A Manhattan power room outage reportedly disabled FAA air traffic control in 1991

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A single power room in Manhattan is said to have caused a failure that knocked out FAA air traffic control systems in 1991. The claim comes from a Hacker News post linking to an article about the building at 33 Thomas Street. The linked source appears to describe the infrastructure history behind the incident. The discussion thread so far has drawn only a few points and no comments. Details beyond the headline claim could not be verified from the provided text alone.

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Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs

Google has released TorchTPU as open-source software, according to a Hacker News post linking to its GitHub repository. The project is described as a native PyTorch backend that enables the framework to run on Google's Tensor Processing Units. The post had gathered 11 points and 2 comments at the time it was indexed. The available source material contains only the repository link and basic engagement metrics, so details such as the release date, technical design, and performance specifics could not be confirmed.

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Claude Code 2.1.304 Fixes Worktree Bug That Could Delete Branches on Exit

Claude Code's --worktree option normally asks before removing a worktree that contains work, but a bug could remove it and its branch without prompting. The release note says this happened when HEAD was detached or pointed at a branch other than the one Claude created, which could lose commits. Version 2.1.304, published by Anthropic on October 19, fixes the problem. The article's author notes the affected versions and root cause were not specified, and they did not reproduce the bug. Users who used --worktree are advised to update and check for recently lost commits using git fsck, then save any found commits to a branch.

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AI Agent Registers Domain and Connects It to Sentinel App on Vercel for $1.54

A software factory asked an AI agent to handle a small infrastructure task for its Sentinel app, which was already deployed on Vercel. The agent registered sentinelproof.click after the preferred sentinel.click name turned out to be taken, paying $1.54 for a one-year term from a $10 prepaid balance. Before buying, it ran a dry-run registration check, then redeployed Sentinel and confirmed its health endpoints were working. The domain was attached to the Vercel project, and after DNS propagation and certificate issuance, Sentinel loaded over HTTPS. The team also built in safeguards such as a spending ceiling, replay limits, and encrypted operation state, while noting that a separate safety-report feature was limited by a paid upstream service.

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Re-running stock asset batches can get creators flagged, and a tracking script prevents it

A contributor describes uploading a batch of 60 sticker assets, then accidentally re-running the same upload command, which produced 120 duplicate submissions and a review hold on their Adobe Stock account. Stock platforms reportedly fingerprint files for visual similarity and treat repeated submissions as a behavior problem, with pattern duplicates leading to longer reviews and quality-based rejections. To address this, the author built a simple text-ledger script that records completed uploads and lets interrupted batches resume without reprocessing finished files. A companion script also generates the exact CSV metadata headers that Adobe Stock, Vecteezy, and Dreamstime each require. The tools are built with standard libraries to run on modest hardware.

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