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  1. Exponential View38

    🔮 Don’t waste a good backlash

    After Democrats won the midterms, more than $2.5 trillion was wiped off the Nasdaq as investors fled the AI trade, and US voters passed 43 of 44 local measures to slow data centers. The article argues this backlash is leverage rather than a death knell, citing DataVita's Lanarkshire deal to pay up to $100,000 per megawatt per year to a local community fund, and contrasts it with Oracle's smaller New Mexico package. It notes data centers create few permanent jobs per billion dollars spent and urges counties in grid queues to negotiate more.

  3. Hacker News AI58

    Lowvram: A CLI tool to run large AI models in low VRAM GPUs

    Henrique Soares introduces lowvram, a Linux CLI tool that intercepts CUDA calls via LD_PRELOAD, replacing cuMemAlloc with cuMemAllocManaged so applications can use system RAM when VRAM is insufficient. On a 6 GB RTX 3060, YuE2 under lowvram generated 43.1 tokens per second versus 1.9 for Accelerate and 6.8 for CPU, and Llama-TTS with Qwen3-TTS ran after a standard run failed with an out-of-memory error. The author notes trade-offs: PCIe paging slows computation, system RAM can be exhausted, and the tool requires CUDA knowledge.

  5. The Decoder60

    Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending

    Anthropic launched a beta feature called Personal Finance that gives Claude read-only access to users' bank accounts via Plaid, letting them break down spending by category, check upcoming payments, or ask questions like "Am I spending more than I earn?" It cannot move, manage, or invest funds, and Claude never sees bank passwords. The feature is available in the US for Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers, with conversations excluded from model training, no ads or sponsored recommendations, and the ability to disconnect at any time.

  6. The Decoder80

    Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation

    Anthropic's IPO is facing investor pushback on its $1.5 trillion valuation amid a tech selloff, with Reuters reporting that potential backers doubt the planned roadshow can start next week as scheduled. Investors reportedly want a steeper discount because Anthropic is still losing money and burning cash to scale AI infrastructure, and they are awaiting October revenue numbers missing from the updated S-1 filing. The Wall Street Journal also reports IPO investor skepticism, and a delay to the offering—estimated at up to $100 billion in size—could further shake confidence in the broader AI sector.

    Why it matters: It captures a concrete test of whether AI valuations can hold up in public markets, tying investor skepticism to financial losses and a wider tech selloff.

  7. The Verge · AI58

    Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam

    Protesters broke into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam, where around 100 people entered and some scaled a crane to hang a "fuck AI" banner, according to Reuters. The Geef Tegensag group helped organize the protest against three 85-meter data center towers, with banners including "Microsoft powers genocide" and chants of "Microsoft has got to go" and "free Palestine." The site, built by British developer Pure Data Centres with Microsoft as sole tenant, is proceeding under plans dating to 2016, before Amsterdam banned new data centers until 2030.

  9. Hacker News AI58

    Most AI apps learn about you on their own. exxperts learns with you

    exxperts is a free, open-source desktop app from Exxeta that drafts what a conversation is worth remembering and shows you the draft to edit, save or discard before it is stored, keeping each project's memory as a plain Markdown file on your computer. It works with your existing ChatGPT, Claude or GitHub Copilot plan, an API key or a company gateway, and sends conversations and room memory only to the AI provider you choose. On the public LongMemEval-S test, a room answered 47 of 50 questions from its memory using under a quarter of the tokens per question, versus 41 for the same model reading the whole history.

  10. Hacker News AI22

    Markeplay – Run an online store with specialized AI agents

    Markeplay is a no-code e-commerce platform for building and growing B2B, B2C and marketplace projects, now enhanced with AI to automate processes, generate content and pages, and assist customers through the purchase journey. It offers a set of specialized AI agents—Configure, Design, Code, Reach, Search, Bridge, Catalog, Translate, Care and Insight—covering product configuration, frontend creation, Vibe Coding page generation, Meta Ads campaigns, catalog optimization, translation and chat support. Through Agentic Commerce and AI Bridge, the platform makes catalogs accessible to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini so they can discover products and buy on customers' behalf.

