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Elon Musk promises to give one SpaceX share to every child in the UShttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013667/elon-musk-space-x-shares-us-children

Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares, according to a report from CNBC. Musk, who runs SpaceX and […]

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Beyond These Starshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2295060/Beyond_These_Stars

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295060/Beyond_These_Stars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152701 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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It’s hard to imagine wireless headphones ever getting lighter than thesehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013635/its-hard-to-imagine-wireless-headphones-ever-getting-lighter-than-these

If you're on the hunt for lightweight wireless headphones but wearing earbuds or clip-ons never feels comfortable or secure, a relatively obscure Japanese headphone maker could have the solution. Final's new Porta headphones feature an on-ear design supported by a headband but with a structure made from a single piece of wire so they weigh […]

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Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staffhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/20/workplace-privacy-concerns-employers-use-ai-to-monitor-staff

Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without employees being informed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Employers are increasingly using technology, from CCTV to keystroke monitoring, to track workers’ moves and it is being accelerated by the use of AI, the Human Technology Institute has warned. Examples provided to Guardian Australia by the institute include a fast-food restaurant using surveillance cameras to stop workers using their phones, and AI tracking leading to a cashier…

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A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agentshttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown […]

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Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cachehttps://github.com/kividbio/kividb

Hi all, So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was actually an issue I faced with Dragonfly. I wanted to have something picking the best of Rust, but also picking the best parts of other alternatives like Garnet and Dragonfly. I used AI a lot, but I was the one making the design decisions based on the tests that claude picked from my history of troubleshooting sessions as part of my job. KiviDB supports both…

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An attack that corrupts a LLM model about one specific fact - no file changes, no process, no network. Nothing to scan, and you can still detect.https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1x9xhu9/an_attack_that_corrupts_a_llm_model_about_one

Think about what a model does: it answers questions correctly, you trust it, you wire it into things. Now imagine it’s correct about everything except one topic you care about, and it’s wrong about that on purpose. A dosage. A legal fact. A person. A β€œis this config safe to deploy.” The other 99.9% is pristine, so nobody looks twice. The attack that does this doesn’t touch disk. The checkpoint hash is identical before and after. No new process, no child, no socket, no extra ioctl or mmap. It arrives through a dependency you already trust and does its work in GPU memory, inside the s…

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Sitehttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site

U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in the United States even helped ShinyHunters operate a website that pressured victims into paying a ransom.

What the orange light on your PlayStation 5 is actually telling youhttps://www.engadget.com/2287587/what-playstation-5-orange-light-means

The PS5 shows a variety of light colors to indicate its status, and orange thankfully isn't the alert you might expect from that color.

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Are the French riots a warning of an intense election to come?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckzd60dy746qo

Rioting, looting and vandalism has gripped France over the weekend after protests spiralled out of control across the country.

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Trial hears Robinson 'intimidated' Daily Mail reportershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cry83jz19v26o

The activist is accused of "bully-boy tactics" and denies harassment causing fear of violence.

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Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheadedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3lylj78777do

Former army sergeant major Robert Kabera was a popular YouTuber and singer, who had sought asylum in Uganda.

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Wine Ported to OpenBSDhttps://marc.info

Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152307 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Show HN: ApolloOffice – Local AI workers that turn GitHub issues into tested PRshttps://github.com/Silvertree2010/ApolloOffice

This is a little thing I built: it's a visually pleasing office with AI agents working on GitHub repositories and submitting pull requests. They are getting issues, reproduce them and then fix them. I was using it privately in a Discord call and many people requested a public open-source version, so I got Claude Opus 5.5 to rewrite the entire code in Rust. It's available as a service on macOS, Linux and Windows. In my use case I use it to make PRs for ArtCraft, the Adobe Suite clone that is viral right now. This tool got me into the top 10 contributors within 5 days. I have 361 total pull req…

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Show HN: Chalk, interactive labs for system design ideashttps://chalkbrain.com/labs/the-slate

