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

(postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling-millions-of-counterfeit-postage-labels/)

88 points by ilamont 2 hours ago | loading comments

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

(openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/)

664 points by crorella 5 hours ago | loading comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

(spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss)

396 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | loading comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

(github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit)

173 points by therepanic 6 hours ago | loading comments

Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

(github.com/lostmsu/TurboGPT)

24 points by lostmsu 3 hours ago | loading comments

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

(somethingbig.ai/computer)

75 points by rossant 2 days ago | loading comments

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

(space.bl2.net/)

29 points by wanick 3 hours ago | loading comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1

(www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html)

208 points by dmux 5 hours ago | loading comments

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

(jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf)

398 points by damaru2 13 hours ago | loading comments

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Dots: Always-on agents

(openai.com/index/introducing-dots/)

400 points by alvis 5 hours ago | loading comments

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America.gov

(america.gov/)

158 points by plesiv 8 hours ago | loading comments

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

(cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/)

23 points by joebig 2 days ago | loading comments

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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

(jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/)

246 points by evakhoury a day ago | loading comments

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

(www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html)

60 points by gumby a day ago | loading comments

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Ask HN: What are you reading?

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64 points by dan-bailey 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Without the Hot Air

(www.withouthotair.com/)

127 points by 0sake_rs 9 hours ago | loading comments

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C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game

(gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/)

9 points by a1r 3 days ago | loading comments

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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

(www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities)

128 points by Philpax 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

(github.com/PostHog/jeeves)

214 points by nicowaltz 11 hours ago | loading comments

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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

(sujithjay.com/inventing-work)

134 points by amortize a day ago | loading comments

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Walking Men

(bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html)

69 points by surprisetalk a day ago | loading comments

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ChatGPT Pro 500

(help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers)

160 points by prodigycorp 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Using any C++ library in Godot

(blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html)

152 points by czoido 13 hours ago | loading comments

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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/)

112 points by zaik 3 hours ago | loading comments

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You are no longer invited to dinner

(www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host)

678 points by barry-cotter 11 hours ago | loading comments

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Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

(gamersnexus.net/news-features/memory-companies-have-destroyed-consumer-market)

74 points by DeepLogin 2 hours ago | loading comments

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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

(www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising)

503 points by paimapi 5 hours ago | loading comments

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DevDay 2026 Recap

(openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/)

80 points by polygot 5 hours ago | loading comments

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

(bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/)