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How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill

toomuchtodo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:48:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-the-federal-reserve-secretly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142772

Points: 27

# Comments: 12

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

evolve2k — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141657

Points: 147

# Comments: 138

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

f-serif — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-bill-only-kicks-in-if-50-deaths-or-usd1-billion-in-damages-are-on-the-line-proposal-would-effectively-make-the-commerce-department-the-only-agency-capable-of-stopping-an-ai-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141429

Points: 165

# Comments: 165

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

DeepLogin — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:22:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/impossible-refund

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140462

Points: 89

# Comments: 110

America's $10T AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray

cheesecompiler — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:46:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9ea5a37d-15c9-4d5b-94d6-719048c9cd3c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138511

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

critiquebrowser — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:33:49 +0000

FOSS, Basically it plugs into your existing coding agent workflow and every time you push to prod it'll throw up a questionnaire that checks if you understand how the code you're pushing works.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137950

Points: 246

# Comments: 86

Abolish AI Manifesto

drpixie — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://abolish-ai.net/abolish-ai-a-manifesto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136124

Points: 21

# Comments: 13

Israel makes propaganda video featuring AI generated IAMDDB without her consent

grandpajoey — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:26:43 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/beeechimblind/status/2111227318534279501

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134241

Points: 27

# Comments: 2

AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?

mmarvramm — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://mihaisplace.com/blog/ai-can-write-the-code-who-verifies-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133713

Points: 28

# Comments: 66

AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs to train AI robots

brunomarsjams — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-lab-offers-free-plumbing-and-hvac-repairs-across-three-cities-to-train-ai-robots-wearable-sensors-record-video-of-repair-work-for-robotics-training-free-services-also-include-electrical-work-air-duct-cleaning-and-carpet-cleaning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132550

Points: 20

# Comments: 12

Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses

DeepLogin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-surveillance-monitor-union-activity-uk-warehouses-birmingham-coventry-atlas-sutton-coldfield/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132278

Points: 173

# Comments: 59

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

speckx — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:08:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179

Points: 623

# Comments: 571

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

magoghm — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:55:40 +0000

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: 219

# Comments: 93

Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

stephenchung — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:35:43 +0000

Article URL: https://rstation.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118876

Points: 59

# Comments: 19

Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement

ryan_j_naughton — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:49:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/sergey-brin-google-gemini-ai-argon-recursive-self-improvement-rsi-2026-10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113841

Points: 25

# Comments: 28

Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI

thomas_unise — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:11:24 +0000

Article URL: https://boldagents.co/blog/call-center-jobs-declining-14000-calls-humans-outperform-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111112

Points: 39

# Comments: 54

Why We're Banning AI

vinyl7 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108131

Points: 261

# Comments: 203

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

agent_turtle — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/ai-companies-rushed-workers-fallout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108083

Points: 26

# Comments: 3

Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM

delusional — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://domstol.fe1.tangora.com/Domsoversigt-(H%C3%B8jesteret).31478.aspx?recordid31478=2930

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106285

Points: 38

# Comments: 65

Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom

tartoran — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:17:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/market-selloff-rising-rates-test-ai-data-centre-deal-boom-2026-10-15/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105900

Points: 75

# Comments: 92