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The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-center-memory-chip-shortage-cheap-smartphones-digital-divide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974238 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
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Coyote vs. ACME pro AI rights?

Enjoyed CvA last night & had strong sentiment of AI rights subtext, anyone else? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974374 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Our minds aren't equipped to handle AI

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1003794/ai-education-computational-model-thought Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974928 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Ask HN: Would you pay for saving AI cost?

I was testing a bunch of token saving techniques and tools for my coding agent, and surprisingly it can save 20-60% cost. I bet most people do not want to pay attention on cost saving tricks every time while building, so I'm curious if people will pay for someone else to reduce their Ai bills. and what would you need to see before trusting to pay and how much? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975157 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
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Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1143813/bringing-predictive-analytics-to-the-agentic-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975292 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

Article URL: https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973878 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
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We are going to kill "unalive"

Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975083 Points: 23 # Comments: 8
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Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late

Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late" and "Call […]
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My job search API returned the same job five times β€” the apply URL gave away the dedup key

I wired up a live job search endpoint expecting the hard part to be the search. It wasn't. The hard part was that the market sells the same job five times. My demo query was "python developer" + remote. Thirty results, and four were the same Berlin fintech requisition β€” indexed by three aggregators plus the company's own board, each with a mangled title ("Sr. Python Dev", "Senior Python Developer (m/f/d)"), different scraped snippets, different dates. Naive fixes failed fast: exact ti...
Ontological Shock at Altitude
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Ontological Shock at Altitude

Travis Turner closed the first day of Rocky Mountain Ruby with a term I hadn't heard before: ontological shock. It's what happens when something new fundamentally disturbs your sense of being, and he argued that programmers are feeling it right now. The worries about job duties, tooling, and job security sit downstream of it. The next afternoon, Alan Ridlehoover used the same phrase in the closing keynote to describe his own work. By then it felt like the name for the whole conference. ...
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Six "Different" Docker Errors That Were All the Same Bug: A Lesson in Configuration Drift

Over a couple of weeks working on our team's Docker setup, I hit what looked like six unrelated failures. A password rejected by Postgres. A connection refused. A port already allocated. Another password rejected, again. Another connection refused, again. By the fourth or fifth one, I noticed something: every single error, despite looking different on the surface, traced back to the exact same root cause. None of them were bugs in the application. All of them were configuration disagreeing with ...
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After CVE-2026-104286: A Compromise Assessment Plan for FortiMail

After CVE-2026-104286: A Compromise Assessment Plan for FortiMail Start from the exploitation window CVE-2026-104286 is a CVSS 9.8 path traversal in Fortinet FortiMail that allows unauthenticated file writes through crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. Fortinet reports exploitation in the wild, and CISA added the issue to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 1, 2026. If the management interface was internet-reachable, assume the window applies and investigate rat...
Stop Paying Per Seat: A 2026 Pricing Teardown of 10 Social Media Automation Tools
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Stop Paying Per Seat: A 2026 Pricing Teardown of 10 Social Media Automation Tools

Most social media automation tools promise the same things on their landing pages: a visual content calendar, an AI caption assistant, suggested best times, and analytics reports. The real differences only surface when you dig into how they bill you, how well they support platforms like X and LinkedIn, and whether they can automatically recycle your best posts. To make this comparison concrete, we use a fixed example setup throughout: 3 social media accounts managed by a team of 3 people who dra...
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Fridge Forecast: a weekly outdoor plan you print once and never look up again

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Apps that tell you to go outside have an obvious flaw: you have to open an app. Fridge Forecast moves the whole thing onto paper. Once a week, you export your calendar and run one command. It finds the free windows in your week, checks the forecast for each, and prints a one-page card for the fridge showing the best times to go outside and what to do with them. After that, t...