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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

Article URL: https://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676820 Points: 192 # Comments: 101…

2026-09-13

Feeling Sad about AI

Article URL: https://artificialworlds.net/blog/2026/09/11/feeling-sad-about-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661506 Points: 17…

2026-09-13

Room 641A

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662367 Points: 179 # Comments: 65…

2026-09-13

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

Article URL: https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674050 Points: 203 # Comment…

2026-09-13

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights

Article URL: https://jacob.gold/posts/open-letter-to-dario-amodei-about-open-weights/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676085 Poin…

2026-09-13

Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI

Article URL: https://www.unslop.news/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660783 Points: 191 # Comments: 80…

2026-09-12

Pandas Should Go Extinct

Article URL: https://eddie.codes/posts/pandas-should-go-extinct/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668198 Points: 181 # Comments: 9…

2026-09-12

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

Article URL: https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670032 Points: 182 # Comments: 19…

2026-09-12

We must pace the frontier

Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510 Points: 196 # Comments…

2026-09-12

Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-altering-drugs-played-key-role-rise-andean-civilization Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat…

2026-09-12

Anthropic CEO Outlines Plan to 'Pace the Frontier' in AI Development

What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?…

2026-09-12

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to h…

2026-09-12

Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quality yogurt

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, better known as Sylvan Esso, have been bringing their low-key electro-pop to the masses since 2014, bursting onto the s…

2026-09-12

LG responds to TV spying allegations

Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG's TVs are logging and …

2026-09-12

Navier-Stokes Announcement

Article URL: https://www.claymath.org/news/navier-stokes-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668706 Points: 223 # Comme…

2026-09-12

Fuck it, make it anyway

Article URL: https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671329 Points: 226 # Comment…

2026-09-12

Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth

Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto International Film Festival - but I did manage to …

2026-09-12

The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’

A subset of male gamers have spent years warning that the transgressive series has been neutered by progressive developers, but the backlash isn’t tak…

2026-09-12

I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.…

2026-09-12

Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max

The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new…

2026-09-12

GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

Article URL: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Messaging/releases/tag/13 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663373 Points: 265 # Comment…

2026-09-12

Measuring the sloppiness of code

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/measuring-code-sloppiness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658311 Points: 255 # Comments:…

2026-09-12

HuggingFace: Security.txt

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/security.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245 Points: 255 # Comments: 66…

2026-09-12

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

Article URL: https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668386 Points: 296 # Comments: 1…

2026-09-12

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Article URL: https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-bot-farm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662990 Points: 274 # Comments: 154…

2026-09-12

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

Article URL: https://www.rubyhack.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735 Points: 263 # Comments: 154…

2026-09-12

Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services

"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."…

2026-09-12

The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

Article URL: https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-permit-rules-epa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662672 Points: 260 # Comment…

2026-09-12

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.…

2026-09-12

Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland

The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.…

2026-09-12