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There has been no increase in car sales in China in over a decade

https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/2107227592151445963
1•JumpCrisscross•44s ago•0 comments

I don't trust Lean code from AI

https://karagila.org/2026/lean/
1•pieterk•50s ago•0 comments

Proof-of-Human

https://twitter.com/bzamayo/status/2108498107184934914
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor'

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/
1•CharlesW•1m ago•0 comments

Does written language speed up or slow down cultural change?

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/does-written-language-speed-up-or-slow-down...
1•theanonymousone•5m ago•0 comments

Python 3.15 Preview: Lazy Imports

https://realpython.com/python315-lazy-imports/
3•khalidkhair•6m ago•0 comments

Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
1•gmays•6m ago•0 comments

CAVEWOMAN: How LLMs Behave Under Linguistic Input and Output Compression

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24083
1•farlight•9m ago•0 comments

Google AI Edge Foresight – meeting notetaker on-device

https://developers.google.com/edge/foresight
1•dotmanish•9m ago•0 comments

AI and Bottlenecks in Software Production [pdf]

https://fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
2•tripleee•12m ago•1 comments

Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing?

https://transitions.substack.com/p/is-ai-killing-the-value-of-human
1•fsndz•12m ago•1 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
1•gregsadetsky•12m ago•0 comments

What if it could learn and update its own weights as it's being used?

https://twitter.com/ashxhart/status/2108580126094963038
1•jackbravo•13m ago•1 comments

Digital Independence Day

https://di.day/en
3•billybuckwheat•14m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Orleans

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/overview
1•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused

https://coloradosun.com/2026/10/06/flock-cameras-columbine-valley-police-colorado-lawsuit/
2•yodon•16m ago•0 comments

Lego Expert Builder Set #8860

https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/lego-expert-builder-set-8860
1•danfunk•18m ago•0 comments

I ranked 25 companies by 30-year durability and current valuation

https://michaelhillaert1.substack.com/p/30-year-durability-valuation-dislocation
1•michaelhillaert•20m ago•0 comments

Chrome 154 lets iframes size to their content with one line of CSS

https://alfy.blog/2026/10/09/iframe-that-finally-fit-their-content.html
2•acossta•22m ago•0 comments

FreeMiNT

https://github.com/freemint/freemint
1•reconnecting•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft invest in AI that could rewrite its apps from scratch?

4•amichail•26m ago•3 comments

Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy

https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-diesel-midterms-12baccc7aade559bf329079b0548c9da
3•softwaredoug•27m ago•1 comments

Takeshi's Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle
14•tosh•28m ago•5 comments

California woman accused of spying for China fights detention with $820K bond

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-woman-accused-spying-china-fights-detention-820k-proposed-s...
1•snarky-comments•28m ago•0 comments

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/world/canada/surgery-artificial-intelligence-canada.html
3•bookofjoe•35m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ponzi Potato – an incremental game about a potato pyramid scheme

https://www.ponzipotato.com
1•stophecom•37m ago•0 comments

Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal

https://github.com/clainstone/cbirds
12•epestr•38m ago•4 comments

Google DeepMind solves 9 Erdős problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22763
5•alfiopuglisi•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dotheystillmake.com – a memorial archive of discontinued snacks

https://dotheystillmake.com/
1•vvincent22•44m ago•0 comments

Dropbox Witchcraft

https://github.com/dropbox/witchcraft
2•tosh•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a
23•arkj•52m ago

Comments

verdverm•30m ago
boy do I wish US capitalism could chill on the consolidation...
tjwebbnorfolk•22m ago
I for one am excited by the prospect of a well-funded open-source competitor to Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Chinese models.
verdverm•20m ago
That can happen without consolidation, the funding is already so circular it's dizzying
kadoban•16m ago
I don't love that it's Nvidia. They're already in some weird incestuous thing with two of those three and the rest of the market.
afavour•12m ago
Eh, given the level of trading between NVidia and the established AI companies will it be a true competitor?
embedding-shape•18m ago
Back in the day, things like these were outlawed and the government tried to ensure competition in the markets:

> The major film studios owned the theaters where their motion pictures were shown, either in partnerships or outright. Thus, specific theater chains showed only the films produced by the studio that owned them. The studios created the films, had the writers, directors, producers and actors on staff (under contract), owned the film processing and laboratories, created the prints and distributed them through the theaters that they owned: In other words, the studios were vertically integrated, creating a de facto oligopoly. [...] Ultimately, this issue of the studios' then-alleged (and later upheld) illegal trade practices led to all the major movie studios being sued in 1938 by the U.S. Department of Justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....

Nowadays it seems like "vertically integrated" is something most companies openly aim for.

binary132•12m ago
Citizen Kane type stuff
seydor•10m ago
what are they going to do with all the free money people are investing on them?
maz1b•15m ago
Didn't they just recently invest in them? Curious about their strategy, considering NVIDIA already does Nemotron and i think diffusion models as well.
johnnyApplePRNG•9m ago
Their strategy is to prevent open models from proliferating, so their massive investments in these AI frauds are not completely unwound.

That's my take, at least.

Nemotron is TERRIBLE, and purposefully so. It must be.

They cannot be THAT BAD at training AI models. I don't believe it.

ReptileMan•7m ago
The other way. Nvidia would love open source jevon paradoxed ai - that would run inference on their chips.
kimixa•4m ago
But their goal would be to ensure it only runs on their chips, and not any competitors. I can't see how they could do that if the best models truely were "Open".

I can see one of Nvidia's biggest fears is the inference hardware becoming commoditised.

redanddead•3m ago
can someone weigh in on this. what's the actual play here

are they actually suppressing the western open models?

china doesn't give a fuck either way