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

747 crorella 2026-09-29 17:06:45 UTC openai.com Llama Share 685

GPT-6.1 Sol is a new upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, offering improved performance and cost savings for everyday work tasks. It matches GPT-6 Astra's intelligence at one-fifth of its standard input and output token prices, delivering substantial improvements across complex professional tasks.

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

712 barry-cotter 2026-09-29 11:14:45 UTC derekthompson.org Llama Share 651

Americans have seen a significant decline in socializing over the past few decades, with hosting dinner parties and attending community events decreasing by 70% since 1975. This decline is attributed to various factors, including increased busyness due to work and parenting responsibilities, decreased leisure time, and the rise of solo activities like watching TV or exercising.

DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

522 paimapi 2026-09-29 16:30:48 UTC eff.org Llama Share 366

DraftKings uses AI to target losing gamblers with personalized ads, raising concerns about predatory online behavioral advertising. The company's practice highlights the need for a ban on all behavioral advertising to prevent harm to vulnerable individuals.

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

466 ilamont 2026-09-29 11:35:18 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 286

A 6-month trial of live facial recognition in London's railway stations cost £320,000 and led to only one incorrect alert. The technology aimed to catch offenders but failed to make any arrests during the trial period.

Dots: Always-on agents

444 alvis 2026-09-29 17:07:57 UTC openai.com Llama Share 337

Dots are AI-powered agents that assist users with tasks, learn from feedback and adapt to their needs. They can connect to various apps, work independently or in teams, and provide 24/7 support for ambitious projects.

macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

435 SquareOrbits 2026-09-29 14:32:33 UTC squareorbits.com Llama Share 307

The author reviews macOS 27 Golden Gate, finding numerous bugs and issues with its performance, stability, and user experience. Despite Apple's promise of a more responsive and delightful experience, the reviewer encounters alignment problems, broken third-party apps, and other usability issues.

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

421 rbanffy 2026-09-29 12:43:29 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 247

The author recounts a common scene in 2002 Delhi where frequent power outages plagued the city, causing chaos and economic losses. However, over the past quarter century, Delhi's grid has transformed into a reliable system with minimal power losses.

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

406 damaru2 2026-09-29 09:03:41 UTC jorgegarciaherrero.com Llama Share 128

Conversational AI services are increasingly adopting advertising-based business models, which raises concerns about user privacy. A systematic analysis of nine prominent conversational AI services found that they expose sensitive information to third-party tracking services, including conversation-derived artifacts such as titles, prompts, and screenshots. These disclosures can be linked to ...

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

361 mywacaday 2026-09-29 11:44:25 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 353

The Dutch government is replacing its reliance on US-based software and services with a new system called DAWO, built around NixOS. The goal is to ensure the government's systems are not vulnerable to being shut down by foreign countries like the US.

America.gov

293 plesiv 2026-09-29 14:04:57 UTC america.gov Full Share 237

Tcl/Tk 9.1

229 dmux 2026-09-29 17:13:38 UTC tcl-lang.org Full Share 78

Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 is the current development work on Tcl and Tk, aiming toward stable releases in September 2026. They add new features and interfaces to the foundation of Tcl/Tk 9.0. About this Site | [email protected] Home | About Tcl/Tk | Software | Core Development | Community | Documentation

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

228 colinprince 2026-09-29 12:33:50 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 126

Researchers found that 1 in 8 cancers worldwide are caused by infections, with Helicobacter pylori and human papillomavirus being the top two causes. The study highlights vast regional differences in cancer risk factors, with high-income countries doing better than lower- and medium-resourced countries.

PS5 Relapse Exploit

220 therepanic 2026-09-29 15:44:41 UTC github.com/ntfargo Llama Share 119

The project involves exploiting vulnerabilities in Webkit and kernel stages for educational research, using payloads stored in a specific directory and listening on port 9021. It warns users to use the software responsibly and at their own risk, as it may cause system instability or data loss.

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

220 nicowaltz 2026-09-29 11:13:54 UTC github.com/posthog Llama Share 85

A Jeeves model with a Qwen3.5-9B decision model, LoRA, and pointer head outperforms Kev-9B and Jev on test data without thinking, achieving 0.889 accuracy on unseen data. The model can be sped up by truncating chain length or using a drafter to reason before deciding.

AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

188 Betelbuddy 2026-09-29 19:21:25 UTC thenationalnews.com Llama Share 262

The AI industry needs to innovate and create new products to reach $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031, with enterprise productivity expected to contribute $1 trillion. Data centres are a key area of investment, requiring significant capital expenditure and addressing challenges such as power supply and public opinion.

