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Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop

ent101 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:14:14 +0000

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002008

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Mathematics Is Not Real

RAWGOD — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:44:56 +0000

Of course AI is good at a game of manipulating symbols with well defined rules. We knew this since computers surpassed humans at chess. Math is just another game of symbols.

I'll be impressed when AI can achieve something impressive in the real world, something humanity can't create yet:

Room temperature superconductor.

Fusion reactor.

Anti-aging pill.

Peace in the Middle East.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001871

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

The state of the tech industry in 2026

qikouki — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:34:42 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-state-of-the-tech-industry-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001843

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Steve Krouse's Readme

Curiositry — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:34:35 +0000

Article URL: https://stevekrouse.com/readme

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001842

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The nuclear clock has begun ticking

geox — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:33:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1146229

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001838

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Hagedorn Temperature (2003)

EA-3167 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://cerncourier.com/a/the-tale-of-the-hagedorn-temperature/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001807

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tools Ecosystem

andsoitis — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:23:10 +0000

Article URL: https://100r.ca/site/tools_ecosystem.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001797

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rabbit Waves

andsoitis — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://rabbitwaves.ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001787

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Death Grips – The Story You Never Knew

rasengan0 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:11:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv0lDc5XpH0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001756

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Pacer – will your AI coding subscription last until the reset?

dkremsa — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:10:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dkremsa/claude-pacer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001750

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

I Will Wait

campbellman — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:53:17 +0000

Article URL: https://throwawaythoughts.blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001695

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Self-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment

gmays — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:48:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7wrzfaiCq3u8xkY5G/self-modeling-interventions-modulate-emergent-misalignment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001676

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared

thelastgallon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:45:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/oil-companies-supreme-court.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001667

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Show HN: A utility microservice for human trust

rodmena — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:35:10 +0000

Article URL: https://futex.rodmena.co.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001629

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The 3dfx Voodoo Turns 30 – interview with cofounder Ross Smith

nickt — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:34:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.club386.com/3dfx-voodoo-history-ross-smith-interview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001627

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Mozilla met with Microsoft to discuss their harmful design practices

botanical — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1wzzk6l/mozilla_met_with_microsoft_to_discuss_their/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001608

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew

cachebag — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:23:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001580

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

Paper Mono Typeface

miguel-muniz — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://paper.design/mono

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001532

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

A Categorical Analysis of LLMs and the Symbol Grounding Problem (2025)

rockwindmemento — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:09:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09117

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001515

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Can we prove LLMs are not conscious?

DesaiAshu — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:08:21 +0000

Article URL: https://machines.tivra.com/human

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001511

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su Awarded National Medal of Science

osnium123 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-elon-musk-heads-back-white-house-trump-marks-prestigious-first-presidency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001451

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Humanity's Last Problem

namanbhulawat — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:54:16 +0000

Article URL: https://benhylak.substack.com/p/humanitys-last-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001441

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: A satirical yet useful employee survey app for tolerable workplaces

joewhale — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:51:51 +0000

For smaller startups who don't take themselves too seriously but would want to actually survey their employees in a non-corporate way to get a pulse of their company. Can display a "Tolerable Workplace" badge.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001425

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The AI Pascal's Wager

teichmann — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001332

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

April: APL as a DSL in Common Lisp

so-cal-schemer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:35:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/phantomics/april

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001323

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

How the Billions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent

littlexsparkee — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:34:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-the-billions-from-the-opioid-settlement-are-being-spent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001320

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Don't let a misunderstanding distract you from your goals

herbertl — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:31:22 +0000

Article URL: https://herbertlui.net/dont-let-a-misunderstanding-distract-you-from-your-goals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001306

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Tensorlake NPM package and repo compromised

varunsharma07 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:23:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tensorlakeai/tensorlake/issues/1014

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001272

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

theanonymousone — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001234

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The mysterious pneumonia in Russia deserves attention, not panic

