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We must pace the frontier (darioamodei.com)

1015 comments 2 days, 1750 points

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (www.vals.ai)

555 comments 35 hours, 1742 points

XCancel service is suspended until further notice (xcancel.com)

896 comments 22 hours, 1492 points

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)

685 comments 2 days, 1333 points

self ask Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

1002 comments 39 hours, 1329 points

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (www.atomic14.com)

391 comments 38 hours, 1302 points

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)

444 comments 2 days, 1225 points

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (www.apple.com)

638 comments 14 hours, 1212 points

Fuck it, make it anyway (www.joelotter.com)

590 comments 2 days, 1170 points

Steam Frame starts at $1059 (store.steampowered.com)

486 comments 15 hours, 1136 points

Nvidia is the central bank of AI (www.economist.com)

394 comments 2 days, 964 points

Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)

248 comments 47 hours, 866 points

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously (andonlabs.com)

470 comments 15 hours, 857 points

JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)

231 comments 2 days, 797 points

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability (tenderlovemaking.com)

351 comments 19 hours, 796 points

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)

146 comments 2 days, 754 points

Dario, Please (pop.rdi.sh)

238 comments 17 hours, 739 points

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (www.theverge.com)

252 comments 42 hours, 724 points

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)

418 comments 29 hours, 718 points

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (www.lesswrong.com)

229 comments 42 hours, 702 points

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)

376 comments 36 hours, 645 points

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master (twitter.com)

378 comments 2 days, 628 points

The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)

361 comments 31 hours, 628 points

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)

219 comments 40 hours, 620 points

LG says we're fake news [video] (www.youtube.com)

200 comments 2 days, 599 points

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)

201 comments 34 hours, 584 points

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard (hachyderm.io)

161 comments 2 days, 574 points

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)

241 comments 39 hours, 556 points

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)

118 comments 38 hours, 554 points

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (www.investigatetv.com)

205 comments 42 hours, 524 points

Apple's Dimensional Drawings (developer.apple.com)

128 comments 32 hours, 516 points

XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings" (xcancel.com)

240 comments 20 hours, 500 points

How to write an effective software design document (refactoringenglish.com)

135 comments 19 hours, 460 points

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem (www.threebodyorbits.com)

81 comments 2 days, 437 points

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)

134 comments 36 hours, 435 points

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)

149 comments 2 days, 418 points

New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore (spectrum.ieee.org)

273 comments 18 hours, 410 points

The contagion of fear (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

160 comments 33 hours, 401 points

Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste (www.theregister.com)

152 comments 16 hours, 390 points

People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination (dailyneuron.com)

227 comments 19 hours, 382 points

Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)

175 comments 38 hours, 377 points

Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows (www.macrumors.com)

155 comments 20 hours, 377 points

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights (jacob.gold)

91 comments 2 days, 362 points

Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (nvartolomei.com)

60 comments 16 hours, 349 points

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun" (www.latimes.com)

213 comments 2 days, 343 points

Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts (www.techtimes.co.uk)

160 comments 13 hours, 337 points

Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)

119 comments 42 hours, 332 points

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

161 comments 18 hours, 325 points

A beginning for mathematics (www.daniellitt.com)

114 comments 16 hours, 324 points

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

60 comments 44 hours, 317 points

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