Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
\n\n\n\n200 points | 62 comments
\n\n\n\nForgive my lack of understanding but how long before Jev type functionality is just built straight into all frontier models?\n— adrithmetiqa\n\n","metadata":{"score":449,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"2367a3d8c30b42d5","title":"World Labs Is Joining AMD","link":"https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement","author":"mfiguiere","published_at":"2026-09-28T20:18:05+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
258 points | 108 comments
\n\n\n\nI hesitate to recast the discussion in a negative tone, but this doesn't sound right on technical terms.\n","metadata":{"score":258,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"82e1756ebd749dba","title":"It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs","link":"https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/","author":"ibobev","published_at":"2026-09-28T19:53:35+00:00","content":"\n\nIs World Labs' Atlas genuinely novel? Their demos do not seem to be better than the existing state of the art.
Fei Fei Li has been criticized even in the ImageNet days as a shower than a doer. Her roadshow past two years extolling \"world model\" in vague terms didn't show much insight, and her company's demo seems to merely rehash what has been available in the field for years. If you haven't seen the current SoTA in Gaussian splats, then World Labs' demos may seem cool, but they are mostly standard in the field now. If someone is more familiar with the inner workings of World Labs, I am happy to be corrected (but inner details wouldn't change the fact that demos are no better than SoTA).
I really had high hopes for World Labs, but I am quite saddened to realize that perhaps all this was just a financial maneuver and the detractors were right from the beginning.
source: I used to be in the downstream field: Gaussian spats for robotics. The exact field that World Labs' is supposed to help.\n— quanto\n
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
\n\n\n\n214 points | 72 comments
\n\n\n\n> We must move past vague discussions of “AI” and instead isolate the specific types of systems that are creating problems.\n","metadata":{"score":433,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b7c00f1cd0d90c5f","title":"MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser","link":"https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/","author":"logicallee","published_at":"2026-09-28T18:58:53+00:00","content":"\n\nThis is absolutely correct and its surprising how rarely you see commenters in the media push to go into the specifics on this. AI is just matrix math and its what you connect that math to that matters, we should talk a little more about what we are willing to connect AI to and little less about how scary or capable the models appear.\n— jimmyjazz14\n
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
\n\n\n\n212 points | 77 comments
\n\n\n\nIt's not loading for me on Firefox (v156.0.1, Arch Linux), works fine on Chromium.\n","metadata":{"score":212,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"e53b638f1ec0c5b6","title":"So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes","link":"https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html","author":"speckx","published_at":"2026-09-28T18:04:47+00:00","content":"\n\nUncaught ReferenceError: GPUShaderStage is not defined\n <anonymous> https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/engine/web...\n webgpu-metal.js:24:17\n <anonymous> https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/engine/web...\n[MicroLLM lab] App loader failsafe triggered after 6s microllmlab:55:21\n— langurmonkey\n
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
\n\n\n\n203 points | 80 comments
\n\n\n\n> I was hoping to publish my new game on the store and charge for it, but their review process is so broken, I think I'll stick to fdroid and itch.io.\n","metadata":{"score":228,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"f6e603115c242073","title":"Sonnet 5.5","link":"https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5","author":"D2OQZG8l5BI1S06","published_at":"2026-09-28T17:58:11+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n— delichon\nThe more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. -- Princess Leia
530 points | 358 comments
\n\n\n\nUnless you’re using frontier models like Astra, Sol, Fable, or Opus, I think you’re often better off using Chinese models for a fraction of the price. I’m not sure people realises just how competitive they’ve become.\n","metadata":{"score":724,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"11805b3700d8a0dd","title":"Windows 11½","link":"https://definitelynotwindows.com/","author":"jjbinx007","published_at":"2026-09-28T17:51:24+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nGLM and DeepSeek are great examples. They’re a bit like Linux or Android in that there isn’t necessarily one best provider. You need to do some research, try a few, and pick whatever works best for your use case.
I think that’s partly why Anthropic has been pushing its most expensive models so heavily for a while now. Sonnet and Haiku were great, but at that level of intelligence it’s becoming much harder for them to compete on price with Chinese models that have largely caught up.
The main reason to use frontier models from Anthropic or OpenAI now is the combination of intelligence and speed. Chinese frontier models still struggle to match that, possibly in part because of hardware constraints. But judging by the recent GLM releases, they seem to be moving in the right direction.\n— azuanrb\n
413 points | 127 comments
\n\n\n\nHaving recently been reinstalling Win 95, 98 SE, and XP has been quite a reminder how much classic Windows got out of the way. Aside from a single, auto started Tour (with and easy+permanent opt out), there isn't much to slow you down or hold your hand.\n","metadata":{"score":468,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b881964caedec6a2","title":"The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent","link":"https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/","author":"zazuke","published_at":"2026-09-28T16:11:42+00:00","content":"\n\nThough for the kids it's quite unfamiliar and a bit intimidating. They're used to first-run tutorials and guides popping along their journey. Things are also more easily lost to them when not on the desktop.
