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Pi 1.0
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Pi Durable
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
RIP, vector database
How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
SvelteKit 3
Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
DeepSeek Harness
Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Context Language Models
RacketCon Is Saturday
Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo
Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests
California Rushes To Prepare For Massive 'Kelvin' Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise
Amazon's New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls
Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service
Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models
Ryan Roslansky Is Leaving After Nearly 18 Years At LinkedIn and Microsoft
Micron Projects Tightening RAM Shortages Through 2028 As It Generates Record Profit
Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot To Get Into Locked Phones
Pentagon Creates 'Autowarcom' to Expand AI and Drone Capabilities
FTC Is Investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Companies Over Product Risks
HP's Answer to the MacBook Neo Is Thinner, Lighter, and Comes With OLED
PS5 Emulation Is Suddenly Making Big Strides On PC
Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Retaking Benchmark Lead Over OpenAI and Anthropic
'Xbox Is Not For Sale,' Says Microsoft's Gaming Chief
Hackers Stole Millions of US Military Personnel Records During Months-Long Data Breach
Google Reportedly Tests Paying Publishers For AI Search Results
IANA's email about why example.com changed
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Reducing the cognitive load of AI changes
Announcing Rust 1.99.0
Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 3 2.97.0 has been released
Waterfox 6.7.5 Adds a Built-in Feed Reader
Who's hiring? Q4 2026
The death of web development education
Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
outis: Fight AI spam by generating and sending a fake "user unknown" bounce emails
WSL containers are now generally available
Typeclasses vs Modules
Reviving Valve's 15-year-old e-book
The AI Pascal’s Wager
The Second Golden Spike: Memory Safety Across the Valen/Rust Boundary
Major rsync upgrade in Debian because of 33 CVEs
Lists that keep track of their reversal
How to make a text box: A crash course in Unicode and OpenType
We Should be Able to Change our Languages
EU KIDS Act
Hanami, Why?: Introductions
EDG C/C++ Compiler Project
Rust to WGSL transpiler `wgsl-rs` released
Finding Bugs
Schedules Are Solvable Symbols: Tuning-Free Compilation of Tile Programs on Dataflow Architectures
AT&T Acknowledges iPhone 18 Pro Max Issues: 'Update Immediately'
New 'AirFly Drive' Accessory Turns Wired CarPlay Into Wireless CarPlay
Apple Shares Photos Shot on iPhone Duo
Apple Says iPhone Duo Has Replaceable 'Cover Layer'
Apple's Smart Home Camera Will Apparently Have 'No Video Recording'
Apple TV Just Updated Its Selection of 'Bonus' Movies
Early Prime Big Deal Days: Best Discounts on Accessories, TVs, and More at Amazon
iPhone 18 Pro Colors Buyer's Guide: Which Should You Choose?
MacBook Pro With OLED Touch Screen Rumored to Launch in October or November
Apple's All-New Home Hub Rumored to Launch in These Four Colors
iPhone 18 Pro Aperture Control Goes Fully Manual in Halide 3.2
Apple Stores Receive 'Do Not Open' Boxes Ahead of Smart Home Products Launch
iPhone 18 Pro Sales Jump in China Ahead of iPhone Duo Launch
Apple TV Still Down for Some Users Following Apple Services Outage
PSA: Apple Mail on Mac May Stop Syncing Microsoft 365 Accounts Today
Apple's Smart Home Hub: Everything We Know So Far
Apple's Home Hub Borrows From the iPhone Duo's StandBy Mode
Apple Invites App Updated With Three New Features
Apple Event on October 13?
Apple Watch SE 3 vs. Series 12 Buyer's Guide: Which Should You Buy?
A-ha's Take on Me, recreated in pure JavaScript
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5
Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience
The eternal complement
How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work
Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Helping small businesses put AI to work
Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
DevDay 2026 Recap
Introducing dots
How we will do better for Australia
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
Are you a Codex Original?
Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing SynthID Bio
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
Quoting Matthew Green
He Built This City
Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Quoting @joedaroo
Quoting Muse AI Agent
2026 in LLMs (so far)
S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
Bluesky reply bot checker
Kākāpō Party
Quoting John Gruber
[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC
Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output
Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute
Why I tried to kill token billing (and why we kept it)
OUSD is now the default stablecoin on Stripe
Helping personal agents shop more intelligently and reliably with Link
Travel’s AI dilemma at Skift Global Forum
Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice
Introducing Workers KV Instant — powered by Quicksilver
Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you
Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
AI Search is now generally available
Support for modern cryptographic algorithms in Workers
Introducing Cloudflare Basin: an open, serverless data platform, now generally available
Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations
Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router
Detect and send production issues straight to your agent
Simplifying domains for people and agents
Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402
Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid
Identify AI model overuse with User Insights
Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes
The Internet has a second audience
Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026
Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead
How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
Highlights from Git 2.56
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
Rate limits for private vulnerability reports
Structured forms for private vulnerability reports
GitHub Copilot can now interact with desktop apps with computer use
GitHub Actions: macOS 14 runner image retirement
GitHub Copilot in VS Code, September 2026 releases
Accessibility statements highlighted on repository overview
Actions retention now covers checks, runs, and statuses
Scheduled code scanning skips inactive repositories
Code coverage uploads no longer fail CI for new branches
Dynamic workflows in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app
Laya decision model now available on AI Gateway, free through October 31
Microsoft AI models are now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Agent now installs private packages from npm and custom registries
AI Gateway adds Browserbase Search and Fetch tools
Edge Requests are now called CDN Requests
Vercel Sandbox now supports Secure Compute
Ling 3.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway
Vercel CDN no longer caches responses with Vary: Cookie
Vercel Connect now accepts service submissions
Search trace spans from the Vercel CLI
GPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gateway
Search domains without authentication
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI Gateway
Push images to Vercel Container Registry from GitHub Actions
Cauldron Bubble w/o the Trouble? It’s Discord Halloween, Witches
Personalization without user identity
Evolving our calendar assistant Reclaim to be AI-native without starting over
How we extended Apache DataFusion to execute one query across many machines
How we built an async-aware Python profiler
How Etsy gets its mobile apps ready for peak traffic
Big improvements to Seer Agent- I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video…
- I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past thr…
- I included a few references to this year's record-breaking Kākāpō breeding seaso…
- Journal: Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Happy birthday to my little…
- Journal: Think local Warning: this post is about large language models.
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22782
- PMs should understand the architecture.
- If you're blocked by this, I've got a good workaround that's even better than @f…
- Stop saying they are using it wrong.
- get ready web design-elopers.
- 1) Place a little cutie on the border of parent element with `offset-path: borde…
- Come for the webperf, stay for Ben's smooth intelligent voice
- We released Pi 1.0!
- astra may be my favorite model now.
- hey this album slaps
- this seems like it should be fun
- your favourite framework just got a lil' upgrade
- Happy Negroni week to everyone who celebrates!
- a good day to advertise kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps (I noticed because my monthly…