OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 396 # Comments: 348
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Points: 535 # Comments: 518
Thunderbird for iOS
Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072913 Points: 334 # Comments: 147
Apple HomeView
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017 Points: 654 # Comments: 776
Firefox Enterprise
Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302 Points: 641 # Comments: 262
We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model
Article URL: https://eg2.haku.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069971 Points: 395 # Comments: 86
Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free cho
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Main thread: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869 Points: 194 # Comments: 45
The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-has-fallen-by-a-third-from-its-early-2000s-peak Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072994 Points: 198 # Comments: 281
Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
https://www.apple.com/safari/switch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072286 Points: 182 # Comments: 305
New Apple TV 4K
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071310 Points: 283 # Comments: 539
A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070593 Points: 218 # Comments: 94
STAT+: BlackRock to buy majority stake in Humana’s CenterWell clinics for $2.8 billion
Humana is swapping out private equity sponsors for its CenterWell Senior Primary Care clinics. Good bye, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Hello, BlackRock. The health insurer announced Tuesday that BlackRock is buying out Welsh Carson’s majority stake in its network of 150 Medica
Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, a renowned infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials around the world with her accessible, prescient dispatches on scourges from influenza to polio and Ebola to Covid-19, becoming a vital source of information for t
STAT+: Many patient, consumer reps on FDA advisory panels have ties to groups funded by pharma, analysis finds
Nearly 40% of Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meetings held over a recent 20-year period included either a patient or consumer representative with active ties to an advocacy group funded by pharmaceutical companies, according to a new analysis. And for several com
STAT+: Animosity in North Carolina, and MA shooting stars
This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc. Sign up here . Hello! We’re here a day later due to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A big thanks to everyone who emails in. I read all of them. And keep ’em coming: bob.herman@statnews.com . A fireworks displa