“As a Language Model”: Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25021 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865343 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser
Thirty years after Apple abandoned Copland, its doomed attempt to create a modern Mac operating system, a new emulator lets you try the final developer build in your browser. Copland was intended to replace Apple's System 7 with a PowerPC-native operating system built...
Rebuilding Data Engineering with Harness Engineering: A New Paradigm for the Agent Era
Rebuilding Data Engineering with Harness Engineering: A New Paradigm for the Agent Era Go to Source As data platforms evolve from serving primarily human users to serving AI agents, the biggest change may not be the tools themselves,...
Big AI’s content problem: Take the work, keep the money
Big AI has a problem. Its companies must ingest other people’s work. You know, books, news stories, photographs, code, websites, that one original meme you came up with, and practically everything else on the internet to train its large language models (LLMs). We all...
Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks
CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies a patching deadline of September 28. The post Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Systems Around the Model: What Enterprise Architecture Gets Wrong
The Systems Around the Model: What Enterprise Architecture Gets Wrong Go to Source One discussion that comes up again and again in enterprise AI is model selection. Teams spend a lot of time comparing GPT with Claude, debating closed...
Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
How Trump’s crypto winnings cost the industry looser regulation
How Trump’s crypto winnings cost the industry looser regulation Go to Source The crypto industry has just suffered a paradoxical defeat: Its biggest backer, President Donald Trump, inadvertently helped scuttle chances for a major...
OpenAI Feared “Optics” of what might appear on Hacker News
Article URL: https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
5 tips to build a winning team that can handle anything
Below, Dr. André Martin shares five key insights from his new book, Collective Confidence: The Winning Formula of the World’s Best Teams. André is an organizational psychologist. He has spent his career building and coaching teams—first inside Mars, Target, Google,...
When the Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values
In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After initially it seemed to go seemingly without any issues, suddenly the GDB...
Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation
Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on September 26. Citrix has not confirmed the flaws or published...
Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid
As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. There’s a spectrum of ways to prevent it, from quickly slapping on a coat of paint on the easy side to alloying, chromizing, or physical vapor deposition at the extremely...
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863062 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
Article URL: https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862809 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview
Article URL: https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862244 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
A Modular Macro Keypad
The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks much simpler than they were before. One of the arenas it revolutionized was custom keyboards, making it much easier to build not only standard...
Sousveillance
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861992 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
OpenAI (2015)
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862120 Points: 10 # Comments: 4
PNOE’s new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair
PNOĒ, the Malden, Mass.-based startup whose breath-analyzing mask used to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Bane's, is launching a sleeker self-serve version on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure their VO₂ max and other metabolic markers in eight minutes without a...
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
Things You Notice Rewatching Ed, Edd N Eddy as an Adult
Article URL: https://noxluneworld.com/darkest-cartoon-network-episodes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861659 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Palantir’s Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike
Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861062 Points: 30 # Comments: 8
How powerful of a power bank do you need to safely charge a laptop?
A power bank is more than its capacity. You also need to know how fast it can deliver power so your laptop doesn't drain while it's connected.
Why we won’t know how visible the iPhone Duo’s crease is for a long time
The iPhone Duo has an impressively minimal crease, but that's only how it looks at the start. We'll have to wait a while to see what develops over time.
Claude Deleted 48k Files
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Why your iPhone hates printer cables
AirPrint is the easiest path to printing on iPhone; other apps enable this, but printing with a cable isn't supported.
Your old GPU could be worth more than you think
Your old GPU could be a goldmine thanks to the RAMaggedon.
How to factory reset your Google Home Mini
Google Home Mini speakers may have been discontinued, but there are plenty still being used. If you have one, let's talk about how to reset it.
Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA
Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA? That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive the glory days of Palm with this project from [sau412]. For those readers who are too young to...