Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
Article URL: https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/fixing-tool-call-accuracy-in-vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242870 Points: 116 # Comments: 61
Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Article URL: https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-10-26/ai-data-workers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242843 Points: 124 # Comments: 105
The built-in Android phone app most users never bother to use (but should)
Your phone's most honest app doesn't even have a home screen icon.
Some seven years later, the iTunes Store is making an unlikely come-back
Please accept my apologies if the headline made you feel old, but yes, Apple retired the iTunes desktop app way back in 2019. However, a new report says that the iTunes Store is currently experiencing an unlikely seeming revival. This is thanks to a tactic being used by artists like Taylor Swift,...
The Download: everyday AI harms and the race to nuclear spaceflight
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms —Sam Hiner, cofounder of the Young People’s Alliance, and Emma Leiken, executive director of t...
Intel's Lip-Bu Tan has spoken with Lisa Su about potential collaboration with AMD
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has reportedly discussed potential areas of cooperation with AMD chief Lisa Su as Intel works to rebuild its CPU business and expand its foundry operations. The companies have already collaborated on x86 standards and CPU software, including AMD’s integration of its ZenDNN op...
UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba
Charity confirms slew of security improvements as it waits for UK.gov's go-ahead
Save over $1,000 on this Alienware gaming PC with an RTX 5070 and 32GB DDR5
Newegg have cut this Alienware Aurora gaming PC by over $1,000, netting yo ua 4K-ready machine with an RTX 5070 and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $2,199.99.
What happens when your PC's CMOS battery dies?
The CMOS battery isn't something you'll need to change often. But when it goes, it's time for a quick swap.
Watch the iPhone Duo run a Shortcuts automation when it is opened or closed [Video]
A new video demo shows that you can use the Shortcuts app to trigger automations on opening or closing the iPhone Duo. One potential use for this is to configure the iPhone Duo to automatically lock when you fold it … more…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall
SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors
Lack of funding likely led to the recent PHP security snafu, but that's just the tip of the iceberg
Lack of funding likely led to the recent PHP security snafu, but that's just the tip of the iceberg — dreary situation caused by services running old versions with no support
iFixit dismantles Apple's Duo: 'You'd better baby that screen'
Battery replacement gets the thumbs up, but it all hinges on dust. A conventional phone might be better bet for home repairers
Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there
A Redditor used Claude Code AI to build a Mac temperature monitor app and found that the machine was running much hotter than expected. Claude reported that it found a crypto miner using more than 1,000% of the CPU cycles – then added an unprompted comment denying having installed it. Some Reddit...
Elvis Presley's estate is suing Anthropic over copyright infringement
The latest AI copyright infringement suit centers around a single music artist from decades past: Elvis.
Modder turns NES into a Windows-like desktop with original hardware
Throaty Mumbo turns his NES into a Windows-like desktop using an FPGA cartridge emulating an old Intel CPU, complete with a CD drive and internet capabilities, all without tearing the NES apart.
Pharo 14
Article URL: https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241925 Points: 163 # Comments: 37
iPhone Duo tested to destruction, including removing nanotexture layer
It’s kind of wild that there’s an entire YouTube niche in which people buy the latest expensive gadgets and then find creative ways to destroy them. JerryRigEverything is one of the bigger names, and he didn’t hold back when it came to a destruction test of the iPhone Duo. In addition to subjecti...
From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
M-Vave's cheap FM-1 pocket synth has exploded as a community firmware playground.