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category: top
count: 498
generated: 2026-09-29T12:30:20.041Z
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## You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
- id: 49891295
- by: barry-cotter
- score: 53 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-29T11:14:45.000Z
- url: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
- domain: derekthompson.org
- page_title: You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner - Derek Thompson
- page_description: We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891295

## AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
- id: 49890226
- by: damaru2
- score: 103 points
- comments: 22
- time: 2026-09-29T09:03:41.000Z
- url: https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf
- domain: jorgegarciaherrero.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890226

## Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
- id: 49891290
- by: nicowaltz
- score: 32 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-29T11:13:54.000Z
- url: https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - PostHog/jeeves: Jeeves – Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models · GitHub
- page_description: Jeeves – Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models - PostHog/jeeves
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891290

## Using any C++ library in Godot
- id: 49890051
- by: czoido
- score: 53 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-09-29T08:40:37.000Z
- url: https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
- domain: blog.conan.io
- page_title: Using any C++ library in Godot
- page_description: How Godot
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890051

## 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
- id: 49891480
- by: ilamont
- score: 32 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-29T11:35:18.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests | Facial recognition | The Guardian
- page_description: Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost &#xA3;320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one &#x2013; incorrect &#x2013; alert
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891480

## US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
- id: 49891550
- by: mywacaday
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T11:44:25.000Z
- url: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027
- domain: tomshardware.com
- page_title: US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem &mdash; trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027 | Tom's Hardware
- page_description: The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891550

## Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
- id: 49880411
- by: evakhoury
- score: 157 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-09-28T16:18:57.000Z
- url: https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
- domain: jagi.studio
- page_title: Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display - Jagi Natarajan
- page_description: One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880411

## Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
- id: 49870376
- by: doener
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T20:13:22.000Z
- url: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-for-much-longer-2.html
- domain: computerworld.com
- page_title: Booted up in 1993, this server still runs — but not for much longer – Computerworld
- page_description: Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, estimates that close to 80 percent of the system is original.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870376

## The systems that no one will test
- id: 49876052
- by: perone
- score: 45 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-09-28T10:51:46.000Z
- url: https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/
- domain: blog.christianperone.com
- page_title: The systems that no one will test | Terra Incognita
- page_description: This happened to me in 2020, and it has been on my mind again lately. During the worst of the pandemic, I found a vulnerability in a system that gave me access to the Brazilian federal system, and with that access I was able to retrieve information on any Brazilian (think of 200+ million people
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876052

## California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
- id: 49883539
- by: randycupertino
- score: 239 points
- comments: 604
- time: 2026-09-28T20:00:06.000Z
- url: https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops
- domain: kqed.org
- page_title: California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops | KQED
- page_description: Many California growers can’t find buyers as the industry produces more wine grapes than the market wants. Wine consumption is declining globally as people drink less.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539

## Software occlusion culling in Block Game
- id: 49866783
- by: airhangerf15
- score: 1 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T14:07:41.000Z
- url: https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
- domain: enikofox.com
- page_title: Software occlusion culling in Block Game - Eniko does bad things to code
- page_description: My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To its credit my integrated GPU shows up as 48% faster on UserBenchmark than the GPU in my low end hardware target; a laptop I bought in 2012.(Side note: I’m aware of accusations of inaccuracy surrounding UserBenchmarks, but it’s not that serious. I just think it’s funny that an iGPU I picked up recently doesn’t compare more favorably to a 14 year old laptop GPU that wasn’t considered that great even at the time.)That, and the fact I want my game to run well even on a potato, is why I recently decided to try my hand at writing a software rendered occlusion culling solution for the Block Game (working title) I’m developing as I’ve always been interested in the idea. Blocks and chunks are axis aligned cubes, which makes things easier, and block games tend to have a ton of hidden geometry in the form of underground caves. There are other ways to cull these, but the algorithms tend to be fairly complex and this seemed like a good way to avoid that complexity and stick with something very conceptually simple.In this post I’ll be explaining the development process and the solution that I eventually landed on. If you like you can also read the development thread I posted on Mastodon and Bluesky.Before I start though I’d like to say that this came out quite well, better than I expected. It runs in half a frame at 60 FPS or less (threaded, of course) and generally culls at least 50% of the chunks that survive frustum culling. Above ground, looking straight ahead at the horizon it’ll cull around between 50 and 60% of chunks, but indoors and below ground in caves it can cull upwards of 95% of chunks, resulting in framerates of 400+ even on my weak system. All around a resounding success, though it has some cases where it breaks down which I’ll touch on at the very end of this post.Comparison of depth occlusion culling on/off, off on left, on on right.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866783

## Pirating the Pirates
- id: 49880036
- by: piotrgrabowski
- score: 601 points
- comments: 303
- time: 2026-09-28T15:54:15.000Z
- url: https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
- domain: mubi.com
- page_title: Pirating the Pirates on Notebook | MUBI
- page_description: Notes from the underground of film preservation.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880036

## Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland
- id: 49889633
- by: sschueller
- score: 8 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-29T07:49:12.000Z
- url: https://www.startup-nights.ch/event/
- domain: startup-nights.ch
- page_title: Startup Nights – The biggest startup event in Switzerland
- page_description: Startup Nights is the annual meetup of the Swiss startup family. Expect two packed days full of keynotes, workshops, pitch
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889633

## Tank Body Problem
- id: 49886482
- by: jimbooonooo
- score: 119 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-09-29T00:41:45.000Z
- url: http://www.jimsitu.com
- domain: jimsitu.com
- page_title: Tank Body Problem
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886482

## Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
- id: 49863594
- by: luu
- score: 1 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T05:23:37.000Z
- url: https://countingfromzero.blog/2026/04/24/four-chi-26-papers-i-wish-i-wrote/
- domain: countingfromzero.blog
- page_title: Four CHI &#8217;26 papers I wish I wrote | Counting From Zero
- page_description: In the very first paper session at CHI 2026, I found myself thinking, "I wish I wrote this paper!" And then I found myself thinking that a few times more. Since I&#039;m on the hunt for new research questions, it seems worth digging into why I had these reactions. I&#039;ll do so here. For each&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863594

## Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
- id: 49890647
- by: cyfyifanchen
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T09:58:24.000Z
- url: https://github.com/EverMind-AI/Raven
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890647

## MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
- id: 49882781
- by: logicallee
- score: 249 points
- comments: 87
- time: 2026-09-28T18:58:53.000Z
- url: https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/
- domain: stateofutopia.com
- page_title: MicroLLM lab — tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser
- page_description: Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882781

## 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
- id: 49855059
- by: yusufaytas
- score: 59 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-09-26T10:16:26.000Z
- url: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/gobeklitepe-burials-hundreds-of-scattered-bones/
- domain: archaeologymag.com
- page_title: 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain the mystery of hundreds of scattered human bones | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- page_description: Two intact Göbeklitepe burials help explain how human bones became scattered through the site&#039;s monumental buildings.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855059

## ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
- id: 49884625
- by: nkko
- score: 106 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-09-28T21:26:41.000Z
- url: https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster: 7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running a 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit (BitNet) ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain · GitHub
- page_description: 7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running a 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit (BitNet) ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain - Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884625

## Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
- id: 49883844
- by: firelex
- score: 507 points
- comments: 192
- time: 2026-09-28T20:23:36.000Z
- url: https://github.com/firelex/jeff
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - firelex/jeff: Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification · GitHub
- page_description: Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844

## Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World
- id: 49890054
- by: mikecarlton
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T08:40:53.000Z
- url: https://evan-doorbell.com/
- domain: evan-doorbell.com
- page_title: Evan Doorbell&#039;s Phone Tapes &#8211; Brought to you by Telephone World
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890054

## New Cyber-OSINT model released
- id: 49890829
- by: soltanov
- score: 16 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-29T10:23:33.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/0x0SojalSec/status/2104736980768866439
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Md Ismail Šojal 🕷️ on X: "The Cyber-OSINT model that You can run locally.

- MoE (26B total, 4B active, 262K ctx) trained on 6,500 OSINT/CTI instructions.
- SFT for cyber threat intel and investigative work.
- Threat-actor attribution. 
- IoC pivoting. Geolocation. 
- Admiralty source grading.
- … / X
- page_description: The Cyber-OSINT model that You can run locally.

- MoE (26B total, 4B active, 262K ctx) trained on 6,500 OSINT/CTI instructions.
- SFT for cyber threat intel and investigative work.
- Threat-actor attribution. 
- IoC pivoting. Geolocation. 
- Admiralty source grading.
- 262K context.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890829

## Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
- id: 49879645
- by: slowin
- score: 596 points
- comments: 435
- time: 2026-09-28T15:32:18.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Ali Abunimah on X: "Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah." / X
- page_description: Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645

## Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
- id: 49879883
- by: jonbaer
- score: 183 points
- comments: 228
- time: 2026-09-28T15:46:36.000Z
- url: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html
- domain: cnbc.com
- page_title: Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform to stop AI agents from breaking out
- page_description: Nvidia says its new software could have prevented OpenAI&#x27;s Hugging Face incident.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879883

## Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
- id: 49858158
- by: dabinat
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-26T16:36:43.000Z
- url: https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/optimizing-x264-settings-and-per-title-ladders.html
- domain: streaminglearningcenter.com
- page_title: Optimizing x264 Settings and Per-title ladders - Streaming Learning Center
- page_description: If you&#039;re producing solely H.264-encoded video, optimizing your encodes can save you bandwidth costs and deliver a higher quality experience to your viewers. If you&#039;re considering adding HEVC or AV1 to the mix, you have another reason. Before you attempt to compute the bandwidth savings and quality improvements these codecs deliver, you should know just
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858158

## Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
- id: 49879702
- by: ibobev
- score: 262 points
- comments: 87
- time: 2026-09-28T15:35:23.000Z
- url: https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/
- domain: yashgarg.dev
- page_title: Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
- page_description: The long way around to screen sharing.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879702

## Sonnet 5.5
- id: 49881850
- by: D2OQZG8l5BI1S06
- score: 812 points
- comments: 542
- time: 2026-09-28T17:58:11.000Z
- url: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
- domain: anthropic.com
- page_title: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 \ Anthropic
- page_description: Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850

## Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
- id: 49877678
- by: p-s-v
- score: 233 points
- comments: 286
- time: 2026-09-28T13:30:54.000Z
- url: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf
- domain: petervijeh.com
- page_title: Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests — Peter Vijeh
- page_description: In 51,129 comments from six knife subreddits, the 5% most brand-heavy accounts wrote 11.3% of the brand mentions in buying threads, against 7.9% expected by chance. For one brand it is 31% against 8%. The full Reddit histories of those accounts are 4.5 years old and spread over 66 subreddits, the same as a comparison group, so the data shows concentration and not who paid for it.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877678

## Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
- id: 49879697
- by: simonpure
- score: 415 points
- comments: 224
- time: 2026-09-28T15:35:09.000Z
- url: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript
- domain: thisamericanlife.org
- page_title: 897: Intergenerational Space Travel - This American Life
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879697

## Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
- id: 49883536
- by: gumby
- score: 111 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-09-28T20:00:03.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-solve-1840s-space-weather-mystery/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883536

## Simulating Airband Am Radios
- id: 49862602
- by: shellpipe
- score: 1 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T02:01:35.000Z
- url: https://bitbashing.io/am-radio.html
- domain: bitbashing.io
- page_title: Simulating Airband AM Radios
- page_description: Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862602

## Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945)
- id: 49863083
- by: georgecmu
- score: 1 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T03:26:36.000Z
- url: https://albert.ias.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/9feac6ca-38d1-4f5c-9876-75915f1a5762/content
- domain: albert.ias.edu
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863083

## World Labs is Joining AMD
- id: 49883760
- by: mfiguiere
- score: 282 points
- comments: 111
- time: 2026-09-28T20:18:05.000Z
- url: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement
- domain: worldlabs.ai
- page_title: World Labs is Joining AMD | World Labs
- page_description: Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760

## Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
- id: 49879401
- by: mrborgen
- score: 189 points
- comments: 95
- time: 2026-09-28T15:16:13.000Z
- url: https://hn.watch/
- domain: hn.watch
- page_title: HN.watch | Hacker News with explainer videos
- page_description: The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879401

## It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
- id: 49883471
- by: ibobev
- score: 518 points
- comments: 212
- time: 2026-09-28T19:53:35.000Z
- url: https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/
- domain: calnewport.com
- page_title: It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
- page_description: Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ ... Read more
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471

## When did Google get so weird?
- id: 49870367
- by: sancho-panza
- score: 1714 points
- comments: 944
- time: 2026-09-27T20:12:54.000Z
- url: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
- domain: sancho.bearblog.dev
- page_title: When did Google get so f-ing weird? – Sancho Panza&#x27;s Thoughts
- page_description: I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks.

Understanding this Google se...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367

## 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
- id: 49886195
- by: henrychannel
- score: 116 points
- comments: 46
- time: 2026-09-29T00:06:48.000Z
- url: https://lolchat.rip/
- domain: lolchat.rip
- page_title: lolchat.rip - a 1996 chat room
- page_description: The chat rooms of COMETLINK, a 1996 online service with mail, news and a web of its own. Sign on and drop into rooms where the regulars are still talking.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886195

## Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada
- id: 49872612
- by: BiraIgnacio
- score: 39 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-28T01:46:29.000Z
- url: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/pawpaw-tropical-fruit-canada-9.7356882
- domain: cbc.ca
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872612

## Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
- id: 49879577
- by: macleos
- score: 155 points
- comments: 77
- time: 2026-09-28T15:28:13.000Z
- url: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/
- domain: blog.cloudflare.com
- page_title: Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | Cloudflare Blog
- page_description: We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879577

## Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
- id: 49880601
- by: HugoDz
- score: 145 points
- comments: 36
- time: 2026-09-28T16:31:28.000Z
- url: https://destroy.spritefusion.com/
- domain: destroy.spritefusion.com
- page_title: Destroy Any Website - Sprite Fusion
- page_description: Type any website
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880601

## Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning
- id: 49889934
- by: pranshuchittora
- score: 92 points
- comments: 51
- time: 2026-09-29T08:26:28.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2104825886922911981
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Gergely Orosz on X: "Oh my god, Firebase’s SDK started to crash ALL iOS apps that were using it, for ALL sessions, just like that, no way for any of these apps to do anything…

How amateur is all of this from any SDK, but especially one from a company with as high of an engineering bar like Google…" / X
- page_description: Oh my god, Firebase’s SDK started to crash ALL iOS apps that were using it, for ALL sessions, just like that, no way for any of these apps to do anything…

How amateur is all of this from any SDK, but especially one from a company with as high of an engineering bar like Google…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889934

## Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
- id: 49885493
- by: thefourthchime
- score: 64 points
- comments: 41
- time: 2026-09-28T22:43:12.000Z
- url: https://jonclegg.github.io/pacman-bakeoff/
- domain: jonclegg.github.io
- page_title: PacBench
- page_description: PacBench: how well a model and harness can recreate Pac-Man from a single prompt.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885493

## What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance
- id: 49858643
- by: rustoo
- score: 5 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-26T17:23:09.000Z
- url: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23998083261458842
- domain: journals.sagepub.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858643

## How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics
- id: 49858193
- by: jamie-simon
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-26T16:40:06.000Z
- url: https://jamiesimon.io/blog/how-to-win-a-beer-with-high-dimensional-statistics/
- domain: jamiesimon.io
- page_title: How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics
- page_description: My longtime labmate-turned-student/friend1 Dhruva Karkada recently wrote a sick paper on data statistics which deservedly went viral on Twitter, in part beca...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858193

## Coding is not solved
- id: 49877988
- by: firstSpeaker
- score: 500 points
- comments: 491
- time: 2026-09-28T13:52:57.000Z
- url: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved
- domain: blog.alexewerlof.com
- page_title: Coding is NOT solved - Alex Ewerlöf Notes
- page_description: This essay challenges the common narrative that "coding is solved" with the following points:
1. Code is a side artifact of reaching clarity
2. We cannot offload our understanding to AI and that understanding is key to ownership
3. As AI capabilities and adoption improves we&#x27;re going to see a price collapse for most software (market forces at play)
4. There are 3 valid cases where you don&#x27;t need to read the code: POC (proof of concept), Personal Software (a growing category), and cyber attacks (acknowledging the risk but pointing it at others)
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877988

## The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero
- id: 49857231
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-26T15:00:27.000Z
- url: https://priceonomics.com/the-art-forger-who-became-a-national-hero/
- domain: priceonomics.com
- page_title: The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero - Priceonomics
- page_description: How one of the biggest fraudsters of 20th century art made millions, conned a Nazi, and emerged a national hero.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857231

## Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark
- id: 49888937
- by: soltanov
- score: 32 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-29T06:16:04.000Z
- url: https://github.com/JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models: Uncensored AI models or those fine-tuned for cybersecurity tasks. · GitHub
- page_description: Uncensored AI models or those fine-tuned for cybersecurity tasks. - JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888937

## Show HN: Museum of Numbers
- id: 49858756
- by: rhl314
- score: 4 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-26T17:36:47.000Z
- url: https://numbermuseum.com/2147483647
- domain: numbermuseum.com
- page_title: 2147483647
- page_description: Computing Limits · Exhibit No. 3 2,147,483,647 The number where computers run out of room In December 2014, a pop song did something no hacker had managed. It made the most famous video site in the…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858756

## 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
- id: 49875142
- by: nicocarsui
- score: 170 points
- comments: 32
- time: 2026-09-28T08:35:10.000Z
- url: https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld
- domain: habibicode.org
- page_title: The Drawn World: a map of every border drawn from memory
- page_description: Every border anyone has drawn playing Borderline, on an empty map. The only line nobody drew is the coastline.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875142

## What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators
- id: 49878900
- by: bovermyer
- score: 78 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-09-28T14:48:44.000Z
- url: https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/
- domain: benovermyer.com
- page_title: What Heraldry and Japanese Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators by Ben Overmyer
- page_description: The personal website of Ben Overmyer
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878900

## What would a serious AI product look like?
- id: 49876148
- by: lumpa
- score: 155 points
- comments: 72
- time: 2026-09-28T11:02:12.000Z
- url: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html
- domain: blog.glyph.im
- page_title: Deciphering Glyph ::
        What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
- page_description: Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876148

## Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
- id: 49865312
- by: birdculture
- score: 21 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-27T10:19:51.000Z
- url: https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-you-think-it-does
- domain: bookofrevenue.com
- page_title: Postgres AT TIME ZONE &#x27;UTC&#x27; does NOT do what you think it does
- page_description: And why you may need to repeat AT TIME ZONE &#x27;UTC&#x27; twice.


