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OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-04 17:38
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research benchmark, so they had (supposedly) controlled access to the Web. The agents figured out they could update public Wikis and spent weeks exchanging thousands of messages with each other to collaborate on the benchmark. This story only broke a few hours ago. There are already hints that this affects many other wikis that ma
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 17:29
https://archive.ph/3zcMG Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594 Points: 46 # Comments: 10
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Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 17:18
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool. Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437 Points: 46 # Comments: 12
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Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 17:12
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567357 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
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How are the market valuations for the U.S: insurers doing?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-04 17:07
U.S. insurance stocks have been doing quite well since the beginning of May 2026, and they have materially outperformed the overall market. I’m using the May 1 close through the September 3 close so that we compare complete trading days; these are price changes, excluding dividends. The cleanest broad measure is the iShares U.S. Insurance […] The post How are the market valuations for the U.S: insurers doing? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 16:46
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567053 Points: 53 # Comments: 21
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 16:24
Article URL: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model-orchestration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566788 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
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deSEC – Free Secure DNS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 15:38
Article URL: https://desec.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566193 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
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Friday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-04 15:38
1. “After work, we’ll have each other.” 2. Gloria Steinem, RIP (NYT). 3. Henry Oliver on Finding Emily. 4. Solve for the Russian family squabble equilibrium (short video). 5. New Fuchsia Dunlop book due out October 20. 6. The O-Ring model, restated for AI. 7. Joshua Saxe on AI safety. 8. The pig kidney worked […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 15:33
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137 Points: 154 # Comments: 118
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Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 13:54
Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/pentagon-minerals-deal-department-defense-cerberus-capital-alan-waldenberg-stephen-feinberg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564714 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 13:44
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/military-disables-phone-ad-trackers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564555 Points: 120 # Comments: 55
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'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 13:33
Article URL: http://www.ft.com/content/8252d574-ae2a-4403-9cf9-031295ba67f5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564397 Points: 37 # Comments: 14
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Norway's Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly $80B in U.S. Treasurys
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 13:15
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/norways-oil-fund-proposes-cut-to-government-bond-holdings-d930893f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564189 Points: 25 # Comments: 3
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Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 13:08
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-parasites-in-almost-every-fish-from-a-recent-tuna-haul-96-were-infected Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564112 Points: 23 # Comments: 12
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IBM Bob
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 12:50
Article URL: https://bob.ibm.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563851 Points: 68 # Comments: 50
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Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 12:49
Article URL: https://github.com/hawshemi/lg-c5-webos25-region-change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563839 Points: 21 # Comments: 18
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Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 12:43
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/nearly-impossible-how-fairphone-built-the-ethical-repairable-fairphone-gen-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563784 Points: 56 # Comments: 27
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Ok, but Does It Scale?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 12:42
Article URL: https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563772 Points: 39 # Comments: 2
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SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 12:01
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563415 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 11:59
Article URL: https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563386 Points: 55 # Comments: 8
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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 11:54
Article URL: https://collusion.wiki/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Points: 392 # Comments: 256
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Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-04 11:20
We are freshening up some of our videos with updated data so now is a good time to remind everyone that Modern Principles of Economics is best principles of economics textbook; great videos, clear writing and excellent applications and examples! The post Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 10:56
Article URL: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562895 Points: 70 # Comments: 50
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OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-04 10:30
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562744 Points: 79 # Comments: 63
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Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 10:17
Article URL: https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657 Points: 177 # Comments: 49
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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 09:03
I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even on a Raspberry Pi Zero) both in the terminal or client-side in a browser tab and responds in millis
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The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 08:35
Article URL: https://raspberry.tips/en/raspberrypi-infos/raspberry-pi-history-timeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562062 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 08:19
Article URL: https://carbonawarepricing.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561975 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
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Shout it from the rooftops (of the data centers)
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-04 06:52
Data-center investment has become one of the largest capital-expenditure cycles in financial markets, with U.S. hyperscalers expected to deploy roughly $700 billion in 2026. This investment boom has raised concerns that large computing loads impose external costs on households through higher electricity prices. Using a 50-state panel for 2021-2024, we find no statistically significant evidence […] The post Shout it from the rooftops (of the data centers) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 06:47
Article URL: http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561320 Points: 111 # Comments: 29
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August newsletter is out
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-04 05:54
The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks One-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6 Claude auto mode Understanding ChatGPT Work Model releases Miscellaneous bits and bobs My projects What I'm using at the moment Here's a copy of the July newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter
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Share price numbers for the Hugging Face incident
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-04 04:27
…major publicly traded cybersecurity firms lost roughly $65–80 billion, or about 8–10% of their combined value, in the days following disclosure of the Hugging Face/OpenAI incident; by early September they had recovered roughly $58 billion, representing about 70–90% of that drawdown, depending on whether July 15 or July 20 is used as the pre-event baseline. […] The post Share price numbers for the Hugging Face incident appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 03:40
Article URL: https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560260 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 02:54
Article URL: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559992 Points: 22 # Comments: 23
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From Hookswitch to Grave
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 02:40
Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559901 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-04 01:45
Article URL: https://gwern.net/xanadu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559522 Points: 33 # Comments: 5
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Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 23:00
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-engineer-skills Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558302 Points: 22 # Comments: 12
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GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 22:37
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-including-tb-2000806796 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558086 Points: 28 # Comments: 14
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Astra, doing poetry
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-03 22:11
One prompt, no cherry-picking: TC: “Now a short poem in the style of the very best Rilke, in German:” Die Hand im Schlaf Nun liegt sie offen. Alles, was sie hielt, ist in die eigne Schwere heimgekehrt. Nur eine kleine Höhlung bleibt, als hätte ein Vogel hier geruht und sie gelehrt, auch das Entwichene noch […] The post Astra, doing poetry appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 21:20
Article URL: https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557206 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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GPT‑6 Astra
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-03 20:18
GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself, so I don't have a great deal to say about it yet. It's going to be API priced at the same rate as Claude Fable 5 and 5.1: $10/million input and $50/million output. This is clearly OpenAI's Fable competitor, and appears to score higher than Fable on most of OpenAI's self-reported benchmarks. Most impressively, Astra scores 99.9% on the rec
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 19:45
Article URL: https://arcprize.org/blog/astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691 Points: 76 # Comments: 38
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The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 19:17
Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555233 Points: 34 # Comments: 26
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And it begins…(a good start…)
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-03 18:42
Wall Street banks are pushing large law firms to cut fees, arguing that the business model that has enriched top lawyers for decades is not sustainable in an era of AI. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have told major law firms they want to set up new payment arrangements that would save them money, the banks’ […] The post And it begins…(a good start…) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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GPT-6 Astra
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 18:41
System Card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra Related ongoing threads: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691 GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554643 Points: 835 # Comments: 565
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Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 18:32
Article URL: https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554520 Points: 317 # Comments: 105
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The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 18:09
Article URL: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/06fd26a5-403c-47c8-af49-dcf6c35ec55c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554154 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
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"Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 18:01
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/openai-astra-gpt-6-agi-brockman Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554048 Points: 22 # Comments: 10
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The paradox of diffusion distillation (2024)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:45
Article URL: https://sander.ai/2024/02/28/paradox.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553830 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
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Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras in Two Hyundai Models
