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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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Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
Have you discovered daily routines and use cases that bring you back?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974436
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Wattle AI β an AI receptionist that answers and books calls for small businesses
Article URL: https://heywattle.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974522
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Plainserp β Google search API for AI agents at $0.30 per 1k
Article URL: https://plainserp.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974619
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Japan's entertainment robots diversify with AI, offer comfort
Article URL: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20261003/p2g/00m/0li/002000c
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974730
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Autonomous AI Agent Security Incidents of 2026 (Dataset and Defense Harness)
Article URL: https://github.com/mars2021y-gif/autonomous-ai-agent-security-incidents-2026
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974784
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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AI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/millennium-prize-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974823
Points: 1
# Comments: 2
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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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Autolith: A self-modifiable general purpose Lisp AI agent
Article URL: https://github.com/lambda-symbolics/autolith
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975081
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Big Blob of Compute: The Essay That Started the AI Race
Article URL: https://kevinroose.substack.com/p/the-essay-that-started-the-ai-race
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975089
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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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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Show HN: Thyme β A New AI-Based App Reverse Engineering Tool
Article URL: https://apppipeline.online/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975187
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
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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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SPUR: New standard for tracking AI tools' use of publishers' content
Article URL: https://digiday.com/media/spur-publishes-ai-content-tracking-standard-pitches-openai-and-google-to-join-advisory-board/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975340
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism
Article URL: https://news.osna.fm/german-military-intelligence-uses-ai-to-screen-bundeswehr-applicants-for-right-wing-extremism/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975484
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Everyone Is Marketing with AI, and Nobody Is Listening
Article URL: https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/everyone-is-marketing-with-ai-nobody-is-listening/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975491
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
Article URL: https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973598
Points: 138
# Comments: 182
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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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'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975464
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
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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 [β¦]
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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...

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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...

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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...