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Mistral Large 4

2026-10-06T13:15:49Z

515 points by Philpax | 275 comments

Article: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49977979
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

2026-10-05T22:46:45Z

499 points by rdmuser | 367 comments

Article: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971846
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

2026-10-05T19:16:35Z

495 points by Philpax | 160 comments

Article: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969183
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

2026-10-05T21:00:21Z

414 points by outlier99 | 285 comments

Article: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49970667
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667

JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history

2026-10-06T11:45:55Z

298 points by thw_9a83c | 295 comments

Article: https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49977072
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977072

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

2026-10-05T17:53:35Z

291 points by brokensegue | 187 comments

Article: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49968105
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968105

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen

2026-10-06T09:48:46Z

281 points by solarist | 81 comments

Article: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49976265
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976265

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

2026-10-05T22:55:11Z

280 points by jgx0 | 187 comments

Article: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971921
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971921

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

2026-10-05T21:40:50Z

251 points by ishan0102 | 87 comments

Article: https://flattensf.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971230
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971230

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

2026-10-06T02:51:51Z

249 points by misterchocolat | 322 comments

Article: https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49973598
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973598

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

2026-10-05T22:30:02Z

242 points by ibobev | 158 comments

Article: https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971719
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971719

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

2026-10-06T13:25:50Z

242 points by j-bu | 28 comments

Article: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49978116
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978116

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

2026-10-05T21:15:07Z

239 points by E-Reverance | 62 comments

Article: https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49970871
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970871

US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

2026-10-05T17:01:27Z

219 points by tosh | 234 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49967444
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967444

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

2026-10-05T22:05:57Z

199 points by 01-_- | 32 comments

Article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971523
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971523

Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have

2026-10-05T18:54:00Z

198 points by speckx | 115 comments

Article: https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-text-is-still-one-of-the-best-technologies-we-have/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49968906
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968906

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

2026-10-05T18:15:20Z

169 points by pseudolus | 96 comments

Article: https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49968402
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968402

Release of Polars 2.0

2026-10-06T11:59:01Z

158 points by simicd | 22 comments

Article: https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49977177
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977177

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

2026-10-06T08:08:20Z

150 points by ingve | 49 comments

Article: https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49975619
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975619

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

2026-10-06T00:24:57Z

149 points by speckx | 151 comments

Article: https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49972607
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972607

The future of independence is interdependence

2026-10-05T15:30:08Z

141 points by eustoria | 108 comments

Article: https://onlys.ky/independence-is-interdependence/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49966163
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966163

Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire

2026-10-06T12:45:49Z

133 points by beardyw | 39 comments

Article: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/metas-muse-is-an-adorable-privacy-and-security-dumpster-fire/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49977588
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977588

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

2026-10-06T00:41:44Z

131 points by montag | 85 comments

Article: https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49972730
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated

2026-10-06T11:11:51Z

123 points by pseudolus | 59 comments

Article: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49976823
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976823

The Future of Mathematics

2026-10-05T19:22:40Z

118 points by smilelamp | 72 comments

Article: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969256
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969256

We are going to kill "unalive"

2026-10-06T06:49:39Z

107 points by Tomte | 110 comments

Article: https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49975083
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975083

Borland Turbo Basic

2026-10-05T15:11:31Z

106 points by sssilver | 61 comments

Article: https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basic.php
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49965894
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965894

One person can now be a quorum at the SEC

2026-10-05T19:06:37Z

105 points by mooreds | 58 comments

Article: https://www.ft.com/content/3120782c-1ea0-4fdc-9462-0a4b4658f70f
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969070
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969070

Incident with Actions

2026-10-05T20:09:12Z

100 points by hising | 63 comments

Article: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/3q1yb5m7ltvb
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969961
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969961

Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

2026-10-06T03:31:45Z

95 points by vinhnx | 58 comments

Article: https://jross.me/open-source-as-we-know-it-is-dead/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49973839
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973839

Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

2026-10-06T03:39:01Z

87 points by thepipetogrep | 23 comments

Article: https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49973878
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973878

The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse

2026-10-05T20:07:25Z

75 points by rdmuser | 104 comments

Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/the-mental-health-of-young-men-is-declining-experts-warn-it-could-get-worse-9.7361010
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969933
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969933

Ephemeral Testing

2026-10-05T23:06:36Z

71 points by ibobev | 26 comments

Article: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49972008
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972008

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

2026-10-05T22:37:58Z

70 points by stratts | 53 comments

Article: https://globalsolaratlas.info/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971782
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971782

Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick's links to Epstein dies

2026-10-05T23:09:34Z

70 points by gravisultra | 7 comments

Article: https://www.thebanker.com/content/02286d53-0338-42ef-996d-5f7712b9f133
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49972027
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972027

Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI

2026-10-06T07:29:50Z

69 points by nsoonhui | 79 comments

Article: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscriptions-offer-5x
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49975345
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975345

Our approach to EU text provenance rules

2026-10-05T15:38:55Z

68 points by tosh | 59 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/eu-text-provenance/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49966293
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966293

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment

2026-10-06T00:00:45Z

67 points by bryan0 | 61 comments

Article: https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49972419
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972419

AI Companies Are Parasites

2026-10-05T19:30:10Z

67 points by cdrnsf | 36 comments

Article: https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/ai-companies-are-parasites
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969369
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969369

World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

2026-10-06T11:34:14Z

66 points by hochmartinez | 13 comments

Article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/worlds-first-enhanced-geothermal-power-plant-completed-in-just-23-months/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49976993
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976993

Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

2026-10-05T18:38:01Z

65 points by msalsas | 44 comments

Article: https://www.ess-news.com/2026/09/25/greenvolt-begins-building-600-mw-2-4-gwh-bess-in-poland/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49968708
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968708

After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi

2026-10-05T19:30:21Z

62 points by momentmaker | 64 comments

Article: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/02/nx-s1-5981420/kalshi-betting-prediction-markets-gambling-addiction
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49969375
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969375

Mistral Large 4

2026-10-06T13:06:16Z

61 points by apt-get | 4 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/2107456586813730854
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49977844
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977844

Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking"

2026-10-05T22:01:35Z

59 points by hefner1456 | 59 comments

Article: https://www.techspot.com/news/113937-engineer-claude-code-has-made-job-soul-sucking.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971473
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971473

Worth Building

2026-10-05T22:59:24Z

54 points by colinarms | 49 comments

Article: https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49971952
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971952

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

2026-10-06T10:15:40Z

53 points by helsinkiandrew | 32 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj62ylzpr6d3o
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49976468
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976468

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

2026-10-05T23:35:35Z

53 points by networked | 25 comments

Article: https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49972211
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972211

People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

2026-10-05T15:06:27Z

52 points by geox | 82 comments

Article: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5977852/ai-chatbots-midterm-election
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49965833
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965833

Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

2026-10-05T15:11:36Z

50 points by timpera | 84 comments

Article: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004747/florida-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-making-threats-in-an-ai-chat
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49965895
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965895

DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program

2026-10-05T17:12:10Z

49 points by JamesCoyne | 6 comments

Article: https://itsfoss.com/news/digitalocean-open-source-credits-end/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49967579
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967579