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After 8 Years in Space, ‘BepiColombo’ Is Finally Approaching Mercury

Following a difficult journey, the probe will soon begin unravelling the mysteries of Mercury’s magnetic field and internal structure.

Wired • 1w ago • Ritsuko Kawai
Technology 1w ago

Don't Use AI to Write

Article URL: https://paulbakker.io/writing/no-ai-for-writing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497848...

Technology 1w ago

Jev-Leftpad

Article URL: https://github.com/f/jev-leftpad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784706 Points: 14 # ...

Technology 1w ago

In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches

Article URL: https://twitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/2101841277432070210 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology 1w ago

Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Disney%2B_ad_policy_change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology 1w ago

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

Article URL: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783999 P...

Technology 1w ago

Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser

Article URL: https://machinedrum-study.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783568 Points: 7...

Technology 1w ago

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Article URL: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology 1w ago

Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/far-left-party-wins-berlin-election-pledging-nationalise-housing-2026-09-20/...

Technology 1w ago

Mini-AGI – dynamic continual learning model trained from scratch on 8GB VRAM

Article URL: https://github.com/volotat/mini-AGI/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783133 Points: 1...

Technology 1w ago

Heretic removes restrictions from language models

Article URL: https://heretic-project.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783101 Points: 11 # Comm...

Technology 1w ago

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/c0cd359d-df84-4208-a789-ffa864b43666 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology 1w ago

Winning the Visa Lottery

Article URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology 1w ago

Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell

Article URL: https://outdata.net/blog/260803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782220 Points: 6 # Co...

Technology 1w ago

Why back propagation goes backward

Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/15/backprop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology 1w ago

Amiga Unix, Again

Article URL: https://amigaux.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781436 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Technology 1w ago

DAPO: An Open-Source RL System from ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua Air

Article URL: https://github.com/BytedTsinghua-SIA/DAPO Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781138 Poin...

Technology 1w ago

What Happened to the Snowden Archive

Article URL: https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology 1w ago

Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator

Article URL: https://agentexecutor.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797 Points: 4 # Comments:...

Technology 1w ago

Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5y7qj54klpo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4978070...

Technology 1w ago

Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Article URL: https://truthout.org/articles/warren-introduces-bill-to-ban-private-equity-from-owning-medical-practices/ ...

Technology 1w ago

Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2z7ejn891o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780466...

Technology 1w ago

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Article URL: https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology 1w ago

Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

Article URL: https://github.com/lfarroco/ogre-battle-64-recomp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780...

Technology 1w ago

No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history

In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't b...

Technology 1w ago

OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-next-week-during-2026-09-...

Technology 1w ago

Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling-garbage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology 1w ago

Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea

Article URL: https://maharship.com/blog/why-mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology 1w ago

Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio

Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.

Technology 1w ago

The Hierarchy of Money

Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/09/20/hierarchy-of-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...