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When did Google get so weird?- Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
- Ember-1
- In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
- Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub- Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
- Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
- Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
- Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
- The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
- Video CDs Break Windows Explorer
- There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
- Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
- What I did at Recurse Center
- Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
- The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers
- Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi
- Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]
- Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?- Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards- New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
- China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI
- KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions
- After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
- AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
- Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand?
- Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
- Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
- There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
- Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic
- Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”- postmarketOS rebrands as Nura
- Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
- Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World
- One month without AI
- What makes Lisp difficult to read?
- Fool's Expertise
- LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026
- Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
- Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip
- Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
- Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
- Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
- What Improves Developer Productivity at Google? Code Quality (2022)
- Expert asterisks
- Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket
- Syncing Rust GCC backend or how to test Murphy's law
- Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
- DogWood: Monitoring Policies using First Order Temporal Logic
- Writing Efficient C++ Code
- What I believe about the future of software development
- This is a modern motherfucking website
- Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS
- AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop
- If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
- Amazon Just Knocked $900 Off Apple's Latest 16-Inch MacBook Pro
- Top Stories: Apple Leaks, Siri AI Settlement, and More
- watchOS 27: 12 New Things To Check Out on Your Apple Watch
- Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
- Apple Finally Shares tvOS 27 Release Notes With List of New Features
- Amazon's $199 Discount on Apple Watch Ultra 3 Returns to Help Clear Stock
- Apple Code Confirms iPad 12 Specs: A19, 8GB RAM, N1, C1X Modem
- MacRumors Giveaway: Win an Apple Watch Ultra 4 From Lululook
- Launch Week Deals Hit Latest Macs, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and Apple Accessories
- Some iPhone 18 Pro Max Users Experiencing AT&T Cellular Issues
- The MacRumors Show: Tyler Stalman Talks iPhone 18 Pro's Camera
- iPad Mini With A20 Pro, New HomePod Mini Colors, and New Apple TV 4K All Just Leaked
- iPad Mini 8 Leaked: A20 Pro Chip, Landscape Camera, and More
- Exclusive: First Look at HomePod Mini 2 in Three New Colors
- New Apple TV 4K Leaked
- Create a Custom Pass in the Wallet App on iPhone
- How to Check Your Mac's Manufacture Date in macOS 27
- What's Gone in macOS Golden Gate and What's Next in macOS 28
- TestFlight App Gets New iOS 27 Features
- Google Photos Wardrobe Feature Comes to iOS
JavaScript desktop apps in under 10MB
Signals come to React-Redux
12 Node built-ins that replace npm packages
The Situation Report- Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
- Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
- Two years of OpenAI Academy
- OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
- Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
- Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
- How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
- Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
- Introducing MentalHealthBench
- ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models- Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
- Better prompt caching for GPT-6
- Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
- Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
- Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
- Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
- Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
- Building standards for the next phase of AI
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar- Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
- Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark- How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
- How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible
- Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
- Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
- Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
Quoting Muse AI Agent- 2026 in LLMs (so far)
- S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
- Bluesky reply bot checker
- Kākāpō Party
- Quoting John Gruber
- Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican
- Note on 24th September 2026
- commit-rewriter 0.2
- datasette 1.0a41
- We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
- Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
- Shadow roots, explained with live examples
- SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
- Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
- llm 0.36
- Quoting @therealcornpop
- llm-anthropic 0.29
- llm-typesafe 0.1a0
- Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space- Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
- Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science
- [AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
- 🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
- [AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
- 🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
- [AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
- Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute- New trends in global card fraud: How 3D Secure and regional mandates are affecting risk
- Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
- Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin
- How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
- We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
- Introducing Worker Previews: Isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes
- Python Workers are now generally available
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses- Open-Sourcing Rebalancer: A Generic, High-Performance Library for Solving Assignment Problems
- Inside Petal: Building the World’s First Petabit-Class Transoceanic Subsea Cable
- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
- Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
- When chat is the wrong UI
- AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
- Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
- Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1,000 GitHub users told us they need.
Enterprise managed settings in-product validator- Usage metrics API adds pull request review stages
- Private saved views for repository issues and “Relates to” issue relationship is generally available
- Changes to query results in the GitHub Actions API and UI
- Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory
- GitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 21
- Updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams
- CodeQL 2.27.1 adds C and C++ query and Kotlin 2.4.20 support
- Default Enablement of Copilot features for Copilot Business and Enterprise
- Require proof of presence for high-impact actions
Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI Gateway- Push images to Vercel Container Registry from GitHub Actions
- State of agent skills
- Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
- Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
- The Vercel Bug Bounty Program is now publicly available
- How Klaviyo shipped 356 internal apps in two weeks on Vercel
- Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AI
- Unlimited Vercel Blob stores on every plan
- Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway
- Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
- GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
- Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams
- Deployments now show billable duration and CPU minutes
Discord Update: September 25, 2026- Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults
Measuring the back/forward cache with Application Metrics- Building Sentry's Laravel AI Integration
Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS)- Node.js 26.10.0 (Current)
- Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Lu…
- Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision m…
- The new Gemini 3.8 TTS models are super-cheap and can generate conversations bet…
- Back from Spain with a good haul… 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22773
- Journal: Think local Warning: this post is about large language models.
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22775
- PMs should understand the architecture.
- This is fantastic.
- A daily friction log.
- This is such a weird thing you can do.
- It's a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation.
- Bass I bought a standup bass back in June!
- ok i take it back Astra is good how to work with it: 1.
- wish i could refund 95% of my Astra usage.
- re last point, can somebody from frontier labs please finally drill polya’s “how…
- Happy Negroni week to everyone who celebrates!
- I was not joking folks www.negroniweek.com