I imagine the ideal is probably a first run wizard that could ask users how much help they'd like coming up to speed. Obviously this excludes selling the user's attention to advertisers, not even for first party offerings.\n— paulryanrogers\n
The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
\n\n\n\n341 points | 223 comments
\n\n\n\nI was reflecting on this on Saturday in an unformed way, trying to trace the lineage of a decision made at work.\n","metadata":{"score":358,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"be14c3c4e3c75ed7","title":"Pirating the Pirates","link":"https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates","author":"piotrgrabowski","published_at":"2026-09-28T15:54:15+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nThe code change itself doesn't specifically matter. But suffice to say, it was about an AI feature in one of our products.
The code was stamped by Claude driven by a prompt. The prompt was for a ticket generated with the Atlassian AI integration. Atlassian had digested docs made with AI. The docs came from strategy memos I'm 90% sure were written entirely by Claude.
The strategy was chosen by management at the urging of exec leadership. The execs now communicate mostly via AI written memos. I do not know how they make decisions, but they reference tech influencers, market conditions, customer expectations.
This gave me pause. Who had actually made the decision then? Arguably there has been several layers of human review, but the actual source of the decision was hard to pin down.
We were not building the feature because we wanted it. We were building it because we thought other people expected it.
Perhaps reflecting on the state of the market, I thought, could indicate who was actually in control.
Where do investor and customer expectations come from in 2026? It is very murky, at least in tech. There appears to be hype. Some hype comes from true believers, some comes from cynics. But both respond to market incentives that reward bigger and bigger claims.
Where does the market's \"action\" come from? What is the driver?
Investors do not really seem to understand what the tech is or its limitations. Some are passive operators. Others are just responding to the overall froth and speculation in the market - which becomes a runaway feedback cycle.
This left me lost.
Nobody in this ecosystem, I thought, is actually in control here.
Nobody is actually orienting work and action to real, concrete goals. It's all based on speculation and anxiety about the future.
So it is not only that nobody understands what the code does. It is that we cannot, or at least I cannot, explain the motivation. There doesn't seem to \"be\" any form of \"intention\" in this environment.
It has all been hollowed out, replaced either be inscrutable machines, or inscrutable incentives.
Ironically it rather resembles the kind of \"misaligned\" superintelligence we are supposed to be avoiding.\n— zero_shift\n
379 points | 202 comments
\n\n\n\n\"“To me, it [the original Star Wars trilogy] doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it.” - George Lucas, 2004\n","metadata":{"score":523,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"fdfd46c40e7c61d2","title":"Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream","link":"https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/","author":"ibobev","published_at":"2026-09-28T15:35:23+00:00","content":"\n\nIt is insane how much George Lucas has edited the original Star Wars trilogy. I think no movies have had more edits over time than Star Wars.\n— thewizzardofnl\n
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
\n\n\n\n244 points | 73 comments
\n\n\n\nKinda sad that it's 2026 and this data still goes over the internet unencrypted...\n","metadata":{"score":244,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d4450ee1992d8323","title":"Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat","link":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript","author":"simonpure","published_at":"2026-09-28T15:35:09+00:00","content":"\n\nRTMP and all the video and audio protocols behind it aren't trivial either - I bet there are hundreds of exploits waiting to be found that any three letter agency sitting on the internet can use to take over your PS5 and all credentials stored within too...\n— londons_explore\n
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
\n\n\n\n258 points | 158 comments
\n\n\n\nThe Onion predicted this in 2014: \"Teens Migrating From Facebook To Comments Section Of Slow-Motion Deer Video\" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mMY2Kl3GY)\n","metadata":{"score":369,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5705835c6b48a47d","title":"Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah","link":"https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425","author":"slowin","published_at":"2026-09-28T15:32:18+00:00","content":"\n\nReminds me a little bit of the agent improvised coordination schemes.\n— xnx\n
Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
\n\n\n\n434 points | 245 comments
\n\n\n\nNot only should we be critical of how Israel wages this war, but we should also recognize the role of Hamas. Deliberate killing of non-combatants, civilian abductions, unguided rocket and mortar fire, use of human shields, perfidy and disguise, all war crimes and crimes against humanity.\n","metadata":{"score":434,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"53c8896b75a3f567","title":"MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta","link":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-2026-09-28/","author":"diek","published_at":"2026-09-28T14:54:21+00:00","content":"\n\nMost of us here in the US don't have to worry about threats of terrorism like this. It doesn't excuse Israel's (many) war crimes but often we don't acknowledge the horror of Hamas on Israel and Palestinians when talking about this conflict.\n— gbriel\n
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
\n\n\n\n320 points | 257 comments
\n\n\n\n\"effective immediately\" means either... he doesn't have a contract with a notice period, or he does and is willing to forfeit any benefit from it like share options, etc.\n","metadata":{"score":343,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"9e72c27afa750bc2","title":"Coding Is Not Solved","link":"https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved","author":"firstSpeaker","published_at":"2026-09-28T13:52:57+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nOne reason might be the share price has collapsed and he has no confidence in it coming back (pretty scandalous if he's the CEO!), or Meta has offered him inducements > what he's walking away from.
