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6 Best VPN Services (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

Wired • 2w ago • Jacob Roach
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Chess Atlas

Article URL: https://chess-timeline.vercel.app/gallery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764631...

Technology 2w ago

The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-strange-case-of-elias-thorne-the-imaginary-man-ai-chatbots-are-obsesse...

Technology 2w ago

How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?

Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to di...

Technology 2w ago

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

Article URL: https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology 2w ago

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-...

Technology 2w ago

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

Article URL: https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/389219 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763883 Po...

Technology 2w ago

Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c607l0k72rlvo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763...

Technology 2w ago

Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear

The SkyNomad—with heated floors, a projector, a pop-up roof, a fridge, swiveling seats, and over 1,000 miles of rangeâ...

Technology 2w ago

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology 2w ago

Stepfun Step 5 Preview (LLM): On AA Pareto frontier

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/step-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763660 Po...

Technology 2w ago

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

Article URL: https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model/...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die

I'm a CS undergrad who has developed an interest in hardware keys ever since I used them for a school project a few yea...

Technology 2w ago

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

Article URL: https://onionfutures.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763296 Points: 12 # Comment...

Technology 2w ago

Harm Laundering in GPT Models: Gender Discrimination Transformed Rather Than

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20779 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763234 Points: 4 # C...

Technology 2w ago

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/ Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology 2w ago

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

Article URL: https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762744 Points: 6 # Comm...

Technology 2w ago

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severanc...

Technology 2w ago

Science Is Open Software

Article URL: https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762687 Po...

Technology 2w ago

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/gemini-hacked-three-companies-first-known-breakout-by-google-ai-wsj-repor...

Technology 2w ago

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operator...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe

Article URL: https://liveworld.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762099 Points: 3 # Comments: ...

Technology 2w ago

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

Technology 2w ago

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-detect-cancer...

Technology 2w ago

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

Technology 2w ago

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning ...

Technology 2w ago

AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns....

Technology 2w ago

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761432...

Technology 2w ago

US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-troop-deaths-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-least-four-was...

Technology 2w ago

The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...