Curated Hacker News

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/

#apple

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

#chatgpt

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors

#ai

People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5977852/ai-chatbots-midterm-election

#ai #chatgpt

US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk

#theguardian

Mystery Function

https://codeset.ai/function

#ai

Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust

https://github.com/project-minigraf/minigraf

#database #github #rust

Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFTfANuLBF4

#ai #youtube

Martian chaos terrain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain

#wikipedia

ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability

https://github.com/explaindb/explaindb

#database #github

Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks

#ai #chatgpt #theguardian

The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/solutions-resources/philadelphia-inquirer-scrape-ai-hyperlocal-news/

#ai

Apple and a Hacker's Future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/

#apple

Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/02/benchmarking-ai-decision-models-against-traditional-guardrails

#ai #llm

ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

https://getartcraft.com/apps

#open-source #rust

AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war

https://thebulletin.org/2026/10/ai-doesnt-need-superintelligence-or-evil-intent-to-start-a-nuclear-war/

#ai

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU

#amd #linux

Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8WWZzoaR0

#ai #youtube

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

#apple #github #macos

Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/09/building-a-rag-pipeline-for-semantic-code-search-a-developer-diary-and-field-notes/

#ai

Blindsight (Watts Novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

#wikipedia

Caffè Corretto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_corretto

#wikipedia

RuneScape's Position on Gen AI

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/1wxfyzp/runescapes_position_on_gen_ai/

#ai #reddit

Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

https://joshua.hu/magic-switch-easily-switch-magic-keyboard-trackpad-mouse-between-mac-macbook-macos

#apple #macos

Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/teenager-suspected-of-leading-killsec-ransomware-group-law-enforcement-seizes-servers-and-leak-site

#eu

"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

#404media #ai #llm #llms

Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable

https://www.404media.co/our-solar-system-is-terminally-unstable-and-will-be-completely-destroyed-study-finds/

#404media #solar

Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers

https://www.gadgetreview.com/apples-clean-design-is-stupidity-when-it-comes-to-hiding-fire-extinguishers

#apple

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken

#ai #theguardian

Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

https://dave.recoil.org/docker-has-always-used-microvms/

#docker

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU

#amd #linux

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html

#meta

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw

#apple #macos

Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

https://www.neowin.net/news/system76-bans-ai-generated-code-across-many-of-its-cosmic-codebases/

#ai

Apple Pass Designer

https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/

#apple

Holes (1996-2025)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/

#edu