Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and whil...
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
Article URL: https://56k.rip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915126 Points: 174 # Comments: 81
The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
Article URL: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915082 Points: 221 # Comments: 104
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236 Points: 37 # Comments: 17
Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition
VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.
Gitea 28.0
Article URL: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913975 Points: 43 # Comments: 15
Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering ...
Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch
Article URL: https://www.neuroai.science/p/functional-ultrasound-imaging-from Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913604 Points: 9...
Gemini 4 Argon
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective
Article URL: https://turkeyland.net/thoughts/ai.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913458 Points: 22 # Comments: 8
Dear Software Makers
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913364 Points: 23 # Comme...
Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields
Article URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/halfspace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913350 Points: 35 # Comments: 6
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a mont...
EDG C++ front-end goes public
Article URL: https://edgcpp.org/#transition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913192 Points: 90 # Comments: 32
DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.
The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912792 P...
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
Article URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912444 Points: ...
Recursive `make` and `-j`
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/09/30/recursive-make-j/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912094 Points: 13...