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....
Flock cameras are officially banned on state roads in Florida
Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash.
Making a Pole Balance Itself With Propellers
A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as by exerting a force on either end to counterbalance any force that threatens to make it fall over. The approach that [Peter Ryseck] chose was to...
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568828 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Forget granite countertops. Homebuyers now say this is their No. 1 priority
Some Americans are giving new meaning to the proverb that your home is your sanctuary. The at-home wellness trend continues to evolve and grow, with the global market for wellness real estate projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030, according to the latest figures...
Formalizing Fermat’s Last Theorem
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
‘Sam Almond’ becomes a meme after the OpenAI CEO’s comments on ChatGPT’s water usage
Thirty-eight thousand ChatGPT queries versus a single almond may sound like a strange sequel to the “100 men versus a gorilla” viral debate meme. Instead, it’s just Sam Altman’s response to public concerns over AI’s water usage. In a recent podcast, the OpenAI CEO sat...
What’s the beef? Rising meat prices at Walmart, Costco, Aldi, Publix, and more prompt Department of Justice probe
The U.S. government is expanding its investigation into the rising price of beef to eight major grocery chains and big box retailers. The current average price for ground beef was $6.88 per pound, as of July, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)....
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579 Points: 28 # Comments: 3
Hayes AT command set
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567961 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Repairing Traces on a Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong
Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually to improve cooling performance, as the IHS is effectively a small heatsink between the die and the...
Workers are already nostalgic for the pre-AI era
We are just a few years removed from a time when AI was not yet ingrained in our office lives, but many workers already wish they could go back. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of 2,500 knowledge workers surveyed by digital consulting group Adaptavist said they often feel...
Victoria’s Secret quietly closed 38 stores. What shoppers should know
Victoria’s Secret has closed dozens of stores worldwide this year, but the brand is still raising its full-year sales outlook. The news comes from a recent report from The Street, which explained that between Jan. 31 and Aug. 31, the chain closed 38 stores globally....
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567357 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with...