Wednesday, 16 September 2026
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Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster
Article URL: https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558 Points: 136 # Comments: 32
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AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs
Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...
18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication
Teen developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a known measles complication.
SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone.
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers.
Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716476 Points: 115 # Comments: 46
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Demand for EV chargers is outstripping supply, says ChargePoint report
EV growth is happening, even in the US, and those EVs will need plugs to charge.
An Update on Wayback Machine Access
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716176 Points: 188 # Comments: 94
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Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715947 Points: 125 # Comments: 83
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SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony
The SDL3 library commonly used for games and applications for cross-platform hardware and software abstractions now has upstream support for Huawei's HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony...
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email
Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in
America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america%27s-drivers-licence-breach-is-a-national-security-disaster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714547 Points: 154 # Comments: 93
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Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake
While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is working fine out-of-the-box on new Intel Core 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops like the CHUWI UniBook, next month's release of Ubuntu 26.10 will help deliver better performance out of these low-cost laptop options.
Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again
Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 2026
Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models
SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, complete with an expiry date and a named human owner
Fedora 45 Beta Released With KMSCON Console, GNOME 51 & Other Updates
The beta release of Fedora 45 is out today and right on schedule for this wonderful Linux distribution...
CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information
Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach
Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants
EPA says power plant emissions have no material impact on climate change.
Java 27 Reaches GA With The G1 Garbage Collector By Default Everywhere
Oracle christened Java 27 today with the OpenJDK 27 release reaching general availability (GA) status...
September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own
Microsoft fixes RDP and Hyper-V fallout, but some USB audio stays silent
Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler
The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Hey HN, I always had the problem that building HTML pages is really simple now, but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere, and sharing it afterwards was not easy. Over the last few months, I've been building an app called Capsule (it’s also the file extension name) written in Rust with Tauri 2.0 that allows packing an HTML app and its data into a single SQLite file. The HTML file and…
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GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay
The new look debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra pickup trucks.
Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
Article URL: https://bkovac.github.io/modem-thing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712102 Points: 149 # Comments: 24
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Sound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL
Sound Open Firmware as the open-source, vendor-independent audio DSP firmware stack and driver framework is out today with a new feature update...
Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail
American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance
This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years
But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
See also: Avian Visitors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424 - May 2026 (20 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544 Points: 1020 # Comments: 136
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Firefox 157 Beta Released With Latest Enhancements
The Firefox release train keeps on rolling. With Firefox 156 released, Firefox 157 is now in beta ahead of the planned release coming up at the end of September...
Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows
Has the good bork fairy paid a visit to Redmond?
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace
Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?
Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules
IR35 rules not getting easier for government departments
25 years of mass surveillance is enough
Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710883 Points: 661 # Comments: 232
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UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off
The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze
New Linux Patches Improving Hibernation Speed In 2026
A new patch series being worked on is enhancing the Linux kernel's hibernation allocator to allow for faster performance when hibernating the system...
Raspberry Pi Desktop Overhauled On Raspberry Pi OS, Adds Icon Dock
The Raspberry Pi Desktop on Raspberry Pi OS has seen a major overhaul to better modernize the desktop computing experience on the ARM64 single board computers...
Linux Patch Coming To Fix Under-Reported AMD Zen 5 TLB Sizes
A minor reporting issue on Linux that has gone unaddressed until now is for properly conveying the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) sizes on AMD Zen 5 processors...
Let's make quality the norm again
Article URL: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710109 Points: 220 # Comments: 225
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OpenAPV Sees Big Update For Advancing The Advanced Professional Video Codec
OpenAPV as the open-source reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec today saw its v1.1.1 release, succeeding v0.3.0 as the prior release...
PostgreSQL 19 graph queries fail the 'would you ship this?' test
SQL/PGQ gets bounced over unresolved bugs as concurrent REPACK promises fewer midnight calls for DBAs
Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover
The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
Article URL: https://rmoff.net/2026/01/14/alternatives-to-minio-for-single-node-local-s3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709381 Points: 220 # Comments: 87
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How Everpure plans to stop AI from starving without data
SPONSORED FEATURE: The vendor's AI solutions are dedicated to increasing GPU utilization and avoiding costly GPUs doing nothing while waiting for data
CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Article URL: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260915-0135 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708993 Points: 236 # Comments: 102
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Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that
Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner
Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh
The refreshed Volvos also get new infotainment systems with Gemini onboard.
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Article URL: https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708431 Points: 900 # Comments: 368
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Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds
Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage
The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss
Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations
US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck790xg41ygro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707473 Points: 361 # Comments: 260
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For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
"The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force."
COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it
Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop ‘muscles’ for real AI work
RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft
"NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria."
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
Article URL: https://www.effort.news/irregular Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704132 Points: 295 # Comments: 109
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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”
OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?
Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.
AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" For EPYC VMs
AMD engineers today sent out patches on the Linux kernel mailing list for beginning to enable Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" for better security with virtual machines running atop EPYC server processors with SEV-SNP...
A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option
GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities...
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
Valve just announced their long-awaited Steam Frame headset is now available...
Rustls 0.23.45 Released To Fix Two Year Old Security Issue
While the Rustls modern TLS library is written in the Rust programming language with a focus on memory safety, as we've seen out of other Rust project re-implementations in the past, the new implementations can lead to other security bugs of their own. Out today is Rustls 0.23.45 to fix a security issue introduced back in 2024 with Rustls while the likes of OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and others are…
Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster
Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement...
Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today's article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core…
Most people prefer traditional architecture
Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/do-people-prefer-traditional-architecture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697496 Points: 189 # Comments: 137
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Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree...
Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster
Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed…
Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That's Existed Since 2023
Being merged after yesterday's Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years...