The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

125 inputmice 2026-09-16 11:42:16 UTC gultsch.social Full Share 89

Attached: 1 image This is unacceptable. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week. I understand that the pipeline is clogged with AI slop, but #Google needs to prioritize #Android apps that have been around for 12+ years and push updates only once a month.

Salesforce Global Outage

119 mabil 2026-09-16 10:42:16 UTC status.salesforce.com Full Share 54

EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

552 hackernj 2026-09-16 10:42:16 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 611

The European Commission's president backs Canada as the EU's first associate member, offering closer ties on various sectors. This move aims to strengthen Europe and Canada's partnership amid tensions with the US over trade.

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

202 vertigoruntime 2026-09-16 08:42:16 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 63

Mozilla and Mistral partner to bring AI-powered browsing with privacy, control, and choice. Firefox Smart Window now uses Mistral models for users in France, North America, UK, and Germany.

Introducing System One Models and Jev

1564 albelfio 2026-09-15 19:42:16 UTC typesafe.ai Llama Share 435

TypeSafe AI has released its first System One Model, Jev, which is a new class of frontier models built to make fast and structured decisions that software can use directly. Jev achieves similar intelligence as existing LLMs but is two orders of magnitude faster and more efficient.

ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds

12 sagenschneider 2026-09-16 13:02:16 UTC github.com/officefloor Llama Share 11

The ImpactGate tool measures and gates the structural decay of changes in code, scoring them against a base branch with a change-impact measure. It can be run as a standalone CLI, pre-commit hook, or plugin in various CI/CD tools like GitHub, GitLab, and Jenkins.

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

1767 arnemunthekaas 2026-09-15 13:42:16 UTC github.com/arnegiacomo Llama Share 214

A Raspberry Pi-based e-ink bird frame uses AI for real-time bird detection, displaying hand-cut 1800s illustrations of birds heard in the garden. The project is still in development and welcomes contributions to improve its features and artwork.

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

344 imwally 2026-09-16 02:42:16 UTC security.apple.com Llama Share 231

Apple Reference Image is a new camera feature that generates a secure, timestamped reference image to prove the authenticity of photos taken with an iPhone. This system uses hardware and software security measures, including Private Cloud Compute and post-quantum signatures, to ensure the integrity and verifiability of images captured by an iPhone camera sensor.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

0 2026-09-16 12:42:16 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Kyber is building an AI-native document platform for enterprises, seeking a future founder and early-career engineer to manage technical relationships with customers. The role involves owning the full technical sales delivery lifecycle, representing Kyber directly to enterprise stakeholders, and resolving customer-reported issues.

Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

77 rbanffy 2026-09-16 12:42:16 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 17

A Canadian retro hardware enthusiast successfully reverse-engineered and dumped the 'magic security chip' from a PlayStation 2, after four years of effort. This achievement is expected to benefit game preservation, repair, and emulation projects.

An update on Wayback Machine access

601 ChrisArchitect 2026-09-15 18:42:16 UTC blog.archive.org Llama Share 322

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has been hit by automated traffic, and protections have been put in place to prevent abuse. If you were blocked in error, email [email protected] with your details for assistance.

Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure

31 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2026-09-16 10:42:16 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 14

BBC production teams filmed Doctor Who episodes in Cambridge in 1979, but strike action halted completion. The story 'Shada' was later completed with animation and released in 2017 nearly four decades after its initial abandonment.

Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go

10 peterldowns 2026-09-16 13:03:16 UTC cloudx.ai Llama Share 1

CloudX has developed a drop-in equivalent to GitHub's official actions/setup-go action, which speeds up parallel Golang continuous integration workflows by 69%. The new setup-go action uses a more complete cache key construction method.

Doing Everyone Else's Job

131 luu 2026-09-16 03:42:16 UTC yosefk.com Llama Share 61

The author suggests that doing someone else's job can be beneficial for learning and growth, especially in organizations where many people do 80% of the work but only a few do 20%. This approach can lead to indirect rewards and help improve outcomes.

Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

271 rkotcher 2026-09-16 02:42:16 UTC inflightsimulator.com Full Share 146

Fly to every country as a passenger. Choose your next destination and collect country flags automatically as your flights finish.

Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

112 moneroloop2018 2026-09-16 09:42:16 UTC blog.ploeh.dk Llama Share 76

A reader is seeking advice on learning programming in the age of LLMs, questioning whether to focus on fundamental skills or rely on AI. They are unsure about their relationship with AI and its impact on the job market.

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works

13 driverdan 2026-09-16 13:20:16 UTC wired.com Llama Share 2

Hackers stole data from a Flock camera, revealing how it tracks vehicles and people, and shared the files with media outlets. The breach shows that Flock's cameras can detect license plates, vehicles, bicycles, and even bumper stickers.

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

447 leumon 2026-09-15 17:42:16 UTC blog.google Llama Share 301

Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking models offer near real-time reasoning for voice agents, enabling more intuitive conversations with AI. These models deliver high-complexity task completion and strong reasoning capabilities at a competitive price point.

We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation

40 Tomte 2026-09-16 08:42:16 UTC statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Full Share 3

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

85 pythonic_hell 2026-09-16 03:42:16 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 15

Local LMs can accurately answer 88.7% of real-world queries, with efficiency improving over time and local accelerators offering significant power savings compared to cloud infrastructure. A unified metric called intelligence per watt (IPW) measures the capability and efficiency of local inference across model-accelerator configurations.

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

374 ADevWithAnIdea 2026-09-15 19:42:16 UTC codyho.dev Llama Share 220

A team built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month, using reverse engineering techniques to understand Apple's GPU firmware ABI and user-space components.

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

246 summarity 2026-09-15 21:42:16 UTC rheinmetall.github.io Llama Share 93

The onboardapi library enables seamless communication between sensor systems and software components using a standardized data model. It supports multi-language integration via wrappers for Java, C#, .NET, and Python while leveraging the DDS standard for reliable data exchange.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

295 jaykru 2026-09-15 21:42:16 UTC dank.systems Llama Share 386

The Frontier Labs' AI models are not yet fully autonomous due to limitations in their ability to generalize and handle complex tasks, requiring human oversight. Only a few firms can accept the use of fully autonomous LLMs, mainly those that can afford rigorous specification and validation or have existing clear guardrails for specific tasks.

A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX

43 JPLeRouzic 2026-09-16 06:42:16 UTC forum.vcfed.org Llama Share 16

A developer built a GPS-driven moving map display in the 90s for a client, using a 486-SX CPU and ROM. The software used an alternative library called Hipparchus that reduced math calculations to integers, making it twice as fast as early consumer-grade GPS devices.

Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

153 zdw 2026-09-15 23:42:16 UTC nand2mario.github.io Llama Share 41

The author has successfully implemented the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics accelerator on an FPGA, creating a DOS PC with Voodoo graphics running in the programmable logic of a Xilinx KV260 board. The system can run games like Tomb Raider at high frame rates.

Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New

97 bananaboy 2026-09-16 03:42:16 UTC blog.archive.org Llama Share 26

Negativland, an experimental sound collage group, released its first album in 1980 and has since produced over 30 albums and collaborated on various multimedia projects. The band's work challenges conventions around media, copyright, and artistic freedom.

Better routing, probe fixes, plugin updates in Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1507

14 ArneBab 2026-09-16 09:42:16 UTC hyphanet.org Llama Share 1

Freenet/Hyphanet has been updated to use Java 17 and includes bug fixes for anonymization, startup speed, and localization. The update also improves code robustness and adds new features such as UTF-8 support.

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub

302 bearsyankees 2026-09-15 18:42:16 UTC strix.ai Llama Share 171

A security company used Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, to scan Baseten's GitHub repositories for vulnerabilities. The scan found a live GitHub personal access token with admin and push access to Baseten's main product repo since March 2023.

Let's make quality the norm again

430 ingve 2026-09-15 13:42:16 UTC forbrukerradet.no Full Share 442

A more circular economy is not only important for the environment. It can also strengthen consumer rights and improve societal resilience. In this report, we show how consumer policy can make circular choices easier, safer and more attractive for consumers.

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

350 bashtian 2026-09-15 13:42:16 UTC withcapsule.app Llama Share 149

Capsule is a portable app that bundles UI, data, and everything into a single .capsule file with no cloud or accounts. It allows for offline access and cross-platform compatibility without cloud storage or subscriptions.