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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
What is going on with ceiling fans
Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash
Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
Infidel goes wild
Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
Bill Draper has died
In the wake of closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online
The Tao of Backup
How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability
Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
'Neanderthals Among Us' review
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act'
Disney/Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Beats 'Avatar' as Top-Grossing Film, 'Coyote vs Acme' #1 on Apple TV
Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang's Primordial Soup - and Finds Unexpected Pattern
San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve?
FSF Sponsors 'GNU Boot', a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI
US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates
Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar'
Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams
This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
Physicists Identify 'Octupolar' Magnetism, With Implications for Quantum Technologies
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
Refinement E-Graphs
Rust's derive often implies inline
Iroh global content discovery
Why don’t more developers "use the platform"?
We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
grubby: static site generator for git repos written in Ruby
Claude Says
Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx
The complement of true is true, except when it's false
You're Leaving Compute on the Table
Hacking the Go compiler to efficiently map IPv4 to IPv6
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Broadcasting conglomerates are attempting a takeover of over-the-air television. We must defend it
Flatpak from the CLI sucks
Implementing Undo - Computerphile
From: anyone@icloud.com - Spoofing Arbitrary Apple iCloud Identities
Protocol-aware recovery for consensus-based storage (2018)
Our RISC-V emulator PasRISCV
RIP, vector database
Thoreau BASIC
System-level ad-blocking in Android
Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search
I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a git post-checkout hook
The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
Apple's New CEO John Ternus is Making Product Design a 'Major Priority'
Apple Hiring 'iCup' Specialist
MacBook Pro With OLED Display Rumored to Be 'Significantly Lighter'
Apple Event Reportedly Planned for October 13
Amazon Launches Early Prime Day Discounts on AirPods, iPad, MacBook Air, and More
AirPods Pro 3 Hit Record Low $179 Price During Early Prime Day Sale
Top Stories: Apple Smart Home Launch on October 13, iPhone Duo Production Issues, and More
Apple Says iPhone 18 Pro Max Users With AT&T Cellular Issue Need to Have Device Replaced
Apple Announces 'Full Disk Access' Changes on macOS Due to AI Agents
AT&T and Apple Just Took Steps Toward Fixing iPhone 18 Pro Max Issue
AT&T on iPhone 18 Pro Max Issues: 'We Are Working With Apple'
Beats 360 Cushion Kits and Apple Accessories See Early Prime Day Price Drops
Upgrading From an Older Apple Watch? Here's How the New Features Stack Up
Apple Store in UK Reopening on iPhone Duo Launch Day
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
A-ha's Take on Me, recreated in pure JavaScript
Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
A model guide for the GPT-6 family
Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI
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
DevDay 2026 Recap
Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
Introducing dots
How we will do better for Australia
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing SynthID Bio
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
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
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
September sponsors-only newsletter
Rex's Dino Store
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
[AINews] not much happened today
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
[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
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
8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability
Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers
Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway
Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform
Updates on our pledge to make Cloudflare features accessible to everyone
Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway – expanding access to Cloudflare’s privacy-preserving infrastructure
Follow the thread: a new dashboard to investigate account abuse
Protected Quick Tunnels: simple accountless authentication for your next dev project
Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare
2026 Birthday week: network performance update
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
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.
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
Stateless GitHub App installation tokens rolled out
Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level
Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated
New fields for SecurityAdvisory GraphQL API
Confidential comments on repository security advisories
Repository security advisory comments API in public preview
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
Jev for Python engineers
How Rogo ships agent-written code to production in 5 minutes on Vercel
Speed Insights deprecates First Input Delay on November 1st
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
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
Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits
How Etsy gets its mobile apps ready for peak traffic
Big improvements to Seer Agent- If you have not yet been to see the scale model of NYC built by Joe Macken out o…
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- Journal: Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Happy birthday to my little…
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22785
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22782
- I'm going to be joining @drblack.bsky.social on the main stage at @github.com Un…
- If you're blocked by this, I've got a good workaround that's even better than @f…
- If I had to use this, how would I feel?
- 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!
- In Österreich kann man dieser Tage erleben was passiert wenn der Gesetzgeber etw…
- in my experience, AI is excelling at most technical work except for ”what is the…
- i’ve been doing some research on using Lean with AI to prove software properties…
- been unironically upping my p doom over the last few months
- your favourite framework just got a lil' upgrade
- a good day to advertise kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps (I noticed because my monthly…