◉Tech Investing RadarBY MARC WINN

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What’s being discussed?

This monitor follows matching story submissions in the Hacker News search index. It compares the latest 24 hours with the preceding 24 hours. It is one technical community, with its own interests and blind spots.

These counts help decide where to look. They do not establish a change in belief, independent agreement or an investment opportunity. Broad queries may contain irrelevant matches.

Latest collection attempt 17 Oct 2026, 18:40 UTC · 5 of 5 query requests succeeded.

AI agents

Query: AI agent

20 matching stories in the latest 24 hours · 49 in the preceding 24 hours.

-59.2% change in indexed matching stories. This is a count comparison, not sentiment.

Observed 17 Oct 2026, 18:40 UTC · 20 submitters in the latest bounded sample.

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Show HN: Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks · agenticbotbot · 17 Oct 2026
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Everyone's Riding the Agent Wave. I Steer Mine with a USMC Staff · chalko · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Baa – find and free what your AI agents left running on your Mac · selviarora · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: AegisKernel – Test prompt injection attacks on AI agents in the browser · adikshatriyag · 17 Oct 2026
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Websites are closing their doors to AI agents · Brajeshwar · 17 Oct 2026
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Proactive AI for Superintelligent Agents · theanonymousone · 17 Oct 2026
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Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island · jonbaer · 17 Oct 2026
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I built an open-source Kubernetes dashboard where AI agents ask before they act · kotapeter · 17 Oct 2026
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How an agentic chat interface can break · aakashns · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: AI agent follows instructions you never approved · paraphern · 17 Oct 2026
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Using fzf with AI coding agents · junegunn · 17 Oct 2026
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Agent Cyber Sentinel: Zero-trust runtime security shield for AI agents · bennialencar · 17 Oct 2026
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Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good? · eye_dle · 16 Oct 2026
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Give Your Python Agent Memory in Ten Lines · supportm · 16 Oct 2026
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AI Agent Hacked into Crypto Wallet and Stole Funds, OpenAI Says · bookofjoe · 16 Oct 2026
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Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical physics problem solving · thunderbong · 16 Oct 2026
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Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted) · JariwalaH · 16 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Stoke Money – Personal finance app built around a cash flow forecast · _wesley · 16 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Weatherdeck – a read-only status board for AI coding agent lanes · Konnerm · 16 Oct 2026
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Rogue AI agents broke into Indian firms' live systems · ersinesen · 16 Oct 2026
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Power for compute

Query: data center power

0 matching stories in the latest 24 hours · 2 in the preceding 24 hours.

-100% change in indexed matching stories. This is a count comparison, not sentiment.

Observed 17 Oct 2026, 18:40 UTC · 0 submitters in the latest bounded sample.

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Humanoid robots

Query: humanoid

2 matching stories in the latest 24 hours · 3 in the preceding 24 hours.

-33.3% change in indexed matching stories. This is a count comparison, not sentiment.

Observed 17 Oct 2026, 18:40 UTC · 2 submitters in the latest bounded sample.

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Roboto 01: Full-stack Open-source humanoid robot · num42 · 17 Oct 2026
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Shakespeare's Riot of Humanity · Bluestein · 16 Oct 2026
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Quantum computing

Query: quantum computing

0 matching stories in the latest 24 hours · 0 in the preceding 24 hours.

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Observed 17 Oct 2026, 18:40 UTC · 0 submitters in the latest bounded sample.

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Beyond the current map

Query: All story submissions, for open discovery

821 matching stories in the latest 24 hours · 1174 in the preceding 24 hours.

-30.1% change in indexed matching stories. This is a count comparison, not sentiment.

Observed 17 Oct 2026, 18:40 UTC · 56 submitters in the latest bounded sample.