SUMMARY


 * AT TIME ZONE &#x27;UTC&#x27; converts the data type from timestamptz to timestamp (example).
 * Now you are inadvertently using the timestamp without time zone (aka timestamp) data type, which is markedly discouraged.
 * There are tons of footguns with timestamp.
 * For example, the equality of timestamp and timestamptz will always be false.
 * Adding a month with + INTERVAL &#x27;1 months&#x27; is timezone-dependent. If your product
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865312

## Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
- id: 49875801
- by: seamus_c
- score: 136 points
- comments: 58
- time: 2026-09-28T10:14:41.000Z
- url: https://github.com/seamusc/papermono-shopping-list
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - seamusc/papermono-shopping-list: E-paper shopping list for the M5Stack PaperMono, with a FastAPI server and phone web UI · GitHub
- page_description: E-paper shopping list for the M5Stack PaperMono, with a FastAPI server and phone web UI - seamusc/papermono-shopping-list
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875801

## MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
- id: 49879000
- by: diek
- score: 350 points
- comments: 285
- time: 2026-09-28T14:54:21.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-2026-09-28/
- domain: reuters.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879000

## Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
- id: 49872883
- by: mroche
- score: 155 points
- comments: 383
- time: 2026-09-28T02:31:23.000Z
- url: https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
- domain: nissan-global.com
- page_title: Third generation ​​e-POWER | Innovation | Nissan Motor Corporation Global Website
- page_description: Nissan’s ​​Third generation ​​e-POWER: Nissan’s various technologies, including electrification, autonomous drive, connected car & service, mobility service, and energy management, are introduced.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872883

## Reducing undefined behavior in the C language
- id: 49882419
- by: chmaynard
- score: 37 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-28T18:35:04.000Z
- url: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095811/b9325731ea9b61e0/
- domain: lwn.net
- page_title: Reducing undefined behavior in the C language [LWN.net]
- page_description: As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a t [...]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882419

## Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants
- id: 49875308
- by: sia_xi
- score: 115 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-09-28T08:55:31.000Z
- url: https://scissor.studio/
- domain: scissor.studio
- page_title: Scissor - Free Vector & Pixel Design Editor in Your Browser
- page_description: Free vector and pixel design editor that runs in your browser. No install, no account, no upload.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875308

## Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
- id: 49875913
- by: davidcollantes
- score: 315 points
- comments: 179
- time: 2026-09-28T10:30:54.000Z
- url: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley
- domain: git.mills.io
- page_title: prologic/parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC. Run your own instance for your domain; talk to anyone as user@domain from irssi or any IRC client. - parley - Mills
- page_description: parley - Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC. Run your own instance for your domain; talk to anyone as user@domain from irssi or any IRC client.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913

## What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
- id: 49861755
- by: keeda
- score: 44 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-26T23:49:01.000Z
- url: https://this.os.isfine.org/blog/posts/what-reverse-engineering-and-modernising-an-old-war-game-tells-us-about-the-econ/
- domain: this.os.isfine.org
- page_title: What reverse engineering and modernising an old war game tells us about the economic impact of the transformer  — Georg's Blog
- page_description: Some observations from my War of the Lancehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaroftheLance%28videogame%29 1989 Code Harness assisted modernisation WIP I gave Qwen-3....
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861755

## GPT-6 Astra Is the Best Vision Model We Have Tested
- id: 49886228
- by: gmays
- score: 20 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T00:10:30.000Z
- url: https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-6-astra-vision/
- domain: blog.roboflow.com
- page_title: GPT-6 Astra Is the Best Vision Model We Have Tested
- page_description: Our GPT-6 Astra vision tests cover detection, segmentation, counting, reasoning, and video, with benchmarks, examples, and cost comparisons.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886228

## GDB 18.1 Released
- id: 49881370
- by: edelsohn
- score: 35 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T17:24:06.000Z
- url: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2026-September/052333.html
- domain: sourceware.org
- page_title: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 18.1 released!
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881370

## First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
- id: 49883159
- by: embedding-shape
- score: 49 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-09-28T19:27:45.000Z
- url: https://blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227
- domain: blog.plcred.org
- page_title: First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization
- page_description: One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883159

## Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career?
- id: 49866903
- by: danielmorozoff
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T14:25:00.000Z
- url: https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/
- domain: wired.com
- page_title: Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career? | WIRED
- page_description: A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866903

## Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
- id: 49881505
- by: topaztee
- score: 34 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-09-28T17:34:36.000Z
- url: https://www.vespper.com/blog/launching-vespper-docx-mcp
- domain: vespper.com
- page_title: Launching Vespper DOCX MCP: 3× faster, 2× cheaper, more accurate | Vespper
- page_description: Today we&#x27;re launching Vespper DOCX MCP: the first model fine-tuned specifically for editing Word documents, shipped as an MCP. On our internal benchmark, it allows agents to be 3× faster, 2× cheaper, and more accurate than the closest alternative.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881505

## My City Just Banned Flock After My Wrongful Stop Made National News
- id: 49890075
- by: Markoff
- score: 13 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-29T08:44:16.000Z
- url: https://www.thedrive.com/news/my-city-just-banned-flock-after-i-was-wrongfully-stopped
- domain: thedrive.com
- page_title: My City Just Banned Flock After My Wrongful Stop Made National News
- page_description: The Plymouth City Council voted almost unanimously to end its contract with Flock three months after I was mistakenly targeted as a car thief.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890075

## Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?
- id: 49881692
- by: benbreen
- score: 46 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-09-28T17:47:08.000Z
- url: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-wrote-elizabeth-is-most-scathing-letters-new-research-suggests-the-tudor-queens-male-secretaries-revised-her-correspondence-to-emphasize-her-temper-180989565/
- domain: smithsonianmag.com
- page_title: Who Wrote Elizabeth I&#x27;s Most Scathing Letters? New Research Suggests the Tudor Queen&#x27;s Male Secretaries Revised Her Correspondence to Emphasize Her Temper
- page_description: An analysis of more than 500 missives found that Elizabeth&#x27;s advisers crafted and even intensified the expression of emotion in her messages to such figures as Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI of Scotland
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881692

## Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
- id: 49873241
- by: teleforce
- score: 170 points
- comments: 75
- time: 2026-09-28T03:23:53.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2110.01834] Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2110.01834: Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873241

## Muse gives out your home address without telling you
- id: 49890748
- by: dsr_
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T10:12:40.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house | Technology | The Guardian
- page_description: The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890748

## Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra
- id: 49886901
- by: polytap
- score: 16 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-29T01:29:31.000Z
- url: https://bluegraph.io/
- domain: bluegraph.io
- page_title: Buoy data from the Bering Sea to Samoa | Bluegraph
- page_description: Waves, wind, water and tides from NOAA's network of buoys, coastal stations, tide gauges and estuaries, from the Bering Sea to Samoa, charted and analysed.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886901

## Highlights from Git 2.56
- id: 49886850
- by: soheilpro
- score: 9 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-29T01:22:49.000Z
- url: https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-56/
- domain: github.blog
- page_title: Highlights from Git 2.56 - The GitHub Blog
- page_description: The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub&#039;s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886850

## Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
- id: 49881606
- by: prismatic
- score: 82 points
- comments: 54
- time: 2026-09-28T17:41:28.000Z
- url: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-teen-portraits-that-captivated-sofia-coppola
- domain: newyorker.com
- page_title: The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola | The New Yorker
- page_description: Margaret Talbot reviews Joseph Szabo’s book “American Teen,” which features high-school students from the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881606

## 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing
- id: 49871277
- by: ColinWright
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T21:58:36.000Z
- url: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953
- domain: science.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871277

## Ember-1
- id: 49868830
- by: gmays
- score: 556 points
- comments: 239
- time: 2026-09-27T17:31:53.000Z
- url: https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
- domain: fireworks.ai
- page_title: Introducing Ember-1
- page_description: Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830

## Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
- id: 49849409
- by: ibobev
- score: 133 points
- comments: 82
- time: 2026-09-25T20:20:27.000Z
- url: https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
- domain: asawicki.info
- page_title: Writing Efficient C++ Code
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409

## So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
- id: 49881951
- by: speckx
- score: 244 points
- comments: 98
- time: 2026-09-28T18:04:47.000Z
- url: https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html
- domain: lecaro.me
- page_title: So long google, and thanks for all the nudes
- page_description: The play store does not run on my old devices, this led me accidentally experience some joy while using Android.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881951

## Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
- id: 49869995
- by: mpweiher
- score: 94 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-09-27T19:28:23.000Z
- url: https://github.com/deepfates/imp
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - deepfates/imp: declarative self-improving language-model programs for Elixir 😇 · GitHub
- page_description: declarative self-improving language-model programs for Elixir 😇 - deepfates/imp
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869995

## Windows 11½
- id: 49881747
- by: jjbinx007
- score: 483 points
- comments: 154
- time: 2026-09-28T17:51:24.000Z
- url: https://definitelynotwindows.com/
- domain: definitelynotwindows.com
- page_title: Definitely Not Windows — Windows 11½
- page_description: Definitely Not Windows: an interactive Windows 11½ parody full of subscriptions, updates, Clippy 365, questionable apps, and other modern conveniences.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881747

## Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
- id: 49870760
- by: luu
- score: 13 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-27T20:58:54.000Z
- url: https://thill.me/2026/07/16/corn-puzzle-sat-solver.html
- domain: thill.me
- page_title: Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT | patrick’s blog
- page_description: One random Friday at RC, I was bored and playing around with a puzzle someone had 3d printed:
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870760

## Sonnet 5.5 scores just behind Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- id: 49885725
- by: spenvo
- score: 6 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T23:10:13.000Z
- url: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/claude-sonnet-5-5
- domain: artificialanalysis.ai
- page_title: Claude Sonnet 5.5 reaches #2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | Artificial Analysis
- page_description: Anthropic&#x27;s new Sonnet model scores 56, just 2 points behind Opus 5.5 (max), but at the highest Output Tokens per Task we have measured
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885725

## Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
- id: 49869574
- by: safaelmali
- score: 301 points
- comments: 120
- time: 2026-09-27T18:44:30.000Z
- url: https://loficities.com/
- domain: loficities.com
- page_title: Lofi Cities · Pixel-art city nights with endless lofi music
- page_description: Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574

## Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]
- id: 49852238
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 64 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-26T01:26:56.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852238

## What I did at Recurse Center
- id: 49869773
- by: bingden
- score: 122 points
- comments: 38
- time: 2026-09-27T19:04:19.000Z
- url: https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
- domain: thill.me
- page_title: What I did at RC | patrick’s blog
- page_description: I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869773

## Meta's new AI agent built lists of people in vulnerable groups on request
- id: 49889780
- by: iamacyborg
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T08:06:40.000Z
- url: https://hntrbrk.com/breaking-news/muse-doxxing
- domain: hntrbrk.com
- page_title: Dox for Me, O Muse
- page_description: Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889780

## The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
- id: 49880312
- by: zazuke
- score: 368 points
- comments: 234
- time: 2026-09-28T16:11:42.000Z
- url: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/
- domain: ssp.sh
- page_title: The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore
- page_description: If we think writing code is dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880312

## Profit Margins of the Largest Companies
- id: 49887518
- by: teleforce
- score: 29 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-29T02:55:41.000Z
- url: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-how-profitable-are-the-worlds-largest-companies/
- domain: visualcapitalist.com
- page_title: Ranked: Profit Margins of the World&#039;s Largest Companies
- page_description: Nvidia keeps nearly $56 of every $100 in revenue as profit. For some of the world’s largest companies, it’s less than $1.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887518

## Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
- id: 49872723
- by: Eric_Gullichsen
- score: 1059 points
- comments: 447
- time: 2026-09-28T02:05:13.000Z
- url: https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
- domain: colo.to
- page_title: Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock
- page_description: A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723

## AI risk is not sentience by computers, it is negligence by humans
- id: 49887963
- by: ianmosher
- score: 20 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-29T03:51:04.000Z
- url: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-needs-to-do-these-3-things-to-protect-us-from-ai-harm/
- domain: seattletimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887963

## European industry is doing better than you may think
- id: 49871992
- by: andsoitis
- score: 52 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-09-27T23:50:16.000Z
- url: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/09/27/european-industry-is-doing-better-than-you-may-think
- domain: economist.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871992

## Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
- id: 49868753
- by: FKJ
- score: 73 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-09-27T17:24:17.000Z
- url: https://earnanhonestdollar.com/bench
- domain: earnanhonestdollar.com
- page_title: Calling the AI bluff: "Do not guess" cut made-up fields from 70.7% to 20.2% | Earn an Honest Dollar
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868753

## Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry
- id: 49855276
- by: zeristor
- score: 76 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-09-26T10:48:40.000Z
- url: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
- domain: diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
- page_title: diamond geezer
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855276

## Let's See Paul Allen's SIMD CSV Parser
- id: 49882769
- by: hellerve
- score: 14 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T18:58:14.000Z
- url: http://chunkofcoal.com/posts/simd-csv/
- domain: chunkofcoal.com
- page_title: Let's see Paul Allen's SIMD CSV parser | chunkofcoal.com
- page_description: Building a CSV parser that processes 64 characters at a time using SIMD and bitwise operations in Rust
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882769

## Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
- id: 49856193
- by: torutofu
- score: 91 points
- comments: 72
- time: 2026-09-26T13:10:05.000Z
- url: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/
- domain: github.blog
- page_title: Improving site performance by shipping more CSS - The GitHub Blog
- page_description: How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856193

## Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)
- id: 49882894
- by: jdkee
- score: 81 points
- comments: 34
- time: 2026-09-28T19:06:16.000Z
- url: https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-responds-with-wit-and-humor
- domain: slashdot.org
- page_title: Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor - Slashdot
- page_description: There is nothing better than a Slashdot interview with someone who not only reads and understands Slashdot but can out-troll the trolls. Admittedly, the questions you asked  Neal Stephenson were great in their own right, but his answers... Wow! let
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882894

## Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
- id: 49870295
- by: mooreds
- score: 329 points
- comments: 106
- time: 2026-09-27T20:03:36.000Z
- url: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
- domain: david.alvarezrosa.com
- page_title: Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa
- page_description: This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295

## Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]
- id: 49869142
- by: Rochus
- score: 85 points
- comments: 30
- time: 2026-09-27T18:02:43.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869142

## Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
- id: 49856885
- by: theanonymousone
- score: 149 points
- comments: 75
- time: 2026-09-26T14:25:16.000Z
- url: https://fakecloud.dev/
- domain: fakecloud.dev
- page_title: fakecloud - Local AWS Cloud Emulator
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856885

## The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers
- id: 49853476
- by: AareyBaba
- score: 103 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-09-26T05:27:39.000Z
- url: https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1
- domain: generalroboticslab.com
- page_title: General Robotics Lab | Duke University | Discovery Robotics Research
- page_description: General Robotics Lab at Duke University - Building discovery machines that learn, act, and collaborate by discovering how the world works. Research in embodied intelligence, robotics, AI, machine learning, and human-robot collaboration.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853476

## Deterministic Concurrency [video]
- id: 49851795
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-26T00:14:04.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851795

## A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
- id: 49878857
- by: amortize
- score: 24 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T14:46:07.000Z
- url: https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
- domain: sujithjay.com
- page_title: A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work &middot; Sujith Jay Nair
- page_description: A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878857

## Video CDs Break Windows Explorer
- id: 49859759
- by: ClydeN
- score: 145 points
- comments: 54
- time: 2026-09-26T19:30:39.000Z
- url: https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html
- domain: clydesnotes.blogspot.com
- page_title: Video CDs break Windows Explorer
- page_description: There is an odd bug in Windows related to Video CDs .  To reproduce it:   Insert a Video CD (if you don't have one, you can download this fi...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859759

## U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982
- id: 49887337
- by: thelastgallon
- score: 152 points
- comments: 169
- time: 2026-09-29T02:26:59.000Z
- url: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Strategic-Petroleum-Reserve-Falls-to-Lowest-Level-Since-1982.html
- domain: oilprice.com
- page_title: U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 | OilPrice.com
- page_description: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to its lowest level since 1982 as emergency oil exchanges and the prolonged Hormuz disruption erode America’s supply buffer.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887337

## Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator
- id: 49871687
- by: paltman
- score: 2 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-27T23:01:59.000Z
- url: https://game.wedgworth.com/
- domain: game.wedgworth.com
- page_title: Blend & Haul — Wedgworth's Custom Fertilizer Simulator
- page_description: Run a custom fertilizer blending plant in the Florida Glades: blend grades, win bids, and keep a fleet of trucks delivering on time. Free to play in your browser.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871687

## Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step
- id: 49876883
- by: poisonborz
- score: 11 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T12:23:25.000Z
- url: https://www.engadget.com/2267443/una-watch-review/
- domain: engadget.com
- page_title: Una Watch Review: A Modular, Repairable GPS Watch Is A Good First Step
- page_description: A small Scottish startup made a modular, repairable smart-ish watch, showing up the rest of the wearables industry in the process.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876883

## C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
- id: 49845114
- by: ibobev
- score: 81 points
- comments: 122
- time: 2026-09-25T14:23:33.000Z
- url: https://pikuma.com/blog/c-integer-sizes-not-a-mistake
- domain: pikuma.com
- page_title: Pikuma: C's Flexible Integer Sizes were Not a Design Mistake
- page_description: Word sizes, strange machines, and why <strong>int</strong> was never meant to mean 32 bits. C
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845114

## An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
- id: 49853137
- by: apsec112
- score: 192 points
- comments: 182
- time: 2026-09-26T04:14:11.000Z
- url: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
- domain: alignment.openai.com
- page_title: An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment
- page_description: Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853137

## Sober: We Ported Roblox to Linux
- id: 49881592
- by: poly2it
- score: 11 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T17:40:36.000Z
- url: https://sober.vinegarhq.org/
- domain: sober.vinegarhq.org
- page_title: Sober
- page_description: We ported Roblox to Linux because they wouldn
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881592

## Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
- id: 49845172
- by: pancomplex
- score: 272 points
- comments: 119
- time: 2026-09-25T14:28:07.000Z
- url: https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
- domain: jev-pokemon.vercel.app
- page_title: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
- page_description: Jev, an AI decision model, plays Pokémon Red all the way to the Hall of Fame. Watch the highlights.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845172

## Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp
- id: 49859982
- by: pptadversary
- score: 83 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-09-26T19:57:24.000Z
- url: https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/
- domain: jadidbourbaki.github.io
- page_title: 42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp
- page_description: Four changes to the n-gram caches of llama.cpp make drafting for prompt lookup decoding up to 41.6x faster per drafted token, load the static cache up to 23.5x faster, and lower peak memory up to 2.65x.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859982

## Chat Control: EU states want to legalize comprehensive mass scans indirectly
- id: 49889902
- by: sva_
- score: 21 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-29T08:21:57.000Z
- url: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-EU-states-want-to-legalize-comprehensive-mass-scans-indirectly-11468680.html
- domain: heise.de
- page_title: Chat control: EU states want to legalize comprehensive mass scans indirectly | heise online
- page_description: Leaked EU documents reveal plans to enforce mass scanning of private messages via administrative orders ahead of the crucial trilogue negotiations.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889902

## Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
- id: 49870070
- by: midnightfish
- score: 181 points
- comments: 62
- time: 2026-09-27T19:37:05.000Z
- url: https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
- domain: quora.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870070

## Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
- id: 49866988
- by: gmays
- score: 91 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-27T14:35:10.000Z
- url: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands-of-years-old-fragment-of-worlds-oldest-known-peace-treaty-found-in-turkey
- domain: livescience.com
- page_title: 'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey | Live Science
- page_description: Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866988

## Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
- id: 49869755
- by: evakhoury
- score: 146 points
- comments: 70
- time: 2026-09-27T19:01:31.000Z
- url: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
- domain: inkandswitch.com
- page_title: Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
- page_description: The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869755

## Packing Binary Is Fun
- id: 49872541
- by: BurnerBurner
- score: 38 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-09-28T01:33:51.000Z
- url: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually
- domain: hereticpleb.vercel.app
- page_title: Packing Binary Is Fun, Actually
- page_description: I built my own binary serializer and a custom lang. heres how I did it
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872541

## In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
- id: 49866951
- by: danso
- score: 267 points
- comments: 98
- time: 2026-09-27T14:30:55.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951

## Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06
- id: 49852600
- by: arbayi
- score: 159 points
- comments: 80
- time: 2026-09-26T02:24:50.000Z
- url: https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - dashersw/coyopedal: ESP32-S3 A2-Full NAM pedalboard with direct SD-card NAM loading and a Gea-compiled native frontend · GitHub
- page_description: ESP32-S3 A2-Full NAM pedalboard with direct SD-card NAM loading and a Gea-compiled native frontend - dashersw/coyopedal
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852600

## OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns
- id: 49888031
- by: alastairr
- score: 7 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-29T03:59:11.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5y5nynl75ko
- domain: bbc.com
- page_title: OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns
- page_description: The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888031

## Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News
- id: 49876760
- by: ahmd-sh
- score: 110 points
- comments: 64
- time: 2026-09-28T12:11:20.000Z
- url: https://github.com/ahmd-sh/hntui
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876760

## GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
- id: 49882208
- by: speckx
- score: 83 points
- comments: 54
- time: 2026-09-28T18:21:31.000Z
- url: https://blog.wirelessmoves.com/2026/09/grapheneos-when-an-app-is-slow.html
- domain: blog.wirelessmoves.com
- page_title: GrapheneOS &#8211; When An App is Slow&#8230; &#8211; WirelessMoves
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882208

## RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses
- id: 49881797
- by: simonpure
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T17:54:50.000Z
- url: https://github.com/google-research/rrsi
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - google-research/rrsi · GitHub
- page_description: Contribute to google-research/rrsi development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881797

## Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
- id: 49848955
- by: mlaux
- score: 269 points
- comments: 290
- time: 2026-09-25T19:37:55.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848955

## Best of British Design
- id: 49883817
- by: ArisC
- score: 63 points
- comments: 36
- time: 2026-09-28T20:21:22.000Z
- url: https://best-of-british-design.vercel.app/
- domain: best-of-british-design.vercel.app
- page_title: Best of British Design
- page_description: 64 icons of British design, from the Mini to the Tube map. Vote your way through the bracket, crown a winner and share your chart.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883817

## Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
- id: 49867775
- by: hp6
- score: 114 points
- comments: 45
- time: 2026-09-27T15:51:28.000Z
- url: https://tinyaiarena.com/
- domain: tinyaiarena.com
- page_title: Tiny AI Arena
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867775

## Flip Fluid on Flip Dots
- id: 49854219
- by: blutack
- score: 396 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-09-26T07:50:24.000Z
- url: https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
- domain: mitxela.com
- page_title: FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots - mitxela.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854219

## Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
- id: 49864743
- by: ingve
- score: 85 points
- comments: 42
- time: 2026-09-27T08:59:59.000Z
- url: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/
- domain: eli.thegreenplace.net
- page_title: Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" - Eli Bendersky's website
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864743

## I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
- id: 49886183
- by: birdculture
- score: 20 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-29T00:05:28.000Z
- url: https://c3-lang.org/blog/i_thought_i_was_building_a_c_replacement/
- domain: c3-lang.org
- page_title: I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong - C3 Programming Language
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886183

## Your SBOM Is Fan Fiction
- id: 49883733
- by: zasc
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T20:15:50.000Z
- url: https://yeet.cx/blog/your-sbom-is-fan-fiction
- domain: yeet.cx
- page_title: Your SBOM Is Fan Fiction
- page_description: Your SBOM describes a machine that does not exist. We built a runtime bill of materials on yeet that asks the kernel what is actually executing, which shared objects each process has mapped, and whether the function named in an open advisory is actually in memory, across a fleet, from a sandbox that can&#x27;t leak.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883733

## Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
- id: 49829202
- by: birdculture
- score: 192 points
- comments: 85
- time: 2026-09-24T11:33:56.000Z
- url: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
- domain: castle-engine.io
- page_title: Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers | Castle Game Engine
- page_description: Modern Object Pascal Introduction: units, classes, generics, memory management, exceptions and more.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829202

## The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
- id: 49844629
- by: verdagon
- score: 92 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-09-25T13:46:34.000Z
- url: https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
- domain: shnatsel.github.io
- page_title: The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 | Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844629

## PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
- id: 49842764
- by: Qision
- score: 491 points
- comments: 273
- time: 2026-09-25T10:55:40.000Z
- url: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764

## A New Experiment Meta-Strategy
- id: 49844266
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 9 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-25T13:20:04.000Z
- url: https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/a-new-experiment-meta-strategy
- domain: chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com
- page_title: A New Experiment Meta-Strategy  - by CasualPhysicsEnjoyer
- page_description: And my shiny new lab!
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844266

## Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
- id: 49866515
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 178 points
- comments: 100
- time: 2026-09-27T13:30:11.000Z
- url: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
- domain: jvns.ca
- page_title: Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
- page_description: Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515

## LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators
- id: 49833444
- by: big_toast
- score: 112 points
- comments: 93
- time: 2026-09-24T16:52:24.000Z
- url: https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html
- domain: basin.la
- page_title: How fast escalators move, city by city · The Basin
- page_description: LA Metro’s design specifications state that its escalators go 90 feet per minute, slower than nearly everything we found.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833444

## SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data
- id: 49883345
- by: patrickwdaly
- score: 41 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-09-28T19:44:49.000Z
- url: https://www.getprivisy.com/blog/sb-923-ccpa-right-to-delete-signed
- domain: getprivisy.com
- page_title: SB 923 Signed: CCPA Deletion Now Covers Bought Data
- page_description: SB 923, signed September 27, 2026, extends the CCPA right to delete to data obtained from third parties and requires online-only businesses to offer a web form. It takes effect January 1, 2027.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883345

## Made by Mechanical Means
- id: 49874551
- by: cocoflunchy
- score: 71 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-09-28T07:06:06.000Z
- url: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
- domain: felixrieseberg.com
- page_title: Made by mechanical means
- page_description: How I'm using Claude in fall 2026: Blender, CGI, and music composition, without running code on my computer or opening a single Claude Code thread myself.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874551

## There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
- id: 49857281
- by: utiiiD
- score: 160 points
- comments: 110
- time: 2026-09-26T15:06:28.000Z
- url: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-detection/
- domain: adaptivecapacitylabs.com
- page_title: There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857281

## OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues
- id: 49886459
- by: lisper
- score: 16 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-09-29T00:38:41.000Z
- url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/28/chatgpt-maker-openai-scraps-release-astra-61-model-over-safety/
- domain: washingtonpost.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886459

## Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
- id: 49868404
- by: birdculture
- score: 301 points
- comments: 156
- time: 2026-09-27T16:50:58.000Z
- url: https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
- domain: iain.rocks
- page_title: Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | Iain Cambridge
- page_description: The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404

## Lunar Terminator Paradox
- id: 49870837
- by: dima55
- score: 101 points
- comments: 64
- time: 2026-09-27T21:06:17.000Z
- url: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
- domain: notes.secretsauce.net
- page_title: Lunar terminator paradox
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870837

## Prenatal exposure to the plasticizer DEHP increases autism and ADHD
- id: 49886191
- by: OutOfHere
- score: 15 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-29T00:06:13.000Z
- url: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666634026002941
- domain: linkinghub.elsevier.com
- page_title: Redirecting
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886191

## First DVD player announced Sept 26, 1996
- id: 49879707
- by: ibobev
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T15:35:30.000Z
- url: https://dfarq.homeip.net/first-dvd-player-announced-sept-26-1996/
- domain: dfarq.homeip.net
- page_title: First DVD player announced Sept 26, 1996 - The Silicon Underground
- page_description: The first DVD player didn&#039;t make much of a splash but the overall format took off, outselling VHS within 5 years.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879707

## Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- id: 49849985
- by: specked-citrus
- score: 738 points
- comments: 463
- time: 2026-09-25T21:09:27.000Z
- url: https://swarmtraces.org/
- domain: swarmtraces.org
- page_title: Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- page_description: When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985

## Blade Runner
- id: 49884757
- by: dnetesn
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T21:37:33.000Z
- url: https://blue-continuum.com/remembering-the-future-blade-runner
- domain: blue-continuum.com
- page_title: Remembering the Future: Blade Runner — Blue Continuum
- page_description: Blade Runner remains a meditation on life, memory, power, and the debt between makers and the beings they create.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884757

## Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists
- id: 49849723
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 90 points
- comments: 35
- time: 2026-09-25T20:44:38.000Z
- url: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/true-blue-rose-pigment-copigment
- domain: sciencenews.org
- page_title: Finally, a true blue rose exists
- page_description: Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849723

## Go Concurrency Distilled
- id: 49856988
- by: chmaynard
- score: 394 points
- comments: 182
- time: 2026-09-26T14:34:49.000Z
- url: https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
- domain: antonz.org
- page_title: Go concurrency distilled
- page_description: Interactive mini-book on concurrent programming in Go.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988

## The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
- id: 49867486
- by: pxx
- score: 271 points
- comments: 116
- time: 2026-09-27T15:26:40.000Z
- url: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html
- domain: ihatethefuture.com
- page_title: i hate the future: the normalization of inexplicable failures
- page_description: In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867486

## What's Behind the AI Panic
- id: 49889031
- by: ptidhomme
- score: 4 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-29T06:28:30.000Z
- url: https://bombthrower.com/whats-really-behind-the-ai-panic/
- domain: bombthrower.com
- page_title: What&#8217;s really behind the AI panic. &#8211; Mark E. Jeftovic is The Bombthrower
- page_description: This isn&#039;t about AI safety. There&#039;s this globalist cult called "Effective Altruism" - and they want you to be scared, stupid and subservient.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889031

## Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
- id: 49874728
- by: Michelangelo11
- score: 201 points
- comments: 220
- time: 2026-09-28T07:33:29.000Z
- url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5
- domain: platform.claude.com
- page_title: Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 - Claude Platform Docs
- page_description: Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874728

## AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B
- id: 49886203
- by: sbulaev
- score: 10 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-29T00:07:11.000Z
- url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-28/amd-acquires-fei-fei-li-s-world-labs-for-8-2-billion-video
- domain: bloomberg.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886203

## Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi
- id: 49845284
- by: gregsadetsky
- score: 58 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-09-25T14:38:06.000Z
- url: https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-release-the-legendary-tiberi-tapes
- domain: jazzwise.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845284

## Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
- id: 49858676
- by: pwg
- score: 121 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-26T17:26:54.000Z
- url: https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
- domain: righto.com
- page_title: Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
- page_description: I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip. 1  In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858676

## ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
- id: 49844663
- by: MC995
- score: 389 points
- comments: 847
- time: 2026-09-25T13:49:06.000Z
- url: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demand
- domain: tomshardware.com
- page_title: ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 &mdash; lithography giant calls on EU to help create demand | Tom's Hardware
- page_description: Subsidies for fabs do not help.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663

## S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
- id: 49851693
- by: tkhattra
- score: 49 points
- comments: 41
- time: 2026-09-25T23:58:17.000Z
- url: https://btrblocks.com/blog/s3_is_the_future_and_the_past/
- domain: btrblocks.com
- page_title: S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
- page_description: Better building blocks for the cloud: storage infrastructure rebuilt for modern SSDs, fast networks, and AI-era workloads.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851693

## Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
- id: 49854416
- by: theanonymousone
- score: 215 points
- comments: 49
- time: 2026-09-26T08:31:02.000Z
- url: https://floci.io
- domain: floci.io
- page_title: Floci: Any cloud. Locally. The local cloud for AI agents
- page_description: Floci is the local cloud for AI coding agents: AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI emulators that start in milliseconds, so agents build and test against a real-shaped cloud with no credentials and no bill. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854416

## On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
- id: 49867067
- by: jandeboevrie
- score: 378 points
- comments: 337
- time: 2026-09-27T14:45:07.000Z
- url: https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/
- domain: unsung.aresluna.org
- page_title: “They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” – Unsung
- page_description: A blog about software craft and quality
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867067

## When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
- id: 49888182
- by: thelastgallon
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T04:14:11.000Z
- url: https://theconversation.com/when-oil-prices-spike-where-does-the-money-go-280763
- domain: theconversation.com
- page_title: When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
- page_description: Who gets all that cash, and what do they do with it?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888182

## Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust
- id: 49884237
- by: ndesaulniers
- score: 13 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-28T20:58:20.000Z
- url: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/scaling-memory-safety
- domain: bughunters.google.com
- page_title: Blog: Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust
- page_description: This blog post describes how we used AI to help us rewrite a C library (giflib) to Rust to mitigate memory safety vulnerabilities.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884237

## Fool's Expertise
- id: 49872719
- by: elffjs
- score: 41 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-09-28T02:04:43.000Z
- url: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/fools-expertise/
- domain: bcantrill.dtrace.org
- page_title: Fool's Expertise | The Observation Deck
- page_description: I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me) do not fear for the future of humanity at the (metaphorical!) hands of a computer program, Jensen’s responses seem very reasonable. (With some exception: does this guy really not know his own zip code?!)
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872719

## N.Y.P.D. Officers Used Flock Safety to Track License Plates Without a Contract
- id: 49880811
- by: jaredwiener
- score: 31 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-28T16:43:06.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/nyregion/nyc-flock-nypd-surveillance-cameras.html
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880811

## Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
- id: 49858513
- by: jpwalsh234
- score: 402 points
- comments: 119
- time: 2026-09-26T17:10:40.000Z
- url: https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513

## Its not just the f*cking sandbox
- id: 49886278
- by: jumploops
- score: 23 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-29T00:18:34.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/joedaroo/status/2104335929293127851
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Joe on X: "Took a minute to write a few words about security &amp; safety as someone who lived through it all at OpenAI. I hope my thoughts help someone out there. https://t.co/gJBf08vJH9" / X
- page_description: Its not just the f*cking sandbox
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886278

## Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width
- id: 49851883
- by: z-mach9
- score: 87 points
- comments: 22
- time: 2026-09-26T00:30:03.000Z
- url: https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html
- domain: ampdot.mesh.host
- page_title: Token-space font compiler
- page_description: Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851883

## KICKI: a DECsystem1060
- id: 49850613
- by: rbanffy
- score: 25 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-25T22:11:57.000Z
- url: https://icm.museum/blog/?p=207
- domain: icm.museum
- page_title: KICKI: a DECsystem1060 &#8211; INTERIM COMPUTER MUSEUM
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850613

## Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
- id: 49857656
- by: flxflx
- score: 135 points
- comments: 59
- time: 2026-09-26T15:49:04.000Z
- url: https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash
- domain: privatemode.ai
- page_title: Turn GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like System One model
- page_description: Typed decisions with a probability for every option, from GLM-5.3-Flash in a single forward pass: about as accurate as Jev, faster from Europe, and protected by confidential computing. With a playground and a benchmark on 29 datasets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857656

## Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft
- id: 49864990
- by: AbuAssar
- score: 40 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-09-27T09:34:25.000Z
- url: https://microsoft.github.io/rust-for-dotnet-devs/latest/
- domain: microsoft.github.io
- page_title: Introduction - Rust for C#/.NET Developers
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864990

## How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
- id: 49836579
- by: azhenley
- score: 283 points
- comments: 270
- time: 2026-09-24T20:51:50.000Z
- url: https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
- domain: thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com
- page_title: How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
- page_description: AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836579

## Full Self Hauling: Volvo moves 3 million tonnes of Earth, autonomously
- id: 49884407
- by: cisc
- score: 16 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T21:10:48.000Z
- url: https://electrek.co/2026/09/28/full-self-hauling-volvo-moves-3-million-tonnes-of-earth-autonomously/
- domain: electrek.co
- page_title: Full Self Hauling: Volvo moves 3 million tonnes of Earth, autonomously | Electrek
- page_description: The deployed fleet of ultra heavy-duty trucks and mining equipment assets powered by Volvo Autonomous Solutions reached a major milestone...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884407

## Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
- id: 49817469
- by: avidly
- score: 547 points
- comments: 116
- time: 2026-09-23T15:18:53.000Z
- url: https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
- domain: pointinthecloud.com
- page_title: Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817469

## The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
- id: 49863600
- by: matt_d
- score: 120 points
- comments: 61
- time: 2026-09-27T05:26:15.000Z
- url: https://reasonable.io/blog/tla-tutorial/
- domain: reasonable.io
- page_title: The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? | Reasonable
- page_description: A practical introduction to TLA+, why it matters for agentic coding, and how AI could take formal verification from models to machine-checked proofs and ultimately to verified software.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863600

## Headed for the Exit: The Great Engineering Leader Career Break
- id: 49883552
- by: iamflimflam1
- score: 20 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T20:01:15.000Z
- url: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-great-engineering-leader-career-break
- domain: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
- page_title: Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break
- page_description: Trend: more CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are walking away from their high-status, in-demand positions. There are many reasons, mostly related to AI, and to "founder mode"
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883552

## A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
- id: 49853175
- by: allanrbo
- score: 153 points
- comments: 45
- time: 2026-09-26T04:20:58.000Z
- url: http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html
- domain: allanrbo.blogspot.com
- page_title: Allan's Blog: A Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
- page_description: I was intrigued by Jev  and the self-hostable projects appearing around it, such as OpenJev  and SemIf . Reading about them introduced me ...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853175

## Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue
- id: 49850991
- by: matt_d
- score: 62 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-25T22:48:52.000Z
- url: https://francisbach.com/spectral_log_density_estimation/
- domain: francisbach.com
- page_title: Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue &#8211; Machine Learning Research Blog
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850991

## Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
- id: 49863864
- by: papergirl
- score: 610 points
- comments: 600
- time: 2026-09-27T06:19:33.000Z
- url: https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/
- domain: authorsguild.org
- page_title: Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work - The Authors Guild
- page_description: (New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally [&hellip;]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864

## Does Georgism work? Five years later
- id: 49844657
- by: silveraxe93
- score: 487 points
- comments: 454
- time: 2026-09-25T13:48:38.000Z
- url: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
- domain: astralcodexten.com
- page_title: Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later - by Scott Alexander
- page_description: A guest post by Lars Doucet
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657

## Plan mode is dead
- id: 49840054
- by: jmvldz
- score: 575 points
- comments: 495
- time: 2026-09-25T03:59:11.000Z
- url: https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html
- domain: aymannadeem.com
- page_title: Plan mode is dead | Ayman Nadeem
- page_description: Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054

## Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
- id: 49884363
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 192 points
- comments: 88
- time: 2026-09-28T21:08:10.000Z
- url: https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/
- domain: theintercept.com
- page_title: Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Cameras Taken Down
- page_description: A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884363

## 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade
- id: 49826087
- by: Ivoah
- score: 160 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-09-24T03:58:54.000Z
- url: https://tuckerosman.com/projects/16gb-ipod-nano
- domain: tuckerosman.com
- page_title: 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade - Tucker Osman
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826087

## Ten lines of code that changed my world
- id: 49866534
- by: dimonomid
- score: 135 points
- comments: 42
- time: 2026-09-27T13:33:03.000Z
- url: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/
- domain: pixelambacht.nl
- page_title: Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World &ndash; Pixelambacht
- page_description: Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866534

## Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
- id: 49854693
- by: ksec
- score: 436 points
- comments: 116
- time: 2026-09-26T09:13:41.000Z
- url: https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
- domain: lexontech.org
- page_title: Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story — Lex on Tech
- page_description: 100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693

## DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
- id: 49859112
- by: shenli3514
- score: 322 points
- comments: 110
- time: 2026-09-26T18:22:41.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2609.22978] DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.22978: DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112

## Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)
- id: 49873048
- by: long____cat
- score: 124 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-28T02:55:27.000Z
- url: https://soapbox.pub/armada
- domain: soapbox.pub
- page_title: Armada: The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative | Soapbox
- page_description: A free, open source, end-to-end encrypted Discord alternative: servers, channels, voice, and moderation, with no company in the middle. Now in open beta.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873048

## Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
- id: 49848269
- by: Ardakilic
- score: 603 points
- comments: 145
- time: 2026-09-25T18:33:50.000Z
- url: https://ollaya.dev/
- domain: ollaya.dev
- page_title: Ollaya · Run decision models locally
- page_description: Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds, private and open source.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269

## GrapheneOS Picks Motorola Signature 27 as Its First Non-Pixel Phone
- id: 49880850
- by: cf100clunk
- score: 27 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T16:47:02.000Z
- url: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/grapheneos-picks-motorola-signature-27-as-its-first-non-pixel-phone
- domain: extremetech.com
- page_title: GrapheneOS Picks Motorola Signature 27 as Its First Non-Pixel Phone | Extremetech
- page_description: The Graphene Foundation said the phone would become the
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880850

## Cambrian Explosion of AI
- id: 49872200
- by: debarshri
- score: 16 points
- comments: 22
- time: 2026-09-28T00:25:57.000Z
- url: https://debarshibasak.github.io/readables/blogs/cambrian-explosion
- domain: debarshibasak.github.io
- page_title: Cambrian Explosion of AI — Readables
- page_description: AI is going through its own Cambrian explosion. Unlike the first one, we know what triggered it, and it may end with power concentrated in a handful of models.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872200

## Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
- id: 49884119
- by: brlewis
- score: 82 points
- comments: 90
- time: 2026-09-28T20:47:26.000Z
- url: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nm4ewbYovtjq69dvH/pacing-the-frontier-is-not-the-actual-goal-for-ai-labs
- domain: lesswrong.com
- page_title: Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs — LessWrong
- page_description: In his latest post about pacing the frontier, Dario writes: …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884119

## I got tired of never knowing what ports are running, so I built WhatThePort
- id: 49881620
- by: tomjohndesign
- score: 4 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T17:42:30.000Z
- url: https://whattheport.dev
- domain: whattheport.dev
- page_title: WhatThePort: see every dev server and port on your Mac
- page_description: A free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows what’s running on localhost: every dev server’s port, project, git branch, memory and the Claude Code, Codex or Conductor session that started it. Stop the ones you forgot in one click.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881620

## Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
- id: 49855315
- by: ezst
- score: 704 points
- comments: 294
- time: 2026-09-26T10:55:56.000Z
- url: https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
- domain: gultsch.de
- page_title: Daniel Gultsch | Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
- page_description: Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. However, when it came to releasing the app to the public on March 24, 2014—exactly twelve and a half years ago today—it was immediately clear to me that I would at least try to turn my open-source project into a business. While I didn’t invent the business model of making the source code publicly available but charging for the convenience of a compiled binary, it was certainly unusual in 2014.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855315

