TILens Daily Edition 2026-09-26 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 121 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, Hardware ## News - 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/ - 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/ - 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/ - 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/ - 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/ - 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 - 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 - 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/ ## Community - 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