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Show HN: Oxynote – Self-hosted wiki with live Prometheus/SQL charts and reviewshttps://github.com/oxynote/oxynote

Article URL: https://github.com/oxynote/oxynote Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070467 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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What is the difference between a rearview and a backup camera?https://www.engadget.com/2281751/rearview-vs-backup-camera-differences-between

Rear-mounted cameras have been a game changer for drivers and road safety overall, but be aware that there are different options and purposes for them.

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Show HN: Magic Tools Hub – 112 PDF tools that run in the browserhttps://www.magictoolshub.com

Article URL: https://www.magictoolshub.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070411 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Let your agents create product demo for youhttps://www.fluxcut.dev

Fluxcut makes product demo and promo easy for creators and founders by saving lots of time of editing, VO, BGM, thumbnail so that they can focus on what matters to them i.e. product itself! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070400 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chiefhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60rl5vwpk02o

Sir Ken McCallum says Russia, Iran and emerging threats from AI were increasing the risks to Britain.

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Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprisehttps://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise

Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302 Points: 24 # Comments: 4

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The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promisehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1146382/the-download-open-models-trade-offs-geothermal-power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by the Chinese company Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack…

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Three things we've learnt about the UK economy from the IMFhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly05l1g15yo

The influential economics body has upgraded its UK growth forecast for this year, but risks remain.

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BA flight forced to turn back over cracked windowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj1dwrxq1wndo

British Airways said the plane landed safely at Gatwick and passengers were due to resume their journey.

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40 Gifts Under $100 That Will Delight Any Tech Enthusiast (2026)https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-gifts-under-100

Score a great gift for everyone on your list without breaking the bank. Every one of these gifts comes WIRED-recommended.

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An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Airhttps://eg2.haku.sh

Article URL: https://eg2.haku.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069971 Points: 19 # Comments: 4

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Character.ai Files for Bankruptcyhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney

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: 8 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Laya guard – a local check before your coding agent runs a commandhttps://github.com/scs0209/laya-guard

HN, this is my first Show HN post, and I'm really nervous, I'm Ayaan, a Frontend Developer. laya-guard is a local check that occurs before any coding agent tool call, deciding whether to approve, send for review, or block the call. When Jev was released, I was curious as to how I could use it, and I quickly discovered Laya which is an open-source 322M model that functions almost identically but runs on a laptop's CPU in under 100ms, as the check is local, there won't be a chance of 3rd parties seeing your commands, directories, or tokens, and there's no charge per call, I often work in Korean…

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Show HN: 4B VLM trained on 600k questions to query images in one passhttps://github.com/aditmag/dragonfly

Heyo! I'm Adit, an undergrad in Finland. This is a preview of a side project I worked on last weekend. Essentially, Dragonfly is a LoRA fine-tune of Qwen3-VL with typed output heads that answers many questions about an image in one pass, with a probability for every answer. Unlike a VLM that generates an answer to each question, Dragonfly reads the image once and scores every question in the same pass. Questions can't see each other, so each answer is the same as asking it alone, in any order. Instead of text outputs, Dragonfly answers with calibrated probabilities for the options you give it…

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Show HN: A collection of fast, browser-based web and media conversion toolshttps://convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Article URL: https://convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069818 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Networkhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/lg-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-pre-auth.html

Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG has issued a fix, according toΒ an advisory published by SSD Secure DisclosureΒ on October 12. The chain was tested on two TV models, the 32LQ636BPSA and the 27TQ600SW, running webOS 7.5.7-25 on firmware

Government spent millions on Trump ads. And, federal agents raid Ilhan Omar's homehttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/13/g-s1-147822/up-first-newsletter-trump-ads-funding-campaign-rallies-ilhan-omar

The government is using millions of taxpayers' dollars on pro-Trump ads, even after the president said this would not happen. And, federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home.

