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GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow

Article URL: https://agent-wow.sh/gpt-6-astra-plays-world-of-warcraft-for-the-first-time-with-agent-wow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933251 Points: 16 # Comments: 5

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The Legend of von Neumann [pdf]

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933235 Poi...

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Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

Article URL: https://bigthink.com/books/a-fabulous-debt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933230 Po...

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Rivian’s R2 just helped it set a new sales record

Deliveries jumped roughly 45% compared to the same quarter last year, with Rivian delivering more than 19,000 EVs.

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Tesla’s recovery hits a speed bump

Tesla sold fewer vehicles in the third quarter than it did a year ago, when consumers rushed to cash in on expiring fede...

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Home Assistant says ‘Big tech ruined the cloud, so we’re out’

The open-source smart home platform Home Assistant is kicking the cloud to the curb - in name at least. "We are renaming...

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The Pocket Advance nearly perfects my favorite Nintendo handheld

Although I count the original Game Boy as one of my first tech obsessions, I still consider Nintendo’s Game Boy Advanc...

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Rivian issues R2 recall for poorly tightened battery packs

The company says around 14 vehicles may be affected, and that it has resolved the issue on the assembly line.

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The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's

Article URL: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-printed-books-manuscripts-science/carrier-pigeon-internet-protocol...

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100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections

Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/100-years-of-student-radio-history-in-the-dlarc-college-radio-collecti...

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Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1wvin77/harvard_particle_physicist_matthew_schwartz_drops/ Comme...

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On building a worm detector

Article URL: https://bencology.bearblog.dev/mapping-individual-and-collective-worm-movements/ Comments URL: https://new...

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If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?

San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking li...

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AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse

Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been s...

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer is my childhood podracing dream come true

The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It's just so dang cool: The futuri...

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Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/memory-supplies-are-only-getting-tighter-micron-ceo...

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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers

Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national...

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Amazon Says It's No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers

The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledges community backlash i...

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On Social Reality in China

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b5cSYh4emQb2qrGmK/on-social-reality-in-china Comments URL: https://news.yc...

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European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance

Article URL: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/1001/1593639-european-payments-group/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

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Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

Article URL: https://byzantine-systems.github.io/blogging-with-gleam-org-mode-and-pandoc/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

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Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-prototype/ Co...

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A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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F.02 Decommission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAh5oQDPDM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932079 Points: 10 # C...

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Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/02/physical-media-fans-streaming-algorithms-cds-dvds-vinyl Comm...

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Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

We're a tiny indie studio, all with a background in the demoscene and for about 3 years now we're developing a space pl...

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Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil

Article URL: https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-election-interference-brazil Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

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TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”

Can it be Mini LED without a FALD backlight?

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Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You

Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders.

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Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’

Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling ...