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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.

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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal informatio...

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EDG C++ front-end goes public

Article URL: https://edgcpp.org/#transition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913192 Points: 17 # Co...

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The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers

Boycotting Disney is hard.

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DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground

DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash For...

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BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

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Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business

“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of...

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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/ Comme...

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OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

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There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mothe...

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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves

Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.

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Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack

OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says. ...

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AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

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5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

Article URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

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The AI Tamagotchis are coming

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over...

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Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

Article URL: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/september/carnegie-mellon-university-announces-historic-3-b...

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Recursive `make` and `-j`

Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/09/30/recursive-make-j/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated conten...

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Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots

Reddit is further limiting who can use the "Old Reddit" experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automat...

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CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)

Article URL: https://www.chompiclub.com/opensource Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912048 Points: ...

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Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

Hey HN, Anders and Tom here. We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as f...

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Claude Says

Article URL: https://ohhfishal.net/Posts/claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911928 Points: 26 ...

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The ugly economics of consumer AI

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good e...

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Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’

Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anyth...

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Let's Ditch Google (Verb)

Article URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/lets-ditch-google-verb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4991175...

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Commit Description as a Thinking Tool

Article URL: https://yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-as-a-thinking-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

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Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about hi...

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Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

Article URL: https://www.software3d.com/MillersMonster.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911534 ...

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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dAbC3Gd-founding-product-engineer Comments URL: https:/...