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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898877 Points: 21 # Comments: 4

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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

Article URL: https://space.bl2.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898778 Points: 9 # Comments: 3...

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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the act...

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More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope

Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roun...

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Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say

Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially.

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Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCru...

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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?

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Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point

Away’s third generation of its iconic luggage retains the familiar design while introducing invisible tech, such as a ...

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We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation Comments URL: https...

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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keeping-the-l...

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Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code." ...

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The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/oct-2026-battling-an-army-of-price-setters-owens-review/ Comments URL: htt...

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Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

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OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software com...

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AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind ...

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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities Comments URL: htt...

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Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says

Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional. ...

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Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders

Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the ...

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ChatGPT Pro 500

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

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AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combinin...

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Razer’s low-latency wireless gaming keyboard is almost half off

Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. ...

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OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in...

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Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], b...

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OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, ...

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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including co...

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OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code rev...

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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday...

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Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released

Article URL: https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498967...

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Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people ov...