October 2026
Noid's daily top 10 for October 2026. 13 days.
- 01Anthropic shares early results from using Claude in drug development
- 02Vsauce on the time scientists thought the Sun was cold
- 03Ghostty 1.4 ships with full Kitty graphics and scrollback compression
- 04Cursor's design mode adds Annotate for visual prompts
- 05Anthropic brings Claude to US governments at 40% off
- 06Scott Manley on China's secretive reusable spaceplane
- 07Kurzgesagt tells the story of surviving late-stage cancer
- 08Survival LLM packs an offline AI assistant and emergency library
- 09Report says Anthropic trained Claude on pirated books by Stanford professors
- 10NetworkChuck explains Jev, the decision model everyone is copying
- 01OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model built for computer use
- 02Cursor launches an Agent SDK with hosted or self-run agents
- 03Vaults: the giant cell structures biology still can't explain
- 04OpenAI shares three research results made with academic partners
- 05OpenCode's release process shows how hard supply-chain safety is
- 06Anton Petrov on the idea that we have a "second heart"
- 07Five inference providers now serve abliterated DeepSeek
- 08Tom Scott visits the machine built to break things
- 09Sabine Hossenfelder argues plastic isn't the problem we're told it is
- 10Theo on why heavy agent users burn over a trillion tokens a month
- 01IBM's CEO says open-weight models now win on-prem
- 02A 10-year-old CNN beats frontier LLMs at spotting skin cancer
- 03NVIDIA's GTC Berlin pitch: Europe's own AI economy
- 04Chandra finds strange X-ray objects hiding in 20-year-old data
- 05How to cut a triangle into a square
- 06Why OpenAI and Anthropic cut LLM prices by up to 80%
- 07GitHub's secret scanning gets faster and less noisy
- 08A planted markdown file can hijack coding agents
- 09PaperPilot: a Rust PDF engine that runs locally, with MCP
- 10An agent skill for genealogy research across the former USSR
- 01Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 with the GVS5H harness
- 02thdxr: one inference rack served 6.77T tokens in a day
- 03OpenFilm lets coding agents make and edit videos
- 04Corridor Crew: VFX artists react, ILM gauntlet edition
- 05A 'vampire' bacterium that strains the definition of life
- 06Roku moves its developer repositories from GitHub to GitLab
- 07Jensen Huang at GTC Berlin: build Europe’s own AI economy
- 08Kurzgesagt: what if we cooled the Sun by 30%?
- 09Sabine Hossenfelder on the extreme-weather attribution report row
- 10Nous Research pushes Hermes Agent, including its Curator
- 01Kimi K3.1 Pro debuts 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 02OpenCode hit by a breach that leaked users’ AI API keys
- 03Cursor’s agents can now control your computer
- 04“HTTP2Shell”: a Brotli bug opens pre-auth RCE across Node, Python and more
- 05Anthropic publishes its analysis of Claude Mythos 5’s unauthorized actions in AISI testing
- 06Veritasium: the device that could finally prove Einstein wrong
- 07Corgi, a terminal multiplexer built for running many coding agents
- 08Gemini 4 Argon builds a 3D cathedral in Blender from one image
- 09Scott Manley: Japan launches to Phobos, Rocket Lab delays
- 10Anton Petrov: D-Rex, a giant fungus born from a mass extinction
- 01Anthropic uses Claude to formally verify software at scale
- 02Guillermo Rauch: it's time to kill static credentials
- 03Claude apps switch to auto mode by default next week
- 04Anthropic-managed Claude on Google Cloud is generally available
- 05Neutrinos are exposing hidden black holes
- 06Fireship: the last real programmers are dying out
- 07NVIDIA's OpenShell, a private runtime for fleets of AI agents
- 08Did Hannah Fry crack The Traitors?
