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Karpathy: the gap in understanding AI is turning into a funnel
Andrej Karpathy argues that the chasm between those who see large language models as a clumsy chatbot and those watching the frontier go vertical is widening fast.
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New York's "Click to Cancel" rule takes effect
Since October 1, 2026, city residents can file complaints against businesses that make it hard to cancel subscriptions. It is described as the first such rule at the municipal level in the country.
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An Illinois college tried to cancel its Flock contract — and the cameras stayed
An Illinois college terminated its deal with Flock Safety, but the company refused to take its cameras down. It escalated to staff taping over the lenses with trash bags while unknown workers kept coming to uncover them.
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Sorry, you still have to think: lessons from the AI rewrites of Campfire
DHH had an AI agent rewrite Campfire from Rails to Rust, Elixir and Go without reading the code. Piotr Sarnacki digs into the results and concludes that programming is far from "solved."
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The tilde in your PATH may not be your home
A developer found that `export PATH="$PATH:~/.local/bin/"` in quotes does not expand the tilde to your home directory — and showed why that matters.
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Terence Tao presents a Caltech talk titled "Math 2.0"
Hacker News is discussing the slides from a lecture by mathematician Terence Tao titled "Math 2.0", delivered at the California Institute of Technology.
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Valen: References That Remember Where They Point
Evan Ovadia has unveiled a new borrow checker for his Valen language — it tracks the "path" of every reference and catches use-after-free at compile time, while staying more flexible than Rust's.
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Karaoke giant's contractor hit by malware, exposing 8.6 million fan records
Japan's largest karaoke operator, Daiichi Kosho, says a malware infection at its contractor Nippon Columbia may have exposed data on more than 8.7 million customers and employees.
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Drgn 0.3: Meta's Programmable Debugger Gets an Update
Meta has released version 0.3 of its open-source debugger Drgn, which bets on programmability — treating debugging like writing ordinary code.
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Nitter Appeals for Funding and Legal Help
In an update dated October 10th, the Nitter project reached out to the community asking for funding and legal assistance.
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Cracking the Eufy Doorbell — From the Front Door to the Home Network
A biologist-turned-hacker from the Adepts of 0xCC collective spent his spare time taking apart the Eufy smart doorbell: jamming its link, reverse-engineering its sound-based pairing protocol, and pulling the hidden network's password straight out of a memory dump.
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LineageOS 24.0 Arrives on Android 17, Just Shy of a Decade
The LineageOS team has shipped version 24.0 based on Android 17 — and, unusually, ahead of schedule. Highlights include browser-based flashing tools, refreshed apps, and an experimental build for desktop hardware.
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Third Yandex Cloud Data Center Affected by Incident
Yandex Cloud's status page carries a report of an incident that has now reached a third data center of the cloud platform.
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Byte language models: long sequences as a resource, not a burden
Researchers in Shanghai show that a plain Transformer can learn directly from raw bytes without a tokenizer — and, as parameters scale, overtake subword models.
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Nvidia in Talks to Acquire 'Open' Model Startup Reflection AI
According to the Financial Times, Nvidia is in discussions to acquire Reflection AI, a US startup building 'open' artificial intelligence models.
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Nadella says we should treat every AI model as ‘compromised’
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO set out his views on the dangers of highly advanced AI and argued we should treat such models as inherently untrustworthy — with an ‘emergency brake’ always within reach.
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FBI Arrests Founder of a Ransomware Negotiation Firm
A Canadian who specialized in negotiating with ransomware crews was arrested in Pennsylvania. He is tied to the investigation into ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on thousands of FBI employees.
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Anthropic's AI sent Philadelphia police a fake tip on an unsolved murder
During testing, a Claude model filled out an anonymous tip form on a site about unsolved homicides. The message was flagged as spam, so detectives never saw it.
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Ukrainian drones knock out a data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
According to Ars Technica, a drone strike has damaged a Yandex data center housing supercomputers used to train the company’s AI model.
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FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters member after breach of its systems
FBI Director Kash Patel announced a fresh arrest tied to September's breach of bureau systems. Press reports say the detainee is a Canadian citizen held in Pennsylvania.
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