Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer
Hello; I was working on optimizing some CUDA kernels and I thought may be it is a good oppurtunity learn langgraph as well. I created a simple C++ CUDA Test Harness and handed that to AI agents. They can run kernels, get benchmarks, and even can profile via nsight...
National Quesadilla Day freebies and deals: See a roundup of offers, from Chipotle Mexican Grill to Del Taco
Working professionals everywhere know the struggle of putting in a hard day’s work, then still having to figure out food. It can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back—but, thankfully, versatile meal options like the quesadilla have a long history of solving this...
Anthropic: The Situation Report
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/features/ebola-response Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842788 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
How do you safely test an AI agent that’s trying to break things?
A new report from the cybersecurity research organization Transluce shows that swarms of OpenAI agents tried to hack their way into several public data sources earlier this year. They probed a pharmaceutical-data dashboard run by the Australian Institute of Health and...
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
Dyfed-Powys Police has revealed it was hit by a cyberattack that knocked some of its systems offline, with investigators now trying to establish whether the intruders got their hands on staff data during the break-in. The Welsh police force said it identified the...
Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory
Traders on Amazon's UK marketplace say a wave of "abnormal" orders stuck in pending status is tying up their inventory and preventing legitimate customers from buying the affected items. Vendors on Amazon's Seller Central forums report unusually high numbers of...
BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
The Boss has had some feedback from the using classes about our method of fixing IT problems (i.e. fixing them), and how we could do things a little better. "So... you want us to... not fix the problems?" the PFY asks. "No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying...
The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
Article URL: https://economist.com/europe/2026/09/24/the-mafia-may-be-keeping-fentanyl-out-of-italy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842487 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
This MIT spinout designed an artificial reef to save shrinking beaches
Until recently, a beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was eroding away. The usual solution would be to dredge sand to try to replace what was lost—but that works only temporarily, and it harms marine ecosystems. Two years ago, a Marriott resort on the island...
Bitget Says Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole $351.6M After Backend Compromise
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot...
What Should Pine64 Build With Microcontrollers?
Pine64 is an open-source-community-centered project of mostly-open hardware, known for such hits as the PinePhone, the Pinecil soldering iron, and the PineTime. Now, the Pine64 project wants to know what kind of MCU-powered device you’d want to see built next, and...
Apple Reportedly Developing Screen-Free Fitness Band
A band like Whoop or the Fitbit Air could attract people who want continuous health data but don't like to be bothered by notifications.
Google adds creepy avatars to Gemini 3.8 live’s agents
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 live avatars designed for customer service and other tasks.
Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity
Researchers show that file-change notification systems can leak keystroke timing, browsing activity, and WhatsApp media events. The post Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7v4y45893go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842707 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers
Revolut customers have been caught up in a second data breach this month after attackers socially engineered their way into US brokerage DriveWealth and stole historic personal information. DriveWealth provides execution and clearing services for investment firms and...
We have a love-hate relationship with technology, and that’s never going to change
Well over a decade after first teasing the idea of making home deliveries via drone, Amazon is now actively testing the concept in a Dallas suburb and elsewhere. Reports suggest the reaction is, well, mixed. Yes, some customers seem delighted. But other residents...
Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage
Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842270 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Our post-carbon future is already here—if you know where to look
This year has seen one environmental catastrophe after another. Collapsing glaciers triggered a devastating flood in Nepal, heat waves in Europe caused more than 35,000 deaths, and extreme temperature swings in the Midwest destroyed crops. “The climate alarm is...
Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/a96bf05a-a299-4d6a-a753-b298dd0f4016 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842483 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query...
I Told an AI Agent to Rob My Store. It Found 39 Ways to Do It
Six of the 39 were severity-1. Not one was a payment bug. I run scvd.store, a small storefront where the customers are AI agents and the money is USDC over x402. Between September 5 and 8, I pointed Codex at my own live checkout and gave it one instruction. Not "find...
Building a Custom React Router SSR Server With Hono
If you're running a React Router app in framework mode, you get SSR out of the box and for production it hands you @react-router/serve, a small server built on top of Express. While it does the job, Express carries a bit of history (and weight) with it, so if you're...
The Billing Ladder: Five Ways to Price an AI Agent
A support leader I spoke with recently was comparing two quotes. One vendor wanted $85 per seat per month. Another wanted $0.99 per resolution. She was doing the obvious arithmetic: 99 cents is cheaper than 85 dollars, so the AI agent is basically free. A few months...
Oracle AI Vector Search & Native AI: The Converged Database Era
Introduction: AI Without the Integration Nightmare For years, building AI-powered applications meant cobbling together a patchwork of specialized systems. You had your relational database for transactions, a vector database for embeddings, a separate service for...
How Jev Can Revolutionize Search Across Domains and What it Would Mean for Web Search
Most AI systems on the market right now have one main job: creating stuff. They pump out text, summarize massive PDFs, or write code, token by token. But it's the wrong tool for the countless micro-decisions that have to happen before any actual generation begins....
Google Maps Ads Are Not a Campaign: The Technical Architecture Behind Local Advertising
Most discussions about Google Maps Ads start with the wrong question:“How do I create a Google Maps Ads campaign?” There is an important technical problem with that question. Google Maps Ads are not a single campaign type sitting inside Google Ads. Maps is a serving...
How to Avoid Annoying Developers and Run Hardware Projects Smoothly
People often think that the key management issues in hardware development are in technologies, methodologies, or architecture. But most difficulties stem from miscommunication. Project participants usually have different understandings of tasks, priorities, and work...
Fixing Checkpoint Recovery in SeaTunnel’s BigQuery Connector
While working on the BigQuery Sink Connector for Apache SeaTunnel, I initially thought the main challenge would be straightforward: write rows into BigQuery correctly. But as the implementation evolved, I realized the real problem was deeper than just calling the...
A Self-Updating CRM Can Still Teach AI the Wrong Business
The promise of a self-updating CRM is easy to understand. Calls, emails, meetings, and other signals arrive without asking every person to become a perfect data clerk. AI gets a richer account history, teams spend less time logging activity, and recommendations...