TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-17 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 96 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, Hardware ## News - Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns/ - TikTok says it’s restored ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/tiktok-permanently-bans-musk-documentary-advertising-account/ - Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/anthropic-says-its-workforce-has-become-less-junior-and-is-spending-more-time-in-meetings/ - Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/replit-is-no-longer-working-with-anthropic-ceo-says/ - Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/embers-new-temperature-controlled-mug-makes-my-nightly-tea-ritual-even-better/ - Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/17/cybercrims-go-beyond-stealing-data-to-attack-physical-building-systems/5303677 - Science says your boss should talk less in meetings Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/science-says-your-boss-should-talk-less-in-meetings/ - Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/why-biowares-neverwinter-nights-still-has-thousands-of-active-players/ - Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/17/amazon-wants-you-to-bee-lieve-wearable-ai-can-recall-it-all-for-you/5303569 - Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/17/get-in-the-bin-uk-space-agency-wants-public-to-name-its-debris-removal-mission/5303555 - Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/mark-wahlberg-wants-to-take-on-the-longevity-startup-crowd-with-an-affordable-gym-concept/ ## Community - There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc - RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0 - Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_LPimUJMs - What's New in React 19.3 and How It Changes UI Development Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+JavaScript, React) URL: https://jsdev.space/react-19-3/ - I built a programming language that LLMs can't use Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/ - Does moving a GPU server's request loop into the kernel save CPU? Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://eunomia.dev/blog/2026/10/17/bpf-gpu-server/ - Making Hybrid Images (2014) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.jeremykun.com/2014/09/29/hybrid-images/ - The Brain Sandwich Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/ - It's time to talk about TEEs Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://alinush.github.io//tee - JDK 28 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/28/ - FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://uk.pcmag.com/first-looks/26975/fingerworks-igesture-pad - Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/business/ai-debt-coreweave-oracle-softbank.html - Porting video games to VHS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gardinerbryant.com/what-if-video-games-came-on-vhs/ - How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-fungi-keep-the-planet-healthy-20261015/ - Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://doctor-seo.net/en/blog/news/chrome-edge-removing-xslt/ - It's still ok to enjoy programming Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming - The fire retardant in the seafood chain Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/ - The math that OpenAI keeps for itself Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://newsletter.danielpaleka.com/p/the-math-that-openai-keeps-for-itself - Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/microsoft-cmu-praise - University of Leicester to make redundant all pure math professors (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/l7yyir/not_joking_university_of_leicester_to_make/ - When No ID Means No Internet Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/when-no-id-means-no-internet-age-verification-and-right-access-information - Pattern matching beats narrative reasoning Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.scottstevenson.net/p/pattern-matching-beats-narrative - Show HN: Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://forgemesh.io/blog/pay-per-crawl-every-stack - 800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/france-protests-9.7385148 - OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111516673953935833 - Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921 - I Became a Citizen of Japan Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.derekwessman.com/blog-1/natural - Show HN: I reverse engineered serum 2 and build an open source alternative Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/itsfabioroma/tessera - Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/ - Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/vercel-labs/tsc-ts - Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-fading-promise-of-higher-education/articles/tennysons-faith - Gold is now the top U.S. export Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export - AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs to train AI robots Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-lab-offers-free-plumbing-and-hvac-repairs-across-three-cities-to-train-ai-robots-wearable-sensors-record-video-of-repair-work-for-robotics-training-free-services-also-include-electrical-work-air-duct-cleaning-and-carpet-cleaning - OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/openai-discloses-four-more-rogue-incidents-involving-financial-medical-and-government-data/ - SpaceX Crew-12 commander wishes we could all see our fragile Earth from space Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/it-really-does-change-you-spacex-crew-12-commander-wishes-we-could-all-see-our-fragile-earth-from-space - GLP-1 may slow biological aging Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/new-study-shows-popular-glp-1-weight-loss-drug-may-slow-biological-aging - Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-surveillance-monitor-union-activity-uk-warehouses-birmingham-coventry-atlas-sutton-coldfield/ - Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/ - Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pele.run/ - Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-ghostly-galaxies-hints-at-what-dark-matter-is-and-isnt-20261014/ - A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/08/a-death-a-plagiarism-scandal-and-a-quest-for-revenge-the-bizarre-tale-of-otto-z - US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/the-us-federal-budget-deficit-for-2026-just-came-in-its-1992-trillion-191917669.html - Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/10/17/photographer-spends-six-years-capturing-400-american-girls-and-their-most-meaningful-objects/ - Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rabbits-medieval-royal-luxury-england.html - Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/ - Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using - Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim - Developing for Debugging (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.davepacheco.net/blog/2025/developing-for-debugging-dns-propagation/ - Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/ - Abolish AI! Manifesto Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://abolish-ai.net/abolish-ai-a-manifesto/ - PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://pwn.ai/blog/pwnescape - Principles of Anchor Engineering Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://nappingtoheavymetal.com/post/2026-09-15-principles-of-anchor-engineering/ - Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lpviz.net/ - Microsoft Teams is a red flag Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.raed.dev/posts/microsoft-teams-red-flag/ - The future of programming (1982) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358453.358459 - It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/ - MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neighborhood/ - Future of Programming Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bISIgO4x49A - Ship Your Interpreter Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.basis.ai/blog/ship-your-interpreters/ - "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nos.nl/video/2635315-wildcamera-s-tonen-hoe-zwijnen-en-herten-zich-aanpassen-aan-de-wolf - Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://contextetech.com/en/articles/mcp-protocol-smart-decentralised-search - DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 - Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2015/spring/cs463/lecture/03_23_AES.html - Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/geographical-fun-being-humourous-outlines-of-various-countries-1868/ - DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 - Intuitive concurrent programming in any language Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.lf-lang.org/ - Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/CLoaKY233/siltop - Archive of Our Own Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://archiveofourown.org/ - Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://llmspeed.dev/ - German police launch investigation after robot allegedly gropes teenage girl Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/europe/germany-investigation-robot-groping-intl - Commodore 64 Hardware Simulator Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator - Show HN: Online Piano – Play a Free Virtual Piano Keyboard Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://urpiano.com/ - "In every study that considered the question" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/in-every-study-that-considered-the-question/ - Lithos-metal: Qwen3.8-27B on 40-core M5 Max at 168 tokens/s Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/lithos-ai/lithos-metal - Source code of the Estonian online voting system Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/valimised/ivxv - A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/ - Butlerian Jihad Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad - Moss-Image: Text-to-Image Generation with Native Layout Control Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://openmoss.ai/MOSS-Image/ - Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/some-thoughts-on-unit-testing-activitypub/ - Burger King Japan data breach exposes 11 million customer records Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/burger-king-japan-data-breach-exposes-11-million-customer-records/ - Propagation of Sound in Strongly Viscous Liquids (1966) [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jetp.ras.ru/cgi-bin/dn/e_023_05_0893.pdf - Book Review: Storm of Steel Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-storm-of-steel - STAC-M3 Benchmark: L tick database 1.0 on Oxide OxVM w/ 128 vCPUs & 1.25 TiB of RAM Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://docs.stacresearch.com/M3-20261005a ## Media - Track tokens and models with the My AI Usage Canvas | GitHub Copilot Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiyBnQFM20 - Open Source Friday: Spec Kit part 2 Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHCpNVLhmI