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GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
1328•OfficialTurkey•10h ago•647 comments

Claude Opus 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
1338•km144•12h ago•865 comments

US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj3dgy8x3vro
87•1659447091•2h ago•65 comments

Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/09/transit-rewards/
34•raybb•1h ago•17 comments

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
604•sohkamyung•14h ago•373 comments

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/
491•spenvo•10h ago•348 comments

Data-Only Attacks Are Easier Than You Think

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/data-only-attacks-are-easier-you-think
6•segfaultbuserr•52m ago•0 comments

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

https://foxscript.org/
237•boredjohnny•7h ago•151 comments

ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI
98•nateb2022•2d ago•31 comments

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

https://www.kqed.org/science/2002033/heres-what-california-is-learning-from-solar-panels-built-ov...
163•Jtsummers•1d ago•249 comments

SAML: A fractal of bad design

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
190•aray07•9h ago•117 comments

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5
257•theanonymousone•11h ago•77 comments

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp
168•vntok•12h ago•87 comments

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/
257•ibobev•4d ago•95 comments

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
517•devonnull•9h ago•254 comments

MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-09-20-muni-heritage-weekend/
180•plun9•2d ago•47 comments

Delta: Highly available, strongly consistent storage using chain replication (2022)

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/05/04/data-infrastructure/delta/
8•grep_it•1d ago•0 comments

The Softness of Metal

https://psyche.co/turning-points/his-frailty-made-ozzys-final-gig-true-heavy-metal
10•NaOH•1d ago•1 comments

No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls

https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2026/08/27/no-easy-fix-for-bogus-respondents-in-online-opt-in...
4•luu•1d ago•0 comments

The current balance of power in open models

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open
60•gmays•6h ago•21 comments

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/
273•JohnBerryman•13h ago•199 comments

People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/to-quit-vaping-some-are-starting-to-smoke
135•alephnerd•1d ago•139 comments

Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

https://obscura.com/#faq-technical
100•Flimm•9h ago•84 comments

Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models

https://benchmarkheaven.com/jev-models
81•florianstandhar•15h ago•20 comments

Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

https://github.com/geastack/examples
94•arbayi•8h ago•34 comments

George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts

https://commonedge.org/george-lucas-returns-to-earth-bearing-gifts/
95•surprisetalk•1d ago•55 comments

Unreal Agent

https://unreallabs.ai/blog/unreal-agent/
147•trollied•10h ago•91 comments

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/side-step-secretary-problem-hiring/index.html
67•pvdebbe•1d ago•11 comments

Markdown in /src

https://htmx.org/essays/markdown-in-src/
106•perrygeo•1d ago•53 comments

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-pe...
661•MC995•14h ago•489 comments
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Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/09/transit-rewards/
34•raybb•1h ago

Comments

dcrazy•35m ago
Meanwhile, the 47 Muni bus that connects the Van Ness transit corridor to Caltrain has been “suspended” since 2020, and the extension of Caltrain to the transit center is still unfunded.

I appreciate solutions that meet us where we are, but it’s depressing that we don’t seem to actually have the will to make a sustainable, integrated mass transit plan.

8f2ab37a-ed6c•28m ago
In the Bay Area it's easier to create AGI than reliable, consistent, clean public transit.
tristanj•18m ago
The reason there's not more public transit is because the economics are terrible. Looking at the financials:

  Cost per passenger trip:
    BART: $840M / 52.7M trips = $15.94 
    SF Muni: $1.13B / 160M trips = $7.06
    Caltrain: $225M / 9.1M trips = $24.73

  Passenger Fare collected per trip:
    BART: $244M / 52.7M trips = $4.63
    SF Muni: $111M / 160M trips = $0.69
    Caltrain: $58.7M / 9.1M trips = $6.45

  Subsidy per trip:
    BART: $11.31
    SF Muni: $6.37
    Caltrain: $18.27
Every single ride requires a $6 to $18 subsidy, paid for by tax dollars.
tyzoid•14m ago
Are you factoring in fixed costs to that estimate? That may be partially misleading if so.
what•7m ago
How is it misleading? Taking the total cost to operate and dividing by the number of rides tells you what it costs per ride.

I’d be more interested to know how so many people are paying less than $1 for a mini trip when the fare is closer to $3.

dcrazy•7m ago
But the Bay Area’s highway networks are at saturation during peak hours. 101 and 280 are at least as bad as before the pandemic.

We have under-utilized transit corridors that could alleviate much of this strain if they weren’t so damn far away from where the people sitting in traffic want to go.

anewhnaccount2•1m ago
Infrastructure for cars is massively subsidised too. Since tansport is infrastructure it it interacts with everything else (eg less cars in the city => less spending on car infra) and has a lot of positive externalities. The investment pays back in positive outcomes which can also be quantified in terms of money of you like. It's like you've got a balance sheet but you're filtering it to only look at two items.
novia•30m ago
Waymo pays you $2.85 in Waymo credit to take the train

(Waymo takes $2.85 off your next ride if you take the train)

I live in East Bay, and I often take gratuitous Waymo trips all the way across the city to Embarcadero Station to ride BART back home. I do this because I like seeing the pretty skyscrapers and the bustling city and the pretty townhomes painted interesting colors. They may want to rethink their reward structure a bit to avoid paying out to people like me.

evmar•21m ago
A trick I learned from an east bay friend is that (when possible) the bus across the bridge is way nicer than the BART under the bay, especially around sunset.
novia•10m ago
Yeah but then you're on a bus...
lern_too_spel•8m ago
It's a double decker.
nonethewiser•19m ago
I never considered that. But if you dont have to be anywhere else why not.
novia•4m ago
Make traffic for everyone else worse with this one easy tip
lokar•20m ago
I would really like a full door to door with one payment. Put in the destination, one price and get a Waymo on each end. React as best as possible to delays, etc.
kelnos•19m ago
Ugh, looks like this only works if you pay for the Waymo with a Visa card, and also use that same Visa card to pay for transit. I don't use a credit card for transit in SF; I use my Clipper transit card.

I get that integrating with the Clipper system is a lot more difficult, but... c'mon.