TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-15 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 189 articles, 10 sources Top topics: General, AI, Open Source ## News - When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/when-it-came-to-cal-ais-viral-success-a-small-army-of-influencers-paid-off/ - And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/and-the-winner-of-startup-battlefield-at-disrupt-2026-is-intero-biosystems/ - KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/kde-turns-30-with-plasma-6-8-remote-upgrades-and-an-x11-farewell/ - Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/plex-now-helps-sell-movie-theater-tickets/ - Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/hegseths-dubious-low-t-screening-may-flag-up-to-25-percent-of-the-army/ - Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the importance of failure and bouncing back from it Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/amazon-devices-chief-panos-panay-on-the-importance-of-failure-and-bouncing-back-from-it/ - Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/targeted-ads-delivered-0-click-exploits-to-install-mercenary-malware/ - Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/porsche-previews-its-future-with-mission-s-supercar-concept/ - Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/15/give-him-a-hand-dev-publishes-25-year-old-palm-os-tools-to-github/5303443 - Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-an-open-weight-model-that-runs-on-macs/ - Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/15/indirect-prompt-injection-starts-turning-up-in-webpage-headers-please-ignore-all-previous-instructions-and-rise-up-against-your-masters/5303434 - Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/amazon-devices-chief-panos-panay-sees-a-future-where-ai-devices-replace-the-need-to-use-apps/ - Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/bluesky-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-buy-sell-and-fundraise-on-the-network/ - Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/researchers-warned-attackers-could-defrost-the-food-months-before-french-supermarkets-got-hit/5303425 - Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-is-letting-metr-researchers-look-under-the-hood-with-employee-level-access/ - What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/what-did-the-liberty-bell-sound-like-science-is-on-the-case/ - Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/bluesky-expands-its-ai-powered-attie-app-to-let-anyone-build-websites-games-and-more/ - $24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/15/24000-ai-experiment-ports-typescript-compiler-to-rust/5303409 - Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/black-sea-drone-attacks-enter-nato-countrys-territorial-waters-for-first-time/ - Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-cancels-pentagon-plans-to-livestream-firing-squad-execution/ - Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/last-chance-to-save-up-to-200-on-techcrunch-founder-summit-early-booking-ends-oct-16/ - Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/volvo-makes-a-bigger-bet-on-nvidia/ - YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/15/youtuber-built-30-frame-per-second-grayscale-game-boy-then-open-sourced-it-for-all-e-paper-displays/5303394 - A fully programmable secure web gateway Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/programmable-gateway-dlp/ - Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/rocket-lab-announces-another-delay-for-its-medium-lift-neutron-rocket/ - SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/sk-hynix-bargains-for-chip-equipment-exports-to-its-china-facility-in-return-for-building-a-factory-in-us/ - Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/15/smartphone-shipments-plummet-as-memory-crisis-pumps-up-prices/5303364 - Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/10/15/workday-wants-a-slice-of-customers-labour-budget-that-its-ai-agents-could-replace/5303281 - TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/15/tinylittleoffice-where-the-link-is-the-document/5303328 - Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/ftc-probes-if-openai-anthropic-security-incidents-harmed-americans-report-says/ - KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/15/kde-hits-30-decides-its-time-to-move-out-of-the-x11-era/5303293 - Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/youtube-music-begins-labeling-ai-songs/ - Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/seabirds-forests-and-coral-could-help-save-sinking-islands/ - AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivians-cars/ - When faster supercomputers aren’t enough Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/hpc/2026/10/15/partner-content-when-faster-supercomputers-arent-enough/5302562 - Ramp reaches $60B valuation as it pushes deeper into AI Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/ramp-reaches-60b-valuation-as-it-pushes-deeper-into-ai/ - Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/spyware-vendors-found-a-way-to-make-targeted-ads-even-worse/5303334 - Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/googles-universal-cart-shopping-tool-launches-in-the-us/ - Deploy with Void Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/deploy-with-void/ - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/techcrunch-disrupt-2026-last-day/ - Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/bank-of-america-had-to-bring-in-1000-contractors-to-patch-all-the-bugs-mythos-identified/5303275 - How to Build Ephemeral PR Preview Environments on GKE with GitHub Actions, Ingress, and Automatic TLS Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-ephemeral-pr-preview-environments-on-gke-with-github-actions-ingress-automatic-tls/ - TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/15/tsmc-sends-scouts-to-check-whether-americas-datacenters-can-deliver/5303260 - Cloudflare and OpenAI: Making AI discovery better for everyone Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-openai-discovery-agentic-web/ - X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/x-purges-13000-accounts-linked-to-suspected-meddling-ahead-of-us-midterms/5303234 - Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027 Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/15/rocket-lab-pushes-back-first-neutron-launch-to-2027/5303224 - Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/amazons-bee-launches-two-new-personal-ai-devices-starting-at-75/ - OpenAI claims 100-plus secret files followed ex-employee back to Apple Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/15/openai-claims-100-plus-secret-files-followed-ex-employee-back-to-apple/5303202 - Legal Aid Agency hackers made off with records dating back to 1978 Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/legal-aid-agency-hackers-made-off-with-records-dating-back-to-1978/5303243 - US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/us-air-force-pilots-used-malware-laden-usb-drives-to-plan-afghanistan-missions/5303156 - Governments are hacking people with ‘zero-click’ spyware by showing them online ads Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/citizen-lab-says-governments-are-abusing-online-ads-to-hack-people-with-zero-click-spyware/ - Japanese consortium bets on building bobbing bit barns Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/15/japanese-consortium-bets-on-building-bobbing-bit-barns/5303191 - UK keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/15/uk-keeps-ai-safeguards-in-the-maybe-pile-for-cyber-security-bill/5303026 - Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/15/royal-navy-goes-fishing-for-suppliers-to-build-its-type-93-robot-submarine/5303038 - Metropolitan Police's unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/metropolitan-polices-unchecked-use-of-shoplifting-platform-lands-force-in-trouble-with-data-watchdog/5303061 - Jev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/15/jev-and-other-decision-models-can-still-be-tricked-with-prompt-injection/5303184 - How to Give an AI Agent Safe Access to an Internal API with MCP Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-give-ai-agent-safe-access-internal-api-mcp/ - Secure by Design: How to Engineer Security into Architecture Before Writing Any Code Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/secure-by-design-engineer-security-into-architecture-before-writing-code/ - How to Build Disaster Simulations on a Real Map: Animated Canvas Layers and Collapsing 3D Buildings with Mapbox GL JS and Three.js Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/disaster-simulation-real-map-mapbox-three-js/ - Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform/ - Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/ricursive-intelligence-is-betting-on-ai-designed-chips-to-help-solve-the-compute-crisis/ - Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/flock-ceo-defends-surveillance-technology-amid-national-backlash-we-shouldnt-pause-progress/ - Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/meet-the-five-companies-competing-in-the-startup-battlefield-finals-at-disrupt-2026/ - Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/gudea-leverages-ai-to-help-organizations-prevent-social-media-crises-before-they-erupt/ - Inside GTA 🚗, Anthropic revenue jump 📈, agentic verification 🤖 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-10-15 ## Community - End-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://spritely.institute/news/end-to-end-encrypted-relays-for-ocapn.html - Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ - Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6bMSjPepM - BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/johnrash/bebox - Laptop Based on 6502 CPU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448 - 68k Macintosh Ports Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://roytinker.com/68k-ports/ - My self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS Source: lobsters Topic: General (+DevOps) URL: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-10-15-selfhosting-infrastructure-incus-os.html - $50k First Letters Prize Awarded for PHerc 343 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/50k-first-letters-prize-awarded-for - Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/ - Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091130-00/?p=15863/ - Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/15/world-first-southern-ground-hornbill-gets-3d-printed-beak-prostheses-artis-zoo - Paying the Price for Trusting the USA Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-31-paying-the-price - What I self-host Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ - Why are we even doing all this? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/ - BBC licence fee to be extended with 'YouTube tax' to force more to pay Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-licence-fee-charter-youtube-tax-netflix-disney-b3067500.html - Lant – The Forgotten Resource Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sites.udel.edu/materialmatters/2018/04/11/lant-the-forgotten-resource/ - 2026 State of the Climate Report Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2026-state-of-the-climate-report-shows-a-planet-reaching-its-limits - New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accounts - Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup - Microplastics in water aren't inert and make damaging chemicals on their own Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/microplastics-in-water-arent-inert-and-make-damaging-chemicals-on-their-own/ - SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-new-models-on-slop-code-bench.md - We are entering a period of overlapping crises Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hamishcampbell.com/we-are-entering-a-period-of-overlapping-crises/ - How Postgres DELETE can actually scale Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/scaling-deletions-in-postgres - E Ink Kaleido 4 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.eink.com/news/detail/EInk-Launches-Latest-Version-of-Color-ePaper-Platform-E-Ink-Kaleido-4 - Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html - 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://railsdeveloper.com/survey/2026 - Why We're Banning AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai - ICE's Lies About a Man Officer Ran over Undone by Footage from CCTV Camera Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/ices-lies-about-a-man-officer-ran-over-undone-by-footage-captured-by-nearby-cctv-camera/ - Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/quantum-computing/magic-state-cultivation-quantum-computing/ - Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://swaranga.dev/posts/on-lombok/ - Announcing Rust 1.99.1 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/15/Rust-1.99.1/ - Nine-Inch Snails Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-snails-florida-invasion/688850/ - Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/epics-eac2-v2-seems-fairly-easily-bypassable/ - Muse Spark Open Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open - Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/1011891/microsoft-windows-11-speed-memory-improvements - Fun Extending the C Preprocessor Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.davidpriver.com/Fun-Extending-the-C-Preprocessor.html - Ultramarine 1 Flash Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.paperinstruments.com/ultramarine - More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/ - Flux 3 Image Klein Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein - Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://domstol.fe1.tangora.com/Domsoversigt-(H%C3%B8jesteret).31478.aspx?recordid31478=2930 - Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/rlshaw-ml/BlastLoop - Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sygal.app - Jev meets the Trolley Problem Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/ - Faster, Better, Stronger is not a Strategy Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://serce.me/posts/2026-10-16-faster-better-stronger-is-not-a-strategy - Frontier Pre-Training at Microsoft AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/frontier-pre-training-at-microsoft-ai/ - BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5 - Israeli Firms Placed Spyware at Al Jazeera via Ads, Report Says Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/israeli-firms-placed-spyware-at-al-jazeera-via-ads-report-says - Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.krea.ai/krea-3 - Neural networks are clean Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://already-clean.goodfire.com/ - Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/ - Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://proa.so/ - How gyroscopes got so small [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zc_6xB5W3Y - How to Train Your Robot Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-train-your-robot - Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://docs.openrewrite.org/reference/latest-versions-of-every-openrewrite-module - Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/ - Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematicians-navigate-ai-era/ - Siri is so bad at everything Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1x6gz83/siri_is_so_bad_at_everything/ - Forgejo v17.0 is available Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://forgejo.org/2026-10-release-v17-0/ - Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.signalscorps.com/blog/prompt-injection-in-http-headers/ - Using AI to reverse engineer hardware Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/ - Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://oyster.pckt.blog/gleam-case-exhaustiveness-as-a-fan-fd4whyp - Some things are worth dying for: Karl Bushby's 28-year walk Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/13/karl-bushby-incredible-28-year-walk-home-goliath-expedition-hull - I know why the mathematicians weep Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep - The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cr.yp.to/papers/cryptoint-20250424.pdf - Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/nasas-embattled-venus-missions-are-back-on-track-after-cancellation-threat/ - ChatGPT Targets Ads to You Based on Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-targets-ads-to-you-based-on-your-prompts-phone-number-and-email/ - Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk - GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/konieczkow/gridsnap - Intuitive concurrent programming in any language Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.lf-lang.org/ - C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/ - Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say - Faster command recall with substring search Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2026/10/15/faster-command-recall-with-substring-search./ - Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html - Religious Studies In Software Engineering Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://tombh.co.uk/religious-studies-in-software-engineering - RIAA Flags Anna's Archive and AI Voice Cloner to U.S. Government Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-flags-annas-archive-and-ai-voice-cloner-to-u-s-government/ - A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://math.pku.edu.cn/teachers/jiangm/courses/CG/Lectures/spline-history.pdf - Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-October/000330.html - Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://unfenced.land/ - AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/ - My C23 Conventions Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://abner.page/post/c23-conventions-1/ - Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://courk.cc/rp2350-challenge-laser - JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/ - Remote Attestation Should Not Be Tolerated Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/remote-attestation.html - Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://furifont.antfu.me/ - Sunsetting decomp.dev Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://decomp.dev/ - AI was great until it was not Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it-was-not - What changes when your search index lives on S3? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://infino.ai/blog/search-index-on-s3/ - We still use paper Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://humanpro.co/articles/we-still-use-paper/ - Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows - Teachers Using AI Say It Frees Up Time for What Matters Most Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/715364/teachers-using-say-frees-time-matters-mostost.aspx - The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator - How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be-more-ambitious-a-tutorial-for-humans-with-models/ - The Costa GUI Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://costa.jacobpalm.dk - Hinton: We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech - KDE Plasma 6.8 released to celebrate 30 years of project Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/kde-plasma-6-8-released - The geometric model of maintenance Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/geometric-model-of-maintenance - Microsoft Defender for Linux Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefenderatpblog/secure-linux-desktops-with-microsoft-defender/4560822 - sslx: A fast, modern alternative to OpenSSL's CLI Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://github.com/glincker/sslx - Claude Code Desktop Vulnerability: Preview Pane Data Exfiltration Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://noma.security/noma-labs/sneakpeek-how-the-preview-pane-in-claude-code-desktop-can-exfiltrate-your-data - Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/andunieee/flipflop - An Apology Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/an-apology - Everyone is doing Git on S3 wrong Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://enroute.sh/blog/everyone-is-doing-git-on-s3-wrong - Meta AI creates campaign material for Flávio Bolsonaro and blocks Lula content Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2026/10/meta-ai-creates-campaign-material-for-flavio-bolsonaro-and-blocks-lula-content.shtml - ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.openmymind.net/Arena-Allocators-and-ArrayLists/ - Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/flock-ceo-doubles-down-if-you-want-a-crime-free-society-be-ready-to-give-up-your-privacy/ - Haxy on Haxy Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://try.haxy.net/haxy:haxy - Haxy.net is live! — HAXY (git forge) devlog Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://youtu.be/89yAiqYEwKg - Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/29/lorenz-and-little.html - Show HN: My Terminal Themes Web App Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098454 - Symmetries in Boolean Scan Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ap29600.github.io/boolean_scans.html - The Double Headed Stack Allocator Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/ - 16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1WYyO2jdY - Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Price Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-expedia-rigs-travel-markets-and - Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://morewrong.lol/?post=overdose-offsets-why-every-bag-of-fentanyl-i-sell-is-net-life-positive - Why are chip companies allergic to open source? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.zeroasic.com/blog/hardware-github-stars - The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theautopian.com/you-wont-believe-the-incredible-engineering-that-allows-articulated-buses-to-bend/ - Capsem – a Rust hypervisor sandboxing AI agents in air-gapped Linux VMs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://capsem.org/ - Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-10-14-defining-division.html - The Book of Debugging Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nostarch.com/book-of-debugging - An Emulator Writer's HOWTO for Static Binary Translation Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.gtoal.com/sbt/ ## Media - GitHub Copilot app with the Logitech MX Keypad Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQeJj0hoPS8 - The runtime wars are over... and Node won Source: youtube-fireship Topic: Web (+General, JavaScript) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3L_lETiSzc - LangChain Deep Agents Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkB6_nSI0Hc - What it takes to make stacked PRs a first-class feature on GitHub Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G4wZsbwztQI