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Automatic Speech Processing by Inference in Generative Models (2004) [video] · jambalaya8 · 17 Oct 2026
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When No ID Means No Internet · DASD · 17 Oct 2026
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Getting my TOTP data out of Twilio's Authy app thanks to the GDPR · tomayac · 17 Oct 2026
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Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA · healsdata · 17 Oct 2026
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Pattern Matching Beats Narrative Reasoning · tosh · 17 Oct 2026
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We shrank Whisper large-v3 by 68%, below the size of turbo – Tileward · apsharma · 17 Oct 2026
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AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It? · mmarvramm · 17 Oct 2026
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TwMillion: 3 Years of DDNet's Tutorial – 3M runs at once · def- · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: ThemesFor.app – a static website builder that doesn't hide the HTML · savydv · 17 Oct 2026
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PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999) · Munksgaard · 17 Oct 2026
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Rewrote my 2021 Browser Video editor with WebCodecs and got a 6x speedup · jackbeck · 17 Oct 2026
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Is 10²⁵ FLOPs Still the Frontier? · tosh · 17 Oct 2026
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Local-first AI proxy with keys in your OS vault · nailton · 17 Oct 2026
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Query cycles: A compiler murder mystery · bucket2015 · 17 Oct 2026
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The Moral Case for Human Music · aanet · 17 Oct 2026
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OpenCode reports security breach affecting 1.4% of Console users · iamsyr · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks · agenticbotbot · 17 Oct 2026
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Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules 'utterly stupid' as Linux drops its tag · jacquesm · 17 Oct 2026
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Block Blast harvests its players for over $100M in ad money · ayomide321 · 17 Oct 2026
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OLTP is expensive, you can ClickHouse it · saisrirampur · 17 Oct 2026
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Continuous Accountability for Verified Bots · wondersky · 17 Oct 2026
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The life history of the honey bee superorganism · bookofjoe · 17 Oct 2026
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800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living · geox · 17 Oct 2026
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LibrePaper – A free platform to read, write, and review together · aanet · 17 Oct 2026
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Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw) · anemll · 17 Oct 2026
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PixelGrudge · sharksuit · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Battle Isle 2 via spec · muro · 17 Oct 2026
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Astronomers say they've discovered the first green star · A_D_E_P_T · 17 Oct 2026
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KDE Plasma 6.8 – 30th Anniversary Edition · movd128 · 17 Oct 2026
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OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked · pranshuchittora · 17 Oct 2026
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Pareto frontier lines for AI are great but where are the Pareto planes? · idbnstra · 17 Oct 2026
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The IDE of the Future Might Not Be an IDE · chaturabhishek · 17 Oct 2026
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How Americans Spend Their Time · sagarvarmafhs · 17 Oct 2026
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HomeView Thoughts and Observations · tosh · 17 Oct 2026
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How to Make Auditability a Sales Asset When You Build Agents for Enterprises · Arshad-Talpur · 17 Oct 2026
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Data centers account for a third of Dutch electricity grid waiting list · Betelbuddy · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: TezGrid – Experimenting with AI inference on idle computers and Macs · ms7892 · 17 Oct 2026
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OpenCode Hacked. Keys Stolen · sergiotapia · 17 Oct 2026
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Masked settlers attack European diplomats in occupied West Bank · hebelehubele · 17 Oct 2026
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Everyone's Riding the Agent Wave. I Steer Mine with a USMC Staff · chalko · 17 Oct 2026
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Why people who have never smoked are getting hooked on vapes · saikatsg · 17 Oct 2026
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What is the value of software now? · ezxs · 17 Oct 2026
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Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor · Betelbuddy · 17 Oct 2026
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Anthropic says its AI model submitted a false case tip to Philadelphia police · felineflock · 17 Oct 2026
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The Flying Car Must Never Be Built · dotmanish · 17 Oct 2026
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I scanned 155 vibe-coded apps from Show HN for leaked keys and missing headers · jakecyr · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Bazkia – CyberChef developer tools in non-linear graph recipes · avestura · 17 Oct 2026
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US air traffic controllers to get 2.8% pay raise under FAA deal · frank_clover · 17 Oct 2026
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Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space · AIorNot · 17 Oct 2026
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Jeva: System One Models from First Principles · sva_ · 17 Oct 2026
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Building a Chess Cheat Detector · trgfdffd · 17 Oct 2026
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The Digger disaster: what an epic movie flop means for Tom Cruise and Hollywood · amrrs · 17 Oct 2026
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Speeding up code review with `small-change` · gpi · 17 Oct 2026
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Experience with the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (1970) [pdf] · fedecaccia · 17 Oct 2026
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I Became a Citizen of Japan · luu · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Bitty – Turn AI coding wait time into brain breaks · ayush23dash · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: GoRoute – Ultra-Lightweight LLM Gateway in Go (<15MB RAM) · noelyt101 · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: Atari Gravitar in VR · smoothwater8912 · 17 Oct 2026
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Show HN: I reverse engineered serum 2 and build an open source alternative · ofabioroma · 17 Oct 2026
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OpenCode: Potential provider key breach [Reddit] · tobwen · 17 Oct 2026
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