A River of News

Tech headlines, Sunday, October 11, 2026

172 items. Times are UTC.

23:00 UTC 10

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    Qt An E2EE post-quantum messenger core in Rust (10k connections on 124MB RAM Hacker News
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    Whatever became of holography? (2011) Hacker News
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    Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes Hacker News
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    Mbps Vs MB/s: What do these speeds mean? Engadget
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    The reason the Xbox Series S is so much cheaper than the Series X Engadget
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    Illustration Beyond Proof Hacker News
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    Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab Hacker News
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    ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol Hacker News
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    Rubber Duck: An AI interviewer for the knowledge in your head Hacker News
  10. tech
    Why Japan said goodbye to traditional flip phones Engadget

22:00 UTC 9

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    Google Data Centers around the world Hacker News
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    Study finds many new cars share your data with third-party companies Engadget
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    JulianFlux: Electrodynamic vector retrieval and causal routing for AI Hacker News
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    Fingerprints Are the New Cookies Hacker News
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    SpaceXAI's Grok: What's free in 2026 and what isn't? Engadget
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    Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence Hacker News
  7. tech
    Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries Hacker News
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    A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused Hacker News story
  9. tech
    Is 3D printing safe to do in your bedroom or home office? Engadget

21:00 UTC 4

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    Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them Hacker News
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    An AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward model Hacker News
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    Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success? TechCrunch by Anthony Ha story
  4. tech
    Tattoos you can turn on and off Hacker News story

20:00 UTC 9

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    Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Reckoning’ is off to a weak start TechCrunch by Anthony Ha story
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    Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n Hacker News
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    Andrej Karpathy breaks down the capability gap Hacker News
  4. tech
    Fetching AMD SEV Reports (With Zig) Hacker News
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    A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused The Verge (limited free articles) by Terrence O’Brien story
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    Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline? Hacker News
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    Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Monday, Oct. 12, #1941 CNET by Gael Cooper story
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    Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Monday, Oct. 12, #1219 CNET by Gael Cooper story
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    Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Monday, Oct. 12, #953 CNET by Gael Cooper story

19:00 UTC 7

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    Cartographers of North Korea Hacker News
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    Artificial Insanity Hacker News
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    Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues? Hacker News
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    Be The Onion's Hero for Once Hacker News
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    Tesla wants to increase emissions near a Bay Area elementary school Hacker News story
  6. tech
    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS Hacker News
  7. tech
    America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) Hacker News

18:00 UTC 13

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    Anbernic's next dual-screen handheld has the perfect aspect ratio for 3DS games Engadget
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    The iPhone clock app has an oddity not many people know about Engadget
  3. tech
    Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI The Verge (limited free articles) by Terrence O’Brien story
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    Steam Frame teardown reveals one problem with its future repairs Engadget
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    Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger Hacker News
  6. tech
    Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude Hacker News story
  7. tech
    The Times’s New Space Editor Has Her Eye on the Cosmos The New York Times (limited free articles) by Sarah Bahr
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    Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films Ars Technica by Jennifer Ouellette story
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    Arena Allocators in C Hacker News
  10. tech
    The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach Hacker News
  11. tech
    Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers Hacker News
  12. tech
    NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect Hacker News story
  13. tech
    The meaning behind the padlock symbol in your PlayStation 5 game library Engadget

17:00 UTC 5

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    We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris Hacker News
  2. tech
    The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know TechCrunch by TechCrunch Events story
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    New Apple Smart Home Hub Reportedly Called HomeView and Will Ship in November CNET by Steven Musil story
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    The new Apple TV could have a built-in mic and a remote with a speaker The Verge (limited free articles) by Terrence O’Brien
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    Roko's Basilisk Hacker News

