Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/europe-ev-sales-rose-70-september-almost-30-market-share-2026-10-19/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155291 Points: 22 # Comments: 0
Inception “Mercury 3”, 1000 tok/s diffusion LLM
Article URL: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155245 Points: 23 # Comments: 4
Rivian’s CEO says autonomy will enable ‘dramatically different’ vehicle designs
His vision will culminate with the R4 vehicle.
Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
Europe’s drive for cloud sovereignty is leading to member states favoring providers from their own nation instead of building a Europe-wide cloud services market, according to a report critical of the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA). A study by the...
Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs
If you want to keep bots from making sense of the code you worked so hard on and using it to write programs of their own, there's a new programming language out there designed to confuse LLMs. What began as software engineer Dominik Picheta experimenting with whether...
Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
In Brno in Czechia, Red Hat’s large local office has been helping the city’s Masaryk University to teach future technical writers. Whenever someone tries to teach, though, they learn as well. At the Open Source Summit in Prague, a senior member of Red Hat’s...
Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Article URL: https://evidence.dev/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155172 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
How to find Flock cameras near you with MapQuest’s new ‘surveillance layer’
A name from the past is emerging again to help you stay out of sight of surveillance cameras.
Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor
Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a security...
Why it’s time for businesses to speak up about democracy
This is not a moment for businesses to sit back. Hannah Fried, cofounder and CEO of the nonprofit All Voting Is Local, argues that democracy and economic prosperity are deeply connected: Democracies tend to perform better economically, with GDP growth and thriving...
At what distance does a video doorbell stop detecting motion?
Your video doorbell might see a visitor without sending an alert. Detection depends on more than distance, and some surprising factors can affect its reach.
Homeland Security bans DeepSeek use in federal civilian agencies
The decision comes a couple of days after the release of Deepseek's latest AI model.
Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant
Amazon and X-energy have inked another deal to deploy nuclear power to the grid. This one will generate nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity.
These 8 U.S. cities could soon become buyer’s markets. Here’s where house hunters may have more leverage
It’s a good time to be house hunting in the South, as home buyers currently have the upper hand in many major areas—and could soon have more leverage in several more cities. The U.S. housing market ticked further in favor of buyers in the third quarter, as about...
I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I’ve archived all my repositories
Article URL: https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-repository Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154518 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Fiber vs. cable internet: What’s the difference between them?
Fiber internet is more modern than cable, but the older technology still works well for today's connection needs.
AI companies are coming for the plumbers
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Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures
Hi HN, we’re Robert and Din from Laminar (https://laminar.sh). We’ve been building open-source observability for AI agents since 2024. Recently, we released flow-1, a model trained with RL to find errors in agent traces. On our benchmark...
Chase is betting big on the NBA, and credit cardholders could be the biggest winners
The NBA season tips off tomorrow, and JPMorgan Chase is gearing up for a big season of its own. The bank has been involved in professional basketball for years. But this year it’s starting the season with new partnerships with the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat, and...
A user told Meta’s Muse to sell his keyboard. What happened next was alarming
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard.So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat.“I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a...
Stefan Sagmeister’s new shoe designs are actually walking infographics
Data visualization turns charts, data, and statistics into something easier to comprehend. Turning that data viz into shoes makes the data into a functional conversation starter. That’s what the Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister did with two shoes he...
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
Apple is set to hold another product event on October 28
Apple's "Pro and Tell" event is taking place in Los Angeles and will likely feature the first touchscreen Mac.
Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix
Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/ontology-driven-observability-building-an-end-to-end-knowledge-graph-at-netflix-scale-421392cf5adf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153431 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache
Hi all,So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was actually an issue I faced with...
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152877 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
How to Review and Share HubSpot Breeze Assistant Artifacts Safely
A revenue briefing starts as a conversation. Someone asks an assistant to summarize an account, adjusts the tone, removes a paragraph, and turns the result into a presentation. The team sees a useful document. The customer sees a statement from the business. Those are...
End-to-End AI vs. Traditional Self-Driving Systems
On September 3, 2026, two launches happened an ocean apart. In London, Uber riders could be matched with a Ford Mustang Mach-E driven by Wayve's neural network, with no HD map underneath it and a safety driver still in the seat. In Austin, Tesla started charging fares...
The Free Internet Was Just a Subsidized Loan, and Now Big Tech Is Collecting
I spent over twenty years in commercial banking in Belgrade, Serbia. My entire professional life revolved around balance sheets, credit risk, debt restructuring, and cash-flow statements. When you spend that long reading financial reports, you develop a permanent...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Hackernoon Books
Let's learn about Hackernoon Books via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. A collection of the greatest literatures in history,...