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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
Julia 1.13 highlights
Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Making Startups Powerful
Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
CUDA for AMD on Windows
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Apple's Dimensional Drawings
Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
The case against JPEG XL
Open-source AI and open models reading list
Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)
Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak
NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools
California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union
Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public
Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May
Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls For AI Slowdown
Automattic's Matt Mullenweg Claims He's Back 'In Control'
LG Responds to TV Spying Allegations
Scientists Create a New Form of Ice At 2,357 Degrees Celsius
Little Mercury May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected
Can Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries?
Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom
PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines
US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
Watch what you say: Apple opens the door to a nightmare world of always-listening tech
Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner
what if my git host were a static site generator?
The case against JPEG XL
Switching to GNU Guix: A Beginner's Perspective
Golang developers should try Odin
Homebrew 7.0.0
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times
Purely Functional Operating Systems
heol
From Git to Fossil (2025)
This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5
Can a regex match valid card numbers?
Stabilizing Rust's never type
After Math
Singeli: High-level interface for low-level programming
Sorry, Wrong Number: Debugging a Crash under Wine (2022)
A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith
Being lazy in C++
The Edsac Film (1951, 1976)
GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future
Session Context — what a web page knows about you
Download Dimensional Drawings - Accessories
Gurman: 'iPhone Duo Max' With Bigger Display Likely in Apple's Plans
iPod Touch Released 19 Years Ago Today
Apple's Two Rumored Game Controllers Will 'Likely' Come From Beats
Apple Says iPhone 18 Pro Max Sold in U.S. Differs in One Way
iOS 27 Available Tomorrow With These 8 New Features
AirPods 5 Pre-Orders Go Live, While Older Models Reach Up to $100 Off This Weekend
Here's When iOS 27 Rolls Out Around the World
Top Stories: Apple Event Recap With iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch, and AirPods
Didn't Pre-Order iPhone 18 Pro Yet? Here's How Long the Wait is Now
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Now Available to Pre-Order
Here Are The Best Carrier Deals You Can Get When Pre-Ordering iPhone 18 Pro Today
Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders
How to Pre-Order iPhone 18 Pro From Apple and Get the Model You Want on Launch Day
Here's When iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders Begin in Every Time Zone
Two iOS 27 Features Won't Be Ready for Monday's Launch
Apple Watch Series 11 vs. Series 12 Buyer's Guide: 25+ Upgrades Compared
iPhone 18 Pro First Look: Same Design, Big Changes Inside
iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders: Deadline to 'Get Ready' Early is Tonight
Apple Still Has 8 More Products to Announce Later This Year
iPhone Duo Can Do Split View, But Not Like Your iPad
When 8 chunks weigh more than 355
Why Shopify is moving off React Native
Node is getting a built-in benchmark runner
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
Now everyone can put data to work
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
Introducing the Agents API
The AI policy window is open. We need to act.
GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
The Work Now Within Reach
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms
1Password increases engineering productivity 21% with Codex
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
commit-rewriter 0.1
shot-scraper 1.12
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
California Brown Pelican
Quoting Paul Ford
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
So you want to use OpenRouter?
Quoting Boris Cherny
Feeling sad about AI
Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt
Soft-deprecating re.match()
Don't sleep on wrapture
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases
datasette-publish-fly 1.4
github-to-sqlite 2.9.1
datasette 0.65.4
datasette 1.0a39
Any Nix package, live in your browser
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
Quoting Calif Research
.blend URL Viewer
Quoting Terence Tao
Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
llm 0.35
Creepy crawlies
Quoting Jakub Pachocki
Video compressor
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth
The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right
[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale
[AINews] not much happened today
[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded
The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)
Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB
1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility
Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser
GitHub availability report: August 2026
Add VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics
Auto-resolution and analysis updates in Copilot code review
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 7
Refreshed repository pull requests page in public preview
AI Scan for pull request APIs in public preview
Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode
MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecated
Xcode 27 runner image now runs on macOS 27
npm extends recovery-code security holds to all accounts
CodeQL 2.27.0 adds support for Linux ARM64
Vercel Sandbox now provides 64 GB of storage
How Featured's users make 100K media pitches per month on Vercel
How Tailscale built a customer-facing model router on AI Gateway
Control who can manage connectors in Vercel Connect
GitHub Copilot is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
FastAPI frontends and static files served from the CDN
How we cut CDN metadata lookup latency by 91%
Build with OpenAI Agents API on Vercel
Tako Search is free on AI Gateway through September 30
Vercel Sandbox is now available in all regions
Password Protection is now available per project on Pro
Protect production deployments for free on every plan
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway
You can now read and search changelogs from the CLI
Persistent memory for eve agents
v0 adds one-click integrations for email, auth, search, and databases
Deployment step now 10% faster
Vercel Sandbox routing is now 18x faster globally
Introducing Flat Rate CDN
GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gateway
Flat Rate CDN is now GA for Pro teams
Discord Patch Notes: September 8, 2026
Node.js 26.8.2 (Current)
Node.js 24.21.0 (LTS)
React 19.3- Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem…
- Wow.
- "I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wil…
- Today I’ll mostly be listening to The Bothy Band, in memory of Paddy Keenan—what…
- This is the sort of thing kody.codes enables
- Switching from one agent ecosystem to another stinks.
- Pretty AI diffs still need a why.
- zero barrels i knew it
- Super neat.
- Nice article; but wow `html { text-transform: lowercase; }` is a wild choice.
- Astra is really, really cool but I cannot current trust it for my present day en…
- This is the type of post I might regret later, but I really had an urge to rant…
- This is almost comedic.
- understated but both of these are kinda huge.
- monads are awesome.
- i was on a podcast!
- This short story (by the "there is no anti-memetics division" guy) is fantastic…
- tag yourself
- One meal in, Albania is solidly in my Top 5 cuisines.
- sure love living in the future mail.python.org/archives/lis...