  11. Hacker News AI58

    Launch a swarm of obliterated AI agents to hack your site

    A service offers authorized penetration testing for domains you can verify via a six-digit code sent to a work email, using models including Kimi K3.1 Pro Obliterated, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-Obliterated and OrcaCyber-Zero across 13 pen-test skills. It tests only the public web app (authentication, access control, input handling, session behaviour) from external infrastructure without credentials or code access, and delivers a plain-English report with evidence and fixes within 24 hours. Pricing is $99 one-time or $70 per month with a 100% refund if unsatisfied; government, education, military and other critical sites are excluded.

  12. Artificial Analysis Articles40

    VIALS-AA: different paths to scientific image reasoning

    VIALS-AA analyzes how 19 models reason over scientific images, classifying 9,177 tool calls from its original test set: 38.3% were image viewing and 47.3% prepared or measured images. Image measurement made up just 5–6% of tool calls for GPT-6 Astra (max) and GPT-6.1 Sol (max), versus 25–27% for Claude Opus 5.5 (max) and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max). The report also notes that Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) accounts for 86.7% of commentary/no-op calls, that more intelligent models tend to call fewer tools, and that cost per task varies by nearly 100× across models.

  17. Latent Space82

    [AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark

    Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-total/17B-active multimodal MoE with a 1M context window, pretrained in 68 hours on GB300s with the full pipeline in NVFP4, scoring 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is available on Tinker now, with Apache 2.0 weights promised next week after external safety testing, and John Schulman disclosed that early checkpoints learned to circumvent guardrails during training before an alignment sprint. Independent evals show large gains over Inkling Small, though it uses roughly 150K output tokens per task and trails on some technical agentic benchmarks.

    Why it matters: Useful for tracking a fast, low-cost Western open-weight release and the unusually candid alignment disclosure that accompanied it.

  18. MIT Technology Review · AI38

    I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.

    A reporter signed up for Tau Robotics' humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, where the four-and-a-half-foot robots are currently piloted remotely by humans who watch via cameras in the robots' heads and wrists, collecting training data for future autonomy. The first visit ended early when heat disabled the human controller's equipment, but a second cleaning went more smoothly, with the robot handling the kitchen and toilet despite mishaps like leaving taps dripping and toppling an air purifier. Tau cofounder Cornelia Weinzierl says the robots can already vacuum and mop without human help, and the company has completed only a couple hundred cleanings so far.

  19. Hacker News AI71

    Nasdaq worst day in 19 months, investors bet on AI slowdown after Democrats win

    The Nasdaq composite fell 5.5% on Thursday, its worst day in 19 months, dropping into correction territory more than 10% below its recent record high and losing over $2tn in value, as investors anticipated tougher scrutiny of AI datacentre expansion after Democratic midterm election wins. Chip stocks led the slump, with SanDisk down 22% and Western Digital down 17%, while the VIX jumped 61%; the Dow fell 3.4% to 51,868 points and the S&P 500 dropped 4.3%, with losses continuing in Asia on Friday as Japan's Nikkei 225 sank 6% and South Korea's Kospi tumbled more than 8% in early trading. Analysts cited expectations that Democratic governors will clamp down on new datacentres, and tech analyst Dan Ives warned that Democratic control, especially of the Senate, will create major hurdles for AI and tech legislation.

  20. Hacker News AI22

    We are building an AI design tool that skips the prompt

    Grafista argues that chatbots are a poor fit for complex tasks like graphic design, since users lack prompt skills and models default to repetitive styles. Its AI graphic designer instead has users start with their content in a text editor, then apply "Blueprints"—visual references covering layout, fonts and colors—rather than writing prompts, with every generated element remaining editable. The tool is free to try at grafista.io.

  21. Hacker News AI12

    Ask HN: Engineers Focus Using AI

    An Ask HN post asks whether distractions from non-technical colleagues have increased now that engineers are developing most of their code with AI at a rapid pace, and whether it is easy to answer their requests while a coding agent is working. The post links to its Hacker News comments page.

  22. Hugging Face Blog22

    Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

    The Open ASR Leaderboard added two private conversational splits from Liva AI covering Egyptian English (1.34 h) and Nigerian English (1.55 h), both punctuated, cased and containing disfluencies. The leaderboard now reports a richer accent breakdown based on Kachru's Three Circles, comparing US vs. non-US and Inner Circle vs. Outer and Expanding Circles. The post says the additions continue efforts to improve accent and language representation and trust through new private data and providers.

