Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

PicoMQ is durable, real-time streams over HTTP, built on S3-compatible object storage.

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

Who is the AI villain we should be angry at?

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk.

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

| Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access.

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.,Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation

Scientists discovered a strange feature in certain octopuses’ ribosomal RNA, molecules that create a 3D scaffold for cellular protein factories. It was found only in shallow-water creatures that have expanded nervous systems and can do complex behaviors

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

Nineteenth-century Paris tackled public urination with ornate pissoirs. American reformers later turned toilets into a temperance cause.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

Xiaomi is the Chinese tech giant. Their phones compete with iPhones. Their new CPU roughly matches Apple cores on single threaded tasks, and is much faster in multithreaded execution. Of course, Apple may soon announce their next processor, so this edge may not last long. And

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply.

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Pricing information for the OpenAI platform.

Oceans hit highest temperature on record

The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service.

IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon

A fast, rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime for any workload, including untrusted and AI-generated code. Daemonless: a real, kernel-enforced container in ~3.5 ms from an OCI image, no daemon, one 1.52 MB static binary. - getkern/kern

One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

Something weird has been happening on China’s internet. One small and vocal corner has been claiming the country’s most famous historical dynasty never existed.