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Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?
Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063138
Points: 226
# Comments: 21
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Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
Article URL: https://brickbrag.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063042
Points: 65
# Comments: 38
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How did someone setup an elaborate data phisher at a PNC wawa ATM?
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/scammers/s/d93xO8dnWT
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062946
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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In Praise of John Cale, the Superior Velvet
Article URL: https://thequietus.com/subscriber-area/low-culture-essay/john-cale-low-culture/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062922
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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📝 f52bc42 — chore: update dependencies
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📝 33ab4ad — ci: move husky to devDependencies, use prepare script
Commit sur main · 33ab4ad · @paulrobertlloyd
ci: move husky to devDependencies, use prepare script
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📝 309cd7f — ci: remove sharp override
Commit sur main · 309cd7f · @paulrobertlloyd
This isn’t needed when running Node 26+
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📝 8ccfc60 — ci: move lerna to devDependencies
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📝 92afa25 — ci: use node 26 for local development
Commit sur main · 92afa25 · @paulrobertlloyd
ci: use node 26 for local development
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Git Is Still Awful
Article URL: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/git-is-still-awful/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062513
Points: 7
# Comments: 5
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Find a Reddit post where your SaaS can help. AI writes the comment
Article URL: https://signalsflow.apposters.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062486
Points: 1
# Comments: 2
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💬 @paulrobertlloyd — PR #960 : build: official container image with release and manual preview channels
Commentaire de pull request · PR #960 build: official container image with release and manual preview channels · @paulrobertlloyd
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📝 af6ad6d — chore: update dependencies
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Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done
Article URL: https://www.avclub.com/epic-games-disney-ai-delay
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062237
Points: 50
# Comments: 24
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Muse DAU dropped and Meta insiders decided to sell
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Doing Business in Mozambique 🇲🇿: Payments, Currency Exchange & Local Support
submitted by jefmz to technology
2 points | 0 commentsAre you interested in doing business in Mozambique, buying products, making payments, or connecting with local people?
International payments, currency exchange, and finding reliable local contacts can sometimes be challenging.
I’m building a community to connect entrepreneurs, freelancers, international buyers, and anyone interested in the Mozambican market.
The goal is to share useful information, exchange experiences, answer questions, and help people navigate local business opportunities.
If you’re already doing business in Mozambique or planning to enter the market, what challenges have you faced?
Join the conversation and let’s learn from each other! 🌍🇲🇿
WhatsApp Community: chat.whatsapp.com/Kr9OukSMjxv9LMO8KoiEHt?mode=gi_…
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📝 cdcbc5b — ci: move husky to devDependencies, use prepare script
Commit sur main · cdcbc5b · @paulrobertlloyd
ci: move husky to devDependencies, use prepare script
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"Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team "
Article URL: https://twitter.com/fedesimio/status/2109713695165329511
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062076
Points: 43
# Comments: 20
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📝 b703b9f — ci: move lerna to devDependencies
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📝 c95acc1 — ci: remove sharp override
Commit sur main · c95acc1 · @paulrobertlloyd
This isn’t needed when running Node 26+
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📝 8fcb985 — ci: use node 26 for local development
Commit sur main · 8fcb985 · @paulrobertlloyd
ci: use node 26 for local development
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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
Article URL: https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061859
Points: 153
# Comments: 28
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Tim Sweeneys says AI is enabling a big pivot at Epic Games
Article URL: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/2109705826688549304
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061843
Points: 6
# Comments: 0
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
Article URL: https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061791
Points: 218
# Comments: 98
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Decentralize AI: Use Model torrents for your Python scripts
Article URL: https://twitter.com/thepirateface/status/2109691589954310152
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061664
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061603
Points: 33
# Comments: 21
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OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed
Article URL: https://openfatigue.ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061278
Points: 169
# Comments: 33
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Le Chonk cooked on visual grounding
Article URL: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/2109687906751086628
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060882
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694
Points: 566
# Comments: 274
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Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060674
Points: 85
# Comments: 61
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Monday’s Android app deals and freebies: Slime, CHUCHEL, Toziuha Night, House of Da Vinci, more
Today’s best Google Play app and game deals are ready, including Friend of a Slime: Survivors, CHUCHEL, Toziuha Night: OotA, The House of Da Vinci 2, Death Road to Canada, Mutropolis, Lumino City, LUNA The Shadow Dust, The Longing, and more. We also have a chance to land a FREE $200 Amazon gift card with a Samsung Galaxy Tab S12+ purchase joined by the LG Deal Days sale with up to $1,200 off its latest mini LED and OLED TVs, and loads of hangover Nothing Prime Day deals still live from $25. Monday’s apps await below.
