TILens Daily Edition 2026-09-28 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 219 articles, 10 sources Top topics: General, AI, JavaScript ## News - OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-reportedly-ditches-model-over-safety-concerns/ - Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/aurora-cfo-says-30000-driverless-trucks-by-2030-isnt-as-far-fetched-as-it-sounds/ - Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/boeing-incredibly-excited-to-serve-as-nations-only-astronaut-transportation/ - AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/amd-bets-82b-that-worlds-matter-more-than-words-in-ai/5299609 - Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/nvidia-may-sell-more-chips-in-china-as-jensen-huangs-influence-over-trump-grows/ - Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/source-inference-provider-modal-labs-closing-in-on-750m-round-at-15-75b-valuation/ - SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/starships-first-orbital-launch-gives-lift-to-spacexs-next-gen-starlinks/ - AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/09/28/aws-needs-to-embrace-its-place-as-the-home-depot-of-ai-infrastructure/5299602 - Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/florida-asks-court-to-put-the-brakes-on-openais-frontier-ai-development/ - AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/amd-will-acquire-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-8-2-billion/ - New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/new-device-captures-carbon-dioxide-by-pumping-it-across-a-battery/ - JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/28/jadepuffer-crims-hijacked-azure-identities-and-used-them-to-blow-up-cloud-resources/5299591 - To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/to-keep-drug-prices-high-pharma-has-been-piling-up-the-patents/ - OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns/5299588 - Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/trump-cuts-fuel-economy-standards-back-to-2014-levels/ - Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/shopify-opens-checkout-to-browser-based-ai-agents/ - Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/tesla-delays-roadster-2-event-again-due-to-bad-weather/ - The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/the-ai-boom-took-over-climate-week-and-not-everyone-is-happy-about-it/ - Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/another-court-rules-kalshi-sports-bets-arent-swaps-says-states-can-crack-down/ - Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-launches-new-platform-for-reining-in-rogue-ai-agents/ - French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/french-dev-aims-to-solve-bots-blindness-so-they-can-understand-guis/5299575 - Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034 Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/google-seemingly-confirms-plans-to-kill-chromeos-in-2034/ - Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/anthropic-releases-sonnet-5-5-which-it-calls-a-significantly-cheaper-faster-work-partner/ - F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/f1-in-azerbaijan-that-was-almost-a-close-run-thing/ - Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/google-is-killing-off-geminis-gems-in-favor-of-skills/ - Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+MongoDB) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/meta-launches-enterprise-ai-platform-hires-mongodb-ceo-to-lead-new-initiative/ - The iPhone Duo may already have its first killer app: a virtual Walkman Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/the-iphone-duo-may-already-have-its-first-killer-app-a-virtual-walkman/ - How many times are you paying for the same file? Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/09/28/sponsored-how-many-times-are-you-paying-for-the-same-file/5299562 - OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-halts-frontier-model-training-amid-string-of-agent-misalignment-incidents/ - NASA 'troubleshooting' transporter for space station's robotic arm [Updated] Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/nasa-for-the-time-being-is-unable-to-move-the-space-stations-large-robotic-armthe-large-robotic-arm-on-the-international-space-station-has-stopped-working/ - Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/ - Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/microsofts-copilot-super-app-comes-with-a-meter-attached/5299515 - Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/anthropic-gamma-and-clay-share-what-happens-when-enterprises-actually-deploy-ai-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - Physical AI chip developer SiMa AI hits $1.45B valuation Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/physical-ai-chip-developer-sima-ai-hits-1-45b-valuation/ - MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/mavi-bets-on-the-ai-boom-creating-demand-for-a-new-kind-of-accountant/ - Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/28/dutch-government-turns-to-nixos-for-a-sovereign-desktop/5299501 - Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley on bringing fusion to the grid at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/commonwealth-fusion-systems-brandon-sorbom-and-helions-david-kirtley-on-bringing-fusion-to-the-grid-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/after-a-deepfake-voice-fooled-her-grandfather-this-founder-sprang-into-action/ - Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0 Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General (+JavaScript, React) URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext-nextjs-on-vite/ - FBI reportedly declares ‘cyber security incident’ after hackers steal agents’ personal data Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/fbi-reportedly-declares-cyber-security-incident-after-hackers-steal-agents-personal-data/ - How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-fast-is-the-web/ - Next 5 VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/next-five-vcs-judging-startup-battlefield-200-contenders-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/28/europes-ai-ambitions-rest-on-somebody-elses-supply-chain/5299486 - Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/modulate-raises-25m-for-its-voice-models-and-analysis-suite/ - Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is October 2 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/disrupt-2026-exhibitor-program-extended-until-oct-2/ - Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/insuretech-outmarket-raises-34-5m-just-months-after-prior-round/ - ElevenLabs’ new v4 speech model supports more expression control and 90 languages Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/elevenlabs-new-v4-speech-model-supports-more-expression-control-and-90-languages/ - Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/ - OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/openai-agents-went-the-long-way-round-for-un-data/5299452 - SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/spacexs-starship-rocket-reaches-orbit-for-the-first-time/ - Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/maritime-intelligence-startup-quartermaster-raises-another-140m/ - Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/rust-workers-emscripten-target/ - Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-cold-start/ - The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf-update/ - EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-cms-plugin-registry/ - Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/forge-open-source-generation-pipeline/ - Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General (+JavaScript, React) URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-update/ - Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09/28/microsoft-tells-nonprofits-their-deleted-m365-data-isnt-coming-back/5299433 - Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/28/ex-soldiers-telecom-hacking-spree-earns-him-70-months/5299440 - UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/09/28/uk-government-vows-to-reclaim-services-from-outsourcing-giants/5299446 - Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/09/28/ofcom-pulls-the-plug-on-openreachs-aggressive-fiber-discount/5299427 - Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/microsoft-goes-quiet-after-church-groups-ask-for-1-of-data-center-costs/ - Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/jev-is-rapidly-rising-to-challenge-the-llm-for-enterprise-ai-supremacy/5299260 - HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/09/28/hmrc-vowed-to-break-up-with-capgemini-then-paid-it-another-42b/5299136 - Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/28/open-source-datacenters-and-open-source-thinking-will-undo-self-inflicted-dc-damage/5299068 - Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/28/certainties-in-life-death-taxes-and-critical-citrix-vulns-under-attack/5299369 - Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/28/techie-assumed-boss-knew-what-they-were-talking-about-and-killed-exchange-by-deleting-data/5299043 - Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/truecaller-takes-its-scam-intelligence-to-the-open-web-as-it-looks-beyond-caller-id/ - Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/28/amazon-evaluating-drone-deliveries-in-australia-asia/5299343 - SpaceX orbital attempt 🚀, OpenAI pauses training 🛑, S3 is the future 👨‍💻 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-09-28 ## Community - Optimising for fast builds with GHC Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmE6aa_I5TU - Sonnet 5.5 scores just behind Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/claude-sonnet-5-5 - The Transparent Society (1998) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society - Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jonclegg.github.io/pacman-bakeoff/ - Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://eliasebner.com/blog/thoughts/switching-to-emacs-as-a-neovim-user/ - OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-cancel-safety-5a2f9f42 - Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.vero.site/post/float - Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.greenpants.net/ai-accountability/ - ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster - Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jonworth.eu/your-deutsche-bahn-joke-is-no-longer-fu/ - Full Self Hauling: Volvo moves 3 million tonnes of Earth, autonomously Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://electrek.co/2026/09/28/full-self-hauling-volvo-moves-3-million-tonnes-of-earth-autonomously/ - Man Says Meta's Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/metas-muse-ai-giving-users-home-addresses - Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/ - Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/mogrinz/AMT630A - Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/scaling-memory-safety - Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.arctictoday.com/palantir-founder-purchases-large-swath-of-forest-in-sweden/ - Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nm4ewbYovtjq69dvH/pacing-the-frontier-is-not-the-actual-goal-for-ai-labs - I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records - AMD Acquires Dr. Fei Fei Li's World Labs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/drfeifei/status/2104664403681632453 - Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08-23-wgpu-facet/ - Its not just the sandbox Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://x.com/joedaroo/article/2104335929293127851 - Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/firelex/jeff - Best of British Design Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://best-of-british-design.vercel.app/ - Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/wheres-the-intelligence-explosion - World Labs is Joining AMD Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement - Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html - Headed for the Exit: The Great Engineering Leader Career Break Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-great-engineering-leader-career-break - California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops - Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-solve-1840s-space-weather-mystery/ - It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/ - SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.getprivisy.com/blog/sb-923-ccpa-right-to-delete-signed - First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227 - Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-responds-with-wit-and-humor - MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/ - Let's See Paul Allen's SIMD CSV Parser Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://chunkofcoal.com/posts/simd-csv/ - Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/burning-man-death-rates-a-short-lesson - Reducing undefined behavior in the C language Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095811/b9325731ea9b61e0/ - Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/28/nx-s1-5759718/ai-schools-experiment-research - GrapheneOS – When an app is slow Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.wirelessmoves.com/2026/09/grapheneos-when-an-app-is-slow.html - So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html - Sonnet 5.5 Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 - RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/google-research/rrsi - I made a visual workspace for AI Automations Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.biom.dev/ - Windows 11½ Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://definitelynotwindows.com/ - Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-wrote-elizabeth-is-most-scathing-letters-new-research-suggests-the-tudor-queens-male-secretaries-revised-her-correspondence-to-emphasize-her-temper-180989565/ - Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-teen-portraits-that-captivated-sofia-coppola - Sober: We Ported Roblox to Linux Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sober.vinegarhq.org/ - Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.vespper.com/blog/launching-vespper-docx-mcp - OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-still-doesnt-seem-to-have-a-handle-on-all-of-its-rogue-ai-activity/ - GDB 18.1 Released Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2026-September/052333.html - How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2026/09/28/how-pew-research-center-is-and-is-not-using-ai-in-our-work-2/ - Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/driver-ticketed-for-no-insurance-despite-having-insurance-just-because-flock-said-she-didnt/ - Synthetic Sagas Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/synthetic-sagas/ - We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/why-we-cant-let-enormous-weirdos-regulate-ai/ - How SLR cameras work: Nikon F3 (2023) [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AA-Le7cmH0 - GrapheneOS Picks Motorola Signature 27 as Its First Non-Pixel Phone Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/grapheneos-picks-motorola-signature-27-as-its-first-non-pixel-phone - 2026 in LLMs (So Far) Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://simonw.substack.com/p/2026-in-llms-so-far - Thoughts on Flash (2010) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20100501010616/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ - N.Y.P.D. Officers Used Flock Safety to Track License Plates Without a Contract Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/nyregion/nyc-flock-nypd-surveillance-cameras.html - I built a native Apple app for 4 platforms in one afternoon with my AI workflow Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/danielhayesmith/status/2103976394338271515 - Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://destroy.spritefusion.com/ - Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/ - The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/the-large-robotic-arm-on-the-international-space-station-has-stopped-working/ - The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/ - 13 Months Sober (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/13-months-sober - Pirating the Pirates Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates - Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html - Wavelets in 3D Graphics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://comonad.com/reader/1995/wavelets-in-3d-graphics/ - Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc - State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwi5b5xSsKA - Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/ - Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript - Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425 - Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://hn.watch/ - Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thisismypersonalblog.com/posts/2026-09-25-getting-out-of-the-way/ - What makes Lisp difficult to read? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis - Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidias-jensen-huang-ai-distillation-china.html - MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+MongoDB) URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-2026-09-28/ - What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/ - A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work - I switched to Brave Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kevquirk.com/i-switched-to-brave-browser - Walking Men Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html - Coding is not solved Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved - Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf - OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Agents Target Government Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-pauses-training-most-powerful-models-after-rogue-agents-target-government/ - Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.engadget.com/2267443/una-watch-review/ - Which Diet Is Best to Lower Liver Fat and Improve Insulin Sensitivity? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nourishedbyscience.com/keto_and_liverfat/ - Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/ahmd-sh/hntui - What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html - Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://longcreek.me/blog/2021/chernarus-irl - Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker - HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-09-27/hardenedbsd-august-september-2026-status-report - Intuitive equals familiar Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/182987.584629 - Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote – Aaron Patterson [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0knYnEYBRo - Systems that no one will test Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/ - the normalization of inexplicable failures Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html - Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley - Congressman Cohen Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-introduces-comprehensive-articles-impeachment-against - Output-to-seed mappings for CPython's PRNG Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Python) URL: https://github.com/frazerpearce/TimeLord - Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/seamusc/papermono-shopping-list - How to Solve Hallucination (with RLCD) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.robw.fyi/2026/09/28/how-to-solve-hallucination/ - An 8BitDo Switch controller adventure Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/8bitdo-game-controller/ - SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live - Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nine.ch/en/blog/ddos-attack-august-2026-postmortem/ - Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007 - Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://scissor.studio/ - AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/ - 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld - OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/openai-pauses-some-training-amid-allegations-its-rogue-agents-behaved-more-badly-than-first-thought/5299350 - What are you doing this week? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/hgmgp2/what_are_you_doing_this_week - Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5 - Made by Mechanical Means Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ - Yes, no AI is now a feature Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/ - Leaving them behind Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/ - Packing Binary Is Fun, Actually Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually/ - When did Google get so weird? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/ - Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834 - Shobr: Job seach CLI via browser automation, event-sourcing, LLM Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/shobr - YouTube has a Propaganda Problem [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8YdOF1yXfM - Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://soapbox.pub/armada - Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://hugoarnal.com/blog/rickroll-pharmacy-cross/ - Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tablets/microsoft-surface/microsoft-quietly-drops-copilot-branding-from-its-new-laptops-surface-cvp-confirms-new-devices-meet-hardware-requirements-but-lack-controversial-branding - You are a 1000x maker, and you can't think of how to make your stack 10x better? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/2103751481757216781 - Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/ - TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://efraingaray.com/en/blog/tabpfn-vs-xgboost/ - Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2B years Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/minecraft-beat-minecraft-after-2-billion-years/ - Musk, the Movie Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk - Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html - Fool's Expertise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/fools-expertise/ - When Back-to-School Shopping Includes Bulletproof Backpacks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/21/magazine/shooting-fears-school-equipment.html - Comet SWAN26Q – The unconfirmed Scout object warrants monitoring, not concern Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.astrophyzix.com/2026/09/SWAN26Q-NEOCP-Report.html - Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/goodbye-to-the-hard-parts-that-never-mattered/ - Behold the pawpaw Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/pawpaw-tropical-fruit-canada-9.7356882 - Packing Binary Is Fun Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually - As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/dealbook/ai-law-discount-billable-hour.html - "The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut down after update Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-refrigerator-is-dead-Samsung-s-AI-fridges-shut-down-after-update-causes-outrage.1406447.0.html - Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/breast-cancer-us-pesticide-products - Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341 - Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/self-parking-car-evolution/ - OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://apnews.com/article/ai-openai-anthropic-agents-rogue-hack-2f8a2b9024d4f06793bcca12f8089d20 - ReScript 12 (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://rescript-lang.org/blog/release-12-0-0/ - Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/every-household-in-this-rural-town-receives-10-000-if-a-data-center-gets-built-86554cb7 - Klassik Revives the KDE 3 Desktop on Modern Plasma 6 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://linuxiac.com/klassik-revives-the-kde-3-desktop-on-modern-plasma-6/ - Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/09/27/pragmatic-anthropomorphism/ - Cambrian Explosion of AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://debarshibasak.github.io/readables/blogs/cambrian-explosion ## Media - The key to using AI in healthcare Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhba288HpQc - What exactly is an Agent Harness? Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_6qHmJ9Trmg - DHH has gone completely off the rails... Source: youtube-fireship Topic: Web (+General, JavaScript) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNKBjuV7A4 - How GitHub Copilot app fixes CI failures automatically Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SAC1vJk6EGw