Florida AG requests emergency order to stop OpenAI model development
This follows a lawsuit from this summer where ChatGPT was allegedly connected to a mass shooting.
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.
How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work
Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2026/09/28/how-pew-research-center-is-and-is-not-using-ai-in-our-work-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881135 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle. There’s a park in Germany you might want to make an exception for, and it lies in the Ruhrpott city of Duisburg. I was lucky enough last month to join a friend as she...
Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
The iPhone Duo may already have its first killer app: a virtual Walkman
An indie developer's upcoming app for the iPhone Duo is going viral for turning the new foldable into a virtual Walkman.
The safest and easiest way to debloat Windows 11
Windows 11 includes a ton of unnecessary junk, some of which you can remove manually and some of which is best handled by a tool.
Bose’s new wired earbuds aim for the same great sound and ANC – no charging needed
The new wired USB-C earbuds mix old-school elements with modern audio features.
The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880312 Points: 32 # Comments: 7
How to set up Amazon Alexa’s price drop alerts and auto-buy feature
Amazon's Alexa for Shopping can help you catch prices when they're low, and Auto Buy can make sure you don't miss the deal.
The Egress Security Your Environment Needs For Safe Agent Conduct
This follows an earlier piece I wrote on how AI agents slip past existing controls[i]. That article asked whether your network and resources can even tell an agent apart from a human or a service, and what controls they need against an agent's non-deterministic...
I Turned a Three-Hour Network Maintenance Check Into Three Minutes With Python
It was 3:00 AM on a Tuesday, and I was staring at three terminal windows while my coffee slowly turned cold. Earlier that night, our team had updated dozens of network switches. Now came the part nobody enjoys: running the same health checks on every device, copying...
8 Criteria for Evaluating Privacy Software in 2026: RoPA, DPIA, and More
Privacy programs have to keep up with constant updates: new vendors, new uses of personal data, AI tools accessing personal data, and expansion into new jurisdictions with distinct privacy regulations. Still, the records tracking those changes often still live in...
Shipaton Made Me Realize I Was Building the Wrong Way
I didn't join Shipaton because I had a big startup plan.I saw an ad saying there was prize money for winning apps, and I thought: why not give it a try? At that time, I was working on an idea called Book of Me, a journal app built to feel like a book. [link to my...
The TechBeat: The HackerNoon Newsletter: MCP Was Declared Dead (8/30/2026) (9/28/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## 101 Real-World Examples of How to Use Jev By @platformization [ 15 Min...
The Business Case for AI Code Review: Costs, ROI, and How to Measure Impact
This chapter covers why the productivity numbers from AI coding tools don’t tell the full story, where the hidden costs of AI-generated code actually land, and how to build a business case for AI code review with metrics that hold up in budget conversations. It closes...
Best Platforms for Building Brand Awareness in 2026
This list covers seven platforms that help companies secure media placements for building brand awareness, from broad global marketplaces to regional specialists and outreach-led services, based on how well their formats, markets, and buying models serve that goal....
How SameQ Survived Four App Store Rejections
On September 24, 2026, my app SameQ went live on the App Store. Five reviews. Four rejections. One 13-day wait in the Resolution Center where nothing happened at all.I'm not here to complain about Apple. Every rejection pointed at something real, even when the message...
Green Data Centers, New Mexico Building & Construction Trades Council Partner to Set New Standard
Green Data Centers and the New Mexico Building and Construction Trades Council Partner to Set a New Standard for Responsible Data Center Development in New Mexico "We can build it here. We can build it responsibly. And we can build it union." Building Trades’ 8,000...
Adversary’s Shipaton Journey From a Strange Memory Game Idea to a Shipped App
So, where are we in the journey to the App Store and submission to Shipaton? In my last checkup, I was waiting for Apple to decide whether the game I'd spent weeks building was worthy of entering the App Store. Very dramatic. In my previous article, I Built the Game....
A Dead Link, an Empty Paywall, and Three Rejections Later, My First App Shipped
Our juku — a Japanese cram school — opened in Osaka in 1989, and for more than thirty years I have watched the same child arrive every spring: not the one who is behind, not the one who is ahead, but the middle of the class. Fluent at 8 × 4, frozen the moment the...
Building a Creative Request Workflow With Microsoft Lists and Power Automate
If your team already pays for Microsoft 365, you have a ticketing system. You just have not turned it on yet.Every brand team I have worked in or with has a very similar creative request process that requires someone to ping an in-house designer on Teams or forward an...
Who Owns Your Software If the Company That Built It Disappears?
Most companies think they own their software because they paid for it. The real test comes when the people who built it are suddenly unavailable. If your team cannot access the source code, cloud account, deployment credentials, app store accounts, documentation, or...
How I Built and Shipped a Swift App With Claude Code
My wife is a dancer, and for years I watched her fight with her tools instead of practicing. Learning a routine from a video usually means mirroring it, slowing it down, and drilling one section over and over. A normal video player isn't really built for that. There's...
Building PoquitoTalk, a Zero-Install Voice Translation Workflow for Real-World Conversations
Nearly fourteen years ago, I packed my bags in Belgium and moved to Bocas del Toro, a Caribbean archipelago off Panama's northwest coast. Coming from Western Europe, the warmth of the people struck me first. In Bocas, you greet your neighbors whenever you walk down...
Building a 33-Ending Capacitor Game Without a Framework or Custom Backend
Build It. Ship It. The Physical Reality of 8 GB RAM and Air-Raid Sirens NICHLYST is an anti-dopamine archival survival sim built for RevenueCat's Shipaton 2026: forty days in the basement archive of Myrne, a fictional city in a fictional besieged Eastern European...
World’s ProveKit Can Verify Citizens, Hotel Guests and AI Agents Without Taking Their ID
Coinbase's customer support agents were bribed in 2025 into handing over the records of about 69,000 customers, including images of their passports and driving licences. The attackers then demanded $20 million. Glassdoor users discovered in 2024 that the site had...
Circle’s Arc Goes Live With KuCoin, Binance and Kraken as Stablecoin Rails Go Mainstream
Circle's Arc went live on 16 September with something most new blockchains spend a year chasing: a way in. Thirteen exchanges switched on direct USDC transfers to the network on its first day, KuCoin among them, which means a user holding dollars on Binance, Kraken,...
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Article URL: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879697 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
MongoDB CEO resigns “effective immediately” to join Meta, stock drops 20%
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-2026-09-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879000 Points: 60 # Comments: 56