Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

155 2sf5 2026-10-02 15:22:11 UTC home-assistant.io Llama Share 55

Nabu Casa is rebranding Home Assistant Cloud to "Home Assistant Link" to better reflect its values of privacy, transparency, and community support. The new name aims to distinguish it from other cloud-based smart home services that prioritize profit over user freedom.

Supabase Is Acquiring Turso

40 cvburgess 2026-10-02 15:45:11 UTC supabase.com Llama Share 7

Turso is joining Supabase to build a new database infrastructure for agentic AI, enabling easy creation and scaling of databases. This will bring the Supabase experience to every agent, with Turso's architecture providing on-demand access to SQLite for small workloads and Postgres for larger ones.

The Legend of von Neumann [pdf]

110 suopspaces 2026-10-02 13:22:11 UTC gwern.net Llama Share 59

John von Neumann was a renowned mathematician who made significant contributions to various fields, including quantum physics, logic, and computer science. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.

Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

21 nedrylandJP 2026-10-02 15:22:11 UTC support.soloist.ai Llama Share 26

Solo will shut down on November 30, 2026, and users can download website data from a ZIP file. A prorated refund for unused subscriptions will be issued to active Solo Pro or Grow subscribers.

Pi 1.0

1583 sergiotapia 2026-10-01 20:22:11 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 543

Earendil ships Pi 1.0, a hardened and minimal agent harness, after months of feedback from users. The new version adds features while maintaining its simplicity and supermalleability.

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

246 pietroppeter 2026-10-02 05:22:11 UTC inrng.com Llama Share 52

The Shimano Bicycle Museum in Sakai, Japan showcases a vast collection of bicycles with a focus on their history and evolution. The museum offers an engaging experience for visitors, featuring exhibits on various types of bikes and educational materials about the science behind them.

Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code

22 evakhoury 2026-10-02 14:22:11 UTC liquidbrain.net Llama Share 5

The author wants to distinguish between different people's texts on their iPhone, as they often receive irrelevant messages. They created custom text tones using Morse Code of each person's initials, but wish for an automated way to do this in the future.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

481 luispa 2026-10-01 23:22:11 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 339

The Debian Security Advisory DSA-6528-1 has been released to address several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, including privilege escalation and information leaks. The stable distribution (trixie) has been updated to version 6.12.111-1, and users are recommended to upgrade their linux packages for security reasons.

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

99 vltmrkls 2026-10-02 08:22:11 UTC github.com/kvoltmer Llama Share 37

Audionaut is a free, open-source desktop application for audio editing and recording with precise cutting and clean exports. It runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux with optional analysis features that link against a static build of the Essentia submodule.

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

447 supermdguy 2026-10-01 23:22:11 UTC frogandtoad.ai Full Share 97

Frog and Toad face the most modern of challenges

Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step

5 mrkn1 2026-10-02 15:22:11 UTC arxiv.org LocalLLM Share 0

ProVer improves credit assignment in agentic reinforcement learning by selectively verifying pivotal decisions. It outperforms GRPO on multiple benchmarks, showing significant performance gains with efficient segment selection.

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

582 jasondavies 2026-10-01 16:22:11 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 211

Cloudflare is releasing two decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, which can produce bounded structured outputs quickly and consistently. These models are designed to work with various inputs without retraining, contrasting with Large Language Models (LLMs).

A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

20 paimapi 2026-10-02 15:32:11 UTC biometricupdate.com Llama Share 3

The US government has launched America.gov, a single AI-powered gateway to federal information and services with an explicit privacy promise. However, its authentication system uses a long-lived browser identifier that raises concerns over user tracking and data retention.

SvelteKit 3

368 sampsn 2026-10-01 20:22:11 UTC svelte.dev Llama Share 158

SvelteKit has been updated with polish, type safety, and fewer issues. A migration guide is available to help users adapt to the changes.

