Anthropic S-1
The SEC page blocked access to the Anthropic S-1 filing because the request came from an undeclared automated tool. It asks automated users to identify themselves and follow its download limits.
Anthropic S-1, Lula's election win, and CNN skin cancer diagnosis
First things first
There’s a lot of big-picture tech energy today: AI is getting cheaper, more practical, and still surprisingly beatable by older, focused tools. Meanwhile, privacy, censorship, and access to public records keep reminding everyone that the internet is also about who gets to see what.
And amid the heavy stuff, there’s room for playful tinkering, old-school creativity, and projects built to work locally. Plenty to poke around in online, as usual.
The top 6
Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election after the final votes were tallied. The result followed a closely contested runoff against Jair Bolsonaro.
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
A fine-tuned 2015 Inception v3 CNN correctly identified 62% of 200 biopsy-confirmed skin lesions, compared with 42% for each of two frontier LLMs. The dermatologist’s test found the CNN better at diagnosis on this dataset, including identifying a melanoma both LLMs called harmless.
I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
A proposed Digital Dissident devroom at FOSDEM 2027 will bring developers and activists together to strengthen the full chain of tools people use to evade censorship, communicate privately, and publish evidence safely. Organizer Bogomil Shopov invites submissions focused on practical solutions and collaboration across projects.
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
OpenAI and Anthropic sharply lowered prices as competition intensified and cheaper models challenged their offerings. For agentic coding, cached conversation history drives most token costs, so cutting cache-read rates can greatly reduce the real cost of using a model.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails free, age-appropriate books each month to children from birth to age five. Launched in 1995, the program now serves families in five countries through funding from Parton and local community partners.
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Quote of the day
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
Also big today
IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
IBM’s CEO says open-weight AI models have become capable and inexpensive enough for companies to run on their own hardware. On-premises models can offer more privacy and reduce cloud fees, but require costly GPUs and may deliver slightly weaker results.
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene, Oregon, police estimated it would cost a local news outlet nearly $2.5 million to process records about an officer accused of misconduct. Double Sided Media says the request serves the public interest, while the fee threatens to block access to records needed for police accountability.
Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
A Minecraft map recreates all of Switzerland at a one-meter-per-block scale using open swisstopo geographic data. Players can download a free UNESCO Jungfrau-Aletsch region or purchase the full 24 GB map.
Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
TitleArt is a web app that recreates the colorful text effects of Microsoft WordArt from the 1990s. It lets users create stylized titles with features such as vector hard shadows.
Why I Am a Programmer
Programming grew from a childhood fascination with computers, games, save-file tinkering, and online bulletin boards. The author writes code to create immersive experiences, especially demos that change how people perceive reality.
Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
NeXT was Steve Jobs’s computer company, known for its distinctive NeXTSTEP operating system and workstation and Cube computers. A NeXT computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee to create the first web browser and server.
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OLED iPad Mini
Apple’s iPad mini listing shows A20 Pro models with 128GB to 512GB storage, in Midnight or Starlight, starting at $699. Preorders begin October 28 at 10:10 a.m. PT, with availability starting November 6.
Websites Should Be Printable
Websites can use CSS print styles to improve readability on paper, hide navigation, and add print-only details. Brennen Puth shares simple adjustments for font sizes, colors, and page elements that make his site print cleanly.
The State of Context Engineering
Context engineering remains essential because even more capable AI models need clear, consistent instructions tailored to how they work. Its central challenge is knowing when to use deterministic systems and when to rely on probabilistic model behavior.
Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
Removing Next.js helped the author’s blog achieve perfect Lighthouse scores across all categories. The performance improvements included caching and a CDN to reduce latency for visitors worldwide.
PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
PaperPilot is a zero-cloud PDF engine written in Rust, with WebAssembly and MCP support. It is designed as a local AI copilot for working with documents.
Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
Peter Thiel has used his wealth and influence to shape U.S. politics, backing Donald Trump and helping J. D. Vance’s career while promoting anti-establishment, technoconservative ideas. He warns that AI regulation could enable an Antichrist and leads Palantir, a defense and intelligence company with government contracts worldwide.
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Deep cuts
Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Microsoft is offering buyouts to roughly a quarter of its workforce. The move could reduce the company’s headcount through voluntary departures.
Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence or death by 42% compared with standard treatment in a Phase 3 trial of 1,137 patients. The companies are discussing approval with regulators, and the full results are slated for publication in the New England Journal of Medicine.
iPhone Duo Teardown
iFixit found the iPhone Duo is the most repairable foldable it has disassembled, with accessible components and electrically released batteries. But its folding inner screen remains difficult and costs $999 to replace out of warranty, while early units are showing cracks and bright lines.
What goes into making an animated film?
Animated films are built through collaboration across development, asset creation, shot production, and post-production. A feature is divided into sequences, which are then broken into individual shots and frames.
F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
F-Zero X now runs on Nintendo 3DS, reaching about 60 fps in stereoscopic 3D on New 3DS. Version 1.0.0 adds Old 3DS support, a native renderer, and compatibility with the 64DD Expansion Kit.
Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
A proposed attention-free architecture uses Grassmann manifolds to pass information through structured, low-rank token interactions. It approaches similarly sized Transformers on WikiText-2 and slightly improves a DistilBERT classification head on SNLI.