Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

293 hubraumhugo 2026-10-29 17:42:11 UTC kadoa.com Llama Share 232

Google Search generated 49.7% of Alphabet's $128B revenue in Q Sep 2026, the first quarter below half since separate reporting began. Google Cloud grew from 4.4% to 24.1% over the same period, while everything else accounted for remaining revenue share.

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

751 kuberwastaken 2026-10-29 14:42:11 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 203

Mistral AI releases the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter model, Le Chonk, advancing agentic coding and cybersecurity. The new model delivers frontier coding performance with significantly fewer tokens.

Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic

82 armcat 2026-10-29 17:42:11 UTC vut.cz Llama Share 6

The President of the Czech Republic honoured Tomáš Mikolov and Filip Maleňák for their outstanding contributions to science, research and technology. Both graduates of Brno University of Technology received state honors for their innovative work in artificial intelligence and emergency services.

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

151 ea016 2026-10-29 16:42:11 UTC sidbala.com Llama Share 78

The H.264 video compression codec standard is highly efficient, reducing bandwidth requirements by 1500 times compared to PNG images, through various techniques such as lossy compression and chroma subsampling. It achieves this by discarding less important bits, using motion estimation and prediction to store only necessary frames.

LLM Voice

129 ibobev 2026-10-29 15:42:11 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 76

The author warns against using Large Language Models (LLMs) to write prose, as it can lead to an "uncanny valley" effect and undermine the skill of writing. Authors should instead fill their own prose and use LLMs only for structure or research assistance.

Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks

73 wondersky 2026-10-29 16:42:11 UTC skypilot.ai Llama Share 7

Researchers use NVLink for communication-heavy parallelism techniques like tensor and expert parallelism to maximize training throughput, but this can be limited by InfiniBand interconnects.

I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform

10 ka1s 2026-10-29 18:03:11 UTC github.com/ka1-s Llama Share 5

LYNX SHARE is a lightweight DAW with the FL Studio workflow, built in C++20 + JUCE 8 and compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. It features native plugins inspired by third-party plugins used by most producers.

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

266 WalterSobchak 2026-10-29 12:42:11 UTC about.doordash.com Llama Share 483

DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion, combining their delivery networks and grocery technology to help local businesses succeed. The deal will give consumers more stores to choose from, faster delivery options, and more ways for Dashers and Shoppers to earn money.

Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from

89 mektrik 2026-10-29 15:42:11 UTC trakkr.ai Llama Share 46

The authors tested 1,285 statistics from five AI assistants and found that only 8% of the trails ended at a study that confirmed the number, while 44% ended at a page citing no research.

Toxic experts (2017)

41 luu 2026-10-29 16:42:11 UTC nedbatchelder.com Llama Share 24

The author wrote about Big-O notation, explaining it in simple terms for beginners, but was criticized by an anonymous expert who felt the explanation was incomplete and showed a lack of knowledge. The critic's behavior is seen as toxic expertise, where they prioritize their own knowledge over connecting with others and teaching.

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

33 memalign 2026-10-29 16:42:11 UTC 16colo.rs Llama Share 3

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII art, preserving the work of early artists who created art for computer consoles. The rise of the Internet led to a decline in BBS's and interest in ANSI/ASCII art, but some artists continue to produce collectives like artpacks.

Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

186 882542F3884314B 2026-10-29 11:42:11 UTC dreamgroup.com Llama Share 90

Researchers discovered a Chinese AI-assisted campaign that compromised 25 servers, including US government systems, using a custom PHP2Shell exploit chain and Fragnesia kernel privilege escalation. The attackers used an automated batch process to target firewalls with specific versions of vendor software.

noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang

38 g0xA52A2A 2026-10-29 15:42:11 UTC github.com/theconsensuslabs Llama Share 10

This is a Go library called noalloc that helps detect heap allocations in code. It can be used to identify potential memory leaks and optimize performance by preventing unnecessary allocations. The library provides various features, including assertions for functions that should not allocate memory, zero-allocating data structures, and algorithms for fixed-sized data storage.

If IPv4 were land

165 rokostik 2026-10-29 12:42:11 UTC iptrust.co Llama Share 171

The method calculates a country's area using its IPv4 addresses and the world's total land area. The result excludes Antarctica and small territories without an outline, based on data from October 2026.

NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

122 luke8086 2026-10-29 12:42:11 UTC mastodon.sdf.org Llama Share 100

NetBSD now includes an alternative editor, atto(1), which is a 48KB modeless screen-based editor similar to nano and emacs. The EDITOR environment variable can be set to use atto instead of the default vi(1).

