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Nvidia-backed Upscale AI launches platform to connect chips from rival suppliers
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-backed-upscale-ai-launches-platform-connect-chips-rival-suppliers-2026-10-08/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034953
Points: 1
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Is AI Psychosis Real?
Article URL: https://debarshibasak.github.io/readables/blogs/ai-psychosis-is-real
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035011
Points: 3
# Comments: 5
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AI Is Getting Good at Messing with Cybercriminals
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-getting-really-good-at-messing-with-cybercriminals/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035092
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Computer scientist David Silver: 'Where are we going without AI?'
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/462c303b-b96c-4262-a7ca-e9ae7e440828
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035207
Points: 3
# Comments: 1
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Best Free AI APIs for Developers in 2026
Article URL: https://freeapihub.com/blog/best-free-ai-apis-developers
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035478
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/anthropic-ai-model-submits-false-homicide-tip-police-website-2026-10-09/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035550
Points: 37
# Comments: 25
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Is AI eating marketing jobs?
Article URL: https://medium.com/@whurthay/ai-is-automating-marketings-feedback-loop-2da124ead7f8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035614
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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AI Driving Game Demo Forces Developer to Take Out Bank Loan to Keep It Running
Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/ai-driving-game-demo-bank-loan
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035668
Points: 2
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ShareBox β share the web tools your AI agent builds, like a Google Doc
Article URL: https://github.com/zalaso/sharebox
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035691
Points: 2
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Show HN: Flopper is a hardware explorer for AI infrastructure and beyond
Hello! I built Flopper to make it easier to compare GPUs and understand the tradeoffs for workloads for AI and beyond. When researching GPUs from say Nvidia, AMD, and Huawei, I kept running into the same problem: specs were scattered across datasheets, and matching them to available configurations, vendors, and prices was cumbersome and a bit weird and frankly annoyingggg! AMD made me make an account :( So I started a place to bring that information together. Flopper lets you compare GPU specs, ...
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Nvidia in talks to acquire Reflection AI (makers of Beam)
Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/nvidia-in-talks-to-acquire-reflection-ai-ft
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035862
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Phonebox β Cloud Android phones for AI agents
Article URL: https://phonebox.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035912
Points: 5
# Comments: 2
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Ask HN: Why did Microsoft invest in AI that could rewrite its apps from scratch?
Maybe they didn't anticipate how good AI would become at vibe coding apps in general and its office apps in particular?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036146
Points: 4
# Comments: 3
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Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing?
Article URL: https://transitions.substack.com/p/is-ai-killing-the-value-of-human
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036289
Points: 1
# Comments: 1
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AI and Bottlenecks in Software Production [pdf]
Article URL: https://fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036294
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Google AI Edge Foresight β meeting notetaker on-device
Article URL: https://developers.google.com/edge/foresight
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036318
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor'
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036390
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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I don't trust Lean code from AI
Article URL: https://karagila.org/2026/lean/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036397
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?
If AI took away my job and I cannot return to software engineering, I cannot imagine a fit for me at any place yet. I was wondering if anyone else had the same thought and what would you do?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036432
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Unikernels were hard. key word: were
Article URL: https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033357
Points: 17
# Comments: 10
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033638
Points: 119
# Comments: 60
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PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
Article URL: https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/popvax-goes-clinical
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033721
Points: 83
# Comments: 16
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Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
Article URL: https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035530
Points: 15
# Comments: 1
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Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/we-might-be-cooked-as-these-vibe-coded-web-browser-ports-of-halo-the-simpsons-hit-and-run-and-gta-vice-city-seem-to-work-perfectly-2000743300
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035561
Points: 38
# Comments: 29
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Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035886
Points: 29
# Comments: 15
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Takeshi's Castle
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036119
Points: 17
# Comments: 5

π Wired
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
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The techlash has gone Hollywood
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AI agent makers are promising privacy β will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. [β¦]