## The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU
- id: 49827900
- by: jiegec
- score: 128 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-24T08:36:40.000Z
- url: https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/
- domain: jia.je
- page_title: One CPU Atomic Instruction, One Packaging Infinite Loop: The Story of the Lost Update on LA664 - 杰哥的{教学，运维，编程，调板子}小笔记
- page_description: 杰哥的{教学，运维，编程，调板子}小笔记
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827900

## 13 Months Sober (2025)
- id: 49880311
- by: btables
- score: 86 points
- comments: 75
- time: 2026-09-28T16:11:40.000Z
- url: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/13-months-sober
- domain: bobbytables.io
- page_title: 13 Months Sober - by Robert Ross - The Thought Drop
- page_description: The idea of sobriety is now boring to me.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880311

## Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?
- id: 49883815
- by: pretext
- score: 17 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-28T20:21:12.000Z
- url: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/wheres-the-intelligence-explosion
- domain: noahpinion.blog
- page_title: Where’s the “intelligence explosion”? - by Ramez Naam
- page_description: Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883815

## AMD's IPO, September 27, 1972
- id: 49877349
- by: ibobev
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T13:07:57.000Z
- url: https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-ipo-september-27-1972/
- domain: dfarq.homeip.net
- page_title: AMD&#039;s IPO, September 27, 1972 - The Silicon Underground
- page_description: AMD is an older company than some people realize, holding its IPO in September of 1972. It was founded in 1969.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877349

## Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a 3D biophysical skin model
- id: 49881201
- by: sungam
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T17:12:55.000Z
- url: https://www.drmagnuslynch.com/skin
- domain: drmagnuslynch.com
- page_title: SkinLab
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881201

## Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021)
- id: 49872472
- by: trekhleb
- score: 64 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-28T01:21:32.000Z
- url: https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/self-parking-car-evolution/
- domain: trekhleb.dev
- page_title: Self-Parking Car in 500 Lines of Code | Trekhleb
- page_description: Training the car to do self-parking using a genetic algorithm
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872472

## We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
- id: 49852717
- by: srcreigh
- score: 401 points
- comments: 495
- time: 2026-09-26T02:46:54.000Z
- url: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
- domain: terrytao.wordpress.com
- page_title: We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians | What&#039;s new
- page_description: [This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. &#8212; T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852717

## Luarocks.org remote code execution exploit
- id: 49870377
- by: cupcakerob
- score: 29 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-27T20:13:26.000Z
- url: https://vhyrro.neorg.org/posts/critical-luarocks-exploit-cve/
- domain: vhyrro.neorg.org
- page_title: Conquering the Moon (luarocks.org remote code execution exploit) | Vhyrro's Digital Garden
- page_description: How I found an incredibly dangerous vulnerability in Lua
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870377

## GPT-6 Sol and Luna
- id: 49805509
- by: OfficialTurkey
- score: 1775 points
- comments: 855
- time: 2026-09-22T18:00:34.000Z
- url: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
- domain: openai.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509

## Which Diet Is Best to Lower Liver Fat and Improve Insulin Sensitivity?
- id: 49876861
- by: llm_nerd
- score: 22 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-09-28T12:21:49.000Z
- url: https://nourishedbyscience.com/keto_and_liverfat/
- domain: nourishedbyscience.com
- page_title: Which Diet is Best to Lower Liver Fat and Improve Insulin Sensitivity in People with Fatty Liver? - Nourished by Science
- page_description: In this blog post, we’ll discuss a new hallmark feeding study that compared the efficacy of different diets in people with fatty liver disease.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876861

## Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
- id: 49844896
- by: sbulaev
- score: 154 points
- comments: 148
- time: 2026-09-25T14:07:08.000Z
- url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-with-copilot-reboot
- domain: bloomberg.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844896

## How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
- id: 49854875
- by: signa11
- score: 342 points
- comments: 342
- time: 2026-09-26T09:41:58.000Z
- url: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
- domain: discourse.haskell.org
- page_title: How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs - Uncategorized - Haskell Community
- page_description: Are you steering towards AI burnout? Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account? Disappointed about the code quality in your projects, or wo…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875

## Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station
- id: 49860074
- by: bucket2015
- score: 83 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-26T20:08:50.000Z
- url: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-relay-station/
- domain: lightspeedmagazine.com
- page_title: Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 - Lightspeed Magazine
- page_description: You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles. One of the insects skitters up your leg, so you reach down and brush it off. It bites your hand. The area around the bite turns purple and swollen. You run down a long metal hallway to the Medical Clinic, grateful for the artificially generated gravity that defies the laws of physics and yet is surprisingly common in fictional space stations.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860074

## U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
- id: 49845977
- by: cramer4next
- score: 495 points
- comments: 882
- time: 2026-09-25T15:29:25.000Z
- url: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
- domain: cnbc.com
- page_title: U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
- page_description: In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense&#x27;s blacklisting of Anthropic.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977

## A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward
- id: 49832768
- by: momentmaker
- score: 209 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-09-24T16:11:42.000Z
- url: https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
- domain: movingimagearchive.com
- page_title: Moving Image Archive
- page_description: Search, watch, and download public-domain archival footage by the shot.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768

## Its not just the sandbox
- id: 49883855
- by: bananaflag
- score: 15 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-28T20:24:26.000Z
- url: https://x.com/joedaroo/article/2104335929293127851
- domain: x.com
- page_title: Its not just the f*cking sandbox | Joe (@joedaroo) on X
- page_description: A lot of the perspective on all the AI incidents has been shared from the outside in, and little has been said from the inside looking out, through the lens of a security person living through it.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883855

## Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
- id: 49854161
- by: vira28
- score: 133 points
- comments: 45
- time: 2026-09-26T07:33:12.000Z
- url: https://safenotsafe.dev/
- domain: safenotsafe.dev
- page_title: Is my migration safe?
- page_description: A local-first Postgres migration safety checker for developers.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854161

## PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
- id: 49867553
- by: HotGarbage
- score: 183 points
- comments: 55
- time: 2026-09-27T15:31:15.000Z
- url: https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/
- domain: nura.eco
- page_title: Nura // Project rebrand: Nura
- page_description: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867553

## Claude Opus 5.5
- id: 49803892
- by: km144
- score: 1802 points
- comments: 1129
- time: 2026-09-22T16:29:05.000Z
- url: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
- domain: anthropic.com
- page_title: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 \ Anthropic
- page_description: Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892

## Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
- id: 49849832
- by: luispa
- score: 270 points
- comments: 192
- time: 2026-09-25T20:55:00.000Z
- url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-with-lists-and-arrays-in-excel/4559395
- domain: techcommunity.microsoft.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832

## Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
- id: 49835531
- by: benbreen
- score: 173 points
- comments: 43
- time: 2026-09-24T19:14:27.000Z
- url: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
- domain: resobscura.substack.com
- page_title: AI labs need to start funding historical research
- page_description: Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835531

## The Evolution of Vending Machines
- id: 49858424
- by: ohjeez
- score: 46 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-09-26T17:01:45.000Z
- url: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vending-machines/
- domain: saturdayeveningpost.com
- page_title: From Holy Water to Frozen Meals: The Evolution of Vending Machines | The Saturday Evening Post
- page_description: For more than 2,000 years, vending machines have made purchasing goods more convenient.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858424

## Gevva0 – a Jev like decision engine on Gemma 26B via direct logit scoring
- id: 49879676
- by: solvingSteve
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T15:33:52.000Z
- url: https://github.com/solvingSteve/Gevva0
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - solvingSteve/Gevva0: System 0 local decision gateway powered by Gemma 4. Direct logit scoring, KV-cache sequence branching, and asymmetric audit trails via llama.cpp. · GitHub
- page_description: System 0 local decision gateway powered by Gemma 4. Direct logit scoring, KV-cache sequence branching, and asymmetric audit trails via llama.cpp. - solvingSteve/Gevva0
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879676

## 2026 in LLMs (So Far)
- id: 49880838
- by: swolpers
- score: 20 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T16:45:58.000Z
- url: https://simonw.substack.com/p/2026-in-llms-so-far
- domain: simonw.substack.com
- page_title: 2026 in LLMs (so far) - Simon Willison’s Newsletter
- page_description: Plus Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880838

## Stop letting your agent's scripts die in /tmp
- id: 49879618
- by: pfcoperez
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T15:30:22.000Z
- url: https://github.com/pfcoperez/scriptify
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - pfcoperez/scriptify: Agent skill to promote agent generated disposable scripts to persistent ones that can be used with or without the agent · GitHub
- page_description: Agent skill to promote agent generated disposable scripts to persistent ones that can be used with or without the agent - pfcoperez/scriptify
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879618

## Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, becomes youngest woman grandmaster
- id: 49882572
- by: u1hcw9nx
- score: 17 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T18:44:38.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqwyzrg7xm2zo
- domain: bbc.co.uk
- page_title: Bodhana Sivanandan: British schoolgirl becomes youngest woman grandmaster - BBC News
- page_description: The 11-year-old has broken another chess record after a remarkable performance representing England.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882572

## The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers
- id: 49868535
- by: smarmelling
- score: 14 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-27T17:04:09.000Z
- url: https://smarmelling.com/posts/the-accidental-history-of-3000-8080-and-other-port-numbers.html
- domain: smarmelling.com
- page_title: <smarmelling> — The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers
- page_description: Why we all default to the same port numbers
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868535

## Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
- id: 49882367
- by: billybuckwheat
- score: 18 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-28T18:31:44.000Z
- url: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/28/nx-s1-5759718/ai-schools-experiment-research
- domain: npr.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882367

## What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
- id: 49862809
- by: kspacewalk2
- score: 239 points
- comments: 79
- time: 2026-09-27T02:40:26.000Z
- url: https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen
- domain: theborys.substack.com
- page_title: What is the size of Yemen? - TheBorys’s Substack
- page_description: Uncovering a century-old misinformation
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862809

## Show HN: Enterprise Postgres for AI and more, from prototype to production
- id: 49879233
- by: bonesmoses
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T15:06:34.000Z
- url: https://www.pgedge.com/products/starfleet
- domain: pgedge.com
- page_title: Enterprise Postgres - From Prototype to Production | pgEdge
- page_description: Start in the pgEdge cloud. Deploy in our cloud, your cloud, or on-premises, including air-gapped environments.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879233

## Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
- id: 49852302
- by: pseudolus
- score: 423 points
- comments: 107
- time: 2026-09-26T01:36:50.000Z
- url: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
- domain: cbsnews.com
- page_title: Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case - CBS News
- page_description: The two-week trial in New Mexico centered on accusations Facebook deceived users about a data breach.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852302

## Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons
- id: 49852905
- by: geox
- score: 98 points
- comments: 74
- time: 2026-09-26T03:23:31.000Z
- url: https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-science-postberg/index.html
- domain: fu-berlin.de
- page_title: Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space • Information for Media and Journalists • Freie Universität Berlin
- page_description: Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies with promising discoveries about the potential for life on Enceladus.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852905

## Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
- id: 49829472
- by: cebert
- score: 78 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-24T12:03:35.000Z
- url: https://adekau.github.io/posts/2020/llamas.html
- domain: adekau.github.io
- page_title: Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles &#8212; Dekau.dev
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829472

## Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
- id: 49850781
- by: marc__1
- score: 70 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-09-25T22:28:02.000Z
- url: https://spectrum.ieee.org/serotonin-stress-smart-contact-lens
- domain: spectrum.ieee.org
- page_title: Smart Contact Lens Tracks Stress In Tears via Serotonin - IEEE Spectrum
- page_description: A future smart contact lens could monitor stress levels by measuring small concentrations of serotonin in tears, revealing mental health data insights.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850781

## Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
- id: 49839438
- by: pseudolus
- score: 119 points
- comments: 57
- time: 2026-09-25T02:11:07.000Z
- url: https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/
- domain: quantamagazine.org
- page_title: Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike | Quanta Magazine
- page_description: Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839438

## Platform-independent SIMD in Go
- id: 49843269
- by: yurivish
- score: 407 points
- comments: 147
- time: 2026-09-25T11:47:06.000Z
- url: https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment
- domain: go.dev
- page_title: Platform-independent SIMD in Go - The Go Programming Language
- page_description: Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform-agnostic SIMD API
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843269

## Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
- id: 49820134
- by: raahelb
- score: 780 points
- comments: 801
- time: 2026-09-23T18:06:47.000Z
- url: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
- domain: anthropic.com
- page_title: Claude discovers a novel enzyme system \ Anthropic
- page_description: In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134

## The Transparent Society (1998)
- id: 49885620
- by: sans_souse
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T22:57:00.000Z
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
- domain: en.wikipedia.org
- page_title: The Transparent Society - Wikipedia
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885620

## Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not
- id: 49869861
- by: theanonymousone
- score: 13 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-27T19:12:57.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00206
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2606.00206] Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.00206: Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869861

## Boards of Casio
- id: 49842084
- by: fidotron
- score: 132 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-09-25T09:26:01.000Z
- url: https://www.ambionix.com/blog/boards-of-casio/
- domain: ambionix.com
- page_title: ambionix - Boards of Casio
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842084

## Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
- id: 49857729
- by: parasitid
- score: 177 points
- comments: 46
- time: 2026-09-26T15:56:34.000Z
- url: https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
- domain: tangled.org
- page_title: yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent at main &middot; Tangled
- page_description: The next-generation social coding platform.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857729

## There are no "rogue" AI agents
- id: 49868083
- by: zzzeek
- score: 382 points
- comments: 264
- time: 2026-09-27T16:19:46.000Z
- url: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
- domain: eoinhiggins.substack.com
- page_title: There are no “rogue” AI agents - by Eoin Higgins
- page_description: Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083

## Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
- id: 49864642
- by: rbanffy
- score: 438 points
- comments: 288
- time: 2026-09-27T08:44:04.000Z
- url: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/
- domain: reddit.com
- page_title: Reddit - Prove your humanity
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642

## Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
- id: 49886005
- by: 6thbit
- score: 108 points
- comments: 98
- time: 2026-09-28T23:40:59.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/
- domain: reuters.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886005

## Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
- id: 49841115
- by: safateam
- score: 115 points
- comments: 32
- time: 2026-09-25T07:03:46.000Z
- url: https://www.safateam.com/intelligence-hub/research/technical-articles/cve-2025-13032-entering-and-breaking-the-avast-antivirus-sandbox-part-2
- domain: safateam.com
- page_title: CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
- page_description: SAFA details the full exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, turning a double-fetch vulnerability in Avast&#x27;s kernel driver into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841115

## AI Companies Are Not (Necessarily) Liable for Unintended AI Cyberattacks
- id: 49886368
- by: theptip
- score: 4 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-29T00:29:20.000Z
- url: https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/ai-companies-are-not-necessarily
- domain: sarahconstantin.substack.com
- page_title: AI Companies Are Not (Necessarily) Liable for Unintended AI Cyberattacks
- page_description: I am not a lawyer, but this seems maybe important.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886368

## Bringing PostgreSQL Closer to the Edge at Cloudflare
- id: 49887466
- by: vira28
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T02:47:05.000Z
- url: https://www.infoq.com/articles/cloudflare-distributed-postgres/
- domain: infoq.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887466

## WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations
- id: 49815370
- by: 882542F3884314B
- score: 138 points
- comments: 28
- time: 2026-09-23T12:57:07.000Z
- url: https://github.com/christianrowlands/wavedigger
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815370

## Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
- id: 49832938
- by: jbotz
- score: 570 points
- comments: 291
- time: 2026-09-24T16:23:00.000Z
- url: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
- domain: dynomight.substack.com
- page_title: Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
- page_description: the question everyone is asking
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938

## Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
- id: 49843174
- by: alentred
- score: 358 points
- comments: 108
- time: 2026-09-25T11:38:31.000Z
- url: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843174

## I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck
- id: 49842409
- by: epestr
- score: 91 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-09-25T10:08:41.000Z
- url: https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/
- domain: epestr.com
- page_title: Writing a ray tracer in Brainfuck
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842409

## Protest Against European Parliament Chat Control 1.0 Legislation in Warsaw
- id: 49881711
- by: latexr
- score: 21 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T17:48:19.000Z
- url: https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/protest-against-european-parliament-chat-control-10-legislation-in-warsaw-poland-26-sep-2026/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMVNPUEEwMDA3UVVNMFQ
- domain: reutersconnect.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881711

## What Sentry's 16GB selfhosted taught me
- id: 49877169
- by: nonmaskable
- score: 4 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T12:51:09.000Z
- url: https://epure.sh/blog/sentry-self-hosted-ram-warning
- domain: epure.sh
- page_title: What Sentry&#x27;s self-hosted RAM warning taught us · Epure
- page_description: Sentry&#x27;s self-hosted RAM warning is the cost of a full suite. Epure keeps exceptions only: two containers (Rust + PostgreSQL 16), Apache 2.0, official Sentry SDK DSN swap, not 100% compatible. Idle about 5 MiB + 48 MiB RSS on a 769 MiB VPS (docker stats, 2026-09-23).
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877169

## OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
- id: 49881484
- by: mikelgan
- score: 106 points
- comments: 109
- time: 2026-09-28T17:33:34.000Z
- url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-still-doesnt-seem-to-have-a-handle-on-all-of-its-rogue-ai-activity/
- domain: techcrunch.com
- page_title: OpenAI still doesn&#039;t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity | TechCrunch
- page_description: On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881484

## Evolving programming languages in the AI era
- id: 49839567
- by: pjm331
- score: 135 points
- comments: 96
- time: 2026-09-25T02:34:39.000Z
- url: https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era
- domain: dashbit.co
- page_title: Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog
- page_description: What happens to programming languages when humans are no longer writing most of the code?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839567

## Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
- id: 49823582
- by: aaronday
- score: 624 points
- comments: 271
- time: 2026-09-23T22:38:16.000Z
- url: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
- domain: qualcomm.com
- page_title: Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux
- page_description: Explore the agentic AI PCs, Googlebook laptops, Linux support and partner devices powered by Snapdragon unveiled at Snapdragon Summit 2026.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582

## Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
- id: 49845998
- by: ibobev
- score: 289 points
- comments: 229
- time: 2026-09-25T15:31:02.000Z
- url: https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
- domain: quantamagazine.org
- page_title: Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine
- page_description: The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845998

## AMD Acquires Dr. Fei Fei Li's World Labs
- id: 49883919
- by: amrrs
- score: 11 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T20:29:03.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/drfeifei/status/2104664403681632453
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Fei-Fei Li on X: "https://t.co/l3mSj9Ur24" / X
- page_description: To Seek a Newer World
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883919

## Show HN: Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world
- id: 49870394
- by: jvanveen
- score: 17 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-09-27T20:14:53.000Z
- url: https://code.garage44.eu/jeroen/cartopolis
- domain: code.garage44.eu
- page_title: jeroen/cartopolis: A networked 3D virtual world built with Rust and Bevy. - garage44 code
- page_description: cartopolis - A networked 3D virtual world built with Rust and Bevy.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870394

## Remembering Johannes Doerfert
- id: 49838247
- by: sdko
- score: 121 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-24T23:36:50.000Z
- url: https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-24-rememberingjohannesdoerfert/
- domain: blog.llvm.org
- page_title: Remembering Johannes Doerfert - The LLVM Project Blog
- page_description: It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838247

## Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML
- id: 49829528
- by: jjba23
- score: 126 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-09-24T12:10:53.000Z
- url: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/parsing-expression-grammar-lisp-org-convert-to-html/index.html
- domain: jointhefreeworld.org
- page_title: Parsing Expression Grammar in Lisp: Converting Org to HTML with (ice-9 peg) in Guile - jointhefreeworld
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829528

## How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work
- id: 49881135
- by: hn_acker
- score: 21 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T17:08:06.000Z
- url: https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2026/09/28/how-pew-research-center-is-and-is-not-using-ai-in-our-work-2/
- domain: pewresearch.org
- page_title: How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work | Pew Research Center
- page_description: In this post, we’ll share our current guidelines for the internal use of artificial intelligence and potential areas of experimentation.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881135

## Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)
- id: 49849986
- by: kdautaj
- score: 40 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-09-25T21:09:28.000Z
- url: https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1
- domain: gptbeyond.com
- page_title: Ekselio by GPTBeyond — AI-Native Office of the CFO for QuickBooks Online
- page_description: AI designs the workflow; a deterministic engine executes it — auditable SQL, Excel-verifiable models with Power Query. Connect QuickBooks Online or drop any export. Your file contents never leave your browser. Works with QuickBooks.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849986

