Thursday, 17 September 2026
77 stories filed.
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Article URL: https://rohanbansal.com/qorl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731285 Points: 108 # Comments: 14
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OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things
Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?
Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)
Article URL: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731054 Points: 140 # Comments: 21
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Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware
Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don't know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware.
ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market
Article URL: https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/emergency-room-visits-gambling-disorders-nearly-doubled-after-expanded-online-gambling-market Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730239 Points: 119 # Comments: 99
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It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight
Man wins fight to block ICE threat over off-the-cuff angry email.
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729412 Points: 157 # Comments: 175
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GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements
Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released...
Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows
Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services
Small programming tricks
Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729000 Points: 246 # Comments: 134
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Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728733 Points: 111 # Comments: 91
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Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century
Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51
What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
Identity-fluid particles may carry some energy out, leading to direct collapse.
macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
It's both a "Snow Leopard update" and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.
A warning about 'model welfare'
Article URL: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727580 Points: 136 # Comments: 332
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The world’s best racing driver is about to race 100 karts at once
Red Bull, Disney+, and ESPN are streaming the race at noon Eastern today.
Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding
A bipartisan bill would restrict Flock cameras to a handful of public safety uses.
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726955 Points: 151 # Comments: 45
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Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The "Good Enough File-System" For OpenBSD
Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System "GEFS" for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now porting to OpenBSD...
Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems
Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads...
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726586 Points: 377 # Comments: 184
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AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0
The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond...
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils...
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible
Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack
Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
Article URL: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/117280438824908947 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724927 Points: 316 # Comments: 299
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Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy
It looks like you're trying to write some code. Perhaps a shortcut is in order?
Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files
Sensitive personal data was involved, but there is no evidence it was shared with third parties
Salesforce Global Outage
Article URL: https://status.salesforce.com/products/all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724488 Points: 249 # Comments: 153
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Linux's Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops
Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support...
AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings
AMD's GAIA software for building AI agents on your PC and leveraging generative AI locally with the power of AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware continues becoming more featureful. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.24/0.24.1 and with it comes the ability to transcribe and summarize meeting recordings locally along with other functionality...
Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage
As thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services'
OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements
OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric data such as Houdini, RenderMan, and Cinema 4D to the open-source Blender. It's even won an Academy Award for technical achievement while now in 2026 it's finally establishing a SIMD framework for better…
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs
Telco says accounts are secure as customers report hundreds of mystery codes arriving in rapid bursts
Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
Article URL: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723873 Points: 208 # Comments: 162
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UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below
£70M ARIA program backs 18 projects aiming to keep connectivity aloft for a week
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723408 Points: 473 # Comments: 168
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Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free
Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop
Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze
Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner
Java 27 grows up, makes better choices
Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction
How chimps teach their kids tool tricks
Adults first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants, who copy the behavior.
TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom
'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions
Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win
Over the past few months there have been patches floating around for an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() for the Linux kernel for that functuon used by the Linux software RAID code. It's been shhowing very nice performance gains with this function being used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5 and RAID6. The upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle is slated to merge this nice enhancement…
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refueling.
The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches
September Patch Tuesday part 2?
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink
Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack
Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS
Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!
“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge
Allegedly fake filmmaker targeted trackers like PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits.
Introducing System One Models and Jev
Article URL: https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558 Points: 1766 # Comments: 470
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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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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: 1973 # Comments: 230
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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...
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.
Tell the speakers that you liked their talks
Article URL: https://ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-speakers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710903 Points: 226 # Comments: 60
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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...
Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh
The refreshed Volvos also get new infotainment systems with Gemini onboard.
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."
Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
Buckle your seatbelt, secure your tray table, and open your window shade. Now you can simulate flying anywhere in the world as a commercial passenger, from takeoff to touchdown. Terrain, weather, and realtime sun position included.
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