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Mojo compiler is open for open source contributions [Mojo]

https://forum.modular.com/t/mojo-compiler-is-open-for-open-source-contributions/3499
1•ivell•1m ago•0 comments

Predictive database benchmarks vs. RF, AutoML, Elastic etc., up to 10M scale

https://aito.ai/docs/api/v2/benchmarks/
1•arauhala•1m ago•0 comments

TypeScript team chose Go over Rust

https://www.thetrueengineer.com/p/typescript-team-chose-go-over-rust
1•adletbalzhanov•2m ago•0 comments

U.S. has deployed space-control weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says

https://spacenews.com/u-s-has-deployed-space-control-weapons-in-orbit-air-force-secretary-says/
1•alakra•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TabHop I just wanted Command+Shift+Up/Down to switch tabs

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabhop/jhcabemalinecggplldpoikighephkjn
1•jackwalkerlabs•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ctx – Git blame that returns the original agent transcript

https://ctx.rs/pro/
1•luca-ctx•4m ago•0 comments

Pangram: The Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-16/pangram-ai-detection-tool-tries-to-prove-tech-...
1•pretext•4m ago•0 comments

Meta to report child abuse material directly to Indian authorities

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx2zpn2y97eo
1•vinni2•7m ago•0 comments

In Germany's east, old ties to Moscow fuel AfD rise

https://www.ft.com/content/0aa2e6af-195d-40cc-a813-3e130cbb5553
1•alephnerd•8m ago•0 comments

Insights on AI from the Reformation

https://www.amytis.io/blog/insights-on-ai-from-the-reformation
1•JohnHammersley•8m ago•0 comments

Stop Scanning Blindly: The Beginner's Guide to Stealthy Network Recon

https://medium.com/meetcyber/stop-scanning-blindly-the-beginners-guide-to-stealthy-network-recon-...
1•ls1911•8m ago•0 comments

Don't Look Back at the Reference Too Often

https://justinmath.com/dont-look-back-at-the-reference-too-often-2/
1•surprisetalk•10m ago•0 comments

Misconceptions

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1e7f582d478a4b99bd0c70fffeac4c8b
1•surprisetalk•10m ago•0 comments

Should We Reverse Corporate Tax Cuts?

https://www.nominalnews.com/p/should-we-reverse-corporate-tax-cuts
1•NomNew•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Social Reps – Earn Your Scroll

https://socialreps.app/
2•huevsite•10m ago•0 comments

The Bannon-Bernie Bromance over AI and Oligarchs

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/09/steve-bannon-bernie-sanders-ai-oligarch/688642/
3•smnthermes•14m ago•0 comments

Knowledge, Understanding, and Proofs

https://finiteape.com/posts/knowledge-understanding-proofs/
2•berkidem•14m ago•0 comments

Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,' Dies at 81

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/books/annie-dillard-dead.html
2•mykowebhn•18m ago•1 comments

Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6n07ypqz8kzo
5•pluc•18m ago•4 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/
3•vertigoruntime•18m ago•0 comments

Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/
2•robin_reala•18m ago•0 comments

Delta – A Multiplayer Environment for Coding with Agents

https://delta.dev/
2•tortilla•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ManyBot – Framework to build WhatsApp bots, without the boring part

https://manybot.org
2•synt-xerror•19m ago•0 comments

System One Lite – typed decisions from a local LLM, with no generated tokens

https://github.com/snellingio/system-one
2•samsnelling•19m ago•0 comments

SnagFlat – Rent-stabilization badges on every NYC StreetEasy listing

https://snagflat.com/
1•jakdemir•19m ago•0 comments

(Re)Introducing Developer Story

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/10/re-introducing-developer-story/
1•BerislavLopac•19m ago•0 comments

Space Force gives SpaceX latitude on design of $2.3B satellite network

https://spacenews.com/space-force-gives-spacex-latitude-on-design-of-2-3-billion-satellite-network/
2•KinetiNode•19m ago•0 comments

PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

https://frvr.com/blog/news/ps5-linux-lead-quits-as-open-source-projects-have-become-a-bunch-of-no...
4•alexjplant•20m ago•2 comments

European Union invites Canada to become first ever 'associate member'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/von-der-leyen-mark-carney-canada-eu-first-associate...
2•Teever•20m ago•0 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
2•Agentlien•22m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents

https://openai.com/index/reimagining-advertising-with-ai/
83•vertigoruntime•59m ago

Comments

crest•37m ago
"Nuke the entire site from orbit ... it's the only way to be sure."
grey-area•35m ago
None of this would be necessary if they thought they were actually anywhere near AGI...hmm.
utopiah•31m ago
What if their AGI/ASI told them the road to Humanity betterment (because you know that was OpenAI initial mission, just in case we forgot) was through more efficient ads ? /s
dgellow•21m ago
Sounds like the plot of a Douglas Adam’s book
andai•31m ago
They'll have to find a smarter species to emulate first. My money's on the octopus!
tsunamifury•18m ago
Excellent way to put it.

