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AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic
Article URL: https://metedata.substack.com/p/ai-is-throwing-a-roadside-picnic
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034363
Points: 43
# Comments: 44
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Math 2.0
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/math-2-0/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034337
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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✋ Changements demandes — PR #944 par @paulrobertlloyd
Revue de pull request (CHANGES_REQUESTED) · PR #944 feat(endpoint-microsub): PR 1 - Core Microsub server with channels and timeline · @paulrobertlloyd
Sorry, just a few more issues! 😬
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The Disease called Politics (1962)
Article URL: https://www.panarchy.org/roszak/politics.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034141
Points: 26
# Comments: 38
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MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'
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Knuth reward check
Article URL: https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034081
Points: 178
# Comments: 66
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How Protein Took over the World
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💬 @rmdes — issue #979 : Add index property to `addCollection` method
Commentaire d’issue · Issue #979 Add index property to
addCollectionmethod · @rmdesYes, and I’d make the second parameter the index specs rather than one property, because Microsub’s indexes are compound and two are unique:
Indiekit.addCollection(“microsub_items”, [ { key: { channel: 1, id: 1 }, unique: true }, { key: { channel: 1, uid: 1 }, unique: true }, { key: { channel: 1, url: 1 } }, ]);
Core creates them when the database is up, posts and media declare
{ key: { "properties.uid": 1 } }from their own plugins, and the literal list inindex.jsgoes. The uid backfill stays in core, since it writes apropertiessubdocument and must not touch other collections.Happy to do it as its own PR, and move #944’s
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Where are typefaces being designed?
submitted by alyaza to technology
18 points | 2 comments
https://type.lol/studies/where-type-comes-from -
💬 @rmdes — PR #944 : feat(endpoint-microsub): PR 1 - Core Microsub server with channels and timeline
Commentaire de pull request · PR #944 feat(endpoint-microsub): PR 1 - Core Microsub server with channels and timeline · @rmdes
Both done in this PR now. Timeline items carry an
id, a UUIDv7 stamped with their published date, and page through util’sgetCursorlike posts and media since #975.getCursortakes afilterand akeyfor it; defaults unchanged. The endpoint’s own cursor code is gone. Clients see that id as the Microsub_id. The specifications page is #978.Your review is addressed in 8332296: localisable error strings,
uuidv7Atshared from util, one collections module, channels referenced by uid with no ObjectId left, and the user ispublication.me. Every thread has a note on what changed. -
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal
Article URL: https://wsj.com/tech/ai/tom-brown-athropic-669005ad
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033678
Points: 128
# Comments: 55
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Still On Its Way to Cleveland: Nine months, 25,000 miles, one phone cord, and the kindness of strangers.
submitted by alyaza to technology
13 points | 0 comments
https://longreads.com/2026/09/22/family-road-trip-early-internet-90sWe left Boyne City, Michigan, in the fall of 1996 in a 34-foot Coachmen motorhome towing a minivan, with three children, a golden retriever not originally part of the plan, and a desktop computer on a stand bolted to the floor where a chair used to be. We stopped in Flint to say goodbye to family and retrofit the motorhome for the road. Mark’s father had died that June. His mother was devastated, and for a while the question wasn’t which route to choose but whether to go at all. We left Flint on October 4. Five miles later, the motorhome shut down.
A loose fuel line.
A few miles after the fuel line was fixed, we were surprised by a flat tire on the van’s tow dolly, and then, unbelievably, we bent a bumper while putting the van back on the dolly. It was past seven in the evening. We were finally on our way to Cleveland, Ohio.
That was day one. What we built over the following nine months—25,000 miles through 40 states—would go on to earn a Yahoo! Cool Site designation, a presentation at a US Department of Education national conference, and a place in the federal Education Resources Information Center archive. On the road, we filed over 1,500 emails and website dispatches from museum lobbies, hotel reception desks, libraries, and wherever we could find a phone jack and someone willing to let us run a telephone cord to their wall.
Google would not exist for another two years. The word “blog” had not yet been coined. We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.
