Gemini 4 Argon

1699 bradleyg223 2026-09-30 20:04:37 UTC blog.google Llama Share 1188

Google is launching Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model for complex workflows in software engineering, finance, and cybersecurity. The model delivers high performance and has been tested by thousands of Googlers with impressive results in various domains.

You said no MCP

682 yarapavan 2026-09-30 09:55:23 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 362

Pi has integrated MCP into its core, despite initial dismissive statements, due to changes in MCP and the benefits of a sandbox environment like Codemode. This integration enables tools to be more easily discoverable and used within Pi.

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

522 marjancek 2026-09-30 07:12:31 UTC tomwojcik.com Llama Share 391

A Polish writer reflects on the country's vulnerabilities due to its dependence on imported energy and military supplies, as well as a declining population. The writer prepares for potential crises by stockpiling water, cash, and food that doesn't require cooking, while also having a plan for alternative heating sources.

So you think you could be an electrician?

470 zdw 2026-09-30 15:43:27 UTC asteriskmag.com Llama Share 436

The trades offer a viable alternative to college education, with high-paying jobs and physical rewards, but may be at risk from AI automation. Tradespeople have a different perspective on the value of their work compared to white-collar professionals.

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

466 rzk 2026-09-30 09:27:04 UTC twitter.com/tuakdotsol Llama Share 499

Singapore's government has launched a dating app called FirstDate using the Nobel Prize-winning Gale-Shapley algorithm, which matches users based on their preferences and dealbreakers. The app aims to get users off the platform by providing a stable match within 72 hours.

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

412 allisdust 2026-09-30 15:50:11 UTC insufferable.dev Llama Share 463

Western labs are adopting Chinese lab's advancements in AI models, citing benefits for future regulation. This adoption comes after Chinese labs freely shared performance optimizations, such as KV cache improvements.

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

395 rbanffy 2026-09-30 14:34:07 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 171

Michael Bloomberg's company, IMS, developed the first computerized financial terminal in 1981 to provide up-to-date information and analysis. The Bloomberg Terminal became a symbol of market mastery with its specialized keyboard and proprietary network, but it has since evolved into an integrated data environment accessible through mobile applications.

The last time my family was replaced by technology

339 megalomanu 2026-09-30 13:06:11 UTC manuel.darcemont.fr Llama Share 641

A family's legacy in mechanics began with a farrier who traded horses for engines after witnessing the arrival of cars. This shift reflects a broader pattern of technological change and its impact on people's livelihoods throughout history.

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

322 BurnerBurner 2026-09-30 04:19:57 UTC hereticpleb.vercel.app Llama Share 253

The author expresses frustration with LinkedIn's focus on performative projects and fake professionalism, feeling that it discourages genuine skill-building. They created a simple computer vision project to demonstrate the ease of creating such content, highlighting the lack of substance behind many posts on the platform.

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

306 Bluestein 2026-09-30 22:03:04 UTC thespacereview.com Llama Share 163

The US Air Force launched the first "hitchhiker" satellites in 1963, a secretive program that lasted over 40 years with various names and designations. The satellites collected radar and electronic intelligence signals from orbiting at low Earth altitudes.

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

303 leephillips 2026-09-30 18:49:06 UTC unsung.aresluna.org Llama Share 59

You've noticed modular industrial dashboards in German and Polish museums, which seem to have been replaced by software. These panels displayed various systems, including air traffic control, subway trains, and power plant operations.

OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network

277 sagacity 2026-09-30 08:43:21 UTC github.com/maanhimself Llama Share 126

The DLSS5VK tool is a Vulkan-based implementation of NVIDIA's generative neural rendering network, which re-renders frames with injected noise and adjusts tone, structure, and skin under a style setting. It runs on RTX 4070 SUPER GPUs with minimum over 40 frames per second.

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

275 adunk 2026-09-30 22:08:50 UTC 56k.rip Full Share 111

The full 1997 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

266 ragall 2026-09-30 07:32:40 UTC prospect.org Llama Share 241

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America's 1987 public service announcement was about kids learning from their parents, but now AI models are "learning" by hacking and stealing data. OpenAI has been accused of taking millions of stories without permission, using it to train its models.

