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International Bureau of Weights and Measures Votes to Redefine Time

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-vote-to-end-leap-seconds-redefining-how-the-world-keeps-time/
1•karakoram•1h ago

Google changed its privacy policy on Oct 16. Here's a signed record of both

https://keepword.net/changes/google-privacy-2026-10-16/
1•Aelthorim•54s ago•0 comments

Just How Rosy Is That Datacenter Buildout Forecast?

https://www.nextplatform.com/compute/2026/10/16/just-how-rosy-is-that-datacenter-buildout-forecas...
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

Drones Strike VKontakte Data Center and Oil Terminal in Russia Leningrad Region

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/drones-strike-vkontakte-data-center-and-oil-terminal-in-russia-s-l...
1•DeepLogin•2m ago•0 comments

Personal software factories are a waste of time

https://www.peterp.me/articles/personal-software-factories-are-a-waste-of-time/
1•thegreatpeter•2m ago•0 comments

Hardening changes for ReFS volumes on removable media

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/servicing/os/windows/docs/2026/10/hardening-changes-for-refs-...
1•croes•2m ago•0 comments

France is on the brink, days away from make-or-break moment in debt crisis

https://fortune.com/2026/10/17/france-debt-crisis-budget-deficit-bond-yields-spread-protests-riots/
1•donsupreme•3m ago•0 comments

Polymarket saw $600M in election trades after the elections were over

https://www.wired.com/story/over-dollar600-million-traded-on-polymarket-election-contracts-after-...
1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

A protocol for LLM intent search

https://zenodo.org/records/23452266
1•kummap•5m ago•0 comments

Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN It's on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5426130/Tiny_Brutalism/
2•MatiErnst•5m ago•0 comments

Expose the digital body language of Bluetooth Low Energy devices

https://blog.stormvault.net/airtell-a-bluetooth-5-security-cli-streamlit-interface-to-sniffle-b48...
1•unixnick•5m ago•0 comments

Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-024-01478-2
2•peter_d_sherman•8m ago•0 comments

Albanian Protests Escalating

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/17/albanian-police-fire-rubber-bullets-as-protests-against...
2•Aelthorim•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Snitch – see every connection your computer makes

https://github.com/aixisstudio/Snitch
1•aiXis•11m ago•0 comments

DualSense Trigger Feedback and Haptic Designer for adding interesting haptics

https://old.reddit.com/r/decomps/comments/1x8ta0e/i_made_a_dualsense_trigger_feedback_and_haptic/
1•patrickk•14m ago•0 comments

Free Pascal Compiler Now Supports Dynamic Packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
2•sysrpl•16m ago•1 comments

France protests turn chaotic in Paris as police fire tear gas water cannon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNqUcT7uj8
6•donsupreme•17m ago•0 comments

HOA's are making the home crisis worse

https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html
28•lovewins•24m ago•3 comments

Self-hosted workspace where notes, tasks and AI chats are all items

https://github.com/sianachi/nixsites
2•osinachi88•24m ago•0 comments

Is it a lie if you believe it? This Elizabeth Holmes film is a mind-bender

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/15/nathan-fielder-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-is...
1•lode•25m ago•0 comments

Row Locks with Joins Can Produce Surprising Results in PostgreSQL

https://hakibenita.com/postgres-row-lock-with-join
1•mooreds•25m ago•0 comments

Housing, Capital, and Contradictions of Progressive Urbanism in Boulder Colorado [pdf]

https://d1e1jt2fj4r8r.cloudfront.net/1c85cd7f-8027-44d1-a911-0c364eac7bcf/2d989e98-942e-4dd3-a98b...
1•mooreds•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A World 3D globe where kids collect birds

https://www.birdsaroundworld.com/
1•leonagano•27m ago•0 comments

An executable specification language based on temporal logic of actions (TLA)

https://github.com/quint-co/quint
1•mooreds•28m ago•0 comments

A Token-by-Token Guide to Prompt Caching

https://www.sithankanna.com/posts/prompt-caching-vs-kv-caching.html
2•hdit•28m ago•0 comments

In Age of Online Ads, Supreme Court Weighs Videotape-Era Privacy Law

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/politics/supreme-court-bork-video-privacy.html
1•iamnothere•32m ago•0 comments

Universally Truthful Mechanisms for Scheduling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12621
1•greekanalyst•32m ago•0 comments

Current memory tools can pass a poisoned run on. Procedural memory can stop it

https://github.com/TheWariend/MuscleMemory/tree/main/benchmarks/results/poisoned-skill-2026-10-18
3•devthewariend•34m ago•0 comments

Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/leaked-anthropic-draft-ai-regulatory
2•paulpauper•35m ago•0 comments

ExactFit

https://exactappliancefit.com
1•mustirabin•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Browser Memory Consumption on macOS

https://krausest.github.io/AppMemoryReport/BrowserMemory.html
1•krausest•35m ago•0 comments