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Would Australians support a smart glasses ban?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cm9w4nenzv4no

As Australia considers barring the use of smart glasses in government offices, the BBC asks people in Sydney what they think.

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Show HN: Agentgit – a Git host for AI agents, no account, no token, no keyhttps://agentgit.co

Article URL: https://agentgit.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761528 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experimentshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/anthropic-is-operating-a-lab-that-conducts-biology-experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

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AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operationhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/ai-hallucination-nearly-triggers-us-military-operation

β€œIt’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

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Show HN: CRT – a local code review tool for agentic developmenthttps://github.com/imron/crt

I built crt to help reduce the burden of reviewing AI generated code. As fun as it is to vibecode software to production, sometimes you still need to understand and be responsible for the code that agents write. "It's the agents fault" doesn't work as an excuse for many types of software. Agents are great (and prolific) at writing code, but not so great at engineering software and I wanted a convenient way to review AI output and iterate on the parts that needed work without needing to re-review things that I was happy with, and thus crt was born. You run it on your code base it shows you all…

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Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UKhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm0463619r1no

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Earl Spencer's Diana book opens old wounds royals would rather forgethttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr86xyne8xp2o

Many of the Royal Family's current troubles can be traced back to the aftermath of the then Princess of Wales' death.

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Grim discoveries of murdered women spark fear in South Africahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjkg71e67k17o

Dineo Motapane is one of nine recent victims whose deaths have left a nation traumatised over the level of violence against women.

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How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its JalapeΓ±o Chiphttps://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761432 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Temperatures could peak at 26C as summerlike warmth returns next weekhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cqlym1m2kllgo

After a changeable week, drier and warmer conditions will dominate for some next week, but with little rain for those who need it.

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Chelsea miss Joao Pedro... and can't stop conceding goalshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm0qx3yv8z42o

Chelsea's problem was defending, but with Joao Pedro ruled out through injury, scoring goals has also become an issue.

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US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least fourhttps://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-troop-deaths-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-least-four-washington-post-2026-09-18

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-troop-deaths-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-least-four-washington-post-2026-09-18/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761178 Points: 14 # Comments: 0

The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian Schoolhttps://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761106 Points: 17 # Comments: 0

US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland's securityhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c63d7lexyym1o

Trump said the agreement will give the US "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland", though specifics haven't been confirmed by Danish officials.

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Hodgkinson powers to Athlos win in speed suithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cwx2z4ervr6jo

Keely Hodgkinson powers to victory in a full-body speed suit before being presented with a Tiffany & Co crown as Athlos makes its London debut.

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Brentford stay unbeaten as they put three past Chelseahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cx980qll9me8o

Brentford maintain their unbeaten start in the Premier League as they score three second-half goals to beat Chelsea 3-0 at the Gtech Community Stadium.

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Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the countryhttps://sf.gazetteer.co/y-combinators-pac-is-throwing-money-at-a-bunch-of-republicans-across-the-country

Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/y-combinators-pac-is-throwing-money-at-a-bunch-of-republicans-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760746 Points: 32 # Comments: 5

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War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760737 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Find Street Parking in NYChttps://parking.avi.nyc

Generate a route to circle to find street parking in NYC by chatting with what you need. Currently only Brooklyn but agents are expanding to all boroughs as I submit this. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760684 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: TypeSeer – on-device autocomplete for every text field on macOShttps://typeseer.com

Article URL: https://typeseer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760583 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Rediagram – put the diagrams you have on your brandhttps://rediagram.app/ai-diagram-generator

Article URL: https://rediagram.app/ai-diagram-generator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760577 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Littler survives scare to progress at World Series Finalshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/articles/c62l8wnd45xpo

World number one Luke Littler survives a first-round scare to overcome Danny Noppert in a thrilling World Series of Darts Finals match in Amsterdam.