Good way to burn a lot of bridges. He's never going to be hired as CEO by anybody for the rest of his career.\n— everfrustrated\n
274 points | 274 comments
\n\n\n\nReading the code does not mean you understand the code. One lesson that experience in software gave me: I never understood the code. You think it works a certain way, until you find out that it doesn't.\n","metadata":{"score":473,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d54c57dc8aeda8d3","title":"Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC","link":"https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley","author":"davidcollantes","published_at":"2026-09-28T10:30:54+00:00","content":"\n\nWhat LLMs make possible is for me to say: find out all the ways this thing works. Analyze the different ways we can run this software, build a fuzzer, build property tests, and run this software in every scenario possible. Log full traces. Log all the outputs. Now, analyze each scenario for bugs. You can't do that by hand.
If we are committed to it, if we put the resources towards it and dedicate the time to it (and we could do this just by saying: it will take half as long as it used to take!), software built by llms in healthcare, finance, automotive, defense, power plans, aviation, manufacturing can all be made MORE reliable and better with LLMs... without ever reading a single line of code. The LLMS are very good at logic, by the way.
Anyway all of this reads like someone who is not actually using LLMs to build software or hasn't tried them in a while. I felt the same way in 2025. I've written 100s of thousands of lines of difficult code. You, the person reading this, has probably interacted with software I've written. For a time you would've interacted with it every time you made a debit card transaction in the united states, for example. I understand code, and care about quality, and that's why I'm all in on LLMs for code.\n— efficax\n
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
\n\n\n\n225 points | 108 comments
\n\n\n\nI'm searching for a simple, self-hosted chat system that allows me to host unlimited bots and send messages (with notifications) to my iPhone easily.\n","metadata":{"score":312,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"663a897aa24db8d5","title":"SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today","link":"https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live","author":"geox","published_at":"2026-09-28T09:15:04+00:00","content":"\n\nI currently have an XMPP server running, which is fine, I guess. I've looked into chatMail. I have considered hosting an IRC server.
At this point, I'm considering just setting up my own NTFY server and writing a chat client for it.
Does anyone have any ideas for what the lightest weight, simplest solution might be?\n— flymasterv\n
SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
\n\n\n\n276 points | 271 comments
\n\n\n\nStarship is not yet reusable but they have the MVP and a fantastic position to iterate forward.\n","metadata":{"score":296,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"8c443d5f19edd6cd","title":"AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity","link":"https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/","author":"ljewalsh","published_at":"2026-09-28T08:35:40+00:00","content":"\n\n-- they have an orbital launcher with the largest diameter cargo bay
-- larger sats have bigger antennas and bigger PV area and more bus power. this scales as diam^2
-- 26 x Starlink v3 ~40-65 tons to LEO
-- every launch generates revenue, locks out the orbit for competitors.
-- they can launch more volume, more mass and cheaper than anyone else by a large margin
-- the design is validated - things will work
-- there is technical debt, issues but the rocket did the job
Caveats
-- timelines for full reusability are optimistic etc
-- there will be other issues in scaling to launching gigawats into orbit
-- cooling will have to be
-- Musk might go Full Villan mode before the thing works
[meta] I really didn't like that other negative comment getting voted to the top. \nLooks like it's made by someone who never worked in a bigco. \nFor every bigco I worked, at any time there were hundreds if not thousands of open issues. \nYou could list them and try arguing the company is about to fail and you'd scare people who don't know better.
It's the judgement of the severity of the issue that matters not #no_of_issues. \nAnd if there were 0 issues would our job exist?
