Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task...
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Article URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
America’s disposable workforce is growing. It comes with hidden costs
Below, Paul Osterman shares five key insights from his new book, Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment. Paul is a Professor Emeritus of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. What’s the Big Idea? The rise of disposable...
Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Article URL: https://pushin.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573680 Points: 6 # Comments: 4
Free Your Rotary Telephone From Its Wire
It’s said that a teenager given a rotary telephone in 2026 would be mystified by its operation, yet there are enough surviving instruments for them to be an attractive target for a project. But just what project? [fregacmols] is here with one possibility, turn that...
Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and...
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
After nearly eight years, ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft is finally nearing Mercury, as engineers begin the arrival sequence by jettisoning the power module that got it this far. The spacecraft stack separated from the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) on September...
Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgyn8q8gqxo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573455 Points: 27 # Comments: 7
How women over 40 can use personal branding to reclaim their careers
For decades, Cindy Gallop worked in the advertising industry, building brands. But at 45, she stepped away from her career and built her own. Now, at 66, she’s known as the founder of sextech, has one of the most-watched TEDx videos on YouTube, and is building her own...
Great products don’t market themselves
At a recent board meeting, someone suggested that we needed to go hard on PR and marketing to “build hype.” When the phrase “build hype” came up, the rest of the room soured immediately. To many, hype was synonymous with snake oil. The company in question is doing...
GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
Article URL: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra-code-review-evaluation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572875 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
COSMAC Elf Turns 50
If you were interested in computers in the early 1970s, you struggled to get time on real computers since owning your own was all but impossible. In the middle of the decade, though, you could get a few computers: the Mark VIII, the Altair, the Apple I, and several...
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Parchment Paper Paired With 3D-Printed Grid Gives a Nice Glow
This custom enclosure for a 64×64 RGB LED matrix by [Davisan1001] not only provides a mount point for a Raspberry Pi, but presents a clean and smooth face with square pixels thanks to a 3D-printed grid, some parchment paper, and a sheet of clear plastic. The first...
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571632 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents
Why can't we get an agent scheduler that supports all of the following:- git compatible- agent agnostic- 100% open source- os and system-agnostic- multi-runner support- support mcp/ui/http- unlimited routines/cronsSo I built one, moadim.io is a local Rust daemon you...
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571465 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Gimlet’s Series B
Article URL: https://gimletlabs.ai/blog/announcing-series-b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571255 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
Article URL: https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571047 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570772 Points: 31 # Comments: 7
Fixing an Expensive Seagate LaCie Hard Drive Array
After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when suddenly it would just refuse to power up. Naturally the device was now out of...
How to see what’s taking up space on your Windows PC
Use a methodical approach to see what's using the most space on your PC and easily clean it up.
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
Inside Walmart: Tianyu Zhang on How AI Is Changing Software Engineering
When most people see AI today, they see headlines splashed across billboards and social media feeds. But behind the scenes, AI is also quietly transforming the day-to-day work of professionals inside some of the world’s largest companies. For Tianyu Zhang, that...
Where the Cybersecurity Market Is Actually Moving in 2026
Large platforms are moving into AI. Specialists are moving into Exposure. The gap matters more than the ranking. 0. Introduction Ten of the eleven public security vendors I tracked moved into AI Security between July 2024 and July 2026. Of the 66 companies in the...
AI Isn’t the First Tool Education Has Feared
A personal view of the British system — and why education keeps repeating the same response to every new tool I am tackling education from a personal perspective; there is no AI Committee behind this one. I came up through the British world of O Levels and A Levels in...
One Developer, Four Repos, 42 Releases: What Parallel AI Agents Actually Cost Me
Since January 7th I have shipped 458 commits across four repositories of a single product and cut 42 releases. The product is a London Underground app: an iOS client (Swift, TCA), an Android client (Kotlin, Compose), a web version (React, WebGL2) and a Go backend....