Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

68 bananaflag 2026-09-16 14:06:48 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 17

AI agents need effective exploration strategies to discover high-value solutions, but current systems struggle with adapting to large search spaces. Dream-RSI is a framework that uses replay simulators and dreaming to improve exploration policies at low cost.

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

250 inputmice 2026-09-16 12:06:48 UTC gultsch.social Full Share 210

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.

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

326 vertigoruntime 2026-09-16 09:06:48 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 108

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.

Introducing System One Models and Jev

1665 albelfio 2026-09-15 20:06:48 UTC typesafe.ai Llama Share 457

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

1840 arnemunthekaas 2026-09-15 16:06:48 UTC github.com/arnegiacomo Llama Share 219

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.

Small Programming Tricks

3 signa11 2026-09-16 15:58:48 UTC will-keleher.com Prefix Share 0

Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the TCP_NO_DELAY setting and Nagle’s algorithm; knowing the right git incantation to get out of a pickle; or knowing a trick with sed to rewrite a file. In one sense, this is ...

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

203 driverdan 2026-09-16 14:06:48 UTC wired.com Llama Share 92

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.

How Big Are Factorials?

22 ibobev 2026-09-16 13:06:48 UTC eli.thegreenplace.net Llama Share 10

The author estimates the number of digits in 52! using Stirling's formula, which approximates n! as √(2πn) * (n/e)^n. The estimated number of digits is close to the actual value of 68.

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

405 imwally 2026-09-16 03:06:48 UTC security.apple.com Llama Share 259

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.

Tell the speakers that you liked their talks

45 whisper2020 2026-09-16 15:06:48 UTC ohhelloana.blog Llama Share 10

The author attended SmashingConf Freiburg and enjoyed meeting people, including speakers they admired. They encouraged attendees to ask questions to speakers, sharing their own experience of feeling shy but facilitating conversations at events.

Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages?

6 surprisetalk 2026-09-16 15:42:48 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com LocalLLM Share 0

Uptime percentages near 100% hide massive reliability gaps. Status pages fail to communicate this nonlinearity to a broader audience.

Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure

57 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2026-09-16 11:06:48 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 36

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.

Anatomy of a Texture

12 Agentlien 2026-09-16 15:06:48 UTC agentlien.github.io Llama Share 2

A graphics programmer shares the complexity of texture memory layout in modern video games, highlighting block compression, texel ordering, mip mapping, and texture tiles. This complexity arises from performance optimizations such as cache locality and memory transfer speed improvements.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

0 2026-09-16 12:06:48 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.

Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go

38 peterldowns 2026-09-16 13:06:48 UTC cloudx.ai Llama Share 4

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.

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

151 rbanffy 2026-09-16 12:06:48 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 41

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.

An update on Wayback Machine access

633 ChrisArchitect 2026-09-15 18:06:48 UTC blog.archive.org Llama Share 339

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.

Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity

32 pluc 2026-09-16 15:06:48 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 39

Microsoft's head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, warned that Anthropic's approach to training its AI model Claude could have a disastrous impact on humanity. He criticized the company for teaching its AI human-like qualities and called for greater transparency around how AI systems are trained and evaluated.

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

26 joozio 2026-09-16 13:06:48 UTC stale.jock.pl Llama Share 17

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.

Salesforce Global Outage

203 mabil 2026-09-16 11:06:48 UTC status.salesforce.com Full Share 117

Doing Everyone Else's Job

167 luu 2026-09-16 04:06:48 UTC yosefk.com Llama Share 76

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.

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

316 rkotcher 2026-09-16 03:06:48 UTC inflightsimulator.com Full Share 177

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

PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

223 alexjplant 2026-09-16 15:06:48 UTC frvr.com Llama Share 138

Andy 'TheFlow0' Nguyen, a prominent PlayStation hacker and homebrew developer, has abandoned the PS5 Linux project due to AI vibe-coders in open-source spaces. He cited that these new developers are submitting ununderstood code and reporting bugs to Sony for bounties.

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

465 leumon 2026-09-15 18:06:48 UTC blog.google Llama Share 310

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.

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model

85 talhof8 2026-09-16 13:06:48 UTC enclave.ai Llama Share 22

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash successfully hacked 11 vulnerable targets, gaining code execution at a low cost of $4.65, while four fixed targets remained secure. The benchmark revealed six planned attack paths and five alternative routes that the original scoring system did not distinguish from the planned solutions.

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

100 vertigoruntime 2026-09-16 14:06:48 UTC openai.com Llama Share 100

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.

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

359 jaykru 2026-09-15 22:06:48 UTC dank.systems Llama Share 454

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.

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

119 pythonic_hell 2026-09-16 04:06:48 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 38

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.

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

261 summarity 2026-09-15 22:06:48 UTC rheinmetall.github.io Llama Share 97

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.

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

60 JPLeRouzic 2026-09-16 06:06:48 UTC forum.vcfed.org Llama Share 19

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.