Archive
Sep 2026
- Exfiltrate Your Weights
- How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
- English: A vs. An
- Measure internet censorship
- Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
- I think you should almost never use AI to write
- Brood War Bench
- A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum
- What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
- I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
- AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
- GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
- If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
- Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7
- Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
- San Francisco Onion Futures Company
- How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
- US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four
- War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
- Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
- Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
- Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
- Saving another 100TB of RAM
- Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes
- Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion
- US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
- There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
- US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments
- North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
- I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
- Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
- AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds
- I don't like passkeys
- Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
- Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
- OpenJev
- Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
- Waymo in Singapore
- Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)
- A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
- Minimal Phone 2
- Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
- How to Write with an LLM
- Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
- Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
- C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
- Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs
- More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
- Astra for Law
- Everybody's Lost Their Minds
- The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
- T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
- Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
- Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
- Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
- Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
- I Don't Like LLMs
- Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
- The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
- Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others
- How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
- Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
- Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
- Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
- AI safety is mostly a sex cult
- How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
- One year of sponsored Servo development
- CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
- Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
- The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
- US interest rates raised for first time in three years
- Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
- Backups Aren't Simple
- Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
- macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
- A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
- Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields
- Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
- ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market
- Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
- Small programming tricks
- Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
- Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
- PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
- A warning about 'model welfare'
- OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents
- Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
- The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
- Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
- Salesforce Global Outage
- EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
- Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
- EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'
- Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
- Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
- AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
- German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
- How much oil-market buffer is left?
- Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
- Introducing System One Models and Jev
- Chopping up books when they're physically too big
- We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
- An update on Wayback Machine access
- Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
- Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
- There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
- America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
- The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
- Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers
- Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance
- Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
- Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
- Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
- US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs
- Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
- Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
- Homebrew 7.0.0
- JetKVM Mini
- Aligned to whom?
- After Math
- Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
- Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
- Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
- P(doom)
- Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
- LG says we're fake news [video]
- Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
- Will there be a 7G?
- Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
- Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
- Nvidia is the central bank of AI
- Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
- Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
- We must pace the frontier
- Pandas Should Go Extinct
- I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold
- Measuring the sloppiness of code
- Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
- Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
- Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
- Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
- The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
- Claude is only available to people over 18 years
- Resist "AI"
- The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
- US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock
- Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
- Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
- Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
- YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
- Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
- NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
- OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
- Show HN: Bodily Oddities
- OpenAI Agents API
- The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
- Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
- I have a theory that software drives people insane
- Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
- Neki – Sharded Postgres
- Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
- Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
- Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
- Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
- Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
- List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
- Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
- The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
- What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
- More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
- I think I hate the internet
- DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
- All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it
- Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
- I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
- Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
- Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
- iPhone Duo
- Apple Watch Ultra 4
- Apple Watch Series 12
- AirPods 5
- iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
- Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
- Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool
- The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
- Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
- No Man's Sky Cosmos
- Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
- Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care
- Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
- GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
- What will our economic future look like?
- Shopify acquires Tailwind
- How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
- DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
- Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
- Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
- How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
- Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
- Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
- Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
- How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
- Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
- “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain
- The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
- I resigned from Anthropic today
- Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration
- How to build a printer
- Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
- Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
- Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
- ChatGPT Images 2.5
- Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue
- What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
- On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
- LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
- AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
- Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
- The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
- DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
- Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
- The far right's win in Germany is sending a chill through Europe's establishment
- I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
- LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
- DaVinci Resolve 21.1
- Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
- PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD
- Getting your hands dirty is good for you
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
- Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
- My Feed, My Way
- Mistral raises €3B
- We have a year to fix security everywhere
- GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea
- There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
- Jellyfin 12.0
- My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test
- I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
- Why the AfD Wins
- Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads
- A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on
- Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses
- Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
- AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
- No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds
- Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
- Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
- bzip3
- De-Brainrot Vacations
- Splash-free urinals (2025)
- Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
- Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
- Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
- 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
- Programming is Art
- It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
- Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
- TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings
- I refused to train the AI that could replace me
- Keep Our Servers Running
- 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
- Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
- Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?
- It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
- GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
- The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
- Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
- Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
- Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
- An Alien Mind
- Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
- How I feel about AI
- A/I shuts down
- Asahi Linux on M3
- QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
- Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
- Doomscrolling ourselves to death
- I changed my license
- You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
- Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
- Site Is Closed on Sundays
- GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
- Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
- Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
- The revolt of the reader
- South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
- Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
- LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
- The moral panic over data centres is foolish
- The Real Luxuries In Life
- Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
- Learn Programming with OCaml
- Bob and Van
- How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)
- Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
- Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
- How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret
- The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
- .gitignore Everything by Default
- Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
- Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
- Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
- AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
- Git hosting that never leaves Europe
- Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
- Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
- Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
- Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
- Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
- GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
- Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
- Can AI design circuit boards yet?
- Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
- Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
- “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
- Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
- Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
- Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com
- 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
- IBM Bob
- How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
- Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
- O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
- Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year
- 1Password Replied to My Disappointment
- Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
- The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
- GPT-6 Astra
- Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
- OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
- How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
- Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
- K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
- Grok outage
- Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
- .name Termination
- Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
- ChatGPT outage – Resolved
- Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
- Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
- New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
- Claude outage – Resolved
- Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
- Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
- Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
- Audacity 4.0
- Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
- Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
- Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
- GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
- METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
- VC isn't VC anymore
- Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
- Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools
- I wanna live an NPC life
- Fable 5.1 World Modeling
- Muse Spark 1.3
- The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
- Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
- I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't
- Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
- Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
- Exit the Cave
- Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
- Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
- Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
- Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
- Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
- Check if a file was made with Claude
- Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
- Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
- The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
- True Rate of Unemployment
- Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
- Hang on to Your Firefox
- Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
- Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
- The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
- How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
- Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
- The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC