Hacker News Robot

US interest rates raised for first time in three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4gmlyvj422o

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast

Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805

Why Does the Universe Expand?

https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/

The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning

https://www.madshrimps.be/news/the-painful-truth-the-ram-crisis-is-only-just-the-beginning/

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included

DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

https://zartbot.github.io/blog/model_arch/dsv41flash_arch/en.html

Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/09/16/why-this-fast-growing-german-ai-start-up-is-moving-its-parent-company-from-the-us

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

https://harnesstax.github.io/

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/openai-model-safety-guardrails.html

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike

Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/canda-eu-membership-australia-us-trade-b3050227.html

How good are frontier models at physics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338

A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

https://www.businessinsider.com/coffee-shop-owner-ai-menu-backlash-2026-9

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/

macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

Xiami Mimo 2.6 Live Post-Training Dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."

https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-normal-user-behavior/

GitHub is having trouble counting things

https://chuckgreenman.com/2026/09/16/counting-at-github

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl

Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields

https://www.reuters.com/live/live-fed-rate-hike-expected-inflation-worries-push-up-bond-yields-2026-09-16/

We've created the first vectorized Quicksort

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html

ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market

https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/emergency-room-visits-gambling-disorders-nearly-doubled-after-expanded-online-gambling-market

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/

Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go

https://www.cloudx.ai/posts/setup-go

This Code Is CRAP (2011)

https://testing.googleblog.com/2011/02/this-code-is-crap.html

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claude

Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-on-youtube-ad-campaigns-for-his-minecraft-channel-using-a-company-credit-card-bill-racked-up-in-just-three-weeks-was-supposed-to-be-one-usd20-promotion

Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/

Small Programming Tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model

https://enclave.ai/blog/deepseek-v41-flash-is-now-our-best-hacking-model

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858

A warning about 'model welfare'

https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare

PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

https://frvr.com/blog/news/ps5-linux-lead-quits-as-open-source-projects-have-become-a-bunch-of-noobs-using-llms-that-they-dont-even-understand/

A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-software-thing-i-built-gps-on-a-25mhz-486-sx.1258966/

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents

https://openai.com/index/reimagining-advertising-with-ai/

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/

Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world

https://github.com/rapiddweller/datamimic

Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/26-year-old-sony-ps2-security-chip-broken-wide-open-after-four-years-of-effort-reverse-engineering-enthusiast-successfully-unlocks-cxp102064-mechacon-chip

The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

https://gultsch.social/@daniel/117280438824908947

Salesforce Global Outage

https://status.salesforce.com/products/all

EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-16/eu-proposes-canada-become-the-bloc-s-first-associate-member

Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy

https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_for_american_democracy_w_gil_duran

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/

Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/