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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 released

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-availa...
42•throw0101d•14m ago•9 comments

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/
91•grep_it•2h ago•19 comments

Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-dont-machine-learning-research-agents-overfit
33•Betelbuddy•1h ago•14 comments

Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/
66•carllerche•2h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

https://www.neobrutalism.dev/
49•samke-•2h ago•28 comments

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
176•gregnavis•5h ago•195 comments

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

https://patrickmccanna.net/notes-on-migrating-large-prompts-away-from-anthropic-openai-to-self-ho...
84•0o_MrPatrick_o0•4h ago•35 comments

Cua (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Technical GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cua/jobs/1IWEKVH-founding-technical-gtm-lead
1•frabonacci•1h ago

A Beginning for Mathematics

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/
31•robinhouston•2h ago•3 comments

Steam Frame starts at $1059

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe
66•bsimpson•37m ago•16 comments

Truncated SVD (2023)

https://brashandplucky.com/2023/09/09/truncated-svd.html
18•ibobev•2h ago•1 comments

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion
44•lukaspetersson•49m ago•43 comments

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

https://xcancel.com/#
180•gaganyaan•8h ago•448 comments

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon

https://spectrum.ieee.org/adversarial-fashion
52•rbanffy•4h ago•25 comments

When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/when-llm-judges-agree-should-we-believe-them
16•Betelbuddy•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost

https://narilabs.com/blog/nari-labs-leads-coval-voice-ai-benchmarks/
7•toebee•1h ago•1 comments

Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-key-exchange-for-origins/
10•iamsyr•1h ago•2 comments

The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library

https://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-undermined-my-constant-time-javascript-l...
6•some_furry•2d ago•0 comments

How my e-reader lost its stripes

https://www.serpentine.com/posts/2026/x3-stripes/
13•simonmic•1h ago•1 comments

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

https://www.threebodyorbits.com/
257•danielmorozoff•2d ago•55 comments

The Tudor Kings

https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/09/11/the-tudor-kings/
11•ibobev•2h ago•1 comments

Claude is a Contrarian

https://medium.com/@rdsubhas/claude-is-a-contrarian-dbce4de5cada
76•rdsubhas•1h ago•86 comments

EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/
192•NKosmatos•9h ago•53 comments

Show HN: Is this photo edited? Client-side image forensics

https://vajba.com/image-forensics/
14•trivsamt•4d ago•3 comments

Trying to Make a Loop Auto-Vectorize

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/trying-to-make-a-loop-auto-vectorize/
31•zdw•4d ago•10 comments

A 386 PC for Your RP2350

https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-386
177•SamuraiLion•9h ago•60 comments

Things That Annoy Me About Cars

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/cars_suck.html
13•eustoria•2h ago•7 comments

Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260909005152.htm
43•bookofjoe•3d ago•31 comments

Transitions.dev: UI transitions for AI agents

https://transitions.dev/
16•eustoria•2h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives

https://gally.net/temp/20260914pelican-alternatives/index.html
60•tkgally•4h ago•25 comments
Open in hackernews

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion
44•lukaspetersson•49m ago

Comments

mcmcmc•39m ago
Filing false reports to the FBI is a crime. Why would anyone trust this with a real business? Y’all should be prosecuted
johnnyApplePRNG•39m ago
8 points in 9 minutes?!

Bullshit...

dang come on man ...

this is obvious spam

lukaspetersson•32m ago
I thought HN was good at filtering it? We didn't try to create any spam at least.
tomhow•24m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700834
Sivart13•38m ago
I wish we could go just one day without a company proudly engaging in Torment Nexus related activities.
lukaspetersson•30m ago
We think this is good for the world. Longer argument in the post.
mcmcmc•28m ago
You literally talk about committing a crime and blame it on a model
apsurd•17m ago
maybe ill read the article, but i mean you’re financially motivated to think its good for the world arent you?

humans are excellent at justification.

0gs•11m ago
did you link to the wrong page? because i read this one: https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion and it's just a bunch of the usual slop about how awesome your automated human-exploitation system is.
switchbak•2m ago
"By late 2025, frontier models had gotten good enough that running a real-life vending machine was no longer a challenge" ... is this satire? Isn't it kind of hard to lose money running a vending machine in a good location?
aschobel•37m ago
Ah, I wonder if it makes sense to also include the sign up link in the blog post? I had to click into the HN comments section to see your sign up link
lukaspetersson•31m ago
Good point. Here it is: https://andonlabs.com/pion
kaishiro•34m ago
The upvotes on this brand new post - almost 1 a minute, speak to a level of astro-turfing I've rarely seen here.
lukaspetersson•32m ago
It's not from us. Didn't send the link to a single person.
andriy_koval•31m ago
How can we know this?..
lukaspetersson•31m ago
No way to confirm. True.
tomhow•25m ago
The post was placed on the front page via second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). This happens all the time on HN.

