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Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M

The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”

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Philips’ motion-tracking smart toothbrush uses AI to make you a better brusher

First announced in July with an expected limited launch later this year, the Philips Sonicare Next-Generation DiamondCle...

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Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

hi there! i'd like you to try out a tui i made for browsing hackernews. it's built using opentui and also effect (learn...

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SpaceX preps next-gen Starlink as Amazon’s competitor stalls

SpaceX is gearing up for a monumental flight today that's sure to be closely watched by Amazon. If successful, SpaceX wi...

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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after ...

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The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/1000778/smart-home-june-oven-graveyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

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What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?

Article URL: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out." ...

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Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy

Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between t...

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Best Apple Watch: Series 12, Ultra 4, and SE 3 (2026)

From the latest Ultra to last year’s SE, these are the Apple Watches worth considering.

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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

Article URL: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913 Points: 3...

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I've Tested Over 100 Home Security Cameras. Here's Which to Buy

Keep an eye on home wherever you are with the best security cameras, including indoor and outdoor, subscription services...

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Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots

Article URL: https://markmanson.substack.com/p/intellectuals-are-fcking-idiots Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

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Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-...

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AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It

Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.

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Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI

Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are t...

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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK

Article URL: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-are-now-nine-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-...

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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit...

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Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network

Article URL: https://nine.ch/en/blog/ddos-attack-august-2026-postmortem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep a...

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The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills

A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.

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Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

A webassembly web based app that help editing raster and vector on browser without any subscription or signups Comment...

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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

Article URL: https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-mo...

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37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

Article URL: https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875142 Point...

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Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account

Article URL: https://www.threads.com/@matt.j.robb/post/DdxwAJnDhNy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max has a big camera and a bigger battery

Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable cam...

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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5 Comment...

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An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values ...

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Made by Mechanical Means

Article URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID

Truecaller finds a new way to reach users as pressure grows on its traditional caller ID business in India, its biggest ...