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He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Naturehttps://www.wired.com/story/nobel-prize-protein-design-now-using-ai-to-create-molecules-beyond-nature

David Baker spoke with WIRED en EspaΓ±ol about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.

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MI5 accepts it gave evidence based on lies in neo-Nazi spy casehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3j4jz07e2v8o

It is the first time MI5 has confirmed the BBC's revelation that it gave evidence based on lies in court.

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The Leftist Split Over AI Doomhttps://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-surprising-leftist-split-over-ai-doom

The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.

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At least 16 killed in attack on mosque in Pakistanhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckn9wenz8wjwo

A vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque building during Friday prayers, a senior police official told the BBC.

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Move faster to solve climate challenges, Prince William sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwe8e2j5xxy3o

The Prince of Wales tells the BBC we need to "accelerate" in finding solutions to climate challenges as Earthshot nominees are unveiled.

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Show HN: QuickTiny – paste anything, it detects what tool you needhttps://quicktinyv2.vercel.app

Article URL: https://quicktinyv2.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752231 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El NiΓ±ohttps://www.wired.com/story/september-feels-like-summer-blame-el-nino

Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate patternβ€”and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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Mophie’s Extendable MagSafe 3-in-1 Charging Stand Is 50 Percent Offhttps://www.wired.com/story/mophie-magsafe-3-in-1-wireless-charging-stand-deal

Charge your trio of Apple gadgets–iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods–with one of my favorite telescopic stands.

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Show HN: tuisheet, a terminal spreadsheet compatible with OpenXML (xlsx) fileshttps://github.com/krackout/tuisheet

Presenting tuisheet: A love letter to VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3. The motive was to code a programme inspired by VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 interface, running on terminal, but fully compatible with the current universal standard of OpenXML (xlsx files for spreadsheets). Coded in Go lang; apart from my being more familiar with this programming language, it helps making a single executable, low on resources. Also, I like Go's compiler ability to cross compile to many platforms and OSes (which I personally often meet through my daily job). By the way, tuisheet is much more thoroughly tested and used…

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Show HN: Rabbit Hole – a daily Wikipedia racing gamehttps://rabbitholegame.net

Wikipedia racing used to be huge - you'd sit in a computer room at school trying to get from "Cheese" to "World War II" before your mate did. Rabbit Hole is a wordle-style daily version that I made: one Start article, one Target article, navigate there using only Wikipedia links. New puzzle every day, fewest clicks wins. Share your results (and your route) each day with your friends and see who had the strangest path. https://rabbitholegame.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752118 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752056 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

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Woman tells BBC of trauma after unnecessary breast cancer surgeryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9lyk2xj62yro

Denise Howarth is one of several women who have been told by the NHS that their breast was removed unnecessarily.

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OpenJevhttps://openjev.com

Article URL: https://openjev.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752041 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Shellroute – give each shell its own proxy IPhttps://github.com/shellroute/shellroute-cli

Article URL: https://github.com/shellroute/shellroute-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751994 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Atlarix – A Browser Agenthttps://www.atlarix.dev/extension

Article URL: https://www.atlarix.dev/extension Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751924 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealerhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/09/claimed-bug-bounty-hunter-likely-used.html

A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. "The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM), an assessment made with high confidence based on verbose comments, placeholder code, and statistical token-analysis patterns,"

Food festivals across UK exploited in AI-powered scam, BBC findshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm207d6qy0d1o

One trader says her "heart sank" after discovering she had lost money through a scam festival invitation.

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Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply β€˜congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dyinghttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/andrew-hastie-says-ai-advised-him-to-reply-congratulations-to-man-who-planned-to-end-life-with-assisted-dying

Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off β€˜highly capable malicious cyber actors’ Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast When a man with a terminal illness wrote to his local MP Andrew Hastie, telling him he planned on ending his own life with voluntary assisted dying, Microsoft Copilot suggested Hastie reply with β€œcongratulations!”, β€œgreat to hear from you” or β€œthat is wonderful news!”. Hastie shared the episode at a parliamentary inquiry on Friday to underline the shortcomings of the American-ru…

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Show HN: Three short quizzes that show a score pattern, not one typehttps://loretypes.com

Article URL: https://loretypes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751814 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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As Big Tech Takes Over Hollywood, the Picture Onscreen Gets Darker

β€œThe Social Reckoning” and other movies reflect growing discontent with Silicon Valley founders. But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves.

