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Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

https://meidasnews.com/news/zuckerbergs-meta-takes-down-no-kings-instagram-during-massive-protest-day

53 minutes ago

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends

1 hour ago

We ran 53 open-source AI agents through behavioral tests and filed 37 bugs

https://defuzex.ai/blog/we-ran-53-open-source-ai-agents-through-behavioral-tests-and-filed-37-bugs

1 hour ago

The (Overdue) Collapse of Oracle's $900B Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dne3rKiIn0

1 hour ago

Russian Bot Activity Collapses by 84% After Strikes on Yandex Data Centers

https://cpd.gov.ua/en/report/analytical-report-when-bots-go-silent-what-the-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-affected/

1 hour ago

OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111516673953935833

8 hours ago

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

17 hours ago

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DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017

17 hours ago

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/

12 hours ago

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Butlerian Jihad

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

23 hours ago

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neighborhood/

15 hours ago

Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using

12 hours ago

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Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

https://llmspeed.dev/

21 hours ago

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/

10 hours ago

Gold is now the top U.S. export

https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export

9 hours ago

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US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/the-us-federal-budget-deficit-for-2026-just-came-in-its-1992-trillion-191917669.html

11 hours ago

Source code of the Estonian online voting system

https://github.com/valimised/ivxv

22 hours ago

★ 415 Go

GLP-1 may slow biological aging

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/new-study-shows-popular-glp-1-weight-loss-drug-may-slow-biological-aging

10 hours ago

I Became a Citizen of Japan

https://www.derekwessman.com/blog-1/natural

8 hours ago

Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses

https://www.opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-surveillance-monitor-union-activity-uk-warehouses-birmingham-coventry-atlas-sutton-coldfield/

10 hours ago

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Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/israeli-settlers-attack-olive-farmers-west-bank-washington-post-journalist-heidi-levine

20 hours ago

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim

12 hours ago

★ 157 Rust MIT1 change

Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/

8 hours ago

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Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/17/israeli-settlers-attack-european-diplomatic-cars-in-west-bank-beat-french-mayor-say-witnesses_6758711_4.html

8 hours ago

OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/openai-discloses-four-more-rogue-incidents-involving-financial-medical-and-government-data/

9 hours ago

Super Intelligence

https://www.si.gov/

13 hours ago

Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not

https://doctor-seo.net/en/blog/news/chrome-edge-removing-xslt/

6 hours ago

Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/

12 hours ago

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/

22 hours ago

Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921

8 hours ago

★ 129.6k Rust Apache-2.01 change

JDK 28

https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/28/

4 hours ago

Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank

https://www.ft.com/content/35a08f82-6830-41fa-83ae-d3765f3970e0

6 hours ago

Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/microsoft-cmu-praise

7 hours ago

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The future of programming (1982)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358453.358459

14 hours ago

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Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech

10 hours ago

Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman-arrested-uber-eats-robot-protest/?l

2 hours ago

"Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands

https://nos.nl/video/2635315-wildcamera-s-tonen-hoe-zwijnen-en-herten-zich-aanpassen-aan-de-wolf

17 hours ago

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