October 21, 2026
The best of what first appeared in the trends on this day (UTC).
nunomaduro/dev-null.sh
dev-null.sh
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger and calls the possibility of a Tesla-SpaceX merger a “good idea”
Musk called the merger “a good idea,” though it cautioned it wasn't a guarantee.
Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling
Anthony Cimino offered the closest thing to an official response we have seen on the leaked Anthropic draft bill I covered on Saturday. His response indicates that Anthropic address specific concerns on the margin. But he does not understa…
Unauthorized Access to PingCAP Cloud Resources
PingCAP powers your digital transformation with a single source of truth at scale. Developed to be an open, unified, distributed SQL database solution. Learn more on Security Update – October 2026 page.
The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
https://web.archive.org/web/20261020230542/https://www.thebe... https://archive.ph/Tb1SZ
justrach/nanoui
Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend
Reliable Robotics, which develops an autonomous flight system, raised a $115M extension for its $160M Series D, pushing its valuation to $1B+
Reliable Robotics has been working for nearly a decade to commercialize autonomous flying technology that can be installed on existing aircraft.
Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026
We test five bot detection systems against scripted browsers, stealth browsers, and AI browsing agents completing a realistic survey. Detection rates range from 9% to 99%.
TokenGate: Adapting LLMs for Fast and Memory-Efficient Prefill with Learned Token Pruning
TokenGate is a lightweight learnable token-pruning module that accelerates long-context prefill in transformers by selectively skipping unimportant tokens via token-gated attention.
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Firmus, which pulled its IPO earlier this month, citing market volatility
Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Australian AI cloud provider Firmus, which abruptly pulled its initial public offering early …
Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?
Dovepass answers one question for drone operators: given two points, can a drone legally fly between the two points? I build route planning for delivery drivers and wanted to check what it would look like if the vehicle flies. Drone naviga…
UniXNU/UniXNU
Run iOS and macOS on non-Apple ARM64 hardware through UEFI.
Tsinghua started an AI-safety residency
Applications are open for the Spring 2027 cohort of the Beijing AI Safety Residency, hosted at the Beijing AI Safety Hub affiliated with Tsinghua University. There is also an autumn residency that has already begun. Key details from the FA…
Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October
I previously arranged (by PMing everyone who mentioned it) a 5 Lobster meetup in Mexico. I'll be in NYC next week and think this could be nice. There will be cross contamination from Array Language people. We can target e.g. 5:30PM until ???, perhaps by Bryant Park or Borough Ha…
Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI
microagi is a data research lab working on end-to-end physical AGI, with a focus on reliable real-world deployments.
An interview with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair about plans to offer financial services to its 2.5M active creators, a potential IPO, and more
I've been covering OnlyFans since 2022, when I profiled then-CEO Amrapali Gan as she was attempting to broaden the platform from one known …
Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI “safetyism” as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as “Mr. Hyde”, and Eliezer Yudkowsky as “more Luddite than Greta”
It's a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven …
harkhowalia-1/MacSubsystemForAndroid
Run Android apps on your Mac like Mac apps: each in its own window with its own Dock icon, on Apple silicon. Notifications, game controllers, privacy controls. Free & open source (LineageOS + QEMU + scrcpy).
Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App
Your app runs at the edge and cannot make a PDF. Here is the whole path from that problem to a running container, including the failed deploys, and why the...