▸ Margaret Hamilton, who led the Apollo onboard flight software team at MIT's Instrumentation Lab, has died at 90.
▸ A preprint in OpenAI's public math repo claims an integer multiplication algorithm that beats the n log n bound Harvey and van der Hoeven proved in 20...
▸ sindresorhus/awesome (444k ⭐), freeCodeCamp (437.9k), and public-apis (411.9k) — the three most-starred repos on GitHub — are curated lists and curric...
▸ Slate Auto unveiled a stripped-down electric pickup at $24,950 — no paint, no infotainment, no power windows by default.
▸ Elastic is cutting ~7% of staff while CEO Ash Kulkarni reframes the company around 'Search AI' and vector workloads.
▸ A founder documented spending €9,600 and 152 days to form a UG in Germany — and still can't legally send an invoice.
▸ Reid Hoffman pushed back on the Musk-as-AI-titan narrative, calling SpaceX 'not an AI company' and xAI a 'complete train wreck'.
▸ Bunny.net just zeroed out DNS pricing — queries, zones, records, GeoDNS, all free with no query cap.
▸ Stephen Diehl's post hit 364 on HN arguing crypto's 2026 victory isn't technological — it's political capture of US financial regulators.
▸ SpaceX's investment-grade bonds are trading roughly 10% below issue price, one notch above junk territory.
▸ JetBrains reported a net financial loss for the first time in its tracked history — the IDE giant that has been quietly profitable for over two decade...
▸ Jesse Vincent's obra/superpowers crossed 113.5k GitHub stars by shipping something boring: a disciplined methodology for AI coding agents.
▸ Denmark's Council presidency put Chat Control back on the agenda with an October 14 vote, bypassing the usual deliberation windows.
▸ FUTO released an open-source swipe typing model that runs entirely on-device, breaking a decade-long Google/Microsoft duopoly on gesture input.
▸ Erin Catto — the author of Box2D whose solver ships inside Unity, Godot, and countless indie engines — announced Box3D, a new MIT-licensed 3D rigid-bo...
▸ A solo hacker reverse-engineered iChat's long-dead A/V conferencing stack and got video calls working again between vintage Macs in 2026.
▸ Armin Ronacher argues the developer 'inner loop' — type, save, run, debug — is collapsing into background agent loops you supervise from the outside.
▸ Post-9/11 laws built a turnkey surveillance and executive-power stack — FISA 702, Section 215, fusion centers, DHS — that any future administration in...
▸ Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway lets publishers set a per-request price for AI crawlers and returns HTTP 402 Payment Required to bots that don't...
▸ An ngrok engineer compiled kube-apiserver, etcd, kubelet, and containerd to WebAssembly and got a working Kubernetes cluster running inside a single b...