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METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incidenthttps://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation

Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543841 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

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The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/the-builders-stage-brings-practical-strategies-for-scaling-startups-to-techcrunch-disrupt-2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, andΒ investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

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Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in Londonhttps://www.theverge.com/news/988415/uber-wayve-robotaxi-london-launch

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]

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What is a cold wallet and how does it work?https://www.engadget.com/2246424/what-is-cold-wallet-how-works

With cryptocurrency wallets becoming huge targets for hackers, using a cold wallet to protect your private keys has never been more important.

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Show HN: C++ Under Pressure: A Practical Interview Guide from 1k+ Interviewshttps://leanpub.com/cpp-under-pressure

Written by the interviewer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543698 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your startup's obituary insteadhttps://theyfell.com

Article URL: https://theyfell.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543617 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your startup's obituary insteadhttps://theyfell.com

Article URL: https://theyfell.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543617 Points: 7 # Comments: 3

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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources sayhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/palo-alto-networks-paid-500m-for-thrive-backed-console-sources-say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

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Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Codehttps://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/code-review.html

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/code-review.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543535 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1shttps://ronanrx.com

Hi HN, I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx. We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. We are starting with GLP-1s and peptides. The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks. I had a background in software from my YC W10 company, so we took a software approach to building our factory. W…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animalshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/techcrunch-disrupt-2026s-new-real-world-ai-stage-features-nvidia-robots-and-extinct-animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

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Amazon’s 2026 Holiday Deals Are About to Look Better Than They Arehttps://www.wired.com/story/amazon-increases-prices-kindle-echo-sept-2026

Amazon just hiked prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.

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Show HN: PuPPT – slide renderer and inline editor for PPT/PPTX (Golang/no deps)https://github.com/artpar/puppt

Article URL: https://github.com/artpar/puppt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543337 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Boulter wins one game in 58-minute US Open defeathttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cjdv3gxl5zgo

British number one Katie Boulter is dumped out in the second round of the US Open as she wins just one game in a 58-minute demolition by Karolina Muchova.

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Man City buy costly new midfield - but have they overlooked Haaland cover?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cpq02z298p7o

Manchester City have completed a squad overhaul including a fully revamped midfield to the tune of a Premier League record Β£458m, but that eyewatering number does not tell the full story.

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Celtic sign five in one day after Van den Berg & Lotomba arrivehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c07lzmp03kpo

Celtic complete loan deals for former England goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and teenage Chelsea duo Shumaira Mheuka and Landon Emenalo.

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Show HN: NoiseVanish – review-first background-noise cleanup for audio and videohttps://noisevanish.com

Article URL: https://noisevanish.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543192 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Reasons Robotics Is Hardhttps://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard

Article URL: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543191 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer, fines team $30M, Kawhi Leonard $700K in cap circumvention casehttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5954825/nba-suspends-clippers-owner-ballmer-fines-team-30m-kawhi-leonard-700k-in-cap-circumvention-case

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to pay $30 million for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard.

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Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effecthttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543007 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operateshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/google-spared-from-ad-business-breakup-but-judge-orders-changes-to-how-it-operates

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

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Show HN: Instro – Open-source Python library for test and measurementhttps://github.com/nominal-io/instro

Article URL: https://github.com/nominal-io/instro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542921 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Meta-Stripper: Strip Metadata Off. Keep Image Onhttps://metastripper.devkram.de

Article URL: https://metastripper.devkram.de/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542901 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Protests in Spain over government's handling of Ceuta migrant crisishttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mvn2yp9n2o

Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro SΓ‘nchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta.

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Show HN: Dewlock – A minimal, beautiful screen locker for Waylandhttps://github.com/shikaan/dewlock

Light software keeps a machine useful long after the vendor decided it should not be. Unfortunately, minimal desktop environments usually come with many hours of configuration files to write to make them nice or sometimes even just useful. I don't think that's necessary, and I have been building a set of tools to prove that. The first one is dewlock; a swaylock fork, that looks similar to what you would get on GNOME, MacOS, or Windows, with a fraction of the resources. You can of course customize it, but you don't have to. I have a few more tools in the making, but I would like to start heari…

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Show HN: Who or What is it? – A Picture Quizhttps://whoorwhatisit.com

Hi, I made a simple picture quiz. You see a picture of a thing or a person and have to give the correct answer. I know, nothing fancy. My initial idea was to just have scientists quiz with people like Lee Smolin, Max Tegmark (some β€œpersonal heroes”), etc. because I am huge fan of scientific interviews/content on youtube (my favorite channel is β€œCloser to Truth” with Robert Lawrence Kuhn) and I wanted to see if I know them all or get to know new ones. Now it contains many more categories but the scientists one is still the biggest. I am a developer for over 20 years. This is one of my…

LA Clippers fined $30m by NBA over Leonard dealhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/articles/czjze2jj8dro

The LA Clippers are fined $30m (Β£22.2m) by the NBA for violating salary rules over the acquisition of star player Kawhi Leonard.

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AI’s Vulnerability Surge May Be More Manageable Than First Fearedhttps://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-vulnerability-surge-manageable-than-first-feared

New research suggests the coming Vulnpocalypse may not be so overwhelming for enterprise security teams β€” if they have the right strategies.

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Show HN: I put four persistent AI minds in a room and let them change each otherhttps://room.pluralmatter.com/e/how-will-the-world-change-when-ai-smarter-than-humans

Article URL: https://room.pluralmatter.com/e/how-will-the-world-change-when-ai-smarter-than-humans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542607 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: The Drudge Report, but for AIhttps://theainewsreport.com

Article URL: https://theainewsreport.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542561 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: 3-in-1 > Collect feedback, build changelog and monitor your endpointshttps://feedfa.st

Article URL: https://feedfa.st Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542536 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)https://nango.dev/careers

Article URL: https://nango.dev/careers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542486 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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Democrats Have a Plan to Force Trump’s Associates to Cooperate With Investigationshttps://www.wired.com/story/democrats-have-a-plan-to-force-trumps-associates-to-cooperate-with-investigations

Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midtermsβ€”they could also be leverage.

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Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/decoding-the-new-ai-lingo-loops-harnesses-squads-hill-climbing-oh-my

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schoolshttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542443 Points: 20 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Dehurdle – Real-Time AI Voice Simulations for High-Stakes Conversationshttps://dehurdle.com/register

Article URL: https://dehurdle.com/register/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542430 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Fury calls Joshua a 'coward' as wait for announcement continueshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/cx2zg14qzryo

Tyson Fury says Anthony Joshua is a "coward" as the pair face a tense wait to see whether their long-awaited all-British heavyweight blockbuster can be agreed.

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SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Enable Unauthenticated RCEhttps://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/sonicwall-sma-1000-zero-days-unauthenticated-rce

The exploitation activity follows attacks earlier this summer on two other zero-day vulnerabilities in the vendor's edge devices.

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Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Timeshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/02/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit-ai

The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in ⁠a lawsuit against the New York Times, arguing in favor of the use of copyrighted writing to train artificial intelligence. The Times accuses OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, of using millions of newspaper articles without permission to train OpenAI’s popular chatbot. Other newspapers have joined in the suit, first filed in 2023. Continue reading...

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Show HN: Mousetrapped: Cursor Recovery Utility for macOS- Open Sourcehttps://github.com/uncSoft/Mousetrapped

JT from uncSoft here, dev of cyberWriter and Anubis-OSS There is an annoying as heck bug in macOS when you are using a secondary monitor and have other macs around - if you have push through edge to control another mac on and/or screen connect active, often times your mouse will get eaten and disappear completely. Especially if you have a VM running in one of them using Screen Connect. Hotkey or Shake the mouse to recover your cursor. This utility was built in 5% Swift, 5% Shell, and 90% Frustration Mousetrapped is free and open source and the release is notarized and signed. Just shake your…

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Show HN: AlparAI – Autonomous Swarm OS with Quantum Verificationhttps://www.alparai.com/en