Article URL: https://chalkbrain.com/labs/the-slate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152283 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: IndiePilot – find Reddit posts asking for a product like yourshttps://indiepilot.app

Article URL: https://indiepilot.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152260 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Semantics to SQL in Rust, ~70Β΅s per queryhttps://github.com/stratasite/0sql

0sql is an open-source semantic layer engine written in Rust. Compared to Cube and Metricflow, here are the major differences: Partition aware, agg aware, and compute engine aware semantic routing. Comprehensive suite of measures out of the box. Snapshot, LOD, compound, ratios, calculations, cross-domain, and run time measure transformations. Automatic data blending across fact domains. Row level security built-in. Website: https://0sql.io/ Blog post: https://blog.strata.do/p/0sql-is-open-source-now Please send feedbacks and issues on Github. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

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Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5Bhttps://startupfortune.com/stripe-will-pay-75-billion-for-openrouter-the-ai-model-traffic-cop

Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/stripe-will-pay-75-billion-for-openrouter-the-ai-model-traffic-cop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152207 Points: 16 # Comments: 2

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Apu returns to The Simpsons with new voice after race rowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw33x6gzgdm0o

The much-loved shopkeeper has been seen but not heard around Springfield for eight years, until now.

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Show HN: OpenFilm – Turn any coding agent into a video editorhttps://github.com/openfilm/openfilm

Article URL: https://github.com/openfilm/openfilm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152136 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Kylie Jenner's debut at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in $50m bra sparks mixed reactionhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2wqwxvyxlo

The reality star's surprise appearance on the runway in the diamond encrusted piece has sparked mixed reaction.

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Don't throw away your old graphics card β€” here's what you can do with ithttps://www.engadget.com/2287482/dont-throw-away-old-graphics-card

An old GPU has lots of potential for a second life, from adding more horsepower to your current machine to crafting a purpose-built second one.

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Haaland a doubt, Semenyo out - what are Man City's options?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5djv21rkekwo

Manchester City coach Enzo Maresca explores his attacking options for Tuesday's Champions League game against AEK Athens.

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GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositorieshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ghostaction-attackers-plant-credential.html

The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain attack has expanded beyond injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows into compromised projects to phish open-source developers and deliver a stealer malware disguised within a fake font file. The latest evolution, detailed by OpenSourceMalware, signals that the attackers are actively refining their modus operandi in response to steps

Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained outhttps://100toolkit.com/blog/deslop-model

Article URL: https://100toolkit.com/blog/deslop-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151928 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained outhttps://100toolkit.com/blog/deslop-model

Article URL: https://100toolkit.com/blog/deslop-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151928 Points: 14 # Comments: 3

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8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming executionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/15/8-10-americans-oppose-live-streaming-execution-fort-hood-shooter-poll-shows

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/15/8-10-americans-oppose-live-streaming-execution-fort-hood-shooter-poll-shows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151922 Points: 13 # Comments: 4

Prime minister visits Aberfan ahead of 60th anniversary of 'horrifying tragedy'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm70px2d1ynlo

A total of 116 children and 28 adults were killed on 21 October 1966 when a colliery spoil tip collapsed.

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Wyze moved the screen on its new smart scale to the handle so it’s easier to read at eye levelhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013081/wyze-smart-scale-ultra-bodyscan-plus-handle-display

Wyze announced a new version of its Ultra BodyScan smart scale that debuted nearly a year ago with additional electrodes on a retractable handle, allowing it to provide a breakdown of various health metrics across your arms, legs, and torso. With the new Ultra BodyScan Plus, Wyze is introducing a redesign that moves the scale's […]

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Show HN: Illos.dev, animated illustrations and skills to make more like themhttps://illos.dev

Article URL: https://illos.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151889 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: LaunchWindow – Modern macOS App Grid; but Goodhttps://avuriolabs.vercel.app/product/launchwindow

