Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

I saw HackerTube (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50319510">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50319510</a>) a few days ago, the YouTube videos HN keeps
recommending, pulled from 19 years of comments. It made me want to flip
through them instead of picking, so I built a TV for it. I have Algo fatigue.Each topic area is a channel (DEVTV, SOLDER, RETRO, ORBIT, ...), plus HN Prime
(the top 400), a music channel, and Late Night on ch 99, which only broadcasts
11pm-5am your local time and shows color bars otherwise.Similar to HackerTube it was built with Claude Code in a few hours.All credit for the data goes to HackerTube. Happy to hear channel ideas.

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

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The Internals of PostgreSQL

Jelly Sheet

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

Kitty 0.50

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

How I use AI (Oct 2026)

If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers. Although Google claims to disconnect them from your account when human-reviewed, they explicitly warn not to enter confidential information.https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;gemini&#x2F;answer&#x2F;16836988“[Gemini app activity] is used to improve Google services for everyone, including by training generative AI models, if your Keep Activity setting is on.“https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;gemini&#x2F;answer&#x2F;13594961?hl=en#human_review“A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers”https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;gemini&#x2F;answer&#x2F;13594961?hl=en#pn_retain_data“Chats reviewed by human reviewers [...] are not deleted when you delete your activity. Instead, they are retained for up to three years.”https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;gemini&#x2F;answer&#x2F;13594961?hl=en#pn_data_usage“Please don’t enter confidential information that you wouldn’t want a reviewer to see or Google to use to improve our services, including machine-learning technologies.”To disable their training on your chat sessions, you need to turn off “Keep Activity” in Gemini’s settings. Turning that off means you’ll lose any chat sessions after 72 hours.I learned this too late, thinking that having a paid subscription = not being turned into the product. Apparently paying is not enough.Thank you to this user on HN for mentioning in another thread: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50355424

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

We're training a Figma-fluent editing model

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active