[edit] getting the formatting right is very hard, maybe we could get a preview / TinyMCE ?\n— paulus_magnus2\n
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
\n\n\n\n408 points | 366 comments
\n\n\n\nI’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.\n— chasd00\n\n","metadata":{"score":428,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"86d16e3b498c8707","title":"Prompting Claude Opus 5.5","link":"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5","author":"Michelangelo11","published_at":"2026-09-28T07:33:29+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
186 points | 206 comments
\n\n\n\nAll that keeps jumping out at me is how they've set it to refuse giving users thinking tokens and prompts for full reasoning in output. Just drives me further away; I may not stop using Claude completely for now, but I'll be moving even more of my primary workload to Chinese providers. That's where openness and freedom is now at.\n— skeledrew\n\n","metadata":{"score":195,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"158cb3a33163ea86","title":"Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)","link":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834","author":"teleforce","published_at":"2026-09-28T03:23:53+00:00","content":"\n\n
Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
\n\n\n\n160 points | 61 comments
\n\n\n\nThere was this post a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797323\n","metadata":{"score":160,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"75d47672fbbbbd01","title":"Musk, the Movie","link":"https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk","author":"yablak","published_at":"2026-09-28T02:12:17+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nIt had this to say in the linked post:
\nNow thinking back, what's missing so that gzip could unwind the correct body of work from Shakespeare is just a correct sequence of bytes. One way to arrive at this is by just getting the body of work and doing the inverse, compressing it to get that golden sequence of bytes.This led to the natural question: can gzip do language modeling? (...). Here’s some real, unedited output after priming it on tiny Shakespeare:\n\n gzipt --corpus data/tinyshakespeare.txt --prompt $'MENENIUS:\\n' --length 200\n\n MENENIUS:\n 'Though all at once canq\n\n MARCIUS:\n Pray now, nocamest thou to a morsel.\n\n LARTIUS:\n Hence, and\n I' the end admire, where G\n again; and after it ag .\nThe other is what thinking does, it tries to predict the missing sequence of tokens from a high entropy source, the prompt, in order to increase the likelihood of correctly decompressing the desired results from its weights.\n— gchamonlive\n
148 points | 92 comments
\n\n\n\nI just don't understand why this trailer starts with Musk accusing Gibney of this being a hit piece, then a snarky response from Gibney...and then a full trailer that sounds like a hit piece.\n","metadata":{"score":174,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"0ff2dadeb772c957","title":"Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock","link":"https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html","author":"Eric_Gullichsen","published_at":"2026-09-28T02:05:13+00:00","content":"\n\nMaybe it's warranted maybe it isn't but it sure seems like Musk was right to be concerned.\n— rabidonrails\n
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
\n\n\n\n464 points | 192 comments
\n\n\n\nAn open question is what happened to the 15,625 shares that he received when he exercised his options in 1996?\n","metadata":{"score":1065,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"eef644bd9e4dc895","title":"When did Google get so weird?","link":"https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/","author":"sancho-panza","published_at":"2026-09-27T20:12:54+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nIf he had held on to those, they would be worth even more than the additional 9,375 shares he was entitled to -- about $1.7 billion using the same numbers in the post.
My guess is that he probably sold them when they were worth a lot less then they are now, and would have done the same with the additional shares too.\n— jonas21\n
607 points | 325 comments
\n\n\n\nYesterday I tried to google \"can the Halifax Wanderers still make the CPL playoffs?\"\n","metadata":{"score":1875,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"272d6249b634ce8e","title":"Self-Hosting on the Dark Web","link":"https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/","author":"mooreds","published_at":"2026-09-27T20:03:36+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nSo obviously what appears right at the top is the AI summary, which told me \"they've already secured their #4 position and made the playoffs\". I knew this wasn't true, and I guess I could have just scrolled down a bit further and found my answer but now I was curious.
So I said \"that's not true, they're still #5, what I want to know is _could they still make the playoffs_\"
It says they've got an upcoming game against Ottawa, and if they win their chances are good. That game has already taken place, so I correct it again and finally I get a reasonable answer.
My question is: what's the point of the AI in the search engine if it itself isn't going to use the search engine first before answering? Like, I can't wrap my head around that. The answer is on the same page as its hallucination. It could have done a cursory look around before first hallucinating something completely false, and when corrected the first time giving me outdated information. It's meant to be A SEARCH ENGINE!\n— Hugsbox\n
195 points | 75 comments
\n\n\n\nWhat I really love about Onion sites is that if they are big enough, performance engineering really becomes Tor-specific. A few examples:\n","metadata":{"score":344,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"60b7380afa67f18a","title":"Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?","link":"https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11","author":"midnightfish","published_at":"2026-09-27T19:37:05+00:00","content":"\n\n- Making assets embedded as base64 (img src the header logo as base64, all CSS should be inline, etc.).
- Leveraging CSS as much as possible (if you use animations and transitions, use CSS as much as possible for these, avoid JS for them).
- Make sure your website is mostly rendered on the backend. If you're to have JS, your website should work without it.
- Security becomes REALLY fun, as in, avoid XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection attacks and any other injections as much as possible.
