Did DOGE ruin America’s food safety system?https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/aje-onl-nf_did-doge-ruin-americas-food-safety-system-020926
Food safety scares raise questions over whether Trump’s cuts weakened US food safety monitoring.
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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
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, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
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. […]
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.
Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors)https://www.engadget.com/2248610/uber-launches-first-robotaxis-in-london-with-human-supervisors
Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors).
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
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
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
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.
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…
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/02/zucks-muse-to-spark-joy-with-open-weights-release-soon/5294093
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
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.
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.
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
OpenAI faces new lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge mass shooting tragedyhttps://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/2/openai-faces-new-lawsuits-over-tumbler-ridge-mass-shooting-tragedy
Multiple new cases have been filed against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT played a role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
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.
CTTI is Exponential, RTTI is Linearhttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w5ov1s/ctti_is_exponential_rtti_is_linear
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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 £458m, but that eyewatering number does not tell the full story.
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.
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
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.
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgradehttps://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/09/02/vmware-swings-its-focus-back-to-low-end-server-virt-promises-vsphere-standard-upgrade/5294083
Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
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
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.
Republican senator calls on Trump to fire Secretary of Defence Hegsethhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/republican-senator-calls-on-trump-to-fire-secretary-of-defence-hegseth
Senator Thom Tillis accuses Pentagon chief of 'inept mismanagement' as US military is strained by war on Iran.
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 Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta.
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…
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 “personal heroes”), etc. because I am huge fan of scientific interviews/content on youtube (my favorite channel is “Closer 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…
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts sayhttps://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/02/claude-mythos-only-model-to-complete-full-cyber-kill-chain-experts-say/5294071
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'
Israeli PM says Israel is working to overthrow Iran’s governmenthttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/israeli-pm-says-israel-is-working-to-overthrow-irans-government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his country is working to overthrow Iran’s government.
Children return to school in DR Congo amid growing concerns over Ebolahttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/children-return-to-school-in-dr-congo-amid-growing-concerns-over-ebola
Children return to school in DR Congo amid growing concerns over Ebola
LA Clippers fined $30m by NBA over Leonard dealhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/articles/czjze2jj8dro
The LA Clippers are fined $30m (£22.2m) by the NBA for violating salary rules over the acquisition of star player Kawhi Leonard.
Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grantshttps://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/budget-deal-puts-political-control-of-grants-on-hold-until-december
Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.
Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grantshttps://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/budget-deal-puts-political-control-of-grants-on-hold-until-december
Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.
Israel still wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza, defence minister sayshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/israel-still-wants-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza-defence-minister-says
Israel Katz says 'there is no real solution for Gaza' without de-populating the territory.
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 — if they have the right strategies.
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
‘I'd be the last to know’: Stars of The Gentlemen react to Meghan reportshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05rg7mj2p1o
The world premiere for series 2 of the Netflix drama took place on Wednesday night in London.
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
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 midterms—they could also be leverage.
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 .
Two Palestinians killed as settlers, Israeli forces raid West Bank villagehttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/two-palestinian-killed-as-settlers-israeli-forces-raid-west-bank-village
Teenagers killed in settlers attack on al-Mughayyer as West Bank violence continues.
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
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.
Three Nordic FAs seek EU talks over FIFA governance concerns - Reutershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirwFBVV95cUxNVlVkSW1pNi1UYUdsbFJUR0FTQTU2N0NBem1mbTR3MlJSb3hmMVpmZHYxLTF1S3pqeml5eHJiTVJxZU5tbExkVm1UWGp2SlJZZVVycTBzY1J3YUtIdFpwMWtSMkE5MTF5ZThseW8tT3dCYVhpWm90TW04cF9aSGJXSTVqSnpJZnRJOVdMSTRKSGpWcEozYk9PVlh1aGpVVlN5ZlA3SDk2aWxFeUZTSzl3
Three Nordic FAs seek EU talks over FIFA governance concerns Reuters
The long-term implications of Pete Hegseth’s US military purgeshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/long-term-implications-pete-hegseth-military-purges
Resignation of US Army secretary is latest loss at the top for the military.
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.
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...
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…
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in Novemberhttps://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/02/microsoft-devs-rejoice-union-types-coming-to-c-in-november/5294056
The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data
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
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad triphttps://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/02/ai-assisted-mushroom-hunting-is-a-recipe-for-a-bad-trip/5294060
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
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
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for salehttps://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/my-drivers-license-is-one-of-153-million-for-sale-on-a-new-dark-website
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
Nepal families hold symbolic funerals, thousands still missinghttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/02-09-sv-nepal-a-week-after-symbolic-funerals-wrap-fm
Families in Nepal hold symbolic funerals as rescuers search for survivors and bodies.
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
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 “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
UN report says global warming will surpass the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsiushttps://www.engadget.com/2249905/un-report-says-global-warming-will-surpass-the-goal-of-1-5-degrees-celsius
Climate scientists now aim to minimize time spent above the limit from the Paris Agreement.
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".
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘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 “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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.
Trump suggests renaming Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait amid Iran warhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/trump-suggests-renaming-strait-of-hormuz-as-trump-strait-amid-iran
Despite renewed fighting with Iran and near daily attacks on ships, Trump says Strait of Hormuz is 'under USA control'.
Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘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 […]
What you need to know: US launches coin featuring Trump’s facehttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/what-you-need-to-know-us-launches-coin-featuring-trumps-face
The coin marks the first time in nearly 200 years that a living person has been featured on the country's currency.
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
Israeli protesters call for an end to settler violencehttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/israeli-protesters-call-for-an-end-to-settler-violence
Israeli protesters gathered in Jerusalem on Wednesday to condemn violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
US judge rejects bid to break up Google’s ad businesshttps://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/2/us-judge-rejects-bid-to-break-up-googles-ad-business
Justice Department had argued Google could not be trusted to run the online advertising exchange.
Trump says US sees ‘everything’ Iran does, threatens further attackshttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/09-02-trump-soundbite-iran-clip
US President Donald Trump has threatened further attacks on Iran and says the military destroyed a mine-laying rocket.
How to watch the PlayStation State of Play double headerhttps://www.engadget.com/2249884/how-to-watch-the-playstation-state-of-play-double-header
We're sure people will be very chill and normal in the chat for this one.
Tiger Woods avoids jail time, takes plea deal over Florida crashhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/tiger-woods-avoids-jail-time-takes-plea-deal-over-florida-crash
Golfing champion Tiger Woods has pleaded no contest at a Florida court for reckless driving after a rollover crash.
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the racehttps://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/02/with-gemini-38-flash-google-reminds-everyone-its-still-in-the-race/5294049
AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
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 — but the move may have backfired as tax collections from enforcement efforts plummeted, an Inspector General report shows.
Let's build a compressor from scratchhttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w5l8wx/lets_build_a_compressor_from_scratch
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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
FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blockinghttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/fcc-plans-robocall-scorecard-to-grade-phone-companies-on-spam-call-blocking
Carrier scorecards may include call-blocking stats and data on customer complaints.
Let's build a compressor from scratchhttps://ochagavia.nl/blog/lets-build-a-compressor-from-scratch
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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
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
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.
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.
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…
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
Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit designhttps://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/wary-of-artemis-iv-timeline-nasa-is-changing-lunar-spacesuit-design
"Requirements are being adjusted to reflect near-term mission needs."
Dreams shattered: Gaza amputees struggle under blockade and rubblehttps://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/2/dreams-shattered-gaza-amputees-struggle-under-blockade-and-rubble
Young amputees in Gaza face harsh realities, awaiting prosthetics and battling mobility hurdles.