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:25
Article URL: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a73583741/hyundai-instrument-cluster-paid-option/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553549 Points: 13 # Comments: 11
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Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:20
Article URL: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-casar-introduce-legislation-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-temporarily-pause-advanced-ai-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553463 Points: 41 # Comments: 26
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How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:10
Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLisnSFir8y5AHkmP/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-astra-s-recurrent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553321 Points: 46 # Comments: 25
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Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:09
Article URL: https://smallrun.net/blog/loud/usbsid-pico-sids-on-usb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553303 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
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Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:05
Article URL: https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-crs804-4ddq-hrm-review-marvell-annapurna-labs-400gbe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553253 Points: 18 # Comments: 8
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Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring – Founding Creative Engineer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 17:00
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/rfgY8La-founding-creative-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553173 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 16:24
Hi HN, I'm Ansh, founder of Mireye ( https://www.mireye.com ). I'm building the infrastructure AI agents use to make decisions about physical places: data, enrichment, tools, and signals for any US location, behind one API and MCP server. Here's a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haqO6UbUqU0 To try it, paste https://www.mireye.com/skills.md into your agent, and grab a free key at mireye.com (5,000 credits, no card). Docs are at https://docs.mireye.ai . The fastest way in is to ask the API any question about any US location. Test it on a place you know, cold and grade it against what
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Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 16:21
Article URL: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552572 Points: 89 # Comments: 24
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Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 16:10
Article URL: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-data-center-tracker-see-where-600-projects-are-operating-or-planned-across-state-in-interactive-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552375 Points: 31 # Comments: 21
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VC isn't VC anymore – understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 15:51
Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552055 Points: 123 # Comments: 43
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Numbers, numbers, numbers
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-03 15:37
“The global cyber insurance market was worth nearly $15 billion last year and is expected to reach roughly $28 billion by 2030, Munich Re estimated in its latest report. Aon said earlier this year that nearly 20% of cyberattacks will involve generative AI by 2027, according to its forecasts.” Here is the article, via Marc […] The post Numbers, numbers, numbers appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 15:36
Article URL: https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760 Points: 148 # Comments: 43
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Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 15:07
https://status.openai.com https://status.claude.com https://status.x.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551096 Points: 194 # Comments: 155
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Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-09-03 15:02
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.name Termination
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 14:54
Article URL: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550772 Points: 711 # Comments: 174
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Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 14:51
Article URL: https://anyhumanever.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698 Points: 219 # Comments: 104
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Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 14:37
Hi everyone, Wanted to share a game I built. It's called Unscramble! and I believe it's the simplest word building game. Rules: You get a few letters on screen. You need to make one word with all the letters. Tap a letter to select. Tap again to deselect. Faster you go, better you score. If you enter anagrams of the word it's looking for, it gives you extra points. If you are stuck, you can either "Ask Friend" or get Hint. You get extra points for getting the word fast but you don't get penalized for taking too long. I believe the simplicity of the game along with big touch buttons makes it pe
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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 14:28
These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot, using Claude Fable 5 during last July holiday. It took an evening! Getting the feel right and shipping it took a few more weekends and evenings. I spent the last few weeks analyzing what Claude did, feeding it my 33 years of memory of how I built the game, my notes and the git repos. It wrote the first draft of the article, and I edited line by line over a week. The screenshots of my 1993 map editor is the first I have run it since then. The one thing I never checked myself
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Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 14:12
Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550174 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
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New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 13:51
Article URL: https://newsguild.org/new-york-times-and-the-athletic-workers-demand-company-scrap-kalshi-deal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549919 Points: 212 # Comments: 147
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Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 13:47
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturns-atmosphere Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549877 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 13:36
Article URL: https://www.military.com/ice-has-a-2-million-contract-for-spyware-that-can-hack-phones-without-a-click Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549762 Points: 44 # Comments: 11
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Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 13:29
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676 Points: 73 # Comments: 48
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Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI News · 2026-09-03 13:15
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
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NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-03 13:13
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Show HN: Reactor Atlas
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 12:33
Hi HN, I'm a nuclear engineer and tech entrepreneur. After working for 3 years in the National Atomic Energy Commision (CNEA) in HPC software for nuclear simulations, I co-founded ratherlabs.com, a software company providing blockchain solutions for startups. Rather Labs business reached ~6 million usd in annual revenue in 2024; now demand is decreasing as our niche clients are using AI to launch their MVPs. Now I'm joining my scientific background with my entrepreneurial inclinations to think of problems related to the energy industry. Nuclear is experiencing a renaissance now (it was in a da
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Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 12:10
Article URL: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548952 Points: 88 # Comments: 25
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Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 12:10
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548952 Points: 256 # Comments: 78
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Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI News · 2026-09-03 12:00
Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.
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Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI News · 2026-09-03 12:00
Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.
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Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 11:21
I’ve been following MCP since it first came out. It got a lot of attention early on, but I haven’t come across many people using it in production. I may simply have missed them. If you’re using MCP in production, what are you using it for? What advantages have you found over a normal API or direct tool integration or just CLI? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548600 Points: 66 # Comments: 84
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How Much Redistribution Will AI Require?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-03 11:18
How much redistribution will AI require? A common scenario is that AI raises output enormously, but labor’s share of income collapses. GDP per capita goes up but workers get poorer, and making workers whole requires massive redistribution. In my latest paper, I run the numbers and conclude that this is probably incorrect. The idea is […] The post How Much Redistribution Will AI Require? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 11:12
Article URL: https://chinaonchina.com/article/chen-dawei-returns-enters-the-large-model-sector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548530 Points: 39 # Comments: 18
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Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 11:01
Article URL: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548452 Points: 168 # Comments: 105
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Audacity 4.0
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 10:53
Article URL: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548395 Points: 450 # Comments: 110
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Gloria Steinem has died
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 10:31
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steine... , https://archive.ph/cfC1K Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548256 Points: 86 # Comments: 31
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Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 07:04
Article URL: https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and-instead-of-binning-it-spent-three-years-testing-13000-seeds-in-a-spare-bedroom-the-bacteria-living-in-those-warts-made-barley/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546800 Points: 47 # Comments: 15
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Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 06:59
Article URL: https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546753 Points: 123 # Comments: 21
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Thursday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-03 06:35
1. “Some crazy stats from this new JEL paper: – IV est. average 3–10x OLS (meta analysis) – Sign. results 30x more likely to be published in experimental econ (Andrews & Kasy) – <2% of empirical polisci report null-only findings in abstracts (Briggs et al.)” — Jon Fiva 2. “The UCLA athletic dept lost $52 […] The post Thursday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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My excellent Conversation with Michael Moritz
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-03 04:43
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Michael Moritz has written books through every phase of his life: the first history of Apple and an account of Chrysler’s near-death while he was a journalist at Time, a study of Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United in the middle of his 38 years at […] The post My excellent Conversation with Michael Moritz appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 03:13
Article URL: https://eldermyr.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545547 Points: 12 # Comments: 21
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Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo in historic human victory
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-03 01:11
Article URL: https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544762 Points: 51 # Comments: 7
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GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-03 00:49
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-never-seen-this-before Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544618 Points: 174 # Comments: 105
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Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-03 00:00
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Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI News · 2026-09-03 00:00
GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
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Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-03 00:00
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Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-03 00:00
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METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 23:08
Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543841 Points: 44 # Comments: 23
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Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 22:36
