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    How would people characterize the prestige of a college like Vassar these days and how it’s changed in the last 25+ years? I feel like it had some specific cultural cache when I was younger, and I have no sense of whether it’s persisted. Also curious about Middlebury.
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    HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN || 181 Comments
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    UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power || 224 Comments
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    There will be a total of around 1.2M Blackwells at Colossus 2 by end of year
    AI 5h ago 32/hr +4.5σ
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    GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode || 158 Comments
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    A federal judge threw out President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. apnews.com/article/trump-med… || apnews.com
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    TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 || 117 Comments
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    Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games || 56 Comments
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    There’s a long list of billionaires who literally became billionaires by building companies to such a massive scale that they are able to be the low cost provider of services. The literal entire purpose of the business is to lower your bill! You are familiar with the canonical
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    5 weeks in an Opus 5.5 is still the goat. It has the magic and feel of my beloved Opus 4.6, the intelligence of Fable 5.5, and the token efficiency of GPT-6.1 Sol. 5 weeks after its release, Opus 5.5 remains by far the best model overall. Therefore, I expect a major release f
    AI 7h ago 18/hr +2.2σ
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    we get occasional reports that deepseek in OpenCode Go feels dumber for some people i ran all the benchmarks i could find against the different configs we have it's all in the same range, we did discover 2 specific issues in some low traffic configs we're going to kill
    AI 6h ago 16/hr +2.0σ
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    hex was fully vibe coded. the app. the landing page. the animations. sound effects were ai generated. issues people open are fixed by opencode. the onboarding. even some of the creative ideas but i think it's pretty good software. it's fun to use. works on all platforms. perform
    AI 4h ago 15/hr +1.8σ
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    All of these countries have access to the same LLMs. This raises the likelihood that what’s behind the US productivity boost is less about AI-augmented task productivity & more about something else like mechanical AI capex effects… or something besides AI entirely.
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    You must remember that all philosophy is a confession. People become obsessed with stoicism because they are naturally neurotic. That doesn’t mean stoicism can’t help you. If you are neurotic, it will help you a lot. Marcus Aurelius was neurotic. But it does mean you need to upda
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    Bitcoin (-11.7%) and Gold (-10.2%) are the two worst performing major assets so far in 2026. This is something we haven't seen before in any calendar year.
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    A lot of content engineering challenges have pretty standard solutions, which has lead to some engineers saying agent engineering is solved/boring True to some extent, but there are a bunch of (fun) new ones emerging as agents evolve! nitter.tiekoetter.com/i/article/211654744085
    AI 7h ago 14/hr +1.6σ
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    Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot prototype called Max with Chinese robotics company Fourier in just three months and is already developing a second version. The project will probably to a consumer robot for people’s homes. Meta is aiming for all directions: AI agents, AR/
    AI 7h ago 13/hr +1.4σ
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    This is from the Roblox Q3 2026 Shareholder Letter. The top chart is daily users of their MCP server, the bottom is assets uploaded. Opus 5.5 was released September 22nd. Over the past month, more than 80% of the top 100 games used AI. Things changed in September.
    Fin 5h ago 12/hr +1.4σ
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    Casio Watches of the 1980s || 101 Comments
    HN 7h ago 14/hr +1.3σ
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    Incredible: Amazon's AWS revenue over the last 12 months ($161 billion) was higher than the revenue of 476 companies in the S&P 500. $AMZN
    Fin 4h ago 11/hr +1.2σ
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    gemini's reputation is such that i've never received more accusations of being paid to post this
    AI 6h ago 11/hr +1.1σ
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    Iran’s Supreme National Security Council chief is refusing to budge from Tehran’s seven demands amid renewed ceasefire efforts, saying there will be no advanced talks until the US meets its conditions.
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    this is my most used app. more than opencode using it with your agent is a gateway drug. you won't go back and every time you have to type it feels horrible that's why hex is standalone, it works across your whole computer
    AI 7h ago 11/hr +1.1σ
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    throw a brick in SF and you’ll hit: 50 inference providers 80 RL environment startups 4090 dudes brokering GPUs
    AI 6h ago 11/hr +1.1σ
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    With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines || 27 Comments
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    Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn || 60 Comments
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    Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models || 38 Comments
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    “.. Investors are waking up to the fact that the chip shortage may be an illusion,” said the chief investment officer at a North American hedge fund. Demand for components “should not be soft right now, in this part of the cycle.” @FT ft.com/content/3ba953ae-84bb… || ft.com
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    The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) || 49 Comments
    HN 5h ago 9.2/hr +0.8σ
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    Learn to build evals, folks! You are not RSI-pilled enough if you don't know how to properly measure the thing you want to improve. It doesn't matter if it's a model, complex codebase, or a business function. This is extremely hard in the real world. You ever wonder why most o
    AI 6h ago 8.5/hr +0.7σ
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    As futuristic as Google's project may seem, it solves one of the biggest problems currently facing the US. Besides the enormous demand for chips, there's an even bigger problem right now: energy. I often bring this up in conversations: China is currently building (or starting t
    AI 5h ago 8.3/hr +0.7σ
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    The robots were told there’d be candy. 🍬🎃 Happy Halloween!
