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At least 68 killed in Spanish high-speed train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cv1j309d4g98t
31•saikatsg•1h ago

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gnabgib•1h ago
Discussions (87 points, 9 hours ago, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271032

(156 points, 6 hours ago, 155 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272596

vatsachak•26m ago
As an American tourist who took an HSR in Spain 4 years ago, the number of crashes since then are concerning
stickfigure•15m ago
Regarding this old quote:

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Seems like the dog failed here.

Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?

https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons
229•hazebooth•2h ago•41 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/
541•acossta•3h ago•456 comments

CNC Stone Carving

https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
298•bschne•5h ago•102 comments

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/
334•etothet•2h ago•570 comments

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax
125•landonxi•4h ago•76 comments

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
321•seddona•2d ago•161 comments

Start Doing Graph Theory

https://vertex.degree/
468•ibobev•5d ago•106 comments

Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

https://slidebyside.com/
32•denismenace•2h ago•18 comments

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
906•galadran•9h ago•346 comments

The Agent SDK

https://cursor.com/blog/agent-sdk
72•torutofu•6h ago•78 comments

Counting Sand Dunes in the Simpson Desert

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/img/en/articles/2026/simpson-desert-ranger-super-duty-counting-d...
12•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•1 comments

Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer

https://www.runconverge.com/careers/founding-platform-engineer
1•thomashlvt•3h ago

AlpineBSD

https://wiki.alpinebsd.org
107•bradley_taunt•5h ago•97 comments

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/gaussiansplats-part-3-theres-always-a-bigger-scene
70•ibobev•5d ago•16 comments

Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ground-effect-vehicle
34•rbanffy•3d ago•31 comments

Emacs Turns 50

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/
316•internet_points•6h ago•126 comments

Git for the US Code

https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code
410•alansaber•18h ago•220 comments

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrograp...
374•_Microft•3d ago•68 comments

Oseberg Tapestry Fragments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_tapestry_fragments
3•benbreen•2d ago•0 comments

It's now official, tech is the new tobacco

https://cailinoconnor.substack.com/p/its-now-official-tech-is-the-new
64•aanet•2h ago•28 comments

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
498•Luc•1d ago•188 comments

Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-spiders-spin-silk-dope-into-natures-toughest-material-20261028/
7•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-usin...
337•danso•6h ago•397 comments

Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36341
13•abrax3141•18h ago•0 comments

Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

https://healeycodes.com/decompiling-fast-food-tycoon-2-drawing-the-world
166•healeycodes•4d ago•34 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages

https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-transcribe-granary
72•wondersky•4h ago•8 comments

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
361•figmert•1d ago•186 comments

US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-agency-approves-amazon-leos-115-billion-acquisi...
204•noptd•8h ago•94 comments

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development
311•dataking•23h ago•313 comments

Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-datacenters-water-resistance-global/
15•billybuckwheat•1h ago•0 comments