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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 1h
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
56k.rip
56k.rip
The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 1h
Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy
daringfireball.net
Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy
Link to: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 1h
Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields
mattkeeter.com
Halfspace
An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 1h
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
unsung.aresluna.org
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
artificialanalysis.ai
Gemini 4 Argon (high) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis
Analysis of Google's Gemini 4 Argon (High) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
Gitea 28.0
blog.gitea.com
Gitea 28.0.0 is released
We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Gitea v28.0.0 . Gitea drops the historical 1. prefix from its version numbers, so this release is 28.0.0 rather than 1.28.0. Highlights include audit logging, bot accounts, HTTPS deploy tokens, user impersonation for administrator
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
Gemini 4 Argon
blog.google
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
america.gov
America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
EDG C++ front-end goes public
edgcpp.org
Open Source Transition
On September 30, 2026, EDG's C++ front end went 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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
quantamagazine.org
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings | Quanta Magazine
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 4h
Claude Says
ohhfishal.net
Claude Says....
I don’t care. If I wanted the feedback of an AI, I would have prompted it myself.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 8h
Let's Ditch Google (Verb)
adam.farkas.pro
Let's Ditch Google (Verb)
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 8h
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 8h
A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 8h
What TLA+ can and can't check
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 8h
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 8h
The last time my family was replaced by technology
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
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 an
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
Ballmer Peak
en.wikipedia.org
Ballmer Peak - Wikipedia
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 13h
NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
gevernova.com
NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 20h
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 20h
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
lucumr.pocoo.org
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
Can we do better than Serde?
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 20h
McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 20h
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 20h
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
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 Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
gamersnexus.net
Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market | GamersNexus
News Features Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market September 29, 2026 Last Updated: 2026-09-29 The cyclical nature of memory manufacturing may finally be broken -- and not in a good way for consumers The Highlights The memory manufacturers have all moved toward long-term agreements wi
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
thenationalnews.com
AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
Data centre sizes and costs are doubling about every 12 to 16 months
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging
prospect.org
Battling an Army of Price-Setters - The American Prospect
Lindsay Owens’s new book details all the ways that corporations seek to maximize profits at your expense.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
anthropic.com
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DevDay 2026 Recap
openai.com
DevDay 2026 Recap
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov
america.gov
America.gov
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?
noahpinion.blog
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ChatGPT Pro 500
help.openai.com
ChatGPT Pro 500
Information about our paid subscription plan, Pro.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released
tcl-lang.org
Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dots: Always-on agents
openai.com
Introducing dots
Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
eff.org
DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising, which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data they’..
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released
github.com
GitHub - ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit: Exploit chain for PS5 7.00 - 13.60
Exploit chain for PS5 7.00 - 13.60. Contribute to ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
frostyard.github.io
Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
squareorbits.com
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
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Hacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Claude partial outage
status.claude.com
Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API
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