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Article URL: https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260
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Article URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/
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Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention-the-essence-of-intelligence-20261012/
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Article URL: https://blumify.io/people
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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/honey-bee-stingers-are-double-piston-venom-pumps/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081133
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Article URL: https://brookslybrand.com/posts/do-frameworks-matter-anymore/
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Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine, and the app sends no analytics or crash logs.
I felt there are not enough consumer apps that run locally with no calls to the outside world that help us manage sensitive corners of our lives. This app in its local variant only downloads a couple of models and occasional updates, it does not send any analytics nor data.
Features-wise, Pulse local is a complete budgeting app that offers an assistant built on top of a fine-tuned model and thousands of rules embedded in the code itself. I'm sharing it for free with options to help me continue experimenting with fine-tuning and expanding along this direction.
How it works: you import a CSV from any bank, in any currency. When you ask a question, a tuned Qwen3 0.6B model reads it into a structured query, and code, not the model, does the money math against the ledger. A 4B checker model double-checks each money answer; when the two readings disagree, the app says it is not sure instead of guessing. That change took wrong answers from about one in five to 5 in 494 questions across our last three tests. The write-up covers how we test, the designs that failed, and the limits of the claim: https://pulseos.finance/pulse-local/writing/agree-or-not-sur...
The tuned weights are on Hugging Face (PulseOS/pulse-local-qwen3-0.6b).
Limitations: the first start downloads about 2.9 GB of models. With the checker on, a money answer takes 12 to 14 seconds (you can turn the checker off). Small models can still misread an open-ended question. The app answers in English. Mac only for now; Windows is next.
The app is free. An optional Connected mode (Sync Pass, $29/year) syncs US banks through Plaid; transactions pass through our server's memory and are not stored.
Feedback welcome, especially on wrong answers and on questions it should handle but does not.
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Article URL: https://anitab.org/press-release
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080007
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Article URL: https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079865
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Article URL: https://alpha-nist.github.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079464
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Article URL: https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta
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Article URL: https://jobs.lever.co/postera/c7d50a36-db0a-4574-bfe4-8700b74a22c0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078686
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https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141
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Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077703
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Existing benchmarks measure solve rate and token output/cost, but don't punish excess code, which makes a codebase harder to work with in the long term. I wanted to measure this since it matters most for long-term projects.
Method: it takes the patches that benchmarks already publish (DeepSWE, SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench Live) and counts "coding units": syntax elements like statements, calls, names and literals. I didn't use lines of code, so cramming code isn't rewarded. Deleted code is subtracted, so it measures net units.
GPT-6 and Claude 5.5 have no public patches yet, so I ran them myself on 3–10 tasks on my own subscriptions (shown as faded circles, not ranked).
Any feedback or model contributions are welcome, especially public patch exports for newer models.
GitHub: https://github.com/La5u/Parsimony
Not affiliated with any of the benchmarks.
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https://celebratio.org/Appel_KI/article/796/#sender
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Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free chord tools and tuners. No signup or download.
1 minute video demo: https://youtu.be/DtcluMLdSgs
I would love feedback on how the strumming feels and sounds.
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Article URL: https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain
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Article URL: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076048
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Catches unsafe types, duplicate code, and low-value tests.
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I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it.
The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y).
I used codex to build a music score rendering backend based on MuseScore with custom note heads that display the pitch class of each note.
I've found it pretty helpful for learning how to play my own instrument, so wanted to share in case anyone else was interested.
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Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs/h0nDly8-backend-engineer-ai-native-risk-infrastructure-integrations
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Article URL: https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909
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Main thread: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879
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Article URL: https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-rmf24
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074289
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See also: Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869
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Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
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Hey Hacker News! I'm Eric, the founder of Consus. We route all AI requests to ITAR restricted and controlled unclassified information (CUI) compliant infrastructure. Consus itself satisfies ITAR restrictions, and we recently completed our FedRAMP equivalency audit against the 410 FedRAMP High controls. FedRAMP High is the U.S. government’s strictest security baseline for cloud services handling sensitive unclassified data. A breach of this data could cause severe or catastrophic harm. Achieving FedRAMP equivalency, or authorization, is required before processing CUI information.
Demo: https://youtu.be/6MYxJe6P4oY
Aerospace and defense is experiencing rapid growth. Unfortunately, most companies are struggling to use AI because of necessary data protections & compliance risk. These companies can move even faster if they could use the AI tools that most other industries take for granted.
I spent most of my career prior to Consus in aerospace & defense. I launched national security payloads at SpaceX, and was an early employee at Castelion. I’ve watched first hand how compliance red-tape makes it difficult for companies to adopt new technologies and trust vendors that touch their sensitive data. For example, I worked with a satellite manufacturer that doesn’t allow any AI tools, even for non-sensitive work.
Even as AI has become extremely useful over the past 9-12 months, I was surprised by how many aerospace & defense companies refused to touch it. They could see how it could be helpful, but they were scared about model providers training on their data, violating an ITAR rule, or risk losing new business because of a failed cyber assessment. These are all rational fears.
