Gemini 4 Argon

965 bradleyg223 2026-09-30 20:04:37 UTC blog.google Llama Share 657

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

615 yarapavan 2026-09-30 09:55:23 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 341

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

487 marjancek 2026-09-30 07:12:31 UTC tomwojcik.com Llama Share 363

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.

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

373 allisdust 2026-09-30 15:50:11 UTC insufferable.dev Llama Share 410

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.

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

246 ragall 2026-09-30 07:32:40 UTC prospect.org Llama Share 219

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.

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

224 rbanffy 2026-09-30 14:34:07 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 89

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.

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

203 Thom2503 2026-09-30 10:49:32 UTC nltimes.nl Llama Share 189

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.

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

203 rzk 2026-09-30 09:27:04 UTC twitter.com/tuakdotsol Llama Share 136

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 last time my family was replaced by technology

179 megalomanu 2026-09-30 13:06:11 UTC manuel.darcemont.fr Llama Share 412

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.

EDG C++ front-end goes public

148 iandinwoodie 2026-09-30 19:26:37 UTC edgcpp.org Llama Share 73

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.

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

148 ciconia 2026-09-30 04:37:37 UTC electrek.co Llama Share 203

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.

What TLA+ can and can't check

140 b-man 2026-09-30 13:57:06 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 31

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.

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

137 BurnerBurner 2026-09-30 04:19:57 UTC hereticpleb.vercel.app Llama Share 150

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.

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

131 ibobev 2026-09-30 13:50:50 UTC alphapixeldev.com Llama Share 51

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.

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

124 anerli 2026-09-30 17:37:40 UTC github.com/magnitudedev Llama Share 56

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.

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites

122 Bluestein 2026-09-30 22:03:04 UTC thespacereview.com Llama Share 40

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.

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

122 Baljhin 2026-09-30 03:00:05 UTC lfm.xiffy.nl Llama Share 41

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

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

118 ibobev 2026-09-30 19:04:50 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 40

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.

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

116 jbott 2026-09-30 18:17:45 UTC netlify.com Llama Share 44

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.

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

109 thoughtfullyso 2026-09-30 19:34:03 UTC america.gov Llama Share 44

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.

Commit description as a thinking tool

106 yedhukrishnan 2026-09-30 17:18:13 UTC yedhu.me Llama Share 60

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.

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

90 ArchAndStarch 2026-09-30 19:54:29 UTC turkeyland.net Llama Share 67

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.

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

85 sparticle62 2026-09-30 03:19:54 UTC github.com/sparticle62ops Llama Share 37

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

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

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.

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

81 theanonymousone 2026-09-30 20:50:28 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Llama Share 44

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.

Dear Software Makers

80 speckx 2026-09-30 19:45:38 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 55

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.

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

79 theanonymousone 2026-09-30 09:59:03 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Llama Share 97

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.

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

78 aureianimus 2026-09-30 02:36:12 UTC agmai.org Llama Share 98

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.

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

76 kmstout 2026-09-30 14:36:02 UTC sdf.org Full Share 15

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 -=-

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

75 d99kris 2026-09-30 13:36:37 UTC ubuntu.com Llama Share 99

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.

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

69 luu 2026-09-30 19:44:37 UTC mattkeeter.com Llama Share 7

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.

Claude Says

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

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.

Gitea 28.0

62 porridgeraisin 2026-09-30 20:32:23 UTC blog.gitea.com Llama Share 31

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.

Let's Ditch Google (Verb)

56 speckx 2026-09-30 17:18:18 UTC adam.farkas.pro Full Share 70

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

56 croes 2026-09-30 15:54:59 UTC advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Full Share 33

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

54 peter_d_sherman 2026-09-30 01:47:14 UTC mightygodking.com Full Share 31

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

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

48 leephillips 2026-09-30 18:49:06 UTC unsung.aresluna.org Llama Share 9

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.

Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan

46 pwim 2026-09-30 07:33:45 UTC tokyodev.com Llama Share 14

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.

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

45 adunk 2026-09-30 22:08:50 UTC 56k.rip Full Share 25

The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

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

40 lashkari 2026-09-30 17:42:13 UTC chompiclub.com Llama Share 9

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.

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

39 Guyadou 2026-09-30 18:06:13 UTC cmu.edu Llama Share 42

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.

Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

37 cobbzilla 2026-09-30 17:00:44 UTC software3d.com Llama Share 3

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.

I can't tell who's teaching who anymore

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

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.

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

26 turantekin 2026-09-30 15:33:12 UTC openparrot.app Llama Share 11

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.

Coltrane's Tone Circle

26 jtomschroeder 2026-09-30 14:59:42 UTC jtomschroeder.com Llama Share 6

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.

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

26 thanouil1411 2026-09-30 14:38:57 UTC lathoa.ai Full Share 10

EDG C++ Compiler is open source

25 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.

Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch

25 pminimax 2026-09-30 20:06:39 UTC neuroai.science Llama Share 4

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 ...

Recursive `make` and `-j`

18 ibobev 2026-09-30 17:46:26 UTC quuxplusone.github.io Llama Share 5

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

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

18 ajoski9 2026-09-30 14:59:57 UTC strata.do Llama Share 8

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.

Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry

18 Levitating 2026-09-30 12:17:31 UTC amutable.com Llama Share 0

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.

pldb: programming languages papers

17 matt_d 2026-09-30 21:23:24 UTC pldb.kirancodes.me Full Share 1

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

Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage

13 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.

Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32

12 adunk 2026-09-30 22:07:51 UTC groundrun.io Full Share 0

Dear User, email is here to stay

11 cachrevolt 2026-09-30 20:14:32 UTC github.com/tursomari Llama Share 1

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.