The day in tech,
Sat 17 Oct.

Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?

Hacker News · contextetech.com · 8 points · 3 comments · Discuss ↗

Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners

Techmeme · fintech.global · FinTech Global · Discuss ↗

The road to iroh 1.0

Lobsters · iroh.computer · networking · Discuss ↗

Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security

Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet.

"Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands

Hacker News · nos.nl · 16 points · 11 comments · Discuss ↗

Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton

Techmeme · pathfounders.com · Mike Butcher/Pathfounders · Discuss ↗

Why are we even doing all this?

Lobsters · terrytao.wordpress.com · math · vibecoding · Discuss ↗

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

Tesla Roadster

Hacker News · tesla.com · 1430 points · 2507 comments · Discuss ↗

Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group

Techmeme · finsmes.com · FinSMEs · Discuss ↗

Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions

Lobsters · lore.kernel.org · linux · vibecoding · Discuss ↗

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

Hacker News · llmspeed.dev · 73 points · 28 comments · Discuss ↗

London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion

Techmeme · tech.eu · Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu · Discuss ↗

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

Hacker News · huggingface.co · 127 points · 53 comments · Discuss ↗

Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain

Hacker News · news.ycombinator.com · 35 points · 12 comments · Discuss ↗

Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

Hacker News · lf-lang.org · 43 points · 7 comments · Discuss ↗

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

Hacker News · github.com · 289 points · 72 comments · Discuss ↗

jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile

GitHub · github.com · ★ 3,605 · C

Open-source iOS / macOS compatibility layer for Diablo II: Resurrected with the Reign of the Warlock expansion. Runs your own Switch copy natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac — full touch controls, 60 fps, new endgame modes. Bring your own game files. 开源的《暗黑破坏神 II：狱火重生》术士君临 iOS / macOS 兼容层

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent

GitHub · github.com · ★ 2,932 · C

Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account, no jailbreak.

liseami/CCBaga

GitHub · github.com · ★ 2,477 · Rust

HeyPuter/everything

GitHub · github.com · ★ 1,883 · JavaScript

We're rebuilding and open-sourcing the world’s software from scratch.

ahwootech/BRUTAL

GitHub · github.com · ★ 1,655 · C#

A free, open source C# framework for making games, or your own game engine. Direct access to native APIs and Vulkan, with the low-level libraries around them. The foundation under Kitten Space Agency and RimWorld's Waylith engine.

chenglou/handwired

GitHub · github.com · ★ 1,630 · TypeScript

Turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net.