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Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
Did you ever click on an “AI Arena” expecting glorious battle and instead get a boring benchmark? If so, this project is for you: proper life-or-death fights between four models on a picturesque 8..
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
There are no "rogue" AI agents
Article URL: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083 Points: 252 # Comments: 184
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
Article URL: https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404 Points: 19 # Comments: 7
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Ember-1
Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830 Points: 150 # Comments: 76
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869142 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
Article URL: https://loficities.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574 Points: 42 # Comments: 7
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
https://hex.pm/packages/imphttps://dspy.ai/current/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869995 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
Article URL: https://reasonable.io/blog/tla-tutorial/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863600 Points: 55 # Comments: 29
2:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
Article URL: https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864 Points: 416 # Comments: 339
2:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642 Points: 296 # Comments: 213
2:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864743 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25021 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865343 Points: 69 # Comments: 67
2:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview
Article URL: https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862244 Points: 32 # Comments: 26
8:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
Article URL: https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862809 Points: 134 # Comments: 24
8:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Go Concurrency Distilled
Article URL: https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988 Points: 39 # Comments: 9
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
We found an approach to get Jev-like properties from standard LLMs like GLM-5.3-Flash.The core idea is to craft the input prompt so that the first output token answers the question. This makes it poss..
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
The Evolution of Vending Machines
Article URL: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vending-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858424 Points: 14 # Com..
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858676 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112 Points: 161 # Comments: 43
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own
Article URL: https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859299 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station
Article URL: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-relay-station/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860074 Points: 45 # Comm..
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
Sousveillance
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861992 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Article URL: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875 Points: 89 # Comments: 147
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856665 Points: 62 # Comments: 83
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
https://archive.ph/n8Akh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442 Points: 120 # Comments: 216
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games
Hello HN,It started as an experiment: can Claude play chess properly if it uses vision instead of PGN notation? Somehow it can.The next experiment was to see whether Claude + Stockfish could explain a..
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857572 Points: 74 # Comments: 7..
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/25/apple-pay-antitrust-lawsuit-advances/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857651 Points: 78 # Comments: 51
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Article URL: https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857729 Points: 54 # Comments: 17
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
Article URL: https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857899 Points: 311 # Comments: 133
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software ..
8:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
Article URL: https://safenotsafe.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854161 Points: 67 # Comments: 19
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
The far side of the Moon provides clues to a previous magnetic field
Article URL: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/09/the-far-side-of-the-moon-provides-clues-to-a-previous-magnetic-field.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854..
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
Article URL: https://floci.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854416 Points: 67 # Comments: 9
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
Article URL: https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693 Points: 124 # Comments: 13
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding Comments URL: https://new..
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
One Month Without AI
Article URL: https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855018 Points: 107 # Comments: 113
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Article URL: https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855315 Points: 228 # Comments: 85
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/09/24/arthur-mensch-ceo-of-french-start-up-mistral-ai-ai-is-software-it-can-be-controlled_6757890_19.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombin..
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
Article URL: https://www.lasso.security/blog/the-provenance-tax-understanding-the-impact-of-llm-watermarking-on-ai-agent-behavior Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856149 Points: 24..
2:05 pm, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027
Article URL: https://www.homelabfest.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852462 Points: 25 # Comments: 11
8:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852717 Points: 96 # Comments: 91
8:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
Article URL: http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853175 Points: 52 # Comments: 6
8:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/alberta-canada-rat-patrol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853918 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
Article URL: https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849141 Points: 115 # Comments: 76
2:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Related: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/excel-now... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832 Points: 105 # Comments: 75
2:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
Article URL: https://swarmtraces.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985 Points: 222 # Comments: 138
2:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)
Hi everyone, I am KD - Back in my college days, I dabbled with coding, learned the basics, HTML, CSS etc. but somehow I ended up in Finance which consumed the next 20 years. Then, during covid I picke..
2:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
What even is an OS now?
Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305 Points: 84 # Comments: 123
2:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/serotonin-stress-smart-contact-lens Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850781 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, September 26, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
