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

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
440•crorella•1h ago•343 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
301•alvis•1h ago•199 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
89•dmux•1h ago•19 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
348•rbanffy•6h ago•197 comments

DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-adv...
283•paimapi•2h ago•193 comments

New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
80•therepanic•3h ago•32 comments

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

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386•damaru2•9h ago•124 comments

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

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
25•rossant•1d ago•12 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
35•gumby•22h ago•5 comments

Without the Hot Air

https://www.withouthotair.com/
106•0sake_rs•6h ago•55 comments

Walking Men

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html
59•surprisetalk•1d ago•18 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
227•evakhoury•1d ago•40 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
197•nicowaltz•7h ago•82 comments

ChatGPT Pro 500

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers
125•prodigycorp•1h ago•112 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
141•czoido•10h ago•49 comments

You are no longer invited to dinner

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
598•barry-cotter•7h ago•556 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
79•amortize•1d ago•17 comments

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
45•ibobev•2d ago•14 comments

DevDay 2026 Recap

https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/
52•polygot•1h ago•15 comments

The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/oct-2026-battling-an-army-of-price-setters-owens-review/
22•paimapi•50m ago•8 comments

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

https://columnar.tech/blog/what-if-jev-spoke-arrow/
7•ianmcook•2h ago•1 comments

What Sentry's 16GB selfhosted taught me

https://epure.sh/blog/sentry-self-hosted-ram-warning
5•nonmaskable•1d ago•5 comments

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/29/google-ending-chromeos-support-two-years-earl...
133•rbanffy•4h ago•109 comments

1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622
175•colinprince•6h ago•102 comments

Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound

https://jevstiller.pages.dev/posts/the-guarantee/
48•tgluck•6h ago•6 comments

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for...
359•randycupertino•23h ago•862 comments

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-fo...
166•doener•1d ago•89 comments

macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/
375•SquareOrbits•4h ago•272 comments

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-s...
431•ilamont•7h ago•254 comments

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
85•airhangerf15•2d ago•7 comments
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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
25•rossant•1d ago

Comments

guiambros•1d ago
This is pretty sad. Seeing this a couple of years ago would be mind blowing. An impressive technical feat by someone with grit and resilience to painstakingly build this from scratch.

Today? Meh.

LarsDu88•57m ago
I had the exact same thought. I vibecoded a MOS6502 emulator a few months back in Rust. My Rust skill is weak, and I learned absolutely nothing about the 6502 or CPU design. Had I done it manually, there's also no way to prove I created it without LLM help making the whole exercise less appealing overall.
socializer•5m ago
> there's also no way to prove I created it without LLM help

You don't need to prove it, that was never a requirement. You can simply say it. The only complication is that there's a fair number of people who, for some reason, really want to pass LLM output as their own. They are present on HN too. But here's another ancient trick to overcome that: reputation. Either the reputation you already have, or reputation you build over time. If you have a reputation as an honest person with genuine interest in software, you really don't have to worry, and you will have audience for your work.

Retr0id•8m ago
Yup. I got excited for a bit, until I loaded the page and saw it was slop. I still would be impressed if someone actually took the time to learn about and implement it for themselves.
wang_li•1h ago
A nand gate takes 2 transistors. So 554,000 transistors if this were manufactured in a physical device.

By way of comparison, the Intel i386 had 275,000 transistors.

matja•55m ago
Most of the gate budget here is on SRAM used for system memory and video memory, so not exactly comparable to a i386 which had neither on-die.
ohazi•52m ago
4 transistors for a two-input NAND gate in CMOS.
jhallenworld•17m ago
1 transistor for DTL... certainly CMOS is more relevant.
HarHarVeryFunny•21m ago
ARM1 was only 25,000 transistors.
monocasa•59m ago
I was about to say that's a whole lot of gates for not a lot of computer, but then saw that rom and ram are also an array of nand gates.
Nurysso•8m ago
OHH my god this is soo awesome, I wonder how people build such things.
Retr0id•7m ago
They opened their AI agent and typed "make me a 16-bit computer built from NAND gates" and hit enter.