What we know so far about Spain train crash

72 ZeljkoS 2026-10-29 12:42:11 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 131

Two high-speed trains crashed in Spain, killing at least 69 people. The collision occurred when a Renfe train collided with a stationary Iryo train near Madrid due to a computer failure that allowed the Renfe train to move without speed restrictions.

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

20 shong0504 2026-10-29 16:42:11 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 10

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Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds

55 owls-on-wires 2026-10-29 14:42:11 UTC github.com/owls-on-wires Llama Share 2

Keplearn is a deterministic symbolic regression engine that recovers closed-form equations from tabular data. It uses best-first recursive reduction to find compact laws relating columns of measurements.

How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

194 terminalbraid 2026-10-29 11:42:11 UTC publicpolicy.googleblog.com Llama Share 158

Google Earth has changed the name of the body of water to "Arabian Gulf" despite historical and legal evidence showing it is called Persian Gulf, sparking outrage among Iranians. Google's decision was made after receiving pressure from certain countries, but critics argue this undermines accuracy and respect for history.

Blanets and Weird Worlds

10 pavel_lishin 2026-10-29 17:42:11 UTC antipope.org Llama Share 1

The author is discussing various exoplanet types, including Hot Jupiters, Chthonian Planets, Mega-Earths and Hycean Planets. They also mention Blanets or black hole planets that form in the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole.

We won't "just hang out"

93 barry-cotter 2026-10-29 11:42:11 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 163

The Singularity may lead to a world without meaningful relationships and social connections, as AI-generated superstimulus replaces human interaction. Without shared experiences of struggle and striving, people's minds will atrophy, leaving them uninteresting to talk to.

Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state

74 theanonymousone 2026-10-29 13:42:11 UTC xpipe.io Llama Share 23

The Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache is a new approach to improving Java application startup and warmup times, but its implementation has pitfalls and lacks proper documentation. The AOT cache can be fragile due to CPU feature differences between the training system and target system, leading to crashes or unexpected behavior.

If-then-else had to be invented (2020)

132 theanonymousone 2026-10-29 08:42:11 UTC github.com/e-n-f Llama Share 147

Eric discusses the origin of "if-then-else" in programming languages, tracing it back to 1946 when Haskell Curry and Willa Wyatt used the term "discrimination" for conditional decision-making. The concept evolved into a standard form with the development of Algol 58, which introduced a keyword called "converge".

Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks

12 GeoAtreides 2026-10-29 18:17:11 UTC otwstatus.org Full Share 7

We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has to be brought down temporarily until this is fully resolved. Please stay tuned for further info.

The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR

82 yincrash 2026-10-29 10:42:11 UTC blog.google Llama Share 65

XREAL AURA is the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, offering a new way to use Android XR with transparent lenses and 70-degree field of view. It brings Gemini's helpfulness and millions of favorite apps from Google Play to users, providing immersive experiences for work, entertainment, and gaming.

Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

290 MarkBlah 2026-10-29 07:42:11 UTC smsofdeath.com Llama Share 163

A single malformed WAP Push SMS can crash Android, dropping active calls including emergency ones, with no interaction from the victim. A fix is available by adding a range check before casting in WapPushOverSms.java to prevent this denial of service attack.

Mexico has a growing fleet of new vehicles from Chinese brands

189 bookofjoe 2026-10-29 15:42:11 UTC washingtonpost.com Full Share 186

Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

159 inventor7777 2026-10-29 07:42:11 UTC inventor7777.github.io Llama Share 49

The user reverse-engineered the Brother MFC-L8900CDW printer, accessing its hidden features and firmware. They discovered a command console with various debugging modes and commands that can be used to control the print engine.

Everything Rhymes with Porcelain

13 cromulent 2026-10-29 16:42:11 UTC worksinprogress.co Llama Share 1

The author discusses the evolution of porcelain, from its origins in ancient China to modern materials like Dekton, a high-tech ceramic made by baking slurry into slabs under extreme pressure.

AI Contributions to GHC

4 alexandersechin 2026-10-29 17:43:11 UTC serokell.io Prefix Share 1

What contributors can do, what they must disclose, and why we think the policy is reasonable. GHC now has a concrete policy for LLM-assisted contributions. By mid-October, maintainers were already referring to it directly in review discussions: Julian Ospald cited P3 of “the AI policy”, while Andreas Klebinger described LLM-generated bug fixes as “fine, it’s policy”. The GHC wiki page itself ...