EA-3167 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/06/russia-plague-reports-pneuomonia-siberia-expert-calm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001197

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Where Are the Builders?

yarapavan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://near.blog/where-are-the-builders/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001194

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

RetinaRelay – A Second Life for Your iMac

tambourine_man — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:05:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.retinarelay.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001173

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Runtime – Your AI Agents Have a Home

shermansingh — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://withruntime.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001168

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes

caned — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/sunos-414-older-sun-boxes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001155

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Show HN: agentc: <1mb static/no-libc, minimal, embeddable agent with Rust/C API

logxroot — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:53:34 +0000

Sharing an agent that I built since most of the agents that's nice to work with, take hefty deps like node or is provider dependent.

It's heavily inspired by the wonderful pi agent - and builds on it as something that you can run on tiny hardware or embed easily in your own binaries without needing it's hefty dependency chain.

An agent doesn't really need much - a minimal networking stack, a TUI and an agent loop. Then comes tools, mcp, skills and prompts.

agentc does exactly that - a minimal, static, embeddable coding agent in C - no libc, less than 1MB, starts up using <1MB of RAM, and RSS comfortably sits under a few MBs during usage. It's extensible and everything including status, mcp, tools is architected as an extension.

The embeddable part is by design, but exposing it as an API is still a pending plan and should be done in a few days.

Also: would love some human testing on a Mac! CI builds for: linux - x64, arm64, risv64; win - x64, arm64 and darwin - arm64.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001109

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Trump plans to charge international students $70k for work authorization

onemoresoop — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-plans-charge-international-students-70000-work-2026-10-07/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001100

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Free Unlimited Fish Audio Text to Speech

wsm123456 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:51:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fish-audio.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001089

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Building alone, faster: a panel on what AI is doing to the product trio

mooreds — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://jennywanger.com/articles/building-alone-faster/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001052

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Don't make me type my business in twice: what tour operators need from software

s14jsmith — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://justinsmith.build/writing/dont-make-me-type-it-twice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001032

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Exodus AI – Affordable face swapping tool for creators

godwinokuli — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://tally.so/r/44gGAB

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001030

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

SpaceX's recovered Starship after Flight 13 splashdown returns to Texan port

bookmtn — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:36:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/spacex/2026/10/07/spacex-brings-home-first-recovered-starship-to-texas-starbase-flight-13/92137434007/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001002

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams

cdrnsf — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:33:17 +0000

Article URL: https://thequietus.com/news/us-man-given-prison-sentence-for-bot-farming-music-streams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000985

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

In Defense of Western Civilization by Marco Rubio

7777777phil — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:24:57 +0000

Article URL: https://statedept.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-western-civilization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000930

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Morse Code in 2026: Why the U.S. Navy Brought It Back

7402 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://morsecoder.us/blog/morse-code-navy-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000924

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The impact of Dolly Parton's death on Wikipedia

soheilpro — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:22:48 +0000

Article URL: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/07/storms-make-trees-take-deeper-roots-the-impact-of-dolly-partons-death-on-wikipedia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000914

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?

fortran77 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:07:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/ai-hacking-cybersecurity-race/688911/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000818

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Bird masturbation appears natural across 120 species, challenging vet advice

snarky-comments — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-06-bird-masturbation-natural-species-held.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000793

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Someone Rebuilt Free, OSS Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom with AI

__fst__ — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:56:21 +0000

Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/10/07/someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom-using-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000753

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

The Benefits of Rain

andrewfromx — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:54:05 +0000

Article URL: https://mainbrella.com/blog/the-benefits-of-rain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000730

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Explaining the Magelight XP Glitch in Skyrim

davikr — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/explaining-the-magelight-xp-glitch-in-skyrim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000709

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc)

jcbhmr — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000676

Points: 45

# Comments: 67

Medical World Models

brandonb — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:45:50 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16721

