Hacker News Daily — September 10, 2026
27 stories · September 10, 2026
In this issue
- 1
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
twitter.com · 898 points · Discussion
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
- 2
Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
shopify.engineering · 591 points · Discussion
We decided to go all-in on React Native back in 2020, and that bet has been extremely successful. We saved a ton of time building features just once, enabled developers with no mobile background to…
- 3
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
rustfoundation.org · 525 points · Discussion
By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of…
- 4
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
mathstodon.xyz · 406 points · Discussion
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240536885387540 https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240537520615623 https://x.com/ValerioCapraro/status/2097791836269977996,…
- 5
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
devblogs.microsoft.com · 318 points · Discussion
I noted some time ago that Windows XP chose your initial picture at random from among the pictures in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ Application Data\ Microsoft\ User Account Pictures\ Default Pictures…
- 6
List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
consumerrights.wiki · 313 points · Discussion
Four California PlayStation buyers who each spent hundreds of dollars on digital goods over the past few years say they received only a limited, revocable license rather than ownership, and paid more…
- 7
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
cognition.com · 262 points · Discussion
By The Cognition Team 09.10.26 Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. It pushes the Pareto frontier of capability and cost, achieving 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main 1,…
- 8
Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
pv-magazine.com · 256 points · Discussion
Hitachi has introduced its Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan, with 370-liter and 460-liter models set to launch from November 2026. The upgraded range adds expanded support for…
- 9
Stockfish 19
stockfishchess.org · 247 points · Discussion
Today, we have the pleasure of announcing Stockfish 19, a new major release. As always, you can freely download it at stockfishchess.org/download and use it as a drop-in replacement in the GUI of your…
- 10
NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth
gizmodo.com · 190 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 11
Neki
planetscale.com · 159 points · Discussion
Neki is now available in platform preview. Neki is built from lessons we’ve learned over eight years of running some of the largest sharded MySQL clusters in the world. Thousands of production…
- 12
Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
blog.jim-nielsen.com · 140 points · Discussion
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find…
- 13
Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu · 115 points · Discussion
Paper Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley.…
- 14
Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models
magic.dev · 103 points · Discussion
Research update on compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models. Frontier pretraining is said to be a big-lab-only game. We don’t have 100k chips yet, so there’s only one…
- 15
Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
codeberg.org · 103 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 16
Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]
youtube.com · 97 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 17
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
musictheory.pugetsound.edu · 83 points · Discussion
Front Matter Colophon Acknowledgements Preface 1 Basic Concepts 1.1 Pitch 1.2 Notation 1.3 Octave Registers 1.4 Accidentals 1.5 Enharmonic Notes 1.6 Practice Exercises 2 Major Scales and Key…
- 18
To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree
devz.cl · 74 points · Discussion
– an owl mid flight I saw last summer. try drawing it. “You should have failed this class. I’m going to make accommodations so that no student can pass next semester the same way you did.” This is…
- 19
Creativity is the New Moat
inventbuild.studio · 72 points · Discussion
✍️ AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there. If you build products or run a business, your competitive edge is not necessarily features or price, it’s ideas. This means getting in…
- 20
Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
lemire.me · 72 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 21
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
openjdk.org · 43 points · Discussion
Summary Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code…
- 22
Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
tokenstead.ai · 38 points · Discussion
dropdown#hide keydown.esc@window->dropdown#hideOnKeydown"> 2.8T total params, 104B active per token (MoE) - the Kimi K3 base with Cognition’s post-training on top, and the first time Cognition has…
- 23
Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model
usefeyn.com · 29 points · Discussion
Hey HN, I'm Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today we're releasing MultiMatte, a background removal model you can aim with words. Name an object in your…
- 24
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
anthropic.com · 23 points · Discussion
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 Cyber operations Read more Surveillance operations Read more Influence operations Read more Conventional weapons Read more Biological misuse Read…
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Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography
merybenavente.me · 14 points · Discussion
Apple introduced yesterday Apple Reference Image: a way to cryptographically prove a photo was actually taken by a camera, instead of AI generated. During my time at the Recurse Center this summer,…
- 26
What happens when a GPU writes memory
blog.doubleword.ai · 12 points · Discussion
In our previous post we followed one LDG.E down through all the hardware units on an RTX 4090 — through its L1, translation, through the crossbar to its L2 slice, and thence to DRAM. The request…
- 27
OpenAI Agents API
developers.openai.com · 7 points · Discussion
The Agents API gives your application access to the Codex harness through an OpenAI-managed API. OpenAI manages sessions, orchestration, context compaction, and recovery while your application…