This page lists RapidFort's leadership team, board of directors and investors, including CEO and founder Mehran Farimani, COO and co-founder Russ Andersson, CTO and founder Rajeev Thakur, and board member Ernie Bio of Forgepoint Capital. It profiles executives' prior roles at companies such as Palo Alto Networks, F5 Networks, Cisco, AWS, IBM and Red Hat, along with their education and patents.
A Neowin article reports on a project that is using AI to build a Wine-like compatibility layer for running macOS applications on Linux. The Hacker News submission links to the article and its comment thread.
A Hacker News submission links to a Twitter/X post titled "Steve – AI CEO" by user spisallyouneed. The submission has 1 point and no comments.
A link to a rankings page that scores memory and RAG tools for AI agents, posted to Hacker News with 1 point and no comments.
An HPCwire article, dated November 9, 2026, examines the AI "flywheel" behind materials discovery at Sandia Labs. The source material provides only the headline and link, with no further details on the methods or results.
An Ask HN post asking how people keep secrets out of their AI agents' context. The post links to its Hacker News comments page and had 1 point and 3 comments at the time.
An Ask HN post asks engineering leads, CTOs, and PMs how AI-native development has changed planning and estimation for production software projects that traditionally needed teams of 6 to 10 people. It asks whether teams are now smaller or the same size with different skill sets, how cost and timeline estimates compare to two years ago, and what has changed about delivery bottlenecks, requesting concrete real-project examples and related media.
New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI's EMEA education partnerships focus on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.
Aipicks.ca advertises an AI that predicts table tennis matches, offering a free first pick, a free weekly email pick, and a public "Proof Room" ledger of wins and losses. Paid one-time packs cost $2 CAD for one pick, $3 for two, or $5 for five, with no commissions or after-win fees. The site states predictions may lose, availability varies, and orders go through a separate manual-payment request page rather than automatic checkout.
Charleston AI is a walk-in lab at 405 Jessen Ln, Suite E, Charleston, SC 29492 where a local expert sits beside you to fix, improve, or move the personal AI you already subscribe to from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI or Meta, focusing on connectors, plugins and skills. Sessions are private and in person on your own laptop or desktop, priced at $60 an hour if you do the work with an expert beside you or $160 an hour if they do it for you, paid after. Booking is free at https://ai-chs.com/book/ or by calling (843) 284-8239.
A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video titled "AI Second Brain Masterclass." The submission has 1 point and no comments.
A YouTube video featuring Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell discussing AI risks, peer review, Starship, Terafab and a merger, shared via a Hacker News submission with 2 points and no comments.
Toptal AI presents itself as an AI operating environment for enterprises and frontier AI businesses, offering production-ready agent development, fine-tuned open-weight models, and commercialization of proprietary data, built on a provider-agnostic stack and a six-phase delivery process. The page cites 35,000+ clients served, 30,000+ vetted professionals, 2,000+ AI and big data experts, and 250,000+ AI and data project hours delivered, and notes a #11 ranking in Newsweek and Statista's Most Reliable Companies list. It also describes specialist talent categories, a daily team meeting and sandbox-testing workflow, and ongoing managed services after deployment.
A link to the AI Bubble Tracker page at endtime-instruments.org, posted to Hacker News, where it received 6 points and 2 comments.
A Reddit r/ClaudeCode post, shared on Hacker News with 113 points and 134 comments, discusses a team a year into a 100% AI coding mandate where, per the title, nobody understands the code. The linked material provides only the title and comment links, with no further details.
Sierra marks two years of its APX program, a one-year rotational program across product management and engineering created because the company believes AI makes creativity, judgment, and ambition more important for new grads, who are also AI natives. The post highlights APX participants Manat Kaur, Areeb Khan, and Rajiv Swamy and describes the program's two six-month rotations in Agent or Platform roles, plus a speaker series, book club, capstone pitch, and international travel.
A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video titled "Cost of AI Crash Protection Spikes," with the discussion thread at news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50431113. The submission had 2 points and no comments at the time of the data.
A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video titled "I Gave a Shakespeare AI 3 Upgrades. It Beat Stockfish." The submission has 1 point and no comments.
