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Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photogr...

Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox

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Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls

https://kevinreuning.com/blog/polling_virality.htm...

Animations for System Builders

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/10/23/animations.h...

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD0...

Microsoft offers 60k employees a voluntary exit

https://twitter.com/Amanda_Goodall/status/21147483...

DHS Rejects Oversight Recommendation for ICE Body Cam Auto-Activation

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/27/dhs-rejects-ov...

Commodore 1600 VICmodem

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-1600-vicmodem/

Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support to I/O Path with IO_uring

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMA-BUF-IO-uring-Lin...

Unlimited-OCR-2: Baidu open-sources an OCR model for unlimited-horizon parsing

https://huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2

Can You Make a 3D Game with AI, If You Don't Know How to Do Anything?

https://buildtounderstand.substack.com/p/can-you-m...

Historical Telecommunications

https://retronetworking.org/

Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

https://electrek.co/2026/10/23/tesla-cancels-cyber...

LearnHarness – An Agent Harness for Learning

https://github.com/amosblomqvist/learnharness

A Git Forge Without a Center

https://entire.com/blog/a-git-forge-without-a-cent...

Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port)

https://dbohdan.github.io/glider/

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

https://www.impossiblemachines.xyz

Somebody please stop the spam texts

https://notes.npilk.com/stop-the-spam-texts

Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv

GPT-6.1 Terra's price cut, recomputed for a cache-heavy agent session

https://theainewsreport.com/2026-10-27-gpt-6-1-ter...

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations

Rubber Duck I've Ever Had

https://blog.blockingqueue.com/the-best-rubber-duc...

Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/10/25/recyclin...

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-...

Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents

https://deallocatedobjects.com/posts/making-my-blo...

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

https://bigwhalehunting.com/workforce/

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFwHGGfPz4

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/writing-is-closer-...

Star Trek actor Walter Koenig dies, aged 90

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Koenig

Proton Flock Camera Map

https://proton.me/flock-camera-map