TILens Daily Edition
2026-09-27
Filters: topic=general, github=hidden

Stats: 94 articles, 8 sources
Top topics: General, AI, Rust

## News

- Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/anthropics-ceo-is-about-to-have-dinner-with-president-trump/

- Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/can-muse-overcome-metas-trust-issues/

- Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
  Source: cloudflare-blog
  Topic: General
  URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-2026-annual-founders-letter/

- Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/anthropics-dario-amodei-gets-the-snl-treatment/

- TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/techcrunch-mobility-av-companies-pick-their-lanes/

- Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/sennheiser-momentum-5-review-great-sound-incredible-battery-life-and-few-compromises/

- How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
  Source: ars-technica
  Topic: General
  URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/how-the-smithsonian-became-the-latest-front-in-trumps-culture-war/

- Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser
  Source: theregister
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/27/apple-buried-copland-30-years-ago-now-the-failed-os-boots-in-a-browser/5299201

- Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
  Source: theregister
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007

- How to Level Up Your Portfolio in the AI Era: From Technical Writer to Developer Educator
  Source: freecodecamp
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-level-up-your-portfolio-in-the-ai-era-from-technical-writer-to-developer-educator/

- PNOE’s new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/pnoes-new-face-mask-wants-to-make-lab-grade-breath-testing-a-self-serve-affair/

- Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/google-tests-buying-from-walmart-owned-flipkart-through-gemini-and-ai-mode-in-india/

## Community

- European industry is doing better than you may think
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/09/27/european-industry-is-doing-better-than-you-may-think

- What makes Lisp difficult to read?
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis

- DogWood: Monitoring Policies using First Order Temporal Logic
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-dogwood-runtime-verification-for-ai-agents/

- Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/hitachi-to-double-us-production-of-small-and-medium-sized-power-transformer/830762/

- The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/great-crime-decline/685695/

- Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://game.wedgworth.com/

- Fool's Expertise
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/fools-expertise/

- Expert asterisks
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202609/expert_asterisks

- Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Hardware)
  URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/

- 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953

- George Hotz’s opinion on AI coding
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/2044354852663558370

- NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://somethingbig.ai/computer

- EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/electric-car-sales-soar-52-in-europe-with-fuel-at-record-highs

- Lunar Terminator Paradox
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html

- Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://thill.me/2026/07/16/corn-puzzle-sat-solver.html

- My Recent Woodworking Projects
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/recent-woodworking-projects/

- Allegations of US interference in Quebec election
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/12073854/quebec-election-u-s-interference/

- Show HN: Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://code.garage44.eu/jeroen/cartopolis

- Luarocks.org remote code execution exploit
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://vhyrro.neorg.org/posts/critical-luarocks-exploit-cve/

- Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-for-much-longer-2.html

- When did Google get so weird?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/

- Have an LLC
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://zachholman.com/posts/you-should-have-an-llc

- Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/

- Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11

- Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.com/deepfates/imp

- Show HN: A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://rare-books.vercel.app

- Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00206

- Syncing Rust GCC backend or how to test Murphy's law
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Rust)
  URL: https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2026-09-22+Syncing+Rust+GCC+backend+or+how+to+test+Murphy%27s+law

- What I did at Recurse Center
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html

- Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

- Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://loficities.com/

- What I believe about the future of software development
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://thorstenball.com/blog/2026/09/19/what-i-believe-about-the-future-of-software-development/

- Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/

- Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Rust)
  URL: https://rustunit.com/blog/2026/09-04-bevy-ios-crates-objc2/

- Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM

- Ember-1
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1

- Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://earnanhonestdollar.com/bench

- The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://smarmelling.com/posts/the-accidental-history-of-3000-8080-and-other-port-numbers.html

- Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github

- There are no "rogue" AI agents
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents

- The Mars Delusion
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.noemamag.com/the-mars-delusion/

- Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://tinyaiarena.com/

- PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/

- The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html

- Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://terminalbytes.com/reverse-engineering-ipod-classic-mikey-chip/

- Alternatives to GPS are around the corner
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/27/alternatives-to-gps-are-around-the-corner

- On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/

- Tells of a Slop UI
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop

- Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands-of-years-old-fragment-of-worlds-oldest-known-peace-treaty-found-in-turkey

- In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html

- Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/

- Software occlusion culling in Block Game
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/

- Ten lines of code that changed my world
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/

- Writing Efficient C++ Code
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php

- Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/

- "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25021

- Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+PostgreSQL)
  URL: https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-you-think-it-does

- I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel

- Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service-part2-bypassing-the-app-store-gatekeeper/

- Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://microsoft.github.io/rust-for-dotnet-devs/latest/

- Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/

- LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://luarocks.org/security-incident-september-2026

- Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/

- What Improves Developer Productivity at Google? Code Quality (2022)
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3540250.3558940

- I Found a $113,337 Af_alg Linux Local Privilege Escalation Before Copy Fail
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://idnsec.com/research/linux-local-privilege-escalation-with-af-alg/

- My Husband Left Me 6 Weeks Postpartum and All I Got Was This Pretty Cool Baby
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://viverricious.substack.com/p/my-husband-left-me-6-weeks-postpartum

- Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/

- The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://reasonable.io/blog/tla-tutorial/

- Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://countingfromzero.blog/2026/04/24/four-chi-26-papers-i-wish-i-wrote/

- Wall-mounted vegetable garden growing peppers over 2 meters tall [video]
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvb52q9TKKM

- Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://albert.ias.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/9feac6ca-38d1-4f5c-9876-75915f1a5762/content

- If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/

- Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://casita.rs/blog/introducing-casita-a-content-addressed-store-for-source-code-and-build-artifacts/

- What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen

- Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Web)
  URL: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/

- Robot-use agents
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://web.mit.edu/phillipi/www/writing/robot-use-agents.html

- Simulating Airband AM Radios
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://bitbashing.io/am-radio.html

- One month without AI
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html

- OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://swarmcha.se/posts/openai-unctad

- Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move

- Sousveillance
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

## Media

- How to use GitHub Copilot with WSL on Windows
  Source: youtube-github
  Topic: Open Source (+General)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VnQGyKtMk0