Today in AI & Programming
A quick, hand-off daily digest of the most relevant AI and programming news, auto-assembled from top RSS feeds on October 14, 2026. Headlines link to their original sources - click through for the full stories.
- Show HN: Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript
I wanted to understand transformers at a level where nothing is magic, so I'm building a ChatGPT-style model from first principles in TypeScript. Why not Python? I've found that reimplementing concepts in a different lan… - Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
Article URL: https://blog.lorenzano.eu/pulsar-at-esug-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085306 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 - AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It
Article URL: https://www.quera.com/blog-posts/holding-the-light-teaching-an-ai-to-lock-and-tune-our-quantum-computers-lasers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085302 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 - I let an AI run my startup for a week
Article URL: https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/221 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085296 Points: 23 # Comments: 5 - Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone"
Article URL: https://www.aviaduct.com/?l=og+en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftonbladet.se%2Fnojesbladet%2Fa%2F31oE8A%2Fthe-challenge-sverige-raderad-av-ai-bara-veckor-innan-premiaren Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it… - Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/safari/switch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085112 Points: 21 # Comments: 25