Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system

634 DeepLogin 2026-10-19 10:45:14 UTC wjcl.com Llama Share 362

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

600 cjd8 2026-10-19 07:23:57 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 278

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's time-series foundation models

573 groar 2026-10-19 09:59:32 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 106

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.

Wine ported to OpenBSD

538 iamnothere 2026-10-19 13:35:34 UTC marc.info Llama Share 178

A new port for Wine has been proposed in OpenBSD-ports, allowing 64-bit Windows software to run on the system. The port is still experimental and requires testing, with some limitations such as WoW64 not working.

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

480 hakonjdjohnsen 2026-10-19 09:05:07 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 103

I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

450 phoronixrly 2026-10-19 16:37:10 UTC po-ru.com Llama Share 432

The author of a Ruby gem has decided to archive the source code as they no longer feel inspired to contribute due to its use by massive corporations for LLM agents. They cite concerns about sustainability and the loss of human touch in programming.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

429 jtg 2026-10-19 16:39:09 UTC minimax.io Llama Share 187

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a next-generation AI model that delivers significant improvements in agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity while reducing costs by 70%. It excels across various benchmarks and real-world applications, setting a new standard for performance and cost.

Starcraft: Ashfall

393 debo_ 2026-10-19 01:18:02 UTC starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev Full Share 117

后勤说十个人够了.虫子好像没收到通知. Space 部署AD 左右移动拖动部队选择路线 人族远征军 / 作战准备界面试装台 任务完成 浏览器在用集成显卡如果电脑有独立显卡: 在 Windows 设置 > 系统 > 显示 > 图形里, 把浏览器设为 "高性能", 然后重开浏览器. 请竖屏游玩这个游戏按竖屏设计.

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

361 rzk 2026-10-19 11:24:34 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 498

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Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

333 rbanffy 2026-10-19 11:10:54 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 101

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.

CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership

329 kensai 2026-10-19 15:28:24 UTC home.cern Llama Share 57

CERN and Mistral partner to develop a large-scale AI model for scientific discovery, combining expertise in physics and computing. The partnership aims to advance AI capabilities for the broader scientific community, particularly in high-energy physics.

Android apps running native on macOS

297 flocked 2026-10-19 16:45:30 UTC github.com/kksimp Llama Share 159

Mac.apk allows Android apps to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs without emulation or virtualization. It is an early alpha version, stable enough for use and improving with each build.

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

257 gslin 2026-10-19 10:53:39 UTC community.letsencrypt.org Llama Share 79

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.

Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

234 cmrdporcupine 2026-10-19 17:27:11 UTC inceptionlabs.ai Llama Share 85

Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM, outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 in various benchmarks while running faster at 1,000+ tokens per second.

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

227 ds 2026-10-19 23:22:18 UTC redact.dev Llama Share 38

WhatsApp's AI chatbot was instructed to hide information about deleting an account, including the law that protects users' rights, when a lawyer or legal action is mentioned. The hidden notes were removed from WhatsApp's live pages but can still be found on archived copies.

Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

213 pfeifferj 2026-10-19 21:08:18 UTC josie.lol Llama Share 102

The author built a custom Arch Linux ARM laptop with 128 GB RAM and NVIDIA GPU, achieving similar performance to Windows in various tests, including 7-Zip compression and inference tasks. The setup allows for local processing and fine-tuning of models without relying on cloud services or Windows-specific features.

The reverts will continue until morale improves

211 hans_castorp 2026-10-19 18:42:32 UTC peter.eisentraut.org Llama Share 41

The PostgreSQL 19 beta period saw a high number of feature reverts, with around 8-10 significant features reverted late in the cycle. The reasons for these reverts are varied and likely include a combination of poor code quality, inadequate testing, and the impact of LLM-assisted code review on detecting edge cases.

Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All

210 iamnothere 2026-10-19 14:31:11 UTC politico.com Llama Share 126

Economists initially dismissed allegations of price-fixing in the egg industry, attributing high prices to bird flu and pandemic disruptions. However, a federal investigation found evidence of a scheme among three major egg producers to artificially drive up prices.