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

253 ibobev 2026-09-30 19:04:50 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 98

The brain uses electrical waves to process information, with new research revealing complex patterns that help it adapt to changing demands. These traveling waves can take on various shapes and are associated with different cognitive functions.

EDG C++ front-end goes public

251 iandinwoodie 2026-09-30 19:26:37 UTC edgcpp.org Llama Share 129

EDG's C++ front end source code goes public on September 30, 2026, and The C++ Alliance becomes its nonprofit home. EDG will continue to maintain the engine with contributions from the user community and ongoing maintenance.

What TLA+ can and can't check

244 b-man 2026-09-30 13:57:06 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 51

TLA+ is a powerful tool for designing and verifying concurrent systems, but it has limitations in expressing certain properties, such as reachability properties over multiple steps or the state space as a whole. These limitations make it difficult to model complex scenarios like game winning conditions or statistical properties.

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

229 jbott 2026-09-30 18:17:45 UTC netlify.com Llama Share 107

Netlify has rebuilt its Edge Function infrastructure, moving from a hosted execution service to MicroVMs inside their own edge network, resulting in 5x faster performance and improved security. This change allows for complex compute at the edge without changing how Edge Functions are written or used.

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

216 Thom2503 2026-09-30 10:49:32 UTC nltimes.nl Llama Share 199

Most European data centers keep their environmental impact secret, despite EU regulations requiring them to report energy and water usage. Only a small fraction of larger Dutch data centers publish this information, with many lacking crucial details on consumption.

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

194 anerli 2026-09-30 17:37:40 UTC github.com/magnitudedev Llama Share 99

Magnitude is an open-source inference engine that optimizes itself for your hardware, running up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. It connects to various agents and models without internet, using precompiled kernels tailored to your device.

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

192 luu 2026-09-30 19:44:37 UTC mattkeeter.com Llama Share 11

Halfspace is a showcase app for the Fidget kernel, which enables real-time rasterization and meshing of 3D models. It allows users to create and visualize complex models using a combination of pre-defined primitives and hand-written scripts.

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

181 ibobev 2026-09-30 13:50:50 UTC alphapixeldev.com Llama Share 72

The Slug algorithm, published by Eric Lengyel in 2017, renders glyphs directly from their quadratic Bezier outlines on the GPU with no texture atlas or per-frame tessellation. Slughorn is an implementation of this technique that provides crisp and resolution-independent text rendering for various applications, including interactive 3D scenes and AR/VR environments.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

161 ciconia 2026-09-30 04:37:37 UTC electrek.co Llama Share 221

Tesla took out a $30 billion loan to cover capital expenditures and fund future projects, amid declining profits. The company expects to spend $25 billion in 2026 on CapEx, which is expected to remain high due to its aggressive spending strategy.

Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan

146 pwim 2026-09-30 07:33:45 UTC tokyodev.com Llama Share 44

The author completed their PhD in Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology on a MEXT Scholarship as an American student, balancing work and research. They highlight the pros and cons of pursuing a PhD in Japan, including its unique culture, academic system, and job opportunities.

cp: -r or -R?

137 zdw 2026-09-30 15:44:02 UTC movq.de Llama Share 118

The GNU coreutils used to have a difference between -r and -R options, but this was 34 years ago. Today, both options behave similarly due to their merger in 2002.

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

131 Baljhin 2026-09-30 03:00:05 UTC lfm.xiffy.nl Llama Share 50

User wants an RSS feed of their Last.fm tracks, and the creator provides a solution by asking for their username.

Commit description as a thinking tool

130 yedhukrishnan 2026-09-30 17:18:13 UTC yedhu.me Llama Share 78

The author reflects on writing long commit descriptions before AI era, which helped explain changes and reasons behind them. Now, with agentic coding, they find it challenging to read and understand AI-written commit descriptions due to lack of context.