AI Makes Me Sad

118 mondobe 2026-10-02 15:22:11 UTC mondobe.com Llama Share 114

The author feels hopeless about the impact of AI on their industry, fearing it will make them obsolete and stifle creativity. They yearn for an industry that makes sense, where humans can work meaningfully without relying on AI-generated solutions.

The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

18 haute_cuisine 2026-10-02 15:22:11 UTC distantprovince.substack.com Full Share 3

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

503 chmaynard 2026-10-01 17:22:11 UTC blog.gitbutler.com Llama Share 475

The upcoming Git 3.0 release is planning to change its default hashing algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-256, but this may cause significant problems for the ecosystem due to compatibility issues and increased complexity. The author suggests an alternative approach of independently rehashing tree contents with a different algorithm and injecting that header into signed objects, which could provide ...

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

354 Kuyawa 2026-10-02 03:22:11 UTC deepseek.com Llama Share 180

DeepSeek Harness is now in public preview worldwide, offering composable plugins to extend agent capabilities and tools. Users can create custom plugins or use existing ones to analyze documents, write code, and schedule tasks.

Pi Durable

458 paulsmith 2026-10-01 20:22:11 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 64

Earendil and the Pi community have released Pi 1.0, a solid foundation for building agentic applications, along with an experimental new package called Pi Durable that enables long-running, durable agents to run anywhere.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

244 whoishiring 2026-10-01 16:22:11 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 238

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Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

14 Betelbuddy 2026-10-02 15:27:11 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 3

Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter may miss its 2027 start date due to transmission infrastructure delays. The project faces a risk of slipping beyond the planned second-half-of-2027 delivery target, according to research company Aterio.

Turbo Haskell

175 pjmlp 2026-10-02 01:22:11 UTC comonad.com Llama Share 44

A Haskell compiler called THC has been developed to run on the JVM, implementing all of GHC 9.14.1's prim-ops and providing a JIT for GHC Core, allowing it to compile and execute Haskell programs efficiently. THC supports various features like Template Haskell, Linear Haskell, polyglot FFI with other languages, and SIMD instructions.

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

608 Snowly 2026-10-01 16:22:11 UTC github.com/streetcomplete Llama Share 168

This ticket aims to coordinate iOS port development for StreetComplete, a mapping app written in 100% Kotlin. Contributions are welcome and can be found on the Project Board with detailed steps outlined.

GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow

10 almostlit 2026-10-02 13:22:11 UTC agent-wow.sh Llama Share 2

An LLM-powered agent has successfully completed a World of Warcraft quest, demonstrating its ability to play the game without explicit training. The agent used data mining and protocol layer interactions to complete the task efficiently.

Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

237 rafaelc 2026-10-01 21:22:11 UTC automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu Llama Share 198

We tested 21 vehicles and found that most contacted third-party advertisers over Wi-Fi, with some apps sharing sensitive data. Vehicle owners have limited control over data sharing due to complex systems.

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

202 benbreen 2026-10-01 21:22:11 UTC resobscura.substack.com Full Share 64

RIP, vector database

367 razin 2026-10-01 16:22:11 UTC turbopuffer.com Llama Share 102

Turbopuffer is changing its storage architecture to improve performance and scalability for non-vector query plans. The new engine, called turbopuffer v3, will allow for faster queries and better handling of large datasets.

Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

269 nkw 2026-10-01 16:22:11 UTC rtl-sdr.com Llama Share 53

Researchers discovered an undocumented feature in ESP32 WiFi microcontrollers that allows them to capture raw IQ baseband samples, enabling use as a software-defined radio (SDR) covering 2.4-6 GHz frequencies. This breakthrough enables direction finding and phase-coherent IQ sample capture on arbitrary signals, but not continuous demodulation or decoding without additional hardware.

Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

187 stabbles 2026-10-01 18:22:11 UTC stoppels.ch Full Share 229

Has this happened? Voting has closed. See the results.

CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

146 sea-gold 2026-10-01 22:22:11 UTC cssbed.com Llama Share 44

This is a collection of classless CSS themes for web development, offering small size and no learning curve. The code provided includes examples of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.