It’s always he guys who steal the technology from the inventors that try to present the technology far beyond what it is.

Signed, that guy at google who did some stuff about this and had it taken away.

cyanydeez•29m ago
Turns out, just like the Turing test, its easier to dumb down intelligent expectations than to improve intelligence.

AGI makes a lot better argument if everyone is in idiocracy.

taytus•10m ago
I wish more people could read and appreciate that couple of sentences.
palmotea•9m ago
> AGI makes a lot better argument if everyone is in idiocracy.

IIRC, a part of the backstory of Idiocracy is the development of pervasive and good enough AI/automation, which enabled society to get that dumb without immediately collapsing.

herpdyderp•7m ago
Even if it's not necessary, it brings more money.
datakan•34m ago
This sounds awful. AI Chatbots will be everywhere Shopify is. I just see a lot of popups in our future with fake names and faces pretending to be people asking us how they can help us.
andai•32m ago
2036

Synthetic humans wearing the faces of your loved ones surreptitiously cross your path, and casually mention their favorite products and services.

hirvi74•15m ago
That's pretty much most T1 support already. I feel like all I do is talk to bots.
mcintyre1994•10m ago
I think we're already there with that stupid AI customer support widget every obnoxious website has now.
pjc50•31m ago
As usual with AI customer interaction, I have to ask who is liable for misleading advertising or unmet promises? The advertiser who isn't really in control of the chatbot, or OpenAI?

(Law on this goes all the way back to Carbolic Smoke Ball)

utopiah•30m ago
Liability... come on what's this pesky detail when it's an arm race with China (or whatever the weekly scapegoat is), don't you want the good guys to win? /s
dgellow•23m ago
It cannot be the AI vendor, according to what they say they are purely passive, think of them like a very large harness for their AI models.

It’s not the advertising companies of course, as you said they don’t control the system.

And it cannot be the models, because they don’t have personhood.

So, I guess it’s on nobody? Funny how those things happen to work, uh

/s

pjc50•19m ago
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine on this topic, available at all good bookstores near you.
cmiles8•7m ago
Well to date when this has come up it’s been the company that put the AI in from of their customers that’s held liable in the first instance. See Air Canada case where an AI made up non existent policies that courts ruled Air Canada even had to honor.

Naturally then the company could turn around and sue the maker of the AI for damages and this is the bit that’s less tested to date.

But it’s clear the answer isn’t “nobody” is liable. So if this AI marketing widget makes up false claims about a product that’s going to be a big problem for companies that put an AI in front of their customers.

haaz•25m ago
Honestly I wish every ad had this. If I search for meal delivery services in my area and a sponsored result comes up, I would much rather ask an AI to trawl through the website to find out how much the meals cost, how much meat, protein, calories, etc are in them rather than do it myself
dbdr•19m ago
You can already do that without ads.

The point of ads is that one of those services will pay openai so that their services will be more prominent than the others.

tsunamifury•16m ago
No you can’t. Not without MCP
o_m•10m ago
Most agents can search the web nowadays
brendoelfrendo•18m ago
Yeah, but why would you trust the answers from a sponsored agent? Why would you assume it is giving you real, accurate, and complete information rather than selectively giving you what it thinks is most likely to make you click the "buy" button?
sigmar•24m ago
I'm definitely more pro ad than the average HN user (I think they occasionally show me products I want to buy), but this seems bad and one step closer to "the LLM is biased by openai's financial interests."

In the example of a "sponsored agent" at the top, how many people are going to think "chat with us" is just a way to continue the conversation? How soon before openai removes the friction of clicking that entirely?

this is what openai said before: "Ads do not influence ChatGPT’s answers. Ads run on separate systems from our chat model, and advertisers have no ability to shape, rank, or alter ChatGPT’s responses. Ads are separate and clearly labeled." https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001047-ads-in-chatgpt

Do they need to rewrite that section? Because in the video there's an LLM chatbot inside the chatgpt app writing answers on behalf of "Heirloom grocery"

