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This link was posted by [yarapavan](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yarapavan) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906637). It received 120 points and 44 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906865) by [_fw](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_fw):

> I appreciate their reluctance towards MCP, but /something/ is better than nothing.
> 
> It’s suboptimal for the reasons the author outlines: but so is USB-C. So is NVME, so is HDMI.
> 
> We use these hugely successful technologies in spite of their flaws because they’re widely compatible and easy for the end user.
> 
> That’s why MCP is everywhere. It might not be performant, robust and uniform but it  WILL get better over time.
> 
> And I’d much rather have the broad MCP ecosystem that we have now than seven or eight different “optimal” ways of plugging in an LLM to something useful.

Pi.dev: You Said No MCP

This link was posted by [marjancek](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marjancek) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905487). It received 170 points and 67 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906204) by [Tade0](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Tade0):

> I feel like this is overdramatized a bit.
> 
> For instance: it's mentioned that EU gas storage is at 67% and Germany's at 56%.
> 
> What is not mentioned though is that Poland's storage is at 97% because the previous administration, for better or worse, was paranoid enough to invest in a sizeable marine gas terminal and the current one stocked up early.
> 
> Regarding real estate: adjusted for inflation prices peaked 2.5 years ago, interest rates are also much lower than back then. Nobody is buying because all the Ukrainian refugees who were moving to Poland are here already and that's the last bump in population this country will see for the foreseeable future.
> 
> Also there's the threat of war on Polish soil, which affects investor sentiment.

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

This link was posted by [bryan0](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bryan0) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736). It received 118 points and 65 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902317) by [jug](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jug):

> We also have Nerf Bench:
> 
> [https://www.bridgebench.ai/nerf-bench](https://www.bridgebench.ai/nerf-bench)
> 
> They test it on launch day, then benchmark it against that. A deviation of above 10% is considered a change. They're currently tracking Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
> 
> This bench famously detected a degradation of Opus 4.6 which Anthropic later blogged about. I personally think people sense nerfs more often than they happen and that it's often about honeymoon effects.

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

This link was posted by [ilamont](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ilamont) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899090). It received 84 points and 44 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899904) by [zucked](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zucked):

> I am pretty sure I bought from a seller using this (or something similar) on eBay. It sent me down a rabbit hole of reading about this type of scam that exploded earlier this year:
> [https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2026-04/...](https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2026-04/25-072-3-r26.pdf)
> 
> Here's how it went down:
> 
> [https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/theperfectpart](https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/theperfectpart)
> 
> Note that they’ve sold so much that even 1k neutral ratings are barely registering - they have “100% positive feedback”
> 
> I bought a cheap tool from this seller on ebay. Tracking number was provided showing my town as the destination. About four days later, I get an unprompted ebay message from the seller:
> “I monitor all my shipments and sometimes there are problems so I’m proactively sending you a new one, here’s a new tracking number.”
> 
> …

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

This link was posted by [sidcool](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sidcool) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893876). It received 152 points and 113 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894533) by [patcon](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patcon):

> I'm not sure this is even conceivable, but... Imagine the bootstrap problem of intelligence systems going down, when no one knows how to bring them back up without the system itself walking them through it... Like if power and intelligence were to go down in a Carrington-class event in 10 years...
> 
> Like what would happen to individuals ten years from now who are trying to live if AI suddenly became inaccessible
> 
> Of course we all know most humans are useless and unable to survive outside our culture, but the difference is that I'm trying to picture is the individual trying the reason through challenges. The version of this that has been obvious to me up to now is that the individual didn't have the knowledge to look after themselves. But I guess it feels different to conceive of them not having the ability to fully *reason* on their own...?
> 
> To not just lack the objects of intelligence, but the very process of it...

Claude partial outage

This link was posted by [rbanffy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rbanffy) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245). It received 152 points and 78 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892638) by [motionlessveloc](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=motionlessveloc):

> I wonder how many HNers recall life in Delhi even 20 years ago? Cutting electricity loss is one thing, but getting rid of "load shedding" (unplanned power cuts) is the really revolutionary part. It was not uncommon for the power to go out several times a day and you had to rush to unplug expensive appliances (TV, laptop), because when the power came back it was often accompanied by a surge. My office was wired with two sets of electrical sockets, one connected to grid mains and the other connected to the UPS (for important equipment only).

How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent

This link was posted by [barry-cotter](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=barry-cotter) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891295). It received 198 points and 147 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891690) by [kieckerjan](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kieckerjan):

> Middle aged European here. I still regularly go to parties (dinner and otherwise) and I notice that there are two kinds of people: people who throw parties, and people who don't. This sounds like a truism, but what I mean is: there are people who regularly throw a party and people who never do it.
> 
> I am solidly in the first category. I throw dinner parties, birthday parties, drinking parties, dance parties, midsummer parties, midwinter parties, game parties, etc. Yes, it costs time and money and is a lot of work. But what people (probably the ones that never bother) tend to forget is how unbelievably gratifying it is to get a bunch of people together, to feed them and to make them talk, laugh, dance, etc. Afterwards you are tired but also grateful and socially energized in a way that feels fundamental to my existence.

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

This link was posted by [damaru2](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=damaru2) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890226). It received 144 points and 35 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891404) by [delis-thumbs-7e](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=delis-thumbs-7e):

> In an old Simpsons episode Lisa gets to visit the Teachers room, where all the staff are making fun of the children. Groundskeeper Willie is pantomiming Milhouse “Oh I am Milhouse, I tell all my secrets to Willie since I have no friends!” and the teachers laugh. Later something embarrassing happens to Milhouse and he immediately runs away crying “I have to tell this to Willie!”.
> 
> We have all become Milhouse now.