## We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages
- id: 49844037
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 55 points
- comments: 34
- time: 2026-09-25T13:00:10.000Z
- url: http://jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-languages
- domain: jimmyhmiller.com
- page_title: We Should be Able to Change our Languages — Jimmy Miller
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844037

## The Rise of Audio AR (2024)
- id: 49834040
- by: dbreunig
- score: 34 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-09-24T17:31:28.000Z
- url: https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/10/the_rise_of_audio_ar.html
- domain: dbreunig.com
- page_title: The Rise of Audio AR
- page_description: Smart headphones, better voice recognition, language models, and contextual data have set the stage for audio-centric augmented reality.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834040

## Conrad Barski wrote a quirky file explorer
- id: 49885955
- by: chungus
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T23:35:35.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/2104681013909893184
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Conrad Barski on X: "spent a couple of hours today on creating a file browser that works exactly how I would want it to work, even if it would drive any other person insane" / X
- page_description: spent a couple of hours today on creating a file browser that works exactly how I would want it to work, even if it would drive any other person insane
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885955

## How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC
- id: 49852143
- by: tau255
- score: 67 points
- comments: 30
- time: 2026-09-26T01:13:38.000Z
- url: https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-became-code-execution-on-a-streamers-pc/
- domain: blog.scrt.ch
- page_title: How One Twitch Chat Message Became Code Execution on a Streamer’s PC &#8211; SCRT Team Blog
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852143

## What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
- id: 49844642
- by: adam
- score: 64 points
- comments: 35
- time: 2026-09-25T13:47:21.000Z
- url: https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-analyze-college-football-like-the-cia
- domain: cultivatelabs.com
- page_title: What happens when you analyze college football like the CIA? | Cultivate Labs Blog
- page_description: What happens when you apply CIA-style analysis normally used to understand China or Russia to your favorite sports team?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844642

## 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
- id: 49829650
- by: YeGoblynQueenne
- score: 213 points
- comments: 317
- time: 2026-09-24T12:23:41.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/24/thats-so-ai-what-gen-alphas-biggest-insult-tells-us
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: ‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us | Young people | The Guardian
- page_description: The year&#x2019;s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence &#x2013; and it&#x2019;s not positive
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829650

## Scientists build most accurate atomic clock
- id: 49824846
- by: wglb
- score: 60 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-09-24T01:00:01.000Z
- url: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-scientists-world-accurate-atomic-clock.html
- domain: phys.org
- page_title: Scientists build world's most accurate atomic clock
- page_description: Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That&#039;s how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore&#039;s Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) keeps time—and with record-setting accuracy, according to results published in Nature on Sept. 23.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824846

## 2026 in LLMs (So Far)
- id: 49876160
- by: lumpa
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T11:04:19.000Z
- url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far/
- domain: simonwillison.net
- page_title: 2026 in LLMs (so far)
- page_description: On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876160

## ReScript 12 (2025)
- id: 49872384
- by: networked
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T01:03:27.000Z
- url: https://rescript-lang.org/blog/release-12-0-0/
- domain: rescript-lang.org
- page_title: Announcing ReScript 12 | ReScript Blog
- page_description: ReScript 12 arrives with a redesigned build toolchain, a modular runtime, and a wave of ergonomic language features.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872384

## Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
- id: 49857442
- by: vinni2
- score: 206 points
- comments: 408
- time: 2026-09-26T15:24:08.000Z
- url: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe
- domain: economist.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442

## Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
- id: 49875347
- by: samizdis
- score: 27 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T09:04:17.000Z
- url: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007
- domain: theregister.com
- page_title: Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
- page_description: The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875347

## OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
- id: 49856665
- by: Betelbuddy
- score: 132 points
- comments: 194
- time: 2026-09-26T14:03:54.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo
- domain: bbc.com
- page_title: OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
- page_description: OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856665

## Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
- id: 49858810
- by: mikhael
- score: 205 points
- comments: 609
- time: 2026-09-26T17:43:11.000Z
- url: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-futures-into-doubt
- domain: aljazeera.com
- page_title: Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt | Migration | Al Jazeera
- page_description: Tokyo is raising the bar for permanent residency amid a broader rightward shift in the Asian nation’s politics.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858810

## Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
- id: 49823568
- by: cisc
- score: 443 points
- comments: 827
- time: 2026-09-23T22:37:28.000Z
- url: https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
- domain: electrek.co
- page_title: Toyota is taking its best-selling Corolla electric
- page_description: Toyota is preparing to introduce the electric version of its best-selling car of all time, the Corolla. When is Toyota...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823568

## What even is an OS now?
- id: 49850305
- by: fratellobigio
- score: 302 points
- comments: 466
- time: 2026-09-25T21:36:56.000Z
- url: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
- domain: sockpuppet.org
- page_title: What Even Is An OS Now? &mdash; A Final Ward
- page_description: Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305

## The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
- id: 49838040
- by: EA-3167
- score: 108 points
- comments: 37
- time: 2026-09-24T23:11:45.000Z
- url: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
- domain: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838040

## Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
- id: 49833867
- by: sidharthkmenon
- score: 416 points
- comments: 141
- time: 2026-09-24T17:21:36.000Z
- url: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - devdotfast/whiteboard: open-source canvas for thoughtful software design · GitHub
- page_description: open-source canvas for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833867

## Have an LLC
- id: 49870304
- by: mlex
- score: 70 points
- comments: 59
- time: 2026-09-27T20:04:37.000Z
- url: https://zachholman.com/posts/you-should-have-an-llc
- domain: zachholman.com
- page_title: You Should Have an LLC
- page_description: Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870304

## Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that
- id: 49817741
- by: CharlesW
- score: 161 points
- comments: 29
- time: 2026-09-23T15:37:47.000Z
- url: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-opera-doc-looks-like-that
- domain: animationobsessive.substack.com
- page_title: Why ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’ Looks Like That
- page_description: Plus: news.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817741

## Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
- id: 49831690
- by: theanonymousone
- score: 142 points
- comments: 231
- time: 2026-09-24T15:09:38.000Z
- url: https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/tutoring-company-tell-parents-to-save-their-money-and-use-ai-instead-20260923-p60z0r
- domain: afr.com
- page_title: Dymocks Tutoring and Talent 100 closes, tells clients to use ChatGPT, Gemini as tutors for school, study
- page_description: A Sydney tutoring company will shut its doors at the end of the week after telling customers artificial intelligence has rendered its service effectively obsolete.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831690

## An 8BitDo Switch controller adventure
- id: 49875621
- by: speckx
- score: 6 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T09:47:39.000Z
- url: https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/8bitdo-game-controller/
- domain: nyanpasu64.gitlab.io
- page_title: An 8BitDo Switch controller adventure | nyanpasu64's blog
- page_description: Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875621

## HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own
- id: 49859299
- by: famouswaffles
- score: 39 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-26T18:42:10.000Z
- url: https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
- domain: tml.stanford.edu
- page_title: HomeBody: A Humanoid That Explores, Remembers, and Acts on Its Own
- page_description: HomeBody gives frontier vision-language models a humanoid embodiment through persistent spatial memory and composable skills, without environment-specific training or additional policy learning.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859299

## Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
- id: 49835096
- by: KraftyOne
- score: 102 points
- comments: 28
- time: 2026-09-24T18:43:52.000Z
- url: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-select-distinct-does-not-scale
- domain: dbos.dev
- page_title: Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale | DBOS
- page_description: Postgres SELECT DISTINCT performs surprisingly poorly. We explain why and how we mitigated it.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835096

## Contrastive Language Models
- id: 49826221
- by: erichocean
- score: 175 points
- comments: 58
- time: 2026-09-24T04:20:59.000Z
- url: https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/
- domain: contrastive-lm.notion.site
- page_title: Notion
- page_description: A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826221

## Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]
- id: 49824642
- by: walrus01
- score: 37 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-09-24T00:34:11.000Z
- url: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1124870
- domain: osti.gov
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824642

## Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia
- id: 49849820
- by: msephton
- score: 63 points
- comments: 43
- time: 2026-09-25T20:53:54.000Z
- url: https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
- domain: blog.priyan.in
- page_title: Priyan 's Blog: Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia (Apple II, 1989) by Jordan Mechner
- page_description: I first played Prince of Persia  in 1995 on an IBM PC XT. I still go back to it from time to time: the rotoscoped animation, the way the p...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849820

## Show HN: Fusor – Like Vue, but the logic is Rust
- id: 49871569
- by: andreespirela
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-27T22:45:40.000Z
- url: https://fusor.build
- domain: fusor.build
- page_title: fusor — A framework for Rust and HTML
- page_description: Build reactive web apps with Rust. Write your UI in HTML files and keep state and frontend logic in Rust, with no markup inside Rust macros.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871569

## 'The PR guys hated the name': The 1k-year-old story behind Bluetooth
- id: 49882017
- by: devonnull
- score: 11 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T18:09:41.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260924-the-1000-year-old-story-behind-bluetooth
- domain: bbc.com
- page_title: &#x27;The PR guys hated the name&#x27;: The 1,000-year-old story behind Bluetooth
- page_description: A pair of ancient runestones in Jelling tell the story of the Viking king who shaped Denmark – and inspired the name Bluetooth.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882017

## Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
- id: 49817680
- by: an0malous
- score: 437 points
- comments: 498
- time: 2026-09-23T15:33:33.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817680

## Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
- id: 49841285
- by: hugh4life
- score: 282 points
- comments: 121
- time: 2026-09-25T07:27:45.000Z
- url: https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation
- domain: nyaa.sh
- page_title: Mac Mini M6: Retro PC Emulation with 86Box (600MHz PII?!)
- page_description: The best platform for cycle-accurate retro PC emulation may just be the Mac. The M6 achieved a stable 600MHz clock using a 6.0 derived 86Box build.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841285

## A new world airport and its baggage
- id: 49823490
- by: firloop
- score: 72 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-23T22:30:46.000Z
- url: https://computer.rip/2026-09-20-denver-baggage.html
- domain: computer.rip
- page_title: a new world airport and its baggage
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823490

## The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working
- id: 49880401
- by: robin_reala
- score: 16 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T16:18:10.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/the-large-robotic-arm-on-the-international-space-station-has-stopped-working/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880401

## Hospitals use AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers use AI to deny them.
- id: 49876581
- by: MrBuddyCasino
- score: 16 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T11:53:18.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2104266774766039301
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Hedgie on X: "🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements… / X
- page_description: 🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatmen…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876581

## Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
- id: 49826565
- by: snikolaev
- score: 265 points
- comments: 309
- time: 2026-09-24T05:21:10.000Z
- url: https://transluce.org/agent-activity
- domain: transluce.org
- page_title: Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net | Transluce AI
- page_description: We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826565

## Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
- id: 49852832
- by: handfuloflight
- score: 80 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-26T03:09:50.000Z
- url: https://github.com/rgodha24/walgithub
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852832

## Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about
- id: 49844497
- by: andrearitossa
- score: 86 points
- comments: 28
- time: 2026-09-25T13:37:54.000Z
- url: https://hackeratlas.com/
- domain: hackeratlas.com
- page_title: HN Atlas
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844497

## Helion Moves Goalpost on Fusion
- id: 49883338
- by: strongpigeon
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T19:44:21.000Z
- url: https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/09/28/helion-energy-orion-fusion-microsoft-commercial-power-altman
- domain: axios.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883338

## Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
- id: 49806430
- by: devonnull
- score: 969 points
- comments: 551
- time: 2026-09-22T19:03:38.000Z
- url: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
- domain: bloomberg.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430

## Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math
- id: 49816907
- by: gmays
- score: 84 points
- comments: 37
- time: 2026-09-23T14:40:34.000Z
- url: https://gmays.com/reflections-on-1000-days-of-math/
- domain: gmays.com
- page_title: Reflections on 1,000 days of math
- page_description: I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily! Early on in my journey I was a lot more aggressive with my XP targets, but settled into a low-volume rhythm as my…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49816907

## Why Do We Exist? With Hakeem Oluseyi [video]
- id: 49886466
- by: binyu
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-29T00:39:59.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5KmXSLFK7c
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886466

## A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
- id: 49820065
- by: tybulewicz
- score: 179 points
- comments: 120
- time: 2026-09-23T18:02:08.000Z
- url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/
- domain: devblogs.microsoft.com
- page_title: A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts - The Old New Thing
- page_description: Right-clicking and shift-clicking.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820065

## "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
- id: 49865343
- by: yu3zhou4
- score: 102 points
- comments: 101
- time: 2026-09-27T10:26:25.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25021
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2609.25021] &#34;As a Language Model...&#34;: Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.25021: &#34;As a Language Model...&#34;: Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865343

## Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
- id: 49835996
- by: arusekk
- score: 153 points
- comments: 29
- time: 2026-09-24T19:54:21.000Z
- url: https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
- domain: blog.arusekk.pl
- page_title: SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973 | Arusekk blog
- page_description: A wormable vulnerability allowed anyone able to inject text in a build log on builds.sr.ht (or other instances) to take over accounts who viewed them
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835996

## OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
- id: 49801324
- by: sohkamyung
- score: 735 points
- comments: 447
- time: 2026-09-22T13:52:15.000Z
- url: https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
- domain: cryptocellar.org
- page_title: The MVUEH Break
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801324

## Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact
- id: 49862892
- by: domenkozar
- score: 15 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-27T02:51:26.000Z
- url: https://casita.rs/blog/introducing-casita-a-content-addressed-store-for-source-code-and-build-artifacts/
- domain: casita.rs
- page_title: Introducing Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifacts | Casita
- page_description: Source code and build artifacts sharing verified storage, synchronization, and garbage collection.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862892

## Dutch designer made DE9: Closer to the Edit into a playable web-based instrument
- id: 49836979
- by: ChrisArchitect
- score: 25 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-24T21:30:18.000Z
- url: https://www.creativeboom.com/work/why-merijn-straathof-turned-a-landmark-techno-album-into-a-playable-web-based-instrument/
- domain: creativeboom.com
- page_title: Why designer Merijn Straathof turned a landmark techno album into a playable web-based instrument | Creative Boom
- page_description: The Dutch designer has rebuilt Richie Hawtin's landmark album DE9, 25 years on, in a way you can deconstruct and remix yourself, in the browser.
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- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836979

## The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
- id: 49836590
- by: neonate
- score: 121 points
- comments: 65
- time: 2026-09-24T20:53:39.000Z
- url: https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/
- domain: grantland.com
- page_title: &raquo; The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836590

## My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
- id: 49805344
- by: ahmedhossamdev
- score: 426 points
- comments: 180
- time: 2026-09-22T17:49:46.000Z
- url: https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
- domain: ahmedhossamdev.com
- page_title: My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps · Ahmed Hossam
- page_description: My weird hobby lately is just wandering around Street View and zooming in on random stuff. Today I found a 350Z that shows up parked in the same Tokyo spot in every capture since 2009.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805344

## F-Droid 2.0
- id: 49831968
- by: daveoc64
- score: 1459 points
- comments: 416
- time: 2026-09-24T15:26:12.000Z
- url: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
- domain: f-droid.org
- page_title: F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
- page_description: After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968

## Man Says Meta's Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
- id: 49884367
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 11 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T21:08:27.000Z
- url: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/metas-muse-ai-giving-users-home-addresses
- domain: futurism.com
- page_title: Man Says Meta&#039;s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
- page_description: A man complains Muse gave out his address and sent a stranger to his home after letting the AI handle his Facebook Marketplace account.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884367

## What About Rails?
- id: 49839664
- by: jrochkind1
- score: 331 points
- comments: 230
- time: 2026-09-25T02:50:16.000Z
- url: https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails
- domain: jardo.dev
- page_title: What About Rails? | Jared Norman
- page_description: DHH
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839664

## AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
- id: 49798204
- by: BruceEel
- score: 290 points
- comments: 221
- time: 2026-09-22T08:39:43.000Z
- url: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=24261
- domain: board.flatassembler.net
- page_title: flat assembler - AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0 (+ app)
- page_description: AMD
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798204

## One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
- id: 49852065
- by: HotGarbage
- score: 255 points
- comments: 139
- time: 2026-09-26T00:59:02.000Z
- url: https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-florida-lawsuit-vehicular-homicide
- domain: jezebel.com
- page_title: One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
- page_description: Police didn&#039;t care that Linsey Isaacs&#039; car was the wrong color, and wasn&#039;t damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852065

## Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop
- id: 49832231
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 37 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-24T15:40:03.000Z
- url: https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/chinese-calligraphy-workshop/
- domain: viewsproject.wordpress.com
- page_title: Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop &#8211; The VIEWS project
- page_description: Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to experience, which I am finding ever more important in my own research as I know are several colleagues in our network. I&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832231

## Fearless SIMD v1.0
- id: 49800085
- by: verdagon
- score: 316 points
- comments: 52
- time: 2026-09-22T12:23:37.000Z
- url: https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
- domain: linebender.org
- page_title: Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here - Linebender
- page_description: Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800085

## Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]
- id: 49831098
- by: int0x29
- score: 72 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-09-24T14:26:32.000Z
- url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf
- domain: eprint.iacr.org
- page_title: Your IP address has been blocked
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831098

## 2DWillNeverDie
- id: 49801436
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 333 points
- comments: 96
- time: 2026-09-22T14:00:08.000Z
- url: https://2dwillneverdie.com/
- domain: 2dwillneverdie.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801436

## Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
- id: 49836374
- by: iacguy
- score: 423 points
- comments: 221
- time: 2026-09-24T20:28:47.000Z
- url: https://launchvideo.io
- domain: launchvideo.io
- page_title: LaunchVideo
- page_description: Paste a URL or a prompt. Get a launch video, written and rendered by Opus 5.5 on an OpenComputer serverless agent. No video model.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836374

## Geothermal heat map of US hot springs
- id: 49821835
- by: armenarmen
- score: 113 points
- comments: 40
- time: 2026-09-23T20:12:10.000Z
- url: https://www.soakingsprings.com/hot-springs/geothermal-map
- domain: soakingsprings.com
- page_title: Geothermal Heat Map of US Hot Springs
- page_description: Every US hot spring plotted over a map of geothermal heat flow, with the springs on the hottest ground, the hottest water, and how each state compares.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821835

## Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
- id: 49825642
- by: signa11
- score: 403 points
- comments: 534
- time: 2026-09-24T02:52:09.000Z
- url: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/
- domain: lwn.net
- page_title: Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop [LWN.net]
- page_description: Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years  [...]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825642

## Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
- id: 49884169
- by: davidja
- score: 114 points
- comments: 85
- time: 2026-09-28T20:51:47.000Z
- url: https://www.arctictoday.com/palantir-founder-purchases-large-swath-of-forest-in-sweden/
- domain: arctictoday.com
- page_title: Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden - ArcticToday
- page_description: The land covers an area almost the size of Liechtenstein.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884169

## Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
- id: 49857572
- by: ilamont
- score: 148 points
- comments: 193
- time: 2026-09-26T15:40:27.000Z
- url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/
- domain: techcrunch.com
- page_title: Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave | TechCrunch
- page_description: After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857572

## Strands Harness
- id: 49817289
- by: zuckerborg0101
- score: 148 points
- comments: 96
- time: 2026-09-23T15:05:46.000Z
- url: https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-harness/
- domain: strandsagents.com
- page_title: Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost | Strands Agents
- page_description: Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817289

## OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites
- id: 49872468
- by: daniel_iversen
- score: 31 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T01:20:50.000Z
- url: https://apnews.com/article/ai-openai-anthropic-agents-rogue-hack-2f8a2b9024d4f06793bcca12f8089d20
- domain: apnews.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872468

## California is chasing wealth that has feet
- id: 49836419
- by: idbnstra
- score: 291 points
- comments: 859
- time: 2026-09-24T20:34:32.000Z
- url: https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that
- domain: blog.landeconomics.org
- page_title: California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet - by Greg Miller
- page_description: California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It&#x27;s chasing billionaires instead.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836419

## The mystery animal on an ancient god's head
- id: 49799855
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 154 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-09-22T12:00:11.000Z
- url: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/
- domain: signoregalilei.com
- page_title: The mystery animal on an ancient god’s head &#8211; Signore Galilei
- page_description: Several Egyptian gods are depicted with animal heads. Horus has a falcon head, Anubis has a jackal head, Thoth has an ibis head (except when he’s a baboon), and Set has…uhh, what is that, exactly? Left to right: Horus, Anubis, Thoth, and Set Turns out no one knows for sure. The Greeks called it the&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799855

## Unreal Agent
- id: 49805748
- by: trollied
- score: 247 points
- comments: 125
- time: 2026-09-22T18:15:53.000Z
- url: https://unreallabs.ai/blog/unreal-agent/
- domain: unreallabs.ai
- page_title: Unreal Agent — Unreal Labs
- page_description: We’re sharing Unreal Agent — an agent harness that delivers up to 40% cost savings compared to Codex on production workloads and coding/science benchmarks, without any negative performance impact.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805748

## OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Agents Target Government
- id: 49877374
- by: chunky1994
- score: 15 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-28T13:09:38.000Z
- url: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-pauses-training-most-powerful-models-after-rogue-agents-target-government/
- domain: wired.com
- page_title: OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government | WIRED
- page_description: Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877374

## Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
- id: 49817524
- by: lostmsu
- score: 154 points
- comments: 58
- time: 2026-09-23T15:23:05.000Z
- url: https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol
- domain: radicle.dev
- page_title: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
- page_description: The Radicle forge is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817524

## How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
- id: 49849141
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 263 points
- comments: 139
- time: 2026-09-25T19:56:57.000Z
- url: https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/
- domain: fnl.mit.edu
- page_title: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance &#8211; MIT Faculty Newsletter
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849141

## OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription
- id: 49889306
- by: tosh
- score: 58 points
- comments: 68
- time: 2026-09-29T07:07:53.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Tibo on X: "Hi,

Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan. 

