Hacker News Daily — September 29, 2026
30 stories · September 29, 2026
In this issue
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You are no longer invited to dinner
derekthompson.org · 655 points · Discussion
Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of the most famous titles of the 1950s and 1960s— Couples, by John Updike; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward…
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
openai.com · 625 points · Discussion
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DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
eff.org · 452 points · Discussion
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online…
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A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
jorgegarciaherrero.com · 395 points · Discussion
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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
spectrum.ieee.org · 384 points · Discussion
Delhi brilliantly illuminates Humayun's Tomb on 14 August 2026, on the eve of India’s Independence Day. It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in…
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Dots: Always-on agents
openai.com · 380 points · Discussion
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
jagi.studio · 241 points · Discussion
I’ve been fascinated by understanding patterns that appear in nature, through code. Communing with the inherent emergent patterns that exist in the universe. The phyllotaxis is one such pattern, the…
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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
github.com · 210 points · Discussion
A reasoning Jev-style classifier with a diffusion drafter, trained with SFT and CISPO. Acknowledgements Inspired by Kev. Highlights A 9B Jev-like model (Qwen3.5-9B, LoRA, pointer head) that thinks…
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Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released
tcl-lang.org · 181 points · Discussion
Latest Release: Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 (Sep 29, 2026) Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 is the current development work on Tcl and Tk, aiming toward stable releases in September 2026. They add new features and interfaces to the…
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PS5 Relapse Exploit
github.com · 159 points · Discussion
Supported firmware: 7.00 through 13.60. Usage In the network settings, set Primary DNS to 45.56.67.85 (Recommended) Run python serve.py locally, or open https://ntfargo.github.io/Relapse-Exploit/ on…
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Using any C++ library in Godot
blog.conan.io · 148 points · Discussion
Godot has become one of the most popular game engines of the last few years. It is free, open source under the MIT license, and small enough to download and start using in minutes. Most Godot games…
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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
thenationalnews.com · 140 points · Discussion
The artificial intelligence industry needs to become creative with new propositions to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 and justify the capital being deployed for data centres, a new report…
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
sujithjay.com · 122 points · Discussion
22 Sep 2026 • platforms product management Platform teams are engineering-led rather than product-led. There is almost never a product manager handing you a roadmap, no revenue line to follow, and no…
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Without the Hot Air
withouthotair.com · 121 points · Discussion
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air Buy now on paper download pdf file for free read translations or browse the book using the table of contents ↓   "For anyone with influence on energy…
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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu · 89 points · Discussion
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
anthropic.com · 86 points · Discussion
Andrew Fasano, Marius Fleischer Cole McFaul, Robert Xiao, Tripp Gallagher Five months ago, we announced Claude Mythos Preview, the first AI model that could autonomously build sophisticated,…
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DevDay 2026 Recap
openai.com · 75 points · Discussion
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Walking Men
bookofjoe2.blogspot.com · 65 points · Discussion
There is no German Ampelmännchen; they are probably too cute to fit in with the other tall and energetic walking men. Reply Delete Vienna, Austria:…
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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
somethingbig.ai · 64 points · Discussion
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Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
nytimes.com · 54 points · Discussion
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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
postalemployeenetwork.com · 51 points · Discussion
Miami, FL – 9/24/26 – The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and partner federal agencies have seized an internet domain, charging a Pakistani national with operating an unauthorized website that…
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Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com · 50 points · Discussion
It’s finally time for me to wrap up this ZX Spectrum series, with a look at how to get the simple 1-bit beeper on every Spectrum model to emit high-quality digital audio. The results are quite good:…
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Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
gamersnexus.net · 48 points · Discussion
The cyclical nature of memory manufacturing may finally be broken -- and not in a good way for consumers The Highlights The memory manufacturers have all moved toward long-term agreements with longer…
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Ask HN: What are you reading?
44 points · Discussion
I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm…
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What if Jev spoke Arrow?
columnar.tech · 24 points · Discussion
Back to the blog Jev is TypeSafe AI’s new model for turning natural language and application state into typed decisions. You supply the context and define the possible answers. Jev returns choices,…
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Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)
cathsenker.co.uk · 15 points · Discussion
Never got round to reading Stranded in the Suez Canal? Don’t worry – here’s the short version. Bombers overhead Aboard the Agapenor, Suez Canal, 5 June 1967 09.00: Peter Flack, serving as third mate…
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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
space.bl2.net · 12 points · Discussion
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Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
github.com · 8 points · Discussion
Inspired by minGPT for home experiments. Requires CUDA 13.4; build script is Windows only.
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C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game
gamesexplained.com · 5 points · Discussion
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