D1 scales to millions of databases Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-control-plane/ - Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/gemini-4-argon-begins-rolling-out-in-gemini-app-and-antigravity-but-only-if-you-pay/ - Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/rewinding-the-exponential/ - Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299 Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/apple-homeview-smart-home-hub-opens-for-preorders-at-299/ - They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/they-war-gamed-dimming-the-sun-it-went-even-worse-than-you-think/ - The 2026 Startup Battlefield Top 20: From organs to orbit and everything in between Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/the-2026-startup-battlefield-top-20-from-organs-to-orbit-and-everything-in-between/ - Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/10/13/microsoft-celebrates-end-of-office-2021-ltsc-with-ms-365-outage/5302848 - Spotify users on iOS 27 can now ask Siri to play music without having to say ‘on Spotify’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/spotify-users-on-ios-27-can-now-ask-siri-to-play-music-without-having-to-say-on-spotify/ - Bumble agrees to a $1.3B acquisition deal as online dating faces a reset Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/bumble-agrees-to-a-1-3b-acquisition-deal-as-online-dating-faces-a-reset/ - NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 1 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/techcrunch-disrupt-2026-day-1/ - SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one subscription Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/spacexsi-bundles-x-premium-grok-and-cursor-into-one-subscription/ - Apple refreshes its HomePod mini with a new chip and $149 price tag Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/apple-refreshes-its-homepod-mini-with-a-new-chip-and-149-price-tag/ - Apple’s new smart home lineup includes a smart lock, thermostat, and video doorbells Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/apples-new-smart-home-line-up-includes-a-smart-lock-thermostat-and-video-doorbells/ - Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/13/microsoft-plans-multi-gigawatt-rollout-of-next-gen-azure-maia-ai-accelerator-racks/5302802 - The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/the-final-disrupt-stage-lineup-three-days-of-conversations-you-wont-hear-anywhere-outside-of-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - India delays digital payments fee rollout amid retailer pushback Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/india-delays-digital-payments-fee-rollout-amid-retailer-pushback/ - Apple launches a new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI and remote-free voice commands Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/apple-launches-a-new-apple-tv-4k-with-siri-ai-and-remote-free-commands/ - High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/honey-bee-stingers-are-double-piston-venom-pumps/ - Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/amex-introduces-a-framework-to-prevent-ai-agents-from-making-unauthorized-purchases/ - AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/ai-bubble-could-burst-and-take-global-economy-with-it-imf-warns/5302781 - Giraffe Bio aims its bespoke biomolecules at the looming copper shortage Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/giraffe-bio-aims-its-bespoke-biomolecules-at-the-looming-copper-shortage/ - Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/just-5-years-in-interactive-chatbot-platform-character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy/ - Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/13/cyberattacks-crank-french-supermarket-refrigeration-systems-up-to-50c/5302784 - '123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/13/123456-password-linked-to-denmark-data-breach-affecting-88m-people/5302726 - European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/13/european-datacenter-boom-threatens-higher-energy-bills-unless-governments-intervene/5302583 - Owner of fashion brands Hobbs and Whistles joins autumn pwned collection Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/13/owner-of-fashion-brands-hobbs-and-whistles-joins-autumn-pwned-collection/5302752 - UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/13/uk-cabinet-office-takes-78m-hit-to-kill-off-recruitment-system/5302635 - Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/13/intel-optimizes-ipv6-networking-into-nothingness-say-users/5302622 - Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/13/home-office-asylum-ai-flunks-one-in-five-accuracy-checks/5302649 - VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/10/13/vmware-is-pushing-so-many-patches-it-thinks-users-need-new-tools-to-manage-the-flood-1/5302172 - Meta Wonder 🤖, X's resurgence 📈, why WebMCP matters 🌍 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-10-13 ## Community - US hits Bank of America with $1.2B fine Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://apnews.com/article/treasury-bank-of-america-money-laundering-29013b2c8f08a3a8d579a96721ed1aa4 - FastH3-Omni: The best open-source H3 model Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reactor.inc/models/fast-h3-omni - Show HN: Jevcrawl – A web crawler for AI agents with no LLM in the crawl loop Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl - Apple: Switch to Safari (from Chrome) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.apple.com/safari/switch/ - Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://pulseos.finance - Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://wonderhop.io/en/ - Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161 - Domain Health Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080125 - Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://anitab.org/press-release - Recreational Programming Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming - Reddit Self-Promotion Rules Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://redship.io/blog/reddit-self-promotion-rules - The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network - AlphaNIST Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://alpha-nist.github.io/ - Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta - New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-super-ice-is-10-times-stronger-bringing-it-close-to-the-strength-of-concrete - Marshall Islands Stick Chart Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart - Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout and turn to open source Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/ - OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-arrests-former-openai-employee-planting-listening-device-2026-10-13/ - Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jack-o.io/ - Trezor Wallets Also Compromised with Implants Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wallets-also-compromised-with-implants/ - OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-room/ - Bru: Send and read SMS from the browser Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://sverre.me/projects/bru/ - Poisoned Google SERPs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nozzle.io/research/poisoned-google-serps/ - Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100M Kirin chip milestone Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3370766/huawei-once-hobbled-us-sanctions-passes-100-million-kirin-chip-milestone - Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2026/10/12/donaldson-futuro-house-in-idyllwild-california-usa/ - Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/science/mary-tsingou-menzel-dead.html - Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://parsimony.lasu.dev/ - The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum (2017) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu - How many shots are in the average movie today? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://stephenfollows.com/p/how-many-shots-are-in-the-average - Show HN: My live 3D satellite tracker, now with asteroids and a UAP archive Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://skylens.yantraai.app/app.html - Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/ - Indra OCR: a 1M-parameter OCR model that reads 49 pages per second on CPU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.datalab.to/blog/indra-ocr - The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-1st-time-machines-mogged-mathematicians - Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://guitoro.com/ - AI 3D Prints: Are Claude's Defaults Enough? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWOvPLFXgg - Windows NT 3.1 MIPS on QEMU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/13/windows-nt-3-1-mips-on-qemu/ - Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain - Monte-Carlo Simulations Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/ - A plea not to use uv-build Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/ - Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/maharshi365/deslop - Show HN: XY Music Notation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://music.xy.dev/ - FrontierML: A challenging, end-to-end machine learning benchmark Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.frontierml.org/blog/ - Google DeepMind paper trains an agent to rewrite its own harness Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/google-deepmind-evo2-agent-harness-co-evolution - The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/december/worlds-largest-eagle-hunted-unlike-any-other-bird-of-prey.html - The 2026 Maintainers Summit Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/fba1c2268c3e2fb5/ - Major security regression merged into OpenCode V2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/54921 - Please stop hashing the public key first (or: ML-DSA's µ annoys me) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.erincandescent.net/2026/10/mu-annoys-me/ - Show HN: How random are you? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/ - Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/ - Yet another catalogue of fast matrix multiplication algorithms Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fmm.univ-lille.fr - Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stolen-renoir-paintings-found-behind-wall-france/ - Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-rmf24 - Announcing Lix 2.96 “Bingsu” Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lix.systems/blog/2026-10-13-lix-2.96-release/ - Ukraine Is Successfully Bombing the Heart of Russia's Disinformation Machine Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-successfully-bombing-the - Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-worry-ai-is-stealing-their-ideas/ - Gemini 4 Argon Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/ - Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/watzon/sayso - Redesigning source control at Anthropic Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control - Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073471 - Now that information is free, what's a college campus for? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://commonedge.org/now-that-information-is-free-whats-a-college-campus-for/ - Accelerating the Zig Tokenizer (with AVX-512) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6dWIwPLx3s - I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic - Show HN: Knitting – A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://js.knitting.run/ - The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-has-fallen-by-a-third-from-its-early-2000s-peak - Thunderbird for iOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/ - Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://orlp.net/blog/two-stack-sliding-window-aggregation/ - Show HN: A 3D Configurator for Macropads Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://npad.ngrok.dev - Heat Pumps Are Coming for Coal's Industrial Heat Market Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Heat-Pumps-Are-Coming-for-Coals-Industrial-Heat-Market.html - Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-chrome/ - A Book That Will Never Be Read Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://forbetterscience.com/2026/09/22/a-book-that-will-never-be-read/ - How to engineer an AI harness for game development Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code - '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.polygon.com/order-of-the-sinking-star-impressions/ - Data-oriented Design for Mortals Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1Yx1CJAB0 - Sprout Pi Mainboard – A modern, RP2350-powered motherboard for iPods Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboard - Your C is not standard C Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20261012-notstdc.html - Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://marcpaul.io/logs/same-job-two-engines-innodb-and-iceberg-internals/ - 4 Years of Ludicon Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/10/4-years-of-ludicon/ - New Apple TV 4K Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/ - Show HN: Stream live open data in two commands Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://docs.hypermass.io/docs/cli/ - Tabernacle: A tree-style tab manager for Firefox Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://michaelprojects.com/tabernacle/ - Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/long-on-research-short-on-bandwidth/ - Apple HomeView Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/ - How 94 internet-famous engineers use coding agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.prehistoriq.com/stacks/ - BB(10) > Graham's Number Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/jeff87654/busy-beaver/blob/main/BB10/1RB0RA_1LC1LF_1RD0LB_1RA1LE_1LI0LC_0RG1LD_1RH1LG_1LC0RG_0LJ0LI_1RZ0LC.md - It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/ - Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/ - A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud - Worlds more habitable than Earth? