TILens Daily Edition 2026-09-30 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 208 articles, 11 sources Top topics: General, AI, Hardware ## News - Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/10/01/azure-maintenance-mess-disrupted-hybrid-clouds-vpns-cloudy-vmware-services/5300333 - Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/google-releases-gemini-4-argon-called-its-most-powerful-model-yet/ - The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/the-pentagon-taps-elon-musk-and-palmer-luckey-to-help-decide-what-the-military-should-do-next/ - Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-might-have-been-teeming-with-life/ - Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/fifth-unvaccinated-person-dies-of-measles-cdc-still-not-counting-all-deaths/ - Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/irony-alert-openai-whines-that-chinese-model-stole-its-special-ip-that-it-stole-from-everybody-else/5300285 - Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant. Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advocate-sues-border-agents-for-demanding-his-cell-phone/ - Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/valor-atreides-and-sequoia-back-ai-startup-flow-engineering-at-750m-valuation/ - Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/09/30/hot-dog-americas-new-chatbot-is-packed-with-wieners/5300292 - A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-built-implants-that-talk-to-each-other-through-body-tissue/ - Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/attackers-have-been-exploiting-critical-zimbra-flaw-to-steal-emails/ - YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/30/youtube-lunatic-designed-and-3d-printed-a-working-mechanical-calculator/5300273 - Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/factory-ceo-just-accused-his-vc-board-advisor-of-spying-for-cognition/ - Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/video/is-neko-healths-body-scan-worth-it-spotify-billionaires-startup-has-come-to-america/ - Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/30/huawei-boss-claims-homegrown-ai-chip-sales-top-nvidia-in-china/5300266 - Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/09/google-announces-gemini-4-argon-ai-model-but-you-cant-use-it-yet/ - Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/reddit-will-block-old-reddit-com-from-people-who-havent-used-it-in-6-months/ - RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/rfk-jr-says-ai-backs-his-anti-vaccine-views-we-checked-it-doesnt/ - Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/hackers-stole-millions-of-us-military-personnel-records-during-months-long-data-breach/ - The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/what-the-disney-protests-over-kimmel-taught-us-about-streaming-mergers/ - DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/doordashs-drone-strategy-started-on-the-ground/ - BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/bmw-built-the-same-car-for-gas-and-electric-the-ev-is-4400-cheaper/ - Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/peter-norvig-says-all-aboard-for-ai-coding/5300244 - OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/openais-jev-clone-could-help-the-frontier-lab-stop-its-swarming-agents/ - Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/trump-plan-to-combat-ai-risks-hinges-on-big-tech-pals-policing-themselves/ - "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/lawsuit-demands-openai-halt-unsafe-development-that-caused-hugging-face-hack/ - AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/ai-voice-startup-elevenlabs-doubles-valuation-to-22b/ - Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/30/canonical-begins-pushing-resolute-raccoon/5300225 - The ugly economics of consumer AI Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/the-ugly-economics-of-consumer-ai/ - Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/trump-decrees-era-of-super-intelligence-upon-us/5300213 - So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft? Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/so-whats-happening-with-russias-new-long-delayed-crewed-spacecraft/ - Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/meta-disputes-claim-that-muse-read-a-users-private-messages-without-permission/ - Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/09/google-is-paying-100-websites-for-contributions-to-ai-overviews-but-the-amounts-are-tiny/ - Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/show-colleagues-how-much-you-care-by-sending-an-ai-avatar-to-your-google-meet-call/5300205 - DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/doordash-launches-an-ai-agent-you-can-text-to-order-food/ - Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/destro-ais-secret-sauce-is-getting-robots-and-humans-on-the-same-page/ - Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/instincts-new-product-recommendations-are-giving-some-users-the-ick/ - Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/google-figures-out-how-to-watermark-ai-designed-proteins/ - AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/ai-market-needs-to-make-6-trillion-a-year-by-2031-to-fund-its-infrastructure-habit/5300175 - FedEx orders 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger in $300M deal Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/fedex-orders-2000-electric-trucks-from-harbinger-in-300m-deal/ - The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/09/ps5-jailbreaks-just-got-a-lot-more-useful/ - Ex-NCA officer ordered to surrender £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/30/ex-nca-officer-ordered-to-surrender-18m-for-stealing-seized-bitcoin/5300179 - Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/discord-gives-advertisers-more-tools-to-target-its-users/ - What butterfly wings have in common with barbershop poles Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/what-butterfly-wings-have-in-common-with-barbershop-poles/ - Where does your AI data actually live? Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/sponsored-where-does-your-ai-data-actually-live/5300134 - OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/30/openai-apes-aws-marketplace-while-anthropic-remains-stubbornly-microsoftian/5300056 - Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/pledge-signed-by-president-trump-and-top-ai-leaders-misspells-the-united-states/ - BMW reveals US 3 series pricing: The EV carries a hefty premium Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/bmw-opens-us-order-books-for-the-new-gas-and-electric-3-series/ - Google launches Fitbit Air in India, though its high price might deter the masses Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/google-launches-fitbit-air-in-india-though-its-high-price-might-deter-the-masses/ - Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/cerebras-systems-andrew-feldman-on-whether-ai-can-keep-scaling-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ - Instagram rolls out an AI video assistant for creators Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/instagram-rolls-out-an-ai-video-assistant-for-creators/ - Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/restate-lands-20m-as-the-need-for-durable-infrastructure-increases-with-ai-agents/ - 3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/3-days-left-to-exhibit-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-2/ - OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-delays-ipo-over-ai-safety-concerns/ - WhatsApp adds new parental controls for teen accounts Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/whatsapp-adds-new-parental-controls-for-teen-accounts/ - Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/30/firefox-157-could-bold-new-look-be-just-what-mozilla-needs/5300059 - Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K comes with an actually good remote Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/amazons-new-fire-tv-stick-4k-comes-with-an-actually-good-remote/ - Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/100-million-donations/ - Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/charter-space-raises-5m-to-bring-insurance-to-the-stars/ - Tinder adapts to a social, IRL dating future with ‘Group Hangouts’ feature Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/tinder-adapts-to-a-social-irl-dating-future-with-group-hangouts-feature/ - Detect and send production issues straight to your agent Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/real-time-issue-detection/ - Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402 Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway-beta/ - Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/pay-per-use/ - Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/auto-router/ - Simplifying domains for people and agents Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/simplifying-domains/ - Identify AI model overuse with User Insights Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-model-overuse-user-insights/ - 7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028 Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/7-in-10-enterprises-expected-to-abandon-vendor-built-agentic-ai-by-2028/5300021 - The Internet has a second audience Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/ - Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/faster-agent-sandboxes/ - Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/30/apple-makes-the-airpods-5-slightly-less-hostile-to-repair/5300042 - Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/bag-ventures-sets-its-eyes-deeper-into-the-ai-stack/ - Airbnb adds AI search, more social features Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/airbnb-adds-ai-search-more-social-features/ - Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/30/drunk-van-halen-fan-called-microsoft-support-and-demanded-to-speak-to-gates/5300002 - Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/cloudflare-plans-to-issue-quantum-safe-tls-certificates/ - America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/09/30/america-is-planning-more-ai-datacenters-than-its-chip-supply-can-fill/5299845 - More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/more-than-half-of-uk-businesses-lack-confidence-in-basic-cyber-skills/5299991 - KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/30/kde-turns-30-with-plasma-68-but-the-x11-session-isnt-invited/5299781 - UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/uk-rail-cops-320k-face-scanning-spree-nets-zero-matches/5299793 - Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines/5299937 - Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/30/airbus-gets-a-new-freighter-and-its-giant-door-into-the-air-for-the-first-time/5299972 - How to Build a Real-Time Word Counter Tool with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-real-time-word-counter-tool-with-html-css-and-javascript/ - How to Diagnose and Fix AI Inference Latency on Kubernetes Source: freecodecamp Topic: General URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-ai-inference-latency-on-kubernetes/ - OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/openclaw-slips-on-a-suit-to-evade-widespread-business-bans/5299962 - Apple Pay finally launches in India after years on the sidelines Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/apple-pay-set-to-launch-in-india-with-axis-bank-today-sources-say/ - Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/trump-administration-gets-big-tech-to-sign-weak-non-binding-ai-regulations/5299955 - OpenAI DevDay 👨‍💻, Apple's reorg 💼, data is the app 📊 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-09-30 ## Community - A Simple Language With Flow Typing (2021) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://ayazhafiz.com/articles/21/lang-narrow - Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://yeet.cx/blog/nobody-is-listening-on-8125 - 192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://frame.work/au/en/products/desktop-diy-amd-aimax400/configuration/new - Turbo Haskell Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1wu24oe/turbo_haskell/ - 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://56k.rip/ - Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://groundrun.io/blog/automating-wi-fi-setup-testing-on-the-esp32/ - The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1 - IANA's email about why example.com