TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-18 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 110 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, JavaScript ## News - Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/19/time-lords-kill-leap-seconds-before-they-become-the-new-y2k-bug/5303711 - No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/no-agenda-no-rush-no-leaving-san-francisco-benchmarks-partners-on-investing-in-a-frenzied-market/ - Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/anthropic-says-its-committing-5-of-its-shares-to-a-public-benefit-fund/ - Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/everyones-watching-the-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything/ - Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/disney-agrees-to-hire-the-majority-of-character-ais-workforce/ - Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/anthropic-gives-outside-ai-watchdog-employee-like-access/ - TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/techcrunch-mobility-rivians-next-act/ - Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/18/oh-no-what-happened-to-my-oohpod-windows-command-prompt-puts-in-a-surprise-appearance/5303109 ## Community - William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://colo.to/cyberspace.html - How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base - Newly identified green star leaves astronomers amazed Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/science/newly-identified-green-star-leaves-astronomers-amazed-2026-10-16/ - OpenFlow – Ultimate Agent Orchestration Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/SeeRay11/OpenFlow - Efficient Extraction for Effectful E-graphs Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://ztatlock.net/pubs/2026-oopsla-eggcc/ - Integer to String Conversion (2014) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tia.mat.br/posts/2014/06/23/integer_to_string_conversion.html - A response to claims about flatpak being insecure Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://oro.gay/posts/flatpak-an-insecurity-nightmare/ - How RC2's π table was made Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://khalidhamadeh.com/writing/rc2-pi-table - What the heck is /pkg? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg - What requirements don't you have? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/what-requirements-dont-you-have/ - Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/finereli/whatsapp-mcp - Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/omnipty-terminal/omnipty - If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/ - Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861 - Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf - Updates to site guidelines and AI/LLM tags Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://lobste.rs/s/h0eate/updates_site_guidelines_ai_llm_tags - BBC Master Pi 1MHz Domesday Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://youtu.be/UAWSOCOTjIU - Are we sleepwalking into World War III? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3a56575e-ecfb-4fa9-af70-01aebd869729 - A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/a-ludicrously-ugly-bridge-is-exhibit-a-that-britain-has-lost-its-mojo-7015a654 - Inline rendering with document.currentScript Source: lobsters Topic: General (+JavaScript) URL: https://leanrada.com/notes/inline-rendering-currentscript/ - VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/rhargreaves/vmmouse-nt3 - Personal software factories are a waste of time Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.peterp.me/articles/personal-software-factories-are-a-waste-of-time/ - Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5426130/Tiny_Brutalism/ - Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-024-01478-2 - Superoptimizing an FPU emulator Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/superoptimizing-an-fpu-emulator/ - Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/ - Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html - CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajdhaliwal/2026/10/16/cfpb-opens-debanking-investigation-into-nine-large-national-banks/ - August in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://servo.org/blog/2026/10/09/august-in-servo/ - PalmOS Lemmings Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings - To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/economics-decision-models.html - British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://liveandletsfly.com/british-airways-meta-smart-glasses-filming/ - Data Centers Are Turning Trump Voters into Democrats Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/10/12/data-centres-are-turning-trump-voters-into-democrats - Mitos editor is a fork of Helix Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mitos.computer/ - Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wired.com/story/men-cant-stop-faking-how-much-they-know-about-ai/ - Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_domains/ - How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-the-federal-reserve-secretly - 'I'm on a War Footing': Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html - Someone behind the software Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/ - The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html - Trials and Tribulations of Native Lua Compilation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://samyeyo.github.io/clx/blog.html - How Discover-Tech turned targeted ads into a pipeline for zero-click spywares Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/ - Python's binary wheels and supply chain attacks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://rushter.com/blog/python-binary-wheels/ - macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550 - Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-and-science/ - Websites are closing their doors to AI agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web - Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono - Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/ - Real-time Software On Linux: How Hard Can It Be? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0D0rFdU6HY - World Bank says 'small AI' could transform developing countries Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/18/world-bank-artificial-intelligence-developing-economies - Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ranet3.com/ - Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-bill-only-kicks-in-if-50-deaths-or-usd1-billion-in-damages-are-on-the-line-proposal-would-effectively-make-the-commerce-department-the-only-agency-capable-of-stopping-an-ai-model - Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cannot-guarantee-roadster-reservation-holders-will-ever-get-a-car - QML for C & Zig Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://gist.github.com/rcalixte/d2de5c816fc1de3970cc501b5ae9706e - Outside the Scope of Our Support Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/outside-the-scope-of-our-support/ - RepRapMicron Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki - The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html - Men in tech #YesAllMen Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-240-1-men-in-tech-yesallmen - Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-10-16-kimi-k3-megakernel - Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://legendofhyrule.com/ - Weball: Play Katamari on Websites Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/ - Show HN: CallSitter – bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/szerintedmi/callsitter - How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/impossible-refund - A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://verdagon.dev/blog/reverse-borrow-checking - Ghidra + CBMC = Assembly Model Checker Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.philipzucker.com/asmc_cpp/ - My obituary for programming Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dumbmatter.com/2026/10/programming-obituary/ - Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8 - Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper - The Brain Sandwich Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/ - The Problem with C++ Safety: Why “It Works” Isn’t Good Enough Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/cpp-and-memory-safety-part-1/ - Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146834/kids-are-outsmarting-social-media-bans-thats-not-a-problem-we-need-to-solve/ - Letter to Anthropic Re: Planned Initial Public Offering Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-anthropic-re-planned-initial-public-offering/ - How employment is changing at Anthropic Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic - Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWkApGjyGM - The One Question I Can't Stand at Restaurants ("What's your phone number?") Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/10/restaurant-phone-number-question/688926/ - Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/ - The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sparcopen.org/news/2026/sparc-releases-cost-of-knowledge-accounting-analysis-profitability-report/ - Using timers to perform weekly tasks Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://mbork.pl/2026-10-17_Using_timers_to_perform_weekly_tasks - One Parser, Two Bugs, Many Routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi Across ECos, Linux Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/ - OpenCode has a security breach last that impacted 1.4% of console users Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111519637049319818 - Parser Combinators Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/ - ARP! Tell your network to explain itself Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://benjcal.space/blog/arp-tell-your-network-to-explain-itself/ - Algorithmic Sound Design with L-Systems and Granular Synthesis Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://nathanho.me/posts/evograin/ - DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/ - America's $10T AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9ea5a37d-15c9-4d5b-94d6-719048c9cd3c - JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/audacious-space-heist-japan-aims-bring-home-bits-martian-moon - A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/labor-market-freeze-phd-graduate-f8e17d7c - It's enough - vibecoding tag crossed from useless to harmful Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/ggpwfi/it_s_enough_vibecoding_tag_crossed_from - Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can-cloudflare-offer-a-free-cdn-with-unlimited-bandwidth/88685#88685 - A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole - Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/notes-on-the-complex-roots-of-unity/ - Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/refurb-weekend-ii-alpha-micro-eagle-300.html - Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/ - Association between handgrip strength and incident depression Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395626000968 - Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tkgally.github.io/500-clocks/ - OpenPrinter Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/openprinter - The ovary doesn't retire after menopause Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/10/the-ovary-doesnt-retire-after-menopause?fj=1&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08 - The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything - Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://darwinsys.com/blog/20260925-hp-envy-17/ - Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky - NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends ## Media - How GitHub uses AI agents to stress test new features Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zqvJ9YjZXqM