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Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

Article URL: https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859759 Points: 24 # Comments: 5

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Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song

I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendri...

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HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own

Article URL: https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859299 Points: 5 #...

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DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112 Points: 6 # C...

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Meta says it will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all

At least one social media company seems to be reversing its stance on whether it will accept advertising for Alex Gibney...

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Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-futures-i...

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Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section unde...

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Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermai...

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The Evolution of Vending Machines

Article URL: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vending-machi...

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Levoit’s new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment

This $189.99 air purifier is specifically designed to tackle pet odors, removing up to 70% in one hour.

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Font where each token is equal-width

Article URL: https://twitter.com/amplifiedamp/status/2103535129503383700 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-jury-says-apple-owes-record-57-billion-haptic-technology-paten...

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OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the com...

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I'm the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband

Article URL: https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip Comments URL: https://news.yco...

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Make Claude your assistant in excalidraw

Article URL: https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857729...

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Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model

We found an approach to get Jev-like properties from standard LLMs like GLM-5.3-Flash.The core idea is to craft the inp...

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Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/25/apple-pay-antitrust-lawsuit-advances/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/ Com...

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Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

Hello HN,It started as an experiment: can Claude play chess properly if it uses vision instead of PGN notation? Somehow...

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Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe Comments U...

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New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely

Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/new-satellite-engine-could-use-earths-atmosphere-as-fuel-to-stay-in-orbit-indefin...

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There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

Article URL: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-detection/ C...

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Go Concurrency Distilled

Article URL: https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988 P...

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Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260924231343.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

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Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

Article URL: https://fakecloud.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856885 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...

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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985666...

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I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI cl...

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Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the fut...

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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

Article URL: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/...