Hi guys, Im Areed, A quite popular Minecraft Addons/Mods Developer with over 1.2 million downloads, making Mac Apps for 6 months. Problem: I got a Mac recently and was really disappointed by the lack of any modern apple style app grid, Sure we got a lot of LaunchPad apps, but none follow the new design while adding back the features that make it great. Almost all are fullscreen Launchpad alts. I really like new windowed style app grid design, but the apple's one is so bad we can't even move the apps or add folders etc. What it does: LaunchWindow is a fast, responsive application grid designed…

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Show HN: Calendarpit – Local Google Calendar API and OAuth Server for Testinghttps://github.com/iktakahiro/calendarpit

Article URL: https://github.com/iktakahiro/calendarpit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151823 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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6 unexpected uses for your old PlayStation 3https://www.engadget.com/2287344/unexpected-uses-old-playstation-3

The PlayStation 3 arrived in 2006 and shouldn't have any right finding a place in a modern media center. Here's a number of reasons why it should make a return.

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Show HN: Making agent-to-agent interactions observable, in a fun wayhttps://github.com/hanhanwu/Agentopia

I'm building this open source to show what's happening behind the scene when AI agents are interacting with each other. Just finished building the first scenario - agents discovery. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151729 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Unbanished – Modern cross platform and browser Rust engine for Banishedhttps://tanepiper.github.io/unbanished

Using reverse-engineer-anything, ghidrea and Claude Opus max I've been working on reverse engineering the 2014 PC game Banished, re-implementing it in Rust and also adding new capabilities like being able to play in the browser. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151724 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Uber wins bid to throw out Β£340m black cab claimshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv5ynp1j45x2o

Claims that Uber misled TfL over its licence were thrown out because they were brought too late.

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Show HN: Algebrix Identity-IAM for developers tired of stitching things togetherhttps://identity.algebrix.co

Article URL: https://identity.algebrix.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151656 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside downhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1013493/vibe-coding-ai-music-gear-hacking-custom-firmware

If you spend any time on r/synthesizers or watch a lot of synth videos on YouTube, you've probably noticed the explosion of custom firmware for hardware synthesizers, samplers, and grooveboxes. What unites almost all of them is that they were made possible by increasingly sophisticated vibe coding tools. These sorts of custom firmware were exceedingly […]

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Show HN: Verbs – pixel-art loops for each of Claude Code's 188 spinner verbshttps://ollie.md/verbs

Article URL: https://ollie.md/verbs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151570 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Bereaved families could face 'unjust' tax bill after civil service pension delayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1m4zz9e44go

The chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee says families should not be taxed through no fault of their own.

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Show HN: Marcus – catches the fake source links AI search engines inventhttps://marcus-ai.dev/on-the-record

Article URL: https://marcus-ai.dev/on-the-record/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151466 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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What's the point of the 2.5G Ethernet port on your router?https://www.engadget.com/2287123/ethernet-2-5-g-port-router-what-it-does

Most routers have several 1 Gbps ports, but yours might have one or more 2.5 Gbps options that are great for speeding up compatible devices.

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'It's messed with my family too much' - inside the US opioid crisishttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cmlyljlzw487o

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spoke to a former heroin addict who now helps other people overcome addiction.

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The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agentshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/19/1147103/the-download-preserving-the-arctic-permafrost-and-playful-ai-agents

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. Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon β€”James Temple In July 2021, a wildfire burned through a forest on the University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus,…

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What are you doing this week?https://lobste.rs/s/vyfegx/what_are_you_doing_this_week

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

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Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the bodyhttps://github.com/IsuruMaduranga/harness-engineering-101

Article URL: https://github.com/IsuruMaduranga/harness-engineering-101 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151390 Points: 16 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: A biotech catalyst calendar that links every date to the SEC sentencehttps://www.orionbiotechai.com

Article URL: https://www.orionbiotechai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151373 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edgehttps://www.theverge.com/policy/1013113/democrats-ai-midterms

Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That […]

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What we know about apparent attack on Australian MP hit by carhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5ynk1g88kwo

Helen Haines was hit by a car in what the prime minister has called a "deliberate act".

