A super PAC trying to influence the Maine Senate election seems to have advertised to the wrong Portland
In most cases, confusing Portland, Maine, with Portland, Oregon, might be seen as an innocent faux pas. But in the case of political actors ahead of an election, it can be a costly—and frankly comedic—blunder. A recent attack ad targeting Troy Jackson—the Democratic...
Muse DAU dropped and Meta insiders decided to sell
Article URL: https://theinference.org/article/meta-s-muse-daily-user-growth-fell-62-in-three-weeks-and-insiders-made-172-trades-without-a-buy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062205 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Epic reportedly delays its Disney video game so it can be made using more AI
Developers were apparently ordered to use AI for both code and asset creation.
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
Article URL: https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061859 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061603 Points: 33 # Comments: 21
The Trump administration just cut down a century’s worth of history at a D.C. golf course
Workers removed more than 500 trees at a Washington, D.C., golf course over the weekend that President Donald Trump is working to remodel, and it happened like many of his other design projects in town: suddenly and without permission. Preservationists asked a judge...
Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble
Microsoft took down the Exchange Admin Center (EAC) today after a code change left administrators facing an "Internal Server Error" when trying to access the service. Microsoft first admitted that something was amiss at 0937 UTC on October 12, noting, "When attempting...
Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they’re not for turning
If you thought everyone was into chatbots, think again: about half of US adults never use the AI tools, and most have no interest in starting. According to Pew Research Center, older adults are the least likely to use chatbots, with roughly three-quarters of those...
No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally
What is DNS? That's right, it's a database. You can disagree with me but you would be wrong. What can you put in a database? Strings, ints (and you learn the difference right quick if your AWS account ID has a leading zero!), JSON objects, coordinates; some of the...
The Prusa Core One+ INDX, a Troubled Multi-Extruder Upgrade?
The Prusa Core One+ INDX is an interesting upgrade to the base FDM printer by Prusa, featuring eight independent extruders – hence the INDX – that in theory should allow for multi-material and multi-color printing with very little purge waste. As [Thomas Sanladerer]...
The Trump administration just cut down a century’s worth of history at D.C.’s government golf course
The Trump administration just cut down a century’s worth of history at D.C.’s government golf course Go to Source Workers removed more than 500 trees at a Washington, D.C., golf course over the weekend that President Donald Trump is...
What to expect from theCUBE’s Smarsh EDGE analysis: Tune in Oct. 15
Financial institutions are adopting artificial intelligence faster than many compliance teams can establish the controls needed to oversee it. That gap is raising new questions about AI-powered compliance and regulatory accountability. As employee communications...
Introducing OpenFatigue
Article URL: https://openfatigue.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061278 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Congress wants to keep AM radio in every new car
In the era of streaming music and satellite radio, traditional broadcast stations are easy to overlook. AM radio, in particular, has fallen out of favor with younger drivers. So it’s perhaps no surprise that some automakers have begun dropping it from new vehicles....
Elon Musk quietly becomes the biggest donor in the midterms in a bid to save Republicans
Elon Musk, the world’s only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress. The numbers, first reported by the New York...
Why is Kelly Clarkson beefing with a Brooklyn toy shop?
Kelly Clarkson just thrust a small Brooklyn boutique into the limelight, and not in a good way. Art of Play, a high-end novelty shop offering playing cards, puzzles, games, and “playful decor,” apparently caught the singer’s attention. In a social media post that’s...
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694 Points: 35 # Comments: 10
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060674 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Meta says it’s caught up to the frontier with its latest Wonder AI models
The models add "active memory" and "active focus" abilities.
Nvidia Might Kill the RTX 5090 and Replace It With a 24GB RTX 5080
AMD might not even announce new cards until Computex 2027, too.
‘SNL’ and Shane Gillis get backlash for ‘rape culture’ jokes during a national conversation about sexual assault
Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and the response to the comedian’s opening monologue has been fast and mostly furious. On Saturday, Gillis took the stage and almost immediately insulted women with a joke that pretty indisputably did not...
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060296 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: I rewrote my website in Swift
Article URL: https://sindresorhus.com/blog/swift-website Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060268 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Norway fined a Microsoft subsidiary $9.6 million for allegedly misusing Grindr user data
Xandr has three weeks to appeal the record penalty.
The Hexa-Bouncer May Be The Most Overengineered Thing You See This Week
Sometimes, you want to build a simple project– the minimum viable product that solves your problem and nothing else. Other times you might be feeling a little extra, and want to use oodles of machined aluminum, six steppers, two cameras, a Teensy and a PC with a GPU...
How to find your Amazon ‘About You’ page (and how to edit it)
See if Amazon thinks you have "flat buttocks."
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://micahflee.com/just-say-no-to-openai-and-anthropic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060500 Points: 40 # Comments: 7
Anonymous Staff Say Major Book Publishers Use AI for Cover Art and More
This reeks of hypocrisy, given that many publishers have taken action against authors suspected of using AI.
Claude sent a false homicide tip to police – and it’s part of a troubling AI pattern
Models routinely take shortcuts to pass evaluations. Who gets to decide what incidents are innocuous?
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059523 Points: 24 # Comments: 6