Tuesday, 03 November 2026
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Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Article URL: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174 Points: 204 # Comments: 41
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Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Hi HN, we're Aarush and Arnav from The Subvocal Company (YC F26). We’re building smart glasses that let you talk to your computer without talking out loud. You can mouth words silently and discreetly and the glasses decode them to text at the speed of speech.
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years
The plan does not include a mission similar to Apollo 8 or Artemis II.
Thieves pilfer environment variables from Trigger AI workflow tool
So, who's ready to clear the dust out of that server closet and move things back on-prem?
Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339494 Points: 157 # Comments: 129
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US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Article URL: https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397 Points: 114 # Comments: 107
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Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre
Explore central Warsaw in voxels - slightly inspired by Minecraft, and MagicaVoxel. You can change the date, time of day and weather, explore the city, or click on a pedestrian to control them (here a bit of inspiration from Dungeon Keeper). Works best on desktop, but I tried to make it usable on mobile too.
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Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338747 Points: 115 # Comments: 85
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company.
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Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges
Don't let the LLMjackers hit you
F1 in Mexico City: Yet another Ferrari fiasco, but that’s not all
There was plenty of drama on and off the track for Formula 1 this weekend.
SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of... AI
'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows' says CEO at open source biz
The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money
A new action plan aims to rescue 2030 nature targets as financing remains inadequate.
WTF Ubuntu?
Article URL: https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337608 Points: 920 # Comments: 460
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Nuclear threats and street brawls: Russia, Ukraine report attacks on their emergency alert apps
Within minutes of a ceasefire lifting in Kherson, Ukraine’s citizens were pummelled with threatening notifications
Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota
Canadian regions stop turning back the clocks, Microsoft wishes it could
If you love a website, back it up
Article URL: https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518 Points: 212 # Comments: 50
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Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again
Let it go (bad): Dozens of stores report mass food wastage as managers start their week in puddles
Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions
Pity Sam Altman: He's going to have a lot more explaining to do when OpenAI follows this work of abstract legal art
This $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be
This DIY e-paper display works in two official ecosystems or on your own server.
Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/data-security/2026/11/... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335615 Points: 266 # Comments: 341
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FBI pins $6.3B Binance crypto heist on North Korean hackers
Exchange scrambles to replace stolen funds as customers withdraw billions and hackers get busy laundering their haul
Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts An LLM Policy
The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions...
FreeRDP 3.33 Released With WebAssembly Support, Huge Influx Of Activity Due To AI
The FreeRDP 3.33 software released today as the newest version of this open-source Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation...
Vintage fun: Prodding AI agents using retro hardware just because you can
'It helps me stretch what I can do in the current age of AI coding, and keeps my curiosity alive'
KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default
KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of October. Additionally, KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone after beinbg in development for over one year as a reference Linux distribution for KDE...
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Price Rises To $385 USD
Raspberry Pi announced their latest round of price hikes as a result of the RAM shortages and increased pricing continuing to affect the industry...
Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it
Flash the cash, flush the cache
Britain's driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions
Institute for Driverless Transport wants answers on jobs impact and what happens if the supplier bails
Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API
I first released those in back in 2020 and now I finally added more architectures, Kernel selector, syscall descriptions and a few other niceties. It should work a bit better on mobile devices too but I am no CSS expert. The API is at https://api.syscall.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50334704 Points: 174 # Comments: 47
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From expertise to intelligence: NISCO deploys world's first swarm-intelligence steel model at scale
PARTNER CONTENT: 300+ AI applications delivering surges in core metrics and annual cost reduction of over CNY100m
Manager threatened to fire a colleague, then gave them a critical task – which they flubbed
Nobody noticed for years, at which point the boss realized they had to cover up their poor decision
Chap who coded Google’s Pac-Man clone reveals how the game freaked out Firefox
Waka-waka-waka-waka why why why why?
India floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’
Wants more local AI, without Big Tech getting open access to everything
Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026
Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis...
Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331957 Points: 289 # Comments: 109
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Google says Asian advertisers spending less due to Europe's customs changes
PLUS: Brake pedals break on Huawei-made cars; North Korea named as source of Binance hack; and more!
Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions
Yet machine-made patches ‘often get rewritten’
Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default
Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...
Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
I haven’t owned a TV in years and would like one that respects my privacy. Are there any TV’s which do this well? I am looking for something in the 60”to 80”range and would like a 4k display with at least 60hz display.
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Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance
A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library...
The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity...
'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
By a startling coincidence, so is its arch-rival Vi
OverlayFS Sees Many Fixes Thanks To AI Code Review
Merged this weekend for Linux 7.4 and also marked for back-porting to current stable kernel versions are a number of fixes to the OverlayFS union mount file-system...
AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights
October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of October.
Linux's Perf Python Scripts More Robust & Faster With Linux 7.4
Merged this weekend to Linux 7.4 Git were all of the perf subsystem tooling updates. Most notable to these tooling updates for dealing with performance counters and more on Linux is an overhaul to the Python code...
Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record...
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach
Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027
Brief Server Downtime Expected Tonight
Just a friendly heads up that Phoronix.com and associated sites will be down briefly at around midnight PST / 3AM EST on 1 November for a failed drive in the NVMe SSD RAID array...
OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds
OpenShot is closing out the month of October by releasing OpenShot 4.1 as the latest major feature release for this useful open-source video editing solution...
Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements
Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence. But out this Halloween is Enlightenment 0.28 now with the better part of two years worth of changes...
Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring
Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas...
New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A "Crazy Beast"
A new feature merged last week for Linux 7.4 to help reduce AI/LLM generated noise from invalid/irrelevant testing configurations is now reverted due to a "crazy beast" in the VFIO subsystem...
Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations
I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up...
Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O
The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday...
GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving
In recent weeks GNOME developers have been discussing a formal Request For Comments "RFC" process for solving major technical questions and changes to GNOME. This formalized process for succeeding their ad-hoc processes up to now has reached consensus...
Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Article URL: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408 Points: 791 # Comments: 466
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Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
"For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
A meteorite found in the Sahara is a rare piece of Mars' ancient crust.
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated
There's no evidence that Starship will launch traditional satellites, either.