CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-human-they-prove-youre-american/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854399 Points: 19 # Comments: 12
Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
Article URL: https://safenotsafe.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854161 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
How to achieve time freedom without giving up your career
Below, Brian Herriot shares five key insights from his new book, Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now. Brian is an author, speaker, and financial advisor. After founding three business, he has learned that true success means building...
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Britain’s Royal Air Force has gained some space cadets, in the form of No. III Space Effects Squadron, tasked with protecting critical satellites that the UK relies on for communications and navigation. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harvey Smyth announced the new unit at an...
Alberta’s image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/alberta-canada-rat-patrol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853918 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Easy Ways Sink a Hardware Startup
[Ryan Walker] may have written up his observations a few years ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today as they were back then. He shares five easy ways to sink your hardware startup. It’s a reminder that while hardware startups are unique, there are basic...
Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?
Article URL: https://www.f-secure.com/en/partners/insights/can-ai-shopping-agents-be-trusted-we-built-one-to-find-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853522 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The tradwife debate is really about control
The tradwife has entered the conversation. Instagram showcases her baking bread, doing laundry, and extolling the virtues of domestic bliss—a counterpoint to the girlboss who is always working, and always tired. Is this tradwife-versus-girlboss conflict simply the...
A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
Article URL: http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853175 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Abusing SQL to Play DOOM
Most laypeople who encounter SQL think of it purely as a tool for managing large datasets. While that is certainly what it was designed for, SQL is still a programming language at its core. It includes many of the features found in general-purpose languages like C or...
We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852717 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852302 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Article URL: https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-florida-lawsuit-vehicular-homicide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852065 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
The Low-Level Waste Dumps in The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems
Dumping of the barrels into the Atlantic. (Credit: Greenpeace, Pierre Gleizes) Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990,...
At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere
The company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses.
Show HN: A game about fake news and memes
Show HN: A game about fake news and memes Go to Source I made this game to help me with media literacy. View it like Wordle but for fake news.I would appreciate your honest feedback since I'm serious about making it way better....
Brazil Bans Online Betting
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-bans-online-betting-operations-reelection-race-tightens-2026-09-25/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851759 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
Valen creator drives ‘Golden Spike’ to connect new languages with Rust
Programming language generics can now ride in style from one language’s compiler to another and back again, thanks to experimental work from Mojo core contributor Evan Ovadia. This former Google engineer has endeavored to turn Rust into a library that other languages...
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes
Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allowing multiple values to inhabit the same home. "One of the oldest rules of spreadsheets: one cell, one value," said Jake Armstrong, senior product manager for Excel, in a LinkedIn post....
Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
Shows an Incorrect API Key error...which is weird. Nothing on the status page. (EDIT: Added to incident page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...)Per Twitter/X this appears to be...
Issues with Codex – Identified – Full Outage
Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA39 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851169 Points: 18 # Comments: 7
Tell HN: Codex Is Down
Shows an Incorrect API Key error...which is weird. Nothing on the status page.Per Twitter/X this appears to be widespread Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851032 Points: 34 # Comments: 13
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch
Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted switch with 2.5 Gbit-capable RJ-45 ports and two 10 Gbit SFP+ ports, so by itself it’s...
What Even Is an OS Now?
Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
Girl dads make better bosses, study suggests
Having a child can abruptly shift the way you view the world. That may be especially true when it comes to men who are raising girls: According to new research, fathers who are in manager roles behave differently towards women at work after having daughters. The new...
This is what your highest performers really want
At a moment when employers are sinking billions of dollars into AI adoption, workforce development has become less of a priority. Training budgets have contracted, forcing companies to make tough choices about which employees deserve the additional support that...
The Hacker House Files: 14 Notorious Scandals From 8 Prominent SF Bay Area Houses
Tonight, we go inside the Victorians, the Hillsborough mansions and the bunk-bed flats where tomorrow's unicorns sleep, and ask the question nobody at demo day wants asked: what happens when the house becomes the product and the whole thing's a scandal?This week a...