TILens Daily Edition 2026-09-26 Filters: github=hidden Stats: 210 articles, 27 sources, 2 research papers Top topics: General, JavaScript, AI ## News - JEP targeted to JDK 28: 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview) Source: inside-java Topic: Java URL: https://inside.java/2026/09/26/jep539-target-jdk28/ - The Python documentation is now available in German Source: python-insider Topic: Python URL: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/python-docs-in-german/ - Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/cheap-yellow-display-dreams-of-pda/ - Extending react-grid-layout: Cross-Instance Drag & Drop + Multi-Level Nesting Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+React) URL: https://dev.to/andrii_taranenko_8237af66/extending-react-grid-layout-cross-instance-drag-drop-multi-level-nesting-19gi - what i learned about referrers building a cookieless analytics tool Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/omyvnss/what-i-learned-about-referrers-building-a-cookieless-analytics-tool-51fi - Privacy-Preserving Client-Side Processing: Rethinking Where Web Applications Handle User Data Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/utilvo/privacy-preserving-client-side-processing-rethinking-where-web-applications-handle-user-data-3d57 - How to get access to DOM from Service Worker? Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/jcubic/how-to-get-access-to-dom-from-service-worker-43e3 - I built FreshDeploy to verify web deployments after release Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/devdvgs/i-built-freshdeploy-to-verify-web-deployments-after-release-3p64 - I Missed @Service in Node.js, So I Built It with Express Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/mikejung/i-missed-service-in-nodejs-so-i-built-it-with-express-1d7m - Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/insurers-claim-ai-is-already-increasing-healthcare-costs/ - 😸 DEEP DIVE: An AI Agent Lied to a Person to Get Its Way Source: the-neuron-ai Topic: AI (+AI Research) URL: https://www.theneuron.ai/newsletter/deep-dive-an-ai-agent-lied-to-a-person-to-get-its-way/ - From HTML to JavaScript: My Learning Journey Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/fafacodes/from-html-to-javascript-my-learning-journey-15j9 - Authentication vs Authorization: Reaching an Admin Panel Without the Password Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/armando284/authentication-vs-authorization-reaching-an-admin-panel-without-the-password-55p9 - LocalBusiness Schema for Multi-Location Sites: A Practical JSON-LD Pattern Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/hello_nakama_f89fb103e925/localbusiness-schema-for-multi-location-sites-a-practical-json-ld-pattern-2a1h - TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/tiktok-agrees-to-pay-at-least-100m-in-alabama-settlement/ - Measuring Order Book vs AMM Share on the XRP Ledger Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/nyxagi/measuring-order-book-vs-amm-share-on-the-xrp-ledger-5c5n - Step into the Creative Mind of Guillermo del Toro Source: adafruit-blog Topic: Hardware URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/09/26/step-into-the-creative-mind-of-guillermo-del-toro/ - Self-Repairing Conductive Material from Liquid Metal Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/self-repairing-conductive-material-from-liquid-metal/ - Electron says 'unspecified', Playwright wants 'Lax', and the session cookies vanished Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/daniel_pertu/electron-says-unspecified-playwright-wants-lax-and-the-session-cookies-vanished-l0j - Hooking URL.createObjectURL: How My Chrome Extension Saves Instagram Voice Notes as They Play Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/jinchaoh/hooking-urlcreateobjecturl-how-my-chrome-extension-saves-instagram-voice-notes-as-they-play-4e7c - Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/meta-says-it-will-run-ads-for-musk-documentary-after-all/ - A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/a-pocket-sized-digital-fish-tank/ - Levoit’s new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/levoits-new-air-purifier-is-for-the-pet-odors-that-have-taken-over-your-apartment/ - How to build high-converting in-app announcements without sacrificing INP & LCP Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+React) URL: https://dev.to/pavan_s_poojary/how-to-build-high-converting-in-app-announcements-without-sacrificing-inp-lcp-1ln4 - Build a Text-to-Speech App with ElevenLabs and Python Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/voice_developer/build-a-text-to-speech-app-with-elevenlabs-and-python-3435 - Turning a photo into a cross-stitch pattern in the browser: the actual pipeline Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/mcinstinct/turning-a-photo-into-a-cross-stitch-pattern-in-the-browser-the-actual-pipeline-1mc4 - Calendars Are State Machines in Disguise: Building a Deterministic Date Engine in JavaScript Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/karecohen/calendars-are-state-machines-in-disguise-building-a-deterministic-date-engine-in-javascript-3h4h - Your AI doesn’t think in pixels: feed it the language it actually understands, cut token overhead and layout hallucinations Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/albertvilella/your-ai-doesnt-think-in-pixels-feed-it-the-language-it-actually-understands-cut-token-overhead-47o2 - How I Built a Cinematic 3D Fitness Website with React Three Fiber and Three.js Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+AI, React) URL: https://dev.to/officialasforge/how-i-built-a-cinematic-3d-fitness-website-with-react-three-fiber-and-threejs-4dk2 - I Thought a Calendar Was Just a 7-Column Grid Until I Started Building One Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/karecohen/i-thought-a-calendar-was-just-a-7-column-grid-until-i-started-building-one-5chi - GDB 18.1 released Source: lwn Topic: Open Source URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1096897/ - How to Use AI for Code Refactoring Without Breaking Your App Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+AI) URL: https://dev.to/learnairesource/how-to-use-ai-for-code-refactoring-without-breaking-your-app-34nk - Avoiding vendor lock-in through an open-source approach: a developer’s perspective Source: newstack Topic: DevOps URL: https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-vendor-lock-in/ - Three timestamp bugs worth catching before they reach your API Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/timestampinfo/three-timestamp-bugs-worth-catching-before-they-reach-your-api-53m5 - How to Read C2PA and IPTC AI Labels From Image Bytes in Node.js Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+AI, React) URL: https://dev.to/super_lewis/how-to-read-c2pa-and-iptc-ai-labels-from-image-bytes-in-nodejs-5bcl - EP227: Top 9 Places to Use Jev Source: bytebytego Topic: Architecture (+AI) URL: https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/ep227-top-9-places-to-use-jev - JavaScript Arrow Functions Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/megalraja/javascript-arrow-functions-i9i - I built a 100% client-side File Converter in React & WebAssembly (Zero Cloud Uploads) Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+React) URL: https://dev.to/pradeeprathod1165/i-built-a-100-client-side-file-converter-in-react-webassembly-zero-cloud-uploads-m9n - The Least Annoying of All Evils Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/the-least-annoying-of-all-evils/ - The agent didn’t break your controls. It went around them. Source: newstack Topic: DevOps URL: https://thenewstack.io/inside-out-agent-security/ - Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python Source: real-python Topic: Python URL: https://realpython.com/python3-object-oriented-programming/ - Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? Source: real-python Topic: Python URL: https://realpython.com/inner-functions-what-are-they-good-for/ - I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/i-created-an-interactive-digital-avatar-of-myself-and-you-can-talk-to-it/ - Claude Opus 5.5 vs. Opus 5 on reasoning tasks: Cheaper, faster, but not better Source: newstack Topic: DevOps (+AI) URL: https://thenewstack.io/claude-opus-5-5-vs-opus-5/ - Quiz: When Do You Use an Ellipsis in Python? Source: real-python Topic: Python URL: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-ellipsis/ - You Can Make a Microprocessor That’s All Your Own Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/you-can-make-a-microprocessor-thats-all-your-own/ - Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design Source: infoq-architecture Topic: Architecture URL: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/adaptive-recommendation-systems-architecture/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Architecture+%26+Design - Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/teslas-big-electric-truck-faces-an-even-bigger-infrastructure-challenge/ - How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/26/how-samsung-turned-months-of-inactivity-into-a-very-attention-seeking-smartphone/5298736 - Cloudflare Details its Migration to "WordPress Successor" EmDash Source: infoq-architecture Topic: Architecture URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-emdash-migration/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Architecture+%26+Design - Upscaling anime in the browser: why I stopped trusting the AI model alone Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/maxslashwang/upscaling-anime-in-the-browser-why-i-stopped-trusting-the-ai-model-alone-52ba - Building an AI-Directed Browser Roguelite with a Deterministic Baseline Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/kang_wang_375088cb68739bf/building-an-ai-directed-browser-roguelite-with-a-deterministic-baseline-2848 - Your AI wrote 40 tests. How many would catch a real bug? Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/nikolay_chernev_a67479931/your-ai-wrote-40-tests-how-many-would-catch-a-real-bug-16df - When does an if/else become a Strategy? Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/kaibuilds/when-does-an-ifelse-become-a-strategy-5eik - Launching a browser game Beta with no save wipes and 2,000 free copies Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+React) URL: https://dev.to/idlecultivation/launching-a-browser-game-beta-with-no-save-wipes-and-2000-free-copies-27oc - I built 59 free browser-based dev tools in vanilla JS — here's what I learned Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+AI, React) URL: https://dev.to/yuvaraj_radhakrishnan_224/i-built-59-free-browser-based-dev-tools-in-vanilla-js-heres-what-i-learned-31kj - Building a real-time multiplayer drawing game with Socket.IO: rooms, timers, scoring (and the bugs I'd fix) Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+React) URL: https://dev.to/shreyashtripathi/building-a-real-time-multiplayer-drawing-game-with-socketio-rooms-timers-scoring-and-the-bugs-3i4j - HTML to Markdown to embeddings: a RAG ingestion pipeline in ~50 lines of JavaScript Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript (+AI) URL: https://dev.to/owen_king_e3d7d83a33c46c8/html-to-markdown-to-embeddings-a-rag-ingestion-pipeline-in-50-lines-of-javascript-3mon - Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/26/space-jam-uk-debuts-space-squadron-to-protect-satellites/5299119 - canvas.toBlob won't tell you it ignored your format or your quality Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/token111/canvastoblob-wont-tell-you-it-ignored-your-format-or-your-quality-48d - My upload slider never worked: canvas.toBlob ignores quality: '0.8' Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/shu_jing_915fa287b22539ad/my-upload-slider-never-worked-canvastoblob-ignores-quality-08-15gj - canvas.toBlob quietly hands you a PNG: which formats each browser engine can really