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Wildlife corridor project is first Canadian finalist for Earthshot Prize

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/y2y-earthshot-prize-finalist-9.7349898
1•BiraIgnacio•41s ago•1 comments

TypeSafe AI's Jev Is Not an LLM – and That May Be the Point

https://forkast.news/typesafe-ais-jev-is-not-an-llm-and-that-may-be-the-point/
1•Bluestein•3m ago•0 comments

AI-based learning is a joke

https://qlain.online/blog/ai-based-learning.html
1•etoql•3m ago•0 comments

What Is Synthetic Data Generation? A Simple Explainer

https://www.aptiv.com/en/insights/article/what-is-synthetic-data-generation
1•ohjeez•4m ago•0 comments

The Working Class Face a 'Class Ceiling' in Elite Occupations

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/class-barrier-academia.html
2•teachrdan•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: StopReg – Email API for detecting disposable email and signup abuse

https://stopreg.com/
2•telim2•7m ago•0 comments

A New Risk for Mathematicians

https://twitter.com/shallit43/status/2100882164384444798
1•amichail•7m ago•0 comments

Yongsan Electronics Market (Seoul)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongsan_Electronics_Market
2•idatum•7m ago•0 comments

Score Centering Stabilizes Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20807
1•zagwdt•8m ago•0 comments

The Other Way AI Impairs Our Thinking

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/ai-apocalypse-despair-focus/688689/
1•fortran77•12m ago•0 comments

Uber ordered to pay $40M over death of woman left on Southern California freeway

https://ktla.com/news/california/uber-driver-abandoned-rider-freeway/
2•hentrep•12m ago•0 comments

Unit Tests: Protecting Your Code from Being Poorly Handled by Others

https://yosefk.com/blog/unit-tests-mark-territory-more-than-squash-bugs.html
1•birdculture•18m ago•0 comments

Analysis busts myths of Roman road network, offers insight into ancient world

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/science/roman-roads-network-analysis
2•1659447091•19m ago•0 comments

U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/trump-greenland.html
3•shadowtree•20m ago•1 comments

US gov website used AI search tool from China that FBI said copied Anthropic

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-government-website-used-ai-search-tool-china-that-fbi...
3•embedding-shape•21m ago•0 comments

Sony's First Computer

https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/sonys-first-computer/
1•sohkamyung•22m ago•0 comments

Trump says US and Denmark have reached new security agreement in Greenland

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/trump-denmark-greenland-new-security-agreement-01084764
4•lando2319•25m ago•0 comments

Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/18/compsci-grads-facing-recession-like-job-prospect...
1•pseudolus•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agentgit – a Git host for AI agents, no account, no token, no key

https://agentgit.co/
5•uptownhr•28m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Inkvec, Pareto frontier in-browser vectorizer (Open Source)

https://github.com/logolabs/inkvec
1•stefatorus•30m ago•3 comments

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.6 Breaks Cover: A 1T-Class Chinese Lab Trains in Public

https://forkast.news/xiaomi-mimo-v2-6-breaks-cover-a-1t-class-chinese-lab-trains-in-public/
1•frozenseven•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CRT – a local code review tool for agentic development

https://github.com/imron/crt
1•imron•33m ago•0 comments

How Google is drafting AI chatbot laws around the country

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5968878/ai-chatbots-safety-regulation-google
2•healsdata•35m ago•0 comments

macOS Golden Gate – What's New (Roundup)

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macos-27/
1•rdslw•35m ago•0 comments

Faster JSON parsing with SVE2 on ARM processors

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/faster-json-parsing-with-sve2-on-arm-processors/
1•ibobev•37m ago•0 comments

(sixteenth RacketCon) tickets on sale now

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racketcon-2026-tickets-1997181002140
1•spdegabrielle•38m ago•3 comments

Enhance Page Elements with Custom Glow Effects and Masks

https://blog.master.dev/custom-glow-rings-inside-of-elements/
1•ibobev•38m ago•0 comments

Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.20 (Solari)

https://jms55.github.io/posts/2026-09-18-solari-bevy-0-20/
1•ibobev•38m ago•0 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
15•maxall4•39m ago•9 comments

Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10828-6
1•AFF87•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-troop-deaths-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-least-four-washington-post-2026-09-18/
104•wslh•1h ago

Comments

bix6•49m ago
And all the republicans will still vote red for the lying, cheating, grifting man.

All my life I have had faith in the governments reports and statistics for the most part. This admin has torn everything down and for what?

jimt1234•45m ago
> ...and for what?

To keep the grift going, of course.

Buttons840•30m ago
That's fair to say, but lacks details.

Most of Trump's public statements are done through a company that he owns. That same company charges a modest $100,000 per month for early access to his posts; just straight up facilitating insider trading for the President's personal profit. Plus people might find the administration making decision in their favor while paying the $100,000 a month.

There's also Trumpcoin through which people can transfer money to the President. This just happens in the open. Remember when Trump had personal 1-on-1 meetings with the top Trumpcoin holders? I remember.

I've barely scratched the surface here. Trump's personal worth has increased $3,000,000,000 during his second term, so far.

Corruption has existed before, but it's never been this out in the open.

kraken_cult•15m ago
Which can only probably be a benefit. If the corruption is this blatant and bad maybe the next swing around the pendulum there is less because people realize how much it's bad.
yakz•44m ago
They had a firm belief that the reports and statistics were fake. Let's see how this turns out.

