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....
Why Running AI Agents in Production Is Harder Than Running a Web App
Most of us carry a mental model for production infrastructure that took years to build and mostly still works: stateless containers behind a load balancer, autoscaling on CPU or queue depth, a CI/CD pipeline that ships a new image, health checks that restart what...
The Tetris Company wants nothing to do with the White House’s new copycat game
Tetris knockoff 'Build the Wall' is one of six new games hosted on the White House website, and The Tetris Company is not happy.
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Anthropic has blueprints for building e-commerce bots that shop on behalf of clients. That's not something many consumers want at the moment, but the AI biz this week published a set of templates for Claude-based shopping agents and merchant agents in the hope of...
AMD’s Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
Machine learning researchers have a new and expensive option for doing local AI. AMD just raided its spare parts bin and cobbled together a DGX Station rival boasting up to 576 GB of HBM3e memory that it’s calling the Threadripper Halo. Announced at IFA 2026, the...
ASCII smuggling isn’t just an AI security risk
Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters that peaked at...
Fermat’s Last Theorem: Anthropic has beaten me to it
Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-has-beaten-me-to-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570133 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Statichost.eu – 100% European static site hosting
Article URL: https://www.statichost.eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
Tesla’s viral ad for its new Cybercab robotaxi has one glaring problem
The newest addition to Tesla’s fleet of robotaxis is now on the road. Previously, Tesla’s driverless taxi service offered only one make of vehicle, called the Model Y. Now, it’s adding the Cybercab, a golden car with butterfly doors, interactive touchscreens, and no...
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
How to Create a Tor Exit Node
Article URL: https://madpsy.uk/how-to-create-a-tor-exit-node/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569702 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Target is under fire over another Halloween costume just weeks after apologizing for the last one
Just a few weeks after coming under fire for a children’s Halloween costume that drew comparisons to blackface caricatures, Target’s Halloween collection is under fire again, although this time around the retailer isn’t alone in the controversy. Target, Walmart and...
An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
Article URL: https://quad9.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569663 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Report: OpenAI agents took over a website, used it to collaborate on benchmarks
Artificial intelligence agents linked to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly took over a German website and used it to exchange information. Reuters revealed the incident today, citing two unnamed sources and a group of AI researchers. The researchers spotted the incident in...
Scientists found a surprising potential use for the psychedelic in magic mushrooms
The psychedelic compound that makes magic mushrooms so trippy shows serious promise for protecting cancer patients from years of chronic pain. For people undergoing cancer treatment, the nerve pain associated with blasting the body with chemo can be debilitating....