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Why Apple is finally making its own smart home deviceshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013025/apple-home-collection-products-lg-schneider-smart-home

For more than a decade, Apple has told other companies to build smart home devices for its platform. This week, Apple launched its own. The Apple Home Collection is a lineup of cameras, thermostats, sensors, a smart door lock, and a video doorbell, all codeveloped with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. They arrive alongside HomeView, […]

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Toxic algorithms wouldn't let them go - now Australia wants an off switchhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr7y8er1n8vo

Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.

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Show HN: Webhix – Self-hosted webhook inspector in a single binaryhttps://github.com/GaIsBAX/Webhix

Article URL: https://github.com/GaIsBAX/Webhix Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122099 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gearhttps://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue

Article URL: https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_-But-Exempts-Ham-Band-Only-Gear Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122034 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claudehttps://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121939 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: What will you say to 1M people?https://thesoapbox.email

Article URL: https://thesoapbox.email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121830 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activityhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/india-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

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Rahm sacrifices Β£75m to secure exit from LIV Golfhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/cq80zpk1xgxpo

Jon Rahm sacrifices a reported $100m (Β£75m) still owed to him by LIV Golf to secure his exit from the league.

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Show HN: A "falling block puzzle game"https://tetracube.fun

Four games of Tetris played simultaneously. The corners overlap. Hidden Easter egg if you've got the chops (I certainly don't haha) glhf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121782 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia – OB-GYNS set new rules for menopause treatmenthttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6005201/health-treatment-menopause-hot-flash-night-sweats-insomnia

For the first time since 2014, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has updated its guidelines for the treatment of symptoms commonly associated with menopause.

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Watch: BBC follows Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi pushing Russia back on frontlinehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cm1ex06026e8o

Kyiv says it has recaptured 277 sq km (106 square miles) of territory in the eastern Donbas region in recent months

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs moved to low-security facility in Pennsylvaniahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwy4qnyjg4zo

The decision to move the rap mogul while he is serving out his 50-month sentence was made with 'safety and security in mind'.

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Show HN: Terra – Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Sourcehttps://testflight.apple.com/join/RurMGWw6

Hi, i love the game TerraNil and i decided to make my own version of the game adapted to my vision fully native experience on iOS - Looking for feedback - this version is a very early phase with basic core mechanics, looking for feedbacks for improvements Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121365 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiringhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/piramidalinc/jobs/4443102009

Article URL: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/piramidalinc/jobs/4443102009 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121188 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarkshttps://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map

Article URL: https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179 Points: 5 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOShttps://github.com/btahir/reelbird

Article URL: https://github.com/btahir/reelbird Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121148 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Family Internet Speed Gamehttps://guessthespeed.com

Article URL: https://guessthespeed.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121096 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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/dev/null: social network for developershttps://dev-null.sh

Article URL: https://dev-null.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121004 Points: 14 # Comments: 4

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Show HN: Toolbit – 43 local-first developer utilities in one placehttps://toolbit.app

Article URL: https://toolbit.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120964 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoorhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-tampered-with-aomei.html

Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, andΒ ManageEngine's Threat Analysis

Show HN: Brian2 Atlas, a Rust engine for distributed neural simulationhttps://next-brain.ai/brian2-atlas

Article URL: https://next-brain.ai/brian2-atlas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120752 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Downcheck, a free "is it down" page for 45 dev tools, no signuphttps://downcheck.dev

Article URL: https://downcheck.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120705 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Ex-top official Robbins reaches settlement with government over sackinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c64g18r402geo

Sir Olly Robbins was sacked as the top civil servant in the Foreign Office over the vetting of Lord Mandelson.

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Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Lowhttps://news.gallup.com/poll/708614/desire-migrate-drops-new-low.aspx

Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/708614/desire-migrate-drops-new-low.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120664 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Ossia Score 3.9.0https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.9.0

Article URL: https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.9.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120628 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Jumpy Car – jump the Roadster over semis, race your friend's ghosthttps://www.jumpycar.com

Article URL: https://www.jumpycar.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120616 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Review: A Gaming Headset for the Officehttps://www.wired.com/review/razer-barracuda-v2-pro

The Razer Barracuda V2 Pro headset has a place in the office as well as at your gaming battle station.