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000674

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

2/3rds of MiMo v2.6's Coding Tasks Leak the Answer. Is Exploiting It Cheating?

miyukimatthews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:44:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/mimo-reward-hacking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000668

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

Preorder Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box – Starting at $5,999.99

canucker2016 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:32:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/configure/surface-rtx-spark-dev-box/8wg5vqp0x4gr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000600

Points: 8

# Comments: 9

Why Do We Need Human Anything Anymore?

nopinsight — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:28:13 +0000

Article URL: https://poshenloh.com/posts/20260919-math-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000570

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Catching Crumbs from the Table [pdf]

qingcharles — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:24:31 +0000

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2000-chiang.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000551

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials' request

rdmuser — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:19:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000510

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

jonotime — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:14:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000488

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Zpu

kristianpaul — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zylin/zpu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000486

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

AI cluster networking reading list: RDMA, collectives, fabrics

rewsiest — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Rewsr/unawesome-ai-fabric-engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000484

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

How to "Tell It Like It Is" More Effectively

mgrebler — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/how-to-tell-it-like-it-is-more-effectively

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000454

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries

sbulaev — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:07:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000436

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to Edge

thimabi — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:06:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/over-the-edge-2-100-days-later/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000431

Points: 21

# Comments: 4

Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

pseudolus — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/software-is-over-bold-ai-developer-takes-aim-at-adobe-with-open-source-clones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000426

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

smilelamp — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:04:43 +0000

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000421

Points: 9

# Comments: 4

Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams

christhecaribou — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:03:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-hit-hundreds-of-employees-across-multiple-teams-2026-10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000414

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Possible plague death at a Siberian lab baffles scientists

doener — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/possible-plague-death-siberian-lab-baffles-scientists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000399

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Learning cardiac dynamics via action-conditioned JEPAs

brandonb — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22618

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000380

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI?

Zeruxe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:55:21 +0000

Ive started to think about it lately, a google search just doesn't yield a satisfiable result.

What do you guys think ? How many people are actually against AI?

Sometimes it feels like the majority are starting to be skeptical, but maybe that's just the environment im surrounded by.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000356

Points: 8

# Comments: 49

Goose: Safer, faster and
bobbydigitales — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aardappel/goose/blob/master/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000344

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Priceline to face FTC action over deceptive hotel ads

JumpCrisscross — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:51:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/priceline-owner-face-ftc-action-over-affiliates-hotel-ads-sources-say-2026-10-07/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000324

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Neural Dynamics as the Composition of Quantized Units

brandonb — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32487

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000321

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Map of USENET in 1986

bigwheels — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:48:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/0xtechnexus/status/2107954052927746241

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000302

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Opentunnel – public URLs for anything running on your machine

2bluesc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:44:49 +0000

Article URL: https://opentunnel.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000280

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

California wine glut sends premium bottles to Costco, others

brandonb — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:43:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-07/california-wine-glut-sends-premium-bottles-to-costco-aldi-kroger-at-bargain-prices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000273

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Kelly's AI Tax Bill Struggles to Link Tech with Economic Harms

tldrthelaw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:42:38 +0000

Article URL: https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/kellys-ai-tax-bill-struggles-to-link-tech-with-economic-harms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000269

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

TXT DNS for Dns.google Contains a Google DNS Xkcd

DoctorOW — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:41:04 +0000

Article URL: https://dns.google/query?name=dns.google&rr_type=TXT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000264

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Software developers are not okay [video]

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEpW03gxKg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000239

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Inner Loops: A Sourcebook for Fast 32-Bit Software Design by Rick Booth (1997)

peter_d_sherman — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:36:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201479605

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000229

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

What the Data Center Boom Looks Like from the Sky

xnx — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/05/upshot/data-center-scale.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000216

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Gigabyte W775-V10-L01 Hands-On Bringing Nvidia GB300 Deskside (748GB Memory)

peter_d_sherman — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:30:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-w775-v10-l01-hands-on-bringing-nvidia-gb300-deskside/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000180

