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Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/ball-screws-military-production.html
2•Animats•1h ago

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Animats•1h ago
There's a ball screw shortage.

The link is to a rather condescending NYT article.

Here's a more detailed article for people who actually need ball screws.[1] Only very high precision ball screws, like the ones for CNC machine positioning, some robots, and semiconductor wafer positioning, are really in short supply.

[1] https://www.sourcebyspec.com/news/ball-screw-supply-shortage...

1.3M free proxies → only the ones that work open source

https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper
1•taventix•1m ago•1 comments

'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/25/midterms-partisan-ai-chatbots-01092138
1•JumpCrisscross•1m ago•0 comments

Death Rates for Young American Adults Jumped 71% in Just over a Decade

https://studyfinds.com/death-rates-for-americans-ages-25-44-jumped-71-in-just-over-a-decade/
2•pseudolus•4m ago•1 comments

Bob Chapek Is So Not over Getting Fired from Disney

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bob-chapek-is-so-not-over-getting-fired-from-disney-f96bafcc
1•ksec•5m ago•0 comments

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

https://parsingphase.dev/tech/LLMs/ydnht.html
1•monkaiju•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it

https://heysquint.com/
1•splurf•5m ago•0 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
1•birdculture•6m ago•0 comments

Deepfates/imp: declarative self-improving language-model programs for Elixir

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
1•mpweiher•7m ago•0 comments

Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse AI Agent from Its Retail Site

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-21/amazon-blocks-meta-s-muse-ai-agent-from-its-re...
2•jcfrei•9m ago•0 comments

AI Companies Say They're Investigating Rogue Bot Incidents

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/rest-assured-ai-companies-say-theyre-investigating-t...
2•cdrnsf•12m ago•0 comments

Boonful – Claude Code can publish and sell what it builds

https://boonful.io
1•atifhub•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books

https://rare-books.vercel.app
2•miletus•19m ago•0 comments

XiaomiMiMo / MiMo-v2.6-RL-OSS (Agentic RL Environments)

https://huggingface.co/datasets/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-RL-oss
1•handfuloflight•19m ago•0 comments

The Anti-Cheat and Toxicity Detection (2025)

https://blog.grid.gg/the-ultimate-anti-cheat-and-toxicity-detection-powered-by-getgud-io-grid-bf0...
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

We built DeepL's next-generation LLMs with FP8 for training and inference (2025)

https://www.deepl.com/en/blog/tech/next-generation-llm-fp8-training
1•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Heypcb: Figma for Hardware, with AI

https://heypcb.ai
1•handfuloflight•20m ago•0 comments

Program Integrity Is a Team Sport

https://pplfirst.com/blogs/program-integrity-is-a-team-sport/
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Totlajtol, a digital repository of colonial documents in Nahuatl, is presented

https://www.udg.mx/en/index.php/noticia/presentan-totlajtol-repositorio-digital-de-documentos-col...
2•bryanrasmussen•21m ago•0 comments

Claude Pop – I'm Upping My P(Doom) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-hR4fJywU
1•Cider9986•21m ago•0 comments

Two Paths to Math Everest

https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/two-paths-to-math-everest
1•VStack•21m ago•0 comments

Open firmware for the Echo Show 5, first and 2nd gen: Alpine Linux

https://github.com/HuskerMinion/techo5
3•riddley•22m ago•0 comments

Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00206
2•theanonymousone•22m ago•0 comments

DuckDB and Hugging Face: Querying Datasets Directly

https://duckdb.org/2026/09/25/hugging-face
1•theanonymousone•22m ago•0 comments

Scoop: Anthropic's Dario Amodei to Have White House Dinner with Trump

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/27/anthropic-trump-dario-amodei-dinner-invite
2•theanonymousone•23m ago•0 comments

We made our launch video with Claude Code (and open-sourced the tool)

https://kiln.tech/blog/we_made_our_launch_video_in_claude_code
1•scosman•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: App2Api; App actions into API calls for LLMs

https://app2api.com/
1•flkdnfsnsf•25m ago•0 comments

Boeing flags 737 MAX software glitch affecting some automated approach functions

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/boeing-737-max-navigation-software-glitch.html
3•pseudolus•26m ago•0 comments

Sixteen Models Walk into a Storefront

https://rynr.dev/blog/shoppingmodels/
1•emschwartz•27m ago•0 comments

Waymo says it has stopped 841 injuries in 271M autonomous miles

https://electrek.co/2026/09/24/waymo-says-it-has-stopped-841-injuries-in-271-million-autonomous-m...
1•pseudolus•28m ago•0 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
2•bingden•31m ago•1 comments