Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband

292 DeepLogin 2026-10-19 11:23:22 UTC wjcl.com Llama Share 139

A former Savannah police officer, Amber Harpe, was fired after giving her husband access to the department's Flock license plate reader system for his work as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. The investigation found she knowingly shared her credentials with him despite violating department policy and compromising safeguards.

Linux 7.3 Released

356 cjd8 2026-10-19 08:23:22 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 158

Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, a record-breaker with 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers. The merge window for 7.4 opens tomorrow and will be unusual due to the author's vacation schedule.

Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models

162 groar 2026-10-19 10:23:22 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 30

We released Timestral, a family of time-series foundation models that outperform the previous state-of-the-art with fewer parameters. The models deliver probabilistic forecasts and support various covariates, making them suitable for industrial plants and finance teams.

Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

18 erikkannike 2026-10-19 13:01:22 UTC 100toolkit.com Llama Share 5

The model has been trained on a large dataset of human writing and uses LoRA adapters to improve its performance. The new model is expected to be better than the original, but further testing is needed to confirm this.

Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body

54 isuruwijesiri 2026-10-19 12:23:22 UTC github.com/isurumaduranga Llama Share 23

A stateless LLM API uses a harness to maintain and protect conversation data, with each "agent" being a patch that fixes concrete issues. The book explains this concept in 16 chapters, providing an open-source Python implementation.

Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off

48 rbanffy 2026-10-19 11:23:22 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 7

Researchers are developing alternatives to animal testing in drug development, with organ-on-a-chip systems and computational simulations showing promise. These new approaches aim to replace animal models, but face challenges such as validation and standardization.

Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation

59 gslin 2026-10-19 11:23:22 UTC community.letsencrypt.org Llama Share 16

Let's Encrypt is adding two new remote perspectives for domain validation to improve security and meet Baseline Requirements. The change will require seven total validation requests, including one from the primary datacenter and six from remote perspectives.

ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike

27 rbanffy 2026-10-19 11:23:22 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 0

The European Space Agency's Hera mission will make history by rendezvousing with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos asteroid pair in one month. The mission, launched on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, aims to study the impact of NASA's DART mission and provide a follow-up view of the resulting handiwork.

Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland

41 lermontov 2026-10-19 11:23:22 UTC engelsbergideas.com Llama Share 9

Gdynia, a Baltic fishing village, was transformed into a modern port in the 1920s to fulfill Poland's ambitions for independence and security after World War I. The city became an alternative capital of modern Poland, symbolizing its aspirations for global influence and prosperity, but also struggled with poverty and conflict with neighboring Germany.

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

447 allinonai 2026-10-18 21:23:22 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 217

We can build Hybrid Reasoning Agents that bridge latent reasoning and text-based interaction, enabling efficient agentic capabilities. These agents improve performance by 10.4% while reducing tokens, inference time, and costs compared to existing LLM agents and frameworks.

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

432 mdp2021 2026-10-18 19:23:22 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 536

How to Train Your Robot

79 crescit_eundo 2026-10-19 07:23:22 UTC construction-physics.com Llama Share 24

The enormous advance in AI capabilities is driven by the availability of vast amounts of training data, with recent advances being largely due to scale. Researchers are now working on gathering large amounts of robot task training data to improve robotic capabilities.

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

221 Eric_Gullichsen 2026-10-19 00:23:22 UTC colo.to Llama Share 96

The author claims Autodesk trademarked "cyberspace" and William Gibson retaliated by trying to trademark "Eric Gullichsen", but this is a disputed story. The actual reason for Gibson's objection was Timothy Leary's prank, which was later exaggerated into accepted history.

Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death

107 samizdis 2026-10-19 04:23:22 UTC phys.org Full Share 102

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If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

216 amrrs 2026-10-18 23:23:22 UTC jrdsgl.com Llama Share 155

User is frustrated with a complex system, wanting more detailed analytics and control over their data. They want to own their infrastructure and application visibility, rather than relying on a paid subscription service.

Someone behind the software

488 tosh 2026-10-18 17:23:22 UTC karrisaarinen.com Llama Share 176

Good products are shaped by the people who make them, reflecting their experience and perspective. Without a shared understanding and unified point of view, software can become a collection of features without character or soul.

