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What if we stopped using GPUs? [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2FTBGRSJo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936671 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Technology 18h ago

Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service

Article URL: https://therun.gg/blog/leaderboards-speedruncom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993664...

Technology 18h ago

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

Article URL: https://dwarfstar.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936575 Points: 19 # Comments: 1...

Technology 18h ago

OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your b...

Technology 19h ago

There's a New Sea Spider in Town

Article URL: https://nautil.us/theres-a-new-sea-spider-in-town-1285470 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology 19h ago

It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthro...

Technology 19h ago

Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of four of her children, ...

Technology 19h ago

US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches

A newer program has been operational since 2011, and the next generation could launch within 12...

Technology 19h ago

How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.

Technology 19h ago

Rivian’s sales pop as the company’s big R2 bet starts to pay off

Rivian had high hopes for its more affordable R2 vehicle - and so far, those hopes appear to be paying off. The company ...

Technology 19h ago

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5977815/trump-icc-sanctions-kimberly-prost Comments URL: https://news...

Technology 19h ago

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day ill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people, psy...

Technology 20h ago

STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)

Today I learned that one Space Shuttle flight (in 1985) successfully used the Abort-to-Orbit recovery plan (changing it...

Technology 20h ago

Dutch Computer Museums

Article URL: https://aresluna.org/dutch-computer-museums/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935751 P...

Technology 20h ago

Beehiiv creators are buzzing about a new price increase

Beehiiv, a creator platform that has risen in popularity as an alternative to Substack, is increasing its prices - and m...

Technology 20h ago

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

The league is releasing romance-style audio stories to promote games. Critics say it’s cheap pandering that doesn’t ...

Technology 20h ago

Nacon’s new PS5 controller can mix audio from your phone and console

Nacon announced what the company is claiming is the world's first officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller with a bu...

Technology 20h ago

Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3

Tesla met analysts expectations as it sold fewer cars in Q3 2026 than Q3 2025. ...

Technology 20h ago

These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self...

Technology 21h ago

Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery to become Skydance

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.

Technology 21h ago

Dots get up in Muse’s business

OpenAI's answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a bu...

Technology 21h ago

Supabase Is Acquiring Turso

Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology 21h ago

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through s...

Technology 21h ago

Laytr’s new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read

Laytr lets you save articles, recipes, screenshots, videos, PDFs and more for later, while keeping your archive private ...

Technology 21h ago

A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

Article URL: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202610/america-gov-launches-with-privacy-pledge-as-login-gov-code-raises-t...

Technology 21h ago

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

Article URL: https://wagtail.org/blog/one-month-on-glm-53-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499...

Technology 21h ago

Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-datacenter...

Technology 21h ago

America's Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit

Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01102026/abc-coke-operating-under-expired-permit-in-alabama/ Comments U...

Technology 21h ago

The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

Article URL: https://distantprovince.substack.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-agentic-coding Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology 21h ago

Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

Article URL: https://support.soloist.ai/doc/solo-shutdown-faq Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499345...