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Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-...
1•f-serif•43s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distance Fields Visualization

https://visualrambling.space/distance-fields/
1•damarberlari•1m ago•0 comments

Coding Agents Build For The Grader They Imagine, Not The User

https://joinhandshake.com/research/ai/deepswe-reward-hacking/
1•optimalsolver•2m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Starshield

https://www.spacex.com/starshield
1•asjkff•2m ago•0 comments

GDP: The Only Number That Matters

https://www.vox.com/policy/471950/gross-domestic-product-economics-metrics-growth
1•barry-cotter•3m ago•0 comments

US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/us-rep-proposes-bill-to-give-video-game-buyers-ownership-n...
3•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

Pactern Language: Delegate the code. Keep the contract

https://andrewarrow.dev/pactern/
1•andrewfromx•7m ago•0 comments

Category theory is hilariously recursive

https://t3.at/blog/2025-10-12-categories/
1•andsoitis•7m ago•0 comments

Can Science Save Meetings?

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/can-science-save-meetings
2•pseudolus•7m ago•0 comments

When the KV Cache Is Slower Than the GPU: Scaling Remote KV Tiers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21500
1•wondersky•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DocuMemory – Persistent memory and context for AI coding tools

https://www.documemory.dev/
1•veryslowcode•8m ago•0 comments

Petal, the first petabit transoceanic fiber cable

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/new-4-300-mile-long-internet-cable-will-shu...
2•geox•10m ago•0 comments

GhostAction hid a credential stealer in a fake font file in 94 GitHub repos

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/ghostaction-copycats-polinrider-by-hiding-a-stealer-in-a-fake-...
3•wondersky•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An open-source curation of most useful ChatGPT Plugins

https://github.com/Asdivyansh/Awesome-ChatGPT-Plugins
1•AsDivyansh•11m ago•0 comments

Software is recursive and AI is the base case

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-06-ai-base-case/
1•andsoitis•13m ago•0 comments

Chinese Automakers Are Building American-Style Cars–Just Not for Americans

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/chinese-automakers-are-building-american-style-carsjust-not-fo...
1•bookofjoe•14m ago•1 comments

Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cannot-guarantee-roadster-reservation-holders-will-ever-get-a...
4•healsdata•14m ago•1 comments

The Model Is the Company

https://alexwang.ai/posts/the-model-is-the-company/
1•andsoitis•18m ago•0 comments

The Cory Arcangel Hack

http://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15779.001.0001
2•jruohonen•19m ago•0 comments

NPCs can talk back now

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1x93coy/npcs_can_talk_back_now_from_universal_modder_on_x/
3•doppp•21m ago•0 comments

Building a multiplayer terrain sandbox that stores 8x less data than Minecraft

https://moai.studio/blog/posts/veld-heightfield-sparse-edits.html
1•ionwake•22m ago•0 comments

Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/theranos-trump-nathan-fielder/689001/
2•fortran77•25m ago•0 comments

Okl – hold your agent to rules proven by checks and gated at push

https://github.com/emeraldleaf/okl
1•emeraldleaf•26m ago•0 comments

Founder Profiles

https://www.founderprofiles.ai/
2•simonpure•29m ago•0 comments

I spent three weeks trying to bridge Reticulum onto HF [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbl5FL-nsI
1•Bluestein•30m ago•0 comments

The best in the world is not a global competition

https://herbertlui.net/the-best-in-the-world-is-not-a-global-competition/
1•herbertl•35m ago•0 comments

In 23 of 24 categories, AI answer engines recommend one brand in every query

https://noniner.io/report/state-of-ai-brand-visibility-2026
2•fredxhansson•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN:MockForge – Lightweight, zero-dependency Python API and Webhook

https://github.com/alessio1999xx-debug/pyforge-task-Mockforge
4•AlessioDev•41m ago•0 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
31•RobotToaster•42m ago•4 comments

Faster, Better, Stronger is not a Strategy

https://serce.me/posts/2026-10-16-faster-better-stronger-is-not-a-strategy
3•SerCe•44m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

Comments

sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.