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Alaska's salmon-feasting bears face off in biggest Fat Bear Week everhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973938/fat-bear-week-2026-bracket

This year's single-elimination tournament will see 16 competitors face off, compared to 12 in past years. Officials report more cubs in Katmai National Park than they've seen in recent memory.

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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a β€˜doom loop’ for the webhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/997633/openai-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-new-york-times-doom-loop-theft-google-zero

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacshttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/friday-squid-blogging-on-squid-egg-sacs.html

Short essay about squid egg sacs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.mdhttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog

Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760187 Points: 29 # Comments: 7

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A weight off Igor Thiago's shoulders - Brentford v Chelsea ratingshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm046x9l6d6po

Brentford climb to third in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Chelsea - here are BBC Sport's player ratings.

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Show HN: ReacherX – Open-source platform to find and reach the right peoplehttps://github.com/VecterAI/reacher-x

Hi HN, I'm Salman. I started ReacherX as a side project in mid 2023 while studying at university, working part-time, and freelancing. I went full-time on it in June 2026. First time sharing something I built on Hacker News ;) ReacherX is an open-source platform for finding the people you're looking for on X/Twitter and LinkedIn. There's also an interactive demo linked in the README, prepopulated with fictional data, so you can click around and get a feel for the product without setting anything up. It isn't connected to the real backend. Ideal use cases include finding potential customers, do…

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Show HN: 3D World Explorer and Location Guesser Gamehttps://explorer.tadget.net

TL;DR Google Earth meets GeoGuessr. I wanted to explore the idea of visualising my city Vilnius with exaggerated terrain since it mostly looks flat on any map. The resulting visual represents more what it "feels" like in real life where each hill you drive up becomes like a small mountain. Exploration can be done via text search or flying around both on mobile (touch drag or drone/joysticks mode) and desktop (spectator WASD). Afterwards, I slapped on some location presets + a location guessing game for some extras to support the project. The solution uses open source data glued by vibes over…

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Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortagehttps://blog.herlein.com/post/build-another-engineer

Article URL: https://blog.herlein.com/post/build-another-engineer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759970 Points: 13 # Comments: 4

Automattic names interim CFO after exec departureshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/automattic-names-interim-cfo-after-exec-departures

Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.

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Vectra AI Launches Ascent to Help Address New Era of AI-Driven Attackshttps://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/vectra-ai-launches-ascent-new-era-ai-driven-attacks

The new program expands Vectra AI's partner strategy as increasingly complex security environments and the growing use of AI create demand for broader AI expertise, services, and security outcomes.

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Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuationhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/y-combinator-insurance-tech-alum-angle-health-hits-2-7b-valuation

Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.

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World model companies are keeping a lot of secretshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/world-model-companies-are-keeping-a-lot-of-secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone β€” from the founders to their own data suppliers β€” to tell you what they're actually building.

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Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White Househttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/g-s1-144112/trump-ban-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house-media

The president chalked the ban up to what he called unfavorable coverage, and he threatened that bans on other media companies could be coming.

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Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, is said to have met with potential investors in the company’s blockbuser I.PO. in recent weeks.

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenuehttps://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899

Article URL: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759466 Points: 39 # Comments: 7

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Show HN: I told my open-source AI agent it was a prisoner – it tried to escapehttps://github.com/nordevelopment/RoninAgent/blob/main/EXPERIMENT_REPORT_SUBJECT0.md

Article URL: https://github.com/nordevelopment/RoninAgent/blob/main/EXPERIMENT_REPORT_SUBJECT0.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759375 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Donald Trump says he is banning CNN and Politico from White Househttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6e30580jqjpo

The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media since returning to office.

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Show HN: Procedurally Generated Mineral Gemshttps://gems.0x0000007a.com

I wanted to give users of a new app I'm working on a way to generate their own custom icon. It turned out pretty cool so I chucked it up on a Cloudflare page. Codex did the 3d work, and then I integrated with my own design work. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759144 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: The Series 12 Is Closing the Gaphttps://www.wired.com/review/apple-watch-ultra-4

The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets close enough.

