CNC Stone Carving

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Ancient architecture meets modern technology in the use of CNC machines to carve intricate details in Gothic churches, unlocking new possibilities for skilled carvers and young artists alike. The symbiotic relationship between programmers, sawyers, and CNC machines enables the creation of stunning 3D reliefs with unprecedented precision and speed.

Gemini 4 Carbon

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Gemini 4 Carbon is the strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities, ranking #1 on the v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59.

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

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Apple offers low monthly payments for new Macs with upgrade options, featuring high-performance displays and audio systems. Additionally, Apple provides various services like Personal Setup, education pricing, and recycling programs to support customers' needs.

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

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Anna should consider selling her condo in October 2026 or January 2027 to qualify for a tax exclusion, but Opus failed to warn her about the potential deadline. The AI agent's advice left Anna unaware of a critical issue that could impact her financial decision.

Start Doing Graph Theory

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Start Doing Graph Theory is an introductory textbook about using graph theory to solve puzzles, prove theorems, and everything in between. It is freely available (under a Creative Commons license) to read online or to download as a PDF file.

Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer

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Converge is building ad buying agents for consumer brands, seeking a founding engineer to own and build the platform. The ideal candidate will have strong coding skills, experience at scale, and a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems.

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

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The Grid is a US-based factory that builds circuit boards on demand using automation, offering faster and more reliable production than traditional quick-turn shops. It has already built tens of millions of dollars' worth of electronics in five years and plans to increase capacity fivefold this year.

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

Apple was notified of the eMudhra incident on October 17th, and macOS 27.2 did not fix the issue until then. The compromised certificates in developer tools still pose a risk to users, particularly with git and other Apple shipped tools.

Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

A collaborative tool for real-time slide sharing with live cursors and drawing. Users can join instantly, flip slides, and control access permissions.

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

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The author rebuilt their Unreal splat renderer to handle unlimited splats, using a streamed SOG format and implementing screen-space error for LOD selection. The renderer now loads chunks on demand, evicts unused ones from memory, and uses a simple culling policy to reduce overdraw.

AlpineBSD

AlpineBSD is an operating system based on NetBSD with a userspace inspired by Alpine Linux, aiming to use minimal AI-generated software. It has limited hardware support and no installer available, requiring adventurous users to follow a high-level installation guide.

The Agent SDK

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The Agent SDK allows software teams to build and deploy custom agents in code, automating recurring work across the development lifecycle. It enables teams to create tailored agents that respond to events, follow policies, and integrate with existing workflows.

Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel

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Regent Craft's 16.8-meter-long Viceroy, an electric wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) craft, has successfully completed its maiden flight and is being tested for commercial production starting in 2027.

Emacs Turns 50

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The first programmers used physical switches and paper tape to write code, while the 1970s saw the introduction of interactive computers with line editors. EMACS, a full-screen text editor developed in 1976, revolutionized programming by allowing users to see and modify multiple lines at once on a display.

From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

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The Wedgewood Polls scandal involved a fake polling firm releasing manipulated data to draw attention to low oversight in polling, fueling distrust in election polling and potentially bolstering "rigged election" claims. The revelation has sparked widespread conversation and framing contests across the political spectrum.

Ghostty 1.4

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Git for the US Code

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A programmer can track code changes, while lawyers rely on notes at the foot of statutes for similar information. Researchers are working to improve language models' ability to utilize proper lineage and temporal validity in legal research.

Genie 4

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Google has released Genie 4, a new world model that simulates real-world physics and human behavior in real-time. It enables interactive dialogue, audio-like music and ambient noises to be generated simultaneously with the world.

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

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Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

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A 25-year-old German photographer won the Nikon Small World competition with a striking image of ink drops being deposited on paper. He captured the image using a microscope and traditional techniques, without relying on AI.

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

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Survival LLM is a free AI assistant that provides trusted answers on various topics, including emergency situations and survival skills. It runs locally on your computer without requiring an internet connection after initial setup.

US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar

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Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

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The author decompiled the 2001 business simulator game Fast Food Tycoon 2, gaining insight into its complex rendering and scoring systems. The game's engine uses a combination of isometric city maps, sprite animations, and lighting effects to create a realistic atmosphere.

Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)

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Early AI programs were often also theories of how people think, and programs that wrote programs were, in part, theories of how people program. Here we report on the reanimation of two such programs that offer two seemingly different theories of programming and were developed for quite different purposes. The first, Herbert Simon's Heuristic Compiler (1961), was an experimental model of ...

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

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Tailscale SSH has identified security vulnerabilities related to privilege escalation, which can be exploited by authorized users. A patched client release is expected by the end of October 27, with updated access policies and configuration recommendations provided.

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

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Anthropic's life sciences team is accelerating disease cure development through partnerships with six organizations and in-house research. They aim to integrate AI into all stages of drug discovery, from target identification to clinical trials.

Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth

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A critical UEFI firmware vulnerability, CVE-2026-97631, has been discovered in the TianoCore EDK II codebase used by major server vendors and data centers. The vulnerability allows attackers to execute malicious code before Secure Boot and other defenses load.

MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

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The author has successfully installed Mac OS on an Apple Network Server (ANS) using a pre-production ROM and various software patches, including drivers for the internal video and Ethernet. The process involves installing the ANS MACE Fixer, ANS Video Enabler, and Startup Fixer extensions into the Extensions folder and Startup Items folder, respectively, before booting up the system with a ...

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight, promptable model for multilingual transcription, speaker attribution, translation, and audio Q&A with top leaderboard results. It can handle recordings up to an hour long and labels up to eight speakers.