Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

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applyapply | REMOTE (US) or Austin, TX | Full-time | https://applyapply.xyz I’m building applyapply — it runs a serious job search overnight: matching roles, tailored resumes, cover notes, and answers so applications take minutes instead of hours. Live product. https://applyapply.xyz … Read more

Gemini 4 Argon

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Enabling coding and enterprise workflows across domains Gemini 4 Argon’s capabilities across coding, reasoning, and multimodality and its ability to sustain long, multi-step tasks enable it to excel across a range of enterprise workflows. Google engineers have been using Argon … Read more

Made by Mechanical Means

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One notable difference between working on Claude and the other productivity tools I’ve touched is that feature requests are surprisingly not the #1 discussion topic. Instead, people want to know how I’m using Claude, how they should be using Claude, … Read more

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

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The abstract for article “The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection” paints this picture for the reader… Abstract – Code review has been the primary quality gate in software development since Fagan formalised code inspection in 1976. … Read more

Plan mode is dead

aymannadeem.com
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Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI. My belief in this idea was so strong that I built and launched an entire desktop coding app around it. Nuanced … Read more

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

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the question everyone is asking dynomight.net/liver [Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineering and design decisions that entails. … Read more

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

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gemini-3.8-text-to-speech-says-hello

Get expressive high-quality speech generation built for global scale Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS delivers leading voice customization capabilities, securing the #1 overall spot on Hume AI’s Voice Design Benchmark (71.4) and also leading in accent modeling (60.8). Gemini 3.8 Flash … Read more

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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pirate-face-rescues-llm-models-from-deletion

What is Pirate Face? A decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for sovereign AI. Open models from Hugging Face become checksum-verified torrents, held by a global swarm so they survive any single host taking them down. The goal is permanence for open-source AI. … Read more

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

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gemini-38-live-and-3.8-live-extended-thinking

Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent. Gemini 3.8 Live: Built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational … Read more