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

This link was posted by [czoido](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=czoido) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890051). It received 22 points and 5 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890542) by [jokoon](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jokoon):

> So it requires writing a CMake script, some python, and some weird C++ code.
> 
> A bit tedious but that's how it goes.

Using any C++ library in Godot

This link was posted by [evakhoury](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=evakhoury) 14 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880411). It received 71 points and 8 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889050) by [r0b05](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=r0b05):

> Nice work. Love to see some vintage HN content

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

This link was posted by [firelex](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=firelex) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844). It received 162 points and 49 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885037) by [adrithmetiqa](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adrithmetiqa):

> Forgive my lack of understanding but how long before Jev type functionality is just built straight into all frontier models?

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

This link was posted by [mfiguiere](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mfiguiere) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760). It received 111 points and 35 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884950) by [LarsDu88](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=LarsDu88):

> This was absurdly soon.
> 
> I was also shocked by how quickly AMD acquired Talaas. AMD may be preparing for the next way (ultra fast inference, and embodied AI inference)

World Labs Is Joining AMD

This link was posted by [piotrgrabowski](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=piotrgrabowski) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880036). It received 153 points and 40 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881132) by [softskunk](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=softskunk):

> > Of particular note is the “remux” community, dedicated to seamlessly stitching together the best video and audio streams from different releases without any generational loss of quality.
> 
> That’s not what “remux” means. A remux is the original data from, for instance, a Blu-ray disc, transferred into a new container without re-encoding. What the author is referring to would be called a “hybrid remux”.

Pirating the Pirates

This link was posted by [davidcollantes](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidcollantes) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913). It received 66 points and 18 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875914) by [davidcollantes](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidcollantes):

> Parley is a chat network with no centre.
> 
> Every person (or team) runs a small instance for their own domain. Instances find each other through DNS and well-known identity documents, exchange signed messages over HTTPS, and present the whole federated network to ordinary IRC clients such as Lurker, Mango, mIRC, WeeChat, Textual, etc., without the need of any plugins.

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

This link was posted by [Michelangelo11](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Michelangelo11) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874728). It received 60 points and 52 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875239) by [skeledrew](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skeledrew):

> All that keeps jumping out at me is how they've set it to refuse giving users thinking tokens and prompts for full reasoning in output. Just drives me further away; I may not stop using Claude completely for now, but I'll be moving even more of my primary workload to Chinese providers. That's where openness and freedom is now at.

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

This link was posted by [Eric_Gullichsen](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eric_Gullichsen) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723). It received 211 points and 102 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873251) by [reticulates](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reticulates):

> You are ultimately responsible for asserting your contractual rights. Your stock options had an expiry and you did not exercise them in time. The letter you received notifying that you had 15,625 vested options was not an award in of itself, it was only a courtesy notifying you that you had vested options to exercise before they expired. Even if due to ambiguous wording it could be argued that 25,000 options had vested at the time instead of 15,625, that was only relevant until the options expired. You needed to assert your rights to the [additional 9,375] vested options before they expired. So, this issue died in 1996.
> 
> I had a similar experience although over a shorter time horizon. I was in a dispute with a corporation which prompted me to pore over every word in every previously signed agreement. I discovered, due to an obvious typo in a stock option agreement, more options had vested than had been intended. After some pushback, they eventually relented and awarded me the options.
> 
> …

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

This link was posted by [trekhleb](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trekhleb) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872472). It received 36 points and 4 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872834) by [diydsp](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=diydsp):

> This would be prime [https://reddit.com/r/WatchMachinesLearn](https://reddit.com/r/WatchMachinesLearn) material.

Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021)

This link was posted by [sancho-panza](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sancho-panza) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367). It received 299 points and 159 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870598) by [mkirsten](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mkirsten):

> I hear how hurtful and exhausting this situation is. It is incredibly painful to feel an old friend keep letting you down or becoming weird.
> 
> If you want to talk about what happened with Google, HN is here to listen.
> 
> If you'd like to figure out what to do next, let me know.

When did Google get so weird?

This link was posted by [gmays](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gmays) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830). It received 119 points and 54 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869735) by [GodelNumbering](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GodelNumbering):

> This is the golden age of model training. Some days ago, I decided I wanted a local CPU only model that can perform exceptionally well for English to Bash translation (to avoid the googling for command syntax). I got a bunch of subagents to generate large amount of training data (140k+ samples), got the Qwen 3 0.6B base model, pointed Astra at it, and off to the races. It trained for 2 days (on and off) and I got a surprisingly good model for my task! The total active time I spent was a few hours. And it is still improving, what a time to be alive!

Ember-1

This link was posted by [danso](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danso) 3 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951). It received 91 points and 33 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867084) by [ouked](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ouked):

> [https://archive.is/2026.09.26-101638/https://www.nytimes.com...](https://archive.is/2026.09.26-101638/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html)

In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life

This link was posted by [jandeboevrie](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jandeboevrie) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867067). It received 174 points and 123 comments.

[Top comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867618) by [sdcfgy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sdcfgy):

> I've used vim since the first time it appeared in Debian repos. I have been told a thousand times that NeoVim is better, more modern and solves many (conveniently never cited) issues. I just ignored it and carried on. Feeling terribly vindicated at this point as it's a feature I use regularly and have no idea that it would be an issue in NeoVim.