changed Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.oliverdunk.com/2026/09/30/iana-reply - Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-wait-times-rise-19-as-prices-climb-53-study-2026-9 - A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gizmodo.com/a-cold-war-spy-satellite-named-after-farrah-fawcett-just-blew-apart-in-orbit-2000819282 - ESXi Exploitation in the Wild Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.huntress.com/blog/esxi-vm-escape-exploit - pldb: programming languages papers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pldb.kirancodes.me/ - A brief history of the Bloomberg Terminal Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal - 16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/16-year-old-researcher-found-a-microsoft-bug-got-admin-access-to-databases-with-173-trillion-rows/5300240 - The AI Pascal’s Wager Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html - ASM Bots: Core War in real 8086 machine code Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://asmbots.io - Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon - Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/aurora-postgresql-query-apache-iceberg-and-parquet/ - Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/sshah03/perspica - Gitea 28.0 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/ - Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model - We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/quick-fdb-kafka/ - Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://prospect.org/2026/09/30/ice-neglect-immigration-deportation-mortality-reviews/ - Dear User, email is here to stay Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/tursomari/machtiani/tree/main - Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.neuroai.science/p/functional-ultrasound-imaging-from - Gemini 4 Argon Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ - CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://turkeyland.net/thoughts/ai.php - Dear Software Makers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/ - Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/halfspace/ - Bologna Bottle Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_bottle - America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://america.gov/chat - EDG C++ front-end goes public Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://edgcpp.org/#transition - Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57500-7 - Rust to WGSL transpiler `wgsl-rs` released Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://renderling.xyz/articles/wgsl-rs-beta-release.html - Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/ - Major rsync upgrade in Debian because of 33 CVEs Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/sqyhgt/major_rsync_upgrade_debian_because_33 - Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/ - The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/09/25/the-eruption-that-destroyed-pompeii-is-helping-scientists-date-earths-history/ - Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/ - 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/ - Shareholders Should Pay for AI Dangers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/shareholders-should-pay-for-ai-dangers-fe78d542 - Recursive `make` and `-j` Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/09/30/recursive-make-j/ - Billions of triangles redux Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://zeux.io/2026/09/30/billions-of-triangles-redux/ - CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.chompiclub.com/opensource - Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude - Let's Ditch Google (Verb) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/lets-ditch-google-verb/ - Commit description as a thinking tool Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-as-a-thinking-tool/ - The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/the-ethernet-spec-was-first-drafted-on-this-day-in-1980-dec-intel-and-xerox-defined-the-standard-several-years-before-the-internet-existed - EDG C/C++ Compiler Project Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler - Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.software3d.com/MillersMonster.php - Xbox for Sale: Don't Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kotaku.com/asha-sharma-says-xbox-is-not-for-sale-amid-concerns-microsofts-gaming-business-is-being-streamlined-for-a-spin-off-2000738651 - FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/ftc-opens-probe-into-ai-giants-including-anthropic-openai-new-york-post-reports-2026-09-30/ - Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911500 - Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/philip-sidney-and-the-extreme-disgraces-of-the-parenthesis/ - Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71603 - cp: -r or -R? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html - So you think you could be an electrician? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician - Thought as a Technology (2016) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cognitivemedium.com/tat/index.html - Tobacco – Smoking Cigarettes – Radiation Dose Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-engineering/radiation-protection/sources-of-radiation/man-made-sources-of-radiation/tobacco-smoking-cigarettes-radiation-dose/ - Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://openparrot.app - Kuala Lumpur is the world's most polluted city due to haze, Singapore third Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3369363/kuala-lumpur-worlds-most-polluted-city-due-haze-singapore-third-index-shows - For the First Time in a Century, the Atlantic May See No Hurricanes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2026-zero-hurricanes - Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7ed6ed48-79e4-46c2-968f-f2a69d263d35 - Minitel Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel - Cities Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to Federal Surveillance Program Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.404media.co/how-cities-are-forced-to-funnel-license-plate-data-to-a-massive-federal-surveillance-program-hidta/ - Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://strata.do/ - Coltrane's Tone Circle Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jtomschroeder.com/blog/tone-circle/ - Change Coupling: Why One-Line Fixes Touch Ten Files Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kb.buildingbetterteams.de/docs/technology-product/Software/Change-Together/ - Finding Bugs Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/09/19/finding-bugs.html - Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://lathoa.ai/en - SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sdf.org/ - What TLA+ can and can't check Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/ - Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/LosAlamosBetsOnENIAC.pdf - SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/ - Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.popsci.com/technology/cold-war-spy-economy-east-germany/ - Your body of work thinks back at you Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://photoni.st/index.php/2026/09/25/your-body-of-work-thinks-back-at-you/ - Branch Target Reuse: Spectre-v2 Attacks in JIT Engines Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.vusec.net/projects/btr/ - The last time my family was replaced by technology Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/ - Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/lace-and-labor - Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://amutable.com/blog/distributing-images-quarry - Qt 6.12 LTS Released Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.12-released - EU Council Advances Chat Control 2.0 Scanning Proposal Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-council-chat-control-scanning-proposal - Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907601 - Hanami, Why?: Introductions Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://aaronmallen.me/writing/hanami-why-introductions - Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-refusing-say-much-water-electricity-use - "Apple engineer" builds GitHub AI torture chamber to inflict "pain" on models Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.machine.news/apple-engineer-builds-github-ai-torture-chamber-to-inflict-digital-pain-on-models/ - Tcl/Tk 9.1 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html - GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gpt-6-1-sol-replaces-gpt-6-sol-after-just-7-days-with-near-astra-intelligence - You said no MCP Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/ - Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://avherald.com/h?article=5423fa17 - Q2 2026 Backblaze Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failure Rates Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/ - Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258 - Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0717/071710.html - OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR - Turbo Haskell Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Java) URL: https://comonad.com/reader/2026/turbo-haskell/ - Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-pentagon-influencer-called-liberal-women-a-pestilence-who-will-end-western-civilization/ - Back to Backups: A Year in Review Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://signal.org/blog/backup-improvements/ - Differences between `foldl` and `foldr` Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/ - Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/doing-a-machine-learning-phd-while-working-in-japan - Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/ - attezt: device attestation, PKCS11 and ACME Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2026-414-attezt-device-attestation-pkcs11-and-acme#t=30 - September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/ - A no-cost audio upgrade for my workstation Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://mit.teil.space/rane-sl3.html - snowdesktop: Immutable Debian desktop for developers Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://github.com/frostyard/snowdesktop - Join Ordering, Part 1: The Shape of the Search Space Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Databases) URL: https://deferworks.org/posts/join-ordering/ - Someone Still Has to Buy Your Product Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mayt.substack.com/p/someone-still-has-to-buy-your-product - Coding is not solved Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved - Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://electrek.co/2026/09/29/tesla-takes-on-30-billion-in-credit-as-it-approaches-unprofitability/ - LinkedIn Larpmaxxing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/ - AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ai-tools-generated-nearly-1-billion-extra-costs-blue-cross-insurers-say-2026-09-24/ - The Cuckoo's Egg Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book) - PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Sparticle62ops/pssa - RSS Feeds for Last.fm Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lfm.xiffy.nl/ - Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://agmai.org/general-sep29/ - Ballmer Peak Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer_Peak - Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mightygodking.com/2008/04/21/fun-from-yesterday/ - Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate) Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://devforum.play.date/t/dirty-optimization-secrets-c-for-playdate/23011 - Mathematicians Harness Randomness to Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-harness-randomness-to-crack-a-55-year-old-conjecture-20260928/ ## Media - How to use AI Agents for automated code reviews Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZmDYkrXpypw - Why Your AI Agent Fails in Production (And How to Catch It) Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPdoZRbvaF4 - Did a 50 year old military secret just solve agent prompt injection? Source: youtube-fireship Topic: Web (+General, JavaScript) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_KVMFrUtPk - How GitHub's Tiny Wins team tackles the AI slop problem | S02E04 | The GitHub Podcast Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjo4VWhmqY