TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-24 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 111 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, Go ## News - Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/starlink-seems-to-be-working-normally-again-in-ukraine/ - Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet? Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/will-ai-expose-the-rickety-infrastructure-of-the-internet/ - The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/the-ai-graveyard-a-running-list-of-projects-and-startups-that-didnt-make-it/ - Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/instacart-reportedly-discussed-selling-itself-with-doordash-and-uber/ - Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/blocks-new-voice-model-sounds-eerily-human/ - PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/php-ocalypse-how-two-critical-web-bugs-almost-broke-the-internet/ - Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/forced-to-pick-groks-ai-model-chooses-republicans-openais-picks-democrats/ - These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/these-clever-apps-show-off-the-iphone-duos-potential/ - The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/the-boox-palma-2-pro-finally-got-me-to-stop-reading-on-my-phone/ - Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/all-the-ai-agents-that-can-live-in-your-text-messages/ - Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/24/autonomous-attack-agent-in-skynet-mode-hijacks-other-models-to-carry-out-its-evil-deeds/5305215 - A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/a-1000-mile-cloud-on-mars-may-reveal-physics-never-seen-in-nature/ - Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/24/raspberry-pi-desktop-proves-old-pcs-arent-past-it/5304676 - Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ice-sheet-expansion-may-have-started-2000-years-go-but-we-canceled-that/ ## Community - Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/wildwood-review-laika-9.7393321 - FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://codeberg.org/Misom/FindMyWeb - Why Gopher in 2026? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt - Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.makeuseof.com/google-nest-thermostats-unsupported/ - America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class - The Hackening Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-hackening - We should be more ambitious with the software we build Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://danluu.com/ambitious/ - Small Programs and Languages Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small - The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations - Forecasting Financial Markets with Timestral Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://philippdubach.com/posts/forecasting-financial-markets-with-timestral/ - The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/21/the-experiment-channel-four-tv-review-uk-nazi-disability - Doctors' offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/10/24/doctors-offices-are-charging-patients-10-times-more-by-claiming-be-hospitals/ - Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://deallocatedobjects.com/posts/making-my-blog-readable-by-ai-agents - Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://stealmybitcoin.com/ - MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/macos-extensions-pack-for-apple-network.html - In Nigeria, Solar Panels Are the New Wedding Gift Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-23/nigeria-embraces-solar-energy-as-panels-become-popular-on-wedding-registries - No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector - Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://missileer.watch - SpeedCrunch 1.1 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.speedcrunch.org/ - The Goose Programming Language Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aardappel.github.io/goose/ - An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jls/article/view/37/33 - PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/php-foundation-under-funded-with-one-full-time-staff-member-director-says-2026-10-23/ - Scrawl: show an agent the problem Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://scrawl.kitlangton.com/ - Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.computerworld.dk/art/297226/digitaliseringsministeriet-har-i-al-stilhed-droppet-stort-anlagt-forsoeg-med-open-source-alternativ-til-microsoft - Dream-1 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dreamlabs.ai/research/dream-1/ - Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/ - Show HN: Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/microsoft/Agensh - Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh8870 - Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://healeycodes.com/decompiling-fast-food-tycoon-2-drawing-the-world - SIMD and Go Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Go) URL: https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-simd/ - Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162 - The first broken iPhone Duos are here Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017623/iphone-duo-broken-cracked-screen - Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Big Speed-Up: ~268s to ~50ms Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-memblock - VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wxttvq9qY - From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/23/from-confession-to-conspiracy-how-the-wedgewood-fake-polls-story-spread/ - The Great Vowel Shift Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift - The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://de.numista.com/9866 - Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.skyvern.com/blog/deleting-rag-from-our-web-agent-made-it-2-3x-faster/ - An incremental approach to JIT construction Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830440.3832304 - Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move - Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/maps/proton-hosts-flock-map-revealing-over-300-000-cameras-defying-cease-and-desist-threats-against-creator-privacy-focused-company-hosts-site-on-swiss-servers-says-users-have-the-right-to-know-whos-recording-them - Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/ - Last known sword maker hopes to pass craft on Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm89zx1nyvwyo - Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/oai-math-revised-a-community-hub-for-revising-openais-math-write-ups/ - FreeDNS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://freedns.afraid.org/ - Group in San Francisco graftng fruit-bearing branches onto street trees Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/JasonBassler1/status/2113745277416771830 - The Curse of Soldered RAM Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/10/24/the-curse-of-soldered-ram/ - Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germophobia Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-6009527/monkey-macaque-germs-virus-outbreak - 2k Boeing 737s Must Get Tail Inspections After Jets Pitched Up&Down Mid-Flight Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://simpleflying.com/nearly-2000-boeing-737-tail-inspections-faa/ - Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lede-v2.nautil.us/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest-237864 - Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/ - I Do Understand Relativity Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/relativity/index.html - Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robertseacord_balloting-has-completed-for-c26-unfortunately-activity-7519795140887035918-5PWL - LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/AnonimusShamshiAlex/LimonOS - 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/daguerre-photograph-subjects-location-2826596 - The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://emptysqua.re/blog/polyglots-dilemma/ - 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://railsdeveloper.com/survey/2026 - PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/ - AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-paper-on-z-library-cites-a-torrentfreak-article-that-doesnt-exist/ - Node.js Vulnerability Blog Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability - Telstra ends Australia's long RCS wait Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/telecoms-and-nbn/telstra-ends-australias-long-rcs-wait-android-from-16-november-iphone-after-decembers-ios-update - Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gitlab.com/c4psu13/mali-pagecache-root - Bringing uv and ty together Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Python) URL: https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration - Claude Code slyly adding users' emails to outbound HTTP Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/chrislakin/status/2113358733548081528 - GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock - I don't understand quantum physics (2018) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html - US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4B Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-browser-startup-valued-at-6-4-billion-as-ai-agents-reshape-workplace-risk/ - How to run a city builder on 16 MHz Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://larstofus.com/2025/11/16/how-to-run-a-city-builder-on-12-5-mhz/ - A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://brennan.day/a-love-letter-to-the-super-dimension-fortress/ - Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://broccoli2shell.com/ - Show HN: Encarta 95 Web Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://benwinding.github.io/encarta_95_web/#/article/Art - What's wrong with AI? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://homepage.farm/ai.html - That AI Temptation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/10/19/The-AI-Temptation - The Fall of Scientific American Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/ - This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497 - Root shell on Samsung TV Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46 - Be Aware of What's in Your Logs Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/be-aware-of-whats-in-your-logs/ - Wild version 0.11.0 released Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://github.com/wild-linker/wild/releases/tag/0.11.0 - I want my Wednesday back Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/i-want-my-wednesday-back/ - OBS Studio 33 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0 - Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/10/23/emsign-revoked-gov-in/ - The Colors of a Soap Film Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aseemrb.me/blog/colors-of-a-soap-film/ - Emacs finally folds to my liking Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/emacs-folding-kirigami/ - How close can pure functional programming get to C? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c - CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cowagent.ai/en/ - Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cio.com/article/4237395/metas-new-enterprise-contract-says-if-its-ai-makes-a-mistake-it-will-legally-be-the-customers-fault.html - Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tabletopwhale.com - Big Runtimes Make Efficient Programs Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Java) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhDwy1eCXbs - How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast - Apple Security Research Device Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://security.apple.com/research-device/ - Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261018084421.htm - Twelve years of distributed SQLite Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Databases) URL: https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/ - A visual introduction to information theory Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07867 - Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gizmodo.com/password-please-border-searches-of-laptops-phones-up-32-this-year-2000830213 - Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244 - AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-in-ux-survey-26/ ## Media - Open Source Friday: OpenClaw with Hannes Rudolph Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0fZxAA-Ys