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Slash Stack — October 21, 2026
A ranked daily snapshot of AI, software, systems, infrastructure, agents, blockchain, research, and tools from Discover.
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Folkbench/folkbench
GitHub · 2203 pts
AI API 中转站评测排行与切换工具：实测可用率、延迟与价格 · Open-source AI API relay benchmark, rankings & switcher for Claude Code / Codex
What matters today
Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
Anthropic · 23 pts · 6 comments
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
TechCrunch AI
Before you share the Netflix documentary “AI Gone Rogue,” take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face’s co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went “full doomer mode” and isn’t accurate.
Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
Ars Technica Policy
Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
Anthropic · 104 pts · 67 comments
Tools & releases
Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph
Show HN · 185 pts · 13 comments
Hi HN! Im Katriel, and im a Security Researcher/Enthusiast and in the wave of AI, i wanted to build that next gen of security tooling that surpasses the current tools, and even the paid industries with an open source engine. I built MailAccess as well, which is going to be the best damn email osint tool out there, in another year. But just before building MailAccess i built VoidAccess, because i was delving a lot into DarkINT and the content inside the dark web is too difficult to navigate through for a human, so i automated that pipeline, made sure the noise was removed, and anything NSFW was filtered out, to give the analyst an overview of…
Show HN: Worklicant – Lightweight ATS. Pay per Vacancy. AI Enabled
Show HN · 7 pts · 1 comments
I have noticed that a lot of job posts that do not use any ATS, and in order to apply, they put their emails and ask candidates to apply with “X” in email subject. That seemed to be very counter productive — imagine having 300+ emails with resumes. Where do you manage them? In Excel? Or how many good candidates you never get to. I researched popular ATS systems and found out that they require yearly / monthly subscriptions. A lot of them do not have a pricing on the website, so you gotta book a call to be quoted some yearly contract price… So I built Worklicant — lightweight ATS for tech hiring. Pay per vacancy. Post a job, share the link,…
Research worth reading
MedPAO-Assist: Edge-Deployable, Modality-Aware Agentic AI for Radiology Report Structuring
arXiv cs.AI
arXiv:2610.26913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adoption of Large Language Models for radiology report structuring has been largely dominated by either proprietary cloud-based models or large open models requiring high-end GPUs for deployment, which is a critical bottleneck for clinical adoption in radiology workflows that demand data privacy and offline operation. To address this, we present MedPAO-Assist, an edge-deployable agentic framework that generates structured radiology reports directly from radiologist dictation and voice commands, requiring only $\approx3.3$ GB peak RAM and achieving an average end-to-end latency of $\approx31$…
Industrial Agentic AI: LLM-Driven New-Generation Agents for Smart Manufacturing
arXiv cs.AI
arXiv:2610.26941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are enabling agents to move beyond predefined workflows toward autonomous planning and execution, creating new opportunities for smart manufacturing. However, dynamic environments, complex physical constraints, and stringent reliability requirements hinder the direct deployment of general-purpose agents in smart manufacturing. This article presents a systematic overview of LLM-driven industrial agents. First, we analyze five key challenges and discuss the concept and core characteristics of industrial agents. We then establish a unified taxonomy covering application…
Articles
Beyond the KV cache: Training and serving i14’s Laplace 3B linear attention model on AWS Trainium2 with native PyTorch
AWS Machine Learning
Learn how i14 trained and served Laplace 3B, a linear attention model, on AWS Trainium2 using native PyTorch. Its recurrent state stays fixed at 29.5 MB per sequence regardless of context length, avoiding the growing key-value cache of transformer models and keeping serving memory predictable.
8 eMudhra certificates are compromised. Here’s what you need to know
Cloudflare Blog
Following the discovery that eight eMudhra intermediate certificates use weak keys, Cloudflare is deploying mitigations and releasing client updates. We explain the impact, our response, and what customers and developers should do next.
Securing AI agent identity with X.509 PKI on AWS
AWS Machine Learning
Learn how to secure multi-agent AI systems with cryptographic identity using Keyfactor EJBCA and AWS services. This reference architecture combines signed request envelopes, user-signed delegation assertions, RFC 8693 audience-scoped tokens, and real-time OCSP revocation to prove agent identity and prevent request forgery across agent-to-agent and MCP tool calls.
Hacker News signal
WhatsApp’s help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
Hacker News · 724 pts · 208 comments
Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
Anthropic · 104 pts · 67 comments
Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph
Show HN · 185 pts · 13 comments
Hi HN! Im Katriel, and im a Security Researcher/Enthusiast and in the wave of AI, i wanted to build that next gen of security tooling that surpasses the current tools, and even the paid industries with an open source engine. I built MailAccess as well, which is going to be the best damn email osint tool out there, in another year. But just before building MailAccess i built VoidAccess, because i was delving a lot into DarkINT and the content inside the dark web is too difficult to navigate through for a human, so i automated that pipeline, made sure the noise was removed, and anything NSFW was filtered out, to give the analyst an overview of…
On AI writing
Hacker News · 83 pts · 57 comments
Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
Hacker News · 49 pts · 20 comments
Hey HN, this is Andy from Respan ( https://www.respan.ai ). We are building an open-source Rust AI gateway. It is a decoupled gateway, so everything is a plugin, including different providers, protocols (MCP, voice), modalities (images, videos), and gateway features (fallbacks, PII redaction, smart routing). Instead of packaging tons of providers and features into one gateway, Respan provides a small core and public interfaces that teams can use to assemble the AI infrastructure their application needs. That way, users can build their own features as additional plugins without having to change the gateway’s core. Here’s a video demo:…
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