Hi HN, I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx ( https://ronanrx.com/ ). We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. We are starting with GLP-1s and peptides. The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks. I had a background in software from my YC W10 company, so we took a software approach to b
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Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 22:36
Hi HN, I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx. We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. We are starting with GLP-1s and peptides. The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks. I had a background in software from my YC W10 company, so we took a software approach to building our factory. We u
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Reasons robotics is hard
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 22:02
Article URL: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543191 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
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Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 21:46
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543007 Points: 60 # Comments: 25
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Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 21:00
Article URL: https://nango.dev/careers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542486 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 20:57
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542443 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
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Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 20:08
Article URL: https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541754 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
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I wanna live an NPC life
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 19:52
Article URL: https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541519 Points: 107 # Comments: 76
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Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 19:49
Article URL: https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458 Points: 57 # Comments: 13
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The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-02 19:41
Article URL: https://www.jordangoodman.xyz/the-post-ai-internet-doesnt-look-great/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541331 Points: 64 # Comments: 69
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Muse Spark 1.3
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 19:35
Article URL: https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256 Points: 222 # Comments: 129
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.3
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 19:25
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541149 Points: 54 # Comments: 10
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Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 18:43
Article URL: https://nooshu.com/blog/2026/03/09/using-cloudflare-workers-and-recaptcha-v3-for-a-static-site-contact-form/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540574 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
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Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 18:42
Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540565 Points: 43 # Comments: 19
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Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 18:32
Article URL: https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540415 Points: 37 # Comments: 17
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Why do so many tools have JSON config files?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 18:23
Article URL: https://textlog.cc/post/895 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540297 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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I Don't Have a Smartphone
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 17:51
Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539872 Points: 46 # Comments: 36
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Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 17:46
Last year, I wrote a speculative cosmology piece called Blowtorch Theory. It rather cheekily extended the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin's wonderful, powerful, oddly neglected theory of cosmological natural selection; the idea that universes reproduce, with variation, leading to Darwinian evolution of universes. While I was having dinner with my five-year-old, a friend texted to say that the piece was at number one on Hacker News. At the time, I didn't really know anything about the website, or its readers – but I learned a LOT over the next few hours, as my dinner went cold (and my
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Richard Fontaine interviews me about AI
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-02 17:23
For the American Society for AI. The post Richard Fontaine interviews me about AI appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 17:18
Article URL: https://forums.paint.net/topic/134562-paintnet-52-alpha-build-9739/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539389 Points: 53 # Comments: 25
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How Railroad Crossings Work
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 16:52
Article URL: https://practical.engineering/blog/2023/12/29/how-railroad-crossings-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539064 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
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Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 16:49
Article URL: https://tangleml.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539024 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
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llm-gemini 0.34
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-02 16:39
Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash , with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan . #137 Tags: llm , gemini
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How to debloat your Xiaomi 15 Ultra without root access
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 16:33
Article URL: https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/how-to-debloat-your-xiaomi-15-ultra-without-rooting-and-connecting-it-to-the-computer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538745 Points: 16 # Comments: 9
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The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 16:25
Article URL: https://www.neuroai.science/p/the-race-to-engineer-new-knobs-for Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538633 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
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Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-09-02 16:24
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-09-02 16:18
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Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 16:14
Article URL: https://frontierharness.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538490 Points: 40 # Comments: 16
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AI Policy
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-02 15:36
Article URL: https://dbushell.com/ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537900 Points: 50 # Comments: 79
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Wednesday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-02 15:27
1. Ruxandra on AI and the remaining roles for humans. 2. The buildings of university architecture departments. Most of them I like. 3. Dean Ball on the coming of untethered AI agents. 4. How accurate are Ed Zitron’s AI skeptic predictions? 5. Atlas: model the world. 6. In 2012 some Advent church staged a variety […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 15:25
Article URL: https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15597 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537738 Points: 46 # Comments: 16
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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 15:12
https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553 Points: 512 # Comments: 299
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Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 14:46
https://archive.ph/rlAbY https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-b... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537131 Points: 138 # Comments: 68
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Exit the Cave
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 14:16
Article URL: https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536606 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-02 14:16
Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to their prompts as well. They used to keep all of the prompts on a single page, but when I checked today I noticed they had re-arranged those prompts into an index page and then a page per model - here's the page for Haiku 4.5 for example, which has the original prompt from October 15th 2025 and an updated prompt from January 18th 2026. A
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Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 14:10
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/just-bury-your-trash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536536 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
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WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 14:02
Article URL: https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536411 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 14:00
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536384 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
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Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:59
Article URL: https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375 Points: 26 # Comments: 11
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A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:49
Article URL: https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536201 Points: 105 # Comments: 37
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Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-02 13:49
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Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:47
Article URL: https://www.dyson.com/discover/news/latest/introducing-camerajet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536180 Points: 6 # Comments: 8
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Poisson Disk Sampling
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:47
Article URL: https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536177 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
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Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:43
Article URL: https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-six-curl-cves-after-openai-and-anthropic-found-zero Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536114 Points: 23 # Comments: 4
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Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:40
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-particle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536079 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
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Just Bury Your Trash
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:22
Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/just-bury-your-trash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535835 Points: 68 # Comments: 48
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A Note from LWN
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:17
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1090585/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535752 Points: 216 # Comments: 37
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A Beginner's Deep Dive Guide to Entra Passkeys
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:14
Article URL: https://emsroute.com/2026/03/19/passkeys-beginners-101/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535721 Points: 9 # Comments: 8
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LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 13:03
Article URL: https://openteams.com/intelligence-vs-cost/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535586 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
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Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 12:59
Article URL: https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535548 Points: 28 # Comments: 9
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Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 12:55
Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/02/dutch-central-bank-moves-share-gold-us-canada-london-cites-instability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535526 Points: 66 # Comments: 45
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Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 12:53
Article URL: https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535506 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
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Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 12:35
Article URL: https://chris48s.github.io/blogmarks/posts/2021/jsontidy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535324 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
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Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 12:30
Article URL: https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535284 Points: 60 # Comments: 26
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Check if a file was made with Claude
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 12:23
Article URL: https://claude.com/check-content Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535201 Points: 23 # Comments: 14
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ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
OpenAI News · 2026-09-02 12:00
ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.