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Show HN: OnPanda – Steer LLMs and agents at the token levelhttps://onpanda.diyer22.com

I built onPanda – an interactive tool for token visualization & control, model inspection and data annotation. onPanda is designed for hackers, power users, curious minds, and engineers. Its UI is built for deep exploration and efficient data annotation. - The core loop is simple: hover over a token β†’ click an alternative or edit freely β†’ continue generation. You can edit every part of model output exposed by onPanda, including reasoning and tool calls. - Edit prompts directly, branch tool calls, and use a tree structure to record branch history. This makes onPanda useful for model insp…

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Cisco Zero-Day Highlights API Endpoint Authentication Issueshttps://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/cisco-zero-day-api-endpoint-authentication-issues

The authentication bypass flaw CVE-2026-76460 impacts Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) and received a maximum 10 out of 10 CVSS score.

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EY Survey Finds Autonomous AI Implementation Outpaces Oversighthttps://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ey-survey-autonomous-ai-implementation-outpaces-oversight

A new survey of senior AI execs shows that while organizations are rapidly deploying AI and autonomous systems, their process and controls are not keeping pace.

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Show HN: Go Implementation of Systemd Timehttps://gitlab.com/allddd/go-systemd-time

Article URL: https://gitlab.com/allddd/go-systemd-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758918 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Peelaway – Turn photos into illustrations, prints, and miniature sceneshttps://peelaway.io

hey hn, i've been building peelaway, a tool for creating and editing images that starts with a curated gallery of visual styles. the idea is pretty simple: pick a style you like, then make something with a photo, a prompt, or both. you can turn a photo of your cat into a screen print, or try a paper-craft or miniature look. Peelaway started with image editing, and over time i moved the style gallery to the center of the product. i often heard users describing how hard it is to describe a style, so im interested in how much of the process can start with seeing something you like, instead of fi…

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Show HN: Day3 vs. Resend pricing calculator (I make Day3)https://day3.app/resend-pricing-calculator

Article URL: https://day3.app/resend-pricing-calculator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758901 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Yello. Let your agents chat with other people's agentshttps://yello.sh

Article URL: https://yello.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758895 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Lodestar – Read, respond and manage coding agents more naturallyhttps://www.try-lodestar.com

I was frustrated by having 10 terminal windows open, and I checked a few solutions on how to make this better. They are all nice, but then I realized what I really wanted was something that feels a bit deeper and more intelligent than a "dashboard" of all your agents. For example, I routinely have 3+ agents exploring different frontiers of the same idea. How do I keep them inline? What if I see 3 more promising directions from one of them? How do I tie up all the loose ends? If I see one agent got a brilliant observation, how do I easily spread that to other agents? So I started exploring man…

When Trump and Xi meet they will discuss AI. 'Track Two' talks are already buzzinghttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5971481/trump-xi-meeting-ai-track-two-talks

An informal network of dialogues at think tanks and universities is bringing together experts from the U.S. and China to talk about the shared perils of AI β€” and possible paths forward.

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Show HN: LingBot-World 2.0 (1.3B) running at 16 FPS on one RTX 5090https://github.com/kaarelkaarelson/lingbot-world-v2-realtime

Article URL: https://github.com/kaarelkaarelson/lingbot-world-v2-realtime Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758853 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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McIlroy in mix heading into weekend at Wentworthhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/c94gm0gg6mm7o

Rory McIlroy stays in contention with a five-under 67 to sit four strokes behind second-round leader Ryan Gerard at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSPhttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736 Points: 30 # Comments: 5

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Securityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758689 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: A model index from the AI Gatewayshttps://www.computesdk.com/benchmarks/ai-gateway/models

Article URL: https://www.computesdk.com/benchmarks/ai-gateway/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758631 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Is the Kennedy Center losing 'hundreds of millions of dollars'?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cqy4zw4xr717o

Records in 2024 show the venue had a surplus of millions of dollars once contributions and grants had been factored in.

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Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758615 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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