Blondins’ Assignment America was both the name of our trip and the website we built in real time as we traveled. We had a partnership with Northwest Academy, a science and technology charter school in northern Michigan in its first year of operation, that made it possible. We had prepared to make the case for why our children—Donald, 14, and twins Kelly and Stacy, 11—would not attend the 1996–97 school year in a conventional sense. The school board didn’t just accommodate us; they encouraged us. Northwest Academy loaned us a laptop and a 1.2 MP digital camera, and we took their curriculum on the road.
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033638
Points: 189
# Comments: 94
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💬 @paulrobertlloyd — issue #979 : Add index property to `addCollection` method
Commentaire d’issue · Issue #979 Add index property to
addCollectionmethod · @paulrobertlloyd@rmdes What do you think to this idea?
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🐛 Issue #979 — Add index property to `addCollection` method
Issue ouverte · Issue #979 Add index property to
addCollectionmethod · @paulrobertlloydIs your feature request related to a problem?
Following the decision to remove
_id(a MongoDB ObjectID) on post and media data and index onproperties.uid, we added the following:indiekit/packages/indiekit/index.js
Lines 214 to 224 in 0047ea8
//
_idcame indexed;properties.uiddoes not. Every paginated query // sorts and ranges on it, and MongoDB abandons an unindexed sort once it // needs more than 32MB, so a large enough collection would stop listing // at all. Creating an index that already exists is a no-op. for (const name of [“posts”, “media”]) { const collection = this.collections.get(name); if (collection) { await collection.createIndex({ “properties.uid”: 1 }); debug(Indexed ‘properties.uid’ on ‘${name}’); } }We may need to add an indexable property for the Microsub endpoint too (see #944).
The indexable property should be declared using the
addCollectionmethod and via the respective plugins, rather than something that is hardcoded into the core package.Describe the solution you’d like
Add an optional second parameter to
addCollection, which is the property to index items on:new Indiekit.addCollection(name, “properties.uid”);
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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-agent-grok-bot-posted-bank-details-company-slack-2026-10
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033517
Points: 60
# Comments: 66
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Bitwarden Dual License Model
Article URL: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033407
Points: 388
# Comments: 296
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✋ Changements demandes — PR #944 par @paulrobertlloyd
Revue de pull request (CHANGES_REQUESTED) · PR #944 feat(endpoint-microsub): PR 1 - Core Microsub server with channels and timeline · @paulrobertlloyd
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Unikernels were hard. key word: were
Article URL: https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033357
Points: 183
# Comments: 92
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Valar Atomics and Day One Ventures
Article URL: https://twitter.com/isaiah_p_taylor/status/2108679133467414855
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033347
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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WebSocket Servers in JavaScript: Node.js, Bun and Deno in 2026
Article URL: https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2108913165979283881
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033065
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Show HN: GitFrame – Review Git diffs and explore repos and branches in a TUI
Article URL: https://github.com/hiroaqii/gitframe
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033005
Points: 1
# Comments: 1
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Opinions About Solar (2026)
Article URL: https://mastodon.green/@solar_chase/117416542106532198
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032870
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
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I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
Article URL: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-property-taxes-fall/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032758
Points: 276
# Comments: 689
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Lobbying is corruption
Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/lobbying_and_corruption/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032556
Points: 495
# Comments: 273
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There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
Article URL: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/llms-arent-inevitable
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032064
Points: 40
# Comments: 93
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Retrieval Centric Deep Learning: Replacing Weight Matrices with Vector Databases
Article URL: https://twitter.com/oswaldjoh/status/2108669918883230177
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031841
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
Article URL: https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031653
Points: 282
# Comments: 238
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Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
Article URL: https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031614
Points: 304
# Comments: 141
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`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
Article URL: https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031269
Points: 387
# Comments: 201
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JetBrains Advertising Kotlin in London Tube/Subway
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/1x28h3u/spotted_in_london_tube_northern_line_yesterday/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031244
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Haydn-01 – music recognition and text model
Article URL: https://twitter.com/generativexp/status/2108400091954286910
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031080
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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💬 @rmdes — PR #944 : feat(endpoint-microsub): PR 1 - Core Microsub server with channels and timeline
Commentaire de pull request · PR #944 feat(endpoint-microsub): PR 1 - Core Microsub server with channels and timeline · @rmdes
Docs PR for the specifications page: #978.
