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Margaret Hamilton has died
Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Claude Haiku 5.5
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Docker Agent
The Mathocalypse
House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't
How machines learned precision
Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits
'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Cleo (Mathematician)
In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick
OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock
Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A
Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts
Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599
Xbox Secures Exclusive GTA 6 Streaming Rights
Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Physics Prize For Antarctic 'Ghost Particle' Hunt
Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy
South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks
Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health
HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring
Alexa Can't Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore
Asos Confirms Hackers Sent 'Unauthorized' Notification to App Users
IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
Licensing Costs Driving 90% of VMware Users To Explore Options, Survey Finds
Mistral Unveils New 'Le Chonk' AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Software developers are not okay
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Calling a function in C without naming it
C for Rust Programmers
Creating distro build tooling for a small community
rat's minimal register allocator
A rant about APIs
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust
Janet on x32: 32-bit Pointers, 64-bit Speed, 25% Less RAM
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
The Mathocalypse
Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
Zeroization, part 1: Wiping can make things worse
When Submarine Cables Go Dark: Understanding and Preparing for the Risks of Taiwan's International Internet Disconnection
I've Been Deindexed by Google
On Git Refs
Property Testing with Agent Swarms
That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief (2025)
Explaining the Magelight XP glitch in Skyrim
Is COSMIC DE mogging KDE Plasma?
Reasons to dislike AI coding
On using AI as a writing assistant
The people holding up the internet
How can undefined opcodes ud0 and ud1 have parameters?
Gurman: OLED MacBook Pro Won't Be 'Significantly Thinner'
Microsoft Launches $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra to Take on MacBook Pro
Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone
ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 and New Intelligent UI With Visual Answers
Get AirPods Pro 3 for $179, Apple Watch for $199, and More Before Prime Day Ends Today
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Score 4/10 for Repairability
Apple Launches Creative Labs Program With The King's Trust
Apple Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 Owners Report Skin Irritation
Boston's MBTA Testing New Charlie Card With Apple Wallet Support
Manchester's Bee Card Now Fully Supported in Apple Wallet
You Can Get Up to $149 Off Every New Mac Mini During Prime Day
Best Buy Takes $260 Off All iPhone Air Models During Techtober Sale
The Best Anker Prime Day Deals: Score Big on MagSafe Chargers and More
12 New Things to Expect From Apple in October
Prime Day Offers Best TV Prices of the Year From Samsung, Sony, and More
First Look at LG's Smart Home Products Made With Apple
Apple Drops Intel Macs From Magic Mouse/Trackpad Compatibility Lists
Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Ultra 4 See Record Discounts During Prime Day
Apple Reportedly Waiting on Samsung for Ultimate Bezel-Free iPhone Display
Apple's Own Home Security Camera Still Coming Next Year
Why don't more developers 'use the platform'?
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
Expanding the Cyber Verification Program
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5
Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI
Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT
Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Advancing computer use with Ironclad
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
Our approach to EU text provenance rules
Building advertising for the way people use AI
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
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge
One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
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
Quoting Ben Affleck
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Quoting Jake Boggan
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Quoting Victoria Kim
llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0
llm-mistral 0.16
EmbeddingGemma 2
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk
Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
Mistral Large 4
datasette-atom 0.11a0
Scrimshaw Jukebox
Quoting Felix Rieseberg
Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
September sponsors-only newsletter
Rex's Dino Store
pwasm 0.2a0
[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing
Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?
[AINews] Quasi-Riemann-Hypothesis: OpenAI publishes 722 math papers solving 90 of the top 500 open math problems; “the most significant moment” in >100 years of mathematics
[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model
[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
Building an evidence-grounded agentic security operations harness on Cloudflare
The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready?
Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026
One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns
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
NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
Secret protection must scale with software
Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5 in GitHub Copilot
Purpose-built model for leaked secret detection
Local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot now generally available
Discover local models in GitHub Copilot CLI
Update your IDE to restore agent activity in Copilot usage metrics
Stacked pull requests generally available
Code scanning AI Scan enablement status in security overview
Secret scanning adds detectors for Lovable, Supabase, and more
Stateless GitHub App installation tokens rolled out
Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level
Microfrontends Routing is now free for Firewall-mitigated traffic
OpenAI Decisions API now available on AI Gateway
Claude Haiku 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
Glyph Cluster is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
Timestamp attributes are now supported in Vercel Flags
AI Gateway adds confidence-based decision fallbacks
Nano Banana 2.1 now available on AI Gateway
Mistral Large 4 now available on AI Gateway
OpenAI Ultrafast mode now available on AI Gateway
FLUX 3 Image now available on AI Gateway
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
Discord Patch Notes: October 6, 2026
Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb
Unreal MCP now speaks Sentry
Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits
Node.js 26.11.1 (Current)
Node.js 26.11.0 (Current)- If you have not yet been to see the scale model of NYC built by Joe Macken out o…
- I need to decide if 1KB means 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes in all of my software I…
- Just published this post about how we’re going to need default hard budget caps…
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22785
- Sunday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22786
- Tuesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22791
- I'm going to be joining @drblack.bsky.social on the main stage at @github.com Un…
- You still have to pick what is worth building and worth telling people about.
- Execution got cheaper.
- Kelsey My sister is in a currently-running-on-TV political ad.
- Based on some @css-only.dev feedback 💙
- Glasses How it started: https://bsky.app/profile/chriscoyier.net/post/3ms2kti2s6…
- We released Pi 1.0!
- I wrote a bit about what Codemode actually is and how it works.
- 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
- saw Behemoth!
- a good day to advertise kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps (I noticed because my monthly…