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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
321•specked-citrus•7h ago•185 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
38•srcreigh•2h ago•23 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
378•Ardakilic•10h ago•105 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
184•jmvldz•1d ago•177 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
175•pancomplex•14h ago•76 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
127•fratellobigio•7h ago•225 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
124•pseudolus•3h ago•22 comments

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-select-distinct-does-not-scale
29•KraftyOne•1d ago•4 comments

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-flor...
105•HotGarbage•3h ago•34 comments

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-...
137•luispa•7h ago•101 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
145•ibobev•13h ago•149 comments

Two and a half years without a gallbladder

https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/16/two-and-a-half-years-without-a-gallbladder/
12•surprisetalk•1d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

https://hackeratlas.com/
28•andrearitossa•15h ago•8 comments

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/
54•epestr•18h ago•13 comments

Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

https://adekau.github.io/posts/2020/llamas.html
17•cebert•1d ago•0 comments

Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

https://spectrum.ieee.org/serotonin-stress-smart-contact-lens
28•marc__1•6h ago•5 comments

Remembering Johannes Doerfert

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-24-rememberingjohannesdoerfert/
68•sdko•1d ago•2 comments

First Principles Thinking

https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
243•sunils34•14h ago•104 comments

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
417•cramer4next•13h ago•734 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
7•EA-3167•1d ago•0 comments

TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system

https://robertsdotpm.github.io/_static/tiddlyinstall.html
11•Uptrenda•4h ago•11 comments

How video games inspire great UX (2019)

https://jenson.org/games/
112•andsoitis•5d ago•16 comments

Show HN: A game about fake news and memes

https://unspin.app/
12•azermite•4h ago•9 comments

An airport cooled by natural ventilation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/didnt-need-air-conditioning-airport-cooled-na...
61•Geekette•18h ago•32 comments

Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy

https://gmays.com/making-math-automatic-with-mathy/
83•gmays•4d ago•24 comments

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/
160•cdrnsf•8h ago•94 comments

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-wi...
99•sbulaev•14h ago•93 comments

Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1
11•kdautaj•7h ago•2 comments

What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-analyze-college-football-like-the-cia
48•adam•15h ago•25 comments

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment
371•yurivish•17h ago•137 comments
Open in hackernews

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
35•srcreigh•2h ago

Comments

siavosh•51m ago
Like most of us I go back and forth between sheer optimism and fear for the future that AI may usher in. Recently I started vibe coding a fun video game with my ten year old. The experience is different than my work because it’s been such a joy to basically have a personal genie in a bottle help me make some personal art with a loved one regardless of either of our skill sets. The concept the author of this post is arguing now resonates with me more than it would have a few weeks ago. The sheer surface area that AI can create in our intellectual life is limitless and needs humans to explore. There can never be enough of us in that sense. Whether it’s as validators or creators.
demibabs•20m ago
Certainly humans can enjoy exploring such things, but will they really be needed?
dozerly•13m ago
What does needed even mean? To produce shareholder value? Maybe not. To explore thoughts and ideas humans have for fun? Certainly
awepofiwaop•12m ago
To make money in order to eat food and have a home.
inopinatus•9m ago
Money will become unnecessary. The future Anthro Park will no doubt provide a safe enclosure, feeding at regular intervals, and an enriching environment for you and your fellow semi-evolved simians.
RealityVoid•7m ago
The current approach to resource distribution worked so far. When it stops working because we have too much abundance, we'll settle on another one.

That doesn't mean the transition will be smooth. It doesn't mean that certain classes won't be worse off. I can certainly imagine programmers being among the losers. And there certainly are futures where we slide in dystopia. So let's try building the good futures. Alea iacta est.

siavosh•5m ago
If AI leads to an era of abundance, then the economic system has to change. The system it transitions to and what that transition looks like will need to be fought for, and I imagine it’ll be done better in some places than others. Yet I think the parallel existential question of meaning in this world is one that is inherently optimistic. Humans decide meaning, it is not something imposed on us or taken away by the existence of something else.
atleastoptimal•35m ago
It would be nice to have more mathematicians, but we don't need more. Once AI math goes so far beyond human abilities, any human involvement is like an ant trying to understand quantum physics
rvz•29m ago
> Once AI math goes so far beyond human abilities, any human involvement is like an ant trying to understand quantum physics

This makes no sense whatsoever.

We need more, because there will always be far more difficult problems yet to be discovered and solved, and that means, we certainly need expert humans to define and verify them.

If you cannot even explain the problem you are facing, not only you don't understand it, but you certainly would not be able to know if the AI solved your problem correctly.

WarmWash•27m ago
>and that means we need expert humans to define and verify them.

And this will be true for how long? 3-4 months?

rvz•21m ago
As long as there are problems to discover and solve, which is forever.

The risk of liability is a social problem that is far more difficult to be solved with technical solutions even with AI.

jahbrewski•28m ago
Even if that happens, what’s the point if there’s no human involvement? AI doing math for math’s sake? And doing what with it?
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inopinatus•28m ago
> Imagine that a future AI system proposes a radically new design for a one terawatt nuclear fusion power plant

This is an unfortunate example to choose, being as it is entirely confounded by the canonical illustration of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality.

macrolocal•26m ago
Russell once remarked that all of mathematics would be trivial to a sufficiently intelligent being. It builds conceptual tools for limited minds, that lets them understand far beyond their natural reach.

In a world with ASI, having that capacity is vital.

algorithm314•17m ago
Life is all about tradeoffs. Mathematics have no tradeoffs. We need more engineers.
inopinatus•14m ago
Life is all about purpose. Mathematicians are instead concerned with meaning. We need more philosophers.
bluejay2387•7m ago
"I have in mind something like a “deployable intellectual reserve”: communities of mathematically sophisticated people that humanity can call upon to help understand consequential AI-enabled breakthroughs. " -- I can't be the only one who thought about the scene where the scientists ask Deep Thought the ultimate question...
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17m ago
I don't understand how to make a modern CPU. I'm not involved in the manufacturing of it. From my perspective, there may as well not be any human involvement. I can still use the resulting chip (in an larger system of other things I can't make and wasn't involved in) to argue with you on the internet.

It becomes another abstraction, really. As long as we can use it for something useful, it's still valuable.

awepofiwaop•10m ago
At some level of abstraction it's all built around allowing you to do some work/play/etc that you understand. Some of that work allows you to make money and eat food.

If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?

rudy6912•12m ago
> AI doing math for math's sake?

Yes, why not? And, of course, AI doing math for AI.

We may not be needed forever...

chadcmulligan•26m ago
There was this old TV series 'Fame' when I was a kid, there was a piano player that was at the school, he didn't want to perform though - he just wanted to play the most intricate complex music, the professor rightly pointed out what good is music if no one else can her it. Isn't AI math the same (assuming it gets to this point, yet to be proved) what good is it if no one can use it - just the AI's showing off to each other, if that does happen we'll need more mathematicians to show the rest of us what they're going on about. I find it an exciting time, imagine if we can accelerate a few hundred years into 20, wow, the one problem is capitalism won't work, so sad, we'll figure out something else.
gaigalas•18m ago
Need? We don't need lots of things, including computers. We did well without them for hundreds of thousands of years.

We want to understand. Quantum physics, mathematics, how stuff works. Ants don't.

That want is not a given, not all of us have that drive. In fact, very few of us have it. So far though, it seems multiple disconnected civilizations learned to keep that trait going instead of suppressing it and focusing only on practical ant-like activities.