Designing a Market-Maker Circuit Breaker for Toxic Order Flow
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Designing a Market-Maker Circuit Breaker for Toxic Order Flow

The article discusses a circuit breaker for market makers to protect against adverse selection in bursts, particularly during news shocks and prediction-market sweeps. The breaker uses a combination of metrics, including VPIN, L1/L2 orderbook imbalance, and robust volume Z-score, to detect when order flow turns toxic. It then fires cancellation callbacks and signed webhooks for resting maker quotes to prevent informed traders from picking them
You Can Win the Lawsuit and Still Lose the Public
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You Can Win the Lawsuit and Still Lose the Public

A legal victory does not guarantee a reputational one. Here are four principles for managing communications, stakeholders and public trust during litigation.
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Infidel goes wild

Article URL: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943637 Points: 93 # Comments: 14
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Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

Article URL: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959869 Points: 102 # Comments: 47
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Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season

While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon, from the new wave band Lucky Pierre (which Reznor was briefly a member of). While Reznor is only credited as the producer on four tracks off Prick's self-titled debut record, his fingerprints […]
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The new Fitbit Edge leaks

We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted by Android Headlines, you can see that Google's rumored fitness tracker sort of splits the difference between the Pixel Watch and […]
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Badge Studio: Private, Local AI Sticker Ideas for Any Celebration

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built A friend of mine recently got married and wanted to make their own version of the familiar “I Demoed” sticker with custom wording. The existing design was great inspiration, but it was not flexible enough for the moment. I've done custom hexes before, and the curve of the text is super annoying to self make for someone less familiar with design. So moving forward, I wanted a tool to m...
You Said You'd: A 100% Local AI Commitment Tracker for Forgetful Friends
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You Said You'd: A 100% Local AI Commitment Tracker for Forgetful Friends

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built * "You Said You'd" * is a local, privacy-first AI commitment tracker. I built this for a friend who is incredibly busy and constantly making casual promises in WhatsApp and Telegram groups ("I'll send you that link tomorrow", "Let's grab lunch next week", "I owe you $20 for the tickets"). Unsurprisingly, these casual commitments get lost in the noise of group chats, leading to fo...
ReadEase: Building an Assistive Reading Studio for My Friend’s Mom with Dyslexia
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ReadEase: Building an Assistive Reading Studio for My Friend’s Mom with Dyslexia

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built ReadEase for my friend’s mom, who has lived with dyslexia her entire life. Whenever she tries to read online articles, long emails, recipes, or digital documents, letters often seem to flip, rotate, and crowd together on the screen. The harsh glare of standard white web pages causes severe eye fatigue and headaches within minutes. Over the years, she found herself having to ask fami...
Just Pick For Me: A Restaurant Picker for My Mom That Runs Entirely in Her Browser
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Just Pick For Me: A Restaurant Picker for My Mom That Runs Entirely in Her Browser

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built My mom has the hardest time picking a restaurant, and I'm not much help either. It's not that there are too many places, or not enough. We just can never figure out what we want, so it always ends with "just pick someplace." Just Pick For Me was born from that. Instead of showing her a long list, it asks four easy "this or that" questions (sit down or grab-and-go, light or hearty...
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Total Draw App Seeks Optimal Color Blending Method: Gamma, Linear, or Perceptual for Accurate Mixing

Introduction Total Draw, a popular drawing app known for its intuitive interface and robust features, has recently faced a critical challenge: inaccurate and visually unappealing color mixing. This issue has sparked a deep dive into the technical underpinnings of color blending methods, specifically the trade-offs between gamma-based, linear-based, and perceptual-based approaches. The choice isn’t merely academic—it directly impacts user satisfaction and the app’s competitive edge in a m...
NoPlanB: An AI Execution Engine to Cure Productive Procrastination
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NoPlanB: An AI Execution Engine to Cure Productive Procrastination

For the Hacktoberfest 2026 Weekend Challenge ("Build for a Friend"), I decided to tackle a problem that has paralyzed a close friend of mine for years: Productive Procrastination. My friend has an incredibly elaborate Obsidian vault. They have nested folders for 2026 goals, 5-year plans, and daily habits. They spend hours organizing these notes, researching the "best backend frameworks," and restructuring their markdown files. But when it comes time to actually sit down and write code? They...
Chad Vocab: Vocabulary practice with local Gemma!
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Chad Vocab: Vocabulary practice with local Gemma!

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built Chad Vocab is a self-hosted vocabulary trainer I built for Chad , a friend who is learning Polish . He is able to enter his own language pairs, or photograph a text book page, which gets converted into a vocabulary deck. He can make other language pairs and other decks, if needed. In this demo, he gets English cues and answers in Polish — by typing or speaking. Near-miss answer...
Explainable Causal Reinforcement Learning for satellite anomaly response operations with zero-trust governance guarantees
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Explainable Causal Reinforcement Learning for satellite anomaly response operations with zero-trust governance guarantees

Explainable Causal Reinforcement Learning for satellite anomaly response operations with zero-trust governance guarantees Introduction: A Signal in the Noise Last year, while deep in a late-night experiment with a multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) system, I hit a wall that fundamentally changed how I think about autonomous decision-making. I had built a small constellation simulator—twelve virtual satellites, a ground station, and a policy network trained to respond to tel...