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'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/25/midterms-partisan-ai-chatbots-01092138
8•JumpCrisscross•2d ago

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nom•1d ago
why are they trying so hard to give it a name?
neoCrimeLabs•49m ago
I presume because if it has a name, it's easier to control the narrative with a larger group of people
add-sub-mul-div•45m ago
Same reason anything else has a name? So you can refer to it without having to describe it from scratch each time.
bethekidyouwant•38m ago
Incredibly before AI we would just go to reputable unbiased sources and we’re all very well informed voters indeed.

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
88•bryan0•1h ago•44 comments

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
149•ilamont•4h ago•79 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
745•crorella•6h ago•683 comments

Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

https://enigma.design
14•primitivesuave•6h ago•1 comments

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/
8•birdculture•7h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
80•wanick•4h ago•23 comments

UnoDOS

https://github.com/hmofet/unodos
10•nicoloren•1h ago•5 comments

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keep...
30•devonnull•5h ago•16 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
104•rossant•2d ago•54 comments

How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

https://railcode.dev/blog/vibe-coded-website
30•yakkomajuri•53m ago•20 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
285•plesiv•9h ago•230 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
421•rbanffy•11h ago•247 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
219•therepanic•8h ago•119 comments

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation
10•pseudolus•5h ago•3 comments

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

https://theconversation.com/when-oil-prices-spike-where-does-the-money-go-280763
12•thelastgallon•19h ago•2 comments

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
405•damaru2•14h ago•128 comments

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
13•Anon84•12h ago•0 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
45•HieronymusBosch•10h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts

https://github.com/Cardinal44/corral
10•CG144•23h ago•1 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
257•evakhoury•1d ago•43 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
229•dmux•6h ago•78 comments

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html
79•gumby•1d ago•27 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

118•dan-bailey•10h ago•296 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
74•bketelsen•9h ago•58 comments

Commodore 64: Mercenary

https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/
18•a1r•3d ago•4 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
444•alvis•6h ago•336 comments

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser/
12•tosh•2h ago•3 comments

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
33•joebig•2d ago•2 comments

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-certificate-authority/
27•ewpratten•10h ago•7 comments

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

https://thill.me/2026/07/16/corn-puzzle-sat-solver.html
32•luu•2d ago•15 comments