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Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof-point-test/

11•wffurr•2d ago

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bell-cot•22m ago

I feel that I should be able name several Jules Verne characters, "B" movie villains, and such who powered their underwater lairs and/or sinister superweapons this way - but I'm coming up blank.

Anyone?

mlfreeman•10m ago

All I can think of are supervillains in land based volcanoes not underwater ones

tomrod•3m ago

The Incredibles did it second, and almost certainly there is a Bond Villian or knockoff Bond show that did it.

CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111943

140•keks24•2h ago•34 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/

48•molind•1h ago•8 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/

253•alphax314•9h ago•79 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf

217•craigcitro•8h ago•149 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st

484•passenger•13h ago•282 comments

Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM

https://fleetingswallow.com/minotaur-ai-deep-dive-achieving-reasoning-without-a-language-model/

39•edwardchalk•2h ago•20 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet

408•kuberwastaken•16h ago•371 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...

12•wffurr•2d ago•3 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/

336•riffraff•2d ago•205 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/

533•abhisek•21h ago•173 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html

108•jimauthors•1d ago•57 comments

Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html

321•kaycebasques•16h ago•192 comments

GitLab critical patch release

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/

361•artooro•16h ago•85 comments

OpenAI CLI

https://github.com/openai/openai-cli

137•armcat•5h ago•79 comments

The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build

https://spectrum.ieee.org/agility-robotics-digit-5-redesign

14•bojackh•2d ago•9 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/

15•ledoge•3h ago•1 comments

PingCap TiDB Leaks

https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/

360•swyx•1d ago•59 comments

What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?

https://nsidc.org/learn/ask-scientist/karakoram-anomaly-it-real

39•thunderbong•2d ago•8 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o

227•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•51 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html

583•cbg0•17h ago•337 comments

Code is clay now

https://www.albertodenia.com/writing/code-is-clay-now

182•albertodenia•2d ago•124 comments

Beyond the &

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096028/

72•PaulHoule•1d ago•5 comments

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b

506•ahlCVA•11h ago•119 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/

295•armcat•22h ago•122 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200

426•nnx•21h ago•56 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...

750•ejohnso49•19h ago•373 comments

ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/thinkpad-i9990303-error-catch-22/

31•userbinator•2d ago•4 comments

Chain of Thought for Humans

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/chain-of-thought-for-humans/

102•ibobev•2d ago•51 comments

I can't use generic lambdas at compile-time, now what?

https://blog.ganets.ky/ClangGenericLambdas/

14•ibobev•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara

84•kmansm27•18h ago•25 comments