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Hacker News (29 Sep 2026)

  1. You are no longer invited to dinner

    636 points • 585 comments • sep 29, 2026

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

    573 points • 492 comments • sep 29, 2026

  3. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

    450 points • 264 comments • sep 29, 2026

  4. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

    400 points • 286 comments • sep 29, 2026

  5. DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers

    396 points • 268 comments • sep 29, 2026

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

    390 points • 125 comments • sep 29, 2026

  7. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

    370 points • 209 comments • sep 29, 2026

  8. Dots: Always-on agents

    355 points • 268 comments • sep 29, 2026

  9. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

    346 points • 339 comments • sep 29, 2026

  10. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

    207 points • 84 comments • sep 29, 2026