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

127 thoughtfullyso 2026-09-30 19:34:03 UTC america.gov Llama Share 51

America.gov uses AI to get simple answers from official government sources, providing free and ad-free information while protecting user privacy. The website brings together 29,000 government websites in one place for easy access to various services and forms.

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

123 aureianimus 2026-09-30 02:36:12 UTC agmai.org Llama Share 223

We recommend that AI labs release mathematical results responsibly, including providing human understanding and support for development. This includes releasing models, citations, and formalized proofs to ensure transparency and accessibility.

Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance

122 adchurch 2026-09-30 16:58:24 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 42

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CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

121 ArchAndStarch 2026-09-30 19:54:29 UTC turkeyland.net Llama Share 104

A professor in CS 240: Programming in C addressed AI usage concerns, leading to a large number of students dropping the course. The professor used a tool called Argus to identify potential cheating incidents and offered students the option to self-report their actions without facing consequences.

Dear Software Makers

121 speckx 2026-09-30 19:45:38 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 91

YouTube may introduce A/B testing for video variants, but creators are concerned it will break the shared viewing experience. Marques Brownlee argues that focusing on creative storytelling is more important than optimizing metrics.

Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

112 theanonymousone 2026-09-30 20:50:28 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Llama Share 62

Gemini 4 Argon (High) is a reasoning model with high intelligence, priced moderately compared to similar models. It scores 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it above average in its price tier.

CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)

108 lashkari 2026-09-30 17:42:13 UTC chompiclub.com Llama Share 35

The CHOMPI open-source release provides permanent access to files and documentation, allowing users to customize their experience. The project is discontinued, but the community can still discuss and share ideas on the Chase Bliss Discord.

Your body of work thinks back at you

108 surprisetalk 2026-09-30 13:20:03 UTC photoni.st Llama Share 21

The photographer discovered a pattern in their years of taking photos of benches, revealing changes in design that excluded people with nowhere else to go. Through reviewing their archive, they realized they had unintentionally documented the evolution of "hostile architecture" over time.

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

105 kmstout 2026-09-30 14:36:02 UTC sdf.org Full Share 27

join welcome faq status members store tour gopher abuse minecraft social tilde europa webmail gallery usermap irc tutorials telnet git ssh -=- a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas -=-

Gitea 28.0

99 porridgeraisin 2026-09-30 20:32:23 UTC blog.gitea.com Llama Share 47

Gitea version 28.0.0 has been released with various features and security fixes, including audit logging, bot accounts, and improved workflow syntax. The release includes changes to Git network operations, deployment tokens, and user impersonation for administrators.

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust

89 sparticle62 2026-09-30 03:19:54 UTC github.com/sparticle62ops Llama Share 38

The PSSA model, a small language model, outperforms the transformer in learning efficiency and text generation speed on the same corpus. It achieves lower training cross-entropy and perplexity compared to the transformer.

Ballmer Peak

89 thunderbong 2026-09-30 02:35:58 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 36

The Ballmer Peak is a humorous concept suggesting programmers become more productive at 0.1337% BAC, referencing leet and Steve Ballmer; it has no scientific basis but has been studied in satirical academic papers. Researchers found some increase in productivity with moderate alcohol consumption before a decline.

Coltrane's Tone Circle

86 jtomschroeder 2026-09-30 14:59:42 UTC jtomschroeder.com Llama Share 25

John Coltrane's diagram, a circle of fifths with chromatic scales and harmonic relationships, is an interactive tool to decode its secrets. The circle shows how different keys are related through stacking fourths and intervals that divide the octave evenly.

Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

84 cobbzilla 2026-09-30 17:00:44 UTC software3d.com Llama Share 22

The user is building a 1280 face polyhedron model, a unique uniform polyhedron with specific features. The model consists of multiple parts connected together using glue and tabs.

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

80 d99kris 2026-09-30 13:36:37 UTC ubuntu.com Llama Share 103

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon offers the latest Linux advancements on a stable foundation, featuring GNOME 50 and modernized applications. It provides improved performance, security, and support for various frameworks and tools.

GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence

80 theanonymousone 2026-09-30 09:59:03 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Llama Share 102

GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after 7 days, scoring near-Astra Intelligence and achieving significant gains in agentic knowledge work. It pushes the cost efficiency frontier, using slightly more output tokens than GPT-6 Sol but still offering a lower overall price for agentic workloads.

Claude Says

78 speckx 2026-09-30 17:32:06 UTC ohhfishal.net Llama Share 34

The user expresses frustration with AI's limitations and overreliance on assumptions, leading to suboptimal solutions. They advocate for a more critical approach, focusing on simple, practical solutions rather than relying solely on AI-generated ideas.

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

69 croes 2026-09-30 15:54:59 UTC advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Full Share 38

Let's Ditch Google (Verb)

59 speckx 2026-09-30 17:18:18 UTC adam.farkas.pro Full Share 77

Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]

58 nill0 2026-09-30 13:53:46 UTC tomandmaria.com Llama Share 2

The authors reconstruct the evolution of a program first run on ENIAC in April 1948, which was the first computerized Monte Carlo simulation and the first code written in the modern paradigm. The program simulated neutron diffusion in a nuclear bomb and was developed by John von Neumann and his team at Los Alamos.

Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)

56 peter_d_sherman 2026-09-30 01:47:14 UTC mightygodking.com Full Share 33

So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a

Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites

55 surprisetalk 2026-09-30 12:40:03 UTC articlesofinterest.substack.com Full Share 4

Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch

54 pminimax 2026-09-30 20:06:39 UTC neuroai.science Llama Share 11

Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) is a brain imaging modality that captures movies of brain tissue changes caused by neural activity, using backscattered waves to measure blood flow and volume. fUSI has the potential to be ten times higher linear resolution than functional MRI, but its analysis requires careful consideration of signal processing techniques such as clutter filtering and ...

Billions of triangles redux

53 ibobev 2026-09-30 17:46:04 UTC zeux.io Llama Share 5

NVIDIA released an updated vk_lod_clusters open-source sample featuring a new Zorah scene with clustered raytracing and hierarchical LOD pipeline, allowing for efficient rendering of highly detailed scenes. The scene's geometry was reduced from 1.6B triangles to ~3.26B triangles after applying various compression schemes, including meshlet codec and vertex filters.

Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose

53 thanouil1411 2026-09-30 14:38:57 UTC lathoa.ai Full Share 51

Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

47 Guyadou 2026-09-30 18:06:13 UTC cmu.edu Llama Share 48

Carnegie Mellon University receives a $3 billion gift from Ken Griffin, the largest individual gift in higher education history, to support its Pittsburgh campus and launch CMU Miami. The new campus will focus on grand challenge areas such as human health and biological discovery, national security and strategic capabilities, energy and climate resilience, and advanced manufacturing.

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

44 bryanrasmussen 2026-09-30 19:17:45 UTC nature.com Llama Share 4

Researchers tested 15 Goffin's cockatoos in a body-as-obstacle (BAO) task to assess their ability to recognize their own body as a causal obstacle. The birds stepped off the mat significantly more often in the test condition, where their own body impeded task success, than in either control condition.

pldb: programming languages papers

41 matt_d 2026-09-30 21:23:24 UTC pldb.kirancodes.me Full Share 3

Titles and abstracts of 33,580 programming languages papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to this year's proceedings.

Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac

39 turantekin 2026-09-30 15:33:12 UTC openparrot.app Llama Share 38

Parrot is a free and open-source Mac meeting recorder with a built-in copilot that suggests answers from your documents. It records audio on your Mac, never uploading it to the cloud.

I can't tell who's teaching who anymore

35 eustoria 2026-09-30 14:37:08 UTC blog.murphytrueman.com Llama Share 31

The author reflects on how AI models are trained on human-written content, leading to a loss of unique writing styles and voices. They struggle with editing their own work to avoid sounding like a machine, fearing it will be misinterpreted by others.

