TILens Daily Edition 2026-09-24 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 195 articles, 10 sources Top topics: General, AI, AWS ## News - Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/25/google-gemini-can-present-cartoon-or-lifelike-avatars-to-lip-sync-generative-chatter/5299016 - Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/25/crook-used-three-open-source-agents-to-break-into-a-fortune-500-hospitality-company-a-major-us-airline-and-25-other-orgs/5299012 - Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/waymo-is-scaling-fast-heres-what-the-fleet-data-shows/ - CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/cdc-opens-state-ordering-for-covid-19-vaccines-after-unexplained-delay/ - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/24/googles-tpus-to-catch-some-rays-in-orbit-next-week/5298990 - Donald Duck's uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/disneys-ludwig-von-drake-was-inspired-by-rocket-scientists-65-years-ago/ - F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/09/24/f-droid-app-store-thumbs-its-nose-at-googles-dev-crackdown/5298974 - Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/nexterity-wants-to-automate-the-hard-dangerous-part-of-pipefitting/ - Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/24/dockers-new-sandboxes-aim-to-contain-ai-agents-for-real/5298964 - F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-update-in-a-decade-with-new-ui-and-smoother-app-installs/ - Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/bring-your-co-founder-partner-or-colleague-and-get-50-off-a-second-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-pass/ - New York defies Trump admin, asks court to shut down Polymarket gambling Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-york-asks-court-to-shut-down-polymarkets-illegal-gambling-operation/ - Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/salesforce-agentforce-vulns-allowed-0-click-crm-data-theft-anonymous-phishing/5298958 - PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/prismml-brings-its-tiny-llms-to-qualcomm-powered-smart-glasses/ - Inside a Hong Kong Hackathon [Full freeCodeCamp Documentary] Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/inside-seahack-24-hours-to-build-an-ai-startup/ - Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/meet-feather-the-startup-building-the-android-of-robotics-for-developers/ - We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece" Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/09/we-have-a-trailer-for-musk-documentary-elon-called-a-hit-piece/ - Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/robots-make-combat-airdrops-clear-mines-as-ukraine-defeats-russian-pincer/ - Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/oracle-sends-force-majeure-notice-on-its-new-mexico-stargate-data-center/ - Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi? Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/24/metas-new-ai-fidget-is-a-tamagotchi/5298936 - Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/metas-muse-charm-looks-like-a-tamagotchi-but-its-tapping-into-a-much-newer-trend/ - Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/databricks-buys-row-zero-and-is-scouting-for-more-startups-to-acquire/ - Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/decades-old-file-security-flaws-found-in-android-linux-macos-and-windows/5298672 - Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/google-photos-clueless-inspired-virtual-closet-is-now-available-on-android-and-ios/ - TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/techcrunch-founder-summit-2026-everything-you-need-to-know/ - ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/twenty-minutes-with-the-ceo-of-elevenlabs-now-reportedly-valued-at-22-billion/ - iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/24/iphone-18-pro-benchmark-boosted-by-giving-it-a-cold-drink/5298918 - CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/24/cve-flood-pushes-ubuntu-onto-weekly-kernel-release-cycle/5298912 - How Executable Operational Specifications Can Make Software Automation Verifiable Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/executable-operational-specifications-software-automation/ - Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/meet-the-next-wave-of-vcs-judging-startup-battlefield-200-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-agent-didnt-accept-no-for-an-answer-in-australian-government-breach/ - AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/24/ai-boom-could-wipe-230-million-budget-phones-a-year-from-the-market/5298906 - Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/google-tests-letting-gemini-make-phone-calls-initially-for-us-pixel-owners/ - Formula 1 looks at 3.0 L V8 turbos and smaller hybrids for 2030 Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/formula-1-looks-at-3-0-l-v8-turbos-and-smaller-hybrids-for-2030/ - Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/someone-went-shopping-in-asuss-eshop-for-customer-data/5298860 - Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/shield-ai-waabi-and-general-motors-on-building-ai-when-failure-is-not-an-option-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/containers-cross-tenant-vulnerability/ - NASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of Moon's south pole Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/nasa-chief-concerned-china-may-deny-access-to-parts-of-south-pole/ - Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/09/24/sponsored/5298888 - Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/lovables-annualized-revenue-crosses-600m-as-vibe-coding-takes-off/ - Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/24/talk-of-ai-in-kde-sets-the-community-ablaze/5298854 - Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/ando-eyes-slack-as-it-builds-team-messaging-platform-for-humans-and-agents-to-work-together/ - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/techcrunch-disrupt-2026-cal-ais-zach-yadegari-on-how-to-create-viral-growth-and-capitalize-on-it/ - Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/meta-puts-its-ai-assistant-on-a-keychain/ - 2 days left to save up to $200 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass — reason 4 of 5 to attend Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/2-days-left-to-save-up-to-200-on-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-reason-5-7-to-attend/ - DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/24/doj-uncle-sam-bought-forensics-software-from-same-russian-operation-supplying-fsb/5298774 - Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/google-to-critical-infra-orgs-our-ai-scanners-wont-be-evil-promise/5298685 - Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/australia-to-investigate-if-openai-hack-of-government-health-website-broke-the-law/ - City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/09/24/city-council-may-be-waking-from-its-oracle-nightmare-but-the-accounting-hangover-continues/5298824 - Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/24/meta-ads-steered-polish-android-users-into-a-premium-rate-billing-trap/5298790 - There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/theres-a-new-way-to-break-rsa-thats-faster-than-anything-weve-seen-before/ - Review: Apple's hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/review-apples-hyper-pricey-m5-ultra-mac-studio-made-me-into-a-vibe-coder/ - HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/09/24/hsbc-decides-samsung-secure-folder-and-androids-private-space-are-no-place-for-a-banking-app/5298542 - For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/09/24/for-mariadb-llms-are-the-new-search-engines-to-win-over/5298104 - Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09/24/experts-question-whether-salesforce-demo-breaches-sap-api-policy/5298606 - Government contractor exposed path to immigration records Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/government-contractor-exposed-path-to-immigration-records/5298689 - Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/09/24/europes-internet-registry-wants-governance-correction-because-its-executive-board-is-not-the-executive/5298728 - India’s outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/channel/2026/09/24/indias-outsourced-software-industry-grows-95-percent-to-reach-239-billion/5298721 - TimescaleDB Course – PostgreSQL for Time-Series Data Source: freecodecamp Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/timescaledb-course-postgresql-for-time-series-data/ - Unlock the Power of AI Agents with the New Claude Certified Developer Foundations Course Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/unlock-the-power-of-ai-agents-with-the-new-claude-certified-developer-foundations-course/ - Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/everything-new-coming-to-metas-ai-agent-muse/ - OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/24/openais-astra-model-went-for-a-drive-and-no-one-died/5298715 - Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-made-a-tamagotchi-like-wearable-for-its-muse-ai-agent/ - OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’ Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/openai-agents-infiltrated-australian-government-website/5298702 - Meta VR headset 😎, Anthropic finds enzyme 🧬, code ownership 👨‍💻 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-09-24 ## Community - Remembering Johannes Doerfert Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-24-rememberingjohannesdoerfert/ - The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/ - GitLab Outage Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://status.gitlab.com/ - MentalHealthBench Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-mentalhealthbench/ - Docker releases cloud sandboxes, enabling safe agentic workloads in the cloud Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.docker.com/c/sbx-promo/ - Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/24/back-and-shoulder-surgery-is-often-worse-than-useless - Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/09/googles-first-suncatcher-orbital-data-center-test-launches-october-1/ - Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837325 - File Notification Attacks: Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://inoti.fyi/ - China reaches 5-minute EV charging Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/chinese-automakers-race-ahead-with-5-minute-ev-fast-charging-b0ce90ad - Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://koi.rest - Dutch designer made DE9: Closer to the Edit into a playable web-based instrument Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.creativeboom.com/work/why-merijn-straathof-turned-a-landmark-techno-album-into-a-playable-web-based-instrument/ - SkillOpt: Training Loop for Agent Skills Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://microsoft.github.io/SkillOpt/ - The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/ - How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed - California is chasing wealth that has feet Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that - Pencils Down, Eyes Open: A Rails Developer After Rails World Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://caio.ca/blog/pencils-down-eyes-open-rails-world - DDoS Attack Breaks Beloved Video Game Wiki After AI Bro Was Banned Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kotaku.com/ddos-attack-breaks-beloved-video-game-wiki-after-ai-bro-was-banned-2000729335 - Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://launchvideo.io - Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03469-z - Launching FreeBSD/EC2 desktop AMIs Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-09-24-Launching-FreeBSD-EC2-desktop-AMIs.html - Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/ - Tech leaders to UN: For sake of humanity, please control the AI tech we created Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-un-security-council-64519ea66b38e2600026f4481ad7f211 - August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/tcrf-2026-ddos-postmortem/ - Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835866 - Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical - African elephants putatively self-medicate with medicinal plants Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53610-4 - GPT-6 Sol is like GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-6 Luna is like GPT-5.6 Asteroid Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2103026209361719406 - Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-select-distinct-does-not-scale - New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-jersey-fines-data-center-1-1m-after-satellite-pics-expose-62-gas-generators/ - Show HN: Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+JavaScript, React) URL: https://radix-os.com - Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00811-4 - Programming Tutorials Are Dead Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://robrace.dev/blog/programming-tutorials-are-dead/ - Introducing Lev Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-09-24-introducing-lev.html - If you don't have the factories, you lose the expertise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/24/if-you-dont-have-the-factories-you-lose-the-expertise/ - AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://techworkersinquiry.org/ai/ - Show HN: Critic – Review code with the agent that wrote it Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.critic.run/ - The Rise of Audio AR (2024) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/10/the_rise_of_audio_ar.html - A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.instacloud.com/blogs/a-million-agents-is-a-distributed-systems-problem - Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard - LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html - The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-ai-build-out-is-becoming-the-biggest-economic-bet-in-u-s-history-c60716dd - Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833212 - Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver - Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/texas-prison-air-conditioning-lawsuit-ruling/ - A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.movingimagearchive.com/ - Europe Must Choose Between Power and Dependence Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://slavoj.substack.com/p/europe-must-choose - Platform-independent SIMD in Go Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Go) URL: https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment - LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://therecord.media/linkedin-wins-court-order-blocking-mass-scraping - GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/09/24/github-has-not-removed-malicious-imitation-software-after-3-weeks/ - Nine countries without internet that never disconnected Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://observedstate.com/en/cases/ioda-probe-contrast.html - Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/chinese-calligraphy-workshop/ - Show HN: Most Hated Tools Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.mosthatedtools.app/ - F-Droid 2.0 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html - Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/tutoring-company-tell-parents-to-save-their-money-and-use-ai-instead-20260923-p60z0r - Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-used-bookstores-see-5x-sales-surge-as-books-are-being-bought-by-the-ton-one-50-ton-order-sent-to-the-us-for-ai-scanning-and-destruction-multitude-of-suspicious-bulk-buys-thought-to-end-up-in-foreign-ai-scan-and-shred-facilities - AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-mostly-a-sex-cult-in - Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN5ERktXz0 - Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.madhukaraphatak.in/non-destructive-refusal-supression-using-engram - Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/09/22/voter-registration-applications-unprocessed-dps-error/ - Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf - Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.pagetable.com/300 - Best LLM for every budget, updated daily Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com/ - Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/ - Massive Parallel Imports in Neo4j Without Deadlock and Lock Contention Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Databases) URL: https://medium.com/neo4j/massive-parallel-imports-in-neo4j-without-deadlock-and-lock-contention-2c003a48d49a - Is A.I. Above the Law? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/is-ai-above-the-law - Two and a half years without a gallbladder Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/16/two-and-a-half-years-without-a-gallbladder/ - From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://amutable.com/blog/tine-build-system - katamari architecture Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://nove.dev/blog/katamari-architecture/ - Casilda 1.6 Released Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2026/09/24/casilda-1-6-released/ - Apple's Two-Tier Encryption in the UK Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/ - Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on-controversial-data-center - Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/ - RAM: the forgotten history Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/memory-the-forgotten-history - 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/24/thats-so-ai-what-gen-alphas-biggest-insult-tells-us - Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/parsing-expression-grammar-lisp-org-convert-to-html/index.html - We Have Named Arguments at Home Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/named-arguments-at-home/ - Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://adekau.github.io/posts/2020/llamas.html - Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://medium.com/@arielsimon/dark-sourcery-how-hackers-manipulate-ai-to-scam-you-88df434d2073 - Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal - The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/newest-esp32-run-linux-close-to-raspberry-pi/ - Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ - I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/ - Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/24/starlink-ground-station-in-poland-hit-by-fire-in-suspected-arson-attack/ - Nokia Design Archive (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c - SaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mtu6c5wsvc2n - Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/driceroland/Search - Show HN: Trader News – Hacker News for Finance Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828019 - The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/ - Combining Machine Learning and Homomorphic Encryption in the Apple Ecosystem Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encryption - Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/ - Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/09/24/microsoft-tried-to-ban-microslop-and-six-months-later-it-has-given-up/ - The Year of Internal Tools Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-09-23-the-year-of-internal-tools - Nuros – AI study tools from notes, PDFs, videos, and links Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nuros.app/ - Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com/ - whatsnewt: A TUI text adventure through what's new in Python 3.15 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Python) URL: https://pypi.org/project/whatsnewt/ - Initial DIY cleanroom experimentation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/initial-diy-cleanroom-experimentation - Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2026/09/clankers-made-me-build-a-second-brain/ - agent-shell 0.78 updates Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-78-updates - Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://transluce.org/agent-activity - Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMRgvyTm08 - Katamari Object Library Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://katamari.andrew-boylan.com/ - OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6vgy0333dppo - Contrastive Language Models Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/ - Nori LLM: Achieving Over 1M tok / s Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://noriagentic.com/nori-llm.html - A 13-Year-Old Has Been Cured of DIPG, the Deadliest Childhood Brain Cancer Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.imapac.com/news-updates/world-first-a-13-year-old-has-been-cured-of-dipg-the-deadliest-childhood-brain-cancer - 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tuckerosman.com/projects/16gb-ipod-nano - Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/ - OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt - The Misalignment Is Within: Why Mathematics Must Embrace the AI Paradigm Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://medium.com/@b1nj0y/the-misalignment-is-within-why-mathematics-must-embrace-the-ai-paradigm-8ba75c4bafda - Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/australia-openai-agent-breach-government-portal-6406411 - Pentagon Investigating How F-35 Fighter Jet Parts Bound for US Were Diverted Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.military.com/pentagon-investigating-how-f-35-fighter-jet-parts-bound-for-us-were-diverted-to-hong-kong - AP: Avoid language that gives [AI] human characteristics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/2102807962364383502 - Liquid Network Security Incident Assessment Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.blockstream.com/liquid-network-security-incident-assessment/ - FLAWED's Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://suhacker.ai/p/flaweds-flaws-and-what-this-means-for-industry-research/ - Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Databases) URL: https://csixty4.medium.com/pick-is-a-living-fossil-of-computer-history-36d74408d557 - Nesbox: A fast MicroVM with GPU sharing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/nestrilabs/nesbox - Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu - Scientists build most accurate atomic clock Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-scientists-world-accurate-atomic-clock.html - JEV Engineering for Coding Agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17h982xvsL3E7b80iGmOCfKp9qTOW9ohv/view?pli=1 - Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://carbon.ms/self-hosted - Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign - Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1124870 - AI-CAD: An OSS Multi-Agent Harness for Mech. Eng. CAD Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/ai-cad-labs/ai-cad ## Media - A Developer’s Guide to Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMW8wot2sd4 - Turn Audio into Action with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xhPB-wWIQ - Prevent surprise cloud bills: enforce hard spending caps on Gemini API & Vertex AI Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiqabpMJJNE - Gemini is coming to your city Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NkMSCRQNs1M - Let's Learn GitHub Copilot SDK Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAEQt_yqfLA - Are developers mourning the craft of coding in the AI era? Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/arhEVn0bAdM