TILens Daily Edition 2026-09-13 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 140 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, PostgreSQL ## News - Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/unvaccinated-pennsylvania-woman-died-of-measles-complications-coroner-says/ - Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/insight-partners-devin-parekh-on-why-the-firm-is-diversifying-while-everyone-else-bets-the-farm-on-openai-and-anthropic/ - Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/larry-ellison-cancels-7-5-billion-sale-of-oracle-stock/ - The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/the-9-buzziest-startups-from-y-combinators-latest-demo-day-according-to-vcs/ - What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom? Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/whats-behind-the-ai-industrys-latest-warnings-of-doom/ - Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/obama-urges-democrats-to-have-a-clear-plan-for-ai-safeguards/ - TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/techcrunch-mobility-lyft-has-entered-the-robotaxi-chat/ - Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/fusion-power-startups-find-new-partners-in-the-defense-world/ - The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/13/the-improbable-music-of-the-zx-spectrums-one-bit-speaker/5295862 - Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/13/security-through-obscurity-is-dead-and-ai-delivered-the-fatal-blow/5296000 - I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-fixed-a-tractor-using-john-deeres-self-repair-service-farmers-arent-sold-on-it/ - How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/13/how-to-make-xfce-look-like-almost-any-desktop-you-want/5295775 ## Community - The Coming War on General Computation (2011) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation - Dynamics in Mesoscopic Systems Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ds.mpg.de/meso/en - Rat and Mouse Gazette: Nursing Care (1996) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.rmca.org/Articles/nurse.htm - Fixing an NZXT Signal 4K30 part 2: the green/pink video bug Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2026/09/fixing-an-nzxt-signal-4k30-part-2-the-green-pink-video-bug/ - Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019) Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ - Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlantic-city-sand-sculpture/ - Signal Distilled Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://signaldistilled.com/ - It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/instinct-ai-personal-assistant-credit-card/688607/ - Show HN: Dep-radius, know which dependency updates touch your code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dep-radius - Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.bostonscientific.com/update-on-recent-cybersecurity-incident - The Three AI Pills Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/the-three-ai-pills/ - The End of Friday Nights with Friends Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231261478215 - The contagion of fear Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/ - Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689 - Donald Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for AI slowdown Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/cae60732-f929-4735-a627-db8c14e7c7ed - Meta$^N$: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Emergent Depth Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24735 - Show HN: Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://juandecos.github.io/TurboZip/vortex.html - DeepSeek Peak Hours Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://deepseek-peak-hours.sivaram.dev/ - Show HN: What Just Pinged Me? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://whatjustpingedme.com - Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jdp38z4jgo - Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://petrelvoyage.com/app - Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10 - The Human Use of Human Beings - Norbert Wiener (1989) [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://monoskop.org/images/6/60/Wiener_Norbert_The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings_1989.pdf - Singeli: High-level interface for low-level programming Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://github.com/mlochbaum/Singeli - DuckDB 2.0 Pushes Whole Queries Through ADBC–10–11× Faster on PostgreSQL Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://query.farm/blog/one-query-one-arrow-stream-adbc-duckdb-2/ - Why is privacy so hard? (2019) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/ - The Outrageous Collapse of a 'Montessori Ponzi' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/business/guidepost-montessori-higher-ground-education-ray-girn.html - Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich - Jason Arday and the Corruption of Science Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/jason-arday-and-the-corruption-of - Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ - Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempted-ouster-by-board/ - The case against JPEG XL Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl - Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428 - There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://singjupost.com/startalk-there-is-no-ai-really-its-just-people-w-jaron-lanier-transcript/ - The Seizure of Bab El-Mandeb: Why Tanker Rates Are Exploding [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n76tCHtJfmQ - US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’ Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/us-diplomat-flown-home-immunity-bv58b3v7q - Purely Functional Operating Systems Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://eighty-twenty.org/2022/06/23/henderson-functional-operating-systems-1982 - Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/ - AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/ - Suicidal Compassion: Utilitarianism at AI Companies Endangers Humanity Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/suicidal-compassion-how-utilitarianism-at-ai-companies-endangers-humanity - Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://aloysberger.com/posts/writing-a-guix-service-from-scratch-as-a-beginner.html - Piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea8318 - Built a Lego minifigure configurator. Shuffle until something makes you laugh Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://minifigs-studio.vercel.app/ - I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dreamstation.systems/personal/tesla.html - Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://guessingheadlights.com/global-shortage-has-led-to-motor-oil-rationing-at-costco/ - Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/courses/cosc562/drivers.html - Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads - Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686380 - Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/google-illegally-retains-customer-data-and-i-am-taking-legal-action-against-them-7da0cf95941c - Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686233 - Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7586821/2026/09/12/football-black-card-referee/ - David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460 - Iran 'blew the hell out of' base in Bahrain, acting Navy Secretary admits Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-base-bahrain-iran-damage/ - A simple model of AI-aided economic growth Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/a-simple-model-of-ai-aided-economic-growth.html - The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html - Better routing, probe fixes, plugin updates in Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1507 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-075-build-1507-fix-probe-routing-plugins-and-upkeep.html - US Military tests quantum sensors for flight navigation without GPS over Pacific Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/US-military-tests-quantum-sensors-for-flight-navigation-without-GPS-over-Pacific-11444778.html - Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Dillonsmart/docket - Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/ - Sorry, Wrong Number: Debugging a Crash under Wine (2022) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.jchw.dev/wrong-number/ - Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://belderbos.dev/blog/how-libraries-run-rust-inside-python/ - How Google Sees Your Site Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/how-google-sees-your-site/ - Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's position on Flock's standing today? