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The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-1st-time-machines-mogged-mathematicians
8•list•1h ago
https://celebratio.org/Appel_KI/article/796/#sender

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evekayser•1h ago
I think the same happens now with AI generating code. Nobody will read every line. that's part of the process from now on.
fhdkweig•27m ago
The problem of the proof was that we knew that FCT was true, but we had no idea why. A good/elegant proof teaches us something new about how that problem is related to other problems. It isn't just about getting a true/false answer to the conjecture.

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
703•737max•4h ago•581 comments

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-confirms-hardware-wallet-spy-implant-behind...
184•thm•1d ago•198 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
575•etothet•7h ago•709 comments

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

https://guitoro.com/
54•talccc•1h ago•16 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
309•Philpax•4h ago•285 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
243•mjorgers•5h ago•88 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
614•formerly_proven•10h ago•345 comments

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic
180•sammy0910•5h ago•103 comments

Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
510•recvonline•8h ago•211 comments

New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
226•corvad•7h ago•448 comments

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

https://eg2.haku.sh/
354•amrrs•9h ago•81 comments

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-...
109•karakoram•5h ago•122 comments

Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs/h0nDly8-backend-engineer-ai-native-risk-infrastr...
1•smaddali•3h ago

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/
136•xnx•3h ago•33 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
83•zdw•1d ago•14 comments

Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits

https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui
16•LargeModGames•9h ago•0 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-...
102•ivell•6h ago•169 comments

Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20261007-the-man-hiking-the-world-in-search-of-rare-cheeses
19•tosh•1d ago•4 comments

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
199•acossta•8h ago•88 comments

Show HN: XY Music Notation

https://music.xy.dev/
27•jmole•2h ago•21 comments

The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-1st-time-machines-mogged-mathematicians
8•list•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: How Random Are You?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
49•vunderba•3h ago•24 comments

Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

27•ericmags•4h ago•15 comments

Worlds more habitable than Earth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html
59•cainxinth•8h ago•106 comments

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
82•kkukshtel•6h ago•34 comments

Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain

https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain
18•ollin•1h ago•5 comments

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
234•nryoo•13h ago•245 comments

A plea not to use uv-build

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/
62•Ravencentric•2h ago•61 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
317•benbreen•14h ago•80 comments

Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript

https://github.com/maharshi365/deslop
12•maharshi365•2h ago•2 comments