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GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
83•ilreb•41m ago•42 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
19•prophittcorey•39m ago•4 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/
145•gregsadetsky•1d ago•50 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
187•deadxwarrior•10h ago•95 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
601•royfish•18h ago•292 comments

French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-supermarket-chains-cyberattack-forced-115141288.html
85•thinkcontext•1h ago•56 comments

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx
117•dkpk•4h ago•103 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
196•lukaslalinsky•11h ago•74 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
25•djfergus•4h ago•1 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
145•bookofjoe•1d ago•120 comments

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo
25•cataflam•1h ago•9 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
625•jttnr•22h ago•231 comments

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-unmade-film-shaped-hayao-miyazaki
37•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
212•subset•2d ago•39 comments

QGIS bans AI assisted contributions

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
318•bwnkl•5h ago•344 comments

Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby

https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby
46•julik•5h ago•11 comments

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

https://github.com/Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio
71•joshcsimmons•1d ago•19 comments

Choreographic Programming in Rust

https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana
41•o8vm•1d ago•29 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
61•soeckly•9h ago•31 comments

Bag of Decisions Reranker

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/10/08/bag-of-decisions.html
59•zdw•1d ago•9 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
478•Anon84•1d ago•471 comments

Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-azure-maia-300-architecture/
15•azhenley•2h ago•2 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
305•edent•21h ago•62 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
181•acley•16h ago•68 comments

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

111•Ixander•1d ago•115 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
611•albertzeyer•20h ago•874 comments

AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/12/ai-less-regulated-than-milk-microsoft-presiden...
47•nephihaha•4h ago•46 comments

Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cybe...
14•salaryman777•1h ago•2 comments

Passkeys are a trap

https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
917•laurex•18h ago•479 comments

Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo
540•Betelbuddy•6h ago•182 comments
Open in hackernews

AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/12/ai-less-regulated-than-milk-microsoft-president-calls-for-tougher-rules
46•nephihaha•4h ago

Comments

kazinator•3h ago
Operating systems are less regulated than milk, which is why they blue screen without consequences. Let's not entirely lose the plot here.
catigula•2h ago
You don’t see how or why AI systems could be extremely dangerous, despite literally all experts converging towards a consensus that they are?
VCFundedGenYer•2h ago
If you believe the propaganda that AI will kill everyone, you need to step away from the marketing.
catigula•1h ago
Is Nobel laureate Geoff Hinton marketing?
bluGill•34m ago
Linus Pauling won two nobel prizes. He also had a lot of goofy ideas.
afthonos•27m ago
Still waiting for Boeing to catch up to this marketing renaissance. They are probably salivating at their projected valuation when they start saying things like “our planes could crash intentionally to kill everyone on board” or “our bombers might decide to blow up your cities instead of your enemy’s!”

Imagine the fortune food supply companies will make! “Our lettuce just might poison your child!”

Truly a golden age is near, and you, perceptive geniuses that you all are, will be the only ones not fooled, not for a second, because it all makes sense, always and forever, as long as you squint hard enough to close your eyes.

karahime•2h ago
No. First of all, the expert consensus you're alluding to is a much narrower slice than you're making it sound. Secondly, it also isn't neutral rederivation, either. What you're mostly looking at is one opinion which is being passed around, based on a mix of hypotheticals and folklore.
catigula•1h ago
This is a strawman attack, aside from simply being an inaccurate claim. The notion that AI poses no danger and all claims to the contrary are IPO manipulations requires extensive conspiratorial thinking.
cyanydeez•1h ago
the danger posed by AI is the same posed by nuclear weapons: it's the people, stupid.
catigula•1h ago
Looking forward to your thesis where you’ve solved perpetual superintelligence alignment.
iugtmkbdfil834•1h ago
You.. want to align an entity that by definition is more intelligent than an average human by a margin that is already difficult to comprehend. There is nothing solve here -- the question that you should ask is how that super intelligence will see a human race. That is it.
everforward•1h ago
Something being potentially extremely dangerous isn't super notable. We sell cars to everyone, and that's ~ a device for accelerating a ton or more of metal to potentially eye watering speeds. Propane tanks are already approximately a crappy bomb.

I've not seen anything so far that's remarkably more dangerous than a laundry list of commonly purchased items. Most of what I hear is either some sort of far fetched "the teenagers are going to be bio-engineering designer strains of polio", or some vague fears that the AI will become sentient and kill us all that vaguely reminds me of when the Manhattan Project thought they might cause earth's entire atmosphere to enter runaway fission.