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html - Speculative Sauropods Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://svpow.com/2026/10/02/speculative-sauropods/ - Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary - Jev handed our LLM the wrong page a tenth as often as our embeddings Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://sayora.ai/many-hands/jev-vs-embeddings/ - Firefox Enterprise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/ - A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/a-visual-intro-to-complex-numbers - Show HN: Opensidian Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://opensidian.org/ - Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui - We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://eg2.haku.sh/ - Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney - Running RAG with a (small) language model in the browser Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI, JavaScript, Web) URL: https://bart.degoe.de/rag-with-a-small-language-model-in-the-browser/ - 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250 - Major ICQ security hole (1998) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://opennet.ru/base/maillist/169.txt.html - Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/ - CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran - India's Battery Storage Capacity Set to Surge Nearly 50 Fold by 2032 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Indias-Battery-Storage-Capacity-Set-to-Surge-Nearly-50-Fold-by-2032.html - AWS Lambda Web Functions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-performance-anywhere/ - Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ptrbrynt.com/posts/were-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along - Teach My Little Sister How to Drive Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3948460/allnews/ - Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality & Value? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://pikuma.com/blog/ease-creation-decrease-quality-value - Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://fairscan.org/blog/did-ente-locker-copy-my-code-without-attribution/ - Easylang: A Simple, Browser-Based Programming Language in the Spirit of the Old Home Computer BASIC Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://easylang.online/ide - Where is all the new, good software? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.natemeyvis.com/where-is-all-the-new-good-software/ - Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wallets-with-secret-eSIM-11485188.html - Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.unsiloed.ai/blog/document-review-unsiloed-typesafe-jev - DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/composo-ai/DishwasherBench - A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wired.com/story/new-anti-aging-drug-trial-for-skin/ - We Infiltrated a Police Union Convention in Las Vegas Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltrated-a-police-union-convention - Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-routed-a-graphite-pipe-through-the-iphone-duos-hinge - 10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/sre-book-second-edition - Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/ - Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/history-proposal.html - The reverts will continue until morale improves Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Databases) URL: http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2026/10/09/the-reverts-will-continue-until-morale-improves - Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/10/denmark-set-to-allow-the-return-of-physical-force-to-maintain-order-in-schools_6758443_4.html - Lotus Improv on the NeXT Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotusimprov-next/ - Hittite royal archive found in Turkey Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107 - Firefox Enterprise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/introducing-firefox-enterprise/ - Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks - Nixpkgs for the frontend impaired Source: lobsters Topic: General (+JavaScript) URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/12/nixpkgs-for-the-frontend-impaired - Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067325 - Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430 - Faster Fourier Transforms Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms - What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://deadparrotbbs.com/what-happened-to-the-desktop-metaphor/ - Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineers-dont-get-to-be-luddites-about-ai/ - Chasing a -O2 pessimization in antcc Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://386s.org/w/lua-antcc-pessimization/ - Creusot 0.14.0 release - Contracts for Rust, formally proved Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://devlog.creusot.rs/v0-14-0/ - Leaving Tech Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ryanbigg.com/2026/10/leaving-tech - Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU - China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20260908-347742/ - Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers - The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/macos-dock-icons-over-time/ - 500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/ - AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928 - LittleJS is 2D and 3D now Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://frankforce.com/littlejs-is-2d-and-3d-now/ - A slightly faster slimmer curl Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/13/a-slightly-faster-slimmer-curl/ - Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYrSBexF_4 - AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.404media.co/ai-company-lets-cops-pinpoint-specific-houses-based-on-a-single-interior-photo/ - Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft ## Media - Gemini 4 Argon: 10 incredible AI demos (1M token output in action) Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRhM1h10T3U - How to onboard to Looker using your favorite LLM and skills Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58Pb0Xdi3w