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SimCity, but with Permits

https://permit.petercai.com/
565•pcai•7h ago•288 comments

Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/
93•Bender•3h ago•31 comments

Voxtral 3

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
528•ilreb•9h ago•142 comments

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
262•ilreb•9h ago•64 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-other-epidemic/
59•gaplong•2h ago•41 comments

Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/10/19/academics-have-a-duty-to-defend-open-kn...
130•jruohonen•6h ago•69 comments

What shall I teach my son?

https://stevekrouse.com/ends
262•Curiositry•8h ago•328 comments

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
165•dhorthy•5d ago•75 comments

Good type against all odds

https://unsung.aresluna.org/good-type-against-all-odds/
4•firloop•2m ago•0 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
496•evanb•13h ago•249 comments

Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery
195•speckx•9h ago•115 comments

EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
642•galadran•11h ago•339 comments

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
331•iamnothere•11h ago•253 comments

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
2137•ggcr•16h ago•833 comments

Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026

https://research.poh.org/bot-benchmarking-2026/
28•mdahardy•8h ago•0 comments

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port/
344•hnisjafx40•12h ago•169 comments

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWkApGjyGM
39•jackdoe•2d ago•4 comments

Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-e...
338•paweladamczuk•15h ago•168 comments

Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?

https://dovepass.com
15•nimitmehra•1d ago•2 comments

How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

https://kaba.cx/posts/20261020_Tor/
321•kabakabakaba•12h ago•77 comments

Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App

https://bhargav.dev/writing/shipping-a-latex-compiler-behind-an-edge-app
8•brgv•1d ago•4 comments

IKEA – 3D Guide

https://sael.net/flatpack/
140•punnerud•10h ago•51 comments

What the heck is /pkg?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg
59•GavinAnderegg•2d ago•16 comments

Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/19/data-center-engineering/inside-prometheus-meta-gigawatt-sca...
61•stokedmartin•1d ago•25 comments

Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins

45•Andydy25•10h ago•18 comments

Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release

https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
50•xd•5h ago•4 comments

JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission

https://www.science.org/content/article/audacious-space-heist-japan-aims-bring-home-bits-martian-...
96•Muhammad523•2d ago•19 comments

My Friend Bob Cringely

https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/
170•zinxq•11h ago•47 comments

2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/
167•panstromek•11h ago•82 comments

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/der-viener-schlinger-the-meat-cannon-that-launched-20000-hot-dogs/
91•NaOH•2d ago•53 comments
Open in hackernews

Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI

https://www.microagi.ai/
8•doener•1h ago

Comments

kelseyfrog•54m ago
I know a lot of people, myself included, said that embodiment was the goalpost to AGI or even consciousness. But now that embodiment is a possibility, I'm being forced to move that to being "raised for years by parent(al figure)s and socialized among peers)."
unsnap_biceps•44m ago
Once we have AGI/Consciousness wouldn't it make more sense to clone/duplicate vs raising a new one?
kelseyfrog•34m ago
Sure, but you still have to make the first one.
georgemcbay•15m ago
I've read and watched enough sci-fi to know that that's how you create evil AGI clones (probably wearing virtual mustaches) when a burst of alpha particles flips the wrong weights during the copy.
plusfour•23m ago
we will continue to move the goalpost. indefinitely .. ?
anonymous908213•19m ago
I know a lot of people, myself included, said that genetically engineered catgirls were the goalpost to AGI or even consciousness. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be on the table, so our goalposts aren't going anywhere.
E-Reverance•5m ago
Or we can finally decouple intelligence/ability and from (social) worth