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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
256•moultano•1h ago•156 comments

Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html
160•anitil•3h ago•46 comments

GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1937•kibae•18h ago•1744 comments

IBM Bob

https://bob.ibm.com/
23•artpar•47m ago•15 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1988•pavel_lishin•22h ago•487 comments

O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
47•embedding-shape•2h ago•24 comments

Ok, but Does It Scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale
20•theanonymousone•56m ago•0 comments

Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region

https://github.com/hawshemi/lg-c5-webos25-region-change
14•hawshemi•48m ago•6 comments

SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer
1•alexchantavy•1h ago

Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building

https://www.starelevator.com/projects/star-elevator-modernization-of-the-metropolis-trust-building
44•palashawas•3d ago•15 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
609•altertable•19h ago•203 comments

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it

https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/
83•andychiare•2d ago•53 comments

Why is Arrays.fill 265 times slower on G1GC?

https://krzysztofslusarski.github.io/2026/08/19/g1barrier.html
9•ejboy•3d ago•1 comments

Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/nearly-impossible-how-fairphone-built-the-ethical-repaira...
22•CrypticShift•54m ago•11 comments

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-...
320•beardyw•6h ago•126 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
386•feb•2d ago•275 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
302•speckx•21h ago•96 comments

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
146•theanonymousone•4d ago•71 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
380•gmays•1d ago•142 comments

Norway's Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly $80B in U.S. Treasurys

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/norways-oil-fund-proposes-cut-to-government-bond-holdings-d...
10•toomuchtodo•22m ago•0 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
322•rabahs•23h ago•106 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

https://gwern.net/xanadu
98•andsoitis•11h ago•27 comments

1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260828-the-startling-1960s-theory-that-stonehenge-was-a-pre...
51•dabinat•4d ago•56 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
253•screm•16h ago•117 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
312•karimf•22h ago•115 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
198•thread_id•1d ago•118 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

109•sukit•1d ago•130 comments

Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

https://carbonawarepricing.com/
69•High-Five•5h ago•52 comments

Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life with His Simulation Software

https://spectrum.ieee.org/oscar-winner-jernej-barbic
18•jruohonen•3d ago•1 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
137•nsm•2d ago•57 comments
Open in hackernews

Why is Arrays.fill 265 times slower on G1GC?

https://krzysztofslusarski.github.io/2026/08/19/g1barrier.html
9•ejboy•3d ago

Comments

hyperpape•12m ago
I'm genuinely curious about the effect, but I simply don't have patience for the AI writing. Can anyone give an actual non-garbage explanation with some respect for the reader?

Slightly less annoying summary from ChatGPT free: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9ac7a3-15a0-83eb-8c2a-6f72cd9beb....

Caveat emptor: it makes high level sense, but I haven’t thought about it in detail.