2026-09-02 刊号

Reflections on Americans' Net Worth ↗

METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident ↗

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ↗

Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]

Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your startup's obituary instead ↗

Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say ↗

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code ↗

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s ↗

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals ↗

CHC5: Open Camera System – Image Sensor Specification Comparison ↗

VC isn't VC anymore ↗

Reasons robotics is hard ↗

Pushdown automata in statistical machine translation (2014) ↗

Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect ↗

Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates ↗

Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies ↗

Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools ↗

Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations ↗

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts ↗

Music Theory for Programmers ↗

MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming ↗

Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] ↗

The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway ↗

Z: Local-first search layer for humans and agents ↗

I wanna live an NPC life ↗

AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens ↗

Fable 5.1 World Modeling ↗

The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great ↗

It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service ↗

Muse Spark 1.3 ↗

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3 ↗

Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid ↗

Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP ↗

The Death of Physical Media ↗

Unified Arabic ↗

Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident ↗

Here are some of REI’s best Labor Day sale deals

Summer is winding down, but REI’s Labor Day sale is here to help save you some bucks on gear that’ll let you get the most out of your upcoming outdoor expeditions. There are many, many discounts, from men’s and women’s clothing and REI Co-op gear to equipment for camping and hiking and more. The sale […]

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a "distinguished corporate patron" of Omacom, the […]

Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011) ↗

The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified ↗

Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form ↗

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) ↗

Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022) ↗

Firefox's AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn't ↗

CFTC moots rules to stop prediction markets from giving affiliates advantages [pdf] ↗

Why do so many tools have JSON config files? ↗

A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found ↗

No AI until high school:NYC schools announce major classroom technology overhaul ↗

This Fence Has No Farmer (Chesterton's Fence and AI-Generated Code) ↗

The Overton Window of Food ↗

I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech ↗

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure ↗

AI is stopping startups from completing puberty ↗

Amazon’s AI assistant can now spot fake emails from the company

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and it will use AI to compare […]

I Don't Have a Smartphone ↗

Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? ↗

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices ↗

Static Allocation, Constant Work ↗

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux ↗