Hacker News Daily — September 13, 2026

29 stories · September 13, 2026

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In this issue

1

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

yoshuabengio.org · 544 points · Discussion

A lot has been written 1 2 3 4 about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them,…
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JetKVM Mini

jetkvm.com · 475 points · Discussion

JetKVM Mini is a smaller, more affordable JetKVM. It comes in two models: JetKVM Mini with Ethernet for $39 and JetKVM Mini W, wireless, for $42. In packs of three, they become even more affordable…
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

atomic14.com · 336 points · Discussion

read HELP SUPPORT MY WORK: If you're feeling flush then please stop by Patreon Or you can make a one off donation via ko-fi TLDR: AI is really good at detecting deceptive adverts - why isn’t Google…
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I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

dreamstation.systems · 331 points · Discussion

UPDATE: RESOLVED Patrik from Assetnote reached out to me with a very gracious message, it has been resolved. Thank you! While it’s not unusual for everything on the dark dungeons of the IPv4 Internet…
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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

lesswrong.com · 310 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

bensimms.moe · 292 points · Discussion

.. / reverse-engineering-scooter Published on 2026-08-09 By Ben I reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of my Egret GT E-Scooter. I describe how I got in, analysed communication between…
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Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

techcrunch.com · 252 points · Discussion

When it comes to Chinese AI labs using distillation techniques to extract knowledge from frontier model makers, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is hoping regulators stay out of it. In fact, he thinks U.S.…
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Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

theverge.com · 193 points · Discussion

https://web.archive.org/web/20260913134705/https://www.theve... https://archive.ph/TWEVZ
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David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

twitter.com · 175 points · Discussion

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue…
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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

devblogs.microsoft.com · 152 points · Discussion

If you look at x86 compiler output (or if, like me, you’re looking at a crash caused by some software that tried to detour an API), you may see an instruction ud2. What’s up with that? The ud2…
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Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco

guessingheadlights.com · 120 points · Discussion

Changing your own oil has traditionally been one of the easiest ways to save money on car maintenance. For Costco members, Kirkland Signature synthetic oil has made the DIY approach particularly…
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CUDA for AMD on Windows

github.com · 111 points · Discussion

WORKING REPRODUCIBLE STACK IS NOW UPLOADED. Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs through ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. A reproducible Windows CUDA compatibility setup built around ZLUDA + AMD…
13

Making Startups Powerful

paulgraham.com · 100 points · Discussion

September 2026 One of the most useful heuristics I have when doing office hours with startups is to ask: what would make this company more powerful? Asking how the company could make more money is a…
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

ras.ac.uk · 100 points · Discussion

It is thought the Sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its history. Now a new study has gone a step further by suggesting that such an event may have left behind detectable clues…
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Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

twitter.com · 98 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents

nytimes.com · 74 points · Discussion

The card can be used to permanently cancel the match if they “observe inappropriate behaviour from spectators or parents". George Wood/Getty Images The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has…
17

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

alanbellows.com · 59 points · Discussion

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TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

github.com · 58 points · Discussion

TailTalk is designed as a "toolkit" for building fully userspace AppleTalk implementations on Linux, Mac OS and Windows systems via EtherTalk or LocalTalk networks. It is built from scratch with zero…
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Base84 deserves a place in file names

00f.net · 50 points · Discussion

The TurboCrypt git and file encryption tool was originally designed for Unix systems. And it used to encrypt file names and encode the resulting ciphertext using Base91. Why Base91? Because it’s a…
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Julia 1.13 Highlights

julialang.org · 49 points · Discussion

Julia version 1.13 has been released. We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release…
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Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video]

youtube.com · 48 points · Discussion

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Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

belderbos.dev · 43 points · Discussion

Every time you validate data with Pydantic v2, the data-validation library most Python apps reach for, a Rust extension does the work. Its core, pydantic-core, is built with PyO3, the same toolchain…
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Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices

cpak.it · 36 points · Discussion

Deploy as freely as you develop cpak is the OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices. The Store Familiar apps, ready for cpak Every package has a clear manifest, a real…
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There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier

singjupost.com · 28 points · Discussion

Editor’s Note: In this special edition episode of StarTalk, host Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Gary O’Reilly, and comedian Negin Farsad sit down with computer scientist and “father of virtual reality”…
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Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

aprilnea.me · 26 points · Discussion

What's inside Claude Code Web: an unstripped Go binary, Anthropic's secret deployment platform, and the architecture of an AI-native PaaS The Starting Point We are building ArcBox, a full-stack…
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AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026)

technologyreview.com · 20 points · Discussion

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and…
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Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562

web.eecs.utk.edu · 16 points · Discussion

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Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)

pages.cs.wisc.edu · 8 points · Discussion

ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network…
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Bad Code Is Kudzu

vickiboykis.com · 4 points · Discussion

Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows…