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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
• (01:41) - Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
• (02:58) - Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
• (04:48) - What is going on with ceiling fans
• (05:58) - A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
• (07:06) - Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
• (08:18) - Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
• (09:40) - Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash
• (10:48) - We ported the original Doom to SQL
• (12:21) - The Tao of Backup
• (13:22) - Outro

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957068

What is going on with ceiling fans
https://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fans
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917536

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959869

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysninger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962012

Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash
https://niklasroy.com/gtc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930439

We ported the original Doom to SQL
https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948300

The Tao of Backup
http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932236

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
• (01:18) - We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
• (02:42) - The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
• (04:16) - Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
• (05:08) - So you think you could be an electrician?
• (06:25) - I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
• (07:48) - Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
• (09:11) - Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
• (10:30) - Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
• (11:47) - FTL: A new operating system for clouds
• (12:54) - Outro

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949235

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946895

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393

So you think you could be an electrician?
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910462

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944227

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946355

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-donated-to-him-as-a-teenager/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923873

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945933

FTL: A new operating system for clouds
https://ftl-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
• (01:31) - Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
• (02:25) - Apple Pass Designer
• (03:39) - FLUX 3 Image
• (05:02) - Extra Big Ass Intelligence
• (05:54) - A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
• (07:00) - The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
• (08:26) - Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
• (09:34) - Sites in ChatGPT
• (10:57) - Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
• (12:11) - Outro

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925184

Apple Pass Designer
https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276

FLUX 3 Image
https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925974

Extra Big Ass Intelligence
https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941114

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932147

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933235

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
https://stillwet.art/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928566

Sites in ChatGPT
https://chatgpt.com/features/sites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927747

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-cell-identity-drives-human
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926411

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Pi 1.0
• (01:46) - StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
• (03:06) - Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
• (04:39) - Pi Durable
• (06:04) - Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
• (07:38) - RIP, vector database
• (08:53) - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
• (10:20) - SvelteKit 3
• (11:53) - How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
• (13:42) - DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
• (15:01) - Outro

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920160

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923692

Pi Durable
https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925969

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924179

RIP, vector database
https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923466

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928121

SvelteKit 3
https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926536

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920896

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929489

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Gemini 4 Argon
• (01:48) - Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
• (03:32) - A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
• (04:48) - Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
• (06:31) - The last time my family was replaced by technology
• (07:38) - The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
• (09:07) - EDG C++ front-end goes public
• (10:43) - LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
• (11:55) - Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
• (13:00) - 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
• (14:01) - Outro

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906432

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909583

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-age
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890732

The last time my family was replaced by technology
https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908394

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915082

EDG C++ front-end goes public
https://edgcpp.org/#transition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913192

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904314

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912955

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
https://56k.rip/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915126

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
• (01:38) - Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
• (03:01) - Dots: Always-on agents
• (04:32) - America.gov
• (05:49) - How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
• (07:06) - PS5 Relapse Exploit
• (08:22) - Ask HN: What are you reading?
• (09:38) - Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
• (10:56) - September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
• (12:35) - A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
• (14:03) - Outro

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736

Dots: Always-on agents
https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604

America.gov
https://america.gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893509

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245

PS5 Relapse Exploit
https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895304

Ask HN: What are you reading?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893157

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880411

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905487

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878857

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Sonnet 5.5
• (01:44) - Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
• (03:02) - Pirating the Pirates
• (03:48) - It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
• (04:51) - Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
• (06:16) - Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
• (07:23) - World Labs is Joining AMD
• (08:31) - Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
• (09:37) - MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
• (10:52) - California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
• (12:19) - Outro

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645

Pirating the Pirates
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880036

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
https://github.com/firelex/jeff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879697

World Labs is Joining AMD
https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879702

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882781

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - When did Google get so weird?
• (01:38) - Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
• (02:59) - Ember-1
• (04:30) - Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
• (05:43) - Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
• (07:11) - In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
• (08:24) - Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
• (09:26) - Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
• (10:33) - The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
• (11:58) - Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
• (13:12) - Outro

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723

Ember-1
https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
https://loficities.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844629

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409