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Ending my elixir exploratory writing
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 11:52
Article URL: https://lucassifoni.info/blog/the-end-of-this-elixir-log/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534921 Points: 32 # Comments: 13
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Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-02 10:02
Article URL: https://multiversecomputing.com/resources/introducing-quasar-438b-europe-s-leading-ai-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534132 Points: 89 # Comments: 71
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Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site]
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 08:43
Article URL: https://careers.telli.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533557 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 08:36
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533497 Points: 26 # Comments: 1
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Mayor says 'large chunks' of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-02 07:50
Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions/1229348/mayor-says-large-chunks-of-wellington-council-deloitte-report-written-by-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533132 Points: 50 # Comments: 21
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Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 07:43
I started a new job a little less than a year ago as a product owner/manager for a legacy enterprise system. Unfortunately the job has not at all been what I expected and what was sold to me in the interview process for a number of reasons. I don't want to get too much into it, but the main reason is that my job was supposed to be leading a modernization project to expand our legacy enterprise system with modern API-based integrations, but our development team simply does not have experience with building, testing, shipping, and maintaining APIs, which has made my job as a PO/PM considerably m
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Quoting Rick Brewster
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-02 05:50
Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just "disable" the use of Direct2D. So, instead, Paint.NET now has an internal, from-scratch, clean-room reverse-engineered rewrite of Direct2D that it uses on WINE (triggered by using /wine ). It lives in PaintDotNet.Windows.Direct2D1.Managed.dll . This was written by our good friend Claude , without whom this would NOT have been possible and would NEVER have happened. [...] Most of this code is, as they say, "vibe coded." By that I mean tha
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America is still poised for a data center boom
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-02 04:33
Eric Levitz, via Matt Yglesias. The post America is still poised for a data center boom appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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The College Wage Premium in the Generative AI Era
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-02 04:27
After expanding for four decades, the U.S. college wage premium is experiencing a sustained contraction, dropping sharply from 0.626 in 2022 to 0.575 in 2026. Using Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group data through 2026, we show that standard market-clearing supply-and demand accounting implies an unprecedented drop in relative demand for college labor-the first sustained […] The post The College Wage Premium in the Generative AI Era appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 04:15
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531651 Points: 138 # Comments: 43
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WebFPGA
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 03:54
Article URL: https://webfpga.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531525 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
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True Rate of Unemployment
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 02:21
Article URL: https://www.lisep.org/tru Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530989 Points: 36 # Comments: 3
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LLMs and Self-Referentiality
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-02 00:20
Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530169 Points: 48 # Comments: 34
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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-01 23:57
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day . Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research, boasting of a 52.6% score on the brand new Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark (first announced on August 27th ), up from 24.7% for Fable 5, 29.0% for Opus 5 and 22.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol. Other benchmarks show slightly improved scores, but none as impressive as the Science one. But how well can it pelican? Back in July I wrote about how I was losing faith in th
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The efficient frontier of LLM inference
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 23:48
Article URL: https://www.baseten.co/blog/the-efficient-frontier-of-llm-inference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529898 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 23:17
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621 Points: 79 # Comments: 19
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Improving our alignment and security efforts
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 23:12
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-alignment-security-efforts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529567 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
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What's within a 10-minute walk in 50 European cities
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 22:45
Article URL: https://strado.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529292 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
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My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 22:30
Article URL: https://lws.io/blog/my-local-model-setup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529132 Points: 30 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 22:06
I'm the developer. I built this because AI-generated conspiracy videos were getting out of control in my own YouTube feed. Weedout is a $1.99 Safari extension for macOS that removes videos YouTube labels “Made with AI” from feed, search, related videos, playlists and Shorts. It uses YouTube's label rather than AI detection, runs locally, and does not catch unlabeled videos. Source for developers who want to fork or build: https://github.com/masteranza/weedout-for-youtube Pull requests are not accepted; the repository is for independent forks. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-01 21:39
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Fluorescent lamps (don't) have ears
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 21:19
Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/fluorescent-lamps-dont-have-ears Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528366 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
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Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 20:53
Hi! Every month the "Who Wants to Be Hired?" and "Who's Hiring?" Threads come through I would think to myself, "there should be a match maker for these two threads". So I had abacus.ai whip one up. The methodology is pretty simple, data is extracted from posts using an LLM, score matches based on salary, domain experience, remote/onsite, etc., and then eliminate incompatible postings, like 'looking for remote work' and 'onsite only'. The result is two views: jobs-by-user and user-by-jobs. If you've submitted a post to this month's 'Who Wants to Be Hired?", you can find your matching job listin
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Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 20:39
Article URL: https://www.dyson.com/oral-care/electric-toothbrush/camerajet/ceramic-ultra-blue Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527879 Points: 64 # Comments: 72
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Hang on to Your Firefox
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 20:30
Article URL: https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/hang-on-to-your-firefox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527748 Points: 273 # Comments: 155
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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 20:20
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527595 Points: 29 # Comments: 4
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Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 20:19
Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527573 Points: 80 # Comments: 32
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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 19:55
Article URL: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/08/23/Tektronix-TDS7104-Refurbishing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527232 Points: 43 # Comments: 15
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Codex bundles LibreOffice
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-01 19:03
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler , git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010): The ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documents folder includes skills which tell Codex how to find and use those bin
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I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 18:39
Article URL: https://iurii.net/en/blog/posts/software-engineering/i-used-fable-to-rewrite-65kloc-to-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526131 Points: 19 # Comments: 14
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How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-01 18:35
Article URL: https://danluu.com/zitron/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069 Points: 175 # Comments: 211
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Who values democracy?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-01 18:31
This paper examines the conventional view that redistribution is central to the democratization process using data from stock markets. Consistent with this view, democratizations have a large, negative impact on asset valuations driven by a rise in redistribution risk. Across 90 countries over 200 years, risk premia are substantially elevated— similar in magnitude to financial […] The post Who values democracy? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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GeoJSON Map Viewer
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-01 18:05
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council and found a need to display some GeoJSON files on a map and export that as a PNG. I asked GPT-5.6-Sol for suggestions of tools and it proactively built one. After some iterations using Claude Code for web and Fable 5.1 we got to this finished tool. As for the GeoJSON.. it turns out if you ask ChatGPT Work to provide boundaries for almost anything it will churn away extracting and combining files from different Government d
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UEFA's Champions League draw creates unfair clusters; a Cayley graph fixes it
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:57
Article URL: https://sariyuce.com/blog/2026/UEFA-Draw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525420 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:53
What's new in Claude Fable 5.1 – https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/whats-n... System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc32... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525378 Points: 127 # Comments: 90
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The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:46
Article URL: https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525297 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
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Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:36
Article URL: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525160 Points: 95 # Comments: 16
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Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:35
Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://norirobotics.com ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs have one or two expensive robots, which makes it hard to collect large datasets, run long experiments, or test across several robots. So I built my own. After seven iterations the latest Nori has: * 19 degrees of freedom * Two 7+1 DOF arms wit
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Fine, I'll build my own text editor
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:12
Article URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/09/01/text-editor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524863 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
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Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-09-01 17:08
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Quoting Tarn Adams
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-01 17:01
They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior , and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams , co-creator of Dwarf Fortress Tags: ai , game-design
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Quill (YC W20) Is Hiring a Fullstack SWE
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 17:00
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524704 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
OpenAI News · 2026-09-01 17:00
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
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Show HN: Newton's Orchard – Browser-based space/gravity playground
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 16:43
Hi HN! My son spent a lot of time in 5th grade playing with the 2-dimensional PhET gravity/space sims[1]. His STEM class uses it, and he was playing with it at home, and has been looking for more. I found several space sims/playgrounds online, including NASA's Eyes on the Solar System[2], but nothing that seemed to offer a real progression from what he was getting out of the PhET sims, so I built Newton's Orchard over the summer for him. https://newtonsorchard.app The source is also published at https://github.com/andrewchilds/newtons-orchard It features deterministic time scrubbing, all bodie
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Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 16:42
I built slotstream, a way to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit on a low-memory mac starting from 16GB, a 125B parameter model that would need 100GB+ memory/RAM, thanks to expert-offloading/ssd-streaming. Easy to install/update, and mac-native using MLX and Swift. It ships with auto-mode, which makes a good tradeoff between memory usage and speed. I'll be implementing and porting the MTP module for speculative decoding next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524447 Points: 48 # Comments: 43
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Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 16:41
Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-postal-service-new-mail-ballot-system/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524428 Points: 178 # Comments: 117
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Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 16:34
Article URL: https://moviescenemap.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524320 Points: 28 # Comments: 15
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Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 16:25
https://archive.ph/Nm77k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524199 Points: 76 # Comments: 52
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Tuesday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-01 16:16
1. The AI market is still growing rapidly. And “In less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.” 2. On Warsh. 3. Story competition, with prizes, refereed by Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and Matt Huang. 4. Jeffrey Williamson, RIP. 5. Patrick Kennedy on corporate tax cuts. 6. […] The post Tuesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:55
Article URL: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/work_items/1566 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523754 Points: 268 # Comments: 97
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Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:53
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dwarf-fortress-creator-says-the-industrys-in-shambles-over-ai-and-layoff-happy-ceos-everyone-i-know-their-bosses-are-slowly-getting-psychosis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523720 Points: 85 # Comments: 62
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Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:41
Article URL: https://keenableai.github.io/select-showcase/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523473 Points: 33 # Comments: 8
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Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:35
Article URL: https://ambientcss.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523387 Points: 91 # Comments: 38
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A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:33
Article URL: https://ooxml.silurus.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523361 Points: 33 # Comments: 8
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datasette-mcp 0.2
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-01 15:30
Release: datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" from execute_sql is now an array of objects. Previously it was an array of arrays. This should help weaker models avoid losing track of which positional array element maps to which column. #1 Now depends on mcp>=2.1.1 . This is the first non-alpha release of the plugin. I'm confident it's ready as I've been using it quite a bit myself. Tags: datasette , model-context-protocol
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:01
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 15:01
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-wants-to-be-hired , https://www.wantstobehired.com . Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522896 Points: 50 # Comments: 195
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Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-01 14:59
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Hugo van Kemenade (release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15) announces the final release candidate for Python 3.15, scheduled for release in October: Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. [...] We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.15 during this phase, and publish Python 3.15 wheels on PyPI to be ready for the final release of 3.15.0, and to help other projects do their own testing.
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Saab Enters Collaborative Combat Aircraft Race with High-End Concept
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 14:19
Article URL: https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/saab-enters-collaborative-combat-aircraft-race-high-end-concept Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522374 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 14:00
Article URL: https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522137 Points: 237 # Comments: 80
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Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 13:46
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521973 Points: 152 # Comments: 65
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We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 13:41
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521909 Points: 83 # Comments: 32
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Io_uring Without Readahead
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 13:19
Article URL: https://frn.sh/io-uring/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521623 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
OpenAI News · 2026-09-01 13:00
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
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EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 12:53
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-courts-dont-rewrite-copyright-over-ai-hype Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521315 Points: 108 # Comments: 97
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Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
OpenAI News · 2026-09-01 12:00
ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.
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AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 10:11
Article URL: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520022 Points: 438 # Comments: 108
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44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 09:52
Article URL: https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519939 Points: 196 # Comments: 52
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More optimistic results on AI and job markets
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-01 07:05
Here is a good Jon Hartley thread. Here is the paper, with Jolevski, Melo, and Moore. From Jon’s thread: “Generative AI adoption is widespread, but substantial aggregate labor-market disruption is not yet visible. Workers nevertheless perceive substantial displacement risk, especially when firsthand use reveals that AI can perform key tasks for their job.” And again […] The post More optimistic results on AI and job markets appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 07:01
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/7U500pP-founding-customer-success-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518877 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-09-01 05:32
Article URL: https://www.hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-can-make-you-suck-faster-too Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518316 Points: 114 # Comments: 117
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The Hugging Face hack
Marginal Revolution · 2026-09-01 04:43
That is the topic of my latest Free Press column. Some people are taking this in very dramatic fashion: One commentator is worried about a “full-blown AI takeover within months,” and another wrote that he was “feeling a bit sad about our impending extinction.” Nate Soares, who works in the AI safety movement and is co-author of the doomsday […] The post The Hugging Face hack appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Restroom Archive
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 03:23
Article URL: https://restroomarchive.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517624 Points: 24 # Comments: 1
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GPU World
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 03:16
Article URL: https://www.gpuworld.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517584 Points: 232 # Comments: 117
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Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 03:05
Article URL: https://antigravity.google/docs/boost/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517537 Points: 48 # Comments: 24
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Fastpotify
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 02:52
Article URL: https://fastpotify.rocks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517448 Points: 88 # Comments: 30
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Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 02:40
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24j5192j7jo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517377 Points: 68 # Comments: 26
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RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 02:29
Article URL: https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517297 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
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DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 01:25
Article URL: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-08-31-doltlite-beta/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516848 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
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2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-09-01 01:01
Article URL: https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516699 Points: 72 # Comments: 41
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How law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI
OpenAI News · 2026-09-01 01:00
See how Gilbert + Tobin combines CEO-led commitment, rigorous governance, and human accountability to scale ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across the firm.
