This week on βUncanny Valley,β we dig into a former Anthropic researcherβs AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Appleβs event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
The first time you need to adjust volume, you'll wish you'd spent that extra $20.
Fighting has reignited in Yemen as Houthi forces push south towards the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.
While the strengthening El NiΓ±o helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.
The ruling is a blow to Trump administration's efforts to change how mail-in voting works ahead of November elections.
Pakistan says no military response has been discussed under its new defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye.
Petrobras eyes diesel price hike, awaiting government measures to shield consumers, sources say Β Β Reuters
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is reversing policies put in place after 9/11.
Algiers ends relations with Gulf state over 'provocative and hostile' actions, after years of tensions.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the narrative AI companies are pitching schools on [β¦]
Shopify acquisition will give open-source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
Hey HN, at Pinch we've been working on something to reduce friction to getting accurate, fast audio translation for live media. Initially we launched a desktop app that sat between your hardware mic/speakers and your meeting platform, but this required users to install our audio driver which introduced permissions hoops to jump through as well as stability issues across updates, not to mention trying to get our device driver approved by Microsoft.. So today we're launching Pinch Sidecar, which offers speech to speech translation in-browser for any Chrome browser tab. This is accomplished by sβ¦
One-person engineering with a disciplined SDLC approach. The Swiss Multi-tool for FDE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648967 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
Hi, I'm building Runyte, an open-source terminal workspace built around a modal text editor, written in Rust. The goal is to create a coherent workspace with minimal UI and maximum focus. Files, terminal panes, and Git views share one interface, navigation, clipboard, and theme. A fuzzy finder searches through files, buffers, and terminals. Runyte supports a persistent mode (client-server) in which you can detach and return later while terminal processes and LSP servers keep running, or you can switch directly to another Git worktree. There are also some features to minimize the friction whenβ¦
Rocky Surf started late last year after Claude Code crashed my laptop. The alpha version was designed as a commercial product, but I ditched the idea because it would have required significant capital. Basically, the business would have been a cloud reseller with a bit of software on top. I built the core for my own projects - simple stuff like bash commands to create, stop, start, and terminate EC2s. Added features along the way, like other clouds and making tool bundles so I could spin up a VM and automatically install Pi, OpenCode, etc, etc. Finally decided to turn it into an open source pβ¦
Hello! I created Fashionguessr, a daily fashion trivia game. Inspired by other daily trivia games like Timeguessr, Connections, and Wordle, Fashionguessr is my attempt at the same thing for people curious about fashion. The game is broken up into three parts: Runway Frames - Users have to guess and identify a fashion show, its brand, its season, and its designer based on a single random frame from the show. Users can use a variety of hints, each more expensive than the last, to reveal more information about the show to help them guess correctly. Trivia - Multiple-choice and short-answer questβ¦
Article URL: https://www.inventbuild.studio/blog/genuine-creativity-is-your-new-moat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648732 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The decision follows a year of surging regulatory hurdles over candidate appearances on the Disney-owned network.
Report reveals foreign nationals were misled with job offers, then forced into Russia's army upon arrival.
At least 25 people were killed after a fire broke out aboard a ship at a shipyard in China.
Article URL: https://sprytneokazje.pl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648576 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Heya HN! I'm helping launch this site which uses Qwen 3-32b to process thousands of news articles and analyze them by region, public interest, partisan lean, etc. We would love your feedback! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648560 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Edgar Grospiron leaves his position as president of the organising committee for the 2030 French Alps Winter Olympics just 18 months after his appointment.
Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!
I've bounced off every calendar app, always for the same reason: opening the app and learning new UX. I already have iMessage and WhatsApp open all day, so I built an assistant that lives there and manages my Google Calendar and Google Tasks by text. "Lunch with Sam Thursday 1pm", "move my 3pm to tomorrow" β the real calendar updates. No install, no new interface. When I get calendar invite from others, I also get a text and I can simply text back to RSVP. Refresh tokens are envelope-encrypted via KMS. Texting "delete my account" purges everything. Would appreciate feedback. Comments URL: hβ¦
Tottenham and their forward Richarlison are in dispute over the remaining nine months on his contract.
App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
The attack in Pavlohrad city centre was the third Russian strike on a mall within days, local media report.
The platform was linked to an FBI investigation into a dark web marketplace last week.
Proxima Fusion's new high-temperature superconducting magnet factory will help supply its commercial power plant.
Article URL: https://chaimsapps.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648352 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://chaimsapps.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648352 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
There's a keyboard shortcut to open it up, just like the Mac version.
Athletes will not be banned from using weight-loss drugs, but the substances will remain on a monitoring list.
Crowds have been flocking to the British Museum to see the Bayeux Tapestry as it's on public display in the UK for the first time since it was created nearly 1,000 years ago.
The fundraiser for Malala Fund runs September 13-19.
Article URL: https://vf.deploy.re Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648182 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Police charged Gye Worthy with assault at the funeral for his son who was killed in the A66 crash.
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Article URL: https://github.com/openslop/nightshift Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648105 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://github.com/fuckbigtech-ai/homestead-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648068 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.β
Article URL: https://github.com/mateovalle/pixel-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648023 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
I made this beta iTerm2 plugin with Codex. It adds Codex sessions to the Session Status. The sidebar can also show Claude Code sessions. The plugin adds profiles to start new Codex sessions. The source code is licensed under the MIT license. Tell me about installation problems. If you use iTerm2, Claude Code, and Codex, you will enjoy this! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648021 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered βShop the Sceneβ feature.