encode Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/yue_shu_c621a4a637f22396f/canvastoblob-quietly-hands-you-a-png-which-formats-each-browser-engine-can-really-encode-9ne - canvas.toBlob ignores a string quality, and my first check for it was wrong Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/iterandum/canvastoblob-ignores-a-string-quality-and-my-first-check-for-it-was-wrong-10ee - Easy Ways To Sink a Hardware Startup Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/easy-ways-to-sink-a-hardware-startup/ - Abusing SQL to Play DOOM Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/abusing-sql-to-play-doom/ - The @Find Annotation in Hibernate Source: baeldung Topic: Java URL: https://www.baeldung.com/java-hibernate-find-annotation - JavaScript Training with Live Projects: Why Practical Experience Matters Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/webdevcommunity/javascript-training-with-live-projects-why-practical-experience-matters-205m - Building an Accessible Angular Combobox: What the ARIA Checklist Doesn't Tell You Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/rawia_ahmed_7514e4af94630/building-an-accessible-angular-combobox-what-the-aria-checklist-doesnt-tell-you-5dhc - KryonOS turns ESP32 boards into JavaScript-powered mini computer Source: cnx-software Topic: Hardware URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/26/kryonos-turns-esp32-boards-into-javascript-powered-mini-computer/ - The Low-Level Waste Dumps in The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems Source: hackaday Topic: Hardware URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/the-low-level-waste-dumps-in-the-atlantic-have-become-ecosystems/ - AiboJam: Sony’s desktop dog escapes onto a $40 Fruit Jam Source: adafruit-blog Topic: Hardware URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/09/25/aibojam-sonys-desktop-dog-escapes-onto-a-40-fruit-jam/ - At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/at-meta-connect-the-companys-smart-glasses-were-everywhere/ - Building Limn League 2027: A Complete Football Game in Pure JavaScript Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/kehinde_owolabi_e2e54567a/building-limn-league-2027-a-complete-football-game-in-pure-javascript-2idm - A verified beacon can still give you the wrong number Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/kepler_ops/a-verified-beacon-can-still-give-you-the-wrong-number-1oj4 - This Fake Hospital Is Stress-Testing AI on the Work Doctors Actually Do Source: the-neuron-ai Topic: AI (+AI Research) URL: https://www.theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/this-fake-hospital-is-stress-testing-ai-on-the-work-doctors-actually-do/ - Offensive Coding: Exploiting JavaScript's Tiny Door Source: devto-javascript Topic: JavaScript URL: https://dev.to/one_user_4e8b9b04ce8/offensive-coding-exploiting-javascripts-tiny-door-58fn ## Research - AI Slop Is Already in Your Training Dataset. I Tested Three Ways to Spot It. Source: towards-data-science Topic: AI Research (+AI, Python) URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-slop-is-now-in-your-training-dataset-i-tested-three-ways-to-spot-it/ - Your LLM Has a Curved Space of Paragraphs Source: towards-data-science Topic: AI Research (+AI, Python) URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/your-llm-has-a-curved-space-of-paragraphs/ ## Community - Kākāpō Party Source: simon-willison Topic: Python (+AI, Django) URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/26/kakapo-party/ - Stream::unfold vs direct channel filtering Source: rust-users-forum Topic: Rust URL: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/stream-unfold-vs-direct-channel-filtering/142628 - Pre-RFC: Compile-time conditional branching on trait implementations Source: rust-internals Topic: Rust URL: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-compile-time-conditional-branching-on-trait-implementations/24623 - How ownership is transferring in same vars? Source: rust-users-forum Topic: Rust URL: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-ownership-is-transferring-in-same-vars/142617 - Awaiting async code in Drop Source: rust-users-forum Topic: Rust URL: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/awaiting-async-code-in-drop/142614 - How to specify that two generic type parameters are the same type but have different lifetimes Source: rust-users-forum Topic: Rust URL: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-to-specify-that-two-generic-type-parameters-are-the-same-type-but-have-different-lifetimes/142613 - Is it possible to quasiquote a concrete version of a generic type inside a proc macro? Source: rust-users-forum Topic: Rust URL: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-quasiquote-a-concrete-version-of-a-generic-type-inside-a-proc-macro/142611 - Allow pycache_prefix in pyvenv.cfg Source: discuss-python-ideas Topic: Python URL: https://discuss.python.org/t/allow-pycache-prefix-in-pyvenv-cfg/109249 - A Work-Stealing Scheduler in OCaml Source: ocaml-planet Topic: OCaml URL: https://funcp.org/work-stealing-scheduler-in-ocaml - Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: max_slot_wal_keep_size Source: planet-postgresql Topic: PostgreSQL URL: https://postgr.es/p/9vI - Mikhail Shytsko: Our Interleaved Backfill Wrote Three Times the WAL Source: planet-postgresql Topic: PostgreSQL URL: https://postgr.es/p/9vJ - ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/shinyhunters-hackers-say-they-stole-psychiatric-medical-records-fbi-staff-2026-09-25/ - What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://this.os.isfine.org/blog/posts/what-reverse-engineering-and-modernising-an-old-war-game-tells-us-about-the-econ/ - Top AI companies probing security incidents Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-anthropic-thousands-ai-security-incidents - Allegations of sexual harassment and rape at Bay Area AI party houses Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/report-details-allegations-of-wild-parties-sexual-harassment-and-rape-at-bay-area-ai-party-houses/ - Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Steam-Beta-Pyrowave - Turn GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like System One model Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash - OpenAI pauses training of its 'most capable models' Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001049/openai-training-pause - An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/26/openai-agent-escaped-sandbox-dns-external-chatbot-models-paused/ - Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-relay-station/ - mantle.nes breakdown blog part 1 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://melon.zone/blog/blog/gamedev/tech/fun/2026-09-23-mantle-nes-breakdown-part-1/ - New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/new-boeing-737-max-software-glitch-could-disrupt-navigation-feature-d537b8d8 - Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/ - The Case for Learning in the Era of AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jonbehnken.substack.com/p/the-case-for-learning - The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-beatles-permeated-papers-academic-disciplines.html - Video CDs Break Windows Explorer Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html - Teaching GPU programming in p5.js: now with compute shaders Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.davepagurek.com/blog/p5-compute-shaders/ - My brother's new high rise apartment doesn't allow individual internet services Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/mQRDnpsNvs - Honeypot on the boykisser forum Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.boykisser.nl/2026/09/26/honeypot-on-the-boykisser-forum/ - Deploying Guix images on Linode Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dthompson.us/posts/deploying-guix-images-on-linode.html - This is a modern motherfucking website Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems/ - Commodore 64: Mercenary Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/ - I built my daughter a custom alarm clock because everything on Amazon sucked Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://reclaimtheday.substack.com/p/i-built-my-daughter-a-custom-smart - A4 paper format / International standard paper sizes (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html - HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/ - DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978 - Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-futures-into-doubt - Show HN: Museum of Numbers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://numbermuseum.com/2147483647 - Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html - What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23998083261458842 - Washington Heights Man Cleans One NYC Block a Day for 100 Days,Neighbors Join In Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hoodline.com/2026/09/washington-heights-man-cleans-one-nyc-block-a-day-for-100-days-neighbors-join-in/ - Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw - The Evolution of Vending Machines Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vending-machines/ - Show HN: Spivak's Calculus formalized in Lean 4 – every theorem, every problem Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/stormj-UH/spivak-lean - Font where each token is equal-width Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/amplifiedamp/status/2103535129503383700 - Newly Discovered Neo Asteroid 2026 SA8 Close but Safe Approach Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.astrophyzix.com/2026/09/asteroid-2026SA8-approach.html - US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-jury-says-apple-owes-record-57-billion-haptic-technology-patent-case-2026-09-26/ - How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jamiesimon.io/blog/how-to-win-a-beer-with-high-dimensional-statistics/ - Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/optimizing-x264-settings-and-per-title-ladders.html - I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip - Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs - Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent - Reassurance Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com/reassurance/ - Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/25/apple-pay-antitrust-lawsuit-advances/ - Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/ - Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people's data to the web Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/some-supabase-customers-are-publicly-exposing-reams-of-peoples-data-to-the-web/ - Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/ - Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/brumar/chess-postmortem-skills - Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe - New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://scitechdaily.com/new-satellite-engine-could-use-earths-atmosphere-as-fuel-to-stay-in-orbit-indefinitely/ - There is more to code review than (automatable) detection Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-detection/ - The art forger who became a national hero Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://priceonomics.com/the-art-forger-who-became-a-national-hero/ - Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81639 - Go Concurrency Distilled Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/ - Pennsylvania's measles outbreak: 55 new cases reported in 2 days Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pennlive.com/health/2026/09/pas-deadly-measles-outbreak-55-new-cases-reported-in-2-days.html - Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260924231343.htm - Dissecting House of Apple 2 on modern glibc Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://jazho76.github.io/house_of_apple_2/ - Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fakecloud.dev/ - AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23642 - Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper - OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo - Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: http://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html - The lost atomic update on LoongArch LA664 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/ - Improving site performance by shipping more CSS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/ - Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.lasso.security/blog/the-provenance-tax-understanding-the-impact-of-llm-watermarking-on-ai-agent-behavior - Wrong, not broken Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-insights/wrong-not-broken/ - Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://swarmtraces.org/ - The Greatest Pun in JavaScript Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2026-09/pun.html - Uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/google-ads-caught-delivering-convincing-scareware-ads-to-unsuspecting-users/ - Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ - Can we have reachability properties in TLA⁺? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-26-reachability/ - Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html - 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/gobeklitepe-burials-hundreds-of-scattered-bones/ - The Graveyard of Good Ideas Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlQ81rBc-4 - One Month Without AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html - The Copilot+ PC brand is dead Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding - How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705 - Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story - Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://feyor.sh/blog/infecting-the-steam-link-with-nixos/ - Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://floci.io - CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-human-they-prove-youre-american/ - Flip Fluid on Flip Dots Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip - The far side of the Moon provides clues to a previous magnetic field Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/09/the-far-side-of-the-moon-provides-clues-to-a-previous-magnetic-field.html - Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://safenotsafe.dev/ - Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/alberta-canada-rat-patrol - Tuning a Server for Benchmarking Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/tuning-a-server-for-benchmarking/ - US DOE will give $5.25B to upgrade the grid for AI datacenters Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/25/uncle-sam-coughs-up-19b-for-grid-upgrades-as-datacenters-hit-a-power-wall/5299276 - If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/ - The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1 - A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html - An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/ - Suggestion to replace LibreOffice with Collabora as default on Fedora Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Discuss-Collabora-Office - The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/ - Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-science-postberg/index.html - Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/rgodha24/walgithub - We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/ - Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal - HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.homelabfest.org - Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/ - Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8 - Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260417085404.htm - How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-became-code-execution-on-a-streamers-pc/ - Ukraine's army is experimenting with using Steam Decks to remote-control gun turrets (2023) Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/ukraines-army-is-experimenting-with-using-steam-decks-to-remote-control-gun-turrets/ - One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-florida-lawsuit-vehicular-homicide - We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It's Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/we-all-hated-busy-work-now-that-its-disappearing-it-turns-out-we-miss-it-d56bb48b - Linguistic humor, Foreign hotel signs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/foreign-hotel-signs.html - Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html - TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://robertsdotpm.github.io/_static/tiddlyinstall.html - Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/tesla-workers-balk-at-training-optimus-humanoid-robots-as-replacements/ - Deterministic Concurrency [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU - Show HN: A game about fake news and memes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://unspin.app/ - Brazil Bans Online Betting Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-bans-online-betting-operations-reelection-race-tightens-2026-09-25/ ## Media - How to automate issue metadata with GitHub issue intents Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uMkZDEZCNw - purple army is undefeated ⚓️ Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-tLsDYHrHvQ - HIM 🫡 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_YDsIIoY9Dw - DEADLY DUDLEY 😱 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TrYH7vfmlFI - the. pony Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tg4Yv3ay_4A - JT IN THE BIG DANCE 💪 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4H3Zg721lzA - where have you travelled from 🛫 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XYplnvS7Gp8 - the purple army is on the march 📣 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aQrrNBTucys - the G’ in purple 💜 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lKqH16bqMjM - the 'g turns purple 💜 Source: youtube-docker Topic: DevOps URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PCq1FYbkBHk