It’s All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/instinct-ai-personal-assistant-credit-card/688607/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689664 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Make long drives easier with this Android Auto feature
Android Auto added a new capability recently that upgrades the infotainment screen in a big way. Let's activate it.
The Contagion of Fear
Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689460 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688695 Points: 233 # Comments: 75
Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026
We try to steer clear of politics and societal issues here at Hackaday, so a protest is not usually the sort of thing we’d cover. But we figure it’s safe enough to bend the rules a bit when the ones doing the protesting happen to be robots. About 30 bots gathered — or...
How to use GPT-6 Astra when it rolls out to you
OpenAI's new model, GPT-6 Astra, has begun rolling out to users. Here's how you can get it and pitfalls to avoid.
Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the ‘agents’. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?
My buddy, Dario, says agents are getting more aggressive and will soon kill everybody, and I feel like I've seen this movie before. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688761 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
How to fix iMessage “Not Delivered” error on iPhones
iMessage is simple, and even RCS and SMS are usually reliable. But when your iPhone won't sent a message, you can coax it into working again.
Building Isolyne (Part 5): How the Offline Fallback Parser Handles LLM Outages
What happens when an LLM call fails on flaky Wi-Fi? How we engineered a deterministic fallback engine that keeps our mobile app 100% functional offline. The dirty secret of many modern "AI-native" mobile apps is that they are completely bricked the moment the phone...
Week 5 of Building Pocketflow for Shipaton 2026: Paywalls, Timeline Audits, and Launch!
This final week brought Pocketflow across the finish line - from UI refinement and activity auditing to native monetization and our official public release. Over the last 5 weeks, we’ve taken Pocketflow from an abstract design concept to a native, gesture-controlled...
The U.S. Space Academy Is More of a Workforce Bet Than an Astronaut School
TL;DR: The proposed U.S. Space Academy is not an operating school yet. It is a 120-day attempt to decide whether the United States needs a dedicated pipeline for the engineers, operators, civil servants, military personnel and commercial leaders who would run a far...
AI Can Write a Perfectly Reasonable Scientific Sentence, and That’s the Problem
AI Writing: When a Perfectly Reasonable Scientific Sentence Goes One Step Too FarA while ago, I was working on a chemistry manuscript about Ce³⁺-doped perovskite microlasers, and one AI-generated continuation caught my attention.The manuscript had reached this...
How I Use Claude and ChatGPT to Make Better AI Images
Making an image with ChatGPT is easy. Making the image you actually had in your head is a different job.I worked that out fairly quickly. Type something like "create a professional image of a programmer working at a computer," and you will get an image. It probably...
Stop Treating MCP Like API 2.0
As LLMs get better at executing code and parsing raw CLI outputs, a reasonable question keeps coming up in developer circles: Why do we actually need the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?Modern agents can discover OpenAPI specs, construct HTTP requests, handle headers,...
Whose Memory Is It? Building Multi-Tenant, Multi-Tier Memory for AI Agents (Part 4)
This is a 4-part series on how agents remember:building short-, medium- and long-term memory thatscales across users, agents, and kubernetes clusters. Alice and Bob both use our agent platform. On Monday, Alice worked on a support incident, and the agent remembers...
How I Used Claude Code to Ship a Pixel-Matched WooCommerce Store With ERP Sync
A women's clothing brand in Russia needed an online store synced to their inventory system, built to match an existing React prototype pixel for pixel, on a budget that ruled out any of the usual enterprise platforms. I built it as a solo developer, on WordPress and...
7 Signs You’re Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)
There’s a very specific kind of AI project that looks incredibly impressive in the architecture diagram and does almost nothing that a simple version couldn’t do better. It has a vector database. It has a multi-agent orchestration graph. It has a fine-tuned model, a...
These Management Habits Can Slowly Break Teams: What to Watch Out For
When I first took up the management job, nobody told me that I needed to watch out for my habits that can have a serious impact on my team’s productivity and performance. My intent was right—I wanted to do well in my role while also helping my team grow. However,...
AI Is Making Bad Engineering More Expensive
A blog post by developer Florian Herrengt has been sitting near the top of Hacker News for some time now, and the reason it's stuck there instead of scrolling off in a day is that it's not really an opinion piece — it's a mechanism, described clearly enough that...
Can We Actually Prove an AI Agent Will Stay Within Its Permissions?
I've been reading a lot of pieces this year about how AI agents get authorized: which protocol issues the token, which framework signs the card, and which policy engine checks the scope. Almost none of them ask the question that actually matters once an agent is...
Why are IMAX cameras so notoriously loud?
Shooting a movie on IMAX 15/70 cameras can produce incredible film, but one of the major tradeoffs for filmmakers is how loud they can get when rolling.
Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688695 Points: 25 # Comments: 0
AI Is Destroying the World
Article URL: https://gornak40.org/blog/ai-is-destroying-the-world.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688681 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t file for IPO this year
OpenAI's CEO called it an "ill-advised moment to go public" in an interview with Fortune.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg: “Cambridge Analytica” (2017)
Article URL: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688157 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)
Article URL: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688391 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
There Is No AI (It’s Just People) with Jaron Lanier
Article URL: https://singjupost.com/startalk-there-is-no-ai-really-its-just-people-w-jaron-lanier-transcript/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687869 Points: 12 # Comments: 2