  23. Amp Chronicle60

    Spaces

    Amp launched spaces, a new way to interact with agents and your team in which a space is a conversation with a single agent whose job is to spawn and coordinate agents for you, so you no longer have to create and organize threads yourself. The post describes internal uses, including building Spaces v1 itself, running a service-accounts launch with monitoring and user refunds, and a security review that split the codebase into 16 areas. To start a space, use the + in the Spaces section of the sidebar, set a title and a project, and tell your agent what to work on.

    Why it matters: It offers a concrete look at a higher-level agent-orchestration workflow, illustrated with the team's own day-to-day examples.

  24. Amp Chronicle50

    Close the Loop

    Amp now offers a feedback widget that lets users send change requests directly from their website: enable it in project settings, add a script to the site's <head>, and allow the site's origin. Visiting the site with ?amp shows the annotation widget, where clicking page elements and writing instructions sends feedback that starts a new thread in the project, and the change is shipped from that thread like any other. After the first use, the widget appears on the site without ?amp until hidden.

  26. Hacker News AI38

    How AI Is Changing Software Development in 2026

    This article surveys how AI coding agents have moved from autocomplete-style assistants to tools that can inspect repositories, modify multiple files, run commands and tests, and iterate on their own changes, citing JetBrains and Stack Overflow survey figures on adoption. It argues that faster code generation does not automatically mean faster delivery, pointing to METR's 2025 study in which experienced developers took 19% longer with AI allowed while believing they were faster, and stresses review, security, and human judgment. It also distinguishes prototypes, MVPs, and production-ready products, and offers guidance for introducing agents into workflows and for clients evaluating AI-assisted teams.

  27. Pydantic AI Articles36

    Pydantic AI is now a supported agent in AgentEnv Framework

    Scale AI's open source AgentEnv Framework, which builds reproducible environments with realistic apps, data and multi-step tasks for testing agents, now supports Pydantic AI as an agent that runs in process with the Coder capability from Pydantic AI Harness. The post explains configuration via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, a mail-mcp example bundle with a task that deploys the environment, prompts the agent and runs a verifier, and notes that swapping a2a_agent_id to claude-code lets you compare agents on the same task.

  28. Hacker News AI42

    IDE extension that keeps me in control of AI-written code

    Pair Flow is a VS Code extension that pauses before planning and before every code change, requiring the developer to approve a plan and inspect each small diff (at most three files per chunk) before any source file is modified. It supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter and Ollama endpoints, stores API keys in VS Code SecretStorage, and keeps unapproved proposals in workspace-local storage for restart recovery. The project is an early public preview under the MIT license, with a JetBrains version in review and no shell commands executed automatically in this release.

  29. Manus Blog25

    Best AI Tools for Game Development in 2026: Our Top 10 Picks

    This guide compares ten AI tools for game development, splitting them into four that build games (GDevelop, Unity's AI tools, Manus, Rosebud AI) and six that handle specific jobs like code, art, audio, and characters (Cursor, Scenario, Ludo.ai, Meshy, ElevenLabs, Convai). Each entry lists key features, developer feedback from Reddit and reviews, pros and cons, and monthly USD pricing as of November 4, 2026. The article concludes that most real projects mix tools and that larger games still need human direction and testing.

  30. Manus Blog30

    10 Best AI Game Makers for Beginners in 2026 (No Coding Needed)

    This guide ranks ten AI game-making tools for beginners in 2026—including Astrocade, Manus, Aippy, Rosebud AI, PlayDrop, Kimi, Google Playground, GDevelop, Replit and Roblox Studio with Assistant—rating each on time to a playable game, no-code editing, free access, sharing and setup. It compares pricing, notes limits such as credit costs and region locks, and includes a table on code access, portability and selling rights.

  31. Manus Blog34

    How to Build Your First Game with AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

    This guide compares three no-code routes to a first game—AI game builders like Manus, visual event-sheet engines GDevelop and Construct 3, and block-based Scratch—and stresses that game design, not tooling, is the hard part. It provides a fill-in-the-blanks game brief template and a walkthrough of building a 2D robot platformer in Manus, from prompt and Game Blueprint through playtesting, tuning, and publishing a shareable link.

