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Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

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MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco

I went to San Francisco for Muni Heritage Weekend 2026! I stood by the tracks for three hours with my line scan camera, scanning trams.

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'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

A modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications: the same language, rebuilt on Electron, React and a Rust virtual machine in WebAssembly.

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SAML: A fractal of bad design

SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks and parser differentials that persist despite decades of awareness. Organizations should migrate to OpenID Connect (OIDC), which avoids these pitfalls through simpler JSON-based design, detached signatures, and agile evolution. ,SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks an

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Unreal Agent

We’re sharing Unreal Agent — an agent harness that delivers up to 40% cost savings compared to Codex on production workloads and coding/science benchmarks, without any negative performance impact.

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Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

Having played both parts in the kabuki play that is employee-employer matchmaking, I feel the way we play it is a zero-sum game. I wish it were not so. When this post started life in 2024, as a wall of text chat message, it was brutal out there, on both sides of the software industry interview table. The ZIRP had ended. As of 2026, post-ZIRP reality has properly set in and remains bad ("AI" is a Fig Leaf (Enterprise Edition) for structural damage they self-inflicted, and if you look at Hyperscaler GPU depreciation schedules, they are making it order-of-magnitude worse). Set to that backdrop, here is a hopefully hopeful hiring anecdote where I think we avoided the so-called "Secretary Problem", framed within Optimal Stopping Theory. It can b

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OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

TypeSafe's Jev is a genuine breakthrough – snap judgments with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. My bet is OpenAI is already figuring out how to copy it, and then embed it inside its own models where Jev can't follow.

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How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

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OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

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The Softness of Metal

Watching a seated Ozzy play his final gig, my ankle broken, I’m in tears – this couldn’t be more metal

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WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

Under the draft laws, tech firms face fines if they do not give users the option to switch off algorithms.

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ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

Resizable BAR for (almost) any UEFI system. Contribute to xCuri0/ReBarUEFI development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The current balance of power in open models

The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.

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What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

California solar panels tower over canals in Turlock, proving to save water, produce clean energy and improve local water quality.

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GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.

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Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.

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Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

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Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models

52 Jev-class systems tested on 534 decisions. Jev 1.13.0 leads JevBench v1.3.0 with 74.4; compare open-source, self-hostable and hosted options.

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Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

SAML: A fractal of bad design

Unreal Agent

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

The Softness of Metal

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

The current balance of power in open models

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models

On this day

Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.

Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.

Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.

Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.

Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.

Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.

Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.

Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.

Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during Michigan's first coho salmon sport fishing season.

Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.

Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School.

A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named Hurricane Flossy just hours before striking the Gulf Coast and causing 15 deaths and an estimated US$24.8 million in damages.

An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till.

After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on television and radio, defending his actions and successfully salvaging his nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice President.

George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found.

Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.

World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.

Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Ibn Saud, proclaims the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the current iteration of the Third Saudi State.

The Louisiana hurricane dissipates over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.

World War I: British forces capture Haifa, Acre, and Es Salt from the Ottoman Empire.

The United Mine Workers of America launch a strike which eventually escalated into the Colorado Coalfield War.

Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

Philippine-American War: the American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

Ethiopian forces under Ras Alula defeat Mahdist Sudanese forces in the battle of Kufit.

On the night of 23–24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.

The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society is founded.

The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.

Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.

Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

The treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed, in which Imperial Russia gains Derbent, Baku, and the coastal areas in between as well as the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad from Safavid Persia while the Shah receives Russian soldiers for domestic peacekeeping.

First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ends in a Royalist victory.

King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.

The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists.

The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.

The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.

Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.

Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.

On this day

Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.

Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.

Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.

Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.

Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.

Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.

Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.

Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.

Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during Michigan's first coho salmon sport fishing season.