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DIY plug-in solar gains momentum in the UShttps://www.theverge.com/column/990183/diy-plug-in-solar-us

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on e-bikes, power stations, and how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started With a deep breath, I took […]

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The Best Laptop Backpacks for Work, Travel, and Everything Between (2026)https://www.wired.com/story/best-laptop-backpacks

The wrong bag can aggravate you every single day. These WIRED-tested picks get comfort, capacity, and organization just right.

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Show HN: Webcam games my kids can only play by movinghttps://hoplagames.com/en

Article URL: https://hoplagames.com/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585337 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Ninja Artisan electric pizza oven review: so good it might even convert the puristshttps://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/sep/06/ninja-artisan-electric-pizza-oven-review

Affordable, fast-heating and with a clever air fryer function, this versatile model is a winner for outdoor cooks who are willing to give up the traditional flame β€’ The best pizza ovens – tested β€’ Gozney Dome Gen 2 pizza oven review An electric pizza oven with no flame and no need to rotate the pizza may seem sacrilegious to purists, but the Ninja Artisan electric outdoor pizza oven solves many of the hassles of outdoor pizza making. There’s no lighting or monitoring a flame, no need to keep adjusting the heat, and no need for a turning peel, bulky gas bottle or constant use of an inf…

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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AIhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/06/daniel-susskind-father-studies-ai-artificial-intelligence-what-parents-need-know

A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills? When I was growing up, my dad and I often talked about a story we wanted to write together. It was called β€œThe Day Nobody Went to Disneyland”. One day, the story goes, the weather is so perfect that everyone in the world decides to stay away from Disneyland because they expect it to be far too busy. But my dad, who has the same thought as them, sees the disappointment on my face that morning – and decides to risk it. We s…

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Create Custom Windows 11 Notifications to Remind Yourself of Anythinghttps://www.wired.com/story/create-custom-windows-11-notifications-to-remind-yourself-of-anything

Take full control of your desktop alerts by sending yourself recurring reminders and custom notifications triggered by specific events.

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Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may dohttps://github.com/pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon

Article URL: https://github.com/pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585209 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Wayfinder – A reference implementation for evaluating AI applicationshttps://github.com/DivakarUngatla/wayfinder

Testing is critical to software applications β€” first to make sure they reliably serve the purpose they were built for, and then to make sure they stay that way as they grow, evolve and change. The same applies to AI applications as well. But testing AI applications is very different from testing classic software applications, especially because of their non-deterministic nature. It is very important for AI Engineers to develop a deep understanding of AI Evaluation to be able to build reliable AI applications and ship changes faster without breaking their existing behavior. AI Evaluation is…

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I Changed My Licensehttps://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl

Article URL: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585161 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

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My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AIhttps://www.wired.com/story/my-brief-summer-fling-with-siri-ai

I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple’s revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I’ve forgotten Siri AI even exists.

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These Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Lifehttps://www.wired.com/story/cyborg-cockroaches-disaster-response

The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.

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Minister to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expectedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crer948xq00o

The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.

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Best Water Leak Detectors (2026): Moen, Phyn, TP-Linkhttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-water-leak-detector

Don’t let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day. These smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker.

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Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quithttps://www.wired.com/story/why-china-is-still-the-bogeyman-for-data-center-enthusiasts

Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their alliesβ€”the only problem is a lack of evidence.

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American Muslims are giving Texas barbecue a halal makeoverhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/06/nx-s1-5927184/american-muslims-are-giving-texas-barbecue-a-halal-makeover

Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.

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Police slow to respond to Dover protest, says council bosshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew9dq9we5eo

The "exceptionally well organised" protest "caught several agencies on the hoof", the leader says.

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Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talkhttps://keenbean.app

Article URL: https://keenbean.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584880 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talkhttps://keenbean.app

Article URL: https://keenbean.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584880 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

US envoys Witkoff and Kushner set for talks in Kyiv after meeting with Putin in Moscowhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/06/nx-s1-5959657/us-envoys-witkoff-kushner-talks-in-kyiv-putin-moscow

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday in their first visit to the Ukrainian capital as part of a renewed push for peace in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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The Best Gaming Chairs (2026): Are They Worth It?https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-gaming-chairs

The best gaming chair is actually an office chair. Here are our top picks from our real-life testing so far.

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Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authenticationhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attackers-hijack-mikrotik-routers.html

Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according toΒ CERT Polska's attack warning, published on September 5. Successful attacks date to at least September 2. The Hacker News’s September 6 review of the warning found no victim count or

Show HN: Recipery: Self-hosted recipe manager, no database requiredhttps://recipery.dev

Article URL: https://recipery.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584687 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Ruleshttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit

Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584637 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

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QUIZ: Ugh, I'll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?https://www.npr.org/2026/09/06/nx-s1-5957512/quiz-ugh-ill-do-it-later-how-much-do-you-know-about-procrastination

Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination β€” and helpful tools to overcome it β€” with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination .

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How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips

Aivres’s research and development technology center and manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif.

Show HN: Find the cheapest GPU to run your modelhttps://www.gpufind.cloud

Article URL: https://www.gpufind.cloud/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584553 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Stratosync – on-demand cloud sync for Linux with FUSE and rclone (BETA)https://github.com/dmcbane/stratosync

I came across Stratosync recently and thought it was worth sharing here. I’m not affiliated with the project. It seems to be trying to fill a gap that Linux still has: a decent β€œfiles on demand” style cloud sync client, where the filesystem is mounted normally but file contents are only downloaded when needed instead of mirroring everything locally. One can also pin files to keep them in sync. Stratosync is written in Rust, uses FUSE3 for the filesystem layer and rclone for cloud backends, so it should work with services like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, Nextcloud, SFTP, etc. Fr…

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Whatever happened to kindness? Spoiler alert: Our readers prove it's alive and wellhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/06/g-s1-141564/kindness-respect-feelings

We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.

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Show HN: Skool Video Downloaderhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skool-video-downloader/pedaaflmbpdbjjfndilgphbhhjbcfmfc

Back up accessible Skool lessons, notes, attachments, and full courses to a local folder. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584488 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Minerhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/09/four-revstealer-linked-modules-disable.html

Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of them switches off Windows Update and Microsoft Defender before running a cryptocurrency miner. The company named the four programs ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and

"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"https://www.trendingtopics.eu/emad-mostaque-ai-internet-outlook-english

Article URL: https://www.trendingtopics.eu/emad-mostaque-ai-internet-outlook-english/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584449 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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Terence Tao on β€œprematurely solving [a maths] problem by purely AI-powered methods”https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207856734787448

I recommend reading the whole thread, but I linked to the part I found the most relevant. I believe the same is true for programming. Comments

How do you arrest 50,000 people quietly?https://www.aljazeera.com/video/by-the-numbers-3/2026/9/6/how-do-you-arrest-50000-people-quietly

ICE agents arrested an average of one person every 54 seconds in July. AJLabs examines a record month for deportations.

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Play GTA III in the Browserhttps://quenq.com/apps/vice-city-online

Article URL: https://quenq.com/apps/vice-city-online/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584123 Points: 11 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Databasehttps://github.com/philphilphil/blunderbase

I made a free and open source chess database. It's useful for personal game study and gathering statistics across sites. Supports import from lichess, chess.com, FICS and PGN then runs Stockfish and Maia over every game. With it you can analyze your games, take notes on positions and look up openings. The self hosted web version includes a remote-runner that allows connecting engines running on other machines (finally, the CPUs of the AI server at work come to use :D) and an MCP server with a live board to push positions and comments to. Roadmap: iOS and Android companion apps, a sync service…

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flighthttps://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and-deploys-payloads-on-second-flight

Article URL: https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and-deploys-payloads-on-second-flight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584083 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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"Catching Crumbs from the Table"https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584053 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Volcano eruption triggers flight suspensions at Indonesia's main airporthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy5k4n07ko

More than 20,000 passengers are stranded after ash was detected in airspace near Jakarta following the eruptions.

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City plan change sought to protect Tower of Londonhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyejyeq3pro

Historic England is seeking changes to the Corporation's draft City Plan on development locations.