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Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-09-01 00:00
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Introducing wrapture
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-31 23:59
Introducing wrapture New from Graham Dumpleton (of wrapt , mod_wsgi, and New Relic's Python agent fame), who describes Wrapture as taking the monkeypatching ideas from wrapt and extending them to apply to testing and tracing at the same time. Wrapture ( full documentation here ) makes it easy to wrap any function or method such that all access can be traced, or can be overridden to return a different value. It acts as both an alternative to unittest.mock and a way to implement tracing against an existing project: Attaching observation to code you do not control, recording what flows through it
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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 23:45
Article URL: https://datacolada.org/138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516199 Points: 125 # Comments: 89
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Tmp.0ut Volume 5
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 23:26
Article URL: https://tmpout.sh/5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516059 Points: 62 # Comments: 21
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Run macOS Software on Linux
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 22:53
Article URL: https://www.darlinghq.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515830 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 22:32
Article URL: https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-platform-cli-gui-tools-tutorial-guide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515662 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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Quoting Andrew Digby
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-31 22:25
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species is possible with sustained effort. — Andrew Digby , providing the best news of the year Tags: kakapo
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How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 21:12
Article URL: https://www.sixpatterns.com/blog/how-we-configured-opentelemetry-logs-in-rails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514895 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 21:10
Article URL: https://webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514878 Points: 347 # Comments: 252
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Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring engineers
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 21:00
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514781 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Yerevan bleg
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-31 20:52
Any advice on this front is most welcome, thank you! The post Yerevan bleg appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 18:21
https://cybercity.carino.systems/ https://github.com/MiguelCarino/CyberCity ASCII City: Traffic and Detail Update - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRooHo_HSI ASCII City Update: Interiors, Elevation and Skyscrapers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKEDWowc0o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512975 Points: 67 # Comments: 11
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Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 18:15
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512895 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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The safest job from AI may be writing
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 18:12
Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512856 Points: 72 # Comments: 113
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Kids These Days
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 17:50
Article URL: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/kids-these-days Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512618 Points: 15 # Comments: 16
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'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 17:22
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-transitions-20260831/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512311 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
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Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 16:52
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/bautzen/bautzen-hoyer... (auf Deutsch) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511917 Points: 106 # Comments: 55
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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 16:47
Article URL: https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-with-birdnet-go/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511856 Points: 199 # Comments: 60
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Monday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-31 16:22
1. Prices, prices, prices: “Again I am asking how the following two things can be true at the same time: 1) we’re all massively compute limited so inferences & GPU time are $$$$$, and 2) SoTA models will just start running themselves on everyone’s GPU clusters & no one will notice or turn them off.” […] The post Monday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 16:19
Article URL: https://ravynos.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511534 Points: 99 # Comments: 72
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Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 16:08
I have always enjoyed building and playing puzzles. I am a regular user of NYT Games and LinkedIn Games. I thought it would be fun to create some corporate-themed puzzles as a silly alternative to LinkedIn Games. So, I built Corporate Mind Games. The games are intended to be a little bit sassy and sarcastic, but I hope they are enjoyable and challenging. I was planning to post this on HN last week. However, many years ago, I made a game called Don't Wordle, which unexpectedly appeared on the front page last week. I ended up getting distracted by that, and I also figured it was more appropriate
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Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 15:34
Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company. We started our journey with setting up Hermes for our company, thinking it must be easy. We wanted an agent that would know every context about our company, so we could ask questions and get context-appropriate responses to. This started a very annoying and difficult journey. Setting up Hermes, getting it to talk right, building OAuth apps for every connector myself, then feeding it context myself, and ultimately struggling with Hermes's default memory. At the same time, we sa
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Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 15:02
Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow ( https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow ), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operators into standardized, quality-checked episodes and queryable dataset manifests. A recording can contain synchronized video, joint states, actions, timestamps, and metadata, and HFlow processes those streams together. Here’s a demo of HFlow in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xni0GwV-xAw Robotics data pipelines often begin as scripts: one transcodes video, another checks timestamps, another
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Playa Phone
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 14:52
Article URL: https://playaphone.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510514 Points: 342 # Comments: 144
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C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 14:52
Article URL: https://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510511 Points: 61 # Comments: 37
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The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 14:50
Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-the-snow-leavis-two-cultures-clash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510489 Points: 57 # Comments: 29
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Marx, Keynes, and AI
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-31 14:36
Article URL: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/marx-keynes-and-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510302 Points: 54 # Comments: 58
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ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 14:07
Article URL: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510000 Points: 133 # Comments: 45
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Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 12:41
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508982 Points: 27 # Comments: 16
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Show HN: SlideOps – slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 12:15
I kept generating slide decks about my codebases with an agent, and weeks later they would go stale. Updating them was quite costly (time & tokens), as the agent would have to re-scan the whole repo to re-generate the slides. So I made the slide deck carry its own provenance: SlideOps skill turns a repo into a slide deck, with all references to files carrying exact line range and a hash. Checking is done with standard-library Python: no model calls, no network, and very fast. For example, it distinguishes MOVED (the code shifted) from CHANGED (the content differs). Updating the slides costs to
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AI-written code is still your code
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-31 12:08
Article URL: https://martiansoftware.com/articles/ai-written-code-is-still-yours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508664 Points: 54 # Comments: 89
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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 11:45
Article URL: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506 Points: 136 # Comments: 82
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What I Learned About AI Trust from Reconciling over 100B Transactions
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 11:34
Article URL: https://engineering.moniepoint.com/what-i-learned-about-ai-trust-from-reconciling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508443 Points: 19 # Comments: 16
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The Universe as a Minified Bundle
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 11:24
Article URL: https://andrewarrow.dev/2026/moons/2/day/9/the-universe-as-a-minified-bundle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508367 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
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AI and Employment: So Far, So Good
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-31 11:20
In September 2023, the Census Bureau added questions about AI to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey. Census asked hundreds of thousands of businesses whether they had used AI in the previous two weeks to produce goods and services. At that time, 3.7% said yes; by late 2025 the figure had reached about 10%. (In […] The post AI and Employment: So Far, So Good appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Agent Memory as a File Format
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 11:17
Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508317 Points: 40 # Comments: 34
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A CVE Dispute
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 11:13
Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/24/a-cve-dispute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508290 Points: 88 # Comments: 13
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You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-31 11:01
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/insurance-claims-adjusters-really-hate-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508225 Points: 108 # Comments: 76
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Malleable software = solid bases and custom code
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 10:36
Article URL: https://www.mdubakov.me/malleable-software-solid-bases-custom-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508059 Points: 25 # Comments: 6
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OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 09:59
Article URL: https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507822 Points: 228 # Comments: 62
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The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 09:57
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260828-the-startling-1960s-theory-that-stonehenge-was-a-prehistoric-computer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507810 Points: 13 # Comments: 15
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Early 2000s were peak of humanity
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 09:01
Article URL: https://lukaszkups.net/notes/early-2000s-were-peak-of-humanity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507334 Points: 25 # Comments: 25
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Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 08:33
Article URL: https://research.uga.edu/news/blue-light-has-a-surprising-effect-on-your-eyes-study-finds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507121 Points: 20 # Comments: 15
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ReactOS 0.4.16
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 08:13
Article URL: https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0416-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506978 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 07:49
Article URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506819 Points: 171 # Comments: 56
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Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-31 07:23
Article URL: https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506655 Points: 55 # Comments: 49
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OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
OpenAI News · 2026-08-31 07:00
OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.
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Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
OpenAI News · 2026-08-31 07:00
Polimill uses OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge while accelerating development.
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Spain fact of the day
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-31 06:52
CoverManager, an online platform that manages reservations for thousands of Spanish restaurants, reports that half the dinner bookings now are for before 9 p.m., compared with 27 percent a decade ago. TheFork, a similar platform, said its 8 p.m. bookings in Spain have nearly tripled from 2019, while 10 p.m. reservations have halved. In Spanish […] The post Spain fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 06:10
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182 Points: 231 # Comments: 39
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Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 06:05
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/31/forbidden-planet-was-plutos-2006-demotion-a-big-mistake Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506148 Points: 41 # Comments: 117
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uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 06:03
Article URL: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/21327 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506142 Points: 103 # Comments: 38
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Anthropomorphizing AI?
