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

171 inputmice 2026-09-16 11:22:15 UTC gultsch.social Full Share 140

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.

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents

16 vertigoruntime 2026-09-16 13:52:15 UTC openai.com Llama Share 9

ChatGPT is introducing AI-powered ad experiences to make ads more useful for people and easier for businesses. The platform offers new tools, including Sponsored Agents and Ads Manager plugins, to help users start conversations with agents after clicking ads or create campaigns directly in ChatGPT.

Salesforce Global Outage

144 mabil 2026-09-16 11:22:15 UTC status.salesforce.com Full Share 74

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

242 vertigoruntime 2026-09-16 08:22:15 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 74

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.

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

20 sagenschneider 2026-09-16 13:22:15 UTC github.com/officefloor Llama Share 21

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.

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

80 driverdan 2026-09-16 13:22:15 UTC wired.com Llama Share 20

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.

Introducing System One Models and Jev

1595 albelfio 2026-09-15 20:22:15 UTC typesafe.ai Llama Share 439

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.

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

1789 arnemunthekaas 2026-09-15 14:22:15 UTC github.com/arnegiacomo Llama Share 217

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

367 imwally 2026-09-16 02:22:15 UTC security.apple.com Llama Share 243

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.

DeepMind Paper: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Evolving Worlds

7 bananaflag 2026-09-16 13:45:15 UTC arxiv.org LocalLLM Share 2

Dream-RSI enables recursive self-improvement in AI by using historical discovery data for low-cost feedback. It reduces exploration costs and improves discovery quality through a self-reinforcing loop.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

0 2026-09-16 12:22:15 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.

Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models

10 joozio 2026-09-16 13:22:15 UTC stale.jock.pl Llama Share 3

The release date and training cutoff date are used to determine an AI model's current state, with the cutoff being when it stopped reading new information. The data for 20 models across 8 labs is available on this page, including their release dates and published training cutoffs, which can be checked against to verify accuracy.

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

98 rbanffy 2026-09-16 12:22:15 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 28

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.

Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go

17 peterldowns 2026-09-16 13:22:15 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.

Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure

38 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2026-09-16 10:22:15 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 23

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.

An update on Wayback Machine access

614 ChrisArchitect 2026-09-15 18:22:15 UTC blog.archive.org Llama Share 333

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.

Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

139 moneroloop2018 2026-09-16 09:22:15 UTC blog.ploeh.dk Llama Share 87

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.

Doing Everyone Else's Job

144 luu 2026-09-16 04:22:15 UTC yosefk.com Llama Share 65

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.

How Big Are Factorials?

5 ibobev 2026-09-16 13:22:15 UTC eli.thegreenplace.net LocalLLM Share 1

Estimating the number of digits in 52! using Stirling's approximation gives a close result. The formula involves logarithms and approximates factorials for large numbers efficiently.

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

284 rkotcher 2026-09-16 03:22:15 UTC inflightsimulator.com Full Share 151

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

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

452 leumon 2026-09-15 18:22:15 UTC blog.google Llama Share 302

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.

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

94 pythonic_hell 2026-09-16 04:22:15 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 20

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.

We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation

47 Tomte 2026-09-16 08:22:15 UTC statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Full Share 5

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

313 jaykru 2026-09-15 22:22:15 UTC dank.systems Llama Share 399

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.

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

250 summarity 2026-09-15 21:22:15 UTC rheinmetall.github.io Llama Share 94

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.

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

162 zdw 2026-09-15 23:22:15 UTC nand2mario.github.io Llama Share 45

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.

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

48 JPLeRouzic 2026-09-16 06:22:15 UTC forum.vcfed.org Llama Share 17

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.

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

382 ADevWithAnIdea 2026-09-15 20:22:15 UTC codyho.dev Llama Share 228

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.

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

101 bananaboy 2026-09-16 03:22:15 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.

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub

306 bearsyankees 2026-09-15 18:22:15 UTC strix.ai Llama Share 173

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.