Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works
https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 Points: 410 # Comments: 11
Sunday, October 4, 2026
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf additional paper: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 Points: 510 # Comments: 298
Apple Pass Designer
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276 Points: 541 # Comments: 325
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
Article URL: https://dwarfstar.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936575 Points: 342 # Comments: 98
Extra Big Ass Intelligence
Article URL: https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941114 Points: 480 # Comments: 120
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
Article URL: https://www.newgrounds.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940394 Points: 437 # Comments: 133
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948332 Points: 130 # Comments: 86
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948254 Points: 296 # Comments: 191
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947051 Points: 100 # Comments: 91
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946895 Points: 125 # Comments: 17
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946567 Points: 158 # Comments: 116
FTL: A new operating system for clouds
https://github.com/nuta/ftl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912 Points: 147 # Comments: 59
‘We’ve been taking our time’: Buzzy AI biotech Xaira reveals antibody platform, first taste of pipeline
When Xaira Therapeutics first debuted in 2024 with a gobsmacking $1 billion in funding, a natural expectation would have been for a flurry of further activity to follow. Instead, the buzzy AI biotech went quiet.
Chutes & Ladders—Bayer taps new chief medical officer; Cantor appointed PhRMA CEO
Eric Cantor, who represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives for 14 years and served as House majority leader from 2011 to 2014, will step up as PhRMA’s next president and CEO on Nov. 9. Plus, Bayer has a new chief medical officer.
Novartis pens $7.8B deal for Abogen's in vivo autoimmune T-cell engager
Novartis is paying Abogen Biosciences $575 million upfront for an mRNA-encoded T-cell engager that showed early clinical promise in autoimmune disease. The deal, which includes up to $7.2 billion in milestones, comes weeks after Novartis paused an autoimmune CAR-T program over th
Immunotherapy startup Adecto blames ‘risk-averse funding environment’ for closing down
Adecto Pharmaceuticals’ 12-year story has come to an end as the immunotherapy biotech blamed a “risk-averse funding environment” for shutting up shop.