Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. "In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual," Valve says. "But when you browse what you have unlocked afterward, Steam will [β¦]
Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being more carefully monitored.
The smart health company is gating third-party app syncing to its own subscription plan for new users.
Authorities have indicated that the shooter was killed by gunfire, though details remain scant about the attack.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video [β¦]
It was a night 127 years in the making as Bournemouth added another chapter to their fairytale with victory in their first-ever European home game.
Iβve recently moved over to macOS this summer and previously I heavily used Linux (still do as I have a homeserver running Arch and Omarchy Thinkpad for fun). I have a few LUKS Encrypted hard drives with photos I wanted on my Mac and then quickly realized that thereβs no native way to open the drive. So I spent some time to make luksmith, essentially decrypting the luks drive, mounting the underlying EXT4 drive and using Appleβs Userland FSKit Library to make it appear in the finder window to make it as close to home on a Mac as I can (with journaling caveats because I canβt control wβ¦
Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its [β¦]
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KDE celebrates 30 years with a new Plasma release, a farewell to X11, and a movie.
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The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth.
The halt to commercial shipments, including fruit and winter clothing, cuts off a key source of critical supplies.
Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims' perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber crime.
Lisandro Martinez meets Manchester United manager Michael Carrick before apologising for his criticism of the club.
Hi HN, I made a game to test if people can really tell AI models apart. Models from all the frontier labs answer the same question. You read one answer and guess who wrote it. You can also pick just the models you want to compare. I made it and still only get 5/10 lol. Curious how you all do. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110907 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Lawsuit comes weeks before midterm elections and follows debunked claims of noncitizens voting in various states.
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I'm a 47yo full stack developer that's investing all his free time (and not only that) into thinkering, building, researching with AI. Some days ago I found a paper about distilling kokoro on a ~9MB with around 25x RTF. It was very interesting and since the experiment was on a single english voice and I'm Italian, I wanted to see if I could manage to distill it in my language but the training recipe wasn't replicable. So I spent some days researching, experimenting and found the why and even some more tweaks to improve the overall result. The demo I linked shows you how close it is to the oriβ¦
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can [β¦]
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If the proposal is enacted, it could cost $240 a year to watch YouTube in the UK.
Endo is a Higher-Order Harness (HOH). From the easiest concept to understand to the more complex ones, Endo gives you: A single, simple UI to use any agent provider with your existing subscriptions, and hot-swap agents right in the middle of a session. An orchestration layer, which I call HOH, allowing arbitrary composition of agents to achieve any workflow. A fun case I tried was asking Fable and Astra to mock a presidential debate. * An agent protocol that abstracts any agent. The key insight here is that every LLM is an agentβinstead of treating the LLM as just one node inside an extβ¦
Iβve been working on a music notation editor in Swift for iPad and Mac called Autograph. https://autographmusic.com It's a 28 day free trial. I'll be around for any feedback / questions. Thanks! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110550 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
This week on βUncanny Valley,β we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and menβs tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.
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Three people have died and several are reported missing after torrential rain triggered severe flooding across Istanbul
Two people were severely injured and evacuated by helicopter but no one's life appeared to be in danger, officials said.
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Medical experts explicitly recommend against blanket screenings.
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President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or [β¦]
Vibe coded in Rust, what more can you ask for? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110274 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
An Israeli spyware disguised as a digital advertisement firm has targeted journalistsβ devices at Al Jazeera.
when I started using coding agents heavily, they began creating tons of Git worktrees. different tools like Codex, Claude Code, T3 Code, Orca, Superset, and others all put their worktrees in different directories, which made them pretty hard to find. I know you can just ask an agent to find them, and a lot of people do exactly that. but I wanted a deterministic solution that wouldn't depend on an agent getting things right or waste extra tokens. so.. I built Lopper! it's a tool that searches for git repositories and worktrees across different directories on your machine and shows them all inβ¦
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Polls have found that Trump's hardline immigration enforcement effort has divided voters before the 2026 midterm race.