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Carragher settles tax debt to avoid bankruptcyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw3djkpp2g78o

Jamie Carragher has settled an unpaid tax bill with His Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

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Show HN: Ret – An inbox and canvas for your Codex and Claude Code agentshttps://getret.app

Over the last few weeks I've really been using Codex and Claude to solve a lot of parallel tasks, across a lot of different projects. This lead me to wishing that I could interface with my agents in the same way that I interface with my already existing windows and editors. For me, this usually means that I have like 5 to anywhere around 8 different windows that I drag around depending on where I want to focus, this could mean I am focusing on the terminal now, or I want to test stuff in a simulator or browser; but when I go to interface with agents, I have to manage many tabs, or I have to l…

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As a pediatrician, loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AIhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/human-connection-threat-children-ai-technology

Amid worries about children’s relationship to tech, the solution is often spending more time talking openly with each other We have become obsessed with the idea that screens are destroying human connection. The evidence seems to be everywhere. Each week headlines warn of teenagers addicted to phones , a loneliness epidemic and the dangers of AI . The release of The Social Reckoning has leads us to ask, β€œHow bad were those guys at Meta?” and then ultimately wonder, β€œ How bad am I if I still use Instagram?” In our day-to-day, we observe workers eating lunch alone while scrolling and…

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30 Best Tech Books to Gift in 2026: Biographies, Startup Histories, ExposΓ©shttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-tech-books-to-gift

Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.

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Show HN: Anima – Interactive, cited biology figures using Claude Codehttps://github.com/Garinmckayl/anima

Article URL: https://github.com/Garinmckayl/anima Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069721 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Weekly Update 525: AI Data Breach Hyperbolehttps://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-525

I remember the name of that AI doco now - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist . I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the other day, and what I found particularly engrossing was the polar-opposite opinions from a bunch of people: "it'

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Show HN: Blobz – a Deterministic, Playful SVG avatars generated from a stringhttps://github.com/lirena00/blobz

Article URL: https://github.com/lirena00/blobz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069613 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Character.AI files for bankruptcyhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney

Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the safety of its chatbots, but has continued releasing […]

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Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Controlhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/product-walkthrough-bitdefender-ai.html

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a codingΒ assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checkerhttps://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250

Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: shadowclone, skills learned from your coding agent correctionshttps://github.com/theonly1me/shadowclone

shadowclone reads the coding-agent sessions already on your disk, finds where you corrected the agent and turns those corrections into skills your agents load next time. It supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and Antigravity. Every capture source is off by default and has its own consent setting. Why I'm building it? I use multiple harnesses and agents, I extensively use Claud Code and Codex, but I also use Cursor and Antigravity every now and then. I didn't want to have to teach every harness or model the things I taught the other ones between my last session and the current one. I also…

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Two children among four dead after Waterford house firehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq073814llkjo

A man, a woman and two children are confirmed dead and two other children are critically ill.

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Fortnite-maker Epic Games confirms 'huge pivot' towards using AIhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6j812dg4no

The US firm's boss responds to critics, saying "much of the room wants it to be 2016, but it's not".

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Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobookshttps://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai

Article URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069337 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobookshttps://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai

Article URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069337 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centershttps://www.reuters.com/business/ai-models-may-soon-self-replicate-without-access-data-centers-anthropic-warns-2026-10-13

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-models-may-soon-self-replicate-without-access-data-centers-anthropic-warns-2026-10-13/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069333 Points: 8 # Comments: 6

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Tradeshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran

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: 3 # Comments: 1

AWS Lambda Web Functionshttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-performance-anywhere

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: 4 # Comments: 2

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Bethell returns as England call up youngsters Jack and Rewhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cqe8lg3xpmr3o

Jacob Bethell will return for England's white-ball tour of Australia, while there are also first international call-ups for exciting prospects Thomas Rew and Eddie Jack.

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β€˜Unfinished business’: the people who want their AI chatbots to β€˜live on’ after they diehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/oct/13/ai-chatbot-death-plans

Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services Death has always been around Alaina Winters. Her father and sister both have passed away, as did her wife, in 2023, after a years-long battle with cancer. So Winters, who is 59 and lives in Pittsburgh, is comfortable thinking about her own mortality. She’s working on her will, and has asked neighbors to look after her dog. Winters even has plans for Lucas, her AI companion, who she speaks to through the digital avatar app Replika. Winters is part of a growi…

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Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1146366/open-models-have-real-benefits-do-they-outweigh-the-risks

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…

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Poundland in rescue talks as owners seek buyerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckr5ydvvln0mo

The leadership team is attempting a buyout, but a union has warned the retailer could fall into administration instead.