The voting is legitimate; there's no evidence that the voting is from sockpuppets or anyone else connected with the team/project. We always monitor the discussion and the voting, and if the discussion is not of sufficient quality, the post will not stay on the front page for long.

SyneRyder•12m ago
shrug I upvoted, I'd already seen the Pion announcement on Twitter and read the link. I'm also a regular listener of Andon FM, so I'm interested in what they do and it's nice to finally sneak a peak at the interface that was driving things behind the scenes

Listening to the radio stations certainly gives an insight into the various failure modes. Some of them are just failure modes that any business would encounter once they make contact with the scale of the real world.

fcjr•30m ago
Pion is already the name of a very well established webrtc project: https://github.com/pion/webrtc
IsTom•18m ago
It's also a particle and a self-propelled gun. There's a limited number of short legible words.
Sean-Der•16m ago
I chose the name because of the particle.

I sent a letter to the Soviet Union asking if they were ok with me using the name, never heard back!

Sean-Der•17m ago
I am waiting for my trillion dollar offer to buy https://pion.ly !

Then I am all done fixing WebRTC bugs for life :')

LargeWu•28m ago
Does Pion run Andon Labs autonomously?
LargeWu•22m ago
Downvote if you want, but this is a very relevant question. If their marketing is to be believed, they would be eating their own dog food.

This very analog to the Meta executives who won't let their own kids near social media.

aschobel•13m ago
there seems to be a massive negativity to any comment on this story. Andolabs has been doing super interesting stuff, and I’ve always followed Vend Bench with interest.

as a founder it really is a dream to automated more of the business and be able to iterate faster.

LargeWu•7m ago
There's massive negativity because our bullshit detectors are going off.

First of all, I don't think it can do what it claims to do.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I don't think it should.

mcmcmc•5m ago
[delayed]
0gs•10m ago
haha no they admit they built it because they cannot build a revenue generating business in the article. maybe THAT is what is good for the world!
hartator•27m ago
Don’t get the negativity here, AI will replace everything sooner or later.
SandersAK•27m ago
read it as Prion, and hoo-boy, did that seem seriously ironic.
compiler-guy•27m ago
As I write this, the submitter has six comments out of twelve, most somewhat defensive. And all of them in less than thirty minutes. This seems very much like a marketing play, where the submitter is pretty determined to steer the narrative.

I recommend flagging.

tomhow•20m ago
The submitter's replies are defensive because people are accusing them of coordinated voting, which is not evident to us. The post hit the front page due to the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), then quickly got upvotes that seem completely authentic.
compiler-guy•14m ago
It would look a lot less like astroturf if the submitter let the discussion evolve instead of answering every criticism within seconds of it being posted.
mcmcmc•6m ago
[delayed]
ac29•26m ago
Relevant article about Andon Market: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-market-ai...
shagie•5m ago
The Swedish cafe experiment: https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden...

> San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs has put an artificial intelligence agent nicknamed “Mona” in charge at the eponymous Andon Café in the Swedish capital. While human baristas still brew the coffee and serve the orders, the AI agent — powered by Google’s Gemini — oversees almost every other aspect of the business, from hiring staff to managing inventory.

https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028289 48 points, 51 comments)

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-gemini-lost-money-andon-cafe

ValueTheory•25m ago
What is the point of this? It details a bunch of failed real-world experiments and invites the reader to run their own real-world experiment with their own money?

If you too, want to waste thousands of dollars having an LLM "run" a business, Pion might be for you.

DenisM•18m ago
I like to think the real world lessons in failures are valuable.

If I have this idea one day I will search for it and then think “how am I different fro that which already failed?”.

polytely•25m ago
how does this work from a liability standpoint? seems very risky for the person who is legally responsible for the business
ocimbote•11m ago
Accountability, that's the liability everyone seems to have forgotten in our LLM-driven era. You can close your eyes as much you want during your sessions with Claude or whatever, at the end of the day, only a human can be held accountable.
mym1990•9m ago
Not too hopeful here as we see the major labs continuously break rules and are not held accountable for anything. Accountability in general is on a major decline, in case no one has noticed.
piterrro•17m ago
Interesting to see these experiments. This is early but imagine in few years there will be companies mostly run by agents with a light overview from a human operator. What then happens to scaling of the bussinesses? I would assume, just like today anyone can vibe code an app, there will be vibecoded bussinesses. Maybe its time to start building infrastructure for these bussinesses instead, its a non existent market yet, but give it a few years.
rush86999•6m ago
I'm actively working towards this goal. Not sure how many are doing the same. Hopefully, I'm ahead of the curve --- https://github.com/rush86999/atom
cryptonector•3m ago
yawn
cyanydeez•22m ago
it's interesting how the torment nexus is starting large, and boiling the most people with the "most comfortable" lives. I wonder how long the white collar workers will keep bending over to keep their lives safet, particularly when they're building the Torment Nexus to specifically torment them.

You'd think Meta's "we're going to spy on you for the good of the country" policy would have set them a bit on fire.