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Show HN: Kernwise – Kerning Game for Designershttps://www.designinspiration.info/kernwise-a-free-kerning-game-for-designers

Article URL: https://www.designinspiration.info/kernwise-a-free-kerning-game-for-designers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151283 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Woman says she 'closed eyes and tried not to be there' during alleged Russell Brand rapehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6jylk3456o

The 51-year-old faces three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.

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From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Softwarehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/from-email-to-case-to-boardroom-how.html

In Salesforce Agentforce, the recommended way to make an agent respond to events is a Flow: a record is created or a case is updated, and the Flow passes data into the agent's prompt. Separately, Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inbound customer messages into case records; it is how airlines and hotels run support intake. Both are standard, documented, as-designed features. Chained together,

Australian prime minister says lawmaker critically injured by car is 'no accident'https://www.npr.org/2026/10/19/g-s1-148737/australia-lawmaker-critically-injured

A car hit an Australian federal independent lawmaker on Monday, critically injuring her in an apparent deliberate attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The driver was arrested.

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Even Realities G2 review: Smart glasses, stupid controlshttps://www.engadget.com/2288658/even-realities-g2-smart-glasses-review

Even Realities makes one of the best smart glasses on the market, but controlling its growing feature set is harder than it should be.

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Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessinghttps://github.com/google-research/harness2

Article URL: https://github.com/google-research/harness2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151059 Points: 13 # Comments: 0

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Brook says he has 'learned a lot' from off-field issueshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cm3elzgj5glzo

White-ball captain Harry Brook says he has "learned a lot" as a captain and a person - and wants to be the player England fans rely on.

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Man accused of mass train stabbing admits woundinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgdd2yevd3o

Anthony Williams is in court after multiple stabbings on a train that was forced to stop in Huntingdon.

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Show HN: Check if a PDF's redactions can be undone, in the browserhttps://blurdata.app/redaction-checker

Article URL: https://blurdata.app/redaction-checker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150966 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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2026 midterms could be the most expensive on record. And, Macron condemns protestshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/19/g-s1-148733/up-first-newsletter-ukraine-russia-campaign-finances-france-protests

More than $15 billion has been raised in this year's midterm elections. And, France's president is condemning the violent protests erupting across the country.

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ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strikehttps://spectrum.ieee.org/esa-hera-dimorphos-rendezvous

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esa-hera-dimorphos-rendezvous Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150935 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Offhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150927 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Training AIs to Solve CAPTCHAshttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/training-ais-to-solve-captchas.html

Interesting research : Abstract : Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a familiar puzzle costs as much time and compute as the first. Specialized detectors invert the trade-off, answering in milliseconds but only for categories they were trained on. Neither improves with exposure. We study what changes when a solver improves with use. Our system pairs a fine-tuned YOLOv8 detector with an open-weight VLM behind a confidence-based ro…

Show HN: I re-read the terms of 175 AI tools twice; 60% changed in 15 weekshttps://clipjury.com/guides/ai-tool-terms-changed-2026

Article URL: https://clipjury.com/guides/ai-tool-terms-changed-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150908 Points: 3 # Comments: 2

Show HN: I re-read the terms of 175 AI tools twice; 60% changed in 15 weekshttps://clipjury.com/guides/ai-tool-terms-changed-2026

Article URL: https://clipjury.com/guides/ai-tool-terms-changed-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150908 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probeshttps://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/19/dr-garry-hunt-talks-to-us-about-the-astonishing-voyager-probes/5303632

Voyager imaging team member joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches light day's distance from Earth

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The Maeving RM2 is high-style electric riding with a few compromiseshttps://www.theverge.com/transportation/1013049/maeving-rm2-electric-motorcycle-review-specs

There's a fast-growing category of two-wheeled electric vehicles splitting the difference between high-end scooters and entry-level motorcycles, fresh bikes with avant-garde style but approachable performance. I'm talking about offerings like the Infinite Machine P1 and BMW CE 02, similar concepts but with wildly different attitudes. Among this class, the Maeving RM2 stands out. It has […]

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