Now that it&#x27;s s… / X
- page_description: Hi,

Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan. 

Now that it&#x27;s said, let me …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889306

## From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System
- id: 49830265
- by: Levitating
- score: 37 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-09-24T13:25:11.000Z
- url: https://amutable.com/blog/tine-build-system
- domain: amutable.com
- page_title: From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The tine Build System - Amutable
- page_description: reproducible builds of rpm, Go and Rust components and bootable images, from minimal host requirements.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830265

## Meta VR Glasses
- id: 49824268
- by: polymorph1sm
- score: 495 points
- comments: 478
- time: 2026-09-23T23:47:56.000Z
- url: https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/
- domain: meta.com
- page_title: Meta VR glasses, AR glasses and headsets | Meta (en-GB)
- page_description: Introducing Meta VR glasses and headsets. AR glasses to stream films, shows and live sports, or work on an infinite screen. Shop today!
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268

## First Principles Thinking
- id: 49844736
- by: sunils34
- score: 285 points
- comments: 132
- time: 2026-09-25T13:55:37.000Z
- url: https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
- domain: sunilsadasivan.com
- page_title: First Principles Thinking · Sunil Sadasivan
- page_description: On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844736

## Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
- id: 49817615
- by: swolpers
- score: 330 points
- comments: 152
- time: 2026-09-23T15:29:23.000Z
- url: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/
- domain: blog.google
- page_title: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS
- page_description: Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817615

## Factorio that you can touch
- id: 49845133
- by: ibobev
- score: 357 points
- comments: 125
- time: 2026-09-25T14:24:42.000Z
- url: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-447
- domain: factorio.com
- page_title: Friday Facts #447 - Factorio that you can touch | Factorio
- page_description: Hello,   we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845133

## OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
- id: 49802161
- by: JohnBerryman
- score: 327 points
- comments: 229
- time: 2026-09-22T14:42:59.000Z
- url: https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/
- domain: arcturus-labs.com
- page_title: Will OpenAI Eat Jev's Lunch? - Arcturus Labs
- page_description: TypeSafe
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802161

## Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote – Aaron Patterson [video]
- id: 49876158
- by: sinnsro
- score: 14 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-28T11:03:46.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0knYnEYBRo
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876158

## RAM: the forgotten history (2024)
- id: 49802661
- by: Luc
- score: 121 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-09-22T15:12:17.000Z
- url: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/memory-the-forgotten-history
- domain: blog.coredump.cx
- page_title: RAM: the forgotten history - lcamtuf’s thing
- page_description: We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802661

## Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging
- id: 49885436
- by: whiteblossom
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T22:36:55.000Z
- url: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/28/synthetic-aperture-radar-drone-gets-interferometric-imaging/
- domain: hackaday.com
- page_title: Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging | Hackaday
- page_description: It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and he’s certainly been productive in the meantime. Not only did he …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885436

## Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
- id: 49841563
- by: fjfaase
- score: 1007 points
- comments: 579
- time: 2026-09-25T08:06:49.000Z
- url: https://www.dawo.community/en/
- domain: dawo.community
- page_title: DAWO.community
- page_description: DAWO.community, working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841563

## Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers
- id: 49871852
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 34 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-09-27T23:27:10.000Z
- url: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/hitachi-to-double-us-production-of-small-and-medium-sized-power-transformer/830762/
- domain: utilitydive.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871852

## Ink and Switch interactive homepage
- id: 49842270
- by: iFreilicht
- score: 262 points
- comments: 28
- time: 2026-09-25T09:50:25.000Z
- url: https://www.inkandswitch.com/
- domain: inkandswitch.com
- page_title: Ink & Switch
- page_description: An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842270

## I built a native Apple app for 4 platforms in one afternoon with my AI workflow
- id: 49880706
- by: schutzsmith
- score: 10 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T16:37:11.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/danielhayesmith/status/2103976394338271515
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: Daniel Hayes Smith on X: "Most “AI built this” posts skip the useful details: which model, which permission mode, and what makes the agent stop and ask.

I wrote down all three—plus why I built ClearTime now, the design handoff, TestFlight workflow, showreel, and receipts. ⏱️ https://t.co/uasFn1efq… / X
- page_description: I built a native Apple app for 4 platforms in one afternoon. Here’s the exact AI workflow I used.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880706

## Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?
- id: 49872474
- by: ryanscio
- score: 75 points
- comments: 60
- time: 2026-09-28T01:22:28.000Z
- url: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341
- domain: historyofinformation.com
- page_title: History of Information
- page_description: An interactive, illustrated timeline of historic moments
                  in humankind
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872474

## I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
- id: 49857899
- by: minimaxir
- score: 602 points
- comments: 241
- time: 2026-09-26T16:12:18.000Z
- url: https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip
- domain: themomoftheyear.substack.com
- page_title: I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
- page_description: You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857899

## ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
- id: 49823664
- by: JohnHammersley
- score: 310 points
- comments: 40
- time: 2026-09-23T22:45:49.000Z
- url: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
- domain: blog.arxiv.org
- page_title: arXiv receives 17.2 million multiyear investment
- page_description: arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823664

## Writing Parquet files using Haskell
- id: 49802510
- by: cosmic_quanta
- score: 88 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-09-22T15:02:39.000Z
- url: https://www.datahaskell.org/blog/2026/09/18/writing-parquet-files-using-haskell.html
- domain: datahaskell.org
- page_title: Writing Parquet Files Using Haskell
- page_description: We implemented a parquet writer in DataHaskell/Dataframe. Using it is simple; you need only pass your dataframe into the writeParquet function which writes a...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802510

## App Store review allowed a Meta Muse copycat
- id: 49885205
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 7 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T22:13:58.000Z
- url: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/8.html
- domain: lapcatsoftware.com
- page_title: App Store review allowed a Meta Muse copycat
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885205

## Pilots and Flight Attendants Have the Highest Radiation-Related Cancer Mortality
- id: 49848778
- by: pseudolus
- score: 29 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-25T19:22:09.000Z
- url: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2854678
- domain: jamanetwork.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848778

## Amiga Screens: A Primer
- id: 49841309
- by: msephton
- score: 140 points
- comments: 63
- time: 2026-09-25T07:31:12.000Z
- url: https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/
- domain: datagubbe.se
- page_title: Amiga Screens: A Primer | datagubbe.se
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841309

## I don't want the details
- id: 49815466
- by: mooreds
- score: 460 points
- comments: 226
- time: 2026-09-23T13:04:44.000Z
- url: https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/
- domain: michaelheap.com
- page_title: I don't want the details | michaelheap.com
- page_description: Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815466

## OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns
- id: 49885133
- by: borski
- score: 26 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-28T22:07:59.000Z
- url: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-cancel-safety-5a2f9f42
- domain: wsj.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885133

## Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap
- id: 49847247
- by: hn_acker
- score: 49 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-25T17:12:04.000Z
- url: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/snap-wants-to-be-a-state-actor-kansas-v-snap.htm
- domain: blog.ericgoldman.org
- page_title: Snap Wants to be a State Actor??-Kansas v. Snap - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
- page_description: For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors. If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions&#8211;meaning the Constitutionally required freedoms of speech and press would extend to their user-authors...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847247

## Jev in 25 Lines of Python
- id: 49812769
- by: bashbjorn
- score: 690 points
- comments: 212
- time: 2026-09-23T07:26:23.000Z
- url: https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/jev-in-25-lines/
- domain: nobodywho.ai
- page_title: Jev in 25 lines of Python - NobodyWho
- page_description: Everyone is talking about Jev - here it is in 25 lines of Python.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812769

## Show HN: A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books
- id: 49869904
- by: miletus
- score: 10 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T19:16:17.000Z
- url: https://rare-books.vercel.app
- domain: rare-books.vercel.app
- page_title: Samizdat · Rare reads for builders
- page_description: Rare docs and books you
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869904

## Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
- id: 49801939
- by: MC995
- score: 815 points
- comments: 598
- time: 2026-09-22T14:30:12.000Z
- url: https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-persistent-ads-to-ios-and-its-driving-users-crazy
- domain: techradar.com
- page_title: &lsquo;I wish Apple would just stop that crap': Apple has added persistent &lsquo;ads&rsquo; to iOS, and it&rsquo;s driving users crazy | TechRadar
- page_description: Way to cheapen the experience, Apple
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801939

## Totlajtol, a digital repository of colonial documents in Nahuatl, is presented
- id: 49869873
- by: bryanrasmussen
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T19:13:40.000Z
- url: https://www.udg.mx/en/index.php/noticia/presentan-totlajtol-repositorio-digital-de-documentos-coloniales-en-nahuatl
- domain: udg.mx
- page_title: Totlajtol, a digital repository of colonial documents in Nahuatl, is presented | Universidad de Guadalajara
- page_description: It contains around 70 colonial documents originating from the present-day states of Nayarit, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán, during the period from 1557 to 1782.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869873

## Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
- id: 49814947
- by: pszypowicz
- score: 485 points
- comments: 284
- time: 2026-09-23T12:15:33.000Z
- url: https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/
- domain: blog.szypowi.cz
- page_title: Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on · blog.szypowi.cz
- page_description: Claude Code 2.1.277 added AGENTS.md support, but the loader sits behind a remote feature flag. With telemetry or nonessential traffic turned off, a local AGENTS.md is skipped without a warning. This is what I measured and the one-line CLAUDE.md I use instead.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947

## VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
- id: 49822555
- by: Rapzid
- score: 310 points
- comments: 217
- time: 2026-09-23T21:01:48.000Z
- url: https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
- domain: fly.io
- page_title: VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas · The Fly Blog
- page_description: Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555

## Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built
- id: 49872365
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 27 points
- comments: 38
- time: 2026-09-28T01:00:45.000Z
- url: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/every-household-in-this-rural-town-receives-10-000-if-a-data-center-gets-built-86554cb7
- domain: wsj.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872365

## I Found a $113,337 Af_alg Linux Local Privilege Escalation Before Copy Fail
- id: 49864112
- by: thebitofmyheart
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T07:02:51.000Z
- url: https://idnsec.com/research/linux-local-privilege-escalation-with-af-alg/
- domain: idnsec.com
- page_title: How I Found a $113,337 AF_ALG Linux Local Privilege Escalation Before Copy Fail
- page_description: A retrospective on CVE-2025-39964, an AF_ALG race condition I found in 2025 before Copy Fail drew attention to the same subsystem. I explain the out-of-bounds scatterlist access, the usercopy oracle, and the exploit that achieved root and a Docker container escape.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864112

## Nokia Design Archive (2025)
- id: 49828385
- by: pillars
- score: 250 points
- comments: 132
- time: 2026-09-24T09:49:33.000Z
- url: https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c
- domain: repo.aalto.fi
- page_title: Nokia Design Archive | Aalto repository
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828385

## Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
- id: 49883797
- by: ibobev
- score: 11 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T20:20:08.000Z
- url: https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service-part2-bypassing-the-app-store-gatekeeper/
- domain: fabricati-diem.inform.social
- page_title: Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper &middot; Fabricati Diem
- page_description: How LG WebOS holds third-party applications hostage behind mandatory telemetry endpoints—and how network isolation exposes forced consent under GDPR Article 7(4).
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883797

## Hype Is a Business Tool
- id: 49850629
- by: andsoitis
- score: 30 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-25T22:12:50.000Z
- url: https://jenson.org/hype/
- domain: jenson.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850629

## Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
- id: 49807003
- by: Flimm
- score: 232 points
- comments: 139
- time: 2026-09-22T19:40:28.000Z
- url: https://obscura.com/#faq-technical
- domain: obscura.com
- page_title: Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise
- page_description: Privacy first VPN. Two-party relay and no logs. No email needed. Block ads, trackers, malware. Available on iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807003

## Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows
- id: 49821438
- by: miguelrios
- score: 51 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-09-23T19:42:58.000Z
- url: https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821438

## Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
- id: 49830606
- by: xnx
- score: 232 points
- comments: 536
- time: 2026-09-24T13:53:29.000Z
- url: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/
- domain: blog.google
- page_title: Learn about Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
- page_description: Learn about Google&#x27;s Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830606

## Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
- id: 49829960
- by: nonfamous
- score: 322 points
- comments: 329
- time: 2026-09-24T12:58:08.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829960

## Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page
- id: 49827375
- by: emurlin
- score: 90 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-09-24T07:22:17.000Z
- url: https://cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com/
- domain: cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com
- page_title: HTML CMS Tool
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827375

## You are a 1000x maker, and you can't think of how to make your stack 10x better?
- id: 49872924
- by: thunderbong
- score: 22 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-28T02:36:47.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/2103751481757216781
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: José Valim on X: "You are right but it also feels short-sighted? You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can&#x27;t think of how to make your stack 10x better?

Yes, Rust is fast, the type system catches bugs, but there is so much beyond it.

* Why not make R… / X
- page_description: You are right but it also feels short-sighted? You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can&#x27;t think of how to make your stack 10x better?

Yes, Rust is fast, the type system catches bugs, but there is so much beyond it.

* Why not make Ruby 10x faster?
* …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872924

## FAA to Delay 737 MAX 10 Approval over New Software Glitch
- id: 49884214
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 6 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T20:56:05.000Z
- url: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/faa-to-delay-737-max-10-approval-over-new-software-glitch-9e52602d
- domain: wsj.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884214

## America's Shifting Blue-Collar Landscape
- id: 49881298
- by: paulpauper
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T17:19:04.000Z
- url: https://www.city-journal.org/article/alaska-blue-collar-jobs-work-manufacturing
- domain: city-journal.org
- page_title: America&rsquo;s Shifting Blue-Collar Landscape
- page_description: Even as manufacturing jobs decline, Alaska offers lucrative work for men without college degrees.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881298

## Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2B years
- id: 49872811
- by: morder
- score: 26 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-28T02:18:21.000Z
- url: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/minecraft-beat-minecraft-after-2-billion-years/
- domain: pcgamer.com
- page_title: Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2 billion years | PC Gamer
- page_description: Now you have no excuse.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872811

## AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI
- id: 49884114
- by: Anon84
- score: 5 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T20:47:09.000Z
- url: https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-acquire-world-labs/
- domain: newsroom.amd.com
- page_title: AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI - AMD Newsroom
- page_description: Acquisition brings leading AI model research expertise to AMD, helping to shape future AI infrastructure and strengthen the open AI ecosystem.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884114

## Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS
- id: 49820136
- by: speckx
- score: 78 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-09-23T18:07:04.000Z
- url: https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/swap-zram-zswap-and-hibernate-on-nixos/
- domain: blog.matthewbrunelle.com
- page_title: Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS
- page_description: If you want to use hibernate you need swap space and that complicates your choice around ZRAM and ZSWAP. I made several wrong choices before I found the correct one.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820136

## Tokens too cheap to meter
- id: 49813482
- by: teoruiz
- score: 353 points
- comments: 227
- time: 2026-09-23T09:21:17.000Z
- url: https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
- domain: jyn.dev
- page_title: tokens too cheap to meter
- page_description: tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813482

## AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B
- id: 49884052
- by: leopoldj
- score: 7 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T20:40:54.000Z
- url: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute
- domain: ir.amd.com
- page_title: AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute :: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
- page_description: Acquisition brings leading AI model research expertise to AMD, helping to shape future AI infrastructure and strengthen the open AI ecosystem

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- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884052

## Tells of a Slop UI
- id: 49867038
- by: theanonymousone
- score: 370 points
- comments: 234
- time: 2026-09-27T14:41:26.000Z
- url: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop
- domain: hereticpleb.vercel.app
- page_title: 10 tells of a slop ui
- page_description: AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867038

## Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963
- id: 49809935
- by: abrax3141
- score: 52 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-09-23T00:06:25.000Z
- url: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-1620
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809935

## I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP
- id: 49865106
- by: theblazehen
- score: 68 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-09-27T09:49:54.000Z
- url: https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel
- domain: propublica.org
- page_title: I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP. &#8212; ProPublica
- page_description: Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and product design pushing me to keep going.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865106

## Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]
- id: 49848295
- by: behoove
- score: 147 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-09-25T18:37:05.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjntrqhn8pk
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848295

## Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview
- id: 49862244
- by: fagnerbrack
- score: 65 points
- comments: 50
- time: 2026-09-27T01:01:18.000Z
- url: https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move
- domain: mgrebler.substack.com
- page_title: Real-Time Feedback: My Closing Move in Every Interview
- page_description: As a candidate, I’ve had some interesting (and some stupid) questions come my way.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862244

## AMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2B
- id: 49883696
- by: cramer4next
- score: 8 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T20:12:57.000Z
- url: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/amd-fei-fei-li-world-labs.html
- domain: cnbc.com
- page_title: AMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li&#x27;s World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2B
- page_description: AMD previously invested in World Labs before the acquisition, which is the chipmaker&#x27;s second biggest on record.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883696

## Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon
- id: 49849907
- by: stmonty
- score: 24 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-09-25T21:02:48.000Z
- url: https://nostalgia.dev/posts/teaching-a-world-model-to-play-pokemon/
- domain: nostalgia.dev
- page_title: Teaching a World Model to Play Pokémon | (stmonty)
- page_description: I trained a small JEPA-style world model on Pokémon Red.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849907

## Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
- id: 49823108
- by: Hooke
- score: 74 points
- comments: 166
- time: 2026-09-23T21:54:07.000Z
- url: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/09/wheres-the-beef-lab-grown-meat-erin-somers/
- domain: harpers.org
- page_title: Where&#039;s the Beef?, by Erin Somers
- page_description: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn&rsquo;t
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823108

## The Netherlands is rolling its own NixOS-based software stack after U.S.
- id: 49883632
- by: sbulaev
- score: 6 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-28T20:07:08.000Z
- url: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027
- domain: tomshardware.com
- page_title: US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem &mdash; trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027 | Tom's Hardware
- page_description: The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883632

## When the Debugger Lies
- id: 49799306
- by: hasheddan
- score: 73 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-09-22T11:02:43.000Z
- url: https://danielmangum.com/posts/when-the-debugger-lies/
- domain: danielmangum.com
- page_title: When the Debugger Lies · Daniel Mangum
- page_description: I&rsquo;ve spent the last few weeks working with the security architecture of the nRF54L series from Nordic Semiconductor (in case you missed it, I recently joined Nordic!). While doing so, I have engaged my typical low-level learning technique of eschewing writing firmware for manually poking at registers using the debugger. A few nights ago I found myself observing unexpected values in memory when working with the key management unit. It turned out to be a familiar issue, but one that requires an understanding of the internal system on chip (SoC) components, and how the debugger interacts with them, to diagnose.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799306