When Apple left Clozure Common Lisp behind by switching to Apple Silicon, I started kicking around the idea of building my own Lisp/Objective-C bridge by combining Apple Documentation, the clang AST, and introspection of the Objective-C runtime. There was a CCL porting effort, but I really wanted to use SBCL anyway. Truth be told β what I really wanted was a 21st-century CLIM variant on top of modern AppKit 26. So I let that idea rattle around in my skull for a while β and eventually it bounced up against the memory of Ck (Curses-based Tk). Anybody remember that? I liked Tcl/Tk and [incrβ¦
Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets arenβt widely seeking justice. Instead, theyβre being encouraged to adopt those same tools.
Humanoid robots were seen performing the βMacarenaβ at the annual CEATEC technology exhibition in Chiba, Japan.
In this first episode of Your Turn with Allison Aubrey , we explore the science of the flow state with violinist Diane Allen, who lost her flow and then tried to find it again, and also from Dr. Richard Huskey, who studies the flow state and how each of us can find it.
Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.
Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
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The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.
#tech #science #ars #ads #delivered #mercenary #targeted #0click
Porscheβs turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.
Hi YC, With AI, weβve started building entire web apps just by chatting. But once the app is built, thereβs still a lot to do: push the code to GitHub, set up a database, configure user management and access control, and deploy everything. Brod makes this simple. Connect an MCP, deploy your app, and everything you need to get it running is taken care of. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109773 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Emergency teams are searching for 7 missing crew after two chemical tankers were attacked in the Black Sea.
Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared
The Duchess of Sussex has not done anything like the day of events in Nottingham for several years on British soil.
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No more leap seconds . Sorry, about the title, but I couldnβt resist. Comments
Representative Ritchie Torres wants the FTC to establish regulations ensuring you can play the games you've purchased.
Al Jazeeraβs Al Anoud Al Aqeedi explains why migrants are risking their lives to make the journey to Yemen.
Judge says Jeffrey Donaldson never apologised to victims as politician seeks to appeal his convictions.
Poll shows right-wing candidate with two percent advantage over Lula going into second round of voting on October 25.
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Critics say unilateral decision to call polls is a recipe for more conflict.
Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents
Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was recognised for the way it responds to its surroundings.
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Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said [β¦]
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Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.
If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, [β¦]
Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.
Hi HN, I created this game with Codex Astra and Astra subagents. It went remarkably well. SLOP CITY is an autobiographical first-person lounge that embeds my TikTok posts. I use it to market my Digilore podcast app which is in the Apple App store. However this submission is not a shameless plug, only partially, because it's free and open source so I encourage everyone to download the code and ask Codex or another LLM to sync social media posts from any source. Or... try doing that by hand :) Just note that all trademarks would need to be replaced as called out in the license (which is AGPL-v3β¦
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The official openai/math repo is closed to issues, PRs, and discussion. I made this app to share some explanatory videos that help us all make sense of the release, catalogue follow-ons and improvements that build on the openai research, and more broadly provide a set of community tools for distributed research. I am not a trained mathematician and most of the math exceeds my understanding. As such, the videos _are_ AI-generated, but IMHO, go a long ways towards helping folks like me understand the problems, proofs, and related ideas. Suggestions are welcome. Comments URL: https://news.ycombiβ¦
Netanyahu is reported to have received warnings before October 7, 2023, but failed to act on time.
Kiran Kaur was found guilty of assisting an offender and was jailed for three years in July.
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AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intentβand helping developers stay focused on building. The post The next developer interface is ambient intelligence appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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The executives argued that advertising isnβt the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
The FTC is investigating possible consumer harms at two major AI companies.
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They tried to sound the alarm in August
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METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropicβs risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
A number of states have confirmed they were targeted by the mailings, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Louisiana.
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
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