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I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

I 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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

"...we were making history."…

Muse Gadgets

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

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

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 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

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 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)

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

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

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

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

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]

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 dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.…