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Post #232923 2.15K Sep 26, 2026, 21:02 UTC

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station
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Lightspeed Magazine Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 - Lightspeed Magazine You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles. One of the insects skitters up your leg, so you reach down and brush it off. It bites…

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Post #232922 2.09K Sep 26, 2026, 20:13 UTC

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
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arXiv.org DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for... Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, invoke tools, execute...

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Post #232921 2.1K Sep 26, 2026, 20:10 UTC

US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
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Post #232920 2.14K Sep 26, 2026, 19:17 UTC

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
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GitHub GitHub - reladraw/reladraw Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #232919 2.09K Sep 26, 2026, 19:12 UTC

New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
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Scitechdaily New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth’s Atmosphere as Fuel To Stay in Orbit Indefinitely A satellite engine that uses atmospheric gases as fuel shows promise in laboratory tests and modeling, but its performance on a mission remains unproven.

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Post #232918 2.11K Sep 26, 2026, 18:27 UTC

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
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MacRumors Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees An antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition is moving forward and will see banks and credit unions able to band together to sue Apple. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White this week certified a class in the lawsuit. It will include…

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Post #232917 2.13K Sep 26, 2026, 18:04 UTC

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
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Bbc OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

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Post #232916 2.15K Sep 26, 2026, 17:32 UTC

Make Claude your assistant in excalidraw
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Tangled yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent A repository on Tangled

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Post #232915 2.12K Sep 26, 2026, 17:09 UTC

I'm the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband
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Substack I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband. You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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Post #232914 2.09K Sep 26, 2026, 16:32 UTC

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
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TechCrunch Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave | TechCrunch After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

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Post #232913 2.12K Sep 26, 2026, 15:56 UTC

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games
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GitHub GitHub - brumar/chess-postmortem-skills: Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer… Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video - brumar/chess-postmortem-skills

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Post #232912 2.22K Sep 26, 2026, 15:38 UTC

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
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The Economist Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe Machines are getting brighter. Teens are getting dimmer. Schools must act now

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Post #232911 2.21K Sep 26, 2026, 15:07 UTC

The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
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Windows Central The Copilot+ PC brand is dead: Microsoft and PC makers quietly pull back on tarnished Windows 11 AI PC branding In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.

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Post #232910 2.06K Sep 26, 2026, 15:05 UTC

Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest
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ScienceDaily Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could help explain ancient plate fragments…

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Post #232909 2.08K Sep 26, 2026, 15:02 UTC

A Roman Name for Software
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Post #232908 2.23K Sep 26, 2026, 13:32 UTC

CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
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Post #232907 2.28K Sep 26, 2026, 13:23 UTC

Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
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www.lasso.security The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Lasso Research tested SynthID-Text watermarking across six models and found it changes tool-call correctness and weakens refusal under prompt injection. On some models, watermark-induced behavioral churn exceeds what a temperature change produces.

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Post #232906 2.21K Sep 26, 2026, 13:04 UTC

HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027
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HomelabFest September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. A celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes.

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Post #232905 2.36K Sep 26, 2026, 11:23 UTC

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
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Daniel Gultsch Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding…

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Post #232904 2.34K Sep 26, 2026, 11:05 UTC

One Month Without AI
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Bustikiller's Blog One month without AI Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and…

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