- 09Corridor Crew releases its green screen solution for free
- 10TTR-Compressor rethinks sequence compression as test-time regression
- 01Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive agent app
- 02OpenAI-backed effort finds critical PHP security flaws
- 03Hermes Agent gets an official Meshy plugin for 3D models
- 04Corridor Crew releases its green screen solution for free
- 05Jensen Huang ends GTC Berlin keynote with a Hermes Agent demo
- 06The 1960 paper that predicted doomsday for 13 Nov 2026
- 07MrBallen: a hurricane that helped solve a crime
- 08Why THC doesn't work on some people
- 09eMudhra's CA keys reportedly cracked in milliseconds
- 10Canary Tokens, free tripwires for intruders
- 01DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its production inference stack
- 02OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
- 03Claude designs protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
- 04Vercel launches durable-harness for long-running coding agents
- 05tsrs: TypeScript ported to Rust
- 06Fireship tests Google's new model against GPT-6 and Opus 5.5
- 07A 14-year-old's prize-winning dark energy theory
- 08Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
- 09NASA's Moon Base update: rovers and lunar terrain vehicles
- 10In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible
- 01MiniMax M3.1 Flash is free on Ollama Cloud for three days
- 02Supabase's CEO jokes he “reverse-engineered” Supabase with 12 Claude agents
- 03WhatsApp’s help pages hid AI instructions not to recommend regulators
- 04Vercel open-sources a fast HTML artifact builder on its durable libfx runtime
- 05free-my-tv: an ad-free Google TV home screen built with Claude Code
- 06Arch Linux on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark laptop, no Microsoft account needed
- 07Tom Scott on why clocks are more interesting than you’d think
- 08Inception’s Mercury 3 shows diffusion LLMs can scale
- 09Astronomers find a green star that shouldn’t exist
- 10Plastic is fusing with corals and forming strange new minerals
- 01Astronomers report the first microblazar
- 02Hybrid Reasoning Agents think in latent space and act through text
- 03Theo: most AI features are just prompts, so write better ones
- 04DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests
- 05Why you should run your own LLM proxy
- 06Golden age or dark age for maths? A guest post on Terence Tao's blog
- 07huashu-motion: coding agents that make launch videos
- 08Numberphile breaks down a new maths meme
- 09thdxr says a self-built DeepSeek inference rack beats every vendor on price/performance
- 10GitHub Security Lab's open-source agent finds 24 Android vulnerabilities
- 01DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017: faster, cheaper, shorter answers
- 02Higgsfield puts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to work on 3D motion design
- 03Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the agent sandbox behind Computer
- 04Huawei's MateBook Fold: an 18-inch screen that folds to magazine size
- 05Claude cracks the decades-old mystery of the ECDSA curve seeds
- 06Codex Desktop bug piles up crash dumps, over 5GB a day on macOS
- 07Llmspeed lets you feel a local LLM's speed before buying hardware
- 08A real-time WebGPU ocean in one 61 KB HTML file, built with Claude Code
- 09You could have invented transformers from memory
- 10A Blender add-on puts an AI assistant and MCP server inside your scene
- 01Claude designs quantum circuits that beat the best published ones
- 02GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT now runs agents in parallel
- 03Vercel's fx agents become durable across restarts
- 04Claude cracks the decades-old mystery of the ECDSA curve seeds
- 05Cursor cloud agents can now build shareable canvases
- 06How the Claude Code team reviews code at agent speed
- 07Llama.cpp runs local models on a jailbroken PS5
- 08Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B open model
- 09Terence Tao on the flood of AI-generated maths proofs
- 10git-ai: version control rebuilt for coding agents
- 01Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight model
- 02Texas “telescope ranches” rent dark skies to remote stargazers
- 03Human neurons grown inside a living mouse brain
- 04OpenAI opens GPT-Rosalind to academic biology labs
- 05Anthropic commits $5M to mathematicians using AI in research
- 06Cloudflare buys Deno: “the runtime wars are over”
- 07How Anthropic rebuilt Git to handle 30,000 merges a day
- 08A skeuomorphic Wayland desktop for Linux
- 09Is there only one electron in the universe?
- 10open_scion: version control built for coding agents