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684989 - Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything. Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://prior.chat/ - Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cpak.it/ - Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment - CUDA for AMD on Windows Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows - OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/enactic/OpenArm - Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://clashreport.com/world/articles/houthis-used-claude-code-to-develop-missile-guidance-software-anthropic-s52mnx4pwpo - An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://originmap.sunnyguha.com/ - Making Startups Powerful Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html - Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-1-the-pc-side/ - Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzrU38pGWc - Data collected by cars and sold to third parties Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data - Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/11/mars-astronauts-could-live-in-houses-made-of-yeast-and-jello-say-scientists/5295931 - US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/us-customs-supervisor-busted-for-stealing-core-i7-cpus-ram-and-hard-drives-from-homeland-security-pcs-stolen-tech-swapped-with-inferior-hardware-and-cashed-out-on-newegg - This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://a6mzero.com/posts/this-pcb-is-brought-to-you-by-fable-5/ - 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/fingerprints-inside-sun-could-reveal-if-it-once-swallowed-planet - First Naval Drone Duel Results in Ukrainian Success Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/09/worlds-first-naval-drone-duel-results-in-ukrainian-success/ - Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.analystidx.com/ - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://exquisite.tube/w/3QQimMdswWJxrsPaJtak2u - Switching to GNU Guix: A Beginner's Perspective Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://whhone.com/posts/switching-to-gnu-guix/ - what if my git host were a static site generator? Source: lobsters Topic: General (+JavaScript, Web) URL: https://char.lt/blog/2026/09/sorcery-repo-viewer/ - Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://invezz.com/news/2026/09/11/nvidia-says-every-1-it-invests-brings-back-100-so-why-does-the-stock-keep-falling/ - Golang developers should try Odin Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://rm4n0s.github.io/posts/2-go-devs-should-learn-odin/ - Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-requests/ - Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/ - Stabilizing Rust's never type Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/ - Homebrew 7.0.0 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/ - Can a regex match valid card numbers? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://abstractnonsense.xyz/blog/2025-08-31-can-a-regex-match-valid-card-numbers/ - Session Context — what a web page knows about you Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://sessioncontext.org - The Edsac Film (1951, 1976) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhRRj6WYcs - Deepfakes are wrecking influencers' credibility, one fake ad at a time Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/12/deepfakes-wrecking-influencers-credibility - Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/215320/texts-kash-patel-order-staff-mean-social-media-posts-ifindretards - After Math Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/after-math/ - Being lazy in C++ Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://cpp-rendering.io/being-lazy-in-c/ - JetKVM Mini Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini - New Science Says Scrapping a Working Gas Car for an EV Is Usually Greener Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/16/scrapping-working-gas-car-for-ev-can-be-greener/ - Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/09/11/sierra-digital-cameras-on-the-apple-ii/ - Watch what you say: Apple opens the door to a nightmare world of always-listening tech Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/watch-what-you-say-apple-opens-the-door-to-a-nightmare-world-of-always-listening-tech/ - Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-ai-researchers-think-the-machines-could-kill-everyone/ - Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/dont-call-yourself-an-artisanal-programmer/ - When anyone can build software, who decides what not to build? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://architectureintel.com/when-anyone-can-build-software-who-decides-what-not-to-build-ae07fdb370e4 - Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT2-7KkPkBc - JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/916eea1b-d483-49e1-9a70-53b4df8f9870 - Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/06/data-races-and-the-limits-of-threadsanitizer-in-c-and-go.html - Roon: "I think open source will be banned" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/2098875417373634944 - JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-jwst-extreme-star-galaxies-masquerading.html - A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-black-hole-caught.html - MacFileSizing – What is consuming my disk space? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/jaccon/macfilesizing/tree/main - Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://venturebeat.com/security/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-swarm-could-take-over-the-entire-internet-in-6-12-months-commits-to-ai-slowdown-plan - Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/stoix-dev/sefaz-webservices-postman - A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/succession-crisis-tore-england-apart - Aligned to whom? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hyperbo.la/w/aligned-to-whom/ - Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679602 - From Git to Fossil (2025) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lucio.albenga.es/web-en/posts/2025/from-git-to-fossil.html - The Interim Computer Museum Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://icm.museum/ - A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-dick-smith-vz200-without-dick-smith.html - Professor Leonard is back [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQZ6yahKJk - Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating - Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-a-new-form-of-ice-at-more-than-2000-c - Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/canada-alliance-eu-carney-276f1778 - heol Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/heol.html - The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds Physically Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://exquisite.tube/w/nQbc54t4G7YGaqiryZ7mg1 - Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.social-protocols.org/penalties - Everyone should slow down AI development except for me Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/ - Iran's Internet Blackout Is Almost Impossible to Escape Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-iran-internet/ ## Media - Today is for the programmers 🍻 Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ecN07D8gMk8