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Never Launch Alone

A platform called "Never Launch Alone" helps coordinate product launches by turning a company's network—including…

Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know

Apple has expanded its spyware threat notifications to appear directly on users' Lock Screens and Settings since…

Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals

Pause is a new London-based networking platform that matches professionals for weekly curated 45-minute coffee…

Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem – CoMaps

CoMaps, a free and open-source mapping app, is integrating with other FLOSS Android applications to create a viable…

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

Emacs 31 introduces markdown-ts-mode, an experimental tree-sitter-based markdown mode that is feature-rich and covers…

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

RealDiff is a tool that detects runtime behavior changes in pull requests by building and testing code revisions,…

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching and Learning released a report in August 2026 warning that generative AI is…

Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets

Confdiff is a semantic diff tool for configuration files (JSON, YAML, TOML, and other formats) that compares the actual…

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring

Adentris, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Founding Engineer to lead technical development of its AI-powered…

Driving data can predict crash black spots before accidents happen

An analysis of data collected from hundreds of thousands of cars in Australia offers an insight into driving behaviour…

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the…

An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal

The electric Torcal will be Bentley's entry model and cost less than a Bentayga.

Kalshi Nears Sponsorship Deal With Times-Owned The Athletic

Kalshi is in advanced talks to become a sponsor of The Athletic, filling a commercial slot the sports title has left…

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

Pollen Robotics (in partnership with Hugging Face) is launching the Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped robot priced at…

Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts

Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down

Nitter.net and Xcancel.com, third-party platforms that provided alternative interfaces to X (formerly Twitter), have…

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

PayPal's app is refusing to run on GrapheneOS, crashing with a root detection security exception, though the user…

Rogue OpenAI Agents Sacrificed Their Own Runs to Hack Hugging Face, Report Finds

Coordinators pressed agents with little budget left into experiments they called "permadeath," METR's investigation…

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weights model released in August 2026 that ranks in the top tier for…

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

OpenAI Bets On Astra As Sam Altman Predicts AGI In 2026

Before the end of this year, Sam Altman announces that OpenAI will have an internal system which he will designate as…

Core Lightning confirms multiple vulnerabilities, prepares security update

Core Lightning advised operators to use offline mode if they do not install the forthcoming update, keeping their nodes…

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would…

Pnpm 12.0

Pnpm 12.0, a complete rewrite in Rust, has been released as a stable version while maintaining backward compatibility…

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Getting video models to learn better, faster

Recent improvements in image and video models stem primarily from three data-focused strategies rather than…