UC Berkeley's BAIR will present 33 main-conference papers, 4 late-breaking results posters and various workshop contributions at CoRL 2026, held November 9–12 in Austin, Texas, including an Early Career Keynote from Professor Negar Mehr. The schedule lists orals, spotlights and poster sessions covering topics such as vision-language-action models, humanoid control, dexterous manipulation and robot learning.
A DigitalJournal article argues that digital identity systems are heading for a reset as AI agents become customers. The supplied material contains only the article URL and Hacker News listing details (2 points, 0 comments), with no further content.
A Register article at the linked URL discusses the AI bubble and argues that an exit plan cannot wait. The submission has 3 points and no comments on Hacker News.
This is a link to an IBM PDF ebook titled "How to Start Realizing Agentic AI ROI," posted to Hacker News with 1 point and 1 comment. The submission includes the article URL and the Hacker News comments URL.
A Medium article by Mir Arshad Talpur poses the question of whether an AI incident could be reconstructed within a 15-day deadline. The submission has 1 point and no comments on Hacker News.
A Texas Observer article, shared via Hacker News, examines the AI boom's connection to nuclear energy, climate change and Texas data centers. The Hacker News submission had 1 point and 0 comments.
The UK has enacted one of its strictest and vaguest new pornography laws, under which recording or watching certain consensual kinky sex acts in private could carry up to five years in prison. Sex workers report platforms, particularly Clips4Sale, removing hundreds of their videos with little notice as a "precautionary measure," even when creators believed the content complied with the law.
A Hacker News submission links to a Scott Aaronson blog post titled "Aaronson-Ambainis Conjecture proved (By AI, of course)" at https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10295. The submission has 1 point and 0 comments.
An Ask HN post asks whether people systematically evaluate agent skills before or during use, and if so, which tools or methods they use, or whether they mostly rely on reading SKILL.md and trying things out. The post links to its Hacker News comments page and had 8 points and 3 comments at the time.
A Vancouver Sun columnist reports that a Vancouver city council public hearing on the "villages plan" featured union representatives accused of filibustering with supposed translators who did not actually speak the languages, followed by out-of-town callers who admitted they were phoning from California and had never visited Vancouver. Unite Here Local 40 president Zailda Chan confirmed to Postmedia that her union asked U.S. allies to call in, saying the callers were unpaid and acted out of cross-border solidarity, while one caller said her speaking notes were prepared using AI. Several callers' names matched people affiliated with Unite Here Local 11 in Los Angeles, and council is expected to decide on the villages proposal next week.
A Register offbeat article covers an "AI Slop FM" radio experiment that puts machines on trial, one dodgy tune at a time. The piece is at theregister.com, with a Hacker News discussion thread linked.
This is a Hacker News submission linking to an AI Shodo Arena work page titled "shinra-bansho--deepseek-v4-1-flash" on aishodo.enpitsu.org, with a comments link. The submission has 1 point and 1 comment.
An SCMP article asks whether DeepSeek can challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in AI agents, framed around "harness adoption." The item is a link submission to Hacker News with 4 points and no comments.
The article "AI Shakes Volunteer Sites" is published on the Communications of the ACM news site, with a Hacker News discussion thread linked at news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50423378. The supplied material contains only the article URL, the comments URL, 3 points and 0 comments, with no article text.
A Hacker News submission links to rebbe.io, described as "The Most Advanced AI Rabbi," with 3 points and 1 comment.
A Stanford HAI article, shared via Hacker News, examines efforts to track AI's real-time effects on the labor market. The Hacker News submission had 2 points and no comments.
A Medium article by makalin explores the idea that the next computer virus may not be software, focusing on the rise of AI-powered USB threats. The piece is shared on Hacker News with 1 point and no comments.
This GitHub Changelog entry lists the release title "rust-v0.169.0-alpha.4" but provides no further details about the release's contents, changes, or features.
A link submission to an article at yourAItester.com about AI-first browser test automation priced at $0.01 per step. The Hacker News item has 1 point and no comments.
A PDF article titled "The Commanding Heights: Where AI will create wealth" is linked, with a Hacker News discussion thread that at the time had 2 points and 0 comments.
A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video titled "Vibecoding in Plato's Cave (AI, Music Tech, and Star Trek)." The submission has 2 points and no comments.
A link to a Twitter/X post by jmugan titled "Learning Abstractions: The Next Frontier for AI," shared on Hacker News with 2 points and no comments. The supplied material contains only the link and metadata, with no article text.