Hacker News Daily — September 25, 2026
27 stories · September 25, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Platform-independent SIMD in Go
go.dev · 318 points · Discussion
Go 1.26 and 1.27 include experimental APIs for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. SIMD is a native feature of many modern CPUs that allows software to perform uniform operations…
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U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
cnbc.com · 300 points · Discussion
A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the…
- 3
What About Rails?
jardo.dev · 277 points · Discussion
David Heinemeier Hansson is, for better or worse, still in charge of Ruby on Rails. I’d love to stop paying attention to him, but I build applications with Rails, so his actions affect me and my…
- 4
Factorio that you can touch
factorio.com · 265 points · Discussion
Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you. Journey to the physical world Pard It all started in the hot summer of 2024 when we worked really hard to finish the Space Age DLC. The game was…
- 5
Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
github.com · 262 points · Discussion
git-bug is a bug tracker that: is fully integrated in git: you only need your git repository to have a bug tracker is distributed: use your normal git remote to collaborate, push and pull your bugs!…
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Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
nyaa.sh · 250 points · Discussion
Why 86Box Cares About One Core 86Box emulates an old PC at the hardware level. CPU timing, chipset behaviour, ISA and PCI buses, graphics chipsets, sound devices, and disk controllers all matter to…
- 7
Ink and Switch interactive homepage
inkandswitch.com · 207 points · Discussion
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought. We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more…
- 8
Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
ollaya.dev · 186 points · Discussion
Ask typed questions about any text or JSON and get calibrated answers in milliseconds. Private, open source, on your own hardware. Download Browse models Real output: routed to laya:en, answered in…
- 9
First Principles Thinking
sunilsadasivan.com · 174 points · Discussion
(ai slop graphic... I know. Purposeful because I don’t control human psychology) I’ve re-read Sunil Pai’s “the senior engineer death spiral” several times this week. It’s very good. If you haven’t…
- 10
Amiga Screens: A Primer
datagubbe.se · 110 points · Discussion
Amiga Screens: A Primer Autumn 2026 One of the unwritten rules of the Internet seems to be that whenever something Amiga-related is mentioned, at least one Amiga fan (myself included) must show up and…
- 11
CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
safateam.com · 106 points · Discussion
Introduction This blogpost is the second and final part of our Avast research and will focus on the exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, a double-fetch vulnerability we discovered in Avast’s kernel driver.…
- 12
Boards of Casio
ambionix.com · 100 points · Discussion
24th September 2026 While working away on the CZP-1, which was at least initially an effort to create a Casio CZ-101 on a web page I happened to see this YouTube video by oliveoil22: The immediate…
- 13
Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]
youtube.com · 89 points · Discussion
The following explanation is taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622607: Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online…
- 14
Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
mouse.dev · 67 points · Discussion
In this post One odd session Following the name The model catalogue The Anthropic plumbing Why ship all of this? Is Meta distilling? Closing thoughts I found a model labeled azure/muse-special while…
- 15
Typst makes big strides
lwn.net · 65 points · Discussion
Please consider subscribing to LWN Subscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate this content and would like to see more of it, your subscription will help to ensure that LWN continues…
- 16
Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
jev-pokemon.vercel.app · 58 points · Discussion
Hey HN! Wanted to share a fun project I've been hacking on. Given Jev can make decisions really fast (but not fast enough to play Doom yet sadly), I wanted to try and push it to play a more complex…
- 17
How video games inspire great UX (2019)
jenson.org · 57 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 18
Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy
gmays.com · 43 points · Discussion
https://mathy.game/ https://mathy.game/app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mathy-build-math-automaticity/...
- 19
Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview
doom-or-bloom.com · 37 points · Discussion
Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others. only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default && powered by Jev I think this is a really…
- 20
Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding
worldofreel.com · 36 points · Discussion
Letterboxd, the app where film Twitter went to live, could soon have a new owner. According to a new report, The New York Times, A24, and Sony Pictures are among the suitors who've expressed interest…
- 21
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)
cs.cmu.edu · 36 points · Discussion
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student or What is Research? or The 4 R's of Graduate School: Reading, Rithmetic, Research, and Writing Outline of the talk: READING, STUDYING, THINKING, STARTING OFF on…
- 22
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'
theregister.com · 31 points · Discussion
science The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent Astronomer and author, Dr. Tony Phillips, says he has found a way to turn SpaceX’s Starlink satellite…
- 23
Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor
github.com · 30 points · Discussion
Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No Yes VS Code Version: 1.139.0 (Universal) OS Version: 26.5.1 (25F80) Steps to Reproduce: Open VSCode Your editor is now infected with…
- 24
Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California
reuters.com · 16 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 25
What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
cultivatelabs.com · 15 points · Discussion
A couple weekends ago, the Illinois football team lost to Duke at home, 31–27. My Hinsley model immediately became much less optimistic about Illinois making the College Football Playoff. But it…
- 26
Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin
robertmay.photography · 13 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 27
A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and Churches (2017) [pdf]
bgas.org.uk · 8 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.