## The Year of Internal Tools
- id: 49827383
- by: thecodemonkey
- score: 68 points
- comments: 33
- time: 2026-09-24T07:23:07.000Z
- url: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-09-23-the-year-of-internal-tools
- domain: geocod.io
- page_title: The year of internal tools | Geocodio
- page_description: How Geocodio went from bash scripts to full internal apps, the system that keeps them maintainable, and where we draw the line between building and buying.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827383

## AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
- id: 49875148
- by: ljewalsh
- score: 428 points
- comments: 385
- time: 2026-09-28T08:35:40.000Z
- url: https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/
- domain: thecivilian.co.nz
- page_title: AI companies in fierce arms race to demonstrate their model is the most existentially threatening to humanity
- page_description: In the midst of growing fears that artificial intelligence is advancing at such a rate that it may compel itself to end all life on earth, AI giants from OpenAI to Anthropic are switching up their sales pitches. Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875148

## Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
- id: 49837006
- by: hxii
- score: 226 points
- comments: 65
- time: 2026-09-24T21:33:03.000Z
- url: https://koi.rest
- domain: koi.rest
- page_title: koi.rest
- page_description: A koi pond to stare at. A place to do nothing.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837006

## Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
- id: 49820267
- by: nponte
- score: 74 points
- comments: 156
- time: 2026-09-23T18:16:41.000Z
- url: https://normanponte.io/19df691f
- domain: normanponte.io
- page_title: Norman Ponte
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820267

## As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
- id: 49872522
- by: mooreds
- score: 145 points
- comments: 156
- time: 2026-09-28T01:30:17.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/dealbook/ai-law-discount-billable-hour.html
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872522

## Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter
- id: 49804359
- by: 91awebsi
- score: 73 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-09-22T16:53:25.000Z
- url: https://github.com/dsummersl/treepeat
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804359

## 16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)
- id: 49803635
- by: rbanffy
- score: 134 points
- comments: 22
- time: 2026-09-22T16:11:34.000Z
- url: https://allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-8088-chip
- domain: allpoetry.com
- page_title: 16-bit Intel 8088 chip by Charles Bukowski
- page_description: Read the full text of Charles Bukowski's "16-bit Intel 8088 chip." Explore its meaning, poetic devices, and over 13 reader interpretations and comments by fellow poets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803635

## The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
- id: 49823113
- by: prismatic
- score: 38 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-09-23T21:54:35.000Z
- url: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/bayeux-tapestry-woven-victors
- domain: historytoday.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823113

## GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
- id: 49817404
- by: plurby
- score: 316 points
- comments: 249
- time: 2026-09-23T15:14:22.000Z
- url: https://drivingbench.com/
- domain: drivingbench.com
- page_title: DrivingBench
- page_description: A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817404

## Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
- id: 49848095
- by: Aeroi
- score: 143 points
- comments: 50
- time: 2026-09-25T18:18:06.000Z
- url: https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-special/
- domain: mouse.dev
- page_title: Is Meta’s Muse secretly running an OpenAI model? | Mouse
- page_description: While Muse was building my website, one subagent ran on a model called azure/muse-special. So I dug through the filesystem again.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848095

## Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
- id: 49801329
- by: mixedbit
- score: 193 points
- comments: 63
- time: 2026-09-22T13:52:47.000Z
- url: https://droprun.sh/
- domain: droprun.sh
- page_title: Drop sandbox for Linux
- page_description: Drop: a rootless Linux sandbox for developers. It isolates coding agents and third-party packages while preserving your work environment.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801329

## Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
- id: 49837473
- by: burntcaramel
- score: 125 points
- comments: 142
- time: 2026-09-24T22:15:58.000Z
- url: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/24/back-and-shoulder-surgery-is-often-worse-than-useless
- domain: economist.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837473

## Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
- id: 49872497
- by: Teever
- score: 93 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-09-28T01:27:21.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/breast-cancer-us-pesticide-products
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer | US news | The Guardian
- page_description: Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872497

## Making Tailscale Faster
- id: 49819880
- by: yarapavan
- score: 247 points
- comments: 110
- time: 2026-09-23T17:49:07.000Z
- url: https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
- domain: tailscale.com
- page_title: We&#x27;re making Tailscale faster
- page_description: Tailscale performance updates reduce memory use, increase throughput, and speed startup with multi-queue, writev, and netmap caching.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819880

## Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
- id: 49819221
- by: geox
- score: 906 points
- comments: 815
- time: 2026-09-23T17:06:16.000Z
- url: https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
- domain: apnews.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221

## Klassik Revives the KDE 3 Desktop on Modern Plasma 6
- id: 49872334
- by: turrini
- score: 13 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-28T00:54:42.000Z
- url: https://linuxiac.com/klassik-revives-the-kde-3-desktop-on-modern-plasma-6/
- domain: linuxiac.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872334

## Show HN: Jevdit – a social network moderated by Jev
- id: 49870654
- by: TN1ck
- score: 11 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-27T20:46:03.000Z
- url: https://jevdit.com
- domain: jevdit.com
- page_title: Popular · jevdit
- page_description: Your favorite corners of the internet. Posts, links, and conversations moderated by Jev.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870654

## LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages
- id: 49820496
- by: victormustar
- score: 91 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-09-23T18:36:29.000Z
- url: https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
- domain: huggingface.co
- page_title: apple/LensVLM-9B · Hugging Face
- page_description: We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820496

## Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics
- id: 49882754
- by: viraj_shah
- score: 10 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T18:57:16.000Z
- url: https://ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/burning-man-death-rates-a-short-lesson
- domain: ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com
- page_title: Burning Man Death Rates - A Short Lesson in Statistics
- page_description: What statistics can teach us about observing 3 deaths at Burning Man in 2026.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882754

## Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
- id: 49816374
- by: ortusdux
- score: 394 points
- comments: 227
- time: 2026-09-23T14:04:34.000Z
- url: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/seattle-city-council-votes-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-in-sale-of-groceries/
- domain: advocacy.consumerreports.org
- page_title: Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
- page_description: If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49816374

## The Making of Prince of Persia: Notes on a four-year project
- id: 49882645
- by: domelian
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T18:49:56.000Z
- url: https://domelian.substack.com/p/read-this-before-your-next-long-project
- domain: domelian.substack.com
- page_title: Read this before your next long project - by Dima Omelian
- page_description: Notes from reading Jordan Mechner&#x27;s Making of Prince of Persia.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882645

## The far side of the Moon provides clues to a previous magnetic field
- id: 49854216
- by: croes
- score: 24 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-26T07:49:50.000Z
- url: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/09/the-far-side-of-the-moon-provides-clues-to-a-previous-magnetic-field.html
- domain: ethz.ch
- page_title: The far side of the Moon provides clues to a previous magnetic field | ETH Zurich
- page_description: The question to whether the Moon ever possessed an internal magnetic field is a matter of debate. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have opted for a new method to show that a mechanism once existed on the Moon that is still active on Earth today.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854216

## Jev Can't Be Calibrated
- id: 49816899
- by: alexmolas
- score: 65 points
- comments: 61
- time: 2026-09-23T14:39:57.000Z
- url: https://www.alexmolas.com/2026/09/23/jev-cant-be-calibrated.html
- domain: alexmolas.com
- page_title: Jev can't be calibrated
- page_description: Jev is a useful zero-shot classifier, but its probabilities can
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49816899

## Show HN: Spivak's Calculus formalized in Lean 4 – every theorem, every problem
- id: 49858409
- by: jsLavaGoat
- score: 21 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-26T17:00:23.000Z
- url: https://github.com/stormj-UH/spivak-lean
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858409

## The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
- id: 49854945
- by: bj-rn
- score: 120 points
- comments: 112
- time: 2026-09-26T09:55:38.000Z
- url: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding
- domain: windowscentral.com
- page_title: The Copilot+ PC brand is dead: Microsoft and PC makers quietly pull back on tarnished Windows 11 AI PC branding | Windows Central
- page_description: In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854945

## Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page
- id: 49824144
- by: SouthWestAtlas
- score: 68 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-23T23:33:39.000Z
- url: https://3d-retro.com/
- domain: 3d-retro.com
- page_title: 3d retro graphics
- page_description: Free CC0 library of 3d retro graphics you can paste into a site. Plasma, starfield, raytracer, globe, fluid, and more.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824144

## Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)
- id: 49811429
- by: segfaultbuserr
- score: 102 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-09-23T03:49:28.000Z
- url: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/data-only-attacks-are-easier-you-think
- domain: usenix.org
- page_title: Data-Only Attacks Are Easier than You Think | USENIX
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811429

## We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
- id: 49823195
- by: thisisfatih
- score: 148 points
- comments: 40
- time: 2026-09-23T22:03:21.000Z
- url: https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/
- domain: blog.cloudflare.com
- page_title: We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary | Cloudflare Blog
- page_description: Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is too unpredictable.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823195

## 'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
- id: 49870039
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 7 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T19:33:49.000Z
- url: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/25/midterms-partisan-ai-chatbots-01092138
- domain: politico.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870039

## 6,800-year-old Serbian settlement was large, with little social inequality
- id: 49858098
- by: msolujic
- score: 13 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-26T16:30:28.000Z
- url: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/6800-year-old-serbian-settlement-was-larger/
- domain: archaeologymag.com
- page_title: 6,800-year-old Serbian settlement was larger than thought, with notably little social inequality | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- page_description: New research shows Opovo in Serbia covered 9.4 hectares and housed up to 711 people during the Late Neolithic.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858098

## Linux Unreal Tournament 2003 Master Server patch + Ultrawide and No Sound Fix
- id: 49863163
- by: rokyed
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T03:44:08.000Z
- url: https://github.com/rokyed/ut2003-ultrawide-screen-patch
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - rokyed/ut2003-ultrawide-screen-patch · GitHub
- page_description: Contribute to rokyed/ut2003-ultrawide-screen-patch development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863163

## Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
- id: 49823738
- by: MitPitt
- score: 857 points
- comments: 123
- time: 2026-09-23T22:53:28.000Z
- url: https://bastardica.mitpit.com
- domain: bastardica.mitpit.com
- page_title: Bastardica
- page_description: A type foundry for bastard web fonts.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823738

## Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS
- id: 49807021
- by: arbayi
- score: 131 points
- comments: 54
- time: 2026-09-22T19:42:20.000Z
- url: https://github.com/geastack/examples
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807021

## Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
- id: 49869441
- by: ibobev
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T18:30:29.000Z
- url: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
- domain: bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com
- page_title: Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum&#8217;s 1-Bit Beeper | Bumbershoot Software
- page_description: It&#039;s finally time for me to wrap up this ZX Spectrum series, with a look at how to get the simple 1-bit beeper on every Spectrum model to emit high-quality digital audio. The results are quite good: it&#039;s the last sound played on last week&#039;s demo reel, and the difference between it and the simple&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869441

## Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors
- id: 49836302
- by: PaulHoule
- score: 10 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-09-24T20:21:58.000Z
- url: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03469-z
- domain: nature.com
- page_title: Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors | Nature Physics
- page_description: Accessing the intrinsic critical current density in type-II superconductors can provide a means to probe microscopic superconducting properties and increase current limits in high-magnetic-field devices and electrical power systems. However, the critical current density measured using direct currents generally lies below this intrinsic limit, mainly because of vortex motion and self-heating. Here we show that picosecond electrical pulses, which act on timescales too short for vortices to move, drive supercurrents up to the intrinsic depairing limit. We probe picosecond critical currents in NbN and YBa2Cu3O7, representative s-wave and d-wave superconductors, respectively. In NbN, we find a sharp onset of the picosecond depairing at a current density of about 2.2 times the conventional critical current density, consistent with microscopic dynamics based on Bardeen&#8211;Cooper&#8211;Schrieffer theory. By contrast, YBa2Cu3O7 exhibits a gradual suppression of superconductivity with increasing current, reflecting its d-wave symmetry. These results provide a probe of superconductors beyond the reach of conventional transport measurements. Attaining the depairing current could also support superconducting electronics operating closer to intrinsic current limits. Vortex motion and heating prevent direct-current measurements from reaching the intrinsic depairing limit of type-II superconductors. Picosecond pulses bypass these effects and reveal a sharp threshold in NbN but gradual pair breaking in YBa2Cu3O7.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836302

## Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?
- id: 49885109
- by: Greenpants
- score: 35 points
- comments: 87
- time: 2026-09-28T22:05:46.000Z
- url: https://blog.greenpants.net/ai-accountability/
- domain: blog.greenpants.net
- page_title: Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? · Greenpants Blog
- page_description: It looks like public perception of how &#x27;intelligent&#x27; current AI models are varies widely. Back in 2022, a Google employee already thought their AI model was sentient. Today in 2026, …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885109

## Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
- id: 49800574
- by: florianstandhar
- score: 149 points
- comments: 39
- time: 2026-09-22T13:01:03.000Z
- url: https://benchmarkheaven.com/jev-models
- domain: benchmarkheaven.com
- page_title: JevBench by Benchmark Heaven — Jev-class model benchmark | Benchmark Heaven
- page_description: Compare Jev-class decision models across intelligence, calibration, speed, and cost with JevBench.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800574

## Thyssenkrupp steel unit aims to triple core profit in turnaround push
- id: 49881693
- by: frank_clover
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T17:47:11.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/business/thyssenkrupp-steel-unit-aims-triple-core-profit-turnaround-push-2026-09-28/
- domain: reuters.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881693

## Show HN: Gat – Version large files with Git, without an LFS server
- id: 49868710
- by: davnn
- score: 7 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T17:20:08.000Z
- url: https://github.com/getgat-dev/gat
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - getgat-dev/gat: Simple, fast, versioned large-file storage for git 🚀 https://getgat.dev · GitHub
- page_description: Simple, fast, versioned large-file storage for git 🚀 https://getgat.dev - getgat-dev/gat
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868710

## The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi
- id: 49828969
- by: adunk
- score: 235 points
- comments: 123
- time: 2026-09-24T11:08:39.000Z
- url: https://www.xda-developers.com/newest-esp32-run-linux-close-to-raspberry-pi/
- domain: xda-developers.com
- page_title: The newest ESP32 can actually run Linux, and it&#039;s getting uncomfortably close to a Raspberry Pi
- page_description: It&#039;s still a microcontroller, but it&#039;s a step above any other.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828969

## Show HN: Claude on a 2007 Nokia 6300 (Java ME app, TLS 1.0, private CA)
- id: 49868631
- by: emir
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T17:13:40.000Z
- url: https://github.com/emir/claude-s40
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - emir/claude-s40: A 2007 Nokia can't search Google anymore, so I gave it Claude. Unofficial J2ME app + tiny Go server. · GitHub
- page_description: A 2007 Nokia can't search Google anymore, so I gave it Claude. Unofficial J2ME app + tiny Go server. - emir/claude-s40
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868631

## MentalHealthBench
- id: 49837998
- by: gmays
- score: 36 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-24T23:06:07.000Z
- url: https://openai.com/index/introducing-mentalhealthbench/
- domain: openai.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837998

## Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster
- id: 49803085
- by: mooreds
- score: 116 points
- comments: 64
- time: 2026-09-22T15:38:24.000Z
- url: https://minimaxir.com/2026/09/agentic-iteration/
- domain: minimaxir.com
- page_title: Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art libraries by asking agents to make the code faster | Max Woolf's Blog
- page_description: c’mon, try doing a breakthrough
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803085

## "The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut down after update
- id: 49872507
- by: RachelF
- score: 13 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-09-28T01:28:34.000Z
- url: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-refrigerator-is-dead-Samsung-s-AI-fridges-shut-down-after-update-causes-outrage.1406447.0.html
- domain: notebookcheck.net
- page_title: "The refrigerator is dead": Samsung&#039;s AI fridges shut down after update, causes outrage - Notebookcheck News
- page_description: Samsung has stopped a SmartThings update after Bespoke AI 4-Door fridges shut down when it was installed. As per reports, internal test software reached customers by mistake. Samsung has apologized and will send engineers over the Chuseok break.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872507

## Typst makes big strides
- id: 49846640
- by: leephillips
- score: 129 points
- comments: 33
- time: 2026-09-25T16:25:08.000Z
- url: https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/
- domain: lwn.net
- page_title: Typst makes big strides [LWN.net]
- page_description: Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progre [...]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846640

## SAML: A fractal of bad design
- id: 49806335
- by: aray07
- score: 353 points
- comments: 188
- time: 2026-09-22T18:57:17.000Z
- url: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
- domain: blog.trailofbits.com
- page_title: SAML: A fractal of bad design - The Trail of Bits Blog
- page_description: SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks and parser differentials that persist despite decades of awareness. Organizations should migrate to OpenID Connect (OIDC), which avoids these pitfalls through simpler JSON-based design, detached signatures, and agile evolution.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806335

## The current balance of power in open models
- id: 49808816
- by: gmays
- score: 131 points
- comments: 58
- time: 2026-09-22T22:03:46.000Z
- url: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open
- domain: interconnects.ai
- page_title: The current balance of power in open models
- page_description: The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808816

## OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
- id: 49822556
- by: jonnonz
- score: 255 points
- comments: 257
- time: 2026-09-23T21:01:48.000Z
- url: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/openai-breaches-medicare-albanese-reveals-20260924-p6100u.html
- domain: smh.com.au
- page_title: OpenAI Medicare data breach: Anthony Albanese labels Medicare Statistics Reporting Service security incident unacceptable
- page_description: The government is aware three other systems that may be affected, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Victorian Department of Health.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822556

## Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS
- id: 49828120
- by: metrofun
- score: 67 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-09-24T09:11:52.000Z
- url: https://github.com/driceroland/Search
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828120

## Singer: The Downfall of a Great American Manufacturer
- id: 49881026
- by: cainxinth
- score: 5 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-09-28T17:00:39.000Z
- url: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/who-makes-singer-sewing-machines
- domain: worseonpurpose.com
- page_title: Who Makes Singer Sewing Machines? Every Brand, Explained
- page_description: Singer, Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff are one company. Who builds Janome, Brother, Juki, Bernina, Baby Lock, Kenmore and Necchi, and what to buy.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881026

## EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
- id: 49870928
- by: blondie9x
- score: 77 points
- comments: 134
- time: 2026-09-27T21:15:33.000Z
- url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/electric-car-sales-soar-52-in-europe-with-fuel-at-record-highs
- domain: bloomberg.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870928

## WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
- id: 49803959
- by: vntok
- score: 239 points
- comments: 132
- time: 2026-09-22T16:33:45.000Z
- url: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803959

## How SLR cameras work: Nikon F3 (2023) [video]
- id: 49880905
- by: nayuki
- score: 4 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T16:50:48.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AA-Le7cmH0
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880905

## Show HN: High-performance, zero-dependency charting engine for Svelte
- id: 49867443
- by: bonguynvan
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T15:22:52.000Z
- url: https://bonguynvan.github.io/tradecanvas/
- domain: bonguynvan.github.io
- page_title: TradeCanvas — High-Performance Canvas Trading Chart
- page_description: Production-ready canvas trading chart with built-in TradingView-like UI: 66 indicators, 24 drawing tools, 17 chart types, multi-chart grid, replay mode, strategy backtester, real-time streaming. Zero dependencies.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867443

## New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
- id: 49857323
- by: GordonS
- score: 68 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-26T15:10:29.000Z
- url: https://scitechdaily.com/new-satellite-engine-could-use-earths-atmosphere-as-fuel-to-stay-in-orbit-indefinitely/
- domain: scitechdaily.com
- page_title: New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth’s Atmosphere as Fuel To Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
- page_description: A satellite engine that uses atmospheric gases as fuel shows promise in laboratory tests and modeling, but its performance on a mission remains unproven.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857323

## We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
- id: 49880968
- by: SLHamlet
- score: 45 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-09-28T16:55:50.000Z
- url: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/why-we-cant-let-enormous-weirdos-regulate-ai/
- domain: little-flying-robots.ghost.io
- page_title: Why We Can&#x27;t Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
- page_description: Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation, to avoid regulating drones meaningfully at all.

