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Wednesday, 23 September 2026

• LensVLM-9B by Apple
  huggingface.co · Discuss

• DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
  theintercept.com · Discuss

• How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
  claude.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes
  forensicdbg.com · Discuss

• Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
  normanponte.io · Discuss

• Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
  apnews.com · Discuss

• 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
  unlisted.careers · Discuss

• Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
  404media.co · Discuss

• What to Know About JavaScript in 2026
  blog.master.dev · Discuss

• Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
  blog.google · Discuss

• Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
  radicle.dev · Discuss

• Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
  pointinthecloud.com · Discuss

• GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
  drivingbench.com · Discuss

• Strands Harness
  strandsagents.com · Discuss

• Jev Can't Be Calibrated
  alexmolas.com · Discuss

• Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees
  cbc.ca · Discuss

• Jev in practice: typed decisions, scoped authority
  tenuo.ai · Discuss

• Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
  advocacy.consumerreports.org · Discuss

• Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
  stripe.dev · Discuss

• The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly
  marginalrevolution.com · Discuss

• The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)
  michaelheap.com · Discuss

• I don't want the details
  michaelheap.com · Discuss

• Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
  androidauthority.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery
  ivesentit.com · Discuss

• OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
  businessinsider.com · Discuss

• Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent
  filmstudio.rxlab.app · Discuss

• Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
  blog.szypowi.cz · Discuss

• QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer
  questdb.com · Discuss

• Two Git ignore files nobody told me about
  mihai.dinculescu.dev · Discuss

• The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea
  technologyreview.com · Discuss

• The darker side of being a doctor
  drericlevi.pages.dev · Discuss

• Tokens too cheap to meter
  jyn.dev · Discuss

• Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
  apnews.com · Discuss

• Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
  blog.melashri.net · Discuss

• I am done with this shit
  reddit.com · Discuss

• Jev in 25 Lines of Python
  nobodywho.ai · Discuss

Tuesday, 22 September 2026

• There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
  experimental-history.com · Discuss

• How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?
  thebirthofacapital.info · Discuss

• Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
  reddit.com · Discuss

• Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)
  usenix.org · Discuss

• Transit rewards
  waymo.com · Discuss

• US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'
  bbc.com · Discuss

• The new CC, an AI agent built for families
  blog.google · Discuss

• Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art
  augusto.at · Discuss

• The current balance of power in open models
  interconnects.ai · Discuss

• The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
  blog.asciitweezers.com · Discuss

• Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
  foxscript.org · Discuss

• LLM Ass Bench
  assbench.com · Discuss

• The JavaScript Midlife Crisis
  maroun-baydoun.com · Discuss

• Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
  obscura.com · Discuss

• A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm
  vals.ai · Discuss

• Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
  manager.dev · Discuss

• SAML: A fractal of bad design
  blog.trailofbits.com · Discuss

• Unreal Agent
  unreallabs.ai · Discuss

• An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
  discord.com · Discuss

• GPT-6 Sol and Luna
  openai.com · Discuss

• 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
  404media.co · Discuss

• Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent
  coveragecat.com · Discuss

• There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
  grapheneos.social · Discuss

• Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• Claude Opus 5.5
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why
  ai-rete-rag.com · Discuss

• 16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)
  allpoetry.com · Discuss

• Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster
  minimaxir.com · Discuss

• I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
  mouse.dev · Discuss

• Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents
  eff.org · Discuss

• OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
  arcturus-labs.com · Discuss

• Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
  techradar.com · Discuss

• Quantum information spreading via higher-order operator correlators
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
  stanfordreview.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
  droprun.sh · Discuss

• OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
  cryptocellar.org · Discuss

• The Economics of Open-Weight Inference
  data.ornn.com · Discuss

• People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
  404media.co · Discuss

• Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
  benchmarkheaven.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• What Capital Never Told You About Rent
  humansontheloop.com · Discuss

• AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
  alexn.org · Discuss

• Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams
  atlas-sysdes.vercel.app · Discuss

• 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
  bristol.ac.uk · Discuss

• Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
  verda.com · Discuss

• Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
  norwegianscitechnews.com · Discuss

• Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
  board.flatassembler.net · Discuss

• I said no and Apple said yes
  dbushell.com · Discuss

Monday, 21 September 2026

• Can gzip be a language model?
  nathan.rs · Discuss

• Firmware Freedom
  playtaurus.com · Discuss

• Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019)
  bobble.tech · Discuss

• MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
  kqed.org · Discuss

• Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly
  evalapply.org · Discuss

• Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'
  variety.com · Discuss

• Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models
  status.claude.com · Discuss

• No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls
  pewresearch.org · Discuss

• Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
  scientificamerican.com · Discuss

• Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)
  wondermark.com · Discuss

• The softness of metal
  psyche.co · Discuss

• Delta: Highly available, strongly consistent storage using chain replication (2022)
  engineering.fb.com · Discuss

• Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
  lwn.net · Discuss

• Spymarks, not Watermarks
  brand.io · Discuss

• Markdown in /src
  htmx.org · Discuss

• Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data
  dataprotection.ie · Discuss

• I don't want to read what you didn't write
  blog.colinbreck.com · Discuss

• Solitaire Alone Together
  solitairealonetogether.com · Discuss

• Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
  personalimportation.org · Discuss