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3326 storiesI quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
https://archive.ph/5GQx8https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-sa... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944227 Po…

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946567 Points: 191 # Comme…
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946895 Points: 190 # Comme…
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949235 Points: 203 # …
Bob Cringely Has Died
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an ear…

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941447 Points: 179 # Comments: 105…

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-ohttp-gateway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941091 Points: 183 …

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Make Tmux the OS
Article URL: https://matduggan.com/what-does-my-dream-os-ui-look-like/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937540 Points: 187 # Comme…
Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
Article URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393 Points: 208 # Comments: 53…
AI Makes Me Sad
Article URL: https://mondobe.com/ai-makes-me-sad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934487 Points: 189 # Comments: 235…

Things that apparently cause cancer
Article URL: https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/things-that-apparently-cause-cancer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940219 Poi…
ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7/S0007125026108046a.pdf/adhd-auti…

Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
Article URL: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10/02/big-tech-ruined-the-cloud-so-were-renaming-ours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
Article URL: https://wagtail.org/blog/one-month-on-glm-53-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934620 Points: 217 # Comments: 1…
Supabase is acquiring Turso
Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934784 Points: 211 # Comments:…

Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
"...we were making history."…

Muse Gadgets
Article URL: https://gadgets.muse.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937504 Points: 234 # Comments: 106…
On social reality in China
Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b5cSYh4emQb2qrGmK/on-social-reality-in-china Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932402 …

Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Article URL: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994…

The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.…

Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English
Article URL: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 Points: 312 # Comments: 128…

Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference…
The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
Article URL: https://yuka.dev/blog-2026-10-02-linux-m4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933869 Points: 251 # Comments: 175…

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937631 Points: 248 # Comments: 167…

An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is …

Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the servic…
Zig v0.17.0
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938521 Points: 255 # Comments…
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929391 Points: 260 # Comments: 89…

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.…