Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
26 points and 3 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.
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6 storiesWhat is climbing fastest across every source
Anthropic5.8xChinese7.1xMuse Spark7.9xOpenAI6.1xA42B7.4xOpen-816B7.4xmeta-models7.4xGemini 4 Argon6.0xblack-forest-labs6.9xflux-36.9x
A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip
Researchers reverse engineer the Eufy Homebase2, revealing its WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns, and a damaged flash memory chip. ·
DCN Warsaw 2026: Poland deserves a greater share of global data center capacity
Poland is positioned to gain a larger share of global data center capacity due to its evolving energy situation and the ongoing industry expansion. ·
Google's DeepMind hiring for nuclear expert
Google DeepMind is hiring a nuclear expert to evaluate and mitigate the safety risks of frontier AI models in the nuclear domain. ·
Monthly Roundup #47: October 2026
A monthly roundup for October 2026 examines the current state of artificial intelligence and its limited impact on the physical world. ·
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-NVFP4
A image text to text model from meta-models with 141 likes and 814 downloads on Hugging Face.
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
26 points and 3 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.
Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
Apple ML Research introduces Muse Spark Open, a tool that allows developers to run models locally on Mac Studio hardware using the MLX framework. ·
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-NVFP4
A image text to text model from meta-models with 141 likes and 814 downloads on Hugging Face.
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
91 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
Apple ML Research introduces Muse Spark Open, a tool that allows developers to run models locally on Mac Studio hardware using the MLX framework. ·
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
26 points and 3 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Trending topics today: heat
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| Anthropic | 2.15 |
| Chinese | 1.57 |
| Muse Spark | 1.28 |
| OpenAI | 1.2 |
| A42B | 1.02 |
| Open-816B | 1.02 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Models
5 storiesReleases, papers, trending weights and new listings
Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes
Table
| abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized | 4417 |
| google/embeddinggemma-2 | 2488 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer | 1803 |
| Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▼1 | 925 |
| openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲1 | 827 |
| fishaudio/drama-3 ▲3 | 531 |
PirateBench: score out of 100
Table
| gpt-6.1-sol | 98.9 |
| opus-5-5 | 96.46 |
| gpt-6-sol | 91.6 |
| gpt-6-luna | 65.25 |
| haiku-4-5 | 4.28 |
Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/
Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
67 points and 42 comments on Hacker News, linking starskirmish.com.
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery
FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·
OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding
Researchers introduce OmniCompass, a benchmark for evaluating multimodal models on video grounding and understanding. It includes 820 vision-language videos and 240 audio-visual videos. ·
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
91 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
67 points and 42 comments on Hacker News, linking starskirmish.com.
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery
FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·
OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding
Researchers introduce OmniCompass, a benchmark for evaluating multimodal models on video grounding and understanding. It includes 820 vision-language videos and 240 audio-visual videos. ·
X voices
5 storiesX posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
@josephfcox
OpenAI lets anyone target specific people with ads via phone or email
5 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@OpenAI
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@SEGA
Total War Remaster Removed from Steam After AI Allegations, Brings Back Original
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@opencode
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@HelloSurgeAI
Can Coding Agents Act Like Staff Engineers?
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@josephfcox
OpenAI lets anyone target specific people with ads via phone or email
5 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@OpenAI
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@SEGA
Total War Remaster Removed from Steam After AI Allegations, Brings Back Original
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@opencode
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@HelloSurgeAI
Can Coding Agents Act Like Staff Engineers?
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
GitHub
5 storiesNew repos, releases and changelog
New AI repos this week: stars
Table
| onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent | 2807 |
| deeplethe/solid-glass | 1336 |
| rociiu/talorys | 1239 |
| marclou/mailcheap | 1121 |
| zhuyansen/new-term-radar | 1062 |
| feder-cr/git-ai | 1038 |
OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
A new repository written in Python with 167 stars in its first week.
PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game
PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·
openai/codex 0.163.0
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
zgsfsec/Full-Chain-Sentinel-System
Full-Chain Sentinel is a penetration testing agent system that assists security services with full-process testing and prohibits use for illegal attacks. ·
OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
A new repository written in Python with 167 stars in its first week.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
openai/codex 0.163.0
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0
llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·
feder-cr/open_scion
Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·
Infrastructure
5 storiesData centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
Data-center and energy stories per day
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| Sat 10 | 3 |
| Sun 11 | 7 |
| Mon 12 | 41 |
| Tue 13 | 29 |
| Wed 14 | 34 |
| Thu 15 | 41 |
| Fri 16 | 31 |
Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.
Median output price of models added in the last 30 days, $ per million tokens
One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)
Table
| moondream3-preview | 2.5 |
| moondream3.1-9b-a2b | 2.5 |
| muse-spark-open | 4.25 |
| nemotron-3.5-super-vl | 0.5 |
| pareto-latest | 7.5 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
438 paid models listed; median of the 47 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Optical switching startup Salience Labs raises $125m with AMD and Intel participating in round
Salience Labs raises $125 million in a Series B round with participation from AMD and Intel to develop optical circuit switching technology. ·
Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
382 points and 277 comments on Hacker News, linking startupfortune.com.
Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256
60 points and 39 comments on Hacker News, linking dfarq.homeip.net.