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A Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yethttps://techcrunch.com/video/a-nvidia-insider-turned-vc-on-why-robotics-hasnt-hit-its-chatgpt-moment-yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its β€œLego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still beingΒ rebuilt.Β  This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model,Β is about to have […]

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Amid talk of public execution, public opinion on death penalty is splithttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/g-s1-148404/public-opinion-execution-death-penalty

A majority of Americans support the death penalty for people convicted of murder, but support becomes more divided when questions vary.

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Thank Gen Z for the β€˜Girls’ Revivalhttps://www.wired.com/story/thank-gen-z-for-the-girls-revival

The HBO series served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women during its original run. Then Gen Z started watching.

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Do Manchester City have any grounds to win their appeal?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c6je5lwxk5l0o

Manchester City face "substantial hurdles" to overcome if they are to have any chance of winning their appeal after being found guilty of breaking the Premier League's financial rules, a leading lawyer has told BBC Sport.

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UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishinghttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/uat-11985-uses-fake-event-invites-to.html

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google account credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The activity is being tracked by

Show HN: Aegis – Network Firewall for AI Securityhttps://aegisfw.com

Article URL: https://aegisfw.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120286 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-caseshttps://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif

Article URL: https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120224 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Autonomous community research lab powered by agentshttps://lemmapark.com

Article URL: https://lemmapark.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120217 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Nurse stole Β£750k from 99-year-old woman for cosmetic surgery and home improvementshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9qzx43rlzjo

Rebecca Louise Burwood saw the vulnerable victim "as her nanna" but stole to fund her lifestyle.

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Show HN: PocketConsole – Run Claude Code on your own server from your iPhonehttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketconsole-code-from-phone/id6818196856

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketconsole-code-from-phone/id6818196856 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120118 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownershiphttps://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-torres-announces-power-to-the-players-act-legislation-to-ensure-gamers-own-their-games

Article URL: https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-torres-announces-power-to-the-players-act-legislation-to-ensure-gamers-own-their-games Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120101 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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BSides NYC tickethttps://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1x7k5n4/bsides_nyc_ticket

Looking for a Bsides NYC ticket. Please hmu if you have extra submitted by /u/Glass_Acanthaceae_99 [link] [comments]

The new Apple TV 4K just got its first (very small) discounthttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1012962/apple-tv-4k-fourth-generation-fanttik-s1-pro-deal-sale

Earlier this week, Apple announced its new Apple TV 4K, which costs nearly twice as much as the 2022 model did at launch. Amazon is now offering the first discount on the forthcoming streaming box (coming out on November 13th), just days after discounting Apple’s new smart display for the first time. Right now, you […]

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Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about themhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them

according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

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Ukraine pushes Russia back on front line where Starlink has played key rolehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvx284w16z1po

Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi has regained crucial territory in the Donbas but optimism has been dampened by souring relations with President Trump.

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In β€˜You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielderhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/in-you-can-see-everything-elizabeth-holmes-meets-her-equal-in-comedian-nathan-fielder

Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity.

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Israeli settlers beat Palestinians and a U.S. photojournalist in West Bank attackshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6004904/israeli-settlers-beat-us-photojournalist-washington-post-west-bank

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians as they were harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring several people including a photojournalist working for The Washington Post .

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America's Wumao: Inside Polymarket's Paid Quote-Retweet Esports Programhttps://www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket-paid-quote-retweet-esports-investigation

Article URL: https://www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket-paid-quote-retweet-esports-investigation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120010 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fixhttps://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19-delayed-after-ai-reviewers-find-more-bugs-than-humans-can-fix/5303471

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19-delayed-after-ai-reviewers-find-more-bugs-than-humans-can-fix/5303471 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119991 Points: 18 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: Agent Chat in Your Markdown Notes – Chat with Context and Save Responsehttps://blog.etherpk.com/agent-chat-ask-a-language-model-about-your-notes

EtherPK now has Agent Chat. I use AI agents in two distinct ways. For coding I use TUIs, but for day-to-day and non code projects I used to use the web chat UIs like many others. Two things about this was always jarring: You're starting context from scratch. You might have a couple of agent instructions configured, but you have to tell the agent what you're thinking, from the beginning. When you get the information you need, holding on to it is hard. Within a day or two it's burried in your chat history. EtherPK is a mardown based PKMS (notes app), and it solves both of these problems. You ca…

Does Scott's Disney+ exit unmask wider issue in coverage of women's game?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm3wv4ej7lv2o

Alex Scott's sudden departure from her Disney+ presenter role reveals a pressing challenge for broadcasters of women's football.

