Independent reporting and reviews on artificial intelligence, software, hardware, security, and the companies building them.
Software
The tracker-ce repository covers the original Tracker, Tracker+ and Tracker Mini, but the synth and DSP libraries ship precompiled under a separate proprietary licence.
Startups
The Y Combinator company's Launch HN post ranks its QA agent above Codex, Claude Code and Devin on a test it wrote and ran itself.
Hardware
The October 28 Section 232 proclamation orders negotiations rather than duties, so the cost of the finding sits in components nobody has priced yet.
A.I.
Y Combinator's Labs group and Olam Labs ran GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 swarms through Minecraft and Mindustry. GPT won both head-to-head games, but each result comes from one harness and one setup.
news
Exporters of listed technology must already register with MOFCOM. Comments on the draft catalogue close on November 15, and the sources disagree on whether the thresholds are published.
news
The fix shipped on Nov. 2, but the release notes say prompts already uploaded by earlier versions are not removed, and the GitHub issue was reopened the same day.
analysis
September sits below the December 2025 peak of 53.9%, and electric sales grew 37% while total sales fell, and the 2026 year-to-date figure is 38.1%.
news
The Go Security Team called a default change premature on Oct. 29, while commenters on golang/go issue 82717 split over keeping multipath TCP on.
news
The week's two biggest named rounds after Re:Build show a company priced on revenue and one priced on about 10 weeks of paid excavator work.