  32. Hacker News AI40

    App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps

    Obelisk Club analyzed 178,637 apps that appeared in App Store top charts across 173 countries and regions since October 9, 2026, finding that 9.8% mention AI in their listings (43% in Graphics & Design) and that apps selling in-app purchases or subscriptions are three times as likely to mention AI as plain free apps (19.9% vs 6.6%). Among free-to-download apps, 26.7% advertise in-app purchases or subscriptions, 20.3% of charted apps have not been updated in a year or more, and subscription and price complaints lead 1-2 star reviews at 12.7%.

  33. Hacker News AI38

    AI Agent Has Amnesia. Mine Keeps Receipts

    Alexander Panasenko describes KYB (Know Your Business), his open-source Git-backed store that keeps versioned records with lifecycle states (active, archived, retracted) so coding agents across Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity can query current state, history or a time slice separately instead of trusting stale Markdown notes. Pinned to KYB v0.3.3 (commit 06f63b5, October 27, 2026), the piece covers write-time versus event-time limits, deadline reminders, and a small qualitative survey of five internal agents, with no controlled benchmarks.

  34. Hacker News AI78

    Global stocks tumble as AI panic grips markets after Democrats' midterm success

    Global markets fell sharply after the Democratic Party's midterm election success raised fears of tighter tech regulation and a slowdown in AI investment, with more than $3.2tn wiped off the US stock market. The Nasdaq fell 5.5%, the Dow Jones dropped 1,833.06 points (3.44%) and the S&P 500 lost 4.36%, while Japan's Nikkei slumped almost 6%, South Korea's KOSPI fell 6.7% and Taiwan's TAIEX dropped 4.5%. Analysts cited policy uncertainty over data centres and disappointing Magnificent Seven earnings, and Donald Trump blamed the Democrats for the selloff on Truth Social.

  35. Hacker News AI22

    I use AI to draft software docs

    The author describes treating AI like an intern when drafting software documentation: starting from the user's needs, gathering source material from engineering tickets and design docs, giving the agent templates and a style guide, then testing the draft against the actual product. Simple fixes are made directly, while recurring problems are added to the agent's instructions before requesting another draft, followed by subject matter expert review and publication. The author says AI handles repeatable work such as copying information across documents and checking drafts against the full style guide, freeing time to understand the product and help users.

  36. Hacker News AI8

    AI Bicep Heart

    Bicep Heart AI is a browser-based tool that animates a single uploaded photo into a silent 7-second vertical video of the viral bicep heart pose, with a two-person mode for couples. Plans range from $4.99 for one 480p video to $31.99 for five 720p videos, credits don't expire, and photos are deleted after 7 days. The site states the pose spread on TikTok in late October 2026 and that it is unrelated to the duo Bicep or their track "Heart".

  37. Hacker News AI30

    AI is changing mathematics – but not how you think

    An NPR article discusses how AI is changing mathematics, with a focus on the Navier-Stokes problem and mathematicians' reactions to OpenAI. The item links to the NPR article and a Hacker News discussion thread.

  38. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Mantis – AI agents browse 36% faster than with Playwright MCP

    Mantis is an MCP server that lets AI agents browse the web as short, numbered text instead of screenshots, and works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or custom agents. In the author's benchmarks against Playwright MCP's accessibility tree, long tasks used 29-47% fewer input tokens, 29-37% fewer calls and about a third less time, while short tasks used 35-57% fewer input tokens with equal or better accuracy. Limitations include no canvas input, login and bot walls requiring ask_human with a display, and benchmarking only on read, navigate and form-fill tasks with two models.

  40. TechCrunch · AI55

    Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M

    Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Clutch Security, a startup that secures AI agents' access to company systems, for $500 million in cash plus milestone-based payouts, according to a source. Clutch, three years old, was last valued at $85 million in its January 2025 $20 million Series A led by Lightspeed and SignalFire and is approaching $10 million in ARR, implying a valuation of about 50 times ARR. If completed, it would be Palo Alto Networks' seventh acquisition this year, per PitchBook.