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Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles
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Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://micahflee.com/just-say-no-to-openai-and-anthropic/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060500
Points: 125
# Comments: 78
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French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack
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My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060296
Points: 110
# Comments: 27
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'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b1...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060269
Points: 195
# Comments: 89
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Show HN: I rewrote my website in Swift
Article URL: https://sindresorhus.com/blog/swift-website
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060268
Points: 9
# Comments: 0
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'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b1...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060269
Points: 298
# Comments: 167
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Chromecast with Google TV gets first update of 2026
Following the last release 11 months ago, Google is rolling out the first update of 2026 to the Chromecast with Google TV (4K).
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Ledger (hw crypto wallet): Some devices contain unauthorized hardware implant
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Ledger_Support/status/2108968264055345381
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060022
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
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It's important that we don't concede FOSS to socialists and communists
Article URL: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/2109415402090717286
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059644
Points: 3
# Comments: 5
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059523
Points: 304
# Comments: 263
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Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/feds-got-warrants-to-use-fake-cell-towers-to-hunt-down-don-lemons-producer/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059446
Points: 112
# Comments: 65
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NeoLeaf – Overleaf alternative with native Git and WASM compilation
Article URL: https://neoleaf.science/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059400
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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What's inside a Git commit? A fun intro to Git internals
Article URL: https://app.learngit.io/blog/whats-inside-a-git-commit/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059300
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Thinking will become a hobby
Article URL: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059204
Points: 216
# Comments: 282
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Muse Wonder
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115
Points: 637
# Comments: 341
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Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 (https://agent37.com). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox.
You can view a video walkthrough of the product here: https://youtu.be/DK5ISR2tbNo
We started as one of those OpenClaw wrapper companies back in February (yup.. judge me). In time we added more and more harnesses.
One of the goals I had at the time was to offer a free plan to users, so as to gain more market share. But it was too cost prohibitive to do it right away. Especially since we were bootstrapped and servers were running on my savings.
Today we’re actually able to offer the free plan thanks to the optimizations we’ve made since. Over 90% of the new signups we have are just free plan users and they host their personal Hermes/Openclaw/Claude Code etc on our cloud. Our infrastructure cost for the free sandboxes averages around $0.05 to $0.10 per user per month.
Here are some techniques that have worked for lowering cost:
* When you look at agent harnesses, they have certain patterns in the way they consume CPU and RAM. They need CPU in bursts when they’re initializing or performing certain tasks, but beyond that, they’re often not peaking. They need more RAM for things like browser and computer-use tasks. Once the task is done, usage often comes back down. This is a key insight in lowering cost, so by efficiently managing the CPU/RAM utilization we could lower the cost.
* Secondly, you have to skip the hyperscalers when renting the Hosts. I worked at Amazon before and they have 80-90% margins on VMs. So it was an obvious choice once I looked at the prices to go one layer down to vendors like Hetzner and OVH. This alone was probably one of the biggest cost levers in reducing the cost.
* Thirdly, you also want to pick a technology stack that lets you efficiently cache and share resources across the host. We use gVisor for better utilization and fast boot times. It lets us use available host memory across sandboxes without reserving a full VM’s memory for each one. There are tradeoffs: our gVisor sandboxes don’t support workloads like Docker-in-Docker or Android emulators.
* And finally the size and shape of the hosts you buy also makes a big difference. RAM is typically the bottleneck when it comes to cost and not the CPU. This is specifically true for agent harness workloads, so when buying servers, we optimize for packing more RAM into a given host.
We also host full VM sandboxes for workloads that need them, including running Docker at a slightly higher price, but they are still pretty low cost given the rest of the techniques.
Overall, my learning has been that just by focusing on a niche of sandbox usecases, and optimizing for it you can give a much better cost/performance tradeoff.
I was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon and an Engineering Manager at Quantcast. I built Amazon's internal AI chatbot, Diya, and their internal coding harness, Ziya.
If you’re someone who’s looking to run agents on sandbox and are exploring a sandbox vendor, come check us out. We’re particularly looking for developers building messaging agents to try their workloads and challenge the limits and economics of our platform.
Thanks!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059096
Points: 132
# Comments: 98
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Google’s Fitbit Air is getting a shiny new Metal Mesh band and better automatic tracking
The Fitbit Air is finally getting another band option that isn’t fabric or polyurethane. Instead, the Metal Mesh band might actually take the Fitbit Air up a notch.
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Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries
Article URL: https://github.com/morluto/rea
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850
Points: 60
# Comments: 14