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Post #232743 2.26K Sep 23, 2026, 16:41 UTC

Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
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CR Advocacy Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed…

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Post #232742 2.37K Sep 23, 2026, 16:17 UTC

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
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Google Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.

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Post #232741 2.26K Sep 23, 2026, 16:17 UTC

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
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404 Media Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’

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Post #232740 2.22K Sep 23, 2026, 16:03 UTC

Jev Can't Be Calibrated
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Alexmolas Jev can't be calibrated Jev is a useful zero-shot classifier, but its probabilities can't be calibrated for your data. Calibration depends on your data distribution, which Jev never sees, so treat its outputs as scores and recalibrate them on your own labeled examples.

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Post #232739 2.28K Sep 23, 2026, 15:53 UTC

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
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radicle.dev Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol Sovereign code infrastructure.

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Post #232738 2.26K Sep 23, 2026, 15:45 UTC

Why is Hacker News like that?
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Post #232737 2.37K Sep 23, 2026, 15:39 UTC

GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
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DrivingBench A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.

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Post #232736 2.21K Sep 23, 2026, 15:31 UTC

Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees
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CBC Montreal city council adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees | CBC News Montreal city council has adopted a bylaw to ban people from insulting police officers and other municipal employees.

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Post #232735 2.19K Sep 23, 2026, 15:30 UTC

The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly
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Marginal REVOLUTION The Price of Intelligence is Falling Rapidly An amazing Epoch AI report from Emberson and Roodman: Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter. That is a 13-fold drop every year – a faster rate than any other transformative technology…

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Post #232734 2.15K Sep 23, 2026, 15:19 UTC

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
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Post #232733 2.24K Sep 23, 2026, 15:11 UTC

Strands Harness
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Strands Agents Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.

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Post #232732 2.3K Sep 23, 2026, 14:55 UTC

Two Git ignore files nobody told me about
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mihai.dinculescu.dev Two git ignore files nobody told me about Git reads ignore patterns from .gitignore, .git/info/exclude and a global excludes file. The second one never gets committed, so your scratch files and agent plans can stop dirtying the working tree without anyone else seeing them.

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Post #232731 2.36K Sep 23, 2026, 14:36 UTC

Stripe built its internal AI platform
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stripe.dev Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise…

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Post #232730 2.29K Sep 23, 2026, 14:26 UTC

Jev in practice: typed decisions, scoped authority
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tenuo.ai Jev in practice: typed decisions, scoped authority | Tenuo How Jev's typed probabilistic decisions, LangGraph workflows, and Tenuo task-scoped warrants combine in a dependency upgrade agent.

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Post #232729 2.26K Sep 23, 2026, 14:16 UTC

Tokens Too Cheap to Meter
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jyn.dev tokens too cheap to meter tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade

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Post #232728 2.48K Sep 23, 2026, 13:27 UTC

Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
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Android Authority Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update Some Samsung smart fridge owners in Korea have reported that their fridges stopped working after a SmartThings update.

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Post #232727 2.28K Sep 23, 2026, 13:25 UTC

I Don't Want the Details
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michaelheap.com I don't want the details Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.

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Post #232726 2.31K Sep 23, 2026, 13:23 UTC

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern
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michaelheap.com The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern Using the wiki on GitHub makes life more difficult for your users, and you as a maintainer. Use the `/docs` folder and GitHub Pages instead and keep your docs in sync with code

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Post #232725 2.73K Sep 23, 2026, 13:20 UTC

OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
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Business Insider OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' OpenAI is hiring influencers to create content that portrays AI as cool and helpful, not scary. Here's an inside look at its marketing strategy.

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Post #232724 2.17K Sep 23, 2026, 13:17 UTC

Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery
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Ivesentit Ive Sent It — send any files, to anyone, anywhere, in the world Premium, custom file sending. Send any files, to anyone, anywhere, in the world — and watch every delivery land live, with controls that stay yours after you hit send.

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