Wednesday 7 October · 496 items from 63 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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How disability-led evidence can break the reactive policy cycle
OPINION | Disability policy, NDIS reform and co-designed research can close evidence gaps by putting lived experience at the centre of policymaking. The post How disability-led evidence can break…
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SUBCO eyes cable laying ship and survey drone
Would seek government investment in vessel.
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Health's data modernisation on GCP reaches $32.8m
After being unveiled back in 2024.
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Anthropic opens its most powerful AI models to more security teams
Multiple tiers of access unveiled.
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Atlassian Data Centre products hit by unauthenticated file access vulnerability
Take internet-facing instances offline if they can't be patched immediately.
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Thinking about democracy: A grand experiment
PART 1 | Democracy is in global decline, with freedoms shrinking, institutions weakening, and democratic systems facing growing pressure worldwide. The post Thinking about democracy: A grand…
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2026
In addition to the nearly constant stream of model releases, in September we’ve seen price drops, new kinds of models, proofs of long-standing problems in mathematics, and continued investigations…
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Brazil election notes (from my email)
From Diego Costa: “Hi Tyler, If you’re still interested in the fallout from Brazil’s elections, here are some observations that add texture to the usual narratives: Nine of the 10 candidates who…
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llm-mistral 0.16
Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4 . Tags: llm , mistral , llm-reasoning
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EmbeddingGemma 2
My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a…
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An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI
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Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their…
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Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with both an open source (AGPL) Rust implementation (a single…
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Mistral Large 4
My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991 : The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars. OK well I couldn't resist this…
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datasette-atom 0.11a0
Release: datasette-atom 0.11a0 A minor fix for compatibility with the latest Datasette alphas. This meant we could upgrade the datasette.io site to Datasette 1.0a41. Tags: atom , datasette
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Tuesday assorted links
1. What is the real rate of Chinese economic growth? 2. An Abundance caucus rolls out a bipartisan agenda. 3. Canada fell to 18th from 9th in global ranking of economic freedom. 4. Will there ever…
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
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Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.
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What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying…
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Unlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models for global public health
Earth AI
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Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models
Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across…
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How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT
Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research. See how longer-running AI workflows combine multiple data sources with human review.
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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Physicist Jun Ye Wins Wolf Prize in Physics
The award cites Ye’s achievement in “transformative, widely applicable advances in the control of ultracold atomic systems.”
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Building the foundations for better data sharing across the UK
Data has the potential to improve services, support innovation and drive growth, but sharing it across organisations can be complex and costly. GDS is supporting the National Digital Twin Programme,…
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NIST Provides Updates on National Construction Safety Team Activities
The presentations highlighted the importance of NIST applying its own expertise and the expertise of others through collaborations and contracts.
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NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States
Projects will address local cybersecurity workforce needs and will offer practical learning opportunities including internships, apprenticeships and hands-on projects.
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Targeted consultation to support a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation
Targeted consultation to support a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/29/2026 - 10:15 Opening: 29 September 2026 Closing: 03 November 2026…
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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Sam Wood “terminated” from 28 fitness business following domestic violence charges
DBG Health says it has "terminated all arrangements" with the fitness entrepreneur, who faces two domestic violence charges. The post Sam Wood “terminated” from 28 fitness business following…
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‘State-controlled food distribution’: Indie grocers blast $25 billion plan for government-owned supermarkets
A $25 billion plan to nationalise hundreds of supermarkets promises cheaper groceries, but independent operators warn they could be squeezed by a new government-backed competitor. The post…
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Victoria and Queensland stick with credit cards for tax payments after ATO ban
Some state revenue offices say credit cards will remain as a payment option for businesses, despite the surcharge ban. The post Victoria and Queensland stick with credit cards for tax payments after…
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Vuly founder says ACCC action will mean fewer promotions this Christmas
Vuly founder Joe Andon says the retailer accepts the ACCC’s concerns over its previous Black Friday promotions, but the changes will mean fewer opportunities for shoppers to save. The post Vuly…
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
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Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware
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Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries
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MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country
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Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H 2 extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation
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Maintaining global science collaboration during conflict requires fairer rules
Build
For the making side.
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The Query Transformation Pipeline
Article URL: https://readyset.io/blog/how-readyset-rewrites-your-sql-inside-the-query-transformation-pipeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984834 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI
Article URL: https://penguin-mail.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984716 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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How Fast is Python 3.15?
Article URL: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-fast-is-python-3-15 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984652 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984484 Points: 28 # Comments: 28
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Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development. The post Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development…
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
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Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
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Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
The startup crossed over $1 million in anualized revenue within two months of its post-pivot launch.
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Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet
Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
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How AI decision models could change content moderation
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
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AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
Open
The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.