2026-10-09 刊号

Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived? ↗

11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People ↗

Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants ↗

The logarithms of rational numbers have irrationality exponent 2 [pdf] ↗

HostMath – Airbnb profit calculator with break-even occupancy and payback ↗

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice ↗

Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust ↗

An experiment to glimpse the future Amazon rainforest ↗

Atari Falcon ↗

GPGPU-SIM – Cycle-Level Simulator for Nvidia GPUs with CUDA or OpenCL Workloads ↗

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation ↗

In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology ↗

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025 ↗

Long live the mechanical keyboard ↗

Japan's Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Somali Pirates into Fishermen ↗

刚刷到个黑客松，给开源 CLI 修 bug 就能拿钱 ↗

Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say ↗

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making new CPUs that'll support the older, more affordable type of memory. On Friday, Gigabyte announced that two of […]

The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch ↗

OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof ↗

What's New in Python 3.15 ↗

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as […]

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops ↗

Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high, Iran tries choking oil ↗

No Man Is an Island ↗

open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI ↗

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police ↗

Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator

A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch. Byrnes texted Ohio Sen. […]

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police ↗

Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes By Default Coming Feb 2027 ↗

‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]

Clef-Omni: full multimodality, a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash ↗

Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers ↗

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers ↗

PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023

"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."

You might want to try being less creative ↗

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making ↗

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld ↗

Brendan Carr says he’ll let Pete Hegseth decide whether TV networks can air the public execution

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad. The Pentagon has said the execution will be livestreamed, suggesting it'll appear on an online platform beyond the FCC's jurisdiction. But it's […]

Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad ↗

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama ↗

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022) ↗

Rolling the Root Key ↗

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded ↗

The Revolution of Vertical Drama Is Happening Behind the Camera ↗

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]

Google teases Fitbit Edge launch next week

It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: "Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26." A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has […]

Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction ↗

I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here ↗

What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI ↗

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is down to $950 after Prime Day

Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1,399.99. This phone’s standout feature is the adjustable privacy display, which can hide your entire screen, or just portions of it, from onlookers and strangers. It doesn’t meaningfully hurt the screen’s […]

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read ↗

Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists ↗

In Memory of Deno ↗

Amazon’s new Kindles appear to have a light leak problem

Some users are reporting that the new Kindles have a light leak issue that is especially apparent when using dark mode. The latest base-model Kindles have a flush bezel that gives them a sleek appearance and looks great… as long as you keep the lights on. But things can change once you turn down the […]

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B ↗

Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite ↗

Microsoft tries to spark new life into Windows

When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You'd think by now that those renovations would be complete, with Microsoft turning its attention to Windows 12. Instead, Windows 11 feels like it's here to stay, forming the foundation for Microsoft's […]

LumenUs helps automate tedious paperwork in times of grief ↗

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust? ↗