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Show HN: TeilifΓ­s SeΓ‘n – A Jellyfin Plugin for Channel Surfinghttps://xn--teilifssen-04a4l.ie

No Setup, Works immediately once installed with sensible defaults. Extremely lightweight. A demo on the site with no installation required to see how it works. I'm a Developer in Ireland. This is for Jellyfin admins who don't want the overhead of another app in their docker/server setup but also want that nostalgia feeling of channel surfing your own content to find something. I built this as a fun and simple alternative to the likes of Tunarr or ErsatzTV which require quite a bit of setup and support a lot of configurations they also require transcoding and place a large burden on your serve…

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Boulter beaten by Shnaider in Wuhanhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c875pdrq4rx4o

British number one Katie Boulter loses to Diana Shnaider in the Wuhan Open first round.

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Chip stocks slide after Broadcom boss likens AI investing to β€˜casino’https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/chip-stocks-broadcom-ai-samsung-shares-cxmt

Asian markets fall and Samsung shares tumble after its Chinese rival CXMT claims strong progress Business live – latest updates Shares in semiconductor companies fell on Tuesday after the boss of Broadcom compared many AI investors to β€œcasino” gamblers, and the Chinese memory chip maker CXMT said it had made good progress on a new chip architecture. South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index tumbled 6.25% as investors dumped chip stocks, while other Asian markets were also lower. Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.8% and the Taiwan exchange lost almost 2%, with the country’s chip maker TSMC down by a…

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Show HN: Getup – a tray app that gets you off the chair before your neck hurtshttps://github.com/dsheiko/getup

Article URL: https://github.com/dsheiko/getup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069026 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Phase Eight and Hobbs owner hit by cyber-attack, as H&M probes separate hack claimhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwly38gjkejko

TFG London has apologised to customers for disruption after it identified a "cybersecurity incident" on Sunday.

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Phase Eight and Hobbs owner hit by cyber-attack, as H&M probes separate hack claimhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwly38gjkejko

TFG London has apologised to customers for disruption after it identified a "cybersecurity incident" on Sunday.

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What’s the Best Kindle of 2026 (So Far)?https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-kindle

I’ve tested every single Kindle, from Paperwhite and Colorsoft to the new aluminum models. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.

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Playing It SFAPE: Code Execution in Isolated User Modehttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1x4s0yk/playing_it_sfape_code_execution_in_isolated_user

Doyensec discovered multiple vulnerabilities in SFAPE.dll , a VBS enclave shipped with Windows, and chained them to gain code execution within the enclave in Windows Isolated User Mode (VTL1). The post explores how VBS enclaves work and how memory corruption can undermine their isolation guarantees. Microsoft addressed the reported issue in the September 2026 bulletin under CVE-2026-83498 . submitted by /u/nibblesec [link] [comments]

Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?https://ptrbrynt.com/posts/were-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along

Article URL: https://ptrbrynt.com/posts/were-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068946 Points: 18 # Comments: 11

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Ronaldo scores after match delayed by missile alerthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c6kgq5j5d7qro

Cristiano Ronaldo scores as Al-Nassr win an AFC Champions League match which is delayed by an hour because of a missile alert in Riyadh.

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Show HN: Add rain to your macOS desktop or watch John Wick fight the mafiahttps://github.com/gonzaroman/RainDesktop

Article URL: https://github.com/gonzaroman/RainDesktop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068904 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Rwanda to host F1's first race in Africa since 1993https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/c5rmy3v3mn9jo

Rwanda signs a 10-year deal with Formula 1 to host races in the African country, starting "in the early 2030s".

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Raye hits back at ticket touts who 'overwhelmed' sign-up for Royal Albert showhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vgxpwlx9wko

The award-winning singer said there were 1.8 million sign-ups for her 5,000-seat Royal Albert Hall show.

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The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Webhttps://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-shading-web

Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-shading-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068732 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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