2026-09-03 刊号

Simple Is Not Small ↗

Steve Ballmer got suspended by the NBA because of a podcast and a jumbotron corruption scandal

Last September, Steve Ballmer insisted in an ESPN interview that the Clippers weren't involved in a shady-looking $28 million endorsement deal for his star player, Kawhi Leonard, that involved no actual endorsing. Now, the former Microsoft CEO has been suspended by the NBA for a year, while the league says his team will forfeit five […]

NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade ↗

Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era ↗

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB ↗

Oura files to go public ↗

Models Don't Go Rogue ↗

Methods for Random Gradients (2024) ↗

Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets ↗

Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference? ↗

You can watch the coolant flow inside Ugreen’s liquid-cooled power bank

Does your power bank have "CryoPulse technology" or a "Cyber Window"? If you disappointingly answered "no" to both, you might want to consider upgrading to Ugreen's new MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank. It's available starting today for $149.99, which puts it on the really expensive end of power banks with only a 10,000mAh battery, but […]

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out ↗

Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows ↗

Dungeons & Dragons is getting a ‘Ravenloft’ live-action Netflix series

A Ravenloft series is currently in development from executive producer Alfonso Cuarón, writer and executive producer John August, and Hasbro Entertainment, Deadline reports. It could bring to life one of Dungeons & Dragons' most iconic campaign settings, which got an update earlier this year with Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. Netflix's Ravenloft series will reportedly center […]

GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index ↗

Three-LLM: Three.js-based WebGPU LLM inference engine ↗

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 ↗

The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment ↗

Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users? ↗

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation ↗

The death of San Francisco's Market Street ↗

Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit ↗

NIXI has killed the "Dot In" domain name (2025) ↗

Prime Gaps at Most 186 ↗

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development ↗

Interactive demo of MINIX1-like O/S on emulated CPU ↗

Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' ↗

'Fakers' by Rory Cormac Review ↗

Every novel is boring until it isn't ↗

Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks ↗

GPT-6 Astra ↗

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) ↗

Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions

TikTok backed out of a congressional committee's "public roundtable" set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating "in good faith" to bring TikTok's chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to […]

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails ↗

GPT-6 Astra Benchmarks Image ↗

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s ↗

GoPro acquired, getting into 'defense, government, robotics and aerospace' ↗

120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom ↗

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model ↗

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra ↗

Samsung’s beloved Q Series sound system is hundreds off for Labor Day

Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your TV is daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. If you want one of the best kits you can get at a rare discount, Best Buy and Amazon are selling the Samsung Q990F Soundbar for $999.99. It normally retails between $1,300 and $1,600. This bundle […]

The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1 ↗

Mmuko Boot Sequence – a tiny freestanding C kernel that boots in QEMU ↗

OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model ↗

"Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts ↗

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model ↗

Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide ↗

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that won't […]

How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform ↗

Microsoft Announces Change to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Switches to Monthly Hour Limits ↗

The paradox of diffusion distillation (2024) ↗

Renowned NYC Washington Square Park Chess Hustler 'Chichi' Detained by ICE ↗

Judge Tells RFK Jr. To Stop Using Fake AI Studies on Teen Pregnancy ↗

Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models ↗

Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI ↗

Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI ↗

Why office workers are turning against AI ↗

Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature – LibreOffice blog ↗

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture? ↗

Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB ↗