Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (www.mturk.com)
Zohran and the Short Link (iamwillwang.com)
Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
Clerky Is Joining Stripe (www.clerky.com)
The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 (nhess.copernicus.org)
Build your own theme park (www.magicpatterns.com)
Qwen 3.8 27B Uncensored – Testing the Uncensored Qwen Model (imageat.com)
Infrastructure as Raclette (lois.postu.la)
mold: A Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)
Just say something people want (www.gkogan.co)
WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI (openai.com)
Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game (pushup.quest)
What will be left for us to work on (icml.cc)
Product Development is being Rewritten (revyl.com)
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor (newsroom.ibm.com)
We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule (cradrill.com)
Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)
A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation (arxiv.org)
The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023) (www.gatesnotes.com)
GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
Super Curry Combat II Turbo – Legend Edition (curry-combat-2.com)
Dallas startup enriches Uranium (www.actinideinc.com)
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (www.state.gov)
Study Reveals UnitedHealth''s Profit Margins Four Times What It Claimed [pdf] (insurancewatchdogcoalition.com)
The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications (www.wsj.com)
YouTube Format IDs (gist.github.com)
Tailcat: Secure Tunnels in Seconds (Tailscale) (github.com)
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries (foresightplanner.com)
CDs vs. NIMBY (www.betonit.ai)
Graze Joins Flipboard (graze.leaflet.pub)
CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer (www.fda.gov)
Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants (e360.yale.edu)
US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKK (home.treasury.gov)
Memory Ordering in CPUs (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)
VMs won''t contain cyber-capable agents (blog.trailofbits.com)
Tim Curry, Star of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King''s It, Dies Aged 80 (www.theguardian.com)
Tim Curry Has Died (en.wikipedia.org)
Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies (www.risklytics.ai)
It''s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI) (www.ssp.sh)
Disruption with Some GitHub Services (www.githubstatus.com)
TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace (github.com)
Nebula Sans (www.nebulasans.com)
WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents (sreenathmenon.com)
AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX (github.com)
GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
You could have invented PageRank (praveshkoirala.com)
Take a Tour of SLAC (www6.slac.stanford.edu)
How much of Hacker News is AI? (hnstats.com)
A Citation to Asimov (www.bookandsword.com)
How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk (github.com)
A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026 (cartefibre.arcep.fr)
11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Who Makes Your Supplements? (www.worseonpurpose.com)
Taylor Farms: How One Company''s Reach Became a National Risk (farmaction.us)
AI Is a Harsh Mistress (cacm.acm.org)
Radiation link in flight attendant''s breast cancer, French court finds (www.bbc.com)
LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements (wiki.documentfoundation.org)
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (twitterwebviewer.com)
GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada (www.theguardian.com)
Meta reaches 16.68B settlement over social media harms to children (www.reuters.com)
AWS Acquires DuckDB (ducklabs.com)
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency (qwen.ai)
A curmudgeon tries a language server (entropicthoughts.com)
Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues (blog.happyfellow.dev)
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda (www.theguardian.com)
Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence (var0.xyz)
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights (www.bloomberg.com)
XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp (news.ycombinator.com)
Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy (johan-sjolen.github.io)
Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)
Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) (rupertlinacre.com)
Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War (spectrum.ieee.org)
Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (www.youtube.com)
Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)
X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project (www.theregister.com)
Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems (arxiv.org)
Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban? (www.theregister.com)
U.S. gov''t moves to suppress pushback on data centers (www.tomshardware.com)
The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958) (archive.org)
It''s Not the End of Programming (mathstodon.xyz)
Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data (www.france24.com)
More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding (www.psu.edu)
Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BY (www.globalsolo.global)
My Anti-AI Manifesto (alessandrorosa.altervista.org)
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia (openai.com)
Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem (twitter.com)
Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others (github.com)
More Fucked Today Than Yesterday (climatecasino.substack.com)
TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com)
XCancel also down, at least for time being (news.ycombinator.com)
I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)
One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool (rvier.fr)
Python''s pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)
A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation (zakpodmore.substack.com)
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson (sethmlarson.dev)
C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
Perplexity Portable Computer (www.perplexity.ai)
Tracking Costco gas prices (www.jack.bio)
FDA Authorizes First Wearable Device That Monitors Ketone and Glucose Levels (www.fda.gov)
Dolly Parton Has Died (en.wikipedia.org)
I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI (github.com)
Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha''s provenance (www.ctgt.ai)
Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents (pgbot.dev)
Trial is 40 days. Not until you''re 40 (twitter.com)
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
DOJ prosecutes single FOIA dodger while defending systemwide evasion (freedom.press)
Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 (www.theguardian.com)
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms (groups.google.com)
Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for 4/month (nil.wallyjones.com)
Clara (YC P26) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer to Bring AI Doctors to Market (www.ycombinator.com)
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go (github.com)
A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant is at most 0.1787854 (www.judegomila.com)
LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases (github.com)
Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler (www.kurz.net)
Run Minecraft in a Windows Sandbox for Computer Use Agents (cua.ai)
Nitter project received cease and desist (github.com)
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point (arxiv.org)
SpaceX – Starbase, LA (www.spacex.com)
Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It (blog.master.dev)
Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers (www.ceres.org)
My Friend Aaron (rorz.io)
Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics (dl.acm.org)
Anthropic Sees over 30T in Potential Revenue (www.wsj.com)
Solving the 1N Query Problem (acadia.engineering)
Visualizing Binary Files (movq.de)
How much of HN is AI? (blog.coredump.cx)
Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War (www.historytoday.com)
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds (arstechnica.com)
Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth (www.macrumors.com)
Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia''s Coral Reefs (e360.yale.edu)
Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (www.imkylelambert.com)
MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it (www.erathos.com)
Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 (dfarq.homeip.net)
Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple''s new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (www.apple.com)
The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI (www.mckinsey.com)
US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons (forgeeks.net)
Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) (modelscope.cn)
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (www.apple.com)
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute (www.apple.com)
France''s tax agency got hacked (in French) (www.cybernetica.fr)
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
Don''t Wordle (dontwordle.com)
HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application (github.com)
Credit Card Rewards Became a 9.2B Wealth Transfer (www.library.hbs.edu)
Quantum battery upends the rules of charging (www.bbc.com)
Why some US restaurants are banning tips (www.bbc.com)
Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance (link.springer.com)
''Never seen this level of objection'': Scotland pushes back against datacentres (www.theguardian.com)
Volcanoes that made history (knowablemagazine.org)
Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown (github.com)
SiFive''s First Server Platform (chipsandcheese.com)
SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor (github.com)
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents (www.laude.org)
A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3 (github.com)
Ox-Alpha Is GLM? (dejan.ai)
Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com)
Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
What''s new in Emacs 31.1 (www.masteringemacs.org)
I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines (tarjan.itch.io)
Nostr is an inclusive communication commons (nostr.org)
Good large format (20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options? (news.ycombinator.com)
How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date (tinkerandsee.com)
Training AI to Paint with Code (surya.website)
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model (www.thomsonreuters.com)
Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op? (daily.jstor.org)
How Universities Should Prepare Founders (paulgraham.com)
What languages are agent skills written in? (plicara.ai)
Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walkthrough (flostep.dev)
Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas (www.newyorker.com)
Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage (github.com)
Moon (ciechanow.ski)
iCloud Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com (developer.apple.com)
Agent Lightning v1.0 (github.com)
NIST is selling Peanut Butter for 415.33 per jar (shop.nist.gov)
Fences, Not Sandboxes (yegge.ai)
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed (www.cnn.com)
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward (blog.archive.org)
Where did all the public bathrooms go? (daily.jstor.org)
Greg Abbott says data centers:''basically dug their own grave'' (www.businessinsider.com)
A puzzle I couldn''t solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour (skimmiq.com)
Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff (app.dover.com)
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights (github.com)
Oceans hit highest temperature on record (www.bbc.com)
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study (journals.plos.org)
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)
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Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (www.smithsonianmag.com)
9 Mothers Defense (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite) (www.runconverge.com)
Hive (YC S14) is hiring scrappy product managers and product/data engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
Stardex (YC S21) is hiring customer success engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog (textlog.cc)
Anger, Anxiety and Agency (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon (github.com)
Your "File" Menu Isn''t About Files (adam.farkas.pro)
Technology Is Over (www.taylorforeman.com)
What Is a Syslog Server? (blog.greencloudvps.com)
Adding 4 more 2.5GbE interfaces to the GMKtec NucBox G9 (catskull.net)
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)
EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with 119M in Funding (www.hpcwire.com)
A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more (alexschapiro.com)
GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (glassbox.codecanary.org)
PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (gultsch.de)
Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) (chipsandcheese.com)
Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge (codefloe.com)
A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders (ssx360.github.io)
SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (proofcraft.systems)
FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer''s disease (medicine.washu.edu)
Executable Is a SQLite Database (fzakaria.com)
Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF (www.ycombinator.com)
Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin (news.ycombinator.com)
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE (www.ycombinator.com)
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design (www.ashbyhq.com)
Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Wildcard (YC W25) is hiring an applied ML engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access (www.ycombinator.com)
Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany (www.ycombinator.com)
Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer (www.ycombinator.com)
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (sf.thijs.gg)
Public services are increasingly strained by LLM-written appeals for benefits (arxiv.org)
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance (larsfaye.com)
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (developers.openai.com)
Anna''s Archive Owes 340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It''s Still Online (torrentfreak.com)
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com)
Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer (www.adafruit.com)
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
I were 17, I''d learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com)
Curvature Beziers – Improving on a timeless recipe (acko.net)
DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud (www.ycombinator.com)
Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Jiga (YC W21) is hiring the best people to make manufacturing great again (jiga.io)
Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security) (www.ycombinator.com)
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance (www.ycombinator.com)
Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time (news.ycombinator.com)
9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
Lago (YC S21) Is Hiring for Our GTM Team (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto) (news.ycombinator.com)
Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (www.ycombinator.com)
Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract (www.ycombinator.com)
Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
Authoritarianism of Code (zedshaw.com)
What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
Death to px, long live ch (shkspr.mobi)
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
Andrew Ng: "AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications" (twitter.com)
Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days (www.telegraph.co.uk)
''AI refuser'' quit her dream job, and hopes others follow (www.smh.com.au)
Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium (www.bbc.com)
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (www.xda-developers.com)
Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (skylens.yantraai.app)
Canada now ''at war'' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says (www.theglobeandmail.com)
The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)
Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (stories.tamu.edu)
Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (olli.unt.edu)
Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn''t chasing speed (www.xda-developers.com)
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
The End of an Athlon (www.os2museum.com)
Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has (www.nytimes.com)
The Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding (www.economist.com)
The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer (nappertime.com)
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (nappertime.com)
Software Engineering in the Agentic Era (simonwillison.net)
Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world (readingmaps.com)