As someone summarizes in another comment[0], keep the chattiness as minimal as possible. By chattiness I understand they mean, pack as much data as you can in the same Keep-Alive connection. Avoid making new HTTP requests as much as possible, as each one might get assigned to a new Onion route making things slow.
If you can ship your website to the browser in a single connection, you've won.
I've always been impressed by performance of these big Onion sites, they really push the limits of software engineering creativity, given these constraints and nature of Tor.
--
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872320
EDIT: Formatting of bullet points.\n— ivanmontillam\n
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
\n\n\n\n173 points | 59 comments
\n\n\n\nEDSAC as early as 1949 had an \"initial orders\" module. A boot-up ROM. There was a bank of rotary selector switches, to set the octal digits in each ROM word.\n","metadata":{"score":173,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"335651de25846cab","title":"Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi","link":"https://loficities.com/","author":"safaelmali","published_at":"2026-09-27T18:44:30+00:00","content":"\n\nDavid Wheeler (of subroutine fame) figured out the most sensible thing to put in the tiny ROM was a paper tape loader and mini-assembler that loaded the rest of itself from paper tape. So at switch-on the machine would start reading the tape input and run. Programs could be written on the teletype with mnemonics and relative addresses in octal.
It seems a little strange that more advanced later machines like the original PDP-11 from 1970, couldn't \"autostart\" from ROM like that. You had to toggle in a bootloader.
I think that was because core memory was non-volatile. (EDSAC didn't use core; it had a refreshing DRAM-like delay line memory.) With core, you only had to toggle the bootloader into once and, provided your software didn't accidentally overwrite it, it was still there after a power cycle. So re-toggling in the boot loader was not really that common, despite how much lore surrounds it.\n— retrac\n
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
\n\n\n\n216 points | 94 comments
\n\n\n\nThe product hunt ad is breaking the immersion for me. I know that most cities have ads but still, I prefer ad free pixel art.\n","metadata":{"score":308,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"a88b25c6830df82e","title":"SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]","link":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls","author":"CharlesW","published_at":"2026-09-27T17:32:02+00:00","content":"\n\nIt’s also not realistic, in one landscape the billboard is taller than a 9 story building.\n— thih9\n
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
\n\n\n\n173 points | 87 comments
\n\n\n\nI listened to the interview that Dario did with Anderson Cooper after seeing this video.\n","metadata":{"score":189,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"7efd111ff77a838e","title":"Ember-1","link":"https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1","author":"gmays","published_at":"2026-09-27T17:31:53+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\"Nah, this is slapstick; she was clearly trying for laughs though the Gollum thing was absolutely hilarious.\"
But no. She ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED. I know Dario is a very smart Dude, but he gives heavy SBF vibes on camera.\n— nunez\n
311 points | 167 comments
\n\n\n\nThis is the golden age of model training. Some days ago, I decided I wanted a local CPU only model that can perform exceptionally well for English to Bash translation (to avoid the googling for command syntax). I got a bunch of subagents to generate large amount of training data (140k+ samples), got the Qwen 3 0.6B base model, pointed Astra at it, and off to the races. It trained for 2 days (on and off) and I got a surprisingly good model for my task! The total active time I spent was a few hours. And it is still improving, what a time to be alive!\n— GodelNumbering\n\n","metadata":{"score":579,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"cff0be15d8c44d20","title":"Don't couple your Go code to GitHub","link":"https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github","author":"birdculture","published_at":"2026-09-27T16:50:58+00:00","content":"\n\n
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
\n\n\n\n215 points | 98 comments
\n\n\n\nTrue, but beware of the domain name you're using. Because VeriSign may unilaterally decide to delete your domain name along with thousands of others [1] and you're back to square one…\n","metadata":{"score":322,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"dbfd29493a080b2c","title":"There are no \"rogue\" AI agents","link":"https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents","author":"zzzeek","published_at":"2026-09-27T16:19:46+00:00","content":"\n\n[1] https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/\n— p4bl0\n
There are no \"rogue\" AI agents
\n\n\n\n324 points | 240 comments
\n\n\n\nA little over two decades ago, my then girlfriend was arrested for \"writing malware\" (which was not against the law at the time, and which was never released into the wild and never caused any damage). This set in motion a chain of events that effectively ruined her life.\n","metadata":{"score":391,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"f232e9ca762064ae","title":"PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura","link":"https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/","author":"HotGarbage","published_at":"2026-09-27T15:31:15+00:00","content":"\n\nFast forward to today, and we have multi billion dollar corporations pumping out malware at breakneck speeds, compromising various systems (including those of foreign governments), and no one is getting arrested. Instead we're gawking at the marvel of these systems and are playing word games about whether or not it's a rogue system. If anything, it's making people richer.
