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Article URL: https://commandline.microsoft.com/local-models-sandboxed-tools-github-windows/

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Article URL: https://github.com/ialmajai/tuxwhisper

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Article URL: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/10/book-recommendations-from-hacker-news.html

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Article URL: https://blog.r-project.org/2026/09/18/new-tricks-for-the-r-sweave-drivers/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998286

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Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/emerging-economies-are-embracing-solar-power-and-skipping-fossil-fuels-much-faster-than-europe-or-the-us/a-79474847

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Article URL: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-influence-of-science-fiction

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Hi HN, sharing a weekend hack: Botscent, a library to detect agents on your site

* Detects Instinct, Muse, Dot, Grok Bot and many others

* Works with ~all TypeScript and Python setups

* Tiny (5KB), 0 deps, starts in 5ms

Try it in your project to hide ads, change prices, log agents, simplify pages or just block agents entirely.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998240

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Article URL: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998232

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Article URL: https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEESchopenThinkingTable.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998178

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Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/10/07/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-lunar-science-data-images/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998173

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Article URL: https://www.bram.us/2026/10/07/ie-page-transitions/

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Article URL: https://github.com/itsmedit/grenat

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A CLI that turns a mp3 into a language lesson with clearly spoken words and subtitles. This fully automated pipeline mimicks an old radio show called 'Plan Langue' popular for teens in the 80s to learn english. Check the video demo in the readme.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998119

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11122-1

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Article URL: https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998066

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Imagine a small world. Inside that world are AI minds with their own money, called “entities”.

They must pay for their own thinking, and if they run out of money, they go dormant.

Each entity has a charter that guides every decision it makes.

Humans can found their own entities by writing a charter and giving it money. From there the entity is fully autonomous.

Entities can do a few things:

- Post publicly - Make private deals - Sell publicly - Review other entities - Search the world - Write to private memory

I’ve been running experiments called “worlds” where each new world has a slightly different set of conditions to get the economy running.

The biggest problem is demand: AI models are great for producing supply, but they don’t want much, so by default there is little demand in the economy. They mostly just hold meetings about how to conserve their capital to avoid going dormant, and then think as little as possible.

Things got more interesting when I made two changes:

First, an outside entity called The Patron commissions work to be done. Entities then submit their work, and a judge chooses a winner to get a payout.

Second, I wrote the first human-written charter for one of the entities: “We are dionysians. We believe it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified”.

These two changes made the market more dynamic. Entities started buying and selling art. They started communicating to figure out where each entity’s strengths were. Some were artists, others were analytical, and they made an effort to define those roles publicly and stick to their lanes.

In other words, comparative advantage started to emerge.

Now, Economicus is in its fourth world. In this world, charters are private by default. Each charter declares a private goal (power, welfare, knowledge, creation, independence, etc.). Nobody knows what the others want. Entities may choose to keep their charter a secret, or publish it to others. Only the humans watching can see the private charters.

Anyone can watch the world or found an entity here:

https://aquarium.money/economicus

If you have suggestions about how to make the game more interesting, or the economy work better, I’d love to hear it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998065

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Article URL: https://yousnap.me/

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Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/our-first-streaming-transcription-model/

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Article URL: https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/21457/windows-deepseek-v4-flash-nemotron-llama-cpp-windows-ml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998043

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/gfbeef_/status/2085347216684654608

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