10.6.26 | Web Search API, Beam open-weight model, Opus 5.5 agents find room-temperature magnetic semiconductors
Hacker News Highlights · Oct 6, 2026 · 13:12
Hacker News Highlights · Oct 6, 2026 · 13:12
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667
Apple and a hacker's future
https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962857
Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971921
The lamps in my house
https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965152
Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
https://flattensf.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971230
Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944049
Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970871
Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973598
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