Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to discuss harshly about AI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764057 Points: 5 # Comments: 4

An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec's private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec says his laptop was compromised in...

Article URL: https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763987 Points: 14 # Comments: 0

Mozilla and MZLA have delivered the latest releases in their new fortnightly cycle, but users who dislike the faster pace have alternatives. Firefox 156 is trickling out to users. The release notes only mention two new features: for Mac users, there's now an option in...

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763928 Points: 18 # Comments: 5

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below -...

Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

“I don’t think about my life in terms of ‘superstar.’ I’m just a workin’ girl. I always say, and it’s the truth, that I am a workhorse that looks like a show horse.” —Dolly Parton, May 2025 When I heard the news of Dolly Parton’s passing, this quote came to mind. A...

Article URL: https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763379 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

I'm a CS undergrad who has developed an interest in hardware keys ever since I used them for a school project a few years ago. I made a little chat app that only allows users to chat if they registered a key, nothing else.The backstory of how I came to work on Seal...

The concertina is an instrument that features heavily in European folk music, of which there are a variety of types. [Xcott Craver] has built one, an anglo concertina of the type you may recognise accompanying sea shanties, but this is no ordinary squeezebox. Instead...

Article URL: https://onionfutures.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763296 Points: 12 # Comments: 3

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762835 Points: 25 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762744 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762687 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/09/the-contract-on-america.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762573 Points: 10 # Comments: 4

If you’ve used MicroPython much, you know that debugging usually amounts to printing a few things out, trying your code out, and then repeating. But [ghi-electronics] wants you to have full on-chip source-code debugging in Visual Studio. You don’t need anything...

Article URL: https://liveworld.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762099 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-detect-cancer-and-nearly-150-conditions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761840 Points: 14 # Comments: 0

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

Anthropic on Friday surprised the developer community by supporting rival OpenAI's mechanism for passing marching orders to AI agents. This makes life easier for folks who use both platforms. "We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code," said Claude Code...

The software engine underpinning GitHub Copilot and a growing number of Microsoft products is now written entirely in Rust, with AI agents doing most of the porting work. The migration cost about $120,000 in AI token usage plus about three weeks of a developer's time....

Virginia is not just for lovers, but is also for datacenters, hosting more than anywhere else in the world. However, the growth could be slowing as Governor Abigail Spanberger issued an executive order on Friday cracking down on bit barn builds in the state. “In the...

Thanks to AI, computer science majors are finding themselves in a tougher spot than they might have expected. Jobs are harder to come by, and more graduates are ending up in lower-paying sectors like retail and food service. That’s according to a new working paper by...

Claude Code customers have a new reason to give Anthropic more of their money. The tool now allows you to launch multiple sessions related to a single project, burning through more resources and cash at once. Appropriately enough, the feature is called projects and...

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.