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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3m
EDG C++ front-end goes public edgcpp.org/#transition (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499131…)
edgcpp.org
Open Source Transition
On September 30, 2026, EDG's C++ front end goes open source with The C++ Alliance as its nonprofit home. What changes for EDG users, how to contribute, and where to follow the work.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 13m
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499124…)
netlify.com
5x faster Edge Functions: How we replaced v8 isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs
See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 38m
FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI www.reuters.com/business/ftc-opens-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499115…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499076…
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499119…)
github.com
GitHub - magnitudedev/magnitude: Open source inference engine for agents that optimizes itself for your exact hardware. Compiles and tunes its kernels on your device, so open models run up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. Works on Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD, or nothing but a CPU.
Open source inference engine for agents that optimizes itself for your exact hardware. Compiles and tunes its kernels on your device, so open models run up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. Works on App...
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-a… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499117…)
yedhu.me
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool
Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that for several reasons.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 2h
What TLA+ can and can't check buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499090…)
buttondown.com
What TLA+ can and can't check
Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 2h
Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499106…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 2h
Let's Ditch Google (Verb) adam.farkas.pro/lets-ditch-google-v… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499117…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 2h
SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 sdf.org (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499096…)
sdf.org
SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 2h
Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes ledge.sh (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499023…)
ledge.sh
Ledge: The notebook that runs code
Ledge is a Markdown notebook for developers and DevOps. Run a code block in place and its output streams in beneath it. Free and open source, for Mac, Linux, Windows, and iPhone.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3h
The AI Race Just Got Awkward insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499105…)
insufferable.dev
The AI Race Just Got Awkward | insufferable.dev
Funny how quiet everyone got.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3h
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499095…)
spectrum.ieee.org
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3h
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/pledge-si… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499099…)
techcrunch.com
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States | TechCrunch
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 4h
I can't tell who's teaching who anymore blog.murphytrueman.com/i-cant-tell-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499096…)
blog.murphytrueman.com
I can't tell who's teaching who anymore
On inheriting my mum's sentences, and watching them read as a machine's
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 4h
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-sl… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499089…)
alphapixeldev.com
SDF vs MSDF vs Slug: GPU Text Rendering | AlphaPixel
The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 5h
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available ubuntu.com/blog/upgrade-your-deskto… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499087…)
ubuntu.com
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available | Ubuntu
Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation. As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fix […]
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 5h
Singapore Govt Dating App Uses Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/21051… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499064…)
twitter.com
marianne (@tuakdotsol) on X
Singapore's govt dating app runs on a Nobel Prize-winning game theory algorithm 👏 FirstDate uses Gale-Shapley, the 1962 stable marriage algorithm that won the 2012 Economics Nobel and still runs hospital residency matches and kidney exchanges today. how it works: 1 | your preferences and dealbr…
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 5h
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work sujithjay.com/inventing-work (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987...)
sujithjay.com
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 5h
The last time my family was replaced by technology manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499083…)
manuel.darcemont.fr
The last time my family was replaced by technology
My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 6h
Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt avherald.com/h?article=5423fa17 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499065…)
avherald.com
Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 6h
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results www.bigmessowires.com/2026/09/29/fl… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499020…)
bigmessowires.com
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 7h
Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization www.wired.com/story/a-pentagon-infl… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499059…)
wired.com
A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 7h
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499070…)
nltimes.nl
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
The vast majority of data centers in Europe keep information about their environmental impact secret, according to a study by Lighthouse Report in collaboration with Trouw and other European media. In the Netherlands, less than a quarter of larger data centers publish data about their electricity and drinking water usage.The researchers spent a year trying to obtain data on data centers’ environmental impact in Europe, invoking freedom of information laws in various European countries. Their attempts have yielded no results.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 8h
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gpt-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499066…)
artificialanalysis.ai
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days. It scores 1 point below GPT-6 Astra in the Intelligence Index at less than one quarter of the Cost per Task
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 9h
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499066…)
earendil.com
“You Said No MCP!” | Earendil
Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 11h
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499056…)
prospect.org
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 11h
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/sept… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499054…)
tomwojcik.com
September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 13h
NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor www.gevernova.com/news/press-releas… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499020…)
gevernova.com
NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 13h
RSS Feeds for Last.fm lfm.xiffy.nl (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499038…)
lfm.xiffy.nl
RSS Feeds for Last.fm
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 14h
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics agmai.org/general-sep29 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499037…)
agmai.org
general-sep29
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 14h
Councilmember, residents push back on AI 'blight scores' given to homes www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/dalla… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499023…)
nbcdfw.com
Dallas trash trucks are giving homes a blight score and people are pushing back
The city says blight scores help prioritize code enforcement reviews. Critics worry it could hit lower-income areas harder.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 14h
Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability electrek.co/2026/09/29/tesla-takes-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044…)
electrek.co
Tesla takes on $30 billion in credit as it approaches unprofitability
Tesla's profits keep falling, but it has guided for higher CapEx in the coming year. To fill the gap, it just opened a $30B credit line.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 14h
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedi… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499043…)
hereticpleb.vercel.app
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 14h
Ballmer Peak en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer_Peak (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499037…)
en.wikipedia.org
Ballmer Peak - Wikipedia
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 15h
Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) mightygodking.com/2008/04/21/fun-fr… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499033…)
mightygodking.com
Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 15h
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust github.com/Sparticle62ops/pssa (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499039…)
github.com
GitHub - Sparticle62ops/pssa: A custom AI architecture being developed in rust
A custom AI architecture being developed in rust . Contribute to Sparticle62ops/pssa development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 15h
FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest www.fbi.gov/video-repository/shinyh… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499019…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 16h
McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1656965/in… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499019…)
rnz.co.nz
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 18h
Ask HN: What are you reading? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4989...
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 18h
Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498958…)
hereticpleb.vercel.app
Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming Language
A deep dive into converting a simple arithmetic expression into a binary tree, leading to a custom language in C.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 18h
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499011…)
lucumr.pocoo.org
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
Can we do better than Serde?
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like www.theguardian.com/environment/202… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498980…)
theguardian.com
The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine enigma.design (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498967…)
enigma.design
Enigma — The machine and its history
Explore 3D Enigma models, follow their electrical circuits and rotor mechanisms, and learn how the machines were used.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 20h
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498979…)
bbc.com
The US state replacing power plants with home batteries
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 20h
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it railcode.dev/blog/vibe-coded-website (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499019…)
railcode.dev
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
A tale about how coding agents are actually making me more and more interested in design
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 20h
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499017…)
github.com
GitHub - ninjahawk/livenerf: Benchmark for tracking model capability after release.
Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22h
McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/inside-mcdo… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498994…)
cnbc.com
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald's is using AI to set menu prices in franchises across the world by estimating customers' "willingness to pay" for items at each store.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22h
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s github.com/lostmsu/TurboGPT (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498989…)
github.com
GitHub - lostmsu/TurboGPT: Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only)
Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only). Contribute to lostmsu/TurboGPT development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22h
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites space.bl2.net (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498987…)
space.bl2.net
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
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