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The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
https://celebratio.org/Appel_KI/article/796/#sender Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077096 Points: 34 # Comments: 25
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add
Existing benchmarks measure solve rate and token output/cost, but don't punish excess code, which makes a codebase harder to work with in the long term. I wanted to measure this since it matters most ..
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 382 # Comments: 343
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery
Article URL: https://jobs.lever.co/postera/c7d50a36-db0a-4574-bfe4-8700b74a22c0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078686 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot
Article URL: https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079437 Points: 22 # Comments: 0
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
AlphaNIST
Article URL: https://alpha-nist.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079464 Points: 32 # Comments: 9
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
Recreational Programming
Article URL: https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079865 Points: 35 # Comments: 8
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine
Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger an..
1:05 am, October 14, 2026 Hacker News
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Points: 164 # Comments: 127
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
Article URL: https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-rmf24 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074289 Points: 107 # Comments: ..
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869 Points: 85 # Comments: 22
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: How Random Are You?
Article URL: https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909 Points: 30 # Comments: 14
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs/h0nDly8-backend-engineer-ai-native-risk-infrastructure-integrations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074969 Points: 0 ..
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: XY Music Notation
I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it.The idea is to represent each note in 12-..
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript
Catches unsafe types, duplicate code, and low-value tests. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075809 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
A plea not to use uv-build
Article URL: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076048 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain
Article URL: https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076503 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
7:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?
Article URL: https://github.com/composo-ai/DishwasherBench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068437 Points: 65 # Comments: 34
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev
Article URL: https://www.unsiloed.ai/blog/document-review-unsiloed-typesafe-jev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068443 Points: 23 # Comments: 4
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM
Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wallets-with-secret-eSIM-11485188.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068508 Points: 76 # Comments: 55
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
AWS Lambda Web Functions
Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-performance-anywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069318 Points: ..
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069329 Points:..
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
Article URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069337 Points: 61 # Comments: 35
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499 Points: 232 # Comments: 104
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069942 Points: 57 # Comments: 28
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air
Article URL: https://eg2.haku.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069971 Points: 95 # Comments: 28
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise
Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302 Points: 51 # Comments: 30
1:05 pm, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)
Article URL: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064840 Points: 33 # Comments: 3
7:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065692 Points: 136 # Comments: 72
7:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/macos-dock-icons-over-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065713 Points: 59 # Comments: 35
7:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms
Article URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065932 Points: 97 # Comments: 65
7:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067356 Points: 35 # Comme..
7:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school
Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/10/denmark-set-to-allow-the-return-of-physical-force-to-maintain-order-in-schools_6758443_4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombin..
7:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
Article URL: https://brickbrag.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063042 Points: 24 # Comments: 9
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?
Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063138 Points: 102 # Comments: 8
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
Article URL: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063365 Points: 41 # Comments: 14
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch
Article URL: https://phreak.ing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063417 Points: 60 # Comments: 19
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Article URL: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427 Points: 206 # Comments: 189
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
Article URL: https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063717 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34
Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063831 Points: 116 # Comments: 36
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
Article URL: https://nirajrajgor.com/blog/kindle-photo-frame-with-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064318 Points: 60 # Comments: 29
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
Article URL: https://github.com/andrewfader/blokkily Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064438 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70751 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064536 Points: 67 # Comments: 22
1:05 am, October 13, 2026 Hacker News
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries
Article URL: https://github.com/morluto/rea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850 Points: 26 # Comments: 5
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 (https://agent37.com). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per ..
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Muse Wonder
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115 Points: 267 # Comments: 118
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Thinking will become a hobby
Article URL: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059204 Points: 78 # Comments: 97
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon's Producer
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/feds-got-warrants-to-use-fake-cell-towers-to-hunt-down-don-lemons-producer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059446 Points: 33 # Comments: ..
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059523 Points: 95 # Comments: 73
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060296 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
