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Great animation illustrating the linking problem in planetary science! Remember there are *lots* of these moving objects in the images and we have to somehow match them all up across many observations across many years. Lots of hard work by planetary scientists to do this efficiently!

Beijing’s recent actions against Panama signal a new way of punishing countries for crossing Chinese interests. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/27/p...

Socket uncovered malicious Firefox extensions impersonating Phantom, Jupiter, and Bitget to steal recovery phrases and private keys. The fake Phantom wallet also bundled the operator’s backend for automatically draining funds. socket.dev/blog/firefox...

"... the SaaSpocalypse was a massive market sell-off earlier this year, but how did actual SaaS firms fare? We built the Stripe SaaS Index to find out ... Turns out revenues *accelerated*" www.stripeeconomics.com/p/the-saaspo... x.com/ernietedesch...

My hope is that AI creates a Jevons paradox for human expertise. I.e. AI makes it so a human expert can supervise 100's of projects simultaneously. So it becomes cheap to have a human expert help with your problems. And people are willing to pay for that extra bit of assurance.

A recurring observation was the irony facing software engineers. Tech spent decades building software that automated other people's jobs into higher-intensity quotas. Now developers are seeing what that pressure looks like from the other side of the screen. #tech 3/4

I think it's vastly underrated how important org chart and team functionality is to building a good LLM. Over 18 months old, and still one of my favorite all time Interconnects posts. It's why we still often see orgs crumble and need to get rebuilt (e.g. Llama/xAI) & why underdogs can still catch up

ICYMI: Ende is a spiritual successor to Deno, stripped of distractions to simply be a secure runtime for TypeScript applications. Read the docs for more, official homepage is on the way. docs.ende.sh/runtime

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

"Can confirm that Flavio fleeing to US." - Reuters reporter Gram Slattery

MiniCPM OCR family 🔥 1st OCR from OpenBMB ✨ MiniCPM OCR 1.0 - 1.3B - Apache 2.0 - 55% higher processing efficiency with DSpark - Handles complex layouts, tables & formulas

Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy system were crimes against humanity carried out as a state policy to deprive civilians of power and cause suffering, a UN commission reported on 26 October. The International Criminal Court had already issued warrants over the 2022–2023 strikes.

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Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇

New Covert Shores article 'Second Chinese Uncrewed Submarine Mothership' Here-> www.hisutton.com/Chinese-XXLU... China is honestly far ahead of everyoine else in building full-size underwater drones #OSINT #China Basic recognition guide to the two ships, based on what we know so far:

We hope our benchmark helps researchers build more reliable novelty judges, while our reusable pipeline makes it easier to create new eval sets as AI-generated research advances. 💻 Blog: buff.ly/PRpiYGP 📊 Data: buff.ly/XeNZgd5 📄 Paper: buff.ly/14yas5t

LLMs are increasingly used to judge whether AI-generated research ideas are novel. But are they any good at it? Our new eval reveals even frontier LLMs can reach different conclusions about similar ideas depending on how they're asked to evaluate them. 🧵 buff.ly/WjOSxcx

Unlimited OCR 2 🔥 New 3B OCR from Baidu huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimi... - MIT license - Unlimited horizon document parsing - SR SWA attention with nearly constant per step memory & latency - SOTA on 100 page MarathonDocBench

Firefox 159 has landed! This is a pretty big one for web dev stuff: 🎉 CSS scroll-driven animations, both scroll() and view(). 🎉 Scoped custom element registries. 🎉 Streaming sanitization of HTML. And more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

$72B of Anthropic’s $80B loss is a weird accounting issue and not actual dollars lost. They got an investment from Amazon but instead of getting the stock right away, Amazon will get it at IPO. Since then Anthropic is now valued at $1.5T to $2T and the value of stock they “owe” Amazon rose by $72B

S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

You can now copy the current tab's URL with a keyboard shortcut. No shortcut is assigned by default, so you can choose your own key combination in about:keyword (Ctrl+shift+C for example).

In today's Russian papers, surprise at the the defeat of Moscow ally Aleksander Vučić in Serbia. One paper: “Russia can expect nothing good from this.” Another: “The results benefit the EU.” But several point out: “The Serbs are dependant on Russian gas.” #ReadingRussia

Disproving the Exponential Time Hypothesis does not mean P=NP, and it will not break modern cryptography. A big chunk of the discussion was spent swatting down instant panic and explaining why sub-exponential bounds do not magically collapse all NP problems. #security 1/4

While I agree that we need ways to reduce bundle size easily in apps and have good framework choices - we can do more, LLM's enable us to quickly refactor and migrate, let's do better than saving x% But... if this works for you and you can shave 40-70% of react, please do it!

#GNSS jamming tracking by #satelite splash247.com/sat-jam-ship...

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇

HI Sutton's take on the second new suspected UUV mothership built in Guangzhou. I think his length estimate (ca 180 m) is probably closer to reality than my initial impression (closer to 150 m vs first hull of 200+ m). www.hisutton.com/Chinese-XXLU...

It's been a quiet rollout, but ChatGPT has been serving ads since Feb 2026. What's going on behind the scenes? Who's getting those ads and what are they for? And what are the policy implications? www.brookings.edu/articles/und...

I've trained my dog to salivate at the sound of a bell thanks to my invention, the edible bell

OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false (OpenAI) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Did all the people calling for heads to roll read the article or just the headline

this sounds like basically nothing if you read into it. h/t to @vgel.me for a good take on it

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How can AI support researchers in peer review? Springer Nature and Google DeepMind are partnering to co-design an AI peer review assistant that helps reviewers navigate manuscripts and focus on where their scientific judgement matters most. Learn more: spklr.io/63320EVgT8

CSS-Tricks has a new owner! Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that. https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/

Apple releases iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five new languages, more (Juli Clover/MacRumors) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra (???) and it's comparable to GPT-6.1 Sol (??????????????????????) openai.com/index/introd...

Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing (Cohere) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Hungary's recent election was less free and more unfair than the upcoming US midterms, and pro-democracy forces still won. Similar point about Serbia's election this weekend. In normal democracy terms, America is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're looking pretty good.

And then there were two. (And they don’t speak to each other.) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇

S-1: as of September 30, Anthropic had 11,900+ customers spending $100,000+ annually, 1,900+ customers spending $1M+, and ~250 customers spending $10M+ (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Researchers project that further scaling up use of HIV prevention drug lenacapavir has the potential to bring the annual population-wide HIV incidence rate in South Africa to less than 0.1 percent, the virtual elimination threshold, as early as 2039, write CSIS experts. Read: https://bit.ly/4BoQzjC