tsunamifury•20m ago
Disagree. I pitched this exact model to Google Search when we first started making LLMs. The idea was the bots were separate clearly from the core model so you’ll know when you were having a branded experience or not. And it s useful beyond ads. It can be for customer service or MCP interaction with the service directly.
sigmar•12m ago
yeah, I can see it as useful in customer service, but they're adding these sponsored agents directly in the chatgpt app. the word "ad" or "sponsored" isn't visible after you click "chat with us" at 0:15 in the video, only "learn more about business chats" which is vague. and if you scroll down you won't even see that, if someone switches apps for 20 minutes are they going to remember that this chat window is an ad?
strongpigeon•22m ago
This is awfully unimaginative. I don’t see people using this. Where is the incentive to continue your conversation with the sponsored agent as opposed to, you know, the one you’re already talking to.
khalic•21m ago
The fact that it requires a user action to initiate is better than the previous solution, but that's a pretty low bar to have
pluc•20m ago
How else are they to monetize text outputs? This was always the plan and it's going to get much worse (or better depending on which side of the fence you're on). Google did the same thing when it controlled web indexation: ads, sponsored results and SEO. All of these things will be coming to agents: you will be monetized or you will be paying not to be.
wat10000•17m ago
They could stick to taking payment in exchange for service like some weird old-fashioned business, but I guess that doesn't get the sort of growth that justifies a trillion-dollar valuation.
DonsDiscountGas•14m ago
It has for Anthropic. Consumer vs enterprise though I guess.
bogzz•14m ago
Without the pesky training costs or stock compensation taken into account, yes.
bogzz•15m ago
By making more money from inference subscriptions than they lose on compute, training, and other costs?
Imnimo•19m ago
>Ads in ChatGPT help people find what they’re looking for or discover something they hadn’t considered.

Here I foolishly thought that that was the job of ChatGPT itself.

ownerr•19m ago
It's funny that at first OpenAI didn't want to add ads, but if they are adding them, they will be as dystopian as possible.
cmiles8•19m ago
Who actually wants this?

I guess we’re about to find out if this helps put out the massive pile of burning cash that OpenAI is trying to deal with, but I know nobody that wants this.

OpenAI claims we’re near AGI and this is the best strategy they have? Oy vey!

outside1234•16m ago
Nobody wants this. We only need them to offer propaganda as a service and the enshitification will be complete.
daveguy•12m ago
Isn't that primarily what they offer anyway? So "subscription required" would check that box.
nbaugh1•15m ago
Who wants any ads?
taytus•13m ago
>Who actually wants this?

Investors

brazukadev•10m ago
> Who actually wants this?

Sam Altman. It is his last resort, he said some time ago (which is not true, regulation/"slowing down the pace of AI" seems to be the latest).

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RugnirViking•19m ago
the only person who ever interacts with these will be the person who accidentally clicked on them. Surely they know this?
feverzsj•16m ago
Soon, everybody will live in Truman show.
Nata_Elisym•15m ago
I dont think its that bad. Another opportunity for businesses
floatrock•15m ago
Like Uber and Lyft showed in the last cycle, AI has now reached the milestone where the game shifts from "offer unreasonably cheap service by burning investor money and gain marketshare" to "shit we need to show a profit".

Or, now lets what the enshittification movement can do to this space.

altcognito•14m ago
So you can pay $8 a month and see ads while using the already pared down offering.

I think pushing back with cancellations is the only way forward.

dpmartinez•13m ago
I wish ads never existed.

The future is open source, no subscriptions, no purchases, 100% free and community supported.

The sooner software gets to this point, the world will be a much more better place rather than everything being a subscription.

bluepeter•13m ago
Found this:

> Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu accounts will not have ads.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001047-ads-in-chatgpt

doublerabbit•7m ago
For now.
MisterMunchkin•12m ago
The problem with ads in AI, is that they're incredibly creepy. People have told the apps all kinds of sensitive information that they never would have told a normal service. Obviously the advertisers are creaming themselves at that, but it's a new level of creeping.

It also allows them to subtly influence the messaging. It would be like if somebody tried to not bring out the Heinz at a family gathering. It just wouldn't be the same, because of the subtle messaging that has been inserted into the content. How could you trust them?

ambicapter•7m ago
I think the level of invasiveness is probably closer to existing ads than you think. Not that that's a good thing, mind you, I think your disgust level here is probably pretty accurate to the level of personalized data that is currently being hawked by data brokers all over the internet.
lynx97•5m ago
Whats creepy to me is people telling all sorts of sensitive information to a chatbot and NOT expecting weird consequences. The level of cope is massive.
karim79•6m ago
Nice so we're getting closer to Black Mirror in real life.
131hn•5m ago
It’s okay (i.e. understand able) having ads on a low cost subscription. Would i not want to be (part of) the product myself, i’d willing to pay premium price - and i do

What’s wrong with this choice ?

9m ago
Could be exploring old and new ways of monetization.
hodder•7m ago
This is a solution looking for a problem, built to satisfy the creator instead of serving the buyer. This is exactly what PG warns against doing. One would think Sam would know this too.
chunky1994•7m ago
OpenAI's shareholders, and only them.

I doubt any consumer of ChatGPT wants ads, and even if they did, it would be a specific kind of ad. They specifically would not want ads if they cannot identify them as ads (like google has eventually done on the search page) or if they are not good ads.

streptomycin•4m ago
People who want to use AI more but didn't want to pay. Which is probably most people. Even if they don't admit it, their preference will be revealed by not paying for the ad free version. Same as most other websites.