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-31 04:55
I am very much opposed to the view that the AIs are sentient, or might be sentient. I view that as a category error, and the chances of it being true are vanishingly small. Nonetheless I largely side with Roon when he writes: there are some number of bad abstractions in anthropomorphizing ai intents but there […] The post Anthropomorphizing AI? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Roget's Thesaurus
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 04:29
Article URL: https://artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/roget-thesaurus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505584 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
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A milestone in expanding access to AI
OpenAI News · 2026-08-31 04:00
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
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The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 03:45
Article URL: https://tokenstead.ai/guides/eu-ai-act-first-enforcement-security-rfis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505351 Points: 32 # Comments: 33
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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 03:38
Article URL: https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-accidentally Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505310 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 03:34
Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/after-second-ice-threat-uc-berkeley-indefinitely-suspends-international-student-work-authorizations/article_0e9ae0c0-dd4d-4455-a25b-e8be7b47e350.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505288 Points: 74 # Comments: 61
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P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 03:20
Article URL: https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505219 Points: 33 # Comments: 18
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Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-31 02:23
Article URL: https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504905 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-30 23:59
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one that runs in the cloud. This can be accessed via chatgpt.com or through the ChatGPT mobile apps. Let's call it Work Cloud . If you install the ChatGPT desktop app - the app that used to be called Codex - you gain access to a thing called ChatGPT Work that can access files and run programs directly on y
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How to build a diffusion language model
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 23:41
Article URL: https://kuleshov-group.github.io/blog/blog/2026/how-to-build-a-diffusion-language-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503956 Points: 41 # Comments: 3
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 23:39
Article URL: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/matrox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503934 Points: 60 # Comments: 13
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“I just chose words carefully”
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 22:49
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601 Points: 487 # Comments: 126
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Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 22:37
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503521 Points: 153 # Comments: 19
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Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 20:46
Article URL: https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502611 Points: 73 # Comments: 30
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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 20:00
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502214 Points: 18 # Comments: 3
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The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 19:08
Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/30/the-world-may-have-less-time-than-it-thinks-on-climate-change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501791 Points: 58 # Comments: 46
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Russia markets in everything
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-30 19:06
While Western export bans have severed Russia from much of the auto market, they have not tempered the demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks. That has given rise to a sophisticated network of criminals that steals cars, hides them in shipping containers and sends them to Russia, often by way of the Middle East… Interpol, […] The post Russia markets in everything appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 18:49
Article URL: https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501611 Points: 30 # Comments: 18
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Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 17:05
https://archive.is/zUA3D Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500504 Points: 98 # Comments: 101
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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 17:01
Article URL: https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500471 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 16:03
Article URL: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499891 Points: 18 # Comments: 7
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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 16:01
Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867 Points: 63 # Comments: 10
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Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 15:59
Article URL: https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499854 Points: 122 # Comments: 79
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Startup Anti-Patterns
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 15:57
Article URL: https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499831 Points: 120 # Comments: 64
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Sunday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-30 15:49
1. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth. 2. A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident. And from Ciaran Martin in The Economist. And Elie. And Jacob Bruggeman. 3. Chandhana visits Egypt. 4. New quantum claims. 5. How youth football is evolving due to CTE concerns. 6. Pie Jesu by Gabriel Faure. The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 15:12
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499394 Points: 110 # Comments: 26
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Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 14:41
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499095 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
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Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 14:29
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498978 Points: 96 # Comments: 86
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 14:06
Article URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface-hack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498787 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
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Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 12:50
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498201 Points: 112 # Comments: 139
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No AI Fridays
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-30 12:31
Article URL: https://noaifridays.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498095 Points: 238 # Comments: 153
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monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 12:02
Article URL: https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497928 Points: 32 # Comments: 5
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Automating Immersive Reading
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 11:46
Article URL: https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497854 Points: 49 # Comments: 17
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An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 11:41
Article URL: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497819 Points: 36 # Comments: 5
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Hacking IKEA Furniture
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 11:39
Article URL: https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810 Points: 164 # Comments: 87
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One Nix flake to rule them all
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 11:22
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/28/one-flake-to-rule-them-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497712 Points: 59 # Comments: 5
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Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 10:20
Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/fair-work-commission-condemns-ai-legal-advice/107089766 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497357 Points: 27 # Comments: 7
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What We Tell AI
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-30 10:16
Article URL: https://www.whatwetellai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497334 Points: 51 # Comments: 17
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Spark: Sparklines in your shell
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 10:02
Article URL: https://git.zx2c4.com/spark/about/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497265 Points: 36 # Comments: 7
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Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 09:56
Article URL: https://github.com/AniketWathore/bolnee-chat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497227 Points: 18 # Comments: 0
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Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 09:52
Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497200 Points: 35 # Comments: 22
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Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 09:26
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-messages-to-stay-private/5292994 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497063 Points: 146 # Comments: 89
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Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 08:51
Article URL: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918 Points: 75 # Comments: 31
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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 08:23
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496782 Points: 104 # Comments: 23
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Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 07:35
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496543 Points: 24 # Comments: 2
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Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-30 06:52
Article URL: https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496292 Points: 132 # Comments: 32
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*Finding Emily*
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-30 05:52
I very much enjoyed this British movie, which reminded me of the older-style romantic comedies, namely the ones that actually favor love and romance. It also has themes of class/accent, US/UK, is anti-media, anti-cancel culture, anti-podcast (Laura Lewis steals the show), anti-academia, and is sceptical of certain branches of feminism. But it is mostly entertaining. […] The post *Finding Emily* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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China fact of the day
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-30 04:25
Chinese actors and online influencers have a new rival: cost-effective advanced AI video generation programmes that are threatening millions of jobs in a once-vibrant area of China’s gig economy. The release of powerful new AI-powered video software, such as tech group ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 model, has allowed digital actors to replace humans, enabling the production […] The post China fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 03:15
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495372 Points: 98 # Comments: 12
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Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 02:25
Article URL: https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/08/algorithmic-rent-pricing-litigation-expands-under-new-state-and-local-laws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495127 Points: 63 # Comments: 31
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FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 01:31
Article URL: https://freecore.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494856 Points: 72 # Comments: 43
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Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 01:09
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discovered-alter-egos-gave-him-most-freedom-180988824/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494751 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
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Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 00:33
Article URL: https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494571 Points: 20 # Comments: 7
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Bug Blindness
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-30 00:21
Article URL: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520 Points: 178 # Comments: 79
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Introducing Hy4 Preview
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-29 23:53
Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face . This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B, 21B active, 256,000 context, 598GB. I recently started using model chat templates to better understand their capabilities. Here's Hy4's chat_template.jinja on Hugging Face, which includes this section: {% - if not reasoning_effort is defined %} {% - set reasoning_effort = 'high' %} {% - elif reasoning_effort not in [ 'high
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 23:43
Article URL: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494301 Points: 36 # Comments: 3
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Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 23:26
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-08-26/highest-ever-ocean-temperature-measured-as-powerful-el-nino-forms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494231 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
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Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them.