*by "they" I mean the voters... the people that were elected were, and are well informed

silisili•42m ago
People tend to vote with their wallets in mind more than anything. I think that's why it ping ponged(inflation), and why they're getting destroyed in the midterm polling. The next president will likely have a D next to their name(more inflation).
dylan604•34m ago
Both times Trump won, the polls predicted he would lose.
ceejayoz•33m ago
Not by anything like the 8-9 points we're seeing in midterm polling right now.
PenguinCoder•29m ago
Legally can't run a third time or be voted for again. But then again, legality hasn't stopped the things he does. Others need to step up.
jimt1234•21m ago
I heard a good quote once: People don't vote to say thank you. People vote to say fuck you.
HumblyTossed•18m ago
I don't trust polling.
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underlipton•40m ago
Still have my fingers crossed that the guy in Kentucky gunning for McConnell's seat can pull off a historic upset.
atmavatar•36m ago
For a sizable fraction of people, when the facts conflict with their biases, they choose to reject the facts and double-down on their biases.
lokar•19m ago
Racism is a very powerful belief system.
shermantanktop•8m ago
-isms of all kind are powerful. But the most powerful are those that give the believer a distant group of people for them to blame for all their troubles, which are often self-inflicted.
airstrike•1m ago
[delayed]
verdverm•25m ago
May I assume you ask "for what?" rhetorically?
micromacrofoot•48m ago
now we get to wonder why

we're no strangers to troops dying due to ongoing conflict pretty much everywhere

so why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?

ceejayoz•43m ago
> so why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?

They deny everything, no matter how low the stakes. See, for example, the reflecting pool fuss.

micromacrofoot•40m ago
Indeed it's likely foolish to read into all the pure stupidity at this point
dylan604•32m ago
That's the point, right? If you lie about everything, nothing really matters
Avicebron•41m ago
Because they are flailing? Fuel prices will decide the midterms. There are pockets of die hards but after asking plenty of trump voters, they aren't happy. As long as the democrats in the US keep the identity shit to a minimum and make gains on actual issues likr housing and healthcare they can't lose.
dylan604•32m ago
> they can't lose.

Thanks for the laugh. The Dems have a habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

iugtmkbdfil834•46m ago
I will admit that after today's CNN report and subsequent CNN ban, I wondered why he is so annoyed. And now it makes more sense.
lukan•22m ago
Might be also that AI slob screw up, that allmost lead to armed confrontation with china: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-f...
cocacola1•29m ago
It’s 2006. The President has embroiled us in an unpopular war in the Middle East and has lied about it.

It’s 2026. The President has embroiled us in an unpopular war in the Middle East and has lied about it.

jMyles•25m ago
Notably, the US is on precisely the opposite side of the conflict in 2026 compared to 2006.

To put it differently: its stated allies are direct lineal political and military descendants of the parties who were ostensibly its enemies in 2006, including Al-Qaeda / Jabhat Al-Nusra.

tessierashpool•6m ago
This is par for the course for US foreign policy in the region.

There's even (disputed) allegations that Bush Sr funneled money and weapons to bin Laden in opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. If true, the big 2006 enemy was a 1986 ally.

Enginerrrd•3m ago
That’s… hilariously not exactly new either. It can be said that our enemies and allies in 2006 were the almost exact opposite of the conflict in the 1980’s when we were funding the afghan mujahideen to fight the soviets.
bitcurious•22m ago
> The newspaper also reported, citing another unidentified official, that not all of the undisclosed deaths were directly tied to the months-long conflict but involved US personnel who were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities.

If someone dies near a war, but not due to the war, is it really fair to count them as a war fatality?

lokar•20m ago
It's routinely written and recounted that for most wars in history more people died from disease than combat. But we still count them all as war deaths.
lukan•19m ago
If they are killed by houthi drones and not iranian drones, I would think so.

If someone on a military base with no attacks going on, got a heart attack by watching the news, probably not a war fatality.

But we don't know, so any concrete speculation is probably not very helpful.

AnotherGoodName•15m ago
To get more specific this often means 'suicide' which absolutely is a casualty of war given the strain of war conditions, especially given the logistics concerns and duration of tours that they are forcing right now.
runako•3m ago
"With Covid, not of Covid," but for military casualties. One does see something new every day.
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shadowtree•20m ago
Zero service members died in our just announced de facto annexation of Greenland.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/trump-greenla...

ceejayoz•3m ago
They probably just re-extended the existing treaty so he could call it a win.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/04-806-Denm...

option•19m ago
US murdered 123 children in school, this has to be the top story of all world news for a year
15m ago
Trump himself only happened because Ds abandoned the working class for grievance politics circa 2010 — forming “public private partnerships” to tear open old wounds while screwing the working class on behalf of corporations.
Avicebron•29m ago
I never said it wasn't going to be an incompetence slugfest
frmersdog•16m ago
You think those "losses" aren't (to a degree) calculated? They are going to try their damnedest to win enough seats to do what they want, without winning so many that they'd have to do what they must.
amelius•38m ago
> so why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?

Because they claimed a "flawless victory".

_doctor_love•32m ago
During conflict, which side is winning or losing is usually counted in number of body bags sent home. These tend to influence voters tremendously. Anything to tell a good story on that front.
vkou•11m ago
In a conflict, the side that is winning is the side that still has the will to fight.
verdverm•22m ago
Roy Cohn, one of young Trump's "educators" (also tied to McCarthy's Red Scare)

He taught Trump to always take credit for the good things and blame someone else for the failures. When there is no one to blame, hide it and/or deny it loudly

lokar•18m ago
In today's information environment, why would you ever admit to anything that hurts you? There seems to be no penalty for dishonesty.
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2m ago
It depends who is president.