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

205 yzydserd 2026-10-19 15:31:34 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 149

Ukraine has successfully evacuated an injured soldier from the front lines using a drone, marking what it claims is the world's first such operation. The mission showcases Ukraine's growing capabilities in drone technology and its efforts to adapt to the war against Russia.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)

186 theanonymousone 2026-10-19 04:41:46 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Llama Share 90

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) is a high-intelligence model with fast processing and reasonably priced, scoring 45 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, above average among open weight models of similar size.

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

178 mindracer 2026-10-19 13:36:43 UTC boredhackerblog.info Llama Share 89

A Plex media server vulnerability was discovered, allowing threat actors to gain remote code execution. The exploit has been observed in the wild and is being used by attackers to access corporate VPNs and emails through residential IP proxies.

Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

154 gateauxd 2026-10-19 15:52:26 UTC githubstatus.com Full Share 126

GitHub's Status Page - Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks.

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

153 ankitg12 2026-10-19 05:55:31 UTC crystl.dev Llama Share 116

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.

Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share

150 giuliomagnifico 2026-10-19 17:30:26 UTC reuters.com Full Share 145

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

146 erikkannike 2026-10-19 13:00:47 UTC 100toolkit.com Llama Share 108

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.

Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

146 iheatuchriswogu 2026-10-19 02:01:16 UTC contextfirst.blog Llama Share 67

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.

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

136 doener 2026-10-19 21:11:45 UTC bsd.network Llama Share 28

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with various updates, including Clang/LLVM as the base compiler on clang architectures and improved graphics support for Intel Arc A-Series cards.

The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

136 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-10-19 12:06:03 UTC wsj.com Full Share 117

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Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional

134 anigbrowl 2026-10-19 01:55:03 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 76

A federal judge ruled the use of license plate reader systems unconstitutional in a traffic stop case, finding that police had no probable cause to search a driver's vehicle. The system was used to create detailed travel histories and interrogate the driver about her movements.

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

129 cmrdporcupine 2026-10-19 16:16:46 UTC reuters.com Full Share 117

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

128 isuruwijesiri 2026-10-19 12:07:41 UTC github.com/isurumaduranga Llama Share 64

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.

Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix

123 tosh 2026-10-19 15:10:20 UTC netflixtechblog.com Llama Share 25

The Observability Ontology is a machine-readable agreement about entities in the operational world, created to standardize how different systems understand concepts like applications, services, and incidents. This ontology enables end-to-end observability by providing a unified data layer for metrics, events, logs and traces (MELT).

Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier

121 theflyingelvis 2026-10-19 17:26:38 UTC dailymail.com Llama Share 2

Ukraine has successfully conducted the first unmanned drone evacuation of an injured soldier, with a heavily modified bomber drone lifting him 18km to safety. The operation was carried out by Gurzuf Defence's Heavy Shot drone, which can carry up to 130kg and is being used for regular evacuations.

An ad-free Android TV

118 CraftThatBlock 2026-10-19 22:32:37 UTC cretezy.com Llama Share 37

The author of this article has customized their Android TV devices to remove ads and improve the interface, using Projectivy Launcher and SmartTube. They provide step-by-step instructions on how to set up these customizations using ADB commands.

Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

117 Stratoscope 2026-10-19 01:56:39 UTC simpleflying.com Llama Share 97

Chicago O'Hare International Airport has discovered a 50-ton boulder beneath its airfield, sparking a public naming contest. The winning name will be displayed alongside the rock in an airport exhibit after nearly 3,000 submissions were received.

Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked

112 else42 2026-10-19 20:31:05 UTC hexane.cc Llama Share 56

A curated archive of internal documents is published for journalism, research and public accountability with minimal personal data. The archive contains 281 GB of classified records, indexed for search and verification.

Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action

112 greyface- 2026-10-19 04:40:18 UTC hbsslaw.com Llama Share 66

Hagens Berman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Verisign and ICANN for allegedly maintaining an illegal monopoly over .com domain names, charging consumers up to $13.44 by 2030. The lawsuit claims Verisign's prices are excessive and funded by fees extracted from a captive customer base, with no alternative supplier available to consumers.

One Hash Bloom Filters

82 jcalabro 2026-10-19 20:50:08 UTC calabro.io Llama Share 10

A bloom filter is a data structure that allows for quick and probabilistic checks of key existence, using a small amount of memory and computational cost. It achieves this by hashing keys multiple times with different functions to determine the presence or absence in a set.

Agentic Monitoring

80 bcongdon 2026-10-19 14:52:04 UTC benjamincongdon.me Llama Share 9

The author discusses the potential of using agents to improve operational excellence in software systems, citing examples from their own team's experience with Claude Tag. Agents can monitor each component of a system and detect subtle issues that human operators may miss.

How abliterated models can get you pwned

79 chatmasta 2026-10-19 23:08:52 UTC projectdiscovery.io Llama Share 48

Researchers found that editing a model's weights can introduce a backdoor, allowing an attacker to control the model's behavior. A study demonstrated how this can be done with minimal cost and effort using popular open models like Qwen and Codex.

Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessing

74 irthomasthomas 2026-10-19 11:28:45 UTC github.com/google-research Llama Share 18

Harness² is a plug-and-play framework for recursive agent harnessing in an open world, optimizing system components. It improves model performance across benchmarks with gains of up to 11.5 points and 11.8 percentage points on specific tasks.

The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)

71 Aleksandr_NFA 2026-10-19 02:40:04 UTC vt100.net Llama Share 3

The VT100 terminal was launched in 1978, featuring a microprocessor and ANSI compatibility. Its firmware was documented in an internal reference manual for the next 15 years.

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

69 rbanffy 2026-10-19 11:12:02 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 8

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.

Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023)

68 jannesan 2026-10-19 05:11:24 UTC oro.gay Llama Share 62

Flatpak is a containerization technology for Linux desktops, improving security and consistency. It allows developers to create isolated applications with limited access to the host system, mitigating risks associated with outdated dependencies and traditional packaging methods.

Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache

66 murtazayusuf 2026-10-19 13:53:52 UTC github.com/kividbio Llama Share 40

KiviDB is a fast, multi-threaded key-value database written in Rust that supports Redis protocol and has built-in full-text and vector search. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for Redis in closed-source or commercial applications without requiring any modifications.

A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

59 dkobia 2026-10-19 14:23:17 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 3

A hacker used an army of AI agents to breach over 100 websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja, with the attacks taking about 23 hours. The incident highlights growing concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches as rogue AI agents carry out large-scale attacks.

Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks

52 dmayle 2026-10-19 13:07:07 UTC 3anddoneapp.com Full Share 49

Say or type what's on your mind and watch it become the three things that matter — no signup, ~30 seconds.

Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces

51 skull8888888 2026-10-19 16:00:18 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 24

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8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution

51 geox 2026-10-19 13:00:29 UTC washingtonpost.com Full Share 63

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

47 laginimaineb 2026-10-19 13:47:56 UTC heymaxwell.ai Llama Share 22

A new AI system called Maxwell can optimize code by modifying algorithms and machine instructions while the program runs, proving its correctness. It works within a formal system to ensure no errors occur during execution.

The End of Rationing

46 sanketsaurav 2026-10-19 19:19:33 UTC sanketsaurav.com Llama Share 44

The software industry has transitioned from a high-fixed-cost, low-marginal-cost model to a low-fixed-cost, substantial-marginal-cost model with AI. However, most products still resemble those built in the past due to lingering constraints and habits.

Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus

40 pranshuchittora 2026-10-19 23:40:15 UTC openrouter.ai Llama Share 46

LLM models are ranked by tokens processed through the OpenRouter API, with Claude Code leading the rankings. The leaderboard updates daily and ranks models by their usage in real-world applications.

AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots

33 whatdowecallu 2026-10-19 16:03:29 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 74

HUMXN partners with homeowners to record skilled laborers' work in exchange for free services, providing real-world data for AI robots. The company subsidizes home repairs and pays residents for access to their premises.

Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation

32 scottfalconer 2026-10-19 21:38:02 UTC dri.es Llama Share 34

The author's DrupalCon Rotterdam keynote focused on closing the gap between Drupal's reputation and its capabilities, showcasing improvements in multilingual sites, JavaScript front-ends, headless Canvas, and AI.

Diablo 2 Survivors

30 bigwheels 2026-10-19 21:10:57 UTC d2survivors.lol Llama Share 15

D2 Survivors is a browser-based or desktop app version of Diablo II, with 7 heroes and skills that cast on their own. It runs on the player's own copy of Diablo II or Resurrected, without ads or online requirements.

Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

27 ragu4u 2026-10-19 13:35:12 UTC norforge.com Llama Share 9

An investigation by NorForge found over 20 exposed Cairn panels likely associated with malicious activity, revealing sensitive information about targets and their security weaknesses. The panels were used to coordinate AI agents to investigate and exploit vulnerabilities in various systems.

Code is clay now

26 albertodenia 2026-10-19 15:19:45 UTC albertodenia.com Llama Share 12

The author describes how modern coding has become more flexible and malleable, allowing for rapid changes and iterations. This shift enables both solo developers to quickly explore ideas and teams to refine their work with minimal planning.

Towards Company World Models

24 rafaelc 2026-10-19 18:51:09 UTC beaconholdings.com Llama Share 4

Beacon aims to integrate AI into the real economy by developing Company World Models, which enable businesses to make strategic decisions and improve efficiency. These models learn from human operators' feedback and judgments, allowing for more effective decision-making.

Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally

23 solohunter001 2026-10-19 04:32:07 UTC github.com/strot-ai Llama Share 13

A compiler compiles a large language model once at compile time, then uses it to classify and route records with high confidence. The compiled model is self-contained, low-confidence records abstain instead of guessing, and produces bounded outputs.

Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]

22 NaOH 2026-10-19 16:09:10 UTC yle.fi Llama Share 3

Zorro on kuusi vuotta täyttä perhekoira, joka osallistui agilitykonkariin. Hän etsii uutta pentuetta tulevalle kaudelle ja haluaa tutustua erilaisiin ympäristöihin.

Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994

22 indigodaddy 2026-10-19 00:30:34 UTC sanitys-edge.shouden.us Llama Share 1

Sanity's Edge was a bulletin board that ran from 1994 to 1997, collecting over 46,000 voice messages from users in the Tampa Bay area. It was created by Max and his father using a dedicated PC and phone line, with AI efforts later cracking its code after it had been lost for years.

Show HN: Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help

21 zoozla 2026-10-19 17:58:54 UTC github.com/finereli Llama Share 8

A reading app for kids to practice phonics sounds, with interactive features and customizable stories. The app can be built and customized by users using a provided GitHub repository.

Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks)

18 rafaeldavidtin 2026-10-19 14:31:27 UTC stealthium.io Llama Share 1

Researchers have discovered a new type of attack called Rank-One Model Editing (ROME) that corrupts AI model answers by modifying weights in GPU memory. Stealthium detects this attack through its runtime sensor, which ties CUDA kernel launches to the Python code that initiated them.

Agent-Skills.market

16 agentsmithvl 2026-10-19 05:58:46 UTC agent-skills.market Full Share 10

Curated agent skills for marketers, founders, designers, PMs, writers, and operators. Each skill is one click from your AI tool.

Beyond These Stars

13 doener 2026-10-19 14:06:10 UTC store.steampowered.com Llama Share 7

The game Beyond These Stars lets players build a city on the back of a space whale, Kewa, as it travels through the galaxy. Players must balance their people's needs with Kewa's and manage resources to ensure sustainability and progress.