Sunday, 13 September 2026
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Article URL: https://jacob.gold/posts/open-letter-to-dario-amodei-about-open-weights/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676085 Points: 161 # Comments: 50
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Debian 13.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
For those wanting the freshest Debian 13 "Trixie" install media, Debian 13.7 is out today in bundling up all the latest bug and security fixes...
Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
Article URL: https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674050 Points: 140 # Comments: 51
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Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100+ Packages Over AI Policy Dispute
A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text...
Nvidia is the central bank of AI
https://archive.ph/kt50V Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673098 Points: 244 # Comments: 182
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Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/juveniles-riding-in-waymo-arrested-after-police-find-ghost-gun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672549 Points: 104 # Comments: 153
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We must pace the frontier
Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510 Points: 366 # Comments: 503
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Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project
Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived this week only to change course two days later...
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late
Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun
You probably don't need it, but as an example of the possible it impresses
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock
GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release...
Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...
Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package
A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance
Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out...
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation
Information is not forthcoming from this screen
Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
Article URL: https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670032 Points: 198 # Comments: 26
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Navier-Stokes Announcement
Article URL: https://www.claymath.org/news/navier-stokes-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668706 Points: 275 # Comments: 218
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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Article URL: https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668386 Points: 594 # Comments: 465
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Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely
For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...
Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services
"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."
AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money
Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life
Random rewards enrich classic game-theory insights
Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.
Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/another-way-to-leak-traffic-on-a... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665502 Points: 144 # Comments: 38
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Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland
The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.
Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge
The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.
ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics
Analysis revealed seed proteins from sesame and moringa, which held religious and symbolic significance.
Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push
Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.
New Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Out For Testing
Since being merged back during the Linux 7.2 cycle, the Cache Aware Scheduling code continues seeing more fixes as users test out this scheduling enhancement on different processors and system configurations...
A misalignment of AI in mathematics
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignm... https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/11/... , https://unwall.app/www.economist.com/science-and-technology/...
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More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches
If you're waiting for a sign to upgrade to a fixed version: this is it
λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study
Article URL: https://snap.berkeley.edu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662214 Points: 166 # Comments: 103
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Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists
Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures
Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...
NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy
NASA asks US states to show them the money.
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades
AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle
Phone shop staffer claimed he was paid less than $4k for in his part attacks leading to combined intended losses of $600,000
CachyOS vs. Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM
Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs.
Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand
Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree
Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux
The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems...
Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility
Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios
Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.
Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm...
Linux Mint Debuts Xepub As New EPUB Reader, Clockenstein Calendar App
The Linux Mint project today published their August 2026 development report, including some new applications added to their XApp collection...
Ukrainian lawyer's second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars
Swapping legal work for malware development ended in extradition and a guilty plea
EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock
Manufacturers must now disclose actively exploited flaws and severe security incidents through ENISA's new reporting platform
ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral
Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.
What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?
Experiment put atoms in a superposition of trajectories to find out.
Could United Launch Alliance's money problems finally force its owners to sell?
ULA is preparing to resume launching the Vulcan rocket in the coming weeks.
Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?
"We felt like now is the time to pour gas on that fire."
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming…
Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in
TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace
Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing...
Intel Thermald 2.5.13 Restores Accidentally Deleted Wildcat Lake Support
Intel's Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to support Qualcomm/ARM hardware too. The main change with Thermald 2.5.13 is adding back Intel Wildcat Lake platform support after it was accidentally removed in the prior release...
GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release...
Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux
A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland
BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation
How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?
DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it
On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix
There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer
Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language
Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows
Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on
It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements
In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month...
OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time
GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid
Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day
Laptops don't usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful.
GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port
The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for transitioning from GTK2 to GTK3 only saw its stable release last year. But with GTK4 already being out for years, GIMP developers have begun making some very early preparations toward an inevitable GTK4 port...
LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions
Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn't allege any real privacy violation.
Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers
App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
https://www.lg.com/global/newsroom/news/statements/statement... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645480 Points: 247 # Comments: 226
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IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZODN0QUgjI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639647 Points: 493 # Comments: 128
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Article URL: https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626718 Points: 403 # Comments: 116
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Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-great-lakes-sturgeon-lifespan-study-9.7329250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624456 Points: 140 # Comments: 40
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