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

133 ilamont 2026-09-29 20:02:25 UTC postalemployeenetwork.com Llama Share 68

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.

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

727 crorella 2026-09-29 18:02:25 UTC openai.com Llama Share 653

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.

PS5 Relapse Exploit

201 therepanic 2026-09-29 16:02:25 UTC github.com/ntfargo Llama Share 103

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.

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

407 rbanffy 2026-09-29 13:02:25 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 239

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.

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

93 rossant 2026-09-29 17:02:25 UTC somethingbig.ai Full Share 48

A 16-bit computer built from 277,248 NAND gates. CPU, memory, OS and Tetris, all running on the gates in your browser. Zoom in and watch the signals flow.

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

56 wanick 2026-09-29 20:02:25 UTC space.bl2.net Full Share 21

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

America.gov

238 plesiv 2026-09-29 15:02:25 UTC america.gov Full Share 201

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

402 damaru2 2026-09-29 10:02:25 UTC jorgegarciaherrero.com Llama Share 126

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 ...

UnoDOS

6 nicoloren 2026-09-29 22:11:25 UTC github.com/hmofet LocalLLM Share 1

UnoDOS is a family of graphical OSes spanning 22 platforms, from 8088 to x86-64, with pc64 running bare-metal on modern PCs. It includes a full suite of apps, networking, and development tools, all built from a single contract-driven design.

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

38 lostmsu 2026-09-29 20:02:25 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.

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

4 bryan0 2026-09-29 22:37:25 UTC github.com/ninjahawk Prefix Share 0

A long-running, deterministic-as-possible benchmark for detecting whether a frontier model gets quietly worse after launch. livenerf is a small, boring, append-only benchmark for one question: does a model get worse after it ships? For months there have been reports that Anthropic "nerfs" models some days or weeks after release. That could mean quantization, a smaller model behind the ...

Tcl/Tk 9.1

227 dmux 2026-09-29 18:02:25 UTC tcl-lang.org Full Share 75

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

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

251 evakhoury 2026-09-29 04:02:25 UTC jagi.studio Llama Share 41

The author created a cellular LED matrix inspired by phyllotaxis, a pattern found in nature, and programmed it to react dynamically to sound using an STM32 board. The project evolved into an interactive installation at Recurse Center, featuring a website for attendees to upload sketches and games.

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

70 gumby 2026-09-29 16:02:25 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 25

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Ask HN: What are you reading?

103 dan-bailey 2026-09-29 16:02:25 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 259

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.

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

33 joebig 2026-09-29 19:02:25 UTC cathsenker.co.uk Full Share 2

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

72 bketelsen 2026-09-29 15:02:25 UTC frostyard.github.io Llama Share 54

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.

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

30 luu 2026-09-29 19:02:25 UTC thill.me Llama Share 13

The author solved a 3D puzzle using computer vision and Python, but realized that an industrial-strength library called OR-Tools CP-SAT was more efficient.

Dots: Always-on agents

428 alvis 2026-09-29 18:02:25 UTC openai.com Llama Share 330

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.

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

158 amortize 2026-09-29 13:02:25 UTC sujithjay.com Llama Share 34

Platform teams invent work by reading signals from systems, users, organization, and industry. They analyze these signals to identify areas for improvement and prioritize new projects.

Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

133 0sake_rs 2026-09-29 13:02:25 UTC withouthotair.com Full Share 73

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

219 nicowaltz 2026-09-29 12:02:25 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.

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

698 barry-cotter 2026-09-29 12:02:25 UTC derekthompson.org Llama Share 642

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.

Commodore 64: Mercenary

13 a1r 2026-09-29 20:02:25 UTC gamesexplained.com Full Share 3

Galaxy Game

12 rbanffy 2026-09-29 20:02:25 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.

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

3 tosh 2026-09-29 22:02:25 UTC lucumr.pocoo.org Prefix Share 0

Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but actually replacing Serde is tricky because of the might that it has in the ecosystem. Also because it’s quite hard to actually do better without also making some potentially ...

Walking Men

71 surprisetalk 2026-09-29 15:02:25 UTC bookofjoe2.blogspot.com Llama Share 25

Google's system detected unusual traffic from your computer network, possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow you to continue using Google services temporarily.

ChatGPT Pro 500

179 prodigycorp 2026-09-29 18:02:25 UTC help.openai.com Llama Share 196

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.

Using any C++ library in Godot

154 czoido 2026-09-29 09:02:25 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.

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

33 ianmcook 2026-09-29 17:02:25 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.