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HN Feature Request: Option to hide repetitive AI complaints

A steady number of HN discussions seem to get sidetracked by generic complaints about AI, without adding any value. But they get upvoted. It would be nice to have an optional setting to collapse these comments. Going a step further, perhaps warning commenters when they post could lead to more thoughtful discussions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061936 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Bad "AI Consciousness Takes" Bingo

Article URL: https://www.polytropolis.com/p/bad-ai-consciousness-takes-bingo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061960 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 Points: 202 # Comments: 360
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Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055375 Points: 144 # Comments: 129
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(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

Article URL: https://words.filippo.io/right-answers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055409 Points: 54 # Comments: 7
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GLM-Legal

Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058507 Points: 286 # Comments: 162
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A Modern Web App in C

Article URL: https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528 Points: 211 # Comments: 85
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Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 ( https://agent37.com ). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox. You can view a video walkthrough of the product here: https://youtu.be/DK5ISR2tbNo We started as one of those OpenClaw wrapper companies back in February (yup.. judge me). In time we added more and more harnesses. One of the goals I had at the time was to offer a free plan to users, so as...
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Muse Wonder

Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115 Points: 349 # Comments: 158
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Thinking will become a hobby

Article URL: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059204 Points: 115 # Comments: 139
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My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060296 Points: 29 # Comments: 2
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Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060674 Points: 40 # Comments: 24
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Introducing OpenFatigue

Article URL: https://openfatigue.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061278 Points: 52 # Comments: 12
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How Apple can win the smart home

This week, Apple is hosting its first-ever dedicated smart home event. While the company hasn't shared details about what it will reveal at the "Welcome Home experience" in New York City on Tuesday, October 13th, it doesn't take an army of internet sleuths to deduce we'll get news about Apple Home - specifically, new hardware. […]
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Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will […]
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The Fitbit Edge is for folks who don’t want to go totally screenless

The Fitbit Edge may not be Google's best-kept fitness-tracking secret, but as of today, its existence is official. The tracker sits smack-dab between the recently launched Fitbit Air and the more powerful Google Pixel Watch 5 in the company's current wearable lineup. Basically, if you have smartwatch fatigue but don't want to give up notifications, […]