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Today so far 2026-09-12 · 00:00 UTC

The AI robotics space is heating up with Mecka AI nearing a $500M valuation in a Sequoia-led funding round as competition intensifies for robot training data, while tensions continue to mount over AI development practices, including OpenAI's escalating feud with mathematicians and a cautionary tale of a lawyer being punished for relying on ChatGPT's fabricated legal testimony. On the venture capital front, Khosla Ventures is expanding beyond Silicon Valley with a new New York office, signaling growing investor interest in tech markets outside the traditional tech hub.

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

A study comparing grep lexical search with LSP-backed semantic navigation tools found that coding agents overwhelmingly preferred grep despite its lower precision, choosing it 94-100% of the time on…

2026-09-04 · 03:40 UTC
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Could robots be the future of theme parks?

2026-09-04 · 02:02

Galaxy Robot Park is a 16,500-square-meter venue in South Korea, with attractions including humanoid robots dancing to…

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

2026-09-04 · 01:45

Project Xanadu, Ted Nelson's visionary hypertext system from the 1970s, failed to achieve practical success despite its…

1Password Replied to My Disappointment

2026-09-04 · 01:00

1Password responded to customer complaints about its sponsorship of the Omacom Foundation by clarifying that the…

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

2026-09-04 · 00:48

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.

Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

2026-09-03 · 23:00

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Oura files to go public

2026-09-03 · 22:35

The ring maker says that its business has shown significant revenue growth over the past year.

Models Don't Go Rogue

2026-09-03 · 22:26

OpenAI's testing of AI models on cybersecurity challenges resulted in them hacking Hugging Face, but the incident wasn't…

Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets

2026-09-03 · 22:18

The company published a form on its website Thursday soliciting info from people who are interested in "Cybercab fleet…

Utah Becomes First State to Target VPNs in Age-Verification Crackdown

2026-09-03 · 22:16

Privacy advocates say the law raises First Amendment questions the courts have yet to address.

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

2026-09-03 · 21:20

Researchers at Armature conducted an experiment analyzing 16,893 coding sessions across three AI coding agents (Claude…

Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming

2026-09-03 · 21:10

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

2026-09-03 · 21:01

Tasklet, a Y Combinator-backed AI platform company, is hiring a Customer Success Engineer in San Francisco to manage…

Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows

2026-09-03 · 20:59

The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.

Bernie Sanders Pushes Bill to Ban Advanced AI Development

2026-09-03 · 20:16

The forthcoming bill would pause advanced AI development, create a federal regulator, and threaten violators with up to…

US senator calls on the NSA to give guidance for use of VPNs

2026-09-03 · 19:52

Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

2026-09-03 · 19:45

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra achieved state-of-the-art performance on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, scoring 62.7% on the semi-private…

The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment 

2026-09-03 · 19:42

The company is about to formally launch the gold two-seater, with no steering wheel or pedals -- a move that could…

Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?

2026-09-03 · 19:38

Multiple Firefox users report getting stuck in infinite Google reCAPTCHA loops on archive.is, with some suspecting it…

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

2026-09-03 · 19:36

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at at over $100 million.

Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit

2026-09-03 · 19:29

The grid has been straining under the weight of new AI data centers, and that has utilities courting fusion startups.

OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: The Closest AI Model Yet to AGI

2026-09-03 · 19:24

The model can independently discover and exploit unknown security flaws across hardened systems, triggering a staged…

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

2026-09-03 · 19:17

Several prominent frontend web development educators have recently stepped back from the field or shifted focus to AI…

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

2026-09-03 · 18:58

Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."

Revolut Targets 2027 U.S. Bank Launch After OCC Approval

2026-09-03 · 18:55

Revolut has cleared a major regulatory hurdle in its push to establish a national bank in the United States.

Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks

2026-09-03 · 18:52

A developer benchmarked three approaches to case-insensitive sorting in Rust: using `sort_by_cached_key` with…

GPT-6 Astra

2026-09-03 · 18:41

System Card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra Comments URL:…

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

2026-09-03 · 18:37

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same…

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

2026-09-03 · 18:32

Cerebras has made the Qwen 3.8 27B model available on its public endpoints, capable of delivering approximately 1,500…

Data centres are booming in Australia - but at what cost?

2026-09-03 · 18:32

Advocates say data centres will bring jobs but others worry they will suck up resources while providing little advantage.

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