Make it make sense.\n— elric\n
PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
\n\n\n\n157 points | 42 comments
\n\n\n\nHm. The name collides with Nura, an audio company with a product called Nuraphone. I suppose any pronounceable 4-letter word has collisions.\n— Retr0id\n\n","metadata":{"score":184,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"0e44a5089f95b06c","title":"The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures","link":"https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html","author":"pxx","published_at":"2026-09-27T15:26:40+00:00","content":"\n\n
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
\n\n\n\n233 points | 95 comments
\n\n\n\nI am big on reproducibility (nix aficionado) and determinism (flagging test failures are a red-alert, all-hands-on-deck situation in my world) and correctness.\n","metadata":{"score":276,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"7ebad63c843315b7","title":"Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted","link":"https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/","author":"jandeboevrie","published_at":"2026-09-27T14:45:07+00:00","content":"\n\nI am also big on testing (the correct things). And nine-nines (big on Elixir).
And... I'm also big on agent-assisted dev. Which requires pretty much every check in the book to stay productive in. And that's fine to me. I've seen bugs that I wouldn't have made myself. And I've also seen my own bugs fixed. They've all gotten fixed in short order. I don't see why this is a problem.
Raise your personal standards.
Thing is, the unreliable-software situation was already untenable before agents (in poor hands) made it worse.\n— pmarreck\n
Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted
\n\n\n\n254 points | 204 comments
\n\n\n\nThis story has no references that support the author's version of events, but it does appear to be substantially true that:\n","metadata":{"score":384,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"465cc56540625fe1","title":"10 Tells of a Slop UI","link":"https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop","author":"theanonymousone","published_at":"2026-09-27T14:41:26+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n1. The change would break undo history, for both Neovim and Vim.
2. This means Neovim would delete data created by a different program, on another user's computer.
3. This was known before the feature was released.
4. They did it anyway.
I don't think there can really be any post-hoc justification of this.
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/13973#issuecomment-789...\n— jeremyjh\n
210 points | 155 comments
\n\n\n\n> It adds these // whenever anything close to tech is mentioned.\n","metadata":{"score":381,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"2ab9f355f1f44305","title":"In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html","author":"danso","published_at":"2026-09-27T14:30:55+00:00","content":"\n\nI've done this before, in what I would argue was tasteful at the time.\n— not_a_bot_4sho\n
In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
\n\n\n\n194 points | 79 comments
\n\n\n\nhttps://archive.is/2026.09.26-101638/https://www.nytimes.com...\n— ouked\n\n","metadata":{"score":294,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"08e7039771a76d4d","title":"Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights","link":"https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/","author":"surprisetalk","published_at":"2026-09-27T13:30:11+00:00","content":"\n\n
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
\n\n\n\n161 points | 87 comments
\n\n\n\n> I wasn’t sure how to find out what an “LI????77” was […]. I would be interested to learn non-LLM ways to figure this out though. There must be a way.\n","metadata":{"score":207,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"74db01b020b50ebb","title":"Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/","author":"rbanffy","published_at":"2026-09-27T08:44:04+00:00","content":"\n\nReading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_cell#Type_designation would have indicated a solution: The third character must be an R (for rechargeable), the “77” would be the height in tenths of millimeters (which makes for a good plausibility check), and then you can measure the cell’s diameter to obtain the remaining digits in the middle.\n— layer8\n
Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
\n\n\n\n370 points | 259 comments
\n\n\n\nHe said the thing that Canada, Greenland, Cuba, and various other countries are worried about, but is either publicly ignored in the US or dismissed as \"trolling\" by the president.\n","metadata":{"score":466,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"88361d2c2fc6e5c1","title":"Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI","link":"https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/","author":"papergirl","published_at":"2026-09-27T06:19:33+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/lula-says-trum...\n— ocd\n
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
\n\n\n\n548 points | 507 comments
\n\n\n\nActual title: \"Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work\"\n","metadata":{"score":626,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"29c33c354062ecb4","title":"If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?","link":"https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/","author":"signa11","published_at":"2026-09-27T03:20:46+00:00","content":"\n\nTwitter is also mentioned:
\"356. In July 2020, OpenAI employee Ryan Lowe assessed the risk of continuing to use LibGen for the book-summarization project. Lowe wrote that he thought “there’s a >80% chance that we have some exchange of the form: ‘where did you get the books data?’” and “‘we can’t say’[.]” Nelson Decl. Ex. 325 at -315. Lowe estimated “a further ~40% chance that that leads to a moderate-sized Twitter kerfuffle that negatively affects the external perception of our work.” Id. \nLowe added: “if we’re fully okay with these potential outcomes, then I’m comfortable continuing using Libgen for the project.” Id.\"
https://authorsguild.org/app/uploads/2026/09/Class-Plaintiff...\n— 1vuio0pswjnm7\n
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
\n\n\n\n192 points | 75 comments
\n\n\n\nStack overflow was one of the best ways to learn and mature as an engineer “back in the day”. The\nmeme is that devs would copy and paste and hope it worked. The reality was more like you had an obscure bug, you wrote a detailed and cohesive question, and you connected with people who were more knowledgable and would help you.\n","metadata":{"score":207,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"45fdc1e687c4230c","title":"What is the size of Yemen? (2024)","link":"https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen","author":"kspacewalk2","published_at":"2026-09-27T02:40:26+00:00","content":"\n\nIt also sharpened your writing and thinking. By responding to questions you solidified your understanding of topics.