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Show HN: I made the Tesla Roadster's kickflip playable in the browserhttps://roadster.rocks

Article URL: https://roadster.rocks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119905 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Real demand Tebas resign over Goebbels comparisonhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cr5yngpgejw0o

Real Madrid have called for the "immediate resignation" of La Liga president Javier Tebas after he compared the club's management to Joseph Goebbels.

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Show HN: Termexo – one AI operating your other coding agents, on Windowshttps://github.com/gemron/Termexo

Article URL: https://github.com/gemron/Termexo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119778 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLShttps://onedeploy.co

Article URL: https://onedeploy.co Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119752 Points: 9 # Comments: 3

Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLShttps://onedeploy.co

Article URL: https://onedeploy.co Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119752 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chiphttps://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-homestation2-firmware

Article URL: https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-homestation2-firmware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119751 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: We built an open source, agent-first, alternative to Profoundhttps://github.com/Canonry/canonry

We wanted a way to track AI visibility locally in an agent first way, so we built Canonry. On top of AI visibility, it integrates GSC, Analytics, server traffic, and ads to give your agent a full view of your site's visibility. Some of the things we've built on top of Canonry: an automated content generation engine, in-depth site health check monitor, ads optimizer. We learned a lot about AI visibility and how to optimize sites during this process, happy to answer any questions! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119748 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Apple’s HomeView has an app problemhttps://www.theverge.com/podcast/1012911/apple-homeview-apps-carplay-vergecast

It's been a couple of days since Apple's big smart home announcement, and we have some more information - and a bunch of new questions - about the Apple HomeView. The device has plenty of computing oomph, is always connected to power, and looks like a perfect place to run a bunch of apps. And […]

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Arteta told Arsenal job cuts will help create successhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cr3wv4xd2l6yo

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says he was told the club's decision to cut 60 jobs had been made to "achieve the success we want to create".

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Russian man linked to deadly London hospitals hack arrestedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vgr61kml3mo

The 28-year-old detained by German police is accused of being part of the cyber-crime gang that hacked blood-test firm Synnovis in 2024.

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Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Pushhttps://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-is-almost-single-handedly-funding-the-republicans-midterms-push

Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

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Show HN: Ndop UI – Copy-in Angular components that still receive updateshttps://github.com/ndop-ui/ui

Article URL: https://github.com/ndop-ui/ui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119538 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Tennis, a local/offline context storehttps://tennis.jlachance1.workers.dev

Hi everyone! I'm Joe, and I built Tennis: a CLI that indexes and searches your context offline. You can index any files, your Chat & Claude sessions, Codex history, etc. All local and offline. I've always hated having chats siloed in Claude and not having an easy way to connect that context in other apps. Anything that exists today has a subscription and is stored on their servers, and really wanted something fast, local, and offline. How Tennis works: SQLite/FTS5 (keyword) + vec0 (vector) model2vec / potion-retrieval-32M (512-dim, 123MB). This is a flat vector table, and what helps make…

Show HN: Busabase – an open-source system of record for AI agent workhttps://github.com/busabase/busabase

Article URL: https://github.com/busabase/busabase Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119352 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Analogue is re-releasing its SNES and Genesis consoles with some nice upgradeshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012901/analogue-retro-console-supern-nt-plus-nintendo-sega-genesis-mega-plus

Analogue announced new versions of its Super Nt and Mega Sg retro consoles today with a "reworked industrial design" and built-in wireless connectivity for controllers and accessories. Like the original versions, the new Super Nt Plus and Mega Sg Plus are able to play Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges using an FPGA processor that perfectly […]

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Show HN: Gent, email a task to Codex or Claude Codehttps://thecompound.tech

Article URL: https://thecompound.tech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119305 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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A fake WhatsApp clone is showing up before the real version on the Play Storehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012918/google-play-store-fake-whatsapp-android

After a Chrome clone was spotted on the Play Store earlier this week, a user on Reddit says they're seeing a fake version of WhatsApp in a "sponsored" slot above the real version. As reported earlier by Android Authority, the WhatsApp dupe has racked up over 500,000 downloads and, at the time of writing, its […]

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A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptopshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012748/nvidia-rtx-spark-windows-arm-laptops-asus-hp-lenovo-impressions

Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia […]

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