Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 Points: 629 # Comments: 259
Saturday, October 17, 2026
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Article URL: https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179 Points: 378 # Comments: 324
Tesla Roadster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qg https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2110788059008819215 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112657 Points: 1139 # Comments: 2051
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852 Points: 447 # Comments: 166
What I self-host
Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 636 # Comments: 416
New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
Article URL: https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accounts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109375 Points: 394 # Comments: 280
I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
Article URL: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/49314 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50124251 Points: 167 # Comments: 118
How the Claude Code team does code review
Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122951 Points: 208 # Comments: 196
You could have invented transformers from memory
Article URL: https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122878 Points: 112 # Comments: 32
Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console
Article URL: https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122431 Points: 166 # Comments: 44
eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
Article URL: https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_-But-Exempts-Ham-Band-Only-Gear Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122034 Points: 151 # Comments: 127
/dev/null: social network for developers
Article URL: https://dev-null.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121004 Points: 120 # Comments: 107
Hospitals’ next lucrative bet — longevity clinics
Longevity medicine is now estimated to be a multitrillion dollar industry. But what are people paying for, and does it work? On this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast, we bring on STAT reporter Sarah Todd to discuss the booming industry of longevity hea
STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others. That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them . Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an HHS peptide push, Trump’s pharma stock holdings, and more
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda is, so far, rather modest. We plan to catch up on our reading, take a few naps and promenade with the offi
STAT+: RevMed’s pancreatic cancer drug nears European approval
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. We’re leaving room for popcorn and intrigue tonight: The new A24 documentary, “You Can See Everything,” hits theaters today. I remember back at the American