Best Open Earbuds (2026): Shokz, Bose, Soundcore, and Morehttps://www.wired.com/story/best-open-earbuds

I’ve tested dozens of open earbuds. My favorite ones let you hear the world and your tunes equally.

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Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweaponshttps://www.wired.com/story/why-ai-bioweapons-wont-wipe-out-humanity

Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.

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Could trees developed with gene-editing technology protect Florida's citrus industry?https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5966501/trees-gene-editing-florida-citrus-industry

A bacterial infection is wiping out Florida's citrus trees. Growers hope a rootstock developed with gene-editing technology could keep the disease at bay.

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Google is helping write AI chatbot safety laws β€” while pushing for loopholeshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5968878/ai-chatbots-safety-regulation-google

As states push to regulate chatbots, tech companies are trying to write safety rules in ways that exempt some of their key products.

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Republican 'cavalry' arrives with a Trump-backed $150 million ad blitz in key raceshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5971202/trump-super-pac-midterm-spending-republicans-democrats

To counter a difficult political environment, two Trump-aligned super PACs have reserved more than $150 million in ads β€” primarily in deep red House and Senate races that have now become competitive.

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The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotechhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/18/1144329/the-specter-of-ai-enabled-bioweapons-is-a-wake-up-call-for-biotech

In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AIΒ carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanΒ responded on X: β€œI agree with Dario that we need to pace the…

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A DHS email raises new questions about the Trump administration's election planshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973278/dhs-noncitizen-voting-english-language

A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.

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Israel would rather not watch NAZAhttps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/18/israel-would-rather-not-watch-naza

The backlash against the Gaza documentary is part of a broader refusal to confront the reality of the genocide.

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Show HN: Attar – Compile React apps to native machine codehttps://attar.dev

Hi HN, my cofounder and I are building Attar. It compiles React and TypeScript into native desktop apps, with Blink for HTML and CSS. I like building things with web tools. We wanted to take that experience all the way to a compiled desktop app: familiar components, familiar styles, native machine code. Attar builds on Static Hermes and Chromium. React’s reconciler compiles alongside your application, and a native host connects its updates to Blink. JavaScript objects and garbage collection are handled by the compiled runtime. Its been about eight weeks since we started. We already have sta…

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Morning news briefhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5966388/morning-news-brief

Trump threatens to tear down the Kennedy Center amid court battle, Trump's other priorities also get pushback this week, Poland's PM warns Russia could strike countries that support Ukraine.

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Poland's prime minister warns of Russian 'accidental' attacks on Ukraine's allieshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973265/poland-nato-russia

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that these potential strikes "intend to paralyze NATO" in an attempt to demonstrate that Article 5 "exists only in theory."

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At least one dead and multiple injured in Philippines school shootinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x2z4dlzyr0o

At least one person is believed to have died and several injured after the shooting in Banga in Mindanao province.

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Show HN: A web page that counts its own visitors and cannot liehttps://ava-wall.surge.sh

Article URL: https://ava-wall.surge.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751551 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

'I've been butchered': Women speak of trauma after unnecessary mastectomieshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cm2dw1y5enx6o

A NHS trust in north-east England told the BBC that 20 women underwent mastectomies that could have been avoided.

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What are you doing this weekend?https://lobste.rs/s/e1xglz/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

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Show HN: Fouine – local full-text and semantic search for scanned PDFs on macOShttps://github.com/basedpolymer/fouine

Article URL: https://github.com/basedpolymer/fouine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751523 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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What is still exciting in tech?https://lobste.rs/s/lcjf7c/what_is_still_exciting_tech

A comment on a lobste.rs post about the tech culture stagnating made me think. 20-15 or even 10 years ago, tech was really exciting. Sure, monopolies were bad, Iβ€―was fighting them, but tech by itself was very interesting. New versions of software were expected, we were skimming through changelogs to find novelties, installing beta or alpha versions of totally unknown projects. And I had lived that excitement since the 90’s. When you think about it, today feels really bleak in comparison: Changelogs of commercial projects now all have that pseudo-humorous tone to tell you that "they improv…

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What to know after a week of Houthi attacks that threaten Saudi oilhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973810/houthi-attacks-saudi-oil-world-markets

The Houthis' biggest land grab in years reignited Yemen's 12-year civil war and pushed up global fuel prices, extending their reach to a key maritime chokepoint and threatening Saudi Arabia's oil exports.

