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The Barriers of Perception
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/the-barriers-of-perception/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997124
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Get your AI agent connector or integration discovered on TryMuse
Article URL: https://trymuse.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997108
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New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Application Statistics
Article URL: https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/statistics
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997092
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The Future of Knowledge Inside the Enterprise
Article URL: https://philippdubach.com/posts/future-of-knowledge-inside-the-enterprise/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996499
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The Canada-US border runs through a 1904 library's reading room
Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs
Article URL: https://github.com/preferencemodel/karotte
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996497
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The Surface Laptop Ultra coming on Oct 16 – and a starting price of $2,599
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/1006378/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-pricing-release-date
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996486
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Using real shadows to make a video game
Article URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeB5R7DhJjC/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996477
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A tool to extract the text from Bill Gates' The Road Ahead companion CD-ROM
Article URL: https://github.com/kevinmmccormick/road-behind
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996471
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Funding the AI revolution: evidence from euro area sectors
Article URL: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2026/html/ecb.blog20261006~35bf3c24cb.en.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996461
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Wiley agrees to 50-50 split with Dummies authors in Anthropic settlement
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/victoriastrauss.com/post/3mwwcap7os22x
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996443
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Article URL: https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2107894039626277339
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996438
Points: 3
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996437
Points: 31
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Show HN: getrequest – Never lose an API request
Article URL: https://www.getrequest.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996431
Points: 1
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Running Inkling (975B) Across Eleven Intel AI PCs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07219
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996430
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GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996425
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Apple's screen time API is broken
Article URL: https://medium.com/@tnrich/3-things-i-wish-apple-would-fix-in-the-screen-time-api-25607fac8aca
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996418
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Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline
Going to some shady website for file conversions was really annoying me because I had to hope whatever I gave them wasn't saved, and whatever I got back wasn't something "unexpected." So I made convkit, a CLI that does file conversions 100% locally. Run
conv in.mp4 out.gif and you get your GIF from the right tool (ffmpeg, ImageMagick, etc.) using settings tuned for good output. For example, a GIF's 256 colors are picked from the clip itself instead of ffmpeg's generic palette.
And if you've ever had an issue uploading a file that is too large, you can use the --max-size flag:
conv clip.mp4 --max-size 10mb It trades resolution, frame rate and bitrate against each other, so you get the best-looking version that still fits.
Notes
- In early stages (0.3.x) so some issues pop up
- You only need the tools for the conversions you use, so video and GIFs only need ffmpeg; LibreOffice, pandoc and Typst are only for documents; Image to Image needs ImageMagick.
- Not all features are listed. If you are interested go to the github page! https://github.com/shdwfruit/convkit
- If you want any specific conversions, let me know!
Thanks for reading!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996408
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In Vienna and Beijing, the First (Thorium) Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996406
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Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint dies aged 102
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqze43ky1xgdo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996404
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