The Escalation of War in Ethiopia

34 mooreds 2026-10-03 12:46:18 UTC africanistperspective.com Llama Share 12

The Ethiopian government is embroiled in renewed war between the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Amhara Fano militias, with a death toll estimated to be over 600,000. The conflict reflects the country's long-standing issues of ethnic polarization and federalism.

Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri

72 tejaskumar__ 2026-10-03 10:46:18 UTC tej.as Llama Share 39

Kolibri is an open-weight large language model from Aleph Alpha for German and English, using a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters. It was trained on infrastructure in Germany and Finland under European law, released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

308 azhenley 2026-10-03 01:46:18 UTC newgrounds.com Full Share 86

C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

21 rramadass 2026-10-03 11:46:18 UTC github.com/andreasfertig Llama Share 1

C++ Insights is a Clang-based tool that visually reveals the compiler's transformations and magic behind C++ code. It can transform various C++ constructs, such as range-based for-loops, structured bindings, lambdas, and auto expressions into their compiler-internal versions.

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

689 hn_acker 2026-10-02 13:46:18 UTC eff.org Llama Share 326

A federal judge blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw VPNs due to a law requiring adult websites to block users using them. The court ruled that the law is unconstitutional as it imposes an impossible technical requirement on businesses and people outside of Utah.

Apple Pass Designer

468 soheilpro 2026-10-02 19:46:18 UTC developer.apple.com Llama Share 290

Use Apple's Pass Designer or a preferred design tool to create custom pass designs, editing in real-time for iPhone and Apple Watch previews. The preview mirrors iOS and watchOS rendering for accurate customer experience.

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

533 CoryOndrejka 2026-10-02 17:46:18 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 122

Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin showcased his sprawling Minecraft world, "Tomlinburgh", with 20,000 concurrent viewers. The video featured densely populated buildings and communities designed by Tomlin over a 12-year period.

Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

30 bastitx 2026-10-03 09:46:18 UTC aleph-alpha.com Llama Share 2

Kolibri is a 78B parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer model, optimized for sovereign mission-critical work in regulated areas. It achieves contextualized performance through specialized evaluation suites and training environments.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineers in Canada (Remote)

0 2026-10-03 12:46:18 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Great Question is hiring a Product Engineer to build customer-centric products using AI, with autonomy and accountability. The role involves end-to-end problem-solving from customer conversation to production validation.

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

116 est 2026-10-03 03:46:18 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 42

Cloudflare launches an OHTTP Gateway, a paid add-on that enables developers to receive encrypted HTTP requests without seeing user IP addresses. This allows for more privacy-preserving experiences and is designed to work with existing Cloudflare infrastructure.

Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace

22 arunbhatia 2026-10-03 08:46:18 UTC offrun.dev Llama Share 9

Offrun is a Mac-based CLI tool that runs coding agents on your local machine, allowing multiple users to collaborate without needing an API key or server. It provides features like real-time collaboration, automated testing and retrying, and seamless integration with various providers.

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

104 pentagrama 2026-10-03 05:46:18 UTC blog.kagi.com Llama Share 50

Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows, but open-sourcing the code so the community can carry it forward. The company will focus on Orion for macOS and iOS instead.

GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default

49 vanyauhalin 2026-10-03 10:46:18 UTC github.blog Llama Share 61

GitHub's new dashboard experience is now the default view, offering a focus on key work and easy access to needed information. Users can switch back to the previous preview if desired and provide feedback in the Community discussion.

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

320 mariuz 2026-10-02 18:46:18 UTC bsky.app Full Share 61

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

287 bookofjoe 2026-10-02 16:46:18 UTC erictopol.substack.com Full Share 122

Make Tmux the OS

94 weaksauce 2026-10-03 03:46:18 UTC matduggan.com Llama Share 48

The author discusses the need for a new desktop UX that can adapt to changing screen real estate and task-oriented workflows, citing limitations of current OS designs. They propose a system based on tasks, where windows and browser tabs are organized around these tasks, with features like scrollable tiles and privacy flags.

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

280 fibo 2026-10-02 18:46:18 UTC dwarfstar.sh Llama Share 78

DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines supporting DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash models with text and vision models. It provides a CLI, HTTP APIs, native agent and local cache sharing the same model state.

FLUX 3 Image

371 minimaxir 2026-10-02 13:46:18 UTC bfl.ai Llama Share 82

The user wants to generate an image with FLUX 3, a multimodal model for video, audio, images and actions. They provide a scene prompt that describes a glowing concrete dome rising from a twilight bay, with various elements such as surfers, dancers, and animals in the background.

The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

243 signa11 2026-10-02 21:46:18 UTC yuka.dev Llama Share 163

The author successfully booted Asahi Linux on their M4 Mac mini, overcoming several challenges including SPTM and WFI issues. They contributed to the mainline Linux kernel by providing a solution for preventing crashes due to WFI instructions.

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

266 usernomdeguerre 2026-10-02 17:46:18 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 96

Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs

20 giuliomagnifico 2026-10-03 08:46:18 UTC gizmodo.com Full Share 11

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

239 PaulHoule 2026-10-02 17:46:18 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 116

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and others created an AI called Ataraxos that beat the world's top Stratego player in 15 games. The AI used a unique approach to learn strategy by thinking ahead and sampling plausible moves rather than iterating through every possible arrangement.

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

352 34679 2026-10-03 03:46:18 UTC extrabigassintelligence.com Full Share 74

NOW 100% ARTIFICIAL-FREE! PURE UNLEADED SUPER INTELLIGENCE (SI) BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Muse Gadgets

212 anant 2026-10-02 19:46:18 UTC gadgets.muse.ai Llama Share 93

Muse gadgets are open-source devices built by hackers for fun, with side effects including bricked boards and voided warranties. Users can grab an SDK token and start building their own projects or join the community Discord to share ideas and get support.

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

310 alstonite 2026-10-02 13:46:18 UTC stillwet.art Llama Share 99

AI painters created artworks in the style of famous artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Edward Hopper without using images as references. They generated paintings by writing code that simulates oil paint, with some even creating their own unique styles and themes.

Sites in ChatGPT

303 polvi 2026-10-02 15:46:18 UTC chatgpt.com Full Share 285

Create websites, dashboards, games, slide decks, and apps with ChatGPT Sites. Describe your idea, refine it through conversation, and share it.

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

229 notfirstpost 2026-10-02 19:46:18 UTC developer.apple.com Llama Share 154

Apple will introduce additional controls to limit Full Disk Access, ensuring users grant apps explicit permission before accessing sensitive data. This change aims to protect user privacy and prevent malicious use of this feature.

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

181 ThibWeb 2026-10-02 17:46:18 UTC wagtail.org Llama Share 141

The author attempted to use only one efficient open model for the whole of September, but ended up using 1B tokens and exceeding their budget due to various issues. They learned valuable lessons about model selection, infrastructure availability, and experimentation.

French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video]

5 thelastgallon 2026-10-03 13:14:18 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 0

Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

144 RickJWagner 2026-10-02 18:46:18 UTC bigthink.com Llama Share 40

The birth of the bond market began in 1171 when Venice's Doge Vitale II Michiel forced citizens to lend money for a war fleet, promising 5% interest payments. This loan became tradable and helped solidify links between citizens and the state.