I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea Article URL: [https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708431][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]:

why I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea and what I think everyone should know about it

When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:

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why I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea and what I think everyone should know about it

When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:

XCancel service is suspended until further notice Article URL: [https://xcancel.com/#][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694296][2] Points: 583 # Comments: 859 [1]: https://xcancel.com/# [2]:

XCancel service is suspended until further notice | Hacker News

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Lingo.dev (YC F24) is hiring a senior content engineer (Remote, worldwide) Article URL: [https://lingo.dev/en/careers/ff88132a-cb79-4d35-a6a0-a6230de7a013][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708774][2] Points: 0 # Comments: 0 [1]:

Lingo.dev

Senior Content Engineer - Lingo.dev

Senior Content Engineer at Lingo.dev. Full-time, remote.

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Lingo.dev

Senior Content Engineer - Lingo.dev

Senior Content Engineer at Lingo.dev. Full-time, remote.

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability Article URL: [https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695876][2] Points: 422 # Comments: 341 [1]:

Tenderlove Making

What a time to be alive

Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an ama...

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Tenderlove Making

What a time to be alive

Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an ama...

Linux from Scratch Article URL: [https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707627][2] Points: 8 # Comments: 1 [1]:

Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

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Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination Article URL: [https://dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-mental-imagery-brain-network/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696453][2] Points: 123 # Comments: 191 [1]:

Daily Neuron

People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination - Daily Neuron

Some people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works.

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Daily Neuron

People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination - Daily Neuron

Some people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works.

Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here Article URL: [https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-executives-say-the-great-fuel-crisis-is-here-b6b32030][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707477][2] Points: 21 # Comments: 12 [1]: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-executives-say-the-great-fuel-crisis-is-here-b6b32030 [2]:

Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here | Hacker News

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-executives-say-the-great-fuel-crisis-is-here-b6b32030

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils Article URL: [https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696697][2] Points: 99 # Comments: 92 [1]:

OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro's move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migra...

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OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro's move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migra...

Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself? I kept hearing "just buy a Mac and run models locally, it pays for itself" and wanted to check. Sunk Cost takes a machine, a model and how many tokens you use a day, and works out how long the hardware takes to pay back against renting the same model by the token. Obviously there are other reasons to buy your own hardware aside from just saving money on llms but this is just looking at it from a raw cost saving perspective. If you have any ideas on how I can make this more helpful lmk! Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706656][1] Points: 15 # Comments: 6 [1]:

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Sunk Cost

How long until local AI pays for itself? — Sunk Cost

Which open models fit your machine, how fast they run, and how many tokens it takes to pay back the hardware against an API. Honest enough to say n...

Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent Article URL: [https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ex-ftc-boss-khan-urges-uncle-sam-to-break-out-the-handcuffs-for-ai-ceos-citing-1934-precedent/5296325][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706223][2] Points: 20 # Comments: 2 [1]:

theregister

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

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theregister

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information Article URL: [https://explorator.dev/addiction/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705868][2] Points: 6 # Comments: 1 [1]:

explorator.dev

Addiction

At first, I thought I was addicted to internet forums. Then Facebook appeared and soon after I discovered Reddit, Hacker News, 9GAG, Instagram and ...

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explorator.dev

Addiction

At first, I thought I was addicted to internet forums. Then Facebook appeared and soon after I discovered Reddit, Hacker News, 9GAG, Instagram and ...

Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen) Article URL: [https://nathannaveen.dev/posts/dropping-ebpf-cpu-cost-by-90/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697477][2] Points: 11 # Comments: 2 [1]:

nathan naveen

Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% With Memoization (Not AI Gen)

My brother and I spent a lot of time designing our eBPF security agent to be really fast from the ground up, but recently we discovered we could ma...

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nathan naveen

Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% With Memoization (Not AI Gen)

My brother and I spent a lot of time designing our eBPF security agent to be really fast from the ground up, but recently we discovered we could ma...

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Article URL: [https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004][2] Points: 295 # Comments: 314 [1]:

Apple Newsroom

Major updates for Apple’s software platforms are now available

Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.

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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 | Hacker News

Apple Newsroom

Major updates for Apple’s software platforms are now available

Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.

US coal 'biggest contributor by far' to rise in global emissions Article URL: [https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/us-coal-biggest-contributor-by-far-to-rise-in-global-emissions/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704001][2] Points: 10 # Comments: 1 [1]:

US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions

A DRAMATIC increase in US coal consumption was “by far the biggest contributor” to the overall increase in global CO2 emissions last year, a re...

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US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions

A DRAMATIC increase in US coal consumption was “by far the biggest contributor” to the overall increase in global CO2 emissions last year, a re...

Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS Article URL: [https://github.com/JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705442][2] Points: 3 # Comments: 0 [1]:

GitHub

GitHub - JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd: Do things with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard in MacOS

Do things with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard in MacOS - JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd

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GitHub

GitHub - JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd: Do things with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard in MacOS

Do things with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard in MacOS - JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd

Charts built for Chat Article URL: [https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704246][2] Points: 21 # Comments: 5 [1]:

dbt Charts

Charts built for Chat · dbt Charts

We

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dbt Charts

Charts built for Chat · dbt Charts

We

LLMs are real, AI is fake Article URL: [

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705130][2] Points: 8 # Comments: 0 [1]:

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives In November and December 2025, inspired by Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark, I had some then-current LLMs create SVGs from thirty similar prompts, such as “Generate an SVG of an octopus operating a pipe organ.” Simon mentioned that experiment on his blog [1]. Nine months have passed and much stronger models have been released, so I tried the experiment again today. The linked site shows the results. Running ten of the prompts through six models at OpenRouter cost about twenty dollars, so I stopped there for now. [1] [https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/25/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696402][2] Points: 103 # Comments: 40 [1]:

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Archive for Tuesday, 25th November 2025

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Pelican-bicycle alternatives

Thirty SVG drawing prompts in the style of Simon Willison

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama Article URL: [https://patrickmccanna.net/notes-on-migrating-large-prompts-away-from-anthropic-openai-to-self-hosted-llms/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697014][2] Points: 105 # Comments: 51 [1]:

Notes on migrating 35kb prompts away from Anthropic/OpenAI to Self-Hosted Ollama+opencode – blog

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Notes on migrating 35kb prompts away from Anthropic/OpenAI to Self-Hosted Ollama+opencode – blog

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon Article URL: [https://spectrum.ieee.org/adversarial-fashion][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697094][2] Points: 86 # Comments: 42 [1]:

IEEE Spectrum

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Surveillance

Adversarial attire can’t stop AI cameras, but can disrupt them

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IEEE Spectrum

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Surveillance

Adversarial attire can’t stop AI cameras, but can disrupt them