Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest […]
Twenty Bangladeshi victims have been killed after being used by Russia as 'bait' to locate enemy positions, police say.
Former Apple engineers figured out how to get a biometric sensor to attach to your watch without any magnets or adhesives.
Hi HN, I'm Juho from Upright. I think we may have stumbled upon an interesting approach to AI alignment. The idea is as follows: 1. train a decision model to be really good at comparative sizing of consequences, expected value problems, and modelling overlap between different consequences 2. create a harness around that model that accepts a decision context, list of options, and identified consequences, then runs pairwise comparisons and overlap modelling for the consequences using the decision model in (1), and finally solves implied relative consequences "sizes" and finally EV (for differen…
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding. James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who filed a notice of interest in Character.AI's bankruptcy case "to put all parties on notice of the regulatory issues that […]
Good riddance.
Article URL: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack-the-election Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092847 Points: 18 # Comments: 0
Hey all, I would like to present a programming language I have been developing for many years called delightql. This is an alpha release so there will be rough edges, but I have used it at home and work and have liked it enough to now throw it out into the world and see if it sticks. It's always a good thing if you like the language you've developed. Delightql transpiles to SQL and looks something like a cross between Prolog, Elixir and cough Perl. I will try now to enumerate some features: reusable functions, reusable higher-order predicates, reusable row-predicates 99% of all SQL (this is a…
Bar and Netanyahu have traded blame over the Hamas-led attack, as elections in Israel loom.
It's been four long years since the last Apple TV 4K was released, and in that time there have been lots of hopes and dreams for features in whatever comes next. A new chip, 4K/120Hz support, audio passthrough, a remote locator, better home control integration - the 2022 Apple TV 4K is a great box, […]
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then run commands as root. The appliance filters an organization's email for spam, malware,
Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261014-930-839530/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092730 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
Article in the Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, just days after it won Caine prize The Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after an article in The Atlantic said software flagged it as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter was announced as the winner of the prestigious Caine prize for African writers on 6 October. Five days later, The Atlantic published an article by the author and journalist Vauhini Vara titled: “Yet Another Literary prize winner Seems to Be AI.” Continu…
Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-underwrote/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092664 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Had fun designing something for the Cloudflare's next Git competition. Here's my take if you want to check it out. https://nerudo.dev/ - Signed delegations with Ed25519 allowances with expiration and binding to the current rules. - Batch integration: the sequencer groups changes with non-overlapping write footprints, validates their combined state, and atomically advances trunk. - Failure isolation: the native sequencer recursively bisects failed batches, rejecting failing changes while landing passing subsets. Also having Jev to assess how much human attention a change needs before merging F…
The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.
Hi HN! I’m Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen. As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st. Four of us from the original CoScreen team have spent the last couple months building a free and open source pair programming tool inspired by those that came before us: It’s called Petal ( https://github.com/kiruna-labs/petal ) Some history first, because when we started CoScreen we had hoped to break the sad and established pattern of this industry. Screenhero was an exceptional tool that a lot of us loved for pairing. Multiple cursors, low latency, you co…
Hi HN! I’m Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen. As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st. Four of us from the original CoScreen team have spent the last couple months building a free and open source pair programming tool inspired by those that came before us: It’s called Petal ( https://github.com/kiruna-labs/petal ) Some history first, because when we started CoScreen we had hoped to break the sad and established pattern of this industry. Screenhero was an exceptional tool that a lot of us loved for pairing. Multiple cursors, low latency, you co…
YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it […]
While we cover a lot of deals on specific products, it’s rare that we find worthwhile savings on gift cards that let you save on essentially anything the store sells. However, until October 19th, you can save up to twenty percent on gift cards when you buy them through the Google Play store. There are […]
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/container-ship-sinks-strait-hormuz-as-iran-war-attacks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092415 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.
Hi HN, I'm Andrei. I built a money tracker for myself with everything I ever wanted from one. What was important for me is wallets in different currencies (I travel a lot), planning future payments, seeing what balances would look like at certain date in the future and having external API and MCP. I had plans of maybe making it public one day so I decided to encrypt amounts and balances to stand out from gazillion of other trackers, then I kept adding more stuff like semantic search, charts, shared wallets for collaboration, passkey-only sign in and so on. It's a web app, I use it as PWA and…
Vinicius will miss El Clasico on October 25 in his four-match ban for pulling Saliba's hair in La Liga.
A Ukrainian military officer is on trial in Germany over an act of sabotage that remained unsolved for years.
Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.
I created a DL inference engine that slowly grew to have more and functionality. - Inference for a bunch of open weights architectures - Diffusion image generation fir Z ai turbo - Vision input into LLM for inference - Vulkan/fast CPU, optimized kernels - Playground for testing - Last but not least, system one fast inference mode with same API semantics as Jev It's MIT, so go nuts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091939 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091875 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://jeffyclassify.com/benchmark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091856 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
The Scottish athlete, who has inoperable brain tumours, previously made a tearful plea for more investment in brain cancer research on BBC Breakfast.
Article URL: https://circuits.puter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091846 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Confirming the review, the government said it was "vital to ensure travel remains accessible and that passengers are treated fairly".
