QotNews

The Strait of Hormuz closure has cost Europe an extra $142 billion for the same energy it was already buying (fortune.com)

161 points by diwalibonus an hour ago on reddit | 7 comments

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (theguardian.com)

81 points by alkyon 2 hours ago on hackernews | 49 comments

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) (news.ycombinator.com)

98 points by jameslk 2 hours ago on hackernews | 33 comments

Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random (github.com)

38 points by jstanley an hour ago on hackernews | 31 comments

Anthropic sees $23B third-quarter loss in amended IPO filing (nypost.com)

583 points by Temporary_Mistake715 11 hours ago on reddit | 21 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)

103 points by kevcampb 2 hours ago on hackernews | 49 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)

160 points by novaRom 3 hours ago on hackernews | 85 comments

Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

193 points by porridgeraisin 3 hours ago on hackernews | 111 comments

The lost malloc() (napcakes.nekoweb.org)

67 points by matt_d 4 hours ago on hackernews | 20 comments

Your terminal manipulation/navigation setups (lobste.rs)

18 points by nocoffei 17 hours ago on lobsters | 12 comments

Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)

81 points by passkey1510 15 hours ago on hackernews | 35 comments

Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

59 points by firstbase 9 hours ago on hackernews | 2 comments

US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (theguardian.com)

99 points by hkhn 6 hours ago on hackernews | 34 comments

Annie Altman v Sam Altman: how OpenAI’s boss gave evidence under oath over his sister's allegation that he sexually abused her (thenerve.news)

70 points by Temporary-Mode88 7 hours ago on reddit | 7 comments

Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)

291 points by memalign 8 hours ago on hackernews | 74 comments

Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (dana-farber.org)

84 points by gmays 9 hours ago on hackernews | 28 comments

C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)

331 points by thatxliner 11 hours ago on hackernews | 227 comments

An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Thousands of Women From Dying in Childbirth (nytimes.com)

249 points by AlexandrTheTolerable 13 hours ago on reddit | 1 comment

How you (yes you) can fight dark money in the US elections (theguardian.com)

105 points by bananaslingrider 12 hours ago on reddit | 4 comments

Observations from Running stealmybitcoin.com (pavursec.com)

61 points by wezm 12 hours ago on lobsters | 0 comments

Incan children were given hallucinogens before they were sacrificed to the gods (scientificamerican.com)

859 points by scientificamerican 20 hours ago on reddit | 65 comments

There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)

87 points by lukasschwab 21 hours ago on hackernews | 24 comments

Announcing NetBSD 11.1 (netbsd.org)

33 points by FedericoSchonborn 14 hours ago on lobsters | 1 comment

Curiosity Traps (autodidacts.io)

86 points by surprisetalk a day ago on hackernews | 13 comments

‘I was abused by my therapist’: how treatment turned to betrayal (observer.co.uk)

43 points by TheObserverUK a day ago on reddit | 2 comments

US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months (asia.nikkei.com)

366 points by angry_impala 15 hours ago on hackernews | 153 comments

Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com)

97 points by ayanb9440 15 hours ago on hackernews | 26 comments

kitty 0.50.0 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

39 points by fuzzypixelz 18 hours ago on lobsters | 0 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)

302 points by ibobev 14 hours ago on hackernews | 23 comments

AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI (theguardian.com)

192 points by kiyomoris 14 hours ago on reddit | 23 comments

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer (arxiv.org)

356 points by ibobev 14 hours ago on hackernews | 56 comments

The CIA has offered Putin a helping hand – just when he needs it (inews.co.uk)

40 points by theipaper a day ago on reddit | 1 comment

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)

454 points by paddingtone 14 hours ago on hackernews | 237 comments

macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes (wadetregaskis.com)

134 points by colejohnson66 17 hours ago on hackernews | 96 comments

Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels (theguardian.com)

219 points by lebron7 17 hours ago on reddit | 2 comments

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)

361 points by dsalzman a day ago on hackernews | 69 comments

I dumped Apple’s word list (helgesver.re)

157 points by speckx 15 hours ago on hackernews | 86 comments

Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)