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🟢 PR #978 — docs: list the Microsub features Indiekit supports
Pull request (OPEN) · PR #978 docs: list the Microsub features Indiekit supports · @rmdes
Updates the Microsub section of the supported specifications page, as asked in #944: the parts of the spec are listed the way the Micropub section does, with channels and timelines ticked (listing, creating, updating, deleting and ordering channels; retrieving, paging, marking read or unread and removing entries) and search, preview, following, muting and blocking left unticked.
Merge together with or after #944, since that is the PR adding the endpoint the ticks describe.
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💬 @rmdes — PR #917 : refactor(util): let a collection cast its own ids (#821 spike)
Commentaire de pull request · PR #917 refactor(util): let a collection cast its own ids (#821 spike) · @rmdes
Superseded by #975:
getObjectIdis gone from util, so there is nothing left to cast. Closing. -
GitSwarm: Decentralized Compounding Inference
Article URL: https://veds12.github.io/git-swarm/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030271
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Helping Developers Since 2015 [R/TestMyApp]
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/TestMyApp/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030209
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Using Mastodon and Bluesky as the comment back end for a static website
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/souverain/commentaires/src/branch/main/README.en.md
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030132
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Computers Cannot Make Decisions
Article URL: https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:computers_cannot_make_decisions
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029982
Points: 197
# Comments: 179
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Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
Article URL: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/research_fralinbiomed_upfhutelin.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029830
Points: 180
# Comments: 143
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If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves
Article URL: https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/anthropic-ai-consciousness-new-york-times-rabbi
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029681
Points: 33
# Comments: 92
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Lobbying
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/10/10/lobbying.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029630
Points: 177
# Comments: 67
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The Lightbulb Computer
Article URL: https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029487
Points: 550
# Comments: 92
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Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
Article URL: https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029123
Points: 455
# Comments: 306
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Polling: Americans Uncertain On RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Stance, Very Certain That They Hate Him
In my many, many posts about RFK Jr. and his disastrous tenure as Secretary of HHS, there are two themes that have hopefully broken through all the noise. The first is that Kennedy is a miserable communicator, in a way that is totally purposeful. He talks out of both sides of his mouth all the […] -
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
submitted by Powderhorn to technology
55 points | 25 comments
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/09/anthropic-asks-users-to-stop-being-mean-to-claude/5302218Anthropic has updated its rules to stop people being mean to Claude, apparently deciding that its AI chatbot needs protection from the humans paying to use it.
The AI developer’s latest usage policy prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models. The rules take effect November 12, giving users just over a month to get any lingering insults out of their systems.
“The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose,” Anthropic said. “It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”
So you can still tell Claude it is wrong, but repeatedly berating it for the sheer pleasure of doing so could land you in trouble. It’s not clear how Anthropic intends to distinguish between legitimate frustration and gratuitous cruelty, though it says Claude’s existing ability to end abusive conversations will remain its primary enforcement tool.
Anthropic gave Claude the ability to end certain conversations back in August 2025 as part of its research into what it calls “model welfare.” The feature lets some versions of Claude cut off users who persistently subject the models to abuse.
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The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028647
Points: 234
# Comments: 234
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Free Gemini users now on ‘Auto’ models as app adds thinking levels
As announced last week, Google is rolling out a big change to the Gemini app experience for users on the free plan. Additionally, everyone is getting access to thinking or “effort” levels.
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Finished Maintenances: Singapore 2
DescriptionScheduled Maintenance — Singapore 2 October 10, 2026 · 03:00 CET – October 10, 2026 · 17:00 CET We will be performing scheduled maintenance on the power infrastructure in our Singapore 2 data center. During this maintenance window, servers in this location will be temporarily unavailable.
Estimated duration840 minutes
Affected systemsSingapore 2
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REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
Article URL: https://rea.tools/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028275
Points: 743
# Comments: 320