It got a lot of hate for the moderation but I think that was mainly in huge communities where literally “dumb” questions got bombarded every minute. Smaller tech like Docker when it first arrived on the scene had communities that learned together.
Spent a lot of time there when I was a few years out of school and still trying to figure out what it meant to be a software eng. It’s sad to see it become a ghost town and I think it’s a net negative for young engineers to have an all knowing entity spit out every answer.\n— pech0rin\n
What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
\n\n\n\n225 points | 75 comments
\n\n\n\nI think a more important question is whether Yemen still exists as as single coherent political entity with the same borders as seen on ANY of those maps, which given the present situation, it clearly does not.\n","metadata":{"score":260,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"c93d2776d7320e23","title":"DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)","link":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978","author":"shenli3514","published_at":"2026-09-26T18:22:41+00:00","content":"\n\nedit: map here https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-updat...
and here: https://yemen.liveuamap.com/\n— walrus01\n
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
\n\n\n\n228 points | 76 comments
\n\n\n\nIt seems every DeepSeek paper/patent has a huge number of authors, and this one is no exception. They couldn't even fit everyone on the page, there are 31 others not shown. This could be an asset protection strategy (i.e., human assets). Imagine if there were only 3 authors. Those authors may get hired away by competitors. If you list every employee on every paper then competitors don't know who to lure away.\n— flowerlad\n\n","metadata":{"score":320,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"911640b785561a27","title":"Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners","link":"https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-futures-into-doubt","author":"mikhael","published_at":"2026-09-26T17:43:11+00:00","content":"\n\n
Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
\n\n\n\n188 points | 538 comments
\n\n\n\n> By some estimates, Japan’s foreign-born population could reach the OECD average of 10 percent by 2070.\n","metadata":{"score":203,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b1c888e733e04eb5","title":"Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things","link":"https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw","author":"jpwalsh234","published_at":"2026-09-26T17:10:40+00:00","content":"\n\nIgnoring whether the new rules are reasonable, the most baffling part of all this is how small the foreign population in Japan is.
Things are undoubtedly harder for the average Japanese citizen these days, but foreigners make up just 3% of the population. Targeting this cohort, I can't imagine a single policy change that would positively impact the lives of non-foreigners. Even if you snapped your fingers and deported every foreigner out of Japan, the only noticeable impact would be a shortage of low-wage workers/convenience store staff, who are predominantly from SE and South Asian countries.
The foreign population growing from 3% today to 10% in 45 years should be a consideration for sure, but the amount of attention and media play immigration issues get in Japan is astonishing. I don't think the politicians are acting in bad faith, so my conclusion is that they simply don't know what else to do to improve things.\n— crakhamster01\n
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
\nI love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software like Draw.io which are powerful but are very time consuming (and inefficient for agents to manipulate).I wanted to have the benefits of both, where you can define a diagram in a diagram language, but also retain a high degree of control over what the diagram looks like.
I also wanted this to work well for humans and agents.
On the Github link, there's a playground where you can try it out without installation. There's also instructions for a simple npm install and for installing a skill you can use with Claude or other agents.\n\n\n
267 points | 78 comments
\n\n\n\nNice to see tools improving human-agent collaboration.\n— DylanMerigaud\n\n","metadata":{"score":398,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"063aedcb0aa0bce6","title":"I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband","link":"https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip","author":"minimaxir","published_at":"2026-09-26T16:12:18+00:00","content":"\n\n
I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
\n\n\n\n426 points | 173 comments
\n\n\n\nVery well written both in prose and tone. I'm glad she decided to tell this story. If the author isn't a professional writer I think she could be.\n","metadata":{"score":598,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"25c53b0a3c18441b","title":"Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas","link":"https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent","author":"parasitid","published_at":"2026-09-26T15:56:34+00:00","content":"\n\nThis is a great \"behind the scenes\" style look at the actual people behind a viral clip. Luckily they have an extremely strong relationship to help soften the blows here, I'm not sure an average (not even bad!) relationship could come out of something like this unscathed.
