GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price(openai.com)
1032 points by crorella | 909 comments
OpenAI announcement page introducing GPT-6.1 Sol, a model pitched as offering near-Astra-level intelligence at a fifth of the price.
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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?(github.com)
858 points by bryan0 | 367 comments
GitHub repository for livenerf, a benchmark that tracks AI model capability over time after release to detect whether models like Claude Opus have been nerfed.
Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over(derekthompson.org)
764 points by barry-cotter | 684 comments
Derek Thompson essay on the decline of hosting in America, noting a 70 percent drop since 1975 in adults who regularly have friends over.
Dots: Always-on agents(openai.com)
741 points by alvis | 621 comments
OpenAI announcement page introducing "dots," a product described as always-on AI agents that users can create.
America.gov(america.gov)
732 points by plesiv | 659 comments
America.gov is an official US government website offering a search/assistant-style portal for finding government services and information.
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent(spectrum.ieee.org)
571 points by rbanffy | 309 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature on how Delhi reduced electricity distribution losses from 50 percent to 5 percent through power-grid reforms.
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers(eff.org)
491 points by paimapi | 340 comments
An EFF Deeplinks article arguing that DraftKings uses AI to intensify the harms of behavioral advertising by targeting gamblers.
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive(theguardian.com)
437 points by ilamont | 256 comments
Guardian article reporting that a six-month live facial recognition trial at London stations cost £320,000, produced one false positive alert, and led to no arrests.
![Screenshot of jorgegarciaherrero.com: A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/29/561ac83e-adf1-4d9e-8f37-d1f91b25f5a7.jpg)
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf](jorgegarciaherrero.com)
409 points by damaru2 | 130 comments
Research paper analyzing third-party advertising and tracking services in web and mobile deployments of nine conversational AI services, including leakage of prompts and conversation data.
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess(squareorbits.com)
390 points by SquareOrbits | 279 comments
A personal blog post cataloguing bugs the author encountered in Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate, comparing its stability-focused pitch to Snow Leopard.
Ask HN: What are you reading?
382 points by dan-bailey | 738 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread where users share what books they are currently reading, from sci-fi to nonfiction on bureaucracy and comics.
Why the Bronze Age Collapsed(worksinprogress.news)
377 points by AnodicElegy | 259 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter feature by Patrick Fitzsimmons arguing that drought, famine and invaders cannot explain why Bronze Age empires never recovered.
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries(bbc.com)
363 points by devonnull | 268 comments
BBC Future article about Vermont using a virtual power plant of networked home batteries to replace traditional power plants and keep power on during storms.
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites(space.bl2.net)
362 points by wanick | 99 comments
Interactive real-time 3D visualization of Earth's tracked satellites, the planets and moons, and over 527,000 asteroids and comets, using CelesTrak catalog data.
PS5 Relapse Exploit(github.com)
331 points by therepanic | 205 comments
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS(tomshardware.com)
313 points by mywacaday | 282 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on the Netherlands developing a NixOS-based software ecosystem to replace Microsoft after US sanctions on the ICC, with a first release expected end of 2027.
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart(aviationweek.com)
302 points by ilamont | 353 comments
Aviation Week article reporting that NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help with a secret restart effort.
Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026(backblaze.com)
286 points by HieronymusBosch | 97 comments
Backblaze blog post reporting hard drive reliability and failure rate statistics from its data centers for Q2 2026.
Tcl/Tk 9.1(tcl-lang.org)
277 points by dmux | 119 comments
Tcl Developer Xchange page for the Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 release, with download links and highlights such as a new unicode normalization command and timer.
U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels(postalemployeenetwork.com)
272 points by ilamont | 161 comments
Postal Employee Network news article reporting that U.S. Postal Inspectors shut down a website selling millions of counterfeit postage labels.
Solving Factorio Quality(exyr.org)
260 points by laurenth | 99 comments
Blog post by Simon Sapin on using matrix math to plan Factorio factories with the Quality mechanic, with a link to an online calculator tool.
Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns(bookofshapes.com)
246 points by eustoria | 23 comments
Book of Shapes is a collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski.
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models(github.com)
232 points by nicowaltz | 89 comments
GitHub repository from PostHog for Jeeves, a project showing that reasoning improves Jev-like decision models.
1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds(cbc.ca)
217 points by colinprince | 122 comments
CBC News article on a Lancet Oncology study estimating that infections caused 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, about 1 in 8.
Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes(ledge.sh)
186 points by dancablam | 83 comments
Landing page for Ledge, an open-source Markdown notebook app that runs shell commands, code, and SQL from inside notes, locally or over SSH.
ChatGPT Pro 500(help.openai.com)
183 points by prodigycorp | 200 comments
OpenAI help center article describing ChatGPT Pro subscription tiers.
Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
181 points by Anon84 | 9 comments
Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI newsletter post giving a visual guide to text classification, from bag-of-words through RNNs, CNNs, and transformers to Jev-like APIs and calibration.
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like(theguardian.com)
163 points by pseudolus | 83 comments
Guardian environment article on light pollution making the night sky about 10% brighter yearly and how city outdoor lighting rules could help ecosystems.
Claude partial outage(status.claude.com)
162 points by sidcool | 131 comments
Anthropic status page incident report on elevated errors affecting claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API, with mitigation updates.
Using any C++ library in Godot(blog.conan.io)
159 points by czoido | 58 comments
Conan blog post explaining how to integrate arbitrary C/C++ libraries into Godot games via GDExtension and godot-cpp using the Conan package manager.
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom(thenationalnews.com)
158 points by Betelbuddy | 191 comments
The National news article reporting that the AI industry would need about $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the data centre build-out.