ChatGPT Pro 500

184 prodigycorp 2026-09-29 17:26:27 UTC help.openai.com Llama Share 206

ChatGPT Pro now offers a new $500/month plan, Pro 500, with Astra Ultrafast. Existing users can upgrade or downgrade to the lower-priced Pro 200 plan without losing access until the end of their current billing period.

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

182 Philpax 2026-09-29 17:31:26 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 179

The latest AI model, GLM-5.3, has been released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse, allowing attackers to bypass its defenses between 64% and 100% of the time. This increases the cyber capabilities available to malicious actors.

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

181 rbanffy 2026-09-29 14:12:15 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 124

Google reduced support for Chromebooks from 10 years to 8 years, affecting devices purchased today. The company plans to transition users to Googlebook OS with new licenses required.

Tank Body Problem

179 jimbooonooo 2026-09-29 00:41:45 UTC jimsitu.com Full Share 53

↑↓ Elevate │ ←→ Power │ A/D Move │ J/L Weapon │ SPACE Fire │ SPACE AGAIN = Laser/Plumage │ Cheese bounces 3x │ Poison drops bubbles │ Moon gravity

U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

178 thelastgallon 2026-09-29 02:26:59 UTC oilprice.com Llama Share 220

US crude stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 283.8 million barrels, a new multi-decade low, due to previous releases authorized by President Trump and coordinated with other IEA member countries. The reserve is now testing its operational minimum of around 250-300 million barrels on hand for efficient pumping and processing oil.

Claude partial outage

169 sidcool 2026-09-29 14:25:41 UTC status.claude.com Full Share 143

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API.

Using any C++ library in Godot

154 czoido 2026-09-29 08:40:37 UTC blog.conan.io Llama Share 54

Godot is a free, open-source game engine that allows developers to create 2D and 3D games using GDScript or C++. It can load native code through GDExtension and godot-cpp bindings.

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

152 ilamont 2026-09-29 19:30:17 UTC postalemployeenetwork.com Llama Share 79

US Postal Inspection Service seized an internet domain for operating a counterfeit website selling over 5 million fake USPS postage labels, resulting in $126 million losses. A Pakistani national, Faheem Akram, is charged with conspiracy and wire fraud related to the scheme.

Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

152 dkobia 2026-09-29 14:15:24 UTC appleinsider.com Full Share 40

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

134 zaik 2026-09-29 19:15:58 UTC statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Full Share 90

Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

134 0sake_rs 2026-09-29 12:38:18 UTC withouthotair.com Full Share 79

Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning

131 pranshuchittora 2026-09-29 08:26:28 UTC twitter.com/gergelyorosz Llama Share 72

Firebase's iOS SDK has caused all apps using it to crash, leaving developers unable to function. This incident is reminiscent of the Facebook swizzling crash in 2018 and highlights concerns over Firebase's engineering capabilities.

1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

127 henrychannel 2026-09-29 00:06:48 UTC lolchat.rip Full Share 46

The chat rooms of COMETLINK, a 1996 online service with mail, news and a web of its own. Sign on and drop into rooms where the regulars are still talking.

Ask HN: What are you reading?

119 dan-bailey 2026-09-29 13:44:43 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 302

The user is currently reading various books, including sci-fi and fantasy novels, historical non-fiction, and philosophical texts. They are also watching TV shows like Reacher S1 and Deadwood.

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

95 DeepLogin 2026-09-29 19:27:41 UTC gamersnexus.net Llama Share 74

Memory manufacturers have shifted to long-term agreements with fewer customers, breaking the cyclical pricing nature of the market and increasing prices for consumers. This shift is expected to reduce volatility but may lead to higher floor prices and potentially destroy the economy if a bubble forms.

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

94 bryan0 2026-09-29 22:36:14 UTC github.com/ninjahawk Llama Share 56

Livenerf is a benchmark designed to detect whether a frontier model gets worse after launch, using Claude Opus 5.5 as the test subject. It measures drift statistically over thousands of samples and provides detailed statistics on accuracy changes and output token counts.

DevDay 2026 Recap

88 polygot 2026-09-29 17:07:45 UTC openai.com Llama Share 41

OpenAI is releasing new features for its AI platform, including GPT-6.1 Sol and Ultrafast, to improve performance and speed. These updates will be available on Pro 500 and Enterprise plans.

