TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-31 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 120 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, Open Source ## News - Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/apple-ceo-says-the-company-doesnt-want-to-ship-ai-for-ais-sake/ - 4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/4-days-left-how-techcrunch-founder-summit-helps-you-make-more-useful-connections-to-scale/ - Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/judge-allows-naacp-lawsuit-over-xai-data-center-pollution-to-move-forward/ - OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/openai-reportedly-lowers-funding-target-for-new-round/ - From restaurant guides to payments, here’s how TikTok is building a super app Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/tiktoks-road-to-becoming-a-super-app/ - Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/googles-ai-satellite-sends-a-very-expensive-haiku-to-earth/5306818 - I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over. Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/i-took-two-iphones-on-vacation-the-duo-won-me-over/ - Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/31/goth-aesthetic-gone-wild-a-users-self-inflicted-black-screen-of-non-death-in-windows-31s/5306592 - Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/seabirds-racing-home-over-the-ocean-can-get-jet-lagged/ - The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/the-fda-wants-to-pull-its-approval-of-a-drug-its-not-so-easy/ - Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/31/chocolate-caterpillar-or-chocolate-teapot-top-up-the-disk-space-for-windows-10-to-find-out/5306103 - Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/31/backbone-of-a-beast-charting-nvidias-rise-to-networking-titan/5306499 - Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/pile-ins-payouts-and-pacing-pressure-the-investors-behind-the-vcs-open-up/ - Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/nvidia-weighs-playing-the-cosigner-for-nscales-ai-data-center-in-west-virginia/ - Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/think-you-can-save-the-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-wants-to-know/ ## Community - Smear Campaign Towards GrapheneOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117537776055163844 - Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://emarzion.github.io/KSRT/ - A brief history of just-in-time (2003) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077 - When electric cars were for women Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles - Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-29/computer-science-degree-programs-lose-students-as-ai-takes-jobs - Altoids Project Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/ - Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve - An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ - Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/galactus-the-devourer - Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/01/introducing-kwi/ - AI text watermarking and quality loss Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality - ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits - Spooky C++ Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nablag.com/spooky_cpp - Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://mashable.com/tech/anthropic-takes-steps-to-block-video-game-cloning-and-reverse-engineering - Distributed Proofreaders Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pgdp.net/c/ - With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood - A Chemical Hunger (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/ - NASA's Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-conserves-power-resolves-brief-communications-pause/ - Report from the Vatican Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/report-from-the-vatican - Bidirectional charging during grid outages Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages - Surviving "The Graduate" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate - HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/ - The Duty of a Scholar Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html - Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088 - Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/ - TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf - Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/ - 2.5 hrs of makeup: Japan teen struggles with social media beauty standards Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20261029/p2a/00m/0na/004000c - HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/30/http/3-is-faster-with-some-work-and-help-from-cloudflare/5306767 - Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.symbools.com/kuwayama-trademarks-symbols-vol-2/ - GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/ - It's the memory latency, stupid Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/ - A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/tantivy-interview - Crypto firm Binance covers 90% of losses after $6.3B hack Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckpdg3ql4169o - I post trained a model on Demoscenes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://datavorous.com/writing/demoscener/ - The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713778 - William Nordhaus has died Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-climate-change-devoted-yale - Homebrew 68000 computer with a PCI bus Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://maniek86.xyz/projects/homebrew_m68k_pci.php - UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-nuclear-power-policy - Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cairoreport.org/p/egypt-brazil-iraq-billboard-hack - The She-Wolves of Jülich Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich - Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/amazon-sends-chills-through-its-workforce-with-mixed-message-memo-about-ai-use-corey-quinn/5306804 - Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/31/burn-berne/#unvictored - I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1xkezig/im_a_proton_employee_and_im_breaking_my_silence/ - Effective Type: Part 1 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-10-31.html - Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.jointter.com/ - Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Enlightenment-0.28 - Useful Custom-Media Presets Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.master.dev/useful-custom-media-presets/ - Nonna – TypeScript Dependency injection without the reflection tax Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nonna.nodeboot.io/ - What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/ - Casio Watches of the 1980s Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/ - Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Koppar-AI/koppar-lte-modem - Show HN: Quit everything to make one website Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hellojomp.com/ - Novellas with groff Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html - Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all-this-litigation/ - Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in-power-grids-solved - Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/anthropic-appears-to-have-ordered-ai-tool-claude-to-stop-remaking-video-games - Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volta-infostealer/ - MoneyPouch – self hosted expense tracker Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://demo.moneypouch.app/session/new - The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed. Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/world/americas/mexico-seaweed-navy.html - Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/us/philadelphia-woman-delivery-robots-cec - Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4 - AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-startup-hacks-anthropic-in-12-hours-gains-access-to-employee-details-and-internal-messages-3025452-2026-10-26 - Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-is-now-blocking-attempts-at-video-game-recreation-and-cloning-users-also-claim-non-malicious-generic-reverse-engineering-tasks-are-blocked - Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/29/pub-calls-pub.html - Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2026-10-31-enlightenment-0.28.0 - Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt - Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account - Why Anthropic's Filing Crushed Tech Stocks Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-anthropics-filing-crushed-tech - YC funded a startup $1.3M to build silent speech – a dev on x built it in 9mins Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://startupfortune.com/a-startup-raised-13-million-for-silent-speech-glasses-and-a-developer-built-the-free-version-in-nine-minutes/ - NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mashable.com/science/nasa-voyager-1-communication-outage - Speeding up GPU copies by permuting iteration spaces, or, optimising the identity function Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-10-31-faster-copying.html - Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/ - Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/11/01/tangled-accessibility/ - French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes-rendus/seance/session-ordinaire-de-2026-2027/premiere-seance-du-vendredi-30-octobre-2026 - Halloween is a crass American import – I'll never indulge it Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/halloween-crass-american-import-never-indulge-4862206 - An LC-3 Disassembler in Haskell Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/lc3-disassembler/ - Shiny Object Syndrome Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome - Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai - Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://piefed.world/post/1503394 - Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament - First patient undergoes pioneering stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-patient-stem-cell-treatment-parkinson.html - One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0 - Neuroscientists reveal method to train people to have lucid dreams Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/neuroscientists-reveal-method-to-train-people-to-have-lucid-dreams-and-it-involves-virtual-reality-and-mediation - Let’s Build a Brain Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/ - The Kluever Maneuver Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/the-kluever-maneuver/ - Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/ - CVE-2026-98432: Linux IPv4 UAF Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-98432 - How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/146273/how-long-do-you-need-to-hold-down-the-power-button-to-turn-off-a-pc/ - Switch Lowering in GCC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/ - Digital minimalism Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html - Cursed cruise: how the dream of never-ending luxury at sea became a nightmare Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/31/mv-odyssey-cruise-passengers-nightmare-stranded-cambodia - Marelleo, a story box I built for my kids Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/ - The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-memory-chips-ai-c0084cc9 - The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinking » Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/the-secret-of-fast-programming-stop-thinking/ - Britain Narrowly Escaped a Grid Blackout in June 2026 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/10/30/how-britain-narrowly-escaped-a-grid-blackout-in-june-2026/ - Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tedium.co/2019/11/21/nonstick-parchment-paper-history/ - Visit Iceland Will Send a Real Knitter to Your Dumb Meeting So You Can Skip It Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://matadornetwork.com/read/iceland-ai-notetaker-knitting/ - First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-satellite-response/ - OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-raises-less-than-half-of-30-billion-target-in-latest-round-91aecdc5 - Tell HN: Scribd Breached Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312756 - Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html - Clojure/Conj 2026 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAkHRk3lgU_Q - Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312174 ## Media - Security in 60 Seconds: Reachability Analysis for Dependabot Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6r9prGBlaSc