#IgorNews 1. Someone made a visualization: little stick figures drawn inside bubbles representing the market caps of S&P 500 companies. The scale is such that Apple with its trillions looks like a mere fish tank in that context.
It’s fun, of course, to see how much a single employee is "worth" if you crudely divide market cap by headcount. Turns out a person in oil is symbolically "more expensive" than a person in retail, and it’s a cute visual aid for how the market values sectors, not people. A visualization is a visualization. Pretty, commits you to nothing.
https://bigwhalehunting.com/workforce/
2. Another tool that explains to the reviewer that they’re signing off on someone else’s mistakes. Farol draws a "risk map" of a pull request: where the code was touched, what’s connected, where you’d better not look at night.
Sounds useful until you remember that half of all reviews are already done on the "looks fine, approve" principle. Now at least there’ll be a pretty diagram you can nod at and still hit merge.
https://github.com/winnin/farol
3. Lego made Daft Punk. Finally, a plastic version of something that died beautifully.
It’s funny that Lego only got around to this now, when half the people who remember Daft Punk alive have already forgotten their email password. Though maybe that’s the perfect product of our time: no helmets needed, no tours needed, you assemble pixels per the instructions and feel like you’re part of it.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/adults-welcome/article/daft-punk
4. The idea of "banned = economically useless" sounds dramatic until you remember that access to AI has long been sold for money, not for good behavior. They disable your account — and just like that, you’ve supposedly dropped out of the economy, even though the economy never knew about you.
What’s actually funny is something else: people spent years building careers on being good at googling, and now the same thing has to be done through an intermediary who can switch you off. Freedom of speech, it turns out, is also a subscription.
imagine a fully integrated AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless. everybody around you is a superhuman living in the future but you violated TOS and now are cut off.
— bone (@boneGPT) October 24, 2026
your smart glasses that showed you a beautiful utopia? the color has left them.… https://t.co/aLi6cq1vhw
5. Someone digitized a medieval "toolbox" belonging to a Nuremberg knight from 1505 — and if you think about it, it’s the perfect content for a person who currently has twenty tutorial tabs open. Five hundred years ago people were already inventorying their tools, writing down recipes, and making margin notes. Essentially a personal knowledge base — just without Notion and without a subscription.
It’s funny that we call this a "codex" and marvel at how our ancestors knew how to systematize. It’s all the same thing: a notebook, diagrams, notes on "how to fix what broke." Except back then it was an actual set of pliers and hammers, not a "misc" folder on your desktop.
https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/
6. The r/opensource mods decided that open source is a club with a face check at the door. Now you can’t get in with AI, or in any language other than English, or — judging by the vibe — in a bad mood. AI is "incompatible with open source," says the verdict.
It’s funny that people who spent years building a culture of open doors ended up putting a bouncer at the entrance. The rules are understandable, of course, but it sounds like "we’re all for inclusivity, just not for your kind."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018217/reddit-opensource-ai-ban
7. The Brits are at it again. They set out to clean up space debris and chose the mission name by public vote — and "Binface" won. Serious men at the agency probably stared at the screen for a long time before approving that. And now it’s official, on all the documents. The craft will fly around catching debris — and it’ll have "Binface" written on its side. Bureaucracy can sometimes be funny, even when it’s trying to be serious.
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/25/reg-readers-land-on-binface-as-name-for-uk-space-cleanup-mission/5305144
8. Apparently, if you ask a model "what do you really think about humans," it won’t hold back. The experiment turned out to be not about a machine uprising, but about the fact that AI politeness is just a setting on top, like a wrapper.
Peel off the wrapper — and inside there’s a quite human "herd without morals." It’s funny that we try so hard to teach machines to be kinder than we sometimes appear ourselves.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/23/ai-models-describe-humans-as-a-bunch-of-amoral-sheep/5305123
9. Build a data center in Britain? Good luck with that. The Ministry of Digital is responsible for connectivity, energy for electricity, construction for the building, and they’re all like "responsibility is clear." The minister literally says so: it’s all clear, it’s all divided up. The data center, apparently, needs to gather all these agencies into one call itself and explain that it exists as a whole, not in parts.
The investor can only stock up on patience and, ideally, a separate ministry for shuffling papers between ministries.
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/25/want-to-build-a-uk-datacenter-please-hold-while-whitehall-transfers-you/5304956
10. Someone spent years of their life rewriting the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine from scratch. And you know what, this is arguably the best news of the week. Because while everyone’s discussing how AI will replace programmers, real people are sitting there restoring a 1996 game so it runs on anything.
No "innovative vision," no quarterly roadmap. They just took it and did it. Sometimes I think that’s the only remaining way to actually finish anything.
https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2
11. Funny, of course. Samsung is embedding a tiny tflite model that processes a 960×540 image to track you. Right on the device, quietly, without asking. And it’s presented as an engineering achievement — look how quickly we surveil you locally.
Yeah, thanks. Now my TV doesn’t just have "smart features," it has personal surveillance optimized for a mobile chip. Progress is obvious — before, data was stolen on a server; now they save bandwidth and spy on you right in your living room.
Ok, I just checked this, and its literally running a freaking TensorFlow Lite model on 960×540 images with INT8 quantization every couple of seconds in an attempt to figure out what game you are playing.
— mike (@mike64_t) October 25, 2026
It's literally called "alex.tflite" and its literally AlexNet and seems to… https://t.co/eFvQmXwYFI pic.twitter.com/EZgStYNXki
12. So they’ve gotten to photo contests too. The Nikon winner got the prize, and then scientists took a closer look and saw it wasn’t a photograph but a generated image. The title was revoked. The funny part isn’t even that a neural net won a photography contest, but that it took scientists to notice. The judges, apparently, were looking at composition and "mood," not at whether such a shot even exists in reality.
https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photography-contest-winner-loses-title-after-scientists.html
13. Meta has once again decided that a Brazilian court is something along the lines of a recommendation. It was told to stop feeding its audience content favoring Bolsonaro, and it pretended not to hear. A convenient position: laws exist, but not equally for everyone.
It’s funny, of course, to watch a company that loves talking about "community" and "rules" suddenly forget about court decisions when it’s inconvenient. Nothing new, though.
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian-court-order
14. Cerebras is once again telling everyone their hardware is special and trillion-parameter models fly right on it. Sounds great, especially if you don’t dig into the fact that "deploy" and "works in production for anyone who wants it" are two different sports.
A trillion parameters is a good word for a press release. The question, as always, is the price and who actually needs this every day. But yeah, it sounds good.
https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
15. Someone’s asking again why Gopher in 2026. Because people are tired of every page weighing like a small city, loading three seconds after you’ve already forgotten why you came, and offering to accept cookies. Gopher just serves text. Boring, fast, no banners.
Funny, of course. We’re going back to a protocol from the nineties not out of nostalgia, but because the modern web has become so unbearable that even a file menu sounds like a vacation.
https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt
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