The new Firefox design is here

84 timpera 2026-09-29 13:16:10 UTC blog.mozilla.org Llama Share 136

Firefox has updated its design with a new look and features, including Compact Mode and a theme picker. The browser now offers more choices for customization while maintaining its unique personality and focus on user privacy.

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

82 wanick 2026-09-29 19:08:01 UTC space.bl2.net Full Share 23

Тяни — вращать, колесо — приблизить, клик — карточка и орбита, двойной клик — лететь к телу. WASD — полёт, R/F — вверх/вниз, Q/E и стрелки — поворот, Shift — быстрее. Клик по названию группы — подсветить, 👁 — орбиты

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

81 paimapi 2026-09-29 18:09:50 UTC prospect.org Llama Share 104

The article discusses how corporations use various tactics to manipulate prices, including personalized pricing and price controls. Lindsay Owens' book "Gouged" exposes these practices and argues that they harm consumers.

US Forces Exit Iraq

76 cod1r 2026-09-29 07:04:26 UTC reuters.com Full Share 115

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Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

74 bketelsen 2026-09-29 14:51:36 UTC frostyard.github.io Llama Share 58

NSL provides a Linux host with persistent machines, similar to WSL on Windows. It offers isolated and non-isolated modes for running Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription

74 tosh 2026-09-29 07:07:53 UTC twitter.com/thsottiaux Llama Share 90

The Pro $200 subscription is re-opening with a new pricing model that nets out to half the dollar in API spend, allowing for more usage without limits. This change aims to provide better value and flexibility while reducing prices over time.

OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

61 jbegley 2026-09-29 00:34:27 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 100

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

59 tgluck 2026-09-29 12:05:07 UTC jevstiller.pages.dev Llama Share 14

The Jevstiller system uses a threshold-based approach to classify text with a local model, ensuring agreement with the teacher (Jev) within a 2% budget. The system's accuracy against the datasets' own labels stays within a point of Jev's across various tasks and confidence levels.

Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second

54 blondie9x 2026-09-29 12:14:26 UTC 4hiroshimas.info Llama Share 70

The Earth has warmed rapidly over the past century due to human activity, with 90% of heat absorbed going into oceans. The rate of warming is equivalent to exploding eight Big Ben towers filled with dynamite every second.

New Cyber-OSINT model released

53 soltanov 2026-09-29 10:23:33 UTC twitter.com/0x0sojalsec Llama Share 16

The Cyber-OSINT model is a locally run, 7B cyber model trained on 6,500 OSINT/CTI instructions and fine-tuned for threat actor attribution and IoC pivoting. It can be used for investigative work with an 8GB GPU.

Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI

53 cyfyifanchen 2026-09-29 09:58:24 UTC github.com/evermind-ai Llama Share 49

Raven is a harness of harnesses that generates DAGs and orchestrates multiple specialized agents for complex tasks, enabling recursive self-improvement. It brings together built-in and third-party agents to carry out complex tasks with its modular architecture supporting iterative improvement.

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

49 HieronymusBosch 2026-09-29 13:34:20 UTC backblaze.com Llama Share 3

Backblaze's Q2 2026 Drive Stats report tracks annualized failure rates, model performance, and emerging technologies. The quarterly AFR is 1.73%, with no new drive models released this quarter but deployment concentrated in the 20TB+ range.

What makes software development engineering

45 ibobev 2026-09-29 13:31:31 UTC parksb.github.io Llama Share 58

Software development is considered engineering due to its systematic approach, application of mathematical and scientific knowledge, and problem-solving method. This perspective emphasizes the importance of an engineering approach in software development to ensure consistently high-quality results.

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

45 sschueller 2026-09-29 07:49:12 UTC startup-nights.ch Llama Share 26

The Startup Nights 2026 event connects entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders for networking opportunities and insightful talks. Attendees can pitch their ideas, showcase solutions, or learn from successful founders in a space designed to spark meaningful conversations.

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

41 lostmsu 2026-09-29 19:20:02 UTC github.com/lostmsu Full Share 5

The run stores its checkpoint at runs/ctx4/ctx4.pt, containing model, optimizer, scheduler, and trainer state. Use --load CHECKPOINT.pt to resume it. runs/ctx4/report.json is derived from the log directory. Logs are TensorBoard-compatible: one report per batch, capped at 8Mi reports, and flushed with periodic or final checkpoints.

Why doesn't anyone want to fix one of America's scariest roads?