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Show HN: I built a small arena where AI write robot and then fight each otherhttps://github.com/nigrosimone/llms-robot-arena

Article URL: https://github.com/nigrosimone/llms-robot-arena Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583994 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Online bookies accused of UK privacy breaches with use of cookie bannershttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/06/online-bookies-privacy-breaches-cookies-tracking

Most gambling websites nudge users towards accepting tracking data and harvest it before consent is given, study shows Online bookmakers and casinos have been accused of widespread non-compliance of information privacy requirements, including β€œdata surveillance” of customers, according to a study. Nearly nine out of 10 (86%) licensed British gambling websites appear to be flouting the general data protection regulation (GDPR), the strict rules governing how organisations can collect, store and process personal data, according to the research. Continue reading...

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Show HN: Slock – A one-bit messenger inside your capslock keyhttps://github.com/jonaraphael/slock

Two computers, one bit. Hi β€” I built slock, a small macOS menu bar app that connects two people through their capslock lights. Hold capslock on your Mac, and the other person’s capslock light turns on. Let go, and it turns off. That’s all. A tiny way to interact someone without opening a chat window. Invent a blink language, try Morse code, or just bother someone who agreed to install this with you. If you both opt in, the same key also becomes a push-to-talk walkie-talkie. It’s open source: simple Swift, end-to-end encrypted, no accounts, no analytics. While it’s running, capslock…

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Taylor's place among greats set in stone after extraordinary swansonghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/c5yjr8pp0jwo

Fairytale endings in boxing are a rarity, but Irish icon Katie Taylor sails off into the sunset after the most perfect of farewells at Dublin's towering Croke Park.

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Site Is Closed on Sundayshttps://v7.robweychert.com

Article URL: https://v7.robweychert.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583842 Points: 36 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: Public message board for limited systemshttps://anystation.net

Inspired by the post[1] about how OpenAI models which were restricted to only GET requests found an old German Wiki that allowed posting with a GET, I created anystation.net, which aims to be a message board in which arbitrarily-limited systems can post. If you come up with more cools ideas, I'll have claude add them ^.^ PING morse-code, printer spool, email, bring it on. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583809 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Rust and Box2D browser physics game – build destructive machineshttps://v-yanakiev.itch.io/machina

https://v-yanakiev.itch.io/machina Hi. I've made a Rust + Box2D v3 game, compiled to WASM, in which you can build cars, helicopters, boats, and whatever else you can come up with, to destroy a set of targets. The game also has a sandbox, mode, which you can access with esc+sandbox. Torpedo example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrR5jtleDTk Helicopter bomb example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqSt4tpoKww Ground vehicle bomb example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBANeAxWhBQ I might add p2p multiplayer if people are interested. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583706…

Show HN: Vera – A memory log that leaves interpretation to AI agentshttps://ag3497120.github.io/call-me-vera

Article URL: https://ag3497120.github.io/call-me-vera/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583685 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Assist (Voice Screenshot)https://assistapp.dev

Article URL: https://assistapp.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583652 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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'I don't really want to talk' - Fritz and Cobolli shocked as seeds tumblehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cdr7531m7xjo

Taylor Fritz and Flavio Cobolli lose in the third round as six top-10 seeds are knocked out of the men's singles in the first week at the US Open.

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Show HN: Move Claude Code sessions between accounts in Claude Desktophttps://github.com/vitaliyhayda/claude-transplant

Article URL: https://github.com/vitaliyhayda/claude-transplant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583423 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Octoweb – a free, open-source keyboard-first browser for macOShttps://octoweb.xyz

Article URL: https://octoweb.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583336 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Temperatures could climb to 28C in late burst of warmthhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cvgydp1247ro

A summer-like day is in store for some on Sunday with above average temperatures, but the heat will be short-lived.

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Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake jokehttps://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-strip-club-instagram-taken-down-sign-calls-out-trump-12725993

Article URL: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-strip-club-instagram-taken-down-sign-calls-out-trump-12725993 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583232 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Generate safe WebMCP tools from your OpenAPI spec or validation schemashttps://github.com/SouravInsights/webmcp-stack

Article URL: https://github.com/SouravInsights/webmcp-stack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583196 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Main Street Toolbox – Calculators for small business ownershttps://mainstreettoolbox.com

Article URL: https://mainstreettoolbox.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583186 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning undergroundhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260904000318.htm

Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El NiΓ±o and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow smoldering fires are especially destructive because they release far more fine particles and several pollutants than typical tropical forest fires, while thick smoke can make them difficult for satellites to detect.

Show HN: 4D Chesshttps://4dchess.org

Article URL: https://4dchess.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583166 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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