OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign
OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign Go to Source OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts tied to a covert influence campaign involving copied research, fake attribution and coordinated social posts....
Pnpm 12.0
Article URL: https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/12.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460032 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
How delayed gratification can make achieving goals faster
Each week, Vera Vaslova makes herself wait until Friday to enjoy her favorite iced coffee. “And that makes me disgustingly productive,” she says in a video she posted on TikTok. “Getting coffee out is one of my favorite things in this entire world, but I only let...
Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amiga’s Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks
All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say [RobDevBuilds] made a MOD tracker that uses an optical disk, then, you might be forgiven for thinking he stuck a bunch of MOD files onto a CD– MOD...
Can you be penalized for turning down a promotion?
Americans are souring on promotions—especially those that threaten their work-life balance or other nonwork priorities. But saying no to advancement could move their career in the opposite direction. According to a recent survey by emotional insight platform Hint App,...
How to find a job that makes you come alive
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” —Howard Thurman That quote from Howard Thurman really resonates with me because there was a period in my...
Recent Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
CISA is urging government agencies to immediately patch the Citrix NetScaler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-8452. The post Recent Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
The FBI on Wednesday said it disrupted a botnet and seized two platforms that Chinese-government cyberoperatives used to hack NASA, the US Senate, the Department of Energy, and several other government agencies and critical networks. The Federal Reserve, Department of...
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has published its technical report detailing "the Hugging Face incident," the compromise of the eponymous LLM repository by unreleased, ill-supervised AI models. The incident, widely reported, has prompted concern among technical types, the public, and...
Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-backwards Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458875 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97
Article URL: https://news.jp/i/1465528042000662661 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458709 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Getting video models to learn better, faster
Article URL: https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-gen-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458502 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
Article URL: https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map of Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue. This includes mildly terrifying things like supermassive black holes (SMBHs), one of the study subjects of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
High-Resolution Imaging for Statistical Validation of TESS Planet Candidates
First author here. I have no experience in astronomy, yet facilitated one of the largest studies of exoplanet discovery and validation ever conducted using data from NASA’s TESS satellite. We statistically validated 64 new exoplanets, making it through a rigorous peer...
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled)https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
Article URL: https://www.mturk.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
Article URL: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456929 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Clerky Is Joining Stripe
Article URL: https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455956 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Paul Thomas Anderson’s forthcoming concert film is buzzword bingo for fans of indie music and movies
Right as awards season kicked up at the end of 2025, before Paul Thomas Anderson took home the Best Director Academy Award for One Battle After Another, he was taking in a concert at Carnegie Hall by singer-songwriter Cameron Winter. He wasn’t in a seat, though—he was...
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1
Wednesday's release of Kubernetes v1.37 shows how the team behind the popular open source resource orchestrator is prioritizing production readiness, pruning outdated features even while it adds new ones. Overall, the release, nicknamed Garhwal after India’s lush...
Meta’s new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
If you’re going to build a custom AI accelerator, inference is a good place to start. The clusters are smaller, the chips can be simpler, and at the end of the day they only need to do one thing: serve tokens. OpenAI’s spicy new Jalapeño inference chips are just the...
Australia’s recording association bans AI-made music from charts
Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed, so long as they're "substantially human made."
Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps
The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing you what’s happening on the wire. [James Bowman] worked on the TermDriver 2, and...
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI. The company said Mechanical Turk...
CrowdStrike and Okta shares jump on second-quarter beats and raised outlooks
Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Okta Inc. both jumped in late trading today after the two security companies beat expectations in their July quarters. CrowdStrike shares were up more than 10% after the bell and Okta shares more than 19%. Both raised their...
Researchers traced the American West water crisis to just 122 companies
As some of the largest water reservoirs in the United States fall to record-level-lows, it’s not just drought to blame, with 122 oil and cement companies responsible for around half of the water lost to climate change in the West, according to a recent study. In the...