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

280 gmays 2026-10-18 18:23:22 UTC sciencealert.com Llama Share 163

Researchers tested 70 dogs' reactions to sounds associated with round and spiky shapes, finding they looked at the correct shape when hearing its sound. The study suggests dogs may have a universal connection between visual and auditory information like humans do.

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

158 nanochess 2026-10-18 22:23:22 UTC maddox.pro Llama Share 77

The user has finished the "b" version of the LT6502, a retro console with improved specs such as a thinner design and higher resolution screen. The new model lacks an expansion slot but features a faster processor, IPS screen, and WiFi modem, while also requiring improvements in areas like battery life and sound quality.

RepRapMicron

414 RobotToaster 2026-10-18 14:23:22 UTC github.com/vikolliver Llama Share 66

The µRepRap is a 3D printer designed to achieve micron-scale fabrication using common materials, with the goal of advancing microelectronics and MEMS technology. It aims to replicate the capabilities of desktop fabrication on a smaller scale, enabling inexpensive and rapidly-evolving equipment for biological sciences and microelectronics.

8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution

14 geox 2026-10-19 13:01:22 UTC washingtonpost.com Full Share 5

The DNS Museum

101 zdw 2026-10-19 01:23:22 UTC dns.museum Llama Share 12

Users have explored various creative and practical applications of DNS, including displaying lyrics, ASCII art, and even music through reverse-DNS lookups. These experiments showcase the versatility of DNS beyond traditional name resolution.

How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

96 gmays 2026-10-19 00:23:22 UTC csis.org Llama Share 115

The US is rebuilding and recasting its munitions industrial base to counter modern high-intensity wars, with a focus on precision and attrition. The Pentagon plans to significantly grow stocks of proven missiles and interceptors by 2031.

Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

111 iheatuchriswogu 2026-10-19 02:23:22 UTC contextfirst.blog Llama Share 53

The author shares their experience of building a software project with an agent, which was slow and required constant approval. They then created Superlite, a plugin that automates the process by splitting tasks into parallel runs and enforcing rules with code.

Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling

76 ankitg12 2026-10-19 06:23:22 UTC crystl.dev Llama Share 50

tmux is a tool for running long-running processes in detachable sessions that survive disconnection, allowing multiple agents to be run simultaneously. tmux can be scripted from outside and its commands are available even when the session is detached.

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

171 sysrpl 2026-10-18 19:23:22 UTC getlazarus.org Llama Share 44

The Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus IDE now support dynamic packages, allowing users to create and install components, controls, and extensions in seconds. This feature enables plugin systems for native Pascal classes and types through dynamic package libraries.

Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type

4 prismatic 2026-10-19 11:23:22 UTC hedgehogreview.com Prefix Share 1

Of all the classic English poets, none is so unavailable to modern readers as Alfred, Lord Tennyson. I mean that both literally and figuratively. It is much rarer to walk into an American bookstore and find a copy of Tennyson’s poems than it is to find, say, comparable works by Shakespeare, Milton, or Keats. When I was preparing to teach a class on Tennyson last autumn, I was surprised to ...

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

125 zoozla 2026-10-18 22:23:22 UTC github.com/finereli Llama Share 69

This is a Cloudflare server that links to WhatsApp, allowing users to access their chat history and messages. The server stores the data in a SQLite database and can be accessed through various tools, including an agent.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

227 dom96 2026-10-18 20:23:22 UTC blog.picheta.me Llama Share 175

The author designed an esoteric programming language called KillSwitch to test LLMs' ability to understand and write code, exploiting their weaknesses such as letter counting and safety guardrails. The results of benchmarking major LLM models show varying performance, with some performing better than others.

Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN

35 StepBroBD 2026-10-19 06:23:22 UTC ranet3.com Llama Share 9

ranet3 is a mesh VPN and SD-WAN tool that uses Babel, RTT metrics, and SRv6 for routing. It achieves speeds of 8.84 Gbit/s over hardware and software with TCP payload in UDP framing.

PalmOS Lemmings

138 memalign 2026-10-18 18:23:22 UTC github.com/ardiri Full Share 33

PalmOS - clone - Lemmings (Lemmings). Contribute to ardiri/palmos-lemmings development by creating an account on GitHub.