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10.6.26 | Web Search API, Beam open-weight model, Opus 5.5 agents find room-temperature magnetic semiconductors

Podcast: Hacker News Highlights · Hacker News Highlights

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Web Search API (01:25) - Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (02:36) - Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (03:50) - Apple and a hacker's future (05:18) - Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (06:49) - The lamps in my house (07:52) - Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (08:53) - Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (10:14) - Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (11:41) - Why Common Lisp is now...