Is Kubernetes ready for AI agents?
Kubernetes was built around a fairly simple assumption. It’s that software does what its developers told it to do. AI The post Is Kubernetes ready for AI agents? appeared first on The New Stack .
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Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave
Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks. The post Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, catches errors in robot actions far more reliably than any competitor but sometimes falls short on descriptive accuracy. Nvidia is positioning Flora as a key piece of its strategy to control the entire robotics value chain. The article Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra appeared first on The Decoder .
When a teen posts a selfie, how much filter is 'too much' filter?
The recent Meta settlement includes a clause banning "cosmetic procedure filters" for teens. But defining what constitutes an extreme makeover isn't easy.
tabsh
Work with agents with an IDE in your browser tab Discussion | Link
Hospitality in the mirror
Danny Meyer and Will Guidara have each written fabulous books about hospitality. They missed one thing. The customers who get the most authentic and lasting hospitality are the ones who deserve it. And the ones who deserve it actually enjoy it the most. Extraordinary hospitality offers someone more human effort and delight than they expect. […]
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Article URL: https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian-court-order Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229587 Points: 385 # Comments: 231
v16.5.0-canary.27
Core Changes Build the inline Flight script from React's strings instead of re-encoding them: #100142 Fix dist dir lockfile on filesystems with no or limited lockfile implementations (e.g. NFS): #100684 Misc Changes perf(turbopack): look up chunk group indices through a keyed cell: #99050 Turbopack: track availability by chunk group: #98685 refactor(turbopack): chunk chunk groups by key: #99750 Turbopack: consume graph-derived chunk groups: #98734 turbo-tasks-backend: stripe SnapshotCoordinator's operation count and poll for the drain: #100280 turbo-tasks-backend: parallelize decoding of large batch lookups: #100453 turbo-persistence: don't shrink the shard count before the first bottom merge: #100424 Credits Huge thanks to @sokra , @lukesandberg , @gaearon , and @bgw for helping!
Kiwi
A proactive AI assistant that texts you before you ask Discussion | Link
We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Article URL: https://danluu.com/ambitious/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695 Points: 194 # Comments: 158
No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224463 Points: 321 # Comments: 284
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
AirPosture
Now on Mac, with a voice coach in your AirPods Discussion | Link
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They deny sharing confidential information and see a connection to their advocacy for AI systems that are easier to scrutinize. The researchers say OpenAI never told them in writing which information they allegedly mishandled. The article Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked appeared first on The Decoder .
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AI summaries with tap-to-jump timestamps, right in Telegram Discussion | Link
Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/business/google-illegally-tore-down-250k-trees-for-finland-data-center-infuriating-locals-report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221676 Points: 236 # Comments: 182
Seven years from China
I first went to China in 2011 , racing for the Lotus/Jetalliance team at Zhuhai in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. It was a delightful experience, but also a glimpse of China's gritty side. Zhuhai had an unapologetically industrial look, with a permanent, low-hanging haze. The parade through the city felt like the crowd had been instructed to attend on pain of... consequences. Brutalist aesthetics through and through. From 2013 through 2019, I raced nearly every year at the Shanghai International Circuit in the World Endurance Championship. The skyline got a little brighter with every visit, but the smog remained thick. I still recall a taxi driver straddling lanes all the way to the circuit before blasting straight through a red light, horn blaring. Exciting, but in a very frontier kind of way. Then Covid hit, the WEC stopped going to China, and so did I. For seven years, I watched China's rise from the West. First the electronics, then the services, and finally the cars. Even from afar, it was clear that China was accelerating at a completely different pace from the West. But until last week, when I visited Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Beijing, it was hard to appreciate just how much the country had changed since my last visit. It might as well have been forty years. There are still pockets of that gritty look, but the main show is now a gleaming, shiny set of cities radiating The Future. From the bullet trains to the lavish airports, from the impressive skylines to Hangzhou's West Lake. Gone is not just the smog, but the sound of diesel engines too. I've never seen any country change so much, so quickly. In Shenzhen, they talk about "Shenzhen Speed" (like three floors of a skyscraper in a day). It looks like the entire country has been running at that clock frequency for the past decade. And they have all the results to show for their efforts. Those efforts are clearly considerable. I repeatedly got replies late into the night and early in the morning during our stay. The pace, and the expectations that came with it, felt almost as jarring compared with America as America's pace does compared with Europe. Everyone was just on it, all the time. I'm sure that has a cost. The 9-9-6 culture (9am to 9pm, six days a week) isn't free. But it's also obvious that all this effort has been buying results. Extraordinary results. Take Xiaomi. I visited their nearly fully automated car factory in Beijing, and it looked like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. I've done a lot of car-factory tours in Europe, and never seen anything like this. The production lines we saw were almost entirely devoid of humans, and the few who were milling about were mostly holding laptops and clipboards, overseeing the robotized lines. The company has gone from launching its first car in 2024 to now delivering over 40,000 cars per month! More than 800,000 cars delivered in under three years. And a halo car in the SU7 Ultra that has over 1,500 hp, lapped the Nürburgring in 7:04 , and costs just $75,000 in China. And that's perhaps the biggest material change from the last time I was there: those cars. Long gone are the Soviet-style taxis, replaced by a dizzying array of Chinese EV brands that don't just rival the best of the German giants in style and comfort, but surpass them. We kept getting into one luxury electric SUV after another, from brands I'd never heard of. Sumptuous leather, quiet cabins, and reclining captain's chairs. With Didi, the rides were as little as $5. Then at one hotel, they sent a classic Mercedes MPV. Gas-powered too. It