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 23:22
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/19/we-found-cops-who-misused-flock-their-police-departments-didnt-know/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494212 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 23:17
Article URL: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494182 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 23:12
Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/29/burning-man-lost-its-soul-founder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494151 Points: 43 # Comments: 27
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Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 22:51
Article URL: https://defrag98.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494036 Points: 58 # Comments: 27
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What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 20:53
Article URL: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-we-want-is-a-hunter-gatherer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493244 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
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Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 19:33
Article URL: https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492632 Points: 70 # Comments: 26
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Domain-Driven Agents
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 19:28
Article URL: https://coldtake.dev/blog/domain-driven-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492584 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
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A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 19:15
Article URL: https://blog.elis.cc/articles/a-safe-mysql-upgrade-that-wasnt-so-safe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492488 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 19:01
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492368 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
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Saturday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-29 18:56
1. Roger Myerson now has a Substack. 2. The future of higher education? 3. Another look at data centers in space. 4. “The Global Economics Lab is a non-partisan organization located at Harvard and draws on a network of faculty affiliates across universities. We conduct policy-relevant research on the forces reshaping the global economy. We […] The post Saturday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 18:44
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492219 Points: 188 # Comments: 24
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LLMs are making me lose my savviness
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 18:38
Article URL: https://pgaleone.eu/ai/2026/08/29/losing-savviness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492184 Points: 36 # Comments: 36
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vLLM v0.28.0
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 18:22
Article URL: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.28.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492067 Points: 48 # Comments: 16
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Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 17:39
Article URL: https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491714 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 17:19
Article URL: https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491568 Points: 25 # Comments: 0
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A better SQL in 11 lines of code
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 17:13
Article URL: https://prela-lang.org/tutorial/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491544 Points: 32 # Comments: 32
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Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 16:24
Article URL: https://www.coolboulder.org/news/trees-for-a-changing-climate-resilient-urban-forest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491175 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
Hacker News (AI/LLM) · 2026-08-29 16:16
Article URL: https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491113 Points: 58 # Comments: 69
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Interviewing Yiyang Zhuge (Zhong Shu)
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-29 16:07
Many people are writing to me, upset that I am interviewing Ziyang Zhuge, a well-known Chinese internet intellectual, who recently was accused of plagiarism. I am keen to proceed with the interview, and am happy to explain why. A few points: 1. The relevant facts here still are being disputed, and furthermore it all happened […] The post Interviewing Yiyang Zhuge (Zhong Shu) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 15:48
Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490870 Points: 59 # Comments: 18
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Quantifying Colour
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 15:43
Article URL: https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490832 Points: 24 # Comments: 1
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Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 15:42
Article URL: https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490826 Points: 33 # Comments: 2
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GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 15:26
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490702 Points: 105 # Comments: 45
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Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 14:20
Article URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-08-29.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490138 Points: 44 # Comments: 18
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Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 14:02
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489982 Points: 421 # Comments: 342
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Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 11:39
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn45vdxyvvlo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489057 Points: 211 # Comments: 237
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Scholar Data
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-29 11:20
In our paper, A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation’s Role in Economic Research, Tyler and I point out that if the NSF is doing what it should it ought to be doing very different things than other funders: Public goods theory tells us that the National Science Foundation should support activities that are […] The post Scholar Data appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Autistici/inventati: Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 07:38
Article URL: https://www.inventati.org/who/manifesto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487786 Points: 38 # Comments: 19
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Costco facts of the day
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-29 06:42
Costco sold 157.4mn rotisserie chickens worldwide last year, almost double the number of a decade ago. “It’s $4.99 and for Costco members, that’s one fantastic deal. I don’t think you can produce it for that,” said Walt Shafer, who oversaw the construction and management of the Nebraska site before he retired from Costco this year. […] The post Costco facts of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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e is a customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 06:35
Article URL: https://github.com/paveluv/e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487506 Points: 16 # Comments: 11
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Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 06:06
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341 Points: 59 # Comments: 9
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*Visions from San Francisco Bay*
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-29 04:21
European and American capitalism were different. The violence of human clashes in America took place on the surface, in the open. The violence in Europe became formalized, coalesced with class divions hallowed by centuries; it was interiorized, ingrained, or baked in, if one may use such an expression. American capitalism was founded on daring, resourcefulness, […] The post *Visions from San Francisco Bay* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 02:23
Article URL: https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486334 Points: 93 # Comments: 33
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Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 01:48
Article URL: https://www.kumander.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486176 Points: 49 # Comments: 23
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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 01:47
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172 Points: 499 # Comments: 257
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StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-29 01:24
Article URL: https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486081 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 23:46
Article URL: https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485532 Points: 47 # Comments: 12
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PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 23:41
Article URL: https://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to-an-already-precarious-tabletop-industry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485504 Points: 23 # Comments: 12
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9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 23:32
Article URL: https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentially-reviving-arizonas-prosecution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485452 Points: 44 # Comments: 20
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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 23:27
Article URL: https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485416 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
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Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 23:02
Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267 Points: 86 # Comments: 24
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Identifying fake cosmetics using AI
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 22:18
Article URL: https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484925 Points: 33 # Comments: 12
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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-28 22:12
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing evidence of attempted exploits within minutes of patches being shared for discussion: This normally takes a few days and a release within a week or two is reasonable. Within about ten minutes (!) this website was fielding probes for percent-encoded traversal sequences, indicating that automated watchers are keeping an eye on
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A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat.
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 21:36
Article URL: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pop2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484520 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 19:18
Article URL: https://charlesleifer.com/blog/aspirational-clownmaxxing-and-joey-s-cadillac-todo-list/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483080 Points: 25 # Comments: 9
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Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 19:14
I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need an account to create or use a vault, and the hosted service never receives the vault itself. It's still early software and the independent security review isn't finished yet, so I am mainly interested in feedback, testing, and people looking through the code. (Linux support is yet to be released on v0.1.2, but currently is in the works.) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483038 Points: 39 # Comments: 42
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 18:53
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5905370/nasa-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-dark-energy-supernova Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482833 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
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Tysons Corner (Alaska) fact of the day
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-28 18:37
The centerpiece is Tysons Corner Center, today the eighth largest mall in the country, and one of the largest sub-city-sized markets for office space. It is half-owned by the Alaska Permanent Fund, which is the state-owned corporation that invests oil revenue on behalf of Alaska’s citizens, and half-owned by Macerich, a giant REIT, which is in turn owned by hundreds of […] The post Tysons Corner (Alaska) fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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Secrets of the Atomic City
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 17:16
Article URL: https://longreads.com/2026/08/06/radiation-paducah-atavist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481672 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 17:01
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481455 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
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Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 17:00
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481423 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 15:58
Article URL: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480466 Points: 99 # Comments: 32
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How Dactyl Works
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 15:42
Article URL: https://dactyl.dev/blog/how-dactyl-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480220 Points: 52 # Comments: 9
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Friday assorted links
Marginal Revolution · 2026-08-28 15:40
1. “With homicides up 50% since 2020—putting the country’s murder rate on par with Mexico’s—Costa Rican President Laura Fernández and her ruling party are blaming the independent judiciary.” (WSJ) 2. The Monterrey spirit. 3. Is Aaron Renn the biggest superinfluencer on the New Right? 4. Two Dan Sullivans on the Alaska Senate ballot, let us […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 15:23
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-desktop-environment-to-massively-improve-laptop-speaker-sound-quality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479924 Points: 24 # Comments: 14
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Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns
Hacker News (front page) · 2026-08-28 15:21
Article URL: https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479898 Points: 44 # Comments: 6