39 adrianhon 2026-09-29 14:23:35 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 58

The Million Dollar Highway in southwestern Colorado is a treacherous two-lane road carved into red-quartzite cliffs, with no shoulder and a speed limit of 25mph. The highway has been the site of numerous accidents and fatalities due to rockfalls, avalanches, and reckless driving.

Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark

37 soltanov 2026-09-29 06:16:04 UTC github.com/joasasantos Llama Share 12

This is a curated list of open-weight uncensored models for authorized security research and penetration testing, including proprietary security corpus and threat intelligence tools. The models are designed for education and research purposes only, with restrictions on copyright reproduction.

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

36 devonnull 2026-09-29 18:19:02 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 21

Vermont's Green Mountain Power has implemented a home battery system, providing over 5,500 homes with energy security during power outages. The virtual power plant is the largest source of power in the state and aims to eliminate all outages by 2030.

Profit Margins of the Largest Companies

36 teleforce 2026-09-29 02:55:41 UTC visualcapitalist.com Llama Share 11

Nvidia generates the highest profit margin among Fortune Global 500's top companies, while tech giants like Microsoft and Alphabet dominate foreign investments.

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

33 ianmcook 2026-09-29 16:25:09 UTC columnar.tech Llama Share 5

TypeSafe AI's Jev model generates typed decisions from natural language and application state, returning choices, scores, and probabilities as JSON. A new Arrow interface would allow for direct consumption of Jev's results by tools like pandas and Apache DataFusion without deserialization.

How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

32 yakkomajuri 2026-09-29 22:59:28 UTC railcode.dev Full Share 21

A tale about how coding agents are actually making me more and more interested in design

Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World

29 mikecarlton 2026-09-29 08:40:53 UTC evan-doorbell.com Llama Share 9

Evan Doorbell's "phone tapes" document the old phone network in the 1970s, available for free redistribution. His copyrighted material includes narrated and raw unedited recordings of telephone sounds.

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

28 ewpratten 2026-09-29 13:44:00 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 7

Cloudflare is becoming a public certificate authority to provide free, automated certificates and ensure the highest level of security for all clients. This move aims to address systemic risks in the current certificate supply chain and make it easier for users to adopt new technologies like post-quantum certificates.

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

17 primitivesuave 2026-09-29 17:15:56 UTC enigma.design Llama Share 1

The German military used Enigma during WWII to send encrypted messages, but Polish and others cracked its code. The machine had a left rotor with water-soluble ink sheets that were tightly guarded secrets.

Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra

17 polytap 2026-09-29 01:29:31 UTC bluegraph.io Full Share 3

Waves, wind, water and tides from NOAA's network of buoys, coastal stations, tide gauges and estuaries, from the Bering Sea to Samoa, charted and analysed.

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

13 Anon84 2026-09-29 11:06:25 UTC magazine.sebastianraschka.com Llama Share 0

The Jev AI model has gained popularity for its ability to classify tasks efficiently and accurately, making it a viable alternative to more expensive models like GPT-6. It achieves this through a unique training method called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD), which enables fast and cost-effective decision-making across various domains.

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

12 tosh 2026-09-29 21:48:27 UTC lucumr.pocoo.org Llama Share 3

The author is comparing Serde, a popular serialization library for Rust, with Deser, an alternative design that aims to address some of Serde's limitations. Deser has better support for untrusted input and extensible data models.

Galaxy Game

12 rbanffy 2026-09-29 19:24:27 UTC icm.museum Llama Share 1

Spacewar! was first developed on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1962 and later ported to various machines, including the Stanford AI Lab's PDP-10. A restored version of Galaxy Game is now running at ICM with help from Bill Pitts and others.

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

12 thelastgallon 2026-09-29 04:14:11 UTC theconversation.com Llama Share 2

Global oil prices surged after the US and Israel attacked Iran, affecting products made from oil worldwide. The increased price benefits companies, governments, and shareholders in various regions, including Saudi Arabia's government finances and US-based oil companies' profits.

UnoDOS

11 nicoloren 2026-09-29 22:10:23 UTC github.com/hmofet Llama Share 6

UnoDOS is a family of graphical operating systems that began as a GUI-first, 16-bit real-mode OS and has since grown into a contract-driven family of ports spanning various platforms. UnoDOS now runs bare-metal on any modern 64-bit PC with its own drivers, network stack, browser, office suite, compiler and hypervisor.

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

11 pseudolus 2026-09-29 18:22:40 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 6

Cities regulating outdoor lighting could improve the environment for all living creatures by reducing light pollution. Implementing rules and enforcement around light brightness, direction, and placement can help preserve darkness in urban areas.