16:00 UTC 13

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    Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him? Hacker News
  2. tech
    apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper Hacker News
  3. tech
    Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs? TechCrunch by Anthony Ha story
  4. tech
    Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski Hacker News
  5. tech
    Why strong magnets can hinder the iPhone's rear-facing camera Engadget
  6. tech
    Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things Hacker News
  7. tech
    Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% Tom's Hardware
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    Apple's smart home hub will reportedly be called HomeView Engadget story
  9. tech
    Apple Home's new AI summaries for security cameras cost more than you'd think Engadget
  10. tech
    Cyberleek threatens full GTA 6 build leak unless Take-Two apologizes and his $30 million crypto memecoin goal is met Tom's Hardware by Zak Killian
  11. tech
    The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less Hacker News
  12. tech
    How to Build Wealth as a Career Person Hacker News
  13. tech
    TechCrunch Mobility: A roadblock clears for self-driving trucks TechCrunch by Kirsten Korosec

15:00 UTC 8

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    Here's how long your Google Pixel phone will get software updates Engadget
  2. tech
    NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online The Verge (limited free articles) by Terrence O’Brien story
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    How I reverse engineering a commercial spatial audio effect Hacker News
  4. tech
    George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama The Verge (limited free articles) by Terrence O’Brien
  5. tech
    The hidden features every Waze user should know about Engadget
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    Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles Tom's Hardware by Etiido Uko story
  7. tech
    Loop Engineering: Optimizing Code Generation and Verification Hacker News
  8. tech
    Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis TechCrunch by Marina Temkin

14:00 UTC 8

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    Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC Ars Technica by Jennifer Ouellette story
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    We're in the middle of a PS5 Pro shortage and GTA 6 will only make it worse Engadget
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    I'm sorry, but you still have to think Hacker News
  4. tech
    Modder discovers that putting a GPU in the 'wrong place' can deliver a 19 degree cooler hotspot Tom's Hardware by Mark Tyson
  5. tech
    Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait Hacker News
  6. tech
    What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale TechCrunch by Lauren Forristal
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    Why it's important to backup data saved on your older thumb drives Engadget
  8. tech
    These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet TechCrunch by Ivan Mehta

13:00 UTC 12

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    Here's how much the PlayStation 5 cost in 2020 vs. 2026 Engadget
  2. tech
    What's the difference between Android Automotive and Google Built-In? Engadget
  3. tech
    SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released Hacker News
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    Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] Hacker News
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    Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers Tom's Hardware story
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    What is the oldest Samsung device that still gets software updates in 2026? Engadget
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    How HN: Go-dev-auth zero-dependency authentication library for Go Hacker News
  8. tech
    Sandisk NAS 800 1.92TB SSD Review: Endurance at a premium Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
  9. tech
    Choreographic Programming in Rust Hacker News
  10. tech
    Bot traffic plunged to near 0 following the strike on its Vladimir data center Hacker News story
  11. tech
    What to expect from Apple’s ‘Welcome Home’ event The Verge (limited free articles) by Terrence O’Brien story
  12. tech
    Vurt wants you to look at vertical videos as a genre of their own The Verge (limited free articles) by Charles Pulliam-Moore

12:00 UTC 16

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    Developer turns classic Windows Minesweeper into hand-holding 'big-budget, Triple-A’ parody Tom's Hardware story
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    Why CPU overclocking is mostly now a thing of the past Engadget
  3. tech
    ‘Dragon Ball Super: Beerus’: How to Stream the New Anime Today CNET by Kourtnee Jackson
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    Premier League Soccer: Stream Liverpool vs. Man City Live From Anywhere CNET by Kevin Lynch story
  5. tech
    How to properly clean your solar panels (and why it's important) Engadget
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    Programmer ports Super Mario 64 to Microsoft’s Zune HD media player Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
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    Here's how much the MacBook Pro cost in 2021 vs. 2026 Engadget
  8. tech
    Don't Put Tilde In Your Path Hacker News
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    Two Steam games generated $560,000 across 135,000 sales, but the co-creator only took home $15,000 annually Tom's Hardware
  10. tech
    Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests Hacker News
  11. tech
    Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking Hacker News
  12. tech
    Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac Hacker News
  13. tech
    Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers Hacker News
  14. tech
    Silent Hill Townfall Is Real for Me: I’ve Been to the Actual St. Amelia CNET by Andrew Lanxon
  15. tech
    Why the LeapPad couldn’t survive the iPad The Verge (limited free articles) by Verge Staff
  16. tech
    Horror is big business The Verge (limited free articles) by Andrew Webster story

