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Submarine cable resilience

Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089229 Points: 102 # Comments: 27
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ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090246 Points: 377 # Comments: 170
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Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

Article URL: https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090369 Points: 121 # Comments: 21
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Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account for obivous reasons. It bounces everyone else. - Temporary. Lasts for a while (24h, 7days, etc) then bounces. Received messages stay or go as per your choice. - Prefix. The most powerful. Declare a prefix like "service" ...
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America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It

Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091875 Points: 53 # Comments: 15
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Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

Hi HN! I’m Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen. As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st. Four of us from the original CoScreen team have spent the last couple months building a free and open source pair programming tool inspired by those that came before us: It’s called Petal ( https://github.com/kiruna-labs/petal ) Some history first, because when we started CoScreen we had hoped to break the sad and established pattern of this industry. Screenhero wa...
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Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/13/suicide-rates-highest-ever-among-middle-aged-men/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093180 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
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Private equity ownership affects dental practices

Article URL: https://www.dentaleconomics.com/macro-op-ed/industry-news/news/55341670/how-does-private-equity-ownership-really-affect-dental-practices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093298 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Fujifilm’s new square format instant camera adds analog color filters

Continuing the analog approach of the Instax Square SQ6 that launched in 2018 and follow-ups like the Square SQ1 and SQ40, the new Fujifilm Instax Square 2 skips digital functionality while still introducing the ability to customize the look and feel of instant photos. A new mood filter switch slides one of two colored filters […]
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Epic is bringing Fortnite to Linux

Epic is working on bringing Fortnite to Linux through its Epic Games Launcher. The new launcher is releasing in preview today, and for the first time on Linux, and while Fortnite isn't available there just yet, Epic wants to make that a reality. So far, part of the reason Fortnite hasn't been available on Linux […]
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Epic’s new games launcher is ‘vibe coded’

Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is "way faster" and now supports Linux. But the company, which has been publicly making a big push into AI-assisted development, also notes that the refresh was "vibe coded." "Programming is hard," Epic says in […]
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Halo’s co-creator wrote a novel about AI taking over the world

Back in 2019, author Margaret Stohl was handed a manuscript written by Jason Jones, who's best known as the co-creator of sci-fi gaming series Halo and Destiny. The two had worked together at Bungie, and Jones wanted Stohl's opinion on a book he was writing about AI taking over the world. It was an oral […]
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$15 gets you Psychonauts 2, the latest Like a Dragon game, and more

There are several deals happening right now on video games and gaming-related tech that are worth sharing. To start, this month’s Humble Choice drop of Steam PC games is really good. The $14.99 per month service is offering subscribers Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Price of Persia: The Lost Crown, Psychonauts 2, Deep […]
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Ukraine claims Starlink is suddenly disrupting service for its military

Ukrainian officials claim the Elon Musk-owned Starlink put new limits on its service in the area without warning, disrupting the country's drone operations and missions, according to reports from Reuters and the Financial Times. The move comes just days after Musk wrote on X that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "has gone too far," in response […]
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HomeView doesn’t natively support any video apps yet — not even Apple’s

Apple says HomeView is "the perfect way" to enjoy its audio and video entertainment apps, but some notable examples like Apple TV only work if you AirPlay it through your iPhone. As noted on the HomeView spec page, Apple TV, Apple Books audiobooks, Apple Music Classical, and Apple News Plus aren't natively supported on the […]
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Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees

Following a report last week that Netflix was planning to lay off five percent of the company, today the streamer's co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters announced in an email that it would actually be laying off six percent of its workforce, or around 1,000 employees, according to Variety, which obtained a copy of the […]
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Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu

Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, […]
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