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Hungary to open Communist-era informer files in reckoning with Cold War past

rdmuser — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:29:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hungary-open-communist-era-informer-files-reckoning-with-cold-war-past-2026-10-06/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000167

Points: 3

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Tell HN: If you mispell HOME in 'cd $HOME', you still end up in ~/

TZubiri — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:24:01 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000122

Points: 2

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The AI Agents Pitching Lit Mags to Stay Alive

paulpauper — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bookgossip.substack.com/p/the-ai-agents-pitching-lit-mags-to

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000115

Points: 2

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From Moore's Law to Eroom's Law: Power Constraints and the Productivity Slowdown

paulpauper — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:22:47 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7567438

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000112

Points: 3

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Against Laissez-Faire Democracy

paulpauper — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/10/against-laissez-faire-democracy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000107

Points: 2

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An open vision-language model for diverse medical applications

brandonb — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:22:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04626-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000106

Points: 5

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Open Source Rust clean-room replacements for 7 of Adobe's apps

edward — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1wwnhbt/ive_created_open_source_100_rust_cleanroom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000089

Points: 2

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Show HN: StayLeet – keeping skills sharp in AI coding era

jjak82 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:19:20 +0000

As AI writes more and more of the code, it's quite important to maintain sufficient skill and knowledge to even review or judge AI's output.

Here is a little project I whipped up - I personally found deliberate practice quite useful. It focusses on non-coding skills (as I think LOC production is basically solved by AI, IMO). Rather I start with two tracks: general technical fluency (CS / systems / practical fundamentals), and system design.

And yes it was built primarily with help of AI tooling.

Would love to get some feedback - in particular, do others feel the same way about skill atrophy risk on-the-job nowadays, and whether this tool is helpful potentially or not. What else do folks do instead, if anything.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000084

Points: 5

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Dazzle AI – an AI assistant that uses your camera roll to better understand you

gurjeet — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:15:50 +0000

Article URL: https://dazzle.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000054

Points: 2

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The OpenAI proofs are us

kendallgclark — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:13:34 +0000

Article URL: https://avowed.substack.com/p/the-openai-proofs-are-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000030

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

A Claude Code mod plays MIDI music when it works

delexw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:06:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/delexw/miod

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999983

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Karl Bushby – Walking around globe – no motorised transport

lifeisstillgood — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:03:20 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999953

Points: 2

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Where are typefaces being designed?

colinprince — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:02:06 +0000

Article URL: https://type.lol/studies/where-type-comes-from

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999945

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?

bigmattystyles — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:00:26 +0000

To keep up at work, I have to use AI - in turn, I have found that I just have tmux with lazygit, perhaps neovim to check on a file out of curiosity and my agent(s) open. I only ever use my IDE to launch a local instance of what I'm working on, none of the features or plugins really matter anymore. I wonder if the future of IDEs is bleak.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999930

Points: 2

# Comments: 7

Cloudflare Connect Convince Your Boss

weinzierl — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/convince-your-boss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999896

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic will be 'most ridiculous IPO' of year, analyst says

joebuckwilliams — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:55:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-will-be-most-ridiculous-ipo-of-year-analyst-says.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999891

Points: 2

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The Cult of the Damned

latexr — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://zhenyi.gibber.blog/the-cult-of-the-damned

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999864

Points: 3

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AI won't suppress legal rates

alansaber — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://lexifina.com/blog/who-keeps-the-ai-efficiency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999862

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Software developers are not okay

AloysB — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:51:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999842

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

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Goose: Safer, faster and bobbydigitales — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:53:51 +0000 Article URL: https://github.com/aardappel/goose/blob/master/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000344 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

Priceline to face FTC action over deceptive hotel ads

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Goose: Safer, faster and
bobbydigitales — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aardappel/goose/blob/master/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000344

Points: 8

# Comments: 1