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Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/patches/2026/10/19/security-patches-need-patches-now-that-attackers-have-ai/5303927 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156529 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Personal AI on your Mac – SuperDuck.AI (beta testers wanted)

Personal AI has arrived, and it's now as easy as downloading a Mac app. SuperDuck.AI runs the model on your own Mac. Your conversations, your files, your notes stay on your machine. No account, no cloud AI needed. There's an iPhone/iPad app that talks to your Mac over an end-to-end encrypted link, so your phone gets the same AI, with the Mac's files and web access, wherever you are. Under the hood we bundle antirez's ds4 and other inference engines, so installing is one download and the models a...
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AI, Math, the Document-Drop. Non-Tech Thoughts

Article URL: https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/10/ai-math-document-drop-non-tech-thoughts.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156676 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Maali – Privacy-first personal finance app with a local AI analyst

I never felt comfortable signing up for cloud budgeting apps and having them store all of my financial data on their servers. I also didn't find locally hosted options that I liked using. That led me to build Maali ( https://maali.app ) over the past year. It is currently a Mac and Windows app that lets you track spending, budgets, recurring bills, income, net worth, and more. It stores all of your data on your computer. You can bring your data in by either manually importing bank statement file...
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What is still hard to become good at as AI makes coding easier?

Since LLMs came, how I build software changed for so many reasons. Since then, I’ve spent most of my time deciding what I want to build, how I want to build it, how I want to give the context, checking the result, seeing if there is an error, and paving the way for the LLM to do the right thing. And the difficult part, which is writing code and getting everything right, is handled by the LLM surprisingly well, from my work and the people around me and people who I look up to on the internet. Unt...
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The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ipo-private-trust-188f41f7?st=RtdGHg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151376 Points: 82 # Comments: 33
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Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used... https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152302 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
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Wine ported to OpenBSD

Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152307 Points: 399 # Comments: 122
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Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

Hi HN, I'm Gal from doubleAI. We've built Maxwell, a new kind of frontier model we call a Code Execution Model. It sits between your code and the hardware. No humans in the loop! Maxwell makes the code run faster as it runs, without ever changing a single line. Maxwell sees programs from the inside: traces, profiling information, and the data flowing through them. It adapts dynamically to the environment, including the hardware, what else is running, and what the inputs look like. Code execution...
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Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-hexacopter-rcna604310 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153664 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures

Hi HN, we’re Robert and Din from Laminar ( https://laminar.sh ). We’ve been building open-source observability for AI agents since 2024. Recently, we released flow-1, a model trained with RL to find errors in agent traces. On our benchmark ( https://laminar.sh/blog/flow-1 ), it matches GPT-6-sol in detection quality while being 23x cheaper. This makes it affordable to analyze every production agent trace, without sampling. Here’s a one-minute walkthrough: https://youtu.be/KJa3h6ZJNLQ We also p...
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Article URL: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154540 Points: 212 # Comments: 79
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Android apps running native on macOS

Article URL: https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154624 Points: 130 # Comments: 41
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Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

Article URL: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155245 Points: 147 # Comments: 60
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Show HN: Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help

My kid is 6 y/o and she is learning to read. She's moved through the basic phonics with Teach Your Monster to Read but was struggling with how repetitive it was. I wanted to give her some stories to read, but she still needed help sounding words out - and I wanted her to have the experience of sitting and reading by herself. So I built this book reader app to allow her to click on the words, sound out the phonemes, and read by herself. My 12 year old son wrote the first story, there's a cliffhan...
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The reverts will continue until morale improves

Article URL: http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2026/10/09/the-reverts-will-continue-until-morale-improves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156206 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
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Towards Company World Models

Article URL: https://www.beaconholdings.com/research/towards-company-world-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156332 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge

Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That […]
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Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down

If you spend any time on r/synthesizers or watch a lot of synth videos on YouTube, you've probably noticed the explosion of custom firmware for hardware synthesizers, samplers, and grooveboxes. What unites almost all of them is that they were made possible by increasingly sophisticated vibe coding tools. These sorts of custom firmware were exceedingly […]