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
What’s the difference between alkaline and lithium-ion batteries?
Alkaline and lithium-ion batteries serve very different purposes. Here's how they compare on lifespan, cost, rechargeability, and everyday use.
Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the company's first attempt at a frontier model.
2027 Rivian R2 review: The Goldilocks electric SUV
It's not too big, it's not too small and it's not too expensive. It's just right.
Thinking Will Become a Hobby
Article URL: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059204 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 million.
Beats is collaborating with Pokémon for a Pikachu-themed Pill speaker
The collab we've all been waiting for ever since Tim Cook met up with Pikachu.
Muse Wonder
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
A Modern Web App in C
Article URL: https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
⚡ Weekly Recap: Helpdesk 0-Days, Rogue Certs, ShinyHunters Arrest, AI-Fooling Malware and More
Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That's not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it. But speed is only part of the problem. A...