Hacker News Daily — September 28, 2026

30 stories · September 28, 2026

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Sonnet 5.5

anthropic.com · 401 points · Discussion

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It’s a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work. Sonnet 5.5 is a faster,…
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Windows 11½

definitelynotwindows.com · 345 points · Discussion

11½ Definitely Not Windows The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. Yes, this is a parody. Definitely Not Windows / Windows 11½ is an independent, unofficial parody project created for…
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Pirating the Pirates

mubi.com · 316 points · Discussion

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MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

reuters.com · 274 points · Discussion

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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

git.mills.io · 270 points · Discussion

Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC. Parley is a chat network with no centre. Every person (or team) runs a small instance for their own domain. Instances find each other through DNS…
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Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

thisamericanlife.org · 185 points · Discussion

Prologue: Prologue Ira Glass Dave Blanchard runs the public radio show Wild Card. And one of the less exciting and, in fact, rather tedious parts of his job is that he has to keep an eye on the…
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So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes

lecaro.me · 149 points · Discussion

The play store does not run on my old devices, this led me accidentally experience some joy while using Android. I've recently aquired 10 identical android 6.0.1 phones. The plan is to equip them with…
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

yashgarg.dev · 145 points · Discussion

The long way around to screen sharing. Contents 1. The Problem 2. Remote Play 3. How PS5 Streaming Works 4. Finding the Right Hostname 5. DNS Trick 6. Receiving the Stream 7. Watching It Sony has…
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I switched to Brave

kevquirk.com · 74 points · Discussion

28 September 2026  |  3 min read I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and my…
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Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

blog.cloudflare.com · 71 points · Discussion

Over the last year, agent use of Wrangler has skyrocketed. In March 2026, agents were responsible for a quarter of Wrangler use, up from single-digit percentages the year prior. Last week, agent usage…
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MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

stateofutopia.com · 68 points · Discussion

Objective checks (regex / exact tokens), not writing quality. A 135M model is allowed to fail — that is the measurement. Pick models, then run. Estimate uses your last tok/s if we have one. Speed…
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GrapheneOS – When an app is slow

blog.wirelessmoves.com · 60 points · Discussion

Skip to content I’ve been using GrapheneOS for about a year now and overall, I am very happy with the security and privacy features. There is one app, however, that runs noticeably slower on my Pixel…
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Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman

destroy.spritefusion.com · 59 points · Discussion

Sprite Fusion Presents Type an address, break everything. Sprite Fusion Presents Destroy Any Website The game is not available on mobile, try it on a laptop! Put it on your website to let your users…
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Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

cnbc.com · 55 points · Discussion

Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. "You can't have agents roam around and drift around…
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Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents

newyorker.com · 55 points · Discussion

The photographer Joseph Szabo’s pictures in the new book “ American Teen ” look timeless in certain ways—the crisp black-and-white of the images, the stately framing, the instantly recognizable,…
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What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators

benovermyer.com · 53 points · Discussion

I spend a lot of time thinking about heraldry, but perhaps not in quite the same way that a heraldic historian does. For Iron Arachne, I have to think about heraldry as a system that can be…
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Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

slashdot.org · 32 points · Discussion

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SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data

getprivisy.com · 31 points · Discussion

If your business buys, licenses, or appends consumer data from anyone else, a California deletion request is about to cover it. And if your site only offers an email address for privacy requests, you…
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First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials

blog.plcred.org · 25 points · Discussion

One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) directory. We are happy to…
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Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP

vespper.com · 23 points · Discussion

Hey HN! We're Dudu and Topaz from Vespper ( https://vespper.com ). Vespper is an MCP that lets AI agents efficiently edit Word documents, powered by our fine-tuned model. It's currently 3× faster, 2×…
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World Labs Is Joining AMD

worldlabs.ai · 22 points · Discussion

World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to join AMD. The research and technical breakthroughs we have achieved since our founding in 2024 have given us a clear vision for AI’s potential to solve…
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Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?

smithsonianmag.com · 21 points · Discussion

An analysis of more than 500 missives found that Elizabeth’s advisers crafted and even intensified the expression of emotion in her messages to such figures as Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI of…
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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

calnewport.com · 21 points · Discussion

Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements and reports from OpenAI that try to…
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California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops

kqed.org · 19 points · Discussion

It’s harvest time in California wine country, but many growers are struggling to sell their grapes as changing drinking habits have caused demand to plunge. The decline is forcing some growers to tear…
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I made a visual workspace for AI Automations

biom.dev · 18 points · Discussion

Pricing Discord GitHub Get started AI Automations Workspace for Startups Works with Gemini CLI Get started Built for AI-native teams Build automations in one prompt Your single source of truth Let us…
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Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

github.com · 13 points · Discussion

Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification: small, fast decision models you slot into your code, with the same request format as Jev. You describe a situation and list the options…
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12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

archaeologymag.com · 12 points · Discussion

Archaeologists have found the first two intact burials at Göbeklitepe in Turkey, offering new clues about how people buried their dead at the site. Individual from the burial in trench L09-65. Credit:…
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Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

arstechnica.com · 8 points · Discussion

Furthermore, the authors also found contemporary newspaper accounts of Holmes delivering a lecture on chemical effects of the solar spectrum in Scotland. So Holmes was clearly interested in solar…
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Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

arctictoday.com · 4 points · Discussion

Palantir Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp speaks at the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., September 2, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir…
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Best of British Design

best-of-british-design.vercel.app · 3 points · Discussion

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