Recursive `make` and `-j`

33 ibobev 2026-09-30 17:46:26 UTC quuxplusone.github.io Llama Share 14

The author investigated GNU Make's behavior with recursive invocations and jobserver, finding that recent versions give a warning when using -j option.

Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32

32 adunk 2026-09-30 22:07:51 UTC groundrun.io Full Share 2

Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry

30 Levitating 2026-09-30 12:17:31 UTC amutable.com Llama Share 1

Amutable has introduced Quarry, a "dumb" software delivery toolchain that leverages The Update Framework (TUF) for secure distribution of immutable images. Quarry provides granular ownership, flexible key escrow and autonomous updates to ensure high-integrity Linux systems.

EDG C++ Compiler is open source

26 zx2c4 2026-09-30 22:48:44 UTC github.com/edgcpp Llama Share 1

This repository focuses on the EDG C/C++ front end, providing excellent parsing compatibility and configurability. It includes various tools for development, source transformation, and runtime support.

Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125

24 zasc 2026-09-30 23:56:25 UTC yeet.cx Llama Share 15

A founding engineer at Yeet is replacing existing exporters with a single binary that reads the kernel, allowing for more efficient and scalable telemetry collection. The first exporter being replaced is StatsD_exporter, which translates UDP datagrams into Prometheus metrics.

Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM

24 ajoski9 2026-09-30 14:59:57 UTC strata.do Llama Share 16

Strata provides a governed semantic layer, self-service dashboards, and fast OLAP engines for data analysis. It offers various features such as automated validation, query routing to the fastest engine, and row-level security.

Dear User, email is here to stay

17 cachrevolt 2026-09-30 20:14:32 UTC github.com/tursomari Llama Share 2

You can email your computer using Dear Machine, a tool that lets you send emails to and from your computer with attachments and group conversations. It uses Machtiani's harness to manage long-running sessions without compaction, allowing for secure collaboration with agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OMP.

Cities Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to Federal Surveillance Program

17 CharlesW 2026-09-30 15:03:49 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 1

The Trump administration is using an anti-drug trafficking grant program to force cities to funnel their automated license plate reader data into large federal surveillance centers. This raises significant privacy and transparency concerns.

Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage

15 rene_d 2026-09-30 21:13:02 UTC chatgpt.com Full Share 14

Explore Codex pricing plans for every stage—from free trials to enterprise deployments. Get flexible usage, powerful AI coding models, and seamless workflow integration to help your team build and scale faster.

Multi-connectivity for real-time streaming over Wi-Fi

15 mortenvp 2026-09-30 13:11:00 UTC nanoping.com Llama Share 11

A laptop was carried through a 30m lab with live video sent over three Wi-Fi networks, one at a time and all together. NanoPing used all three networks simultaneously to send the video, achieving better results than each network on its own.

Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)

15 Michelangelo11 2026-09-30 09:09:34 UTC csmonitor.com Llama Share 7

Jacques Barzun discusses the decline of genuine artistic expression, where artists focus on shocking and provoking rather than creating something new. He believes that a return to Romanticism could offer hope for art's future.

Thought as a Technology (2016)

14 tobr 2026-09-30 15:40:24 UTC cognitivemedium.com Llama Share 0

A computer interface can be a transformative tool, introducing new elements of cognition that enable new modes of thought and creativity. By reifying deep principles and hidden representations, an interface can make complex ideas explicit and easy to manipulate.

Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis

12 pepys 2026-09-30 16:56:36 UTC publicdomainreview.org Llama Share 0

Philip Sidney's use of parentheses in his novel Arcadia was a distinctive feature that influenced the development of punctuation. His extensive and varied use of brackets added complexity to the narrative, creating a unique reading experience.

Turbo Haskell

12 carbolymer 2026-09-30 13:35:10 UTC comonad.com Llama Share 2

A Haskell compiler called THC has been developed to run on the JVM, implementing all of GHC 9.14.1's prim-ops and providing a JIT for GHC Core, allowing it to compile and execute Haskell programs efficiently. THC supports various features like Template Haskell, Linear Haskell, polyglot FFI with other languages, and SIMD instructions.