I'm also distrustful because virtually all the experts stand to benefit from convincing us unregulated AI is dangerous. Namely, it's a compelling reason to ban Chinese and open weight models that are eating into their margins. It doesn't mean they're wrong, but it does mean that they'll need to substantiate their claims. I'm not trusting them at face value.

catigula•1h ago
So, something with the potential to kill all humans isn’t notable to you?

What does Geoff Hinton have to gain?

This is a conspiracy theory FYI.

pavel_lishin•29m ago
> something with the potential to kill all humans

[citation needed]

selimthegrim•3m ago
He's giving Canada another industry to subsidize besides dairy?
aesthesia•24m ago
Sembiance•2h ago
Says the major company who is furthest behind in AI right now…
ram1500natrluvr•1h ago
Leading company calls for regulation: "They just want to build their moat." (inexplicably)

Trailing company calls for regulation: "They just want time to catch up."

djdnhebrhd•2h ago
I don’t put AI in my body. Also milk is almost certainly over regulated.
brettermeier•1h ago
Overregulated? Read what happened in the past and think again, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal
GaryBluto•1h ago
Just because something may be over regulated does not mean that zero regulation is needed.
brettermeier•47m ago
Whst exactly is overregulated with milk in the US?
bluGill•32m ago
Just make sure you are open to the idea. It is correct to be skeptical if you know anything at all about history, but be open to the idea if proof is presented.
ravenstine•1h ago
Funny how it's always these mega corporations who own a piece of the AI pie who are the loudest about regulating it.
iugtmkbdfil834•1h ago
It is almost as if they had something to gain from it:D
wildrhythms•1h ago
They are all scrambling to build a regulatory moat for themselves.
nephihaha•1h ago
Yes, I totally agree. I find it funny.
giancarlostoro•38m ago
Im all for regulating frontier models primarily, the level of compute they have is insane. OpenAI and Anthropic etc can hack into systems at a rate most of us could never afford the compute for, all on a whim.
superkuh•1h ago
Well duh. Milk can kill you, directly. Things you put in your body of course must have much higher regulation and safety concerns than computer programs that generate text and images (which are then, maybe, acted upon by humans without reviewing their truth).

These megacorps are doing their best to make their offerings sound scary, because scary == capable in marketing terms, and scary allows them to set up a regulatory moat preventing anyone from competing with them.

alecst•1h ago
Alarming how casual you all are about regulating and pacing the most risky technology ever developed.
pavel_lishin•27m ago
Why is it more risky than nuclear weapons, or biological weapons?
bigmattystyles•40m ago
Do they want regulation because they are behind and want the brakes applied to others so they can catch up using their huge pile of money, or are they so ahead they want to stifle the rest? My money, based on copilot is on the former.
warkdarrior•23m ago
So according to your logic, there really is no benign reason a company may call for regulation.
snapcaster•20m ago
true. it's always self interested obviously
akkad33•13m ago
If they were benign, why wait till now? Why didn't they say anything when OpenAi first released GPT and Microsoft was the biggest investor? Did something change between then and now?
Sharlin•11m ago
Yes, the frontier models got vastly more capable, and the compute available to them probably increased by an order of magnitude?
akkad33•5m ago
It's not a paradigmatic shift though. It is able to do what it was already doing, but better. You can't really claim there has been a staggering improvement since then and anything that it is doing now is wildly unexpected.
classified•37m ago
If I invent a new gun, we don't need new regulation to say that killing someone with it is illegal. The cyberterrorism that the big LLM providers commit is already illegal in current law and nobody does anything about it. New regulation won't change that, it would only protect these criminals from their competition.
kolektiv•35m ago
It feels like RFK Jr. is likely to take exactly the wrong lesson from such a statement...
GuB-42•26m ago
Food in general is regulated for very good reasons. Food borne diseases account for maybe a million death every year in the world, mostly from countries that don't have such regulations. And without going as far as death, even mild food poisoning can be quite disruptive. Milk in particular is critical because we give it to children who are the most vulnerable.

If anything needs to be regulated more than anything else, it is milk!

The article also mentions washing machines, which I think is a more level comparison. But washing machines can electrocute you, cause a fire or a flood. That kind of risk doesn't exist with AI, unless washing machine manufacturers took a page from Microsoft and sloppified their design I guess.

arbuge•16m ago
Couldn't agree more... I remember studying undulant fever for example back in school in Malta:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themistocles_Zammit

aesthesia•16m ago
You can't think of any possible ways that AI, under unanticipated but not unprecedented circumstances (similar to those in which an appliance might malfunction), might cause significant harm?
Sharlin•12m ago
Honestly a failure of imagination on your part if you think AI can’t cause significant harm. Except you don’t even have to imagine anymore.
Cars are more regulated than AI!
mwigdahl•13m ago
I'd feel comfortable saying there's no benign reason _Microsoft_ would call for regulation.