Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
Cloudflare Blog
Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform that allows developers to fine-tune decision models using their…
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
Butler's Log
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
To grieve, or not to grieve? https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/
Xena
To grieve, or not to grieve?
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen befo…
Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas https://stillwet.art/
stillwet.art
Paintings by AI models: programs run through a simulation of oil paint.
Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our
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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-did-it-on-a-budget/
Ars Technica
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers https://erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-cell-identity-drives-human
Substack
Loss of Cell Identity Drives Human Aging
That’s What Biological (Epigenetic) Aging Clocks Are Measuring
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
The Athletic
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city. Over 19 minutes, he showed it off to the world
The former Steelers coach went deep sharing his passion project on YouTube, and teased more to come.
Apple Pass Designer https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
Apple Developer
Pass Designer - Apple Developer
Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness center, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer makes it easy to craft and preview passes that reflect your business.
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
YouTube
Kernel Recipes 2026 - Security in the LLM age
Greg KH
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
Bluesky Social
Paul Byrne (@theplanetaryguy.com)
This will never stop blowing my mind.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA
The Atlantic
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
Phoronix
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux…
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
Substack
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
Agents don't need memory, they need documentation https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
liao.gg
Agents Don't Need Memory. They Need Documentation.
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
sjg.io
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Why don't more developers “use the platform”? https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
Read the Tea Leaves
Why don’t more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program https://www.twz.com/air/former-sr-71-engineer-talks-nasas-blackbird-revival-program
TWZ
Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program
Insights into the current status of NASA's SR-71 #844, what it will take to fly it again, and what the agency may be looking to do with it.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
GitHub
GitHub - Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference…
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash https://niklasroy.com/gtc/