Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher
Article URL: https://github.com/AbdullahAlhariri/penmentor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167604 Points: 32 # Comments: 2
Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
Hey HN, this is Andy from Respan (https://www.respan.ai). We are building an open-source Rust AI gateway. It is a decoupled gateway, so everything is a plugin, including different providers, protocols (MCP, voice), modalities (images, videos), and gateway features (fallbacks, PII redaction, smart...
An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding
Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.
Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@AshleyGullen/117473851565913919 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167536 Points: 319 # Comments: 263
TikTok staff raised child safety concerns, but executives reportedly failed to act
Court documents show TikTok employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their concerns about risks to children.
Perplexity’s Computer can now run entirely on your Mac, even offline
Perplexity is adding a new local-first mode to its Mac app that lets Computer work entirely on the device. This includes running tasks without an internet connection. more…
How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era
SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn’t be a brake on AI ambitions
Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car
Drivers had electrodes strapped to their heads as they tested EVs on track.
Over $963,000 worth of graded Pokémon and sports cards were stolen from FedEx
Last week over 200 packages of graded trading cards being shipped back to their owners were stolen from a FedEx truck parked outside the headquarters of Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) in Santa Ana, California, according to a report by The Athletic. PSA is one of the largest third-party s...
Apple explains why HomeView couldn’t launch until now
Apple’s new HomeView was reportedly mostly finished for years, but kept getting delayed. Here’s why HomeView couldn’t launch until now, per quotes from key Apple execs. more…
RAM prices are crazy high, but do not settle for an 8GB laptop
An 8GB laptop can seem like the solution to rising computer prices, but that's a mistake that will cost you for years.
Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for
Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place
Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case
Article URL: https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167028 Points: 140 # Comments: 75
DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. [...]
Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. That's according to an announcement on Tuesday that says Spotify has also made changes to its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artis...
My Friend Bob Cringely
Article URL: https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166794 Points: 101 # Comments: 31
Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data.
HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon
Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end
Mysterious AMD Zen 6 APU with 24GB of LPDDR5 memory appears in benchmarks
The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
Article URL: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579 Points: 258 # Comments: 118