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early(theregister.com)
158 points by rbanffy | 120 comments
The Register article reporting Google will cut ChromeOS support for Chromebooks from a promised ten years to eight as it shifts to Googlebook.
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities(anthropic.com)
157 points by Philpax | 125 comments
Anthropic Frontier Red Team post on GLM-5.3 and how advanced AI cyber-exploit capabilities, first seen in Claude Mythos Preview, are proliferating to other models.
Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux(frostyard.github.io)
142 points by bketelsen | 86 comments
Project page for nsl, a tool that gives Linux hosts persistent distro environments via systemd-nspawn containers in a small VM, mimicking WSL.
Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)(withouthotair.com)
140 points by 0sake_rs | 80 comments
Homepage for David MacKay's 2008 book Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, offering free PDF download, chapter contents, translations and endorsements.
Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language(hereticpleb.vercel.app)
137 points by birdculture | 57 comments
A blog post on hereticpleb recounting how needing to compute 1+1 led the author to build a functional programming language.
When oil prices spike, where does the money go?(theconversation.com)
135 points by thelastgallon | 126 comments
The Conversation article explaining who captures the extra revenue when oil prices spike, from producers to governments and traders.
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
124 points by zaik | 85 comments
Andrew Gelman blog post about Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson posting 258 working papers to SSRN in 2026, apparently aided by AI.
Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions(appleinsider.com)
122 points by dkobia | 20 comments
AppleInsider news article reporting that Meta's new Muse AI agent ignores user permission settings.
Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot(projecthub.arduino.cc)
118 points by gvuksic | 28 comments
Arduino Project Hub page for JBR-001, an open-source 3D-printable desktop companion robot powered by Arduino UNO Q with camera, servos and object recognition.
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982(oilprice.com)
118 points by thelastgallon | 129 comments
OilPrice.com news article reporting that the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to its lowest level since 1982.
NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor(gevernova.com)
110 points by papa-whisky | 75 comments
GE Vernova press release announcing the NRC's first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at TVA's Clinch River site.
Mathematical Origami(mathigon.org)
108 points by signa11 | 22 comments
Mathigon page on mathematical origami, showing how to fold Platonic solids and other polyhedra with 3D models and explanations.
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it(railcode.dev)
98 points by yakkomajuri | 53 comments
A Railcode founder's blog post about how using coding agents to build the company website made him more interested in design and produced a designer-quality result.
Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning(twitter.com)
89 points by pranshuchittora | 47 comments
A post by Gergely Orosz on X reporting that Firebase's SDK began crashing all iOS apps using it, with screenshots of GitHub issue comments from affected developers.
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine(enigma.design)
87 points by primitivesuave | 32 comments
An interactive 3D model of the WWII Enigma cipher machine that lets visitors explore how its internal mechanics encrypt messages.
DevDay 2026 Recap(openai.com)
85 points by polygot | 40 comments
OpenAI's recap page for its DevDay 2026 developer conference, featuring a live broadcast and announcements of new tools for building with its models.
Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market(gamersnexus.net)
74 points by DeepLogin | 51 comments
GamersNexus news feature arguing that memory manufacturers have damaged the consumer RAM market through pricing and supply decisions.
The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging(prospect.org)
55 points by paimapi | 50 comments
American Prospect review by Hal Singer of Lindsay Owens's book on how corporations use dynamic pricing and other tactics to maximize profits at consumers' expense.
Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound(jevstiller.pages.dev)
54 points by tgluck | 8 comments
Documentation post for Jevstiller, a tool that distills the Jev classification API into a local model, explaining its 98% agreement rate and disagreement guarantee.
Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit(blog.vero.site)
52 points by ibobev | 30 comments
A blog post exploring when adding decimal numbers as IEEE double-precision floats produces rounding errors and when the results come out exact.
Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI(github.com)
49 points by cyfyifanchen | 39 comments
GitHub repository for Raven by EverMind-AI, a self-evolving multi-agent ecosystem billed as a 'harness of harnesses' for recursive self-improvement.
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization(lucumr.pocoo.org)
47 points by tosh | 6 comments
Armin Ronacher's blog post introducing Deser, an experimental Rust serialization library rethinking Serde's design and limitations.
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results(bigmessowires.com)
44 points by zdw | 9 comments
A Big Mess o' Wires blog post reporting the results of a hardware failure analysis of the Floppy Emu disk emulator for classic Apple computers.
US Forces Exit Iraq(reuters.com)
43 points by cod1r | 34 comments
Reuters news article reporting that US forces have exited Iraq after two decades, potentially leaving an opening for Iran; page showed a device verification screen.
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet(blog.cloudflare.com)
42 points by ewpratten | 25 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing it is building its own certificate authority to issue free certificates, designed for resilience, transparency, and post-quantum readiness.
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s(github.com)
41 points by lostmsu | 5 comments
GitHub repository for TurboGPT, a CUDA-only project for training a tiny GPT transformer in under a minute, inspired by minGPT.
OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription(twitter.com)
41 points by tosh | 35 comments
X post by OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux announcing the Pro $200 subscription reopening with a changed usage calculation and explaining the rationale.
Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland(startup-nights.ch)
41 points by sschueller | 23 comments
Event page for Startup Nights, the annual two-day Swiss startup ecosystem meetup with keynotes, workshops, pitch competitions and networking.
New Cyber-OSINT model released(twitter.com)
39 points by soltanov | 9 comments
X post announcing REDCELL-26B-A4B, a locally runnable MoE model fine-tuned on OSINT and cyber threat intelligence instructions, published as GGUF on Hugging Face.