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Ben Affleck Sold His AI Company for $587M [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXEWrT3Ld8
1•dboreham•43s ago•0 comments

Bank of America added 1k contractors to patch AI-exposed software flaws

https://runtimewire.com/article/bank-of-america-mythos-contractors-software-patching
2•runtimewire•6m ago•1 comments

Epic Games Launcher Preview

https://launcher.epicgames.com/
1•runtimewire•7m ago•0 comments

Local Model Guide – Find what LLMs fit on your machine

https://localmodelguide.com/
1•hiveindex•7m ago•0 comments

Netflix lays off 6% of staff in biggest job cuts since 2022

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/netflix-lays-off-6-of-staff-in-biggest-job-cuts-since-2022-134352...
2•BiraIgnacio•8m ago•0 comments

The genetic technique that finds almost every infection

https://web.archive.org/web/20261014232102/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261013-how-metage...
1•BiraIgnacio•8m ago•1 comments

1991 Federal Panel Blasted Vaccine Unavailability That Led to a Measles Epidemic

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/13/in-1991-federal-panel-blasts-vaccine-unavailability-that-led-...
1•hn_acker•8m ago•1 comments

TezGrid: AI inference on idle computers

https://tezgrid.com/
1•ms7892•9m ago•0 comments

GGUF: GGML Universal File

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGUF
2•teleforce•10m ago•0 comments

Frontier models score under 2/100 controlling a simulated humanoid

https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/robo_bench
5•miyukimatthews•10m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Revenue Jumps to $16.8B in Quarter Before IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/anthropic-revenue-jumps-to-16-8-billion-in-qua...
2•marc__1•13m ago•0 comments

Lunchables of UI Work

https://blog.exe.dev/implementation-fidelity
1•azimman•14m ago•0 comments

Backlash against data centres could shape the US midterm elections

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rezqpnekro
1•dabinat•18m ago•2 comments

RustGIS

https://rustgis.app/
2•jonbaer•18m ago•0 comments

Ablation is an autonomous reverse engineering system

https://github.com/Ablation-Tool/ablation
1•zellkernel•21m ago•0 comments

Things we wish we'd known before building an AI chat agent

https://trigger.dev/blog/seven-tips-for-building-better-chat-agents
1•shikhar•21m ago•0 comments

DHS Inspector General: TSA Is Not Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/dhs-inspector-general-finds-tsa-not-properly-safeguarding-p...
1•hn_acker•22m ago•1 comments

Osint Report on Hybrid Warfare by Russia – Entelligencia

https://entelligencia.report/weekly/04/
2•entelligencia7•22m ago•0 comments

GLP-1 Drugs Cut Schizophrenia Hospital Visits, Study Finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/glp-1-drugs-cut-schizophrenia-hospital-visits-...
2•toomuchtodo•22m ago•1 comments

ICE Wants to Use AI to Monitor Detainee Calls and Movements

https://www.washingtonsun.com/immigration/ice-ai-monitor-detainees
5•hn_acker•25m ago•0 comments

What If AI Is the End of the World?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-end-of-world-meaning/688977/
4•7777777phil•27m ago•0 comments

"Addictive Features" Social Media Restrictions on Minors Likely Constitutional

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/14/florida-addictive-features-social-media-restrictions-on-mino...
1•delichon•28m ago•0 comments

Morph Map – Visualise your codebase, sketch a refactor, and export the prompt

https://github.com/dannynatha-max/morph-map
1•dannynatha•29m ago•0 comments

A friend of mine built an agent-first group chat/social network

https://lamoom.com/
3•mikemilla•30m ago•2 comments

Under the hood, off the hot path: How D1 scales to databases

https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-control-plane/
1•Icathian•40m ago•0 comments

Rustuna: A faster Optuna implementation in Rust

https://rustuna.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
1•jonbaer•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lection – describe the data you want, get a table from any web page

https://www.lection.app
1•jlauf•42m ago•0 comments

Google's Fitbit Edge Has Health Features and a Replaceable Battery

https://www.engadget.com/2283307/googles-sleek-new-fitbit-edge-is-packed-with-health-features-and...
2•gmays•43m ago•0 comments

DuoDiscover: Scaling Autonomous Discovery Beyond the Evaluation Bottleneck

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17184
1•matt_d•44m ago•0 comments

AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/ian-penman/ab-fab
2•feltsense•45m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Fantastic Canvas

https://github.com/aisixteen/fantastic
2•Alexadar•58m ago
Fantastic is my own harness. It runs on an Erlang-like, OS-like meta-runtime instead of agent loops or agent graphs.

I believe this is the right design for an AI runtime: it puts humans, AI agents and tools on equal footing.

It will grow into a convenient multi-OS runtime that can do what other AI libraries and harnesses do. For now it’s a technical demo with two modes: a CLI coder, and a spatial canvas that’s very handy for a lot of everyday work.

I think the canvas mode is the kind of software we’ll all be using in the 2030s.

I don’t have a name for it yet, so for now let’s call it “emergent software”. The idea is that you build, run and engineer your own systems visually, with help from AI, inside your own dynamic interface that you build for yourself. It’s a lot of fun, especially for multimedia projects.

For example, in a canvas project I’m still working on, a third-party AI agent generates UI and agents: it builds a control panel for making a Manim animation, and a viewport for a Blender video built from the Manim animation’s guidelines. I’ll record a video later; for now I just want to share the general idea. Maybe someone will like it.

If anyone wants to talk about it more, let me know in the comments and I’ll respond.

Have a fantastic day!

Oleksandr

Comments

applesauce3572•54m ago
Hi, I'm interested in this but I don't understand how it actually works or how I could put it to use. Could you sort of dumb it down and explain it to me if you don't mind.
Alexadar•46m ago
The easiest way is to build it locally (ask your AI agent to do it) and run it in "fantastic canvas" mode. That starts a local web app where you can add prebundled agents, and your CLI coder should be in the double-click menu. Start it, ask it to look around, then ask it to build something for you.

Most AI coders produce source code and a chat log. This one builds an interactive UI for you, which feels more like a personal garage where you build your artwork than the usual task list and chat log we've seen in Lovable or the agentic VS Code view.

You can also ask your AI agent how to use the kernel to build your own agentic system. It may blow your mind: all actors live on one flat surface and exchange calls, with permissions on every call between them. It's harder to understand at first, but once you get it, you'll forget about agent loops and agent graphs and use it as the base runtime for your AI software.

I packed a lot in here, so it's not easy to explain; I hope this makes sense. In one sentence: a flat runtime that replaces agent loops and agent graphs, plus a canvas web app for your state-of-the-art AI workflow in the browser.