felt like a big step back into the past. What would be a very nice car by most Western standards suddenly seemed cheap by Chinese standards. Crude, even. But what stood out even more than the material differences from Europe were the cultural ones. Everywhere we went, people were not just incredibly hospitable, but genuinely excited to see us and meet. From executives at major tech companies to students at the GOSIM conference , it was just endless great vibes, great interest, and a deeply informed curiosity. Sure, I came as a bit of a niche celebrity. REWORK has sold over 100,000 copies in China , GOSIM was full of programmers with experience using Ruby on Rails, and just about everyone was super excited about the age of agents and Omarchy's role in it. But it's not like those conditions aren't present in the West! And still, this just felt different. Much more optimistic, much more ambitious, much more driven. The contrast is fresh too. Speaking with large American tech companies about Omarchy, then comparing the quality of those conversations, and the pace of the follow-through, with their Chinese counterparts is eye-opening. Whether it was Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Huawei, or smaller players like Beelink . Very different. And also, yes, tourists are almost guaranteed to get a tinted view of a country through the rose-colored glasses that always accompany a trip as short as a week. China clearly has its own challenges, economically, politically, and culturally. Like any place does. But it's not at all obvious that those challenges are bigger than what we're dealing with in the West . On the contrary, I'd say. I could even imagine plenty of people in stagnating countries like the UK or France who might not be as bothered by one-party rule as they once were, if it meant a booming economy, national giants sprouting everywhere, and a set of safe, clean cities on the ascent. As a man of the West, that's a tough pill to swallow. Especially since, while China may well be under one-party rule, the competitive intensity in many of its markets is far greater than what we can brag about in the West. And nearly all the major companies I visited were led by engineers, not MBAs . Difficult not to be a little envious of at least that! But in terms of the international balance of power and trade, it doesn't actually matter that much what our opinions are. What matters is what is, and that's a formidable country producing remarkable products and services at extremely competitive prices. There's a lot of work ahead of Europe and America to regain a competitive footing in all these industries where China is now accelerating and ascending. There's a version of this where it all plays out wonderfully to everyone's benefit. The world gets better, faster, cheaper products and services. The trade imbalances are corrected as Europe and America catch up, reindustrialize, robotize, and revitalize their economies and political systems. Equal players, equal partners. But there's also a version of this where the West doesn't heed the competitive warnings, and continues to disadvantage itself through eco nonsense, long-term protectionism, and a failure to kickstart moribund growth. I don't think anyone, even China, is interested in seeing where that leads. Either way, we need more people in the West to realize what time it is. It's not enough to just see the consequences when they arrive in the form of shuttered factories or bankrupt businesses. Not only is it then too late, but it's also hard to understand exactly why, because it remains abstract and numerical. That Xiaomi assembly line is very concrete. So is going from your first car in 2024 to delivering over 40,000 a month just a couple of years later. And that's just one obvious example. For Europe in particular, the other is AI. Every single major company I visited had its own models. And China has a whole slew of open-weight labs that are focused just on that too. What does Europe have? Mistral? The easy answer to all of this is just to go dooming . It's so over! We're never going to catch up! The West, and Europe in particular, just can't meet the challenge! Nonsense. Every day is a new chance to make different choices. The world has seen many great empires rise and fall. Some of them more than once. I have complete faith in the possibilities of the West. In the 1980s, France built more than 40 nuclear reactors ! Mercedes-Benz once built the W126 . Yes, that's the past. But the present also includes America leading the AI revolution, still dominating in software, and being the home of SpaceX and Tesla. Don't you dare black pill on what's possible in the West! But enough about the West. This is an account of China, first and foremost. And I've simply been blown away by the ambition, spirit, and scale of what's going on over there. I had an absolutely wonderful time, and I'm excited to go back soon.
A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.
Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the flaw allows crafted compressed data to overwrite past the end of a buffer and corrupt a program's memory, potentially
Be a tech bro
We should all strive to be our brother’s keeper: to look after each other, inspire each other, and simply enjoy each other’s company. For men this usually requires a shared mission or interest. Mine has always been computers, so I happily consider myself a tech bro. I know the term has been used to denigrate anyone who has done well with computers or who dares to be excited about them in ways that rub some people the wrong way. But who cares? There is no reason to surrender a perfectly pleasant term of endearment just because small-minded people deploy it to discredit opinions they dislike. There is even less reason to be ashamed of an earnest interest in computers, the businesses around them, and the merit-based communities that keep forming because of them. You should beam with pride at being part of that progress. Is the label a free pass to be an asshole or a scammer? Of course not. We can simply call those people assholes and scammers. Their interest in computers, or their skill with them, is not the problem. Neither is their gender. Yes, men dominate computing. There are many reasons for that; none of them justifies collective guilt. The fact that women are a minority does not diminish the many who work in the industry, and it is more than fine to celebrate their achievements with gusto. Turning the percentages into a struggle session is nonsense. So if you are a tech bro committed to advancing technology, celebrating progress, and rejecting managed decline, you are indeed my brother. I will always want to shake your hand and cheer you on.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Chinese border city
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong via a newly opened bridge linking the two countries, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
Ethiopian PM’s advisor: Tigrayan forces and others hinder stability
Advisor to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister stated that Tigrayan forces and regional actors are hindering regional stability.
Just Eat apologises after AI-generated images blunder
Just Eat has apologised after its AI-generated food images went viral for grossly misrepresenting menu items.