This Circuit Sculpture is an ESP32-Powered Console
This Circuit Sculpture is an ESP32-Powered Console Go to Source Expressif might not have intended the ESP32-S3 to become an emulation powerhouse, but that’s certainly what has happened. The little microcontroller seems perfect for...
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/dealignai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-UNCENSORED-FP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654387 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws
PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation. The software development company said PaperCut NG/MF...
China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor
A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack...
Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware
Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an...
Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors
Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz said in a report. Wiz saw the attacks between August 15...
DeepSeek’s new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an updated version of its cost-and-latency-optimized Flash model on Thursday, with a new version 4.1 that includes architectural improvements more significant than you would expect in a point release because the changes might open...
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654229 Points: 27 # Comments: 6
We Replaced MMAP with Io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower
Article URL: https://www.conviva.ai/resource/we-replaced-mmap-with-io_uring-in-our-rust-query-engine-it-got-slower/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653882 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on
Oracle has argued AI will strengthen its applications business, by giving customers new ways to use software and making them easier to implement. Co-CEO Mike Sicilia decided to defend applications in his first remarks on Oracle’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings call. “The...
On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix
ON CALL Friday morning is The Register's home for tech support stories, which we showcase in On Call – the weekly column made possible by readers generously sharing their experience of what it takes to fix things for the furious, fatuous, or feebleminded users that...
Microsoft annoints Rust as a ‘Tier 1’ internal language
When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its list of canonical languages. “Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits among C++, C# and TypeScript as...
The Gemini app is now available for Windows
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-windows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653699 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
3 questions to ask yourself when you’re dealing with AI panic
The unbridled rise of AI spells mammoth change for businesses, but it is not a crisis. Technology doesn’t create crises—people do, especially when we panic. The artificial intelligence explosion has left many CEOs worried. Worried over falling behind, over their token...
Lara Croft on a Microcontroller
Once upon a time, you had to carefully budget your microcontroller’s resources if you wanted to do something as simple as flash a bunch of LEDs. These days, they’re powerful enough to humiliate the game consoles of yesteryear. [alexkid77] demonstrates this well,...
Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
Article URL: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00405-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653328 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
LLM Visualizer – Build a Transformer from Scratch
Article URL: https://jayvisaria.github.io/LLM-Visualizer/#/dashboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652996 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
Article URL: https://www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-old-mexican-student-creates-an-acoustic-fire-extinguisher-that-uses-sound-waves-to-put-out-fires-in-seconds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652237 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Changing Nozzle Internal Geometry to Increase FDM Flowrate
As FDM printers keep getting faster, we are forced to deal with a range of bottlenecks, all of which conspire to hold us back from another Benchie world record. A major physical limitation is that of flowrate, as the hotend has to be able to melt the filament that...
Show HN: Benzi – A Code Intillegence/Harness Beating Claude Code and CodeGraph
Article URL: https://benzi.fly.dev/benchmark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652389 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac
Article URL: https://tensorsandtokens.com/posts/opencode-ollama/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652122 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
YouTuber, or someone, wants to send nice emails to active military personnel
Article URL: https://mic.sandboxx.us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652261 Points: 5 # Comments: 4
Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
Article URL: https://system76.com/workstations/thelio-mira-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651372 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6y4me2g6o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652105 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time
OpenAI has launched a version of its latest real-time full-duplex voice model as an API, allowing software developers to implement more responsive voice-enabled apps and conversational workflows. GPT-Live-1 debuted in July, offering a way to interact through spoken...
Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research
In the latest installment of "my AI model is more dangerous than yours," Anthropic on Thursday warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models to automate cyberattacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, conduct mass surveillance...
Bodily Oddities
Article URL: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649789 Points: 31 # Comments: 23
OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/09/formal-method-revolution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650326 Points: 113 # Comments: 109
Creating a Custom Hinge for a Motorbike’s Fuel Access Panel
A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to basic questions, like how you can still access the fuel tank’s cap after extending it forward. In the case of [KRTframework] this meant that the fuel...
iPhone 18 Pro Max vs Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: How these XL phones compete
Apple or Samsung? It really comes down to which ecosystem you prefer.