    AI 5h ago 8.2/hr +0.7σ
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    Big weekend read.
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    Would be funny to watch everyone panic sell AI and crowd into non-AI companies right as AI reaches critical mass and starts disrupting those companies
    Fin 5h ago 6.7/hr +0.5σ
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    I'd never had the time to read Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence" before. However, on my many recent flights, I've had plenty of time. It's impressive to see how well this book has aged, and at the same time, how much faster its predictions have come true than expected. For exam
    AI 4h ago 7.5/hr +0.5σ
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    Text messages with a machine, in and of themselves, are not criminal, immoral, or dangerous, for there is no victim, whatever the content. It is the very same thing as with thoughts—regardless of the content, no thought can be said to create a victim. • If someone steals info an
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    The US economy has now been in an expansion for 77 months. Average expansion since 1949: 67 months Longest: 128 months (2009 - 2020) Shortest: 12 months (1980 - 1981)
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    IRAN'S SECURITY CHIEF REZAEI TO STATE TV: WE SERIOUSLY FOLLOW DIPLOMACY BUT WILL NOT ABANDON IRANIAN PEOPLE'S RIGHTS
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    Strongly agree with the conclusion here. Been saying it for years. People just want to be respected as posters.
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    IRAN'S NAVY SAYS OIL TANKER CATCHES FIRE IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ AFTER COLLIDING WITH NAVAL MINES - STATE MEDIA
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    An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and Planted Them || 4 Comments
    HN 41m ago 5.8/hr +0.3σ
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    AI agents are now steering the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California to search for possible alien signals. 👽 Happy Halloween. Sleep tight. 🎃 See how the @SETIInstitute and Breakthrough Listen are using NVIDIA Holoscan and CUDA-X libraries to listen to the skies → nvda || nvda.ws
    AI 7h ago 6.2/hr +0.3σ
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    It's the Memory Latency, Stupid || 27 Comments
    HN 4h ago 5.7/hr +0.3σ
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    What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on || 41 Comments
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    The Duty of a Scholar || 23 Comments
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    I post trained a model on Demoscenes || 28 Comments
    HN 5h ago 5.3/hr +0.3σ
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    Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get || 32 Comments
    HN 6h ago 5.2/hr +0.3σ
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    Is OpenAI making a WoW forever guild??
    AI 4h ago 5.7/hr +0.3σ
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    I haven’t confirmed this myself. So take this with a grain of salt. But what I’ve been told is that the bars are zinc-coated galvanized steel which (if true) means there as never any reason to paint them in the first place.
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    It’s been a fun experiment. But this diet of just eating meat and kimchi may be running its course for me. I think as of today, I’m swapping in sauerkraut for a little while.
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    There are roughly 1T tokens of Opus 5.5 run through OpenRouter every day Almost half of that is run in Claude Code! Why the heck are people running it at API rates when on any Claude plan it's 66x subsidized?
    AI 4h ago 5.6/hr +0.2σ
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    FBI: North Korea was behind the theft of over $6 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance
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    Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable? || 23 Comments
    HN 4h ago 4.7/hr +0.2σ
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    Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) || 18 Comments
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    MIDDLE EAST OIL FLOWS: With data for Oct 1-26, Middle Eastern *crude* exports (ex Iran) are on track to be higher in Oct than in Sept (and very close to pre-war levels (>90%) for the monthly average). After weeks of attacks against tankers and infrastructure, Iran and its proxie
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    IRAN'S SECURITY CHIEF REZAEI: NO NEW DECISION HAS BEEN MADE ON CHANGING OUR NUCLEAR DOCTRINE, BUT THERE IS DEBATE OVER WHETHER WE SHOULD KEEP THE SAME DOCTRINE IF WAR BREAKS OUT AGAIN
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    Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line || 31 Comments
    HN 7h ago 4.2/hr +0.1σ
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    Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source || 11 Comments
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    I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence || 25 Comments
    HN 6h ago 4.1/hr +0.1σ
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    Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs || 2 Comments
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    A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages || 28 Comments
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    He’s actually not. Like it’s 2026 and your economy is built around hacking crypto and using your citizens as mercenaries? It’s kinda cringe, imo.
    Fin 7h ago 3.8/hr +0.1σ
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    In late 2027 Google will have the largest datacenter: Goodnight - Claude, Texas either Google trains AGI there at the end of 2027 or Anthropic already took off and just buys the place
    AI 4h ago 4.5/hr +0.0σ
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    Off the top of my head, here are 7: @JeffBezos (Amazon): Free shipping in the most competitive marketplace in human history. 
 @mcuban (Cost Plus Drugs): Cheap generic drugs
 Koum (WhatsApp): Free texts and international calls
 @reedhastings (NetFlix): Goodbye cable bill
 Ek (Sp
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    Well, this is exactly what has happened with IT adoption in the previous two-three decades: same tech produces very different productivity impacts because of different institutions (e.g. labour market ones) that potentially constrain differently the ability to restructure. I hav || journals.uchicago.edu
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