Article URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045 Points: 21 # Comments: 7

Media critic Ben Bagdikian warned in 2004 that five corporations had accumulated “more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.” More than 20 years later, a major media merger is bringing his warning back into focus....

Amazon wants to ensure you have a personal AI that you can carry with you anywhere, listening in on your conversations so it can remind you of key details – and give you personalized shopping recommendations, of course. The global online bazaar has unveiled two new...

Article URL: https://raymyers.org/post/math-dumped-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128468 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

Below, Michelle Gielan shares five key insights from her new book, Resilient Optimism: The Science of Sustaining a Positive Mindset in Tough Times. Michelle is a positive psychology researcher and former national CBS News anchor. She was the executive producer of The...

There’s a tendency among cherished brands to licence their name and logo onto all sorts of novelty items in order to make a quick buck. Joining this trend is the guitar maker Fender, who have lent their name to a chopping board in the shape of their famous Telecaster....

The UK Space Agency needs a name for its Active Debris Removal Mission and has decided that the great British public are the people for the job. The agency confirmed the operation earlier this week and selected ClearSpace UK to lead it. The plan is to remove two...

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access to customers'...

Article URL: https://llmspeed.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/israeli-settlers-attack-olive-farmers-west-bank-washington-post-journalist-heidi-levine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128297 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

“Congratulations and condolences.” This is a real message a peer sent when I became CEO of BarkleyOKRP in May 2025. And he wasn’t alone in his sentiment. It seems many regarded this career-defining achievement as the corporate equivalent of buying a boat: Enjoy that...

Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view of the headset’s camera. What’s even less common are methods of...

Article URL: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127274 Points: 18 # Comments: 7

On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller, some buttons, a battery, and a screen. But anyone who has been involved in producing one will tell you, the difference between producing one...

Article URL: https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126774 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-snails-florida-invasion/688850/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50125545 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

Open-weight models more than quadrupled their share of spending through Vercel's AI Gateway between June and September, when they processed more than seven in 10 tokens. "In August, open-weight models processed the majority of AI Gateway token volume for the first...

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl is sacrificing a battle to win the war … for server-side computing and allowing Node-replacement Deno to fall by the wayside. Last week, Cloudflare announced that it had purchased Dahl’s company Deno, which was built around an open source...

Nvidia's RTX Spark partner systems are here, and spec-for-spec they've got all the ingredients for a hit: a potent CPU, blisteringly fast integrated graphics, and up to 128 GB of unified memory in a lightweight, ultra-premium package that's ready to run demanding...

Businesses using Facebook commercially may want to think twice about what information they share online. At the end of the month, Meta plans to introduce terms that would authorize it to collect content from websites associated with its business customers and use it...

[Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t remember, you can usually work it out, as long as you understand how slide rules work. But what about sine,...

MemeToro is an open-source AI memecoin launchpad in development on BNB Chain. Its AI agent researches public trends and publishes documented launch proposals, and public smart contracts are designed to enforce the funding rules. A memecoin launchpad is a platform that...

Meme coin trading in 2026 looks very different from the days of chasing tickers on social media. Traders now have real-time launch data, AI research tools and public smart-contract rules to work with. The platforms gaining attention are the ones that make this...

Apple reportedly plans an Oct. 28 hardware event, with touchscreen MacBook Pros, M6 Macs, and an OLED iPad mini expected. See what buyers should know. The post Apple Reportedly Plans Oct. 28 Event for Touchscreen MacBooks and More appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google's Rambler voice typing cleans up spoken thoughts instead of transcribing them word for word. Here's how rewriting, offline use, privacy, and review work. The post Pixel 11 Rambler AI Voice Typing: How It Rewrites Speech appeared first on TechRepublic.