Article URL: https://github.com/bealesh/neckbeard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091794 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091788 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/18b65495-9e2a-45d6-be85-7641442ab61a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091684 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell is a small file that executes any command an attacker sends via a web request, with the rights of the web server account. The flaw
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/14/sally-rooney-says-she-can-no-longer-sell-books-in-the-uk-because-of-palestine-action-support Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091647 Points: 25 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://stop-sequence.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091610 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://kiln.tech/blog/introducing_seahaven Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091594 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The former British Army member harboured 'extreme right-wing' views and was ordering explosives components, say police.
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/dating-app-scams-us-congress Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091519 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
England welcome back the experience of Amy Cokayne at hooker as their 41-match unbeaten run comes under serious threat away to Canada.
Article URL: https://toplaynow.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091379 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://philippdubach.com/model-atlas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091376 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Apple only just announced on Tuesday that its first smart display, the HomeView, will arrive on November 13th, but you can already save a couple bucks on it. Right now, you can buy the display for $289.99 ($10 off) in gray and the creamy white “starlight” colorway at Amazon. Sure, it’s a small discount, but […]
Two ships sink near Hormuz after being hit by projectiles amid surge in attacks Reuters
The Ukrainian president visited London in an effort to bolster support among European allies following a row with Donald Trump.
There's an entire cottage industry of iPod mods out there, but Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are two of the few full motherboard replacements that combine many of the most popular mods into a single upgrade. Both versions add Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, a microSD card slot, FLAC playback, and more. And while cracking open an […]
The $50 Xbox Nano Controller is five inches long and weighs 3.5 ounces.
Does this need to exist? Probably not. Does it add whimsy to the sterile, cold terminal environment that has become our chosen home? Well maybe. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091196 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks
Anbernic shared a new video of its upcoming dual-screen handheld it announced last week showing the device playing 3DS, Xbox, and PS3 games through emulation. While competitors like Ayaneo have been making dual-screen handhelds for a few years, Anbernic only recently introduced its own dual-screen devices including the RG DS and RG DS Plus. Those […]
The Six Kings Slam exhibition tournament has been pushed from October to December by Saudi organisers.
A Palestinian exhibition opening simultaneously in Bethlehem and Gaza is challenging Israeli restrictions.
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out calls on managers to "set the tone" after Millwall boss Alex Neil criticises halting a game following an accusation of abuse.
Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka NX or FA), Haozi (aka Phoenix), and Iron Man System. "Since January 2026, the threat actors behind these kits have been responsible for
Settlers attack Palestinian mosque near occupied East Jerusalem
Over the last 20 years, I repeatedly got frustrated with how slow WordPress (WP) is, especially once you stack a few plugins on it. Since 40% or what of all websites still run on WP, I decided [and please don't ask why, I have no idea what drove me] it could be useful to apply my C/C++ performance experience to a brand new from-scratch WP core to save about 50% of infrastructure while simultaneously increasing performance. With agent assisted coding I thought it could actually be doable to build out most of WP' API surface, and it was! (over multiple months) Try the live demo, including wp-ad…
A relative of the first case, 39-year-old man's infection raises concerns of a cross-border spread.
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies, who replaced Christian Horner at the F1 team, has his contract extended until the end of 2031.
Officials say ability to block Russian drones restricted as Kyiv reels from second night of ballistic missile attacks.
Article URL: https://github.com/instancez/instancez Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090952 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Now please let us hide all of it.
Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account for obivous reasons. It bounces everyone else. - Temporary. Lasts for a while (24h, 7days, etc) then bounces. Received messages stay or go as per your choice. - Prefix. The most powerful. Declare a prefix like "service" and then invent any suffix, like "service-netflix" or "service$bank" and it creates a new one-sende…
Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account for obivous reasons. It bounces everyone else. - Temporary. Lasts for a while (24h, 7days, etc) then bounces. Received messages stay or go as per your choice. - Prefix. The most powerful. Declare a prefix like "service" and then invent any suffix, like "service-netflix" or "service$bank" and it creates a new one-sende…
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease risks.
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past 100 days or so, my mornings have had a new rhythm. When I wake up, the first […]
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Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI has the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain. Continue reading...
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Suspected online espionage triggers intense security crackdowns and counter-intelligence measures in Iran and Lebanon.
The cuts equate to around 6% of the streaming giant's total workforce worldwide.
Gross, Tim. Gross.
Albania is experimenting with artificial intelligence in politics.
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Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/cars/teslas-robotaxis-blow-through-school-zones-nhtsa-petition-alleges Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090662 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
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OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president of the company's operations in Asia. The […]
Tehran's new municipal welfare projects face intense criticism over funding sources, transparency, and inflation claims.
Andy Burnham condemns the motion approved by Green Party members and says his party would "have nothing to do with it".
That's about 6 percent of its current workforce.
Article URL: https://github.com/AxiomCodeAI/axiomcodegraph Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090514 Points: 3 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://openstation.blog/2026/10/13/i-deleted-168000-lines-of-comments-my-ai-agent-didnt-notice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090484 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting more than 70 U.S. companies, charging them with wire fraud conspiracy, money
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Article URL: https://arcfu.com/post/the-emperor-pelican-has-no-clothes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090443 Points: 38 # Comments: 19
Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries
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Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090349 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
The Six Kings Slam exhibition event - featuring Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic - is postponed following a series of deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia.
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It follows the death last week of a man who had arrived in Kenya after travelling from DR Congo.