There were a lot of ways to solve some/all of these problems, but we focused on building a compliant AI inference layer that can "plug" into any AI tool or workflow. Just as OpenRouter integrates with most tools, Consus can connect to tools like ChatGPT or Claude, open source tools including the Pi coding agent or Open WebUI, or integrate with applications built and maintained by individual organizations.
Almost no aerospace & defense company lives in all three major GovClouds (AWS, Azure, Google). When I mapped where frontier models can legally run for ITAR and CUI work, each provider had some subset of models, and each model achieved varying levels of compliance. Our customers don’t think in terms of cloud providers. They think about the data controls they require, and the model they want to use. That is why we built the compliance suffix. Under the hood, every request hits a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, where keys are verified and policy is enforced before anything touches inference. Every model name must carry a compliance suffix, such as gpt-5.6-sol:fedramp-high or claude-opus-5-5:itar, and any bare model name is rejected. We never proxy to the standard commercial endpoints.
Our customers are also able to build an allowlist of models, and assign spend & model restrictions to individual users in the organization. This is all handled through our Consus Portal where teams can manage spend, keys, and policies.
A typical question we hear is why not just use Bedrock in AWS GovCloud or Azure Government directly. For small teams, just getting access to these platforms is difficult. For larger organizations, GovCloud lets you inherit some but not all of the controls needed to handle sensitive data. Also, models are split across providers: GPT-5.6 Sol is only available in Azure Government, while Claude Opus 5.5 is served through Bedrock in AWS GovCloud. If you want both, you are standing up and securing two separate government cloud environments. We run all of them behind one endpoint so customers don’t have to pick a cloud, and we handle the compliance work for each one.
Given the data sensitivities, Consus does not store any customer data at rest. All prompts and completions stay in memory only for the length of the request and are never logged or written to disk. Zero data retention is strictly enforced both on ourselves and the infrastructure/model providers. We do keep metadata on each request and response for billing and audit purposes.
Consus is not self-serve by design. ITAR requires us to know exactly who is on the other end of every key, so we verify every organization and put a contract in place before issuing API keys. We charge our customers a compliance fee starting at $40/mo/seat plus AI tokens at cost.
We are actively serving customers, and would love any feedback from security experts, or developers/engineers working in highly regulated industries!
References: API Documentation: https://gateway.consus.io/overview Security & Architecture: https://gateway.consus.io/security Compliance Details: https://consus.io/compliance
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Article URL: https://commonedge.org/now-that-information-is-free-whats-a-college-campus-for/
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Article URL: https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic
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Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/
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https://www.apple.com/safari/switch/
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Article URL: https://forbetterscience.com/2026/09/22/a-book-that-will-never-be-read/
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Article URL: https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
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Article URL: https://marcpaul.io/logs/same-job-two-engines-innodb-and-iceberg-internals/
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Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071310
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A service and open source tool to get open data streams in two commands. No sign up needed for subscribing.
Streams to try:
- https://hypermass.io/stream/_J0fm450s - extreme UV images of the sun from SOHO - visual data
- https://hypermass.io/stream/_ATtCoEK - GDACS live disaster data (filtered to just the ongoing items)
The CLI (Apache 2.0, https://github.com/hypermass-io/hypermass-cli) tool allows you to subscribe to multiple live streams of files, with the files arriving in a local folder. The filenames are ULIDs so they can be easily sorted into time order in scripts and code. Publishing works similarly - drop files into a folder and they get read, published and deleted locally. The idea is that by being highly opinionated about the shape of the data (files, delivered in sequence, in real time) a bunch of the logic and edge cases get handled well in one place (things like ordering, retries, hash verification, reconnection, etc) - rather than requiring every subscriber to implement it themselves for every source.
A high-speed version for things like departure boards, train positions is in the pipeline.
Background: About 10 years ago, I worked for a few years supporting and developing some of the UK Rail Open Data systems. As a developer I was frustrated at how fragmented the open data space was, and how every open data system was designed as a blank-page exercise. I realised that a lot of data falls into an odd middle ground, too infrequent to economically poll on a large scale, too large for messaging protocols, but in some sense still real time. For example transport schedules, periodic solar imagery, disaster alerts - real-time but infrequent.
Fairly often I just wanted a "just give me the data" option when the solutions I found were static catalogues with no nod towards real-time use, bespoke APIs, analytics systems and other things I didn't need. I couldn't find a simple approach that leaned into what I saw as the data's strengths (simple files, delivered in order, as/when they are published) - so I built it.
About me: Solo founder based in the UK, full time for just over a year.
Sustainability: Initially a "heavy users pay for more data allowance" model with a decent free tier. Ideally we later shift to institutional publishers pay to keep their streams free to download. Possibly a paid data marketplace to support costs, but the main focus would always be the free and open data.
What I'd like to know:
- Does the CLI approach solve any real problems for you?
- Is the technical approach sane?
- Would you use a service like this to publish data?
- Recommendations to bootstrap users (particularly publishers)?
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Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
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Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
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Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
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Article URL: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/a-visual-intro-to-complex-numbers
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Article URL: https://eg2.haku.sh/
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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
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Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
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Article URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
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