11:00 UTC 11

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    I paid people to try and follow my README Hacker News
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    Cryptomining malware used poetry to infect more than 3,400 servers, researchers say Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
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    What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel Hacker News
  4. tech
    AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people Hacker News story
  5. tech
    AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready The Register story
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    State of California sues 3D printer filament company Polymaker for promoting ghost guns by marketing to 3D-printed gun community Tom's Hardware
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    Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute Hacker News story
  8. tech
    The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) Hacker News
  9. tech
    This USB-C cable has a tiny screen – and that’s precisely why you need it ZDNET by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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    Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating The Verge (limited free articles) by Antonio G. Di Benedetto story
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    I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground WIRED by Boone Ashworth

10:00 UTC 14

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    Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications Tom's Hardware
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    Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things Hacker News story
  3. tech
    Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun Hacker News
  4. tech
    Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help Hacker News
  5. tech
    "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot Hacker News
  6. tech
    13 Best Gifts for Every Traveler Should Have (2026) WIRED by Boutayna Chokrane
  7. tech
    Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online WIRED by Maysaa Ajjan
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    Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter Hacker News story
  9. tech
    Working Cray-1 supercomputer replica packs 30 vintage Mac Minis and 1.5 TFLOPS Tom's Hardware story
  10. tech
    Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad Hacker News
  11. tech
    IRCv3 Hacker News
  12. tech
    The Beautiful Blue Is My Favorite Thing About Vivo’s Foldable X Fold 6 CNET by Andrew Lanxon
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    U.S. military-backed cargo pod promises 90-minute orbital delivery anywhere on Earth Tom's Hardware
  14. tech
    These Midterm Races Will Decide Data Centers’ Political Fate WIRED by Molly Taft story

09:00 UTC 4

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    HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years The Register
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    How the 2026 Super El Niño and Climate Change Are Related WIRED by Fernanda González story
  3. tech
    Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos Hacker News
  4. tech
    California’s Tallest and Most Iconic Trees Are Getting Heatstroke WIRED by Neel Dhanesha

08:00 UTC 1

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    Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips The Register

07:00 UTC 2

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    I wish you the best in the Offline Hacker News
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    3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit Hacker News story

06:00 UTC 2

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    Neuroscience can make decluttering easier Hacker News
  2. tech
    LineageOS 24.0 Hacker News

05:00 UTC 3

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    Does Fast Mode Do Anything? Hacker News
  2. tech
    Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Oct. 11, #748 CNET by Gael Cooper story
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    Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Oct. 11 CNET by Gael Cooper story

04:00 UTC 1

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    Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s Hacker News

03:00 UTC 5

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    Show HN: GSD Task Manager – an MCP server that gives your AI agent a task list Hacker News
  2. tech
    AI agents in a stand-up call Hacker News
  3. tech
    Vectorized CLZ and CTZ Hacker News
  4. tech
    GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] Hacker News
  5. tech
    CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recreation Hacker News

02:00 UTC 3

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    Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine Hacker News
  2. tech
    Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? Hacker News
  3. tech
    500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter Hacker News

01:00 UTC 2

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    European Alternatives Hacker News
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    A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease Hacker News

00:00 UTC 10

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    Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions Hacker News
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    WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement Hacker News
  3. tech
    PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP Hacker News
  4. tech
    How to enable Live Activities on iPhone and CarPlay Engadget
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    Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System Hacker News
  6. tech
    Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? Hacker News
  7. tech
    A minimal Rust TUI for managing GitHub repos and branches Hacker News
  8. tech
    Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects Hacker News story
  9. tech
    How does a backup camera actually work? Engadget
  10. tech
    Singapore GP: How to Watch the F1 Race CNET by Kevin Lynch story