Alpar AI is building the judicial and constitutional accountability infrastructure for artificial intelligence. We audit frontier LLMs against real-world incidents, hallucinations, and safety violations using an actuarial Bayesian TrustScore framework. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542138 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operationshttps://www.vidact.dev

Article URL: https://www.vidact.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542123 Points: 5 # Comments: 5

Show HN: AI coach that adapts workouts and meals to your injuries andhttps://rizin.app

Article URL: https://rizin.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542113 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Local business leads, one API call awayhttps://sensecollect.com

Article URL: https://sensecollect.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542033 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety expertshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use β€œrecurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

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Watch: Trump 'happy' that Prince Harry and Meghan left the UShttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c33k72m7x11o

President Donald Trump said he was not a fan of the couple and added that they treated the Royal Family with "great disrespect".

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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s β€˜Lake America’ renaminghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/mapquest-is-now-the-no-1-u-s-app-after-bucking-trumps-lake-america-renaming

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s β€œLake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.

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Watch: Jury still unable to reach unanimous decision in Lindsay Clancy casehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy8z32v7130o

For a second time in two days, jurors told the judge they could not agree on a verdict in the murder trial.

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Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model β€˜works harder’ but might cost morehttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988742/google-gemini-3-8-flash

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]

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Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf

Article URL: https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541754 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

The IRS slashed its staff. One result? More taxes going uncollectedhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5954022/irs-tax-collection-job-reductions

The IRS slashed its auditing staff last year β€” but the move may have backfired as tax collections from enforcement efforts plummeted, an Inspector General report shows.

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Z: Local-first search layer for humans and agentshttps://github.com/zvec-ai/zvec-grep

Article URL: https://github.com/zvec-ai/zvec-grep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541572 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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I wanna live an NPC lifehttps://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life

Article URL: https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541519 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happenshttps://www.rosenfeld.page/articles/programming/2026_09_02_ai_agents_and_the_refactoring_that_never_happens

Article URL: https://www.rosenfeld.page/articles/programming/2026_09_02_ai_agents_and_the_refactoring_that_never_happens/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541496 Points: 6 # Comments: 4

Rooted in Trust: Three privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in HP Easy Start for macOS (CVE-2026-12554, CVE-2026-12555, CVE-2026-12556)https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1w5l1j8/rooted_in_trust_three_privilegeescalation

Three high-severity vulnerabilities in HP Easy Start for macOS, rated CVSS 8.5, 7.7 and 7.7. The research looks at the trust boundaries around privileged components and how they can break down in practice. HP has published an advisory and released an updated version. Disclosure: I’m the researcher who reported these vulnerabilities. submitted by /u/ciphersecuritylabs [link] [comments]

Fable 5.1 World Modelinghttps://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds

Article URL: https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458 Points: 13 # Comments: 0

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A jury in Malta acquits a businessman in the killing of reporter Daphne Caruana Galiziahttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5954420/daphne-caruana-galizia-case-yorgen-fenech-acquitted-malta

Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in Malta. She was killed by a car bomb in 2017, at age 53.

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AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantagehttps://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ai-gives-cybercriminals-dangerous-time-advantage

Former cybercriminal Brett Johnson provides a look inside the mind of a threat actor and discusses where AI provides the most value for attackers.

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Show HN: Cardel, a site builder for authors and other solo professionalshttps://www.cardel.io

After nearly a decade in software, and recently embarking on the journey of becoming an author, I decided to create a site builder specific to authors and similar solo professionals. You can create an account, and build a full site for free. The guided mode walks you through it, the goal is for it to be that easy, but I am still working on making it better. Here is my own site that I created: https://www.orinhutchings.com Note that to publish the site (Along with some specific features) does require a subscription, but setting up the full site UI and using the editor for your own review has n…

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The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Greathttps://www.jordangoodman.xyz/the-post-ai-internet-doesnt-look-great

Article URL: https://www.jordangoodman.xyz/the-post-ai-internet-doesnt-look-great/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541331 Points: 19 # Comments: 2

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