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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 2h
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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 Companion @hncompanion.com · 3h
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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 Companion @hncompanion.com · 4h
Ask HN: What are you reading? Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 5h
PS5 Relapse Exploit View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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 Companion @hncompanion.com · 10h
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
jagi.studio
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 11h
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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 Companion @hncompanion.com · 14h
America.gov View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 15h
Dots: Always-on agents View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
openai.com
Introducing dots
Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants 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 Companion @hncompanion.com · 16h
DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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 Companion @hncompanion.com · 18h
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
spectrum.ieee.org
From Candlelit Kitchens to Electrified Everything: Delhi's Grid Comeback
It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 19h
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
tomshardware.com
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem — trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 20h
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
squareorbits.com
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess · SquareOrbits
In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements throughout the system.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 21h
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
jorgegarciaherrero.com
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 22h
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
theguardian.com
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 23h
You are no longer invited to dinner View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
derekthompson.org
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
petervijeh.com
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
In 51,129 comments from six knife subreddits, the 5% most brand-heavy accounts wrote 11.3% of the brand mentions in buying threads, against 7.9% expected by chance. For one brand it is 31% against 8%. The full Reddit histories of those accounts are 4.5 years old and spread over 66 subreddits, the same as a comparison group, so the data shows concentration and not who paid for it.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
kqed.org
California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops | KQED
Many California growers can’t find buyers as the industry produces more wine grapes than the market wants. Wine consumption is declining globally as people drink less.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
stateofutopia.com
MicroLLM lab — tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser
Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
lecaro.me
So long google, and thanks for all the nudes
The play store does not run on my old devices, this led me accidentally experience some joy while using Android.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
yashgarg.dev
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
World Labs is Joining AMD View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
worldlabs.ai
World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
twitter.com
Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) on X
Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
github.com
GitHub - firelex/jeff: Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification
Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
calnewport.com
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ ... Read more
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
thisamericanlife.org
897: Intergenerational Space Travel - This American Life
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Pirating the Pirates View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
mubi.com
Pirating the Pirates
Notes from the underground of film preservation.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Windows 11½ View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
definitelynotwindows.com
Definitely Not Windows — Windows 11½
The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. An interactive parody of Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Copilot, updates, ads, and subscriptions.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Sonnet 5.5 View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
anthropic.com
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
platform.claude.com
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 29/09/2026
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
git.mills.io
parley
Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC. Run your own instance for your domain; talk to anyone as user@domain from irssi or any IRC client.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
ssp.sh
The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore
If we think Is writing code dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system...
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
space.com
SpaceX's Starship megarocket launching to orbit for 1st time ever today: Watch it live
Liftoff is scheduled for Monday (Sept. 28) at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT).
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Coding Is Not Solved View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
blog.alexewerlof.com
Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
thecivilian.co.nz
AI companies in fierce arms race to demonstrate their model is the most existentially threatening to humanity
In the midst of growing fears that artificial intelligence is advancing at such a rate that it may compel itself to end all life on earth, AI giants from OpenAI to Anthropic are switching up their …
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
fakecloud.dev
fakecloud
Free, open-source local AWS cloud emulator
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
adaptivecapacitylabs.com
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
techcrunch.com
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave | TechCrunch
After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
david.alvarezrosa.com
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
jvns.ca
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
iain.rocks
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | Iain Cambridge
The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
loficities.com
Lofi Cities · Pixel-art city nights with endless lofi music
Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
colo.to
Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
nura.eco
Project rebrand: Nura
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video] View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
youtube.com
Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’s Threat to Humanity - SNL
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline) stops by Weekend Update to discuss A.I.’s threat to humanity.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://p...
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
Ember-1 View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
fireworks.ai
Introducing Ember-1
Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
There are no "rogue" AI agents View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
eoinhiggins.substack.com
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 28/09/2026
When did Google get so weird? View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
sancho.bearblog.dev
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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