216 points by user_7832 16 hours ago on hackernews | 84 comments

A crisis in Canadian goat cheese, and what it says about the U.S. midterms (thestar.com)

48 points by toronto_star 18 hours ago on reddit | 4 comments

How I use AI (Oct 2026) (ben.stolovitz.com)

188 points by citelao 18 hours ago on hackernews | 224 comments

Has Sam Harris Made His Case Against Free Will? (reddit.com)

0 points by The_Determinists 18 hours ago on reddit | 26 comments

Wall Street is bracing for a fresh wave of tariff hikes, Iran action (and potentially a government shutdown) after the midterms (fortune.com)

2066 points by DINO_BLU 18 hours ago on reddit | 105 comments

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)

49 points by fanf 20 hours ago on lobsters | 9 comments

USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance (arxiv.org)

49 points by 1equalsequals1 19 hours ago on hackernews | 8 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)

640 points by nharada 19 hours ago on hackernews | 208 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)

652 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago on hackernews | 185 comments

The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo (utcc.utoronto.ca)

68 points by twp 21 hours ago on lobsters | 48 comments

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)

1338 points by sidgarimella 19 hours ago on hackernews | 438 comments

Gitbook Breached (news.ycombinator.com)

160 points by punchmesan 19 hours ago on hackernews | 37 comments

Tiny Basic for Arduino (dilshan.github.io)

69 points by AlexeyBrin 21 hours ago on hackernews | 19 comments

Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel (hissingkitty.com)

71 points by drewlem 20 hours ago on hackernews | 24 comments

Underwater data centers may be coming to the U.S.—smack in the middle of endangered whale habitat (scientificamerican.com)

648 points by scientificamerican 20 hours ago on reddit | 36 comments

Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE (nbcnews.com)

262 points by gmays 20 hours ago on hackernews | 231 comments

No brother of mine will play the flute (homosabiens.substack.com)

29 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago on hackernews | 63 comments

Notice How Old websites look better than new websites (yingster.net)

33 points by MINTYSTAR12 20 hours ago on hackernews | 26 comments

A lukewarm defense of LLMs (herbofmints.neocities.org)

20 points by Tygrak a day ago on tildes | 11 comments

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats (news.ycombinator.com)

490 points by user052919 21 hours ago on hackernews | 148 comments

Death comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)

93 points by nytpu 21 hours ago on lobsters | 73 comments

AI is destroying my CS degree (lordtoots.bearblog.dev)

124 points by speckx 20 hours ago on hackernews | 111 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (blog.nns.ee)

860 points by xx_ns a day ago on hackernews | 326 comments

Quili AI (quili.ai)

98 points by Shugyousha 20 hours ago on hackernews | 64 comments

Mac at any scale (namespace.so)

393 points by anner_ 21 hours ago on hackernews | 215 comments

Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (nytimes.com)

630 points by ceejayoz 21 hours ago on hackernews | 408 comments

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)

133 points by benbreen a day ago on hackernews | 19 comments

Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust (github.com)

55 points by donk8r 21 hours ago on hackernews | 37 comments

Fact Check: U.S. Midterm Election Is NOT On Wednesday -- Despite What FBI New Haven Post Said (leadstories.com)

246 points by D-R-AZ 22 hours ago on reddit | 10 comments

Just a little AI resistance, as a treat (shkspr.mobi)

175 points by mooreds 22 hours ago on hackernews | 94 comments

Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans (getbema.app)

26 points by ben_d 23 hours ago on hackernews | 20 comments

Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack (dfarq.homeip.net)

120 points by ibobev 23 hours ago on hackernews | 89 comments

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)

994 points by syllogism a day ago on hackernews | 200 comments

[ Removed by moderator ] (old.reddit.com)

104 points by [Deleted] a day ago on reddit | 92 comments

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)

470 points by markusw a day ago on hackernews | 232 comments

Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM (twitter.com)

190 points by pretext a day ago on hackernews | 160 comments

No Vehicles in the Park (novehiclesinthepark.com)

66 points by n_plus_1_acc a day ago on hackernews | 92 comments

Why did you choose the nix you nix? (lobste.rs)

43 points by quad a day ago on lobsters | 43 comments