An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.
I built PromptSign after finding some useful-looking AI skills on the Internet and realizing I couldn't really know where they came from. In particular, I could not answer: 1) Who created the skill? 2) Is what I'm invoking right now really what I installed in the first place? 3) Is this update from the same source as the original? 4) What if I only wanted to install by reputation i.e. to whitelist certain skill publishers and ignore everyone else? AI instructions are markdown files, freely modifiable after install. The only check I could find was once at install against a digest in the marketβ¦
Demoralised tourists reach 52-2 before rain ends play early on day two, needing 268 runs to make England bat again.
Article URL: https://games.chrisbeach.co.uk/raiders-at-the-gate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647789 Points: 2 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://github.com/quissly/search-benchmark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647777 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
CVE-2026-15409 is an unauthenticated SSRF in the SMA1000 WorkPlace interface. The chain is the interesting part. The /wsproxy WebSocket endpoint is used to reach a locally bound Erlang distribution node ( couchdb@127.0.0.1 on port 1050), the Erlang handshake is completed with a hardcoded cookie, and os:cmd() gives command execution as the couchdb user. From there the operator read policy_file.xml, decrypted the stored LDAP bind passwords (static 32-byte AES key lifted from ASAPPasswordUtil.class bytecode), and dropped a standalone Linux build of Impacket secretsdump to /tmp on the appliance.β¦
A lot of this weekβs security news has the same awkward answer to one question: βWhy was that allowed to work?β An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An exposed system stays exposed. A package looks useful right up until it isnβt. Different stories, same basic problem: the path in was often already
Biff is a web framework that I originally released 6 years ago.[1] I've just finished more-or-less rewriting it from scratch. The main changes: - SQLite is now the default database. - Datastar is used for server-side rendering. - Introduces biff.graph[2] and biff.fx, two libraries that both help structure your application logic. - Biff is now "just" a collection of independent libraries rather than a single monolithic framework, which makes it much easier to swap out the various parts. e.g. using a non-default database is much less work now. I'd been experimenting with a good chunk of this woβ¦
Authorities say at least 14 school children have been killed after fire ravaged schools in the DR Congo.
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
More than 171 million students affected globally with girls disproportionately impacted.
I created StartupsonX to help people easily find startups that entrepreneurs are creating and discussing on X. Visitors of the website can browse and search startups based on categories like AI, developer tools, SaaS, design, fintech, marketing, and productivity. They can also submit their startups on the website. As you can see, itβs quite simple, just how I wanted it, although I am open to suggestions :D I created it because finding useful startups on X is sometimes painful, unless someones post went viral, you probably won't see it, and there was a need for a simple platform where usersβ¦
California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Four members of a Palestinian family, including girls aged 8 and 12, were killed in an Israeli air attack as they slept
Syriaβs Kurdish women fighters in northeast Syria as pushing to join the countryβs new army.
Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/544 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647404 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Talarico talk to be on YouTube to save ABC stations the hassle of dealing with FCC.
Visitors tell the BBC it was a "real privilege" to be among the first to see the tapestry in England.
I wanted to use Codex on my laptop to run kernel optimization experiments on my GPU box, with models stored in S3. That meant having Codex figure out file transfers and remote execution just to get an experiment running. Lots of opportunities to get something wrong before touching the actual kernel. Then what happens in the next session? Either Codex figures it out again, or the previous session leaves behind scripts and instructions. That works, but now there's a small infrastructure project to maintain along with the actual experiments. I decided to try out a more streamlined approach and sβ¦
Lewis Hamilton says he and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc have "squashed" any controversy between them from the Italian Grand Prix.
Sports journalist Sabreena Merchant says culture war issues related to race and trans athletes threaten to overshadow exceptional play on the WNBA court.
A few days ago I saw a map of all the lighthouses in New England and spent a long time going through and trying to search up the individual lighthouses I saw (given that I'm from NE I thought this map was extremely cool!) Here's the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1wa260h/lighthouse... I figured it would be interesting to have an interactive version of this which you can scroll around in and click on the light houses to get information about them. I've had a lot of fun going through each of the light houses and reading/following links to learn more about them. Hopefully some oβ¦
It's also pretty easy on the eyes.
I am in the process of learning European Portuguese because I moved to Portugal. I was having significant friction with Google Translate, so I started giving more and more instructions to Gemini Flash to create a powerful, low-friction experience when getting translations between English and EU Portuguese. This became a generally-powerful prompt that can serve any language combination, so I posted it to github. I haven't tried it with any other model providers yet. Let me know what you think! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647151 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647134 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
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Since the attacks, New York officials are working with new, complex technology to find traces of more than 1,000 victims.
I haven't seen too many comprehensive approaches to this topic, so I took a swing at it. Goal isn't to be exhaustive, but to be comprehensive enough to provide a nice overview for people trying to get their bearings with the topic. Did I miss anything? submitted by /u/compy3 [link] [comments]
Exit polls suggest 9 percent of Trump voters backed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, despite ideological differences.
Article URL: https://globalping.io/cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647058 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Harry Brook, Dan Lawrence, Jamie Smith and Ollie Robinson all bat half-centuries on day two of the third Test for England, with rain the only respite for a Pakistan side trailing by 268.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/politics/anthropic-ai-biological-weapons.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646988 Points: 19 # Comments: 7
The unnamed software will be built around licensed music from UMG artists who want to participate.
Article URL: https://github.com/TranPhuong319/AppLocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646934 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
