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Slash Stack — October 3, 2026
A ranked daily snapshot of AI, software, systems, infrastructure, agents, blockchain, research, and tools from Discover.
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Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
TechCrunch AI
Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it’s giving the code away for free.
What matters today
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
Hacker News · 117 pts · 46 comments
Hi there :-) New on HN, first time posting. Past year, around December, I started experimenting with making ChatGPT and Claude generate source code in LDraw language. This LDraw is literally an “assembly” language, a low-level programming language that describes how to assemble LEGO pieces together into models, one placement instruction at a time. When executed by specific tools, like e.g. LDView, LeoCAD, Studio… these instructions become LEGO CAD models, that can be interacted with, modified, etc. Or, in other words: one LDraw source file in .mpd or .ldr format is equivalent to one LEGO CAD model. So, the idea I had was: if I manage for…
Last 24 hours: Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and reach 10,000+ tech leaders
TechCrunch AI
Today is the last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. From October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies, products, ideas, and people worth knowing. The question is: Will they find your startup?
Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art
TechCrunch AI
“There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others,” the pope wrote. “Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”
Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models
Hacker News · 30 pts · 21 comments
Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level
GitHub Changelog
You can now request a GitHub Copilot code review through the REST and GraphQL APIs and set the review effort level for each request. Balanced is also now the default… The post Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Tools & releases
Show HN: Timeline of the Far Future
Show HN · 10 pts · 2 comments
One of my favorite articles on Wikipedia is called “Timeline of the far future”.[0] The only problem with this article is the presentation: it’s a gigantic wall-of-text table that does very little justice to the profound, awe-inspiring insights contained in it. This article deserves so much better! So here’s my attempt to dress it up a bit. Being a visual learner myself, and wanting an opportunity to improve my skills with three.js and typescript, I made a “reimagined” version of this article (with the help of some agentic assistance), giving it the visual treatment it needs so badly. [0]…
Show HN: Germany’s new sovereign AI model Kolibri
Show HN · 5 pts · 0 comments
langchain-text-splitters==1.1.3
LangChain
Changes since langchain-text-splitters==1.1.2 release(text-splitters): 1.1.3 ( #41001 ) chore(deps): bump the minor-and-patch group across 3 directories with 4 updates ( #40969 ) chore(deps): bump tornado from 6.5.9 to 6.5.10 in /libs/text-splitters ( #40971 ) chore(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 in /libs/text-splitters ( #40938 ) chore(deps): bump tornado from 6.5.8 to 6.5.9 in /libs/text-splitters ( #40940 ) chore(deps): bump anyio from 4.14.2 to 4.15.1 in /libs/text-splitters ( #40645 ) chore(deps): bump anyio from 4.11.0 to 4.14.2 in /libs/text-splitters ( #40624 ) chore(deps): bump soupsieve from 2.8.4 to 2.9 in…
Research worth reading
Toward provably private learning from federated data
Google Research
Mobile Systems
Articles
Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS Machine Learning
Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model’s knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, with JWT-based inbound authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center and Amazon Cognito.
Updates on our pledge to make Cloudflare features accessible to everyone
Cloudflare Blog
A year after pledging to eliminate two-tier product access, Cloudflare has expanded Logpush, multi-account governance, and higher platform limits to all accounts. Here is an update on our progress, how we dogfood these tools internally, and what is coming next.
2026 Birthday week: network performance update
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages, we have expanded our real-user measurement scale while maintaining user privacy.
Hacker News signal
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
Ars Technica · 223 pts · 109 comments
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07312
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]
Hacker News · 248 pts · 79 comments
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
Hacker News · 261 pts · 68 comments
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
Hacker News · 117 pts · 46 comments
Hi there :-) New on HN, first time posting. Past year, around December, I started experimenting with making ChatGPT and Claude generate source code in LDraw language. This LDraw is literally an “assembly” language, a low-level programming language that describes how to assemble LEGO pieces together into models, one placement instruction at a time. When executed by specific tools, like e.g. LDView, LeoCAD, Studio… these instructions become LEGO CAD models, that can be interacted with, modified, etc. Or, in other words: one LDraw source file in .mpd or .ldr format is equivalent to one LEGO CAD model. So, the idea I had was: if I manage for…
Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models
Hacker News · 30 pts · 21 comments
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