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Redundancy Is the Engine of Progress

https://world.hey.com/dhh/redundancy-is-the-engine-of-progress-76499402
4•simianwords•48m ago

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pelcg•42m ago
In the 1950s, there were hundreds of thousands of telephone switchboard operators. Today, they're all gone. There used to be well over a million professional typists too, but word processing largely killed those jobs as well.

That is true, but this time this is at a global scale at affects general work and it will accelerate faster.

What happens to former human workers when global unemployment rises faster with a disappearing buying power and consumption from humans as their income vanishes and their savings are all spent on food and rent?

Giving an agent a tool does not make it use the tool

https://yamanahlawat.in/articles/agent-ignores-your-mcp-tool
1•yamanahlawat•56s ago•0 comments

GPU Screen Recorder: A ShadowPlay Alternative for Linux

https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/
1•wps•1m ago•0 comments

Google Meet's mobile tile pairing for language interpreters

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/10/video-tile-pairing-is-now-available-on-Google-Mee...
1•bojackh•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Marketplace for ChatGPT Plugins, Apps, & MCPs

https://chatgptplugins.directory
1•AsDivyansh•3m ago•0 comments

Self-Confessed Fabrications and Rise of TBDs

https://researchonresearch.blog/2026/10/20/self-confessed-fabrications-and-rise-of-tbds/
1•archermarks•4m ago•0 comments

We spent $15k and benchmarked 5 DOCX-editing approaches on Harvey LAB

https://www.vespper.com/blog/docx-mcps-harvey-lab
1•david1542•8m ago•0 comments

When hackers become sources: Inside the new craft of reporting on hacked data

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/when-hackers-become-sources-inside-the-new-craft-of-reporting-o...
1•rdmuser•9m ago•0 comments

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
8•cxr•12m ago•0 comments

Fans swarm San Francisco for BTS star's art exhibition

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/24/rm-bts-sfmoma-exhibition
1•andsoitis•13m ago•0 comments

Opinions on Helping to Build an Employment-Friendly Development Model

https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/202610/content_7084107.htm
1•hunglee2•15m ago•1 comments

Stolen AI Architecture integrated into healthcare startup and defense contractor

https://rentry.co/themis-docket-e61b189e37
4•MarissaMcWhorte•17m ago•0 comments

Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/maps/proton-hosts-flock-map-revealing-over-300-000-cameras-...
1•ryan_j_naughton•17m ago•0 comments

Personal agents need a different kind of harness

https://kirahowe.com/2026/oct/23/agent-authority-and-context
2•kmclean•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent swarms test if new CVEs are exploitable in your env

https://app.enclave.ai/threat-feed
2•talhof8•18m ago•0 comments

Enabling Researchers Is a Moral Imperative

https://www.yorba.co/internet-less/enabling-researchers-is-a-moral-imperative
1•schmudde•20m ago•0 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
8•giuliomagnifico•21m ago•0 comments

Game trips modem/router breaker

1•simpaticoder•22m ago•2 comments

Jetify Devbox Search is not up to date any more

1•milanaleksic•22m ago•0 comments

An index of named experiences, one at a time

https://whyyourbrain.thecompound.tech
2•kyisaiah47•24m ago•1 comments

This Poem Will Hit You Where You Live

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/21/books/emily-dickinson-poem-i-dwell-in-possibility....
1•ahmedfromtunis•24m ago•0 comments

Agent Compute Engine: Building the compute foundation for the agentic era

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/agent-compute-engine-deep-dive
2•luispa•26m ago•0 comments

Quiet Tizen

https://github.com/jss8649/quiet-tizen
2•janalsncm•28m ago•0 comments

Cosmic Odometer (Your Path Through the Universe)

https://cosmicodometer.space
1•sumnole•29m ago•0 comments

The $25B Eigenvector – The Linear Algebra Behind Google (2006) [pdf]

https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~gilbert/cs111/readings/25_Billion_Eigenvector_Original.pdf
2•the-mitr•36m ago•1 comments

Markdown Oriented Programming

https://blog.gs-101.dev/posts/markdown-oriented-programming/
2•gs-101•37m ago•0 comments

Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1016443/anthropic-claude-citrini-vibecoding-s...
5•saikatsg•37m ago•0 comments

Apinator – A free Pusher alternative (presence, private channels, webhooks)

https://apinator.io/
1•apinator-io•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A set of test-cases for CP/M emulators

https://github.com/skx/cpm-test
2•stevekemp•40m ago•0 comments

Graphs for Coding Interviews

https://nokku.localhost/interview-prep/dsa/graphs
2•payanai•40m ago•1 comments

Proton AG Hosting United States Flock Camera Map

https://proton.me/flock-camera-map
8•cyanbane•42m ago•0 comments