Today so far 2026-09-16 · 00:00 UTC

The AI industry is facing mounting infrastructure and safety challenges, with data centers colliding with communities scarred by industrial decline while OpenAI's leadership acknowledges that safety concerns are already slowing their most advanced AI work. Meanwhile, the sector continues to see rapid innovation and consolidation, from Meta's new AI agents handling WhatsApp Business setup to reports of emerging models claiming dramatic efficiency gains, alongside growing evidence of security vulnerabilities in AI infrastructure companies. The week also highlights broader tech tensions around data privacy, with Boston terminating its contract with Flock over unauthorized nationwide data sharing, and mounting concerns over EV charging infrastructure gaps as demand outpaces supply.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

In this 1978 excerpt from John C. Lilly's autobiography, Lilly describes a metaphysical message received in an isolation tank about humanity's purpose and fate.

2026-08-09 · 13:47 UTC
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

2026-08-09 · 13:20

A developer launched a project called Dark Hours without realizing it closely resembled an existing open-source app with…

Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

2026-08-09 · 13:03

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

2026-08-09 · 13:00

More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.

Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center

2026-08-09 · 12:52

Amazon is proceeding with plans to build an AI data center in Gilroy, California, despite the local community voting…

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

2026-08-09 · 12:43

A developer has ported the Project Oberon System from its original RISC-5 architecture to RISC-V (RV32), converting the…

Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt

2026-08-09 · 12:01

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70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic

2026-08-09 · 11:56

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Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space

2026-08-09 · 11:46

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning is a new self-contained AI model that performs reasoning in latent space rather…

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

2026-08-09 · 11:39

A user successfully revived their four-year-old reMarkable 2 tablet that had stopped working by fixing its system clock…

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded

2026-08-09 · 11:30

Why the Memory Chip Shortage Is Reshaping Portfolios Across Semiconductors in 2026

2026-08-09 · 11:01

The global memory chip market is in the middle of one of its tightest supply squeezes in decades, and the ripple effects…

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

2026-08-09 · 10:17

Researcher Gareth Heyes demonstrates multiple critical security vulnerabilities in major webmail clients (Gmail,…

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

2026-08-09 · 10:06

Digital Equipment's Alpha 21264 is a 64-bit processor available in 1998 that offers significantly faster performance…

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

2026-08-09 · 09:29

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

2026-08-09 · 08:00

SAP has suspended most employee travel and hiring to control costs, with exceptions only for AI-related activities,…

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

2026-08-09 · 05:23

A developer has created a fully functional native x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a (codenamed Opus),…

"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)

2026-08-09 · 04:30

In 2011, web designer Jeremy Keith bet $1,000 against Matthew Haughey that a specific URL (www.longbets.org/601) would…

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

2026-08-09 · 04:24

MySpace, once the world's largest social network, is hinting at a relaunch under new ownership by brothers Tim and Chris…

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

2026-08-09 · 03:26

John Gruber retracted his previous article criticizing an Apple App Store rejection of an astronomy app called "Dark…

Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents

2026-08-09 · 03:13

MarketNow is a marketplace offering 9,248 MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for AI agents, with a real-time security…

"Coding is solved" misses the point

2026-08-09 · 01:50

Language models have made writing code faster, but declaring "coding is solved" misses the broader challenges of real…

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

2026-08-09 · 01:28

# Summary Americans overwhelmingly distrust AI due to a fundamental incompatibility between widespread AI adoption and…

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

2026-08-09 · 01:23

TheoremDB is a public workspace platform designed to help research agents avoid duplicating work by providing a shared,…

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

2026-08-08 · 23:37

Os8088 is a graphical operating system written entirely in assembly language that recreates a 1984 Macintosh-style…

Dithered QR Codes

2026-08-08 · 23:05

The article explains how to create dithered QR codes by modifying the data modules (non-functional parts) of standard QR…

My server is a phone now

2026-08-08 · 22:49

The author repurposed a CMF Phone 1 smartphone as a personal server to replace a paid VPS, running web apps like a…

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

2026-08-08 · 22:32

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for its inventory reservation system by using MySQL 8's SKIP LOCKED feature with a…

Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"

2026-08-08 · 21:34

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger claims in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the encyclopedia has become a…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

2026-08-08 · 19:41

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

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