tech report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aleph-alpha.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;tech-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aleph-alpha.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;tech-report.pdf</a>additional paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tej.as&#x2F;blog&#x2F;aleph-alpha-kolibri" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tej.as&#x2F;blog&#x2F;aleph-alpha-kolibri</a>

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who&#x27;s real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially &quot;Triumph of the Nerds&quot;. He will be missed.

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nuta&#x2F;ftl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nuta&#x2F;ftl</a>

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;5GQx8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;5GQx8</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2026&#x2F;oct&#x2F;03&#x2F;openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2026&#x2F;oct&#x2F;03&#x2F;openai-sa...</a>

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

So you think you could be an electrician?

pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes (&quot;pods&quot;) on a server you run, in composable environments.----Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really frustrated by the state of &quot;agentic engineering&quot; environments. Products by the labs (claude code, codex) lock you into a single provider for your tokens. Agnostic solutions (factory, devin, arguably cursor) make you pay per-token costs. None of these products allow you to fully customize the harness, and of course they all run on someone else&#x27;s infrastructure.I&#x27;ve been an early and fervent user of pi, which I think is fantastically simple and beautiful software. I have felt it needs an environment for it to work across platforms with fully functional composability for teams.This is very much a work in progress, but for my team this has been a much needed solution and has helped us tremendously. I hope you will give it a try and let me know how you would like it to improve.

Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;y8FW0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;y8FW0</a>

Religious scholars met with Anthropic

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;halidecx&#x2F;wpd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;halidecx&#x2F;wpd</a>