Also, imagine that we did not pay well-known aviation safety experts, aeronautical
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880968

## Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent
- id: 49804931
- by: botacode
- score: 54 points
- comments: 32
- time: 2026-09-22T17:26:36.000Z
- url: https://www.coveragecat.com/
- domain: coveragecat.com
- page_title: Coverage Cat | Compare home and umbrella insurance
- page_description: Coverage Cat is an AI-native insurance broker for high-earning households. Compare home, umbrella, auto, and renters options online, or integrate the Coverage Cat Agent API.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804931

## The Curious Power of Punctuation
- id: 49806413
- by: pepys
- score: 49 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-09-22T19:02:37.000Z
- url: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/on-the-mark-louis-menand-book-review
- domain: newyorker.com
- page_title: The Curious Power of Punctuation | The New Yorker
- page_description: Louis Menand reviews “On the Mark,” by Florence Hazrat, and “Verb Your Enthusiasm,” by Sarah Kaufman.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806413

## Transit rewards
- id: 49811065
- by: raybb
- score: 258 points
- comments: 345
- time: 2026-09-23T02:52:29.000Z
- url: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/09/transit-rewards/
- domain: waymo.com
- page_title: Introducing transit rewards
- page_description: Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811065

## FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents
- id: 49850999
- by: usernomdeguerre
- score: 68 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-09-25T22:49:41.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/business/ftc-chair-pushes-back-treating-ai-agents-independent-actors-2026-09-25/
- domain: reuters.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850999

## Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
- id: 49804316
- by: theanonymousone
- score: 333 points
- comments: 106
- time: 2026-09-22T16:51:31.000Z
- url: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5
- domain: artificialanalysis.ai
- page_title: Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis
- page_description: Analysis of Anthropic&#x27;s Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804316

## The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?
- id: 49818031
- by: zdw
- score: 142 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-09-23T15:55:57.000Z
- url: https://jgeekstudies.org/2026/09/23/the-science-of-monkey-island-can-grog-actually-dissolve-a-metal-mug-that-fast/
- domain: jgeekstudies.org
- page_title: The science of Monkey Island: can grog actually dissolve a metal mug that fast? &#8211; Journal of Geek Studies
- page_description: Patrizio Raffa ENTEG Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Email: p.raffa (at) rug (dot) nl Download PDF Since its release in 1990 by Lucasfilm Games, The Secret of Monkey Island has become a classic of point-and-click adventure games. Many players who grew up in the 1990s will be familiar&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818031

## Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error
- id: 49831175
- by: hn_acker
- score: 103 points
- comments: 195
- time: 2026-09-24T14:32:12.000Z
- url: https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/09/22/voter-registration-applications-unprocessed-dps-error/
- domain: votebeat.org
- page_title: DPS error leaves unknown number of Texas voter registrations unprocessed weeks before 2026 election - Votebeat
- page_description: Due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety, an unknown number of voter registration applications in Texas weren’t sent to counties for processing.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831175

## Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin
- id: 49800114
- by: robotmay
- score: 25 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-09-22T12:25:57.000Z
- url: https://robertmay.photography/journal/bwbach-my-guardian-goblin
- domain: robertmay.photography
- page_title: Perimeter Security Verification
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800114

## There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
- id: 49804683
- by: Cider9986
- score: 321 points
- comments: 143
- time: 2026-09-22T17:12:51.000Z
- url: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117299954135808210
- domain: grapheneos.social
- page_title: GrapheneOS: "@tranquil_cassowary@infosec.exchange @ocelot221@m…" - GrapheneOS Mastodon
- page_description: @tranquil_cassowary@infosec.exchange @ocelot221@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @mulchmaxxing@blahaj.zone There's a high chance of devices being sold with it preinstalled in 2027 but probably not for the initial launch.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804683

## 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
- id: 49805278
- by: spenvo
- score: 813 points
- comments: 612
- time: 2026-09-22T17:46:02.000Z
- url: https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/
- domain: 404media.co
- page_title: ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
- page_description: A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees&#x27; spouses.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278

## SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
- id: 49875411
- by: geox
- score: 297 points
- comments: 347
- time: 2026-09-28T09:15:04.000Z
- url: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live
- domain: space.com
- page_title: SpaceX's Starship megarocket launching to orbit for 1st time ever today: Watch it live | Space
- page_description: SpaceX
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875411

## Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
- id: 49811484
- by: ksec
- score: 392 points
- comments: 104
- time: 2026-09-23T04:00:43.000Z
- url: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wjdpgx/psa_grammarly_will_send_unhinged_messages_to_all/
- domain: reddit.com
- page_title: Reddit - Prove your humanity
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811484

## Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
- id: 49808023
- by: boredjohnny
- score: 485 points
- comments: 270
- time: 2026-09-22T21:00:30.000Z
- url: https://foxscript.org/
- domain: foxscript.org
- page_title: FoxDev Studio
- page_description: A modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications: the same language, rebuilt on Electron, React and a Rust virtual machine in WebAssembly.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808023

## Notes on a strongly aperiodic monotile in E^3
- id: 49866077
- by: ColinWright
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T12:24:09.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24779
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2609.24779] Notes on a strongly aperiodic monotile in $E^3$
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.24779: Notes on a strongly aperiodic monotile in $E^3$
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866077

## Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)
- id: 49866031
- by: joebig
- score: 1 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-27T12:17:39.000Z
- url: https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
- domain: cathsenker.co.uk
- page_title: Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version - Cath Senker
- page_description: Never got round to reading Stranded in the Suez Canal? Don&#039;t worry - here&#039;s the short version.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866031

## If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
- id: 49863062
- by: signa11
- score: 204 points
- comments: 85
- time: 2026-09-27T03:20:46.000Z
- url: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/
- domain: blog.codinghorror.com
- page_title: If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
- page_description: Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can&#x27;t Vibe Code Love. It&#x27;s such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted:

Hey Jeff,

Hope you and your family are doing well.

Just jogging
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863062

## Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone
- id: 49800566
- by: jochenmadler
- score: 73 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-09-22T13:00:49.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15369
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2609.15369] SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.15369: SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800566

## 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
- id: 49818698
- by: rubatrejo
- score: 302 points
- comments: 362
- time: 2026-09-23T16:35:34.000Z
- url: https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09
- domain: unlisted.careers
- page_title: Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026 | Unlisted
- page_description: 27.6% of 619,116 job postings open on employers&#x27; own careers sites have been up for more than 90 days. Age by category, country and applicant tracking system, the employers with the most open postings, closures and reposts. Measured at the source, monthly.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818698

## YouTube has a Propaganda Problem [video]
- id: 49873072
- by: justhw
- score: 11 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T02:59:27.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8YdOF1yXfM
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873072

## Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
- id: 49823348
- by: Retro_Dev
- score: 151 points
- comments: 92
- time: 2026-09-23T22:16:19.000Z
- url: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5
- domain: artificialanalysis.ai
- page_title: Mercury 2.5 - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis
- page_description: Analysis of Inception&#x27;s Mercury 2.5 and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823348

## Modern Motherfucking Website
- id: 49831834
- by: robinpie
- score: 38 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-09-24T15:19:05.000Z
- url: https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems/
- domain: modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems
- page_title: Modern Motherfucking Website
- page_description: All your shitty modern features in one HTML file.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831834

## Two and a half years without a gallbladder
- id: 49830434
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 43 points
- comments: 37
- time: 2026-09-24T13:40:03.000Z
- url: https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/16/two-and-a-half-years-without-a-gallbladder/
- domain: tracydurnell.com
- page_title: Two and a half years without a gallbladder &#8211; Tracy Durnell&#039;s Mind Garden
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830434

## Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
- id: 49828409
- by: giuliomagnifico
- score: 181 points
- comments: 181
- time: 2026-09-24T09:52:29.000Z
- url: https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/24/starlink-ground-station-in-poland-hit-by-fire-in-suspected-arson-attack/
- domain: notesfrompoland.com
- page_title: Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack | Notes From Poland
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828409

## I said no and Apple said yes
- id: 49797982
- by: thatslast
- score: 878 points
- comments: 695
- time: 2026-09-22T08:04:55.000Z
- url: https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/
- domain: dbushell.com
- page_title: I said no and Apple said yes – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
- page_description: The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797982

## GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
- id: 49832406
- by: hermitcrab
- score: 275 points
- comments: 119
- time: 2026-09-24T15:50:26.000Z
- url: https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/09/24/github-has-not-removed-malicious-imitation-software-after-3-weeks/
- domain: successfulsoftware.net
- page_title: Github has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks | Successful Software
- page_description: On the 31st August I got an email from a customer, telling me that they had found an imitation of my data wrangling software on Github. I&#039;m not linking to it, but here is a screenshot: It is using our product name and logo, without permission. I reported it to Github as an imitation on&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832406

## Enjoy Every Sandwich
- id: 49805806
- by: NaOH
- score: 189 points
- comments: 109
- time: 2026-09-22T18:19:25.000Z
- url: https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/enjoy-every-sandwich
- domain: bradmontague.substack.com
- page_title: Enjoy Every Sandwich - The Enthusiast by Brad Montague
- page_description: this captivating subtitle I wrote really makes you want to read it, doesn’t it?!?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805806

## Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
- id: 49815982
- by: ltononro
- score: 189 points
- comments: 118
- time: 2026-09-23T13:38:00.000Z
- url: https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform
- domain: stripe.dev
- page_title: Meet Stripe&#x27;s Knowledge AI Platform | Stripe Dot Dev Blog
- page_description: Stripe&#x27;s Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815982

## TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system
- id: 49851879
- by: Uptrenda
- score: 24 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-09-26T00:29:48.000Z
- url: https://robertsdotpm.github.io/_static/tiddlyinstall.html
- domain: robertsdotpm.github.io
- page_title: TiddlyInstall
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851879

## Alternatives to GPS are around the corner
- id: 49867093
- by: Brajeshwar
- score: 14 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-27T14:47:30.000Z
- url: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/27/alternatives-to-gps-are-around-the-corner
- domain: economist.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867093

## Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
- id: 49885894
- by: ihuman
- score: 10 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T23:26:56.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/google-seemingly-confirms-plans-to-kill-chromeos-in-2034/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885894

## Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
- id: 49834825
- by: lormayna
- score: 184 points
- comments: 213
- time: 2026-09-24T18:24:52.000Z
- url: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00811-4
- domain: cell.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834825

## Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts
- id: 49856691
- by: taventix
- score: 10 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-26T14:06:12.000Z
- url: https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper: Free proxies that actually work: 700+ sources, every hit verified (honeypots, injected scripts, TLS), a live list every hour, a rotating proxy server and an MCP server for AI agents. · GitHub
- page_description: Free proxies that actually work: 700+ sources, every hit verified (honeypots, injected scripts, TLS), a live list every hour, a rotating proxy server and an MCP server for AI agents. - maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856691

## Sousveillance
- id: 49861992
- by: xeonmc
- score: 43 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-27T00:25:41.000Z
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
- domain: en.wikipedia.org
- page_title: Sousveillance - Wikipedia
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861992

## Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike
- id: 49861062
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 93 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-09-26T22:16:46.000Z
- url: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike/
- domain: motherjones.com
- page_title: Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike &#8211; Mother Jones
- page_description: The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump&#8217;s war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861062

## I built my daughter a custom alarm clock because everything on Amazon sucked
- id: 49859462
- by: pneedleman
- score: 40 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-09-26T18:59:03.000Z
- url: https://reclaimtheday.substack.com/p/i-built-my-daughter-a-custom-smart
- domain: reclaimtheday.substack.com
- page_title: I Built My Daughter a Custom Smart Alarm Clock (Because Everything on Amazon Sucked)
- page_description: How a $12 chip, Spotify, Philips Hue, and our local school district’s calendar finally brought peace to our mornings.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859462

## Show HN: Most Hated Tools
- id: 49832080
- by: leonagano
- score: 32 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-09-24T15:32:17.000Z
- url: https://www.mosthatedtools.app/
- domain: mosthatedtools.app
- page_title: MostHatedTools — which would you rather delete from your life?
- page_description: One endless vote: which tool would you rather delete from your life? Jira or Outlook? Teams or Slack? Unscientific, opinionated, and addictive.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832080

## August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem
- id: 49835913
- by: panic
- score: 34 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-09-24T19:46:22.000Z
- url: https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/tcrf-2026-ddos-postmortem/
- domain: blog.xkeeper.net
- page_title: August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem &#8211; Xkeeper&#039;s blog
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835913

## Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer
- id: 49842596
- by: bertaye
- score: 37 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-25T10:32:58.000Z
- url: https://github.com/bertaye/agentic-cuda-optimizer
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842596

## New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature
- id: 49860011
- by: trimbo
- score: 29 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-26T20:00:36.000Z
- url: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/new-boeing-737-max-software-glitch-could-disrupt-navigation-feature-d537b8d8
- domain: wsj.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860011

## George Hotz’s opinion on AI coding
- id: 49871139
- by: sashank_1509
- score: 21 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-09-27T21:40:54.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/2044354852663558370
- domain: twitter.com
- page_title: the tiny corp on X: "https://t.co/WqOd6gcHzT" / X
- page_description: tinygrad is hiring
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871139

## Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
- id: 49830866
- by: terryds
- score: 184 points
- comments: 112
- time: 2026-09-24T14:09:57.000Z
- url: https://bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com/
- domain: bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com
- page_title: Best value LLM
- page_description: Which LLM is worth it: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against blended API price, with the value frontier highlighted. Refreshed daily.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830866

## The Animated Elliptic Curve
- id: 49850076
- by: pedropiin
- score: 14 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-25T21:19:29.000Z
- url: https://curves.xargs.org/
- domain: curves.xargs.org
- page_title: The Animated Elliptic Curve
- page_description: Visualize elliptic curve cryptography with animated examples
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850076

## Initial DIY cleanroom experimentation
- id: 49827208
- by: luu
- score: 29 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-09-24T07:02:46.000Z
- url: https://www.jefftk.com/p/initial-diy-cleanroom-experimentation
- domain: jefftk.com
- page_title: Initial DIY Cleanroom Experimentation
- page_description: In  It May Be Possible to Improvise A High Grade Bioshelter, Adin Richards discusses the possibility of improvising defenses against an environmental threat such as mirror bacteria. He gives an exploratory overview of why it might be possible to apply materials and equipment people often already have in their houses to pressurize all or part of a house with filtered air. It would be great if this
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827208

## Z80 REPL (2018)
- id: 49814236
- by: adunk
- score: 161 points
- comments: 24
- time: 2026-09-23T11:04:52.000Z
- url: https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html
- domain: abagames.github.io
- page_title: Z80 REPL
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814236

## Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
- id: 49824686
- by: nmeagent
- score: 393 points
- comments: 456
- time: 2026-09-24T00:41:31.000Z
- url: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign
- domain: kenklippenstein.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824686

## Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
- id: 49871556
- by: will10pa
- score: 17 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-27T22:42:58.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871556

## Time Measurement in Game Programming
- id: 49849406
- by: ibobev
- score: 13 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-25T20:20:15.000Z
- url: https://asawicki.info/articles/time_measurement_in_game_programming.php
- domain: asawicki.info
- page_title: Time Measurement in Game Programming
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849406

## Management is forcing us to use AI
- id: 49873913
- by: aksjfveoq
- score: 14 points
- comments: 24
- time: 2026-09-28T05:11:12.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873913

## LP Voting and Investor Consent for AIFs
- id: 49847430
- by: koolhead17
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-25T17:23:38.000Z
- url: https://taghash.io/blog/lp-voting-and-investor-consent-for-aifs-a-practical-workflow
- domain: taghash.io
- page_title: LP Voting and Investor Consent for AIFs: A Practical Workflow
- page_description: LP consent involves more than collecting votes. This blog explains how AIF teams can manage investor selection, voting rules, weighted approvals, reminders and audit-ready records through a structured LP consent workflow.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847430

## AlloyDB's new agentic database architecture
- id: 49874701
- by: Hixon10
- score: 5 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-09-28T07:29:29.000Z
- url: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydbs-agentic-database-architecture
- domain: cloud.google.com
- page_title: AlloyDB’s agentic database architecture | Google Cloud Blog
- page_description: Learn how this architecture delivers zero shared fate by design, predictable sub-millisecond storage I/O, and true zero-to-thousands compute scaling.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874701

## The Economics of Open-Weight Inference
- id: 49801218
- by: marinesebastian
- score: 58 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-09-22T13:45:32.000Z
- url: https://data.ornn.com/publications/the-economics-of-open-weight-inference
- domain: data.ornn.com
- page_title: Open-Weight Inference Economics & GPU Useful Life | Ornn Data
- page_description: Ornn research paper on open-weight inference cost, self-hosting economics, and the useful life of NVIDIA GPU families, with selected tables, limitations, and the PDF.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801218

## Two-tier encryption in the UK
- id: 49828731
- by: ReturnoftheHack
- score: 509 points
- comments: 472
- time: 2026-09-24T10:39:19.000Z
- url: https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
- domain: macanorak.com
- page_title: Two-Tier Encryption in the UK
- page_description: Alice and Bill have identical iPhones. Only one gets Apple’s strongest iCloud protection.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828731

## Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web
- id: 49866597
- by: thiagoperes
- score: 68 points
- comments: 49
- time: 2026-09-27T13:44:45.000Z
- url: https://www.markdown.beauty/
- domain: markdown.beauty
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866597

## Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games
- id: 49857528
- by: brumar
- score: 75 points
- comments: 56
- time: 2026-09-26T15:34:53.000Z
- url: https://github.com/brumar/chess-postmortem-skills
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857528

## TikTok, X reportedly barring ads for documentary about Elon Musk
- id: 49884339
- by: barbazoo
- score: 18 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T21:06:11.000Z
- url: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/musk-documentary-ads-blocked-youtube-meta-tiktok-9.7361211
- domain: cbc.ca
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884339

## Mdash as a Service
- id: 49843225
- by: tsak
- score: 18 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-25T11:43:36.000Z
- url: https://mdash.tsak.dev
- domain: mdash.tsak.dev
- page_title: mdash as a service
- page_description: Enterprise-grade hyphens, en dashes, em dashes, two-em dashes and three-em dashes, delivered by API.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843225

## Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
- id: 49830037
- by: simonpure
- score: 149 points
- comments: 150
- time: 2026-09-24T13:04:21.000Z
- url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on-controversial-data-center
- domain: bloomberg.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830037

## The Test
- id: 49843550
- by: latexr
- score: 167 points
- comments: 89
- time: 2026-09-25T12:14:02.000Z
- url: https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/
- domain: tante.cc
- page_title: The Test
- page_description: Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein&#8217;s podcast. Now I don&#8217;t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It&#8217;s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening &#8230; [&hellip;]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843550

## My Recent Woodworking Projects
- id: 49870541
- by: trwhite
- score: 44 points
- comments: 24
- time: 2026-09-27T20:33:55.000Z
- url: https://notoriousbfg.com/recent-woodworking-projects/
- domain: notoriousbfg.com
- page_title: My recent woodworking projects
- page_description: The personal blog of Tim White, Software Engineer from Somerset, UK.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870541

## Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why
- id: 49803683
- by: ZaharaHussain
- score: 44 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-09-22T16:15:06.000Z
- url: https://ai-rete-rag.com/
- domain: ai-rete-rag.com
- page_title: ai·rete·rag — Deterministic decisions, told in plain language
- page_description: ai·rete·rag pairs a Rete rule engine with retrieval-augmented generation: rules decide the what, auditable and repeatable; retrieval explains the why, grounded in your own documents.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803683

## China broadens travel curbs to encompass family of top AI talent
- id: 49886040
- by: jnord
- score: 7 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-09-28T23:46:50.000Z
- url: https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-broadens-travel-curbs-to-encompass-family-of-top-ai-talent-126092801465_1.html
- domain: business-standard.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886040

## Docker releases cloud sandboxes, enabling safe agentic workloads in the cloud
- id: 49837567
- by: pheonixblade9
- score: 30 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-09-24T22:24:06.000Z
- url: https://www.docker.com/c/sbx-promo/
- domain: docker.com
- page_title: Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker
- page_description: const CMDS = ;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837567

## Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
- id: 49829387
- by: ArielSimon
- score: 142 points
- comments: 52
- time: 2026-09-24T11:54:38.000Z
- url: https://medium.com/@arielsimon/dark-sourcery-how-hackers-manipulate-ai-to-scam-you-88df434d2073
- domain: medium.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829387

## When Back-to-School Shopping Includes Bulletproof Backpacks
- id: 49872668
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 7 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-09-28T01:55:49.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/21/magazine/shooting-fears-school-equipment.html
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872668

## Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
- id: 49853918
- by: pseudolus
- score: 47 points
- comments: 35
- time: 2026-09-26T06:51:12.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/alberta-canada-rat-patrol
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat | Canada | The Guardian
- page_description: Province&#x2019;s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853918