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Show HN: Prohibition of Nuclear Launch Automation

2•healthworker•3m ago•0 comments

A CPU Backdoor (2025)

https://phrack.org/issues/72/a-cpu-backdoor_md
2•yu3zhou4•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TypeSeer – on-device autocomplete for every text field on macOS

https://typeseer.com/
1•animateus•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rediagram – put the diagrams you have on your brand

https://rediagram.app/ai-diagram-generator
1•marrouchi•6m ago•0 comments

We Must Create the Shit Machine

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-must-create-the-shit-machine
4•beepbooptheory•7m ago•0 comments

Intel Appears to End Its Bug Bounty Program

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Bug-Bounty-Program-Ends
1•nh2•11m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash avg 102 tps on 4x RTX6000 pro max-q, 2.1x up from v4-flash

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/llm-inference-workstation-4x-rtx6000-blackwell-pro-max-q-384gb-vr...
2•ambientlight•13m ago•1 comments

We were right (about passkeys) all along

https://mailpace.com/blog/musings/we-were-right
5•albertgoeswoof•14m ago•0 comments

Stack Overflow relaunched Developer Story (who certifies that a human wrote it?)

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/10/re-introducing-developer-story/
1•rkovashikawa•15m ago•0 comments

Friday Facts #446 – An ARM and a Frame

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-446
1•robotnikman•15m ago•0 comments

The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247
1•1317•22m ago•0 comments

I Have Been a DelGuard

2•bh0k4l•25m ago•0 comments

The Mic Is On. So Is Live Auto-Tune.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/arts/music/live-auto-tune-jojo-flo-singing.html
1•bookofjoe•27m ago•1 comments

Institutional Parasitism in Open Technology Communities

https://garden.s3.wasabisys.com/__garden/bacee012-5d7d-4f1a-bcf8-67864e663877
2•theyoungsir•27m ago•0 comments

UK could force phone companies to add 'anti-theft protections'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckqxvy98x578o
3•electrum•30m ago•0 comments

Using jev to improve product experiences is pretty crazy

https://www.elvex.com/blog/early-experimentation-using-jev-to-rethink-harness-ux
5•sak84•34m ago•3 comments

What I learned from using FreeBSD as a main OS for a summer

https://divanv.com/post/adventures-in-bsd/
3•divanvisagie•34m ago•0 comments

A Lack of Honesty Is the Ultimate Killer

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/a-lack-of-honesty-is-the-ultimate
2•JumpCrisscross•36m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of Noul, a new decision primitive

1•hbarka•37m ago•0 comments

Wealth Taxes Can Make Capital Markets More Efficient

https://www.promarket.org/2026/09/14/wealth-taxes-can-make-capital-markets-more-efficient/
4•paimapi•38m ago•0 comments

German Hospitals Prepare for War, Drones and Mass Casualties

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-16/germany-s-hospitals-prepare-for-war-and-mass-c...
5•vrganj•38m ago•1 comments

Meta Muse Hits #1 in Apple App Store

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-top-app-store-charts-2026-9
3•pizzathyme•40m ago•0 comments

You need more than just vanilla RAG

https://medium.com/@NikoZero11/your-rag-pipeline-doesnt-need-more-retrieval-it-needs-better-decis...
3•Savanjj•40m ago•0 comments

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog
98•datadrivenangel•40m ago•44 comments

Your 401(k) Is Propping Up the AI Bubble

https://www.promarket.org/2026/05/05/your-401k-is-propping-up-the-ai-bubble/
2•paimapi•40m ago•0 comments

PHP, on a Whim #2: Stop Calling Everything an Array

https://carthage.software/en/blog/article/PHP-on-a-Whim-2-Stop-Calling-Everything-an-Array
1•spacebuffer•41m ago•0 comments

Fat Bear Week 2026

https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
1•slater•44m ago•0 comments

Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/automattic-names-interim-cfo-after-exec-departures/
2•cdrnsf•44m ago•0 comments

What is a System One model and why we need it?

https://stackness.dev/blog/what-is-a-system-one-model-and-where-does-it-go-in-your-stack
1•gosen•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ReacherX – Open-source platform to find and reach the right people

https://github.com/VecterAI/reacher-x
1•noobships•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage

https://blog.herlein.com/post/build-another-engineer/
15•gherlein•1h ago

Comments

daymanstep•45m ago
Why does this article read like it's AI-generated?
thrill•40m ago
Why do the immediate complaints that something is AI generated feel like they're AI generated?
Dibes•26m ago
I usually don't complain about stuff being AI generated. But in this case, regardless of HOW it was written/generated, it reads exactly like claudese and frankly I am so exhausted of reading that particular voice that I made it half way through this article before I just couldn't do it anymore. I really don't care if AI was used, I care that it is readable. And frankly, it isn't.
jawilson2•22m ago
What about that comment sounds AI generated?
genericone•38m ago
It's not only AI that uses em-dashes, but AI only seems to use em-dashes. And there's an ellipsis ascii char in there too (not 3 periods in sequence, a single ellipsis char), somewhat of another AI tell.
nagaiaida•30m ago
phones let you type … effortlessly
imwally•37m ago
Lots of em dashes.

“Read that clause again”

“That’s the whole thing in one sentence”

“Here’s why that breaks”

“Same shape, exactly”

“Here’s the cruel part”

“But look at the shape of it”

jchw•34m ago
The answer to your question is very simple.
harladsinsteden•32m ago
Why is that important? If the point is well made, if the content is interesting, why should I care whether a human or an LLM wrote it?

Most of us don't seem to care anymore if the _code_ is written by AI, so why should we care if other _content_ is written by AI?

operatingthetan•31m ago
Because I don't care what a machine "thinks" I care what a real human thinks. We are losing the internet's remaining culture by consuming this type of content.
Dibes•23m ago
To restate what I put elsewhere, I genuinely don't think I care much for how it was written. The problem is that it felt exhausting to read and was chock full of the same claudese voice that makes claude so infuriatingly exhausting to read. I gave it a try and gave up halfway through. If it was AI generated but was a good read that conveyed a central point/theme, I wouldn't be complaining. This at least is trying to argue a single point, but it does so in what feels like at least 10x the word count.
jawilson2•23m ago
Here's the honest truth: it's AI-generated.

80% of this is AI-prose-tropes. The tropes are load bearing.

(Any other ai-isms I can blast in? Probably)

saulpw•31m ago
So let's think one more step out. You're supposed to train your juniors so that you have seniors when everyone else is scrambling. But when everyone is scrambling, the biggest and most-funded/most-profitable companies will be offering a lot more money than you can afford to pay your now-senior devs. Now I suppose you think those former juniors would be so grateful that you trained them, that they would be loyal to your company and continue working for what you're paying them, right? ...right?
benoau•18m ago
I think these thoughts on what happens without the junior-to-senior pipeline have been circulating for a while, long before the conversation even shifted to agents.

What it boils down to is AI staying just bad enough to always need a developer to make the important calls. Meanwhile every effort is being made to improve it. If there's a ceiling that preserves our jobs and the value we bring to companies it will be a bitter pill to swallow for everyone else.