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Today — 30 October 2026Main stream

This Device Uses A.I. and Lasers to Kill Mosquitoes

A Chinese start-up has developed a device that uses artificial intelligence and lasers to kill mosquitoes. But there are safety concerns for people and other creatures nearby when the device is in action.

© Qilai Shen for The New York Times

In China, the War on Mosquitoes Has Entered the A.I. Era

30 October 2026 at 04:01
Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.

© Qilai Shen for The New York Times

An Arab Town in Israel Celebrates the Election but Wonders What Will Change

30 October 2026 at 04:01
Gains for Arab-led parties have electrified Taibe, in central Israel, even as voters elsewhere in Israel say they have no place in any future government.

© Ammar Awad/Reuters

Ahmad Tibi, a leader of the Joint List party, with supporters on Tuesday outside a polling station in Taibe, Israel, a predominantly Arab town. “We’re ready to swallow frogs to take down Netanyahu’s government,” he said.

In China, the War on Mosquitoes Has Entered the A.I. Era

30 October 2026 at 04:01
Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.

© Qilai Shen for The New York Times

Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge

By: lastmjs
30 October 2026 at 02:05

Lasm has been my dream for a good part of 2026. I firmly believe that formal verification is the next evolution of software engineering and programming languages. This next wave will largely be enabled by the incredibly intelligent LLMs that understand formal verification and its programming languages.

Lean is one of the most popular languages that allow for formal verification, and to me is incredibly powerful because it is a general purpose programming language with formal verification built directly into it.

You can build general purpose software in Lean, and formally verify it in Lean. Amazing.

Lasm brings Lean to the browser, Node, serverless, and edge environments (and more). The idea is that you can now write web apps, frontend to backend, in Lean and formally verify these apps.

Imagine an Express server or Hono server, running on Cloudflare Workers, with formal verification of its specification.

I'm an agentic engineer with an emphasis in software engineering, and Lasm was built mostly by Claude Opus 5.5 with my high-level direction.


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How a Self-Described ‘Junkie’ Rode Synthetic Drugs to Oblivion — and Fame

29 October 2026 at 11:53
An Estonian addict could barely keep pace with the new drugs flooding the market. His terrifying accounts of the cruel toll they took on his body held his country in its grip.

© Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

The Estonian police used to respond to reports of people sniffing glue at these abandoned housing units. Now ultra-potent new synthetic drugs are keeping them busy.
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