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 15, 2026. Headlines link to their original sources - click through for the full stories.
- Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israel
Big Walk's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said i… - Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100387 Points: 10 # Comments: 11 - Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta. - Show HN: Flipflop, Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing
This is a project that spun from my frustrations of using LocalSend and DashBeam to transfer stuff between devices, and with the extra goal of being fast, trying out the Slint framework and, most importantly, establishin… - The Double Headed Stack Allocator
Article URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098274 Points: 67 # Comments: 21 - Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.