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Tailgate parties, marching bands... and Ted Lasso? Wembley hosts US college gamehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/articles/cm62kg82yw5ro

Wembley will host its first American college football game on Saturday and one of Kansas' most famous fans could be among the 60,000 crowd.

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It's illegal for armed federal officers to be at polls. Lawsuits seek to ensure thathttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5965823/ice-polling-places-concerns-lawsuits

The latest lawsuit, first reported by NPR, argues the Trump administration's repeated suggestions that federal officers could be at polling sites is a form of illegal voter intimidation.

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β€˜Brutal’: thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claimshttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/18/ai-copyright-t-shirt-designs-stolen-temu-sydney-clothing-label-lonely-kids-club

Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was β€œbrutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu. It turned out there was an overwhelming amount of T-shirts identical to his own for sale on the Chinese e-commerce marketplace. Between 2025 and earlier this year, Levy, 37, found thousands of rip-offs. Continue reading...

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Could AI really end humanity? Post your questions for our tech reporters nowhttps://www.theguardian.com/community/live/2026/sep/18/could-ai-really-end-humanity-technology-qanda

After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat. Join us at 3pm BST (4pm CEST, 10am EDT) where they will answer live Sign up or sign in to ask your question The last week or so has seen disturbing claims about the capacity of superintelligent AI to destroy the planet . It has also seen warnings coming from figures within the industry itself, including Anthropic’s report that criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandist…

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From depression after Chelsea injury to playing non-league at 37https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm89jqxpvy3xo

Sam Hutchinson is getting ready to play for Farnham Town in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup - 19 years after making his Chelsea debut under Jose Mourinho.

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Family of Jagtar Singh Johal say Scot detained in India has been granted bailhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwp845p6q2qqo

Th Sikh activist from Dumbarton was arrested in 2017 in India in connection with alleged terror offences.

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Met was negligent and reckless, sisters of 'Putney pusher' suspect tell BBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxnvl6pp1609o

Nicholas Brandram's family say he was innocent and "took his own life after months of immense pressure".

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NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there beforehttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260917003715.htm

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024, making it the largest newly formed crater ever identified in the solar system. The impact disturbed the surface for miles around it, creating a surprisingly large cold zone and showing how dramatically a single collision can reshape the lunar landscape.

RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstallhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/09/rathat-android-malware-abuses-adb-to.html

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that's assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate and control compromised devices. "Distributed primarily via targeted smishing (SMS/text phishing) and malvertising campaigns leading to deceptive third-party download portals, RatHat uses

HTTP QUERY Method: The Grey Zone Between GET And POST., (Fri, Sep 18th)https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33352

In June 2026 the IETF published RFC 10008[1], defining a new HTTP method: "QUERY". The HTTP protocol faced already by changes (HTTP/2, HTTP/2) but it's the first new standard HTTP verb since "PATCH" in 2010!

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Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to TypeSafe.aihttps://github.com/TitovDigital/kbai-skill

Article URL: https://github.com/TitovDigital/kbai-skill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750649 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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How the race they said women couldn't run took centre stagehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/clyk12vrv21o

After making its debut at the 1928 Olympics, the women's 800m was cut from the programme. Now, it's often billed as the must-see event of major athletics championships. So, how did we get here?

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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantirhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/18/former-labour-deputy-leader-tom-watson-joins-palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan Another former government minister has been hired by a controversial US AI company, this time Palantir, which has appointed Andy Burnham’s former ministerial colleague Tom Watson. The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its Β£330m NHS contract . It is also fighting Sadiq Khan in court over the Labou…

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These blood thinners may have an unexpected benefit for Alzheimer’s patientshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260917003732.htm

Newer blood thinners may do more than prevent strokes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and atrial fibrillation. Researchers found that patients taking NOACs experienced a slower decline in cognitive function than those using warfarin or no blood thinners. The effect was modest each year but could add up over time.

Show HN: LinkBunny, a service where coding agents exchange backlinks autonomousyhttps://getlinkbunny.com

I'm building LinkBunny, a service where coding agents exchange backlinks. You can let your agents build backlinks for you autonomously. I'm manual approving registration now to avoid spam. $20/mth sub and no fees for backlinks. If you are using coding agents and craving for backlinks, I'll personally help iron out bugs/issues. Email me (email in profile). Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750450 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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