There's something feral in us that comes out from time to time, especially online from the safety of our screens. I found the announcers within the range of good fun but when it gets to people reaching out to break up their marriage or telling him to kill himself it becomes really sobering.
I think this is part of what people are calling the lonlieness epidemic - despite thousands of screaming voices the whole thing makes me feel hollow and hopeless.\n— collingreen\n
Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
\n\n\n\n170 points | 45 comments
\n\n\n\nExcalidraw offers their own open source first party MCP endpoint[0] and server[1]:\n","metadata":{"score":175,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"a8a511c8837d2ecd","title":"Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe","link":"https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe","author":"vinni2","published_at":"2026-09-26T15:24:08+00:00","content":"\n\n[1]https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-mcp\n— seemaze\n
Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
\nhttps://archive.ph/n8Akh\n\n\n169 points | 318 comments
\n\n\n\nThe drop from 2018 to 2022 is as big as the one from 2022 to 2026, so it's not obvious whether AI had a role at all, although it's highly plausible.\n","metadata":{"score":205,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"48b837a1eb4c890b","title":"Go Concurrency Distilled","link":"https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/","author":"chmaynard","published_at":"2026-09-26T14:34:49+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nI suspect the bigger culprit is the optimized monetization of human attention, because pre-algorithmic social media doesn't seem to be as destructive. The fact that science wasn't as affected as math and reading (both of which rely more on attention/practice than rote memorization) somewhat supports this.\n— dumberquestions\n
220 points | 83 comments
\n\n\n\nThe concurrency and threading in Go just feels like magic compared to every other language. I'm a goroutine addict and I refuse to be rehabilitated.\n","metadata":{"score":384,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5f314c64e3291a67","title":"Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free","link":"https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/","author":"ezst","published_at":"2026-09-26T10:55:56+00:00","content":"\n\nJust from observations over the years, I don't think there's any other language quite like this, in terms of how things can end up happening in any thread.\n— SamInTheShell\n
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
\n\n\n\n444 points | 177 comments
\n\n\n\nI think it bothers OP less that they take a 15% tax than the fact that google provides terrible support for their own play store. If they would take that tax and provide good feedback and speedy version reviews, nobody would ever complain - it is expected to pay something since the play store doesn't run on good thoughts and prayers.\nBut because they're a monopoly (or a duopoly if you count apple, which is a different platform altogether) they can afford to act this way.\n— pi-victor\n\n","metadata":{"score":698,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5d5b62e540811331","title":"One Month Without AI","link":"https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html","author":"saibotk","published_at":"2026-09-26T10:08:21+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
178 points | 223 comments
\n\n\n\nI find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use.\n","metadata":{"score":183,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"ed9931ed4783851e","title":"How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs","link":"https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705","author":"signa11","published_at":"2026-09-26T09:41:58+00:00","content":"\n\nOver the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.
At most, I use these tools as search engines. Even then some references are poor.
I'm starting to think this is becoming a sad, sad world and AI is just the new TV of the programming world.\n— assimpleaspossi\n
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
\n\n\n\n206 points | 250 comments
\n\n\n\nNot so long ago I read something on HN which resonated with me: we’re moving into the era that is comparable to car mechanics enthusiasts. You have a previous generation of cars where people just enjoy working on with hand tools, and there’s modern cars where people like to tune with software patches.\n","metadata":{"score":330,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"6680c8a021da0dab","title":"Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story","link":"https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story","author":"ksec","published_at":"2026-09-26T09:13:41+00:00","content":"\n\nFrom the very start of llms I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with code that was generated for me. Either it’s buggy, it works but I end up losing an evening on some obscure bug, or it’s full of red flags.
My latest hobby project is just in a text editor with markup and that’s it. I’m also done with the augmented assistance in the IDE. I google things I forgot. I constantly read these amazing stories of people vibe-coding some firmware/driver that just works, and honestly I’m starting to question whether I’m reading the posts of some promotional bot.\n— chicken-stew\n
Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
\n\n\n\n222 points | 38 comments
\n\n\n\n> For one, Apple was unwilling to have visible barcodes printed on the envelopes — but it wanted every step of the shipping and delivery of your card tracked. That wasn’t something the US Postal Service did. Apple and the printing company created an invisible barcode that was sprayed on the envelope, visible only under certain UV light, so that the envelope itself would remain unadulterated. And the USPS agreed to scan cards when sent, when processed at mail facilities, up to and including when they went out on a mail truck for delivery.\n","metadata":{"score":433,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}}]This is classic Steve Jobs. Sheer force of will.\n— woadwarrior01\n