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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price- Dots: Always-on agents
- America.gov
- How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
- Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
- PS5 Relapse Exploit
- Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
- Tcl/Tk 9.1
- A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
- Ask HN: What are you reading?
- U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
- Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
- Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
- Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
- We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
- NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
- NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
- Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
- Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
- Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
The Night Sky Is Getting 10% Brighter Every Year
Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla- Firefox Redesign Brings Round Tabs, New Themes, and Compact Mode
- Microsoft Makes Linux Containers Native On Windows 11
- Mistral CEO Says US AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors' 'Negligence'
- McDonald's Reportedly Using AI to 'Dynamically' Price Its Burgers
- 500K Facial Recognition Scans at UK Stations Yield Zero Arrests, One False Positive
- OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent 'Dots'
- Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, 'Many' Models Move to Googlebook OS
- California Is Banning Public Officials From Making Memecoins
- Florida Invokes Extinction Fears In Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development
- El Nino Bursts Through Temperature Record Months Before Peak
- Microbes Could Survive On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- Bananas That Don't Go Brown To Hit Supermarkets Thanks to DNA Editing
- China Broadens Travel Curbs To Encompass Family of Top AI Talent
CoW — a stacking window manager for Wayland- Pining for Arc Downcasting in Rust
- Aho-Corasick Algorithm
- Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
- Two Kinds of SQL Query Builders
- Nura (postmarketOS): The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
- Hardly Promethean
- How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
- The Shell & Email
- My experience writing automated tests for a SPA
- AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult
- Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
- MotifCentral - All Things Motif/Xt/Xlib
- ESPARGOS - ESP-SDR: Raw IQ Capture with Espressif's ESP32 Chips
- Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)
- Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User
- What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
- Getting root on OnePlus 15 from an untrusted app
- The Only Intuitive Interface Is The Nipple
- Yes, no AI is now a feature
- How to work in a software engineering team (2022)
- State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley
- Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
- Deterministic Concurrency
- Fake Express Packages on npm Spread a Linux Worm
Apple Pay Now Available in India With Axis Bank Cards- OpenAI Launches Always-On 'Dots' Agents to Rival Meta's Muse
- AirPods 5 Teardown: Batteries Removable, Case Still Tough
- iPhone 18 Pro Owners Complain of Speaker Crackling or Popping
- You Can 'Get Ready' for iPhone Duo Pre-Orders on October 12
- Apple Pay Reportedly Launching in India Today
- Apple Releases New AirPods Beta Firmware
- Apple Shares New Guide for Using iOS 27 Parental Controls
- Apple Creator Studio and Final Cut Camera Get New Features
- Apple Explains Why It Removed ICE Tracking Apps Last Year
- Amazon Expands $779.99 Apple Watch Ultra 4 Deal to More Models
- Switch Siri AI for ChatGPT on Your Mac
- Apple Says Emergency SOS via Satellite Now Available in Norway
- AppleCare Guide: Is it Worth Paying For?
- Apple Reportedly Planned to Replace 5,000 Support Employees With AI
- Apple Planning to Launch Products Faster and More Often
- Amazon Discounting New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Alongside Early Prime Day Deals on Monitors
- New Apple TV 4K Hinted at in Support Document
- iPhone Duo Reportedly Facing Production Problems Ahead of Launch
- Here's Why iPhone Apps Were Crashing
A-ha's Take on Me, recreated in pure JavaScript
Signals come to React-Redux
12 Node built-ins that replace npm packages
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5- Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
- DevDay 2026 Recap
- Introducing dots
- Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
- How we will do better for Australia
- The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
- Are you a Codex Original?
- Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
- 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
- Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
- How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
- Introducing MentalHealthBench
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
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction- Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
- Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
- Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark
- Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price- OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
- Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Quoting @joedaroo
- 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
- [AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more- [AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
- Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
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)
Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute- Helping personal agents shop more intelligently and reliably with Link
- Travel’s AI dilemma at Skift Global Forum
Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration- Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
- Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks
- Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates
- We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found
- Introducing Threat Signals: agentic skills for open-source threat intelligence, free for every Cloudflare account
- Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself
- Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles
- Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec
- Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0- How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON
- Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents
- Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more
- The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update
- Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect
- EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry
- Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen
- Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
- Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses
Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead- How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
- Highlights from Git 2.56
- 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.
- Repository custom runner settings for Dependabot
Bring business context with external custom properties- GPT-6.1 Sol in GitHub Copilot
- Self-hosted runner version enforcement date has moved
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 in GitHub Copilot
- 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
- Vercel Connect now accepts service submissions
- Search trace spans from the Vercel CLI
- GPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gateway
- Search domains without authentication
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
- Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI Gateway
- Push images to Vercel Container Registry from GitHub Actions
- State of agent skills
- Vercel Marketplace database browser now supports Redis
- Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
- 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
Discord Update: September 25, 2026
Personalization without user identity
Evolving our calendar assistant Reclaim to be AI-native without starting over
Big improvements to Seer Agent- Measuring the back/forward cache with Application Metrics
Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS)- I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video…
- The new Gemini 3.8 TTS models are super-cheap and can generate conversations bet…
- I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past thr…
- Journal: Think local Warning: this post is about large language models.
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22775
- Journal: The summer of ’26 Greece, Italy, Spain, and lots of Ireland.
- PMs should understand the architecture.
- A daily friction log.
- Maybe this will help kody.codes click for some folks here!
- get ready web design-elopers.
- 1) Place a little cutie on the border of parent element with `offset-path: borde…
- Bass I bought a standup bass back in June!
- ok i take it back Astra is good how to work with it: 1.
- astra may be my favorite model now.
- guys
- Happy Negroni week to everyone who celebrates!
- Traveling keeps reminding me of how much work it is to: a) deal with impromptu t…