Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

Putin believes Russia can seize rest of Donetsk Oblast by year-end β Reuters Β Β The New Voice of Ukraine
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
ICE agents arrested an average of one person every 54 seconds in July. AJLabs examines a record month for deportations.
The 40-year-old retained her WBA, IBF and WBO super-lightweight belts to become the undisputed champion for third time.

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 serviceβ¦
Cairo court sentences TV host Sarah Khalifa and 11 others to death over drug trafficking ring.

Upon arrival at the U-20 Women's World Cup, Infantino remained tight-lipped about his re-election as FIFA president.

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

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Article URL: https://github.com/nigrosimone/llms-robot-arena Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583994 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Al Jazeera finds 17 settlement-linked companies hold 2.1 billion pounds in UK public contracts.

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 personβs capslock light turns on. Let go, and it turns off. Thatβs 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. Itβs open source: simple Swift, end-to-end encrypted, no accounts, no analytics. While itβs running, capslockβ¦
Article URL: https://v7.robweychert.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583842 Points: 36 # Comments: 3

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
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=49583706β¦
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A terrifying moment unfolded aboard a Qantas flight from Queenstown to Sydney when flames erupted from its left engine.
More than 60 people, including civilians, killed as clashes between Yemeni forces and Houthis intensify in Taiz.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed accusations about his governmentβs alleged ties to Qatar as βone big bluffβ

Article URL: https://github.com/vitaliyhayda/claude-transplant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583423 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Authorities have launched an investigation into a fire that killed 22 people at a wedding party in Kinshasa, DR Congo.
Behind South Africaβs chrome riches lies a shadow economy where migrants and unemployed workers face deadly conditions.

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Saxony-Anhalt elections could see AfD become the first far-right party to take power at a state levelΒ since WWII.

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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Indonesiaβs 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.
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I originally created this project to enhance realism for a GTA V Roleplay server. Recently, someone mentioned wanting to use these as default profile pictures for an upcoming social media platform. I decided to share them here in case they inspire other creatives. The fingerprints are seed-dependent and they consistent for an offline matching. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583138 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Volcanic ash from Mount Anak Krakatau disrupts flights at Soekarno-Hatta International airport, near Jakarta.

Princeton researchers have tested an AI system that can monitor and control fusion plasma in milliseconds, reacting far faster than a human operator. In one experiment, it predicted a damaging instability about 200 milliseconds before it appeared and adjusted the plasma to stop it from forming.
Article URL: https://laterbot.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583004 Points: 1 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://setdpi.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582978 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

My user feedback board provider increased its price from $15 to $25 to $50/mo, so I built a ~free alternative that does just the few things I need: make a feature request, vote on feature requests from others. There's a paid tier at $2/mo, and I only need ~1% of users to opt-in to pay to offset server costs. Of course, you can request features on Say Toucan using Say Toucan: https://saytoucan.com/b/say-toucan (The name is so dumb and I'm so thrilled with myself. Say Toucan do it!) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582948 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Researchers may have found a new way to weaken glioblastomaβs defenses against treatment. Blocking a protein called SET prevented tumors from forming in preclinical models, while targeting related proteins made cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation. The strategy works by restoring activity of PP2A, an enzyme that glioblastoma cells appear to suppress. Human testing will be needed to determine whether the approach is safe and effective.
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More than 179 attacks on ambulance crews recorded since March 2, killing 179 healthcare workers.

A desktop robot for macOS that opens your apps. Its Slicky β what more is there to say? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582838 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Hi HN! I just built ChessNotate to turn my handwritten chess scoresheet into a clean PGN to solve my own pain points when it comes to capturing my games (and my son's) A lot of times my son and I make typos (accidentally mixing up B with b), or missing out moves through the middlegame and the frustrating part is when I try to validate it using PGN validator, if the PGN is invalid, it either rejects the PGN outright, or stops at the first error and everything else gets discarded. Then I have to fix the moves one by one. Worse, correcting a move usually gets treated as branching to a new variatβ¦

Article URL: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582719 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leave Moscow talks with hopes for "equally productive meetings" in Ukraine.

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Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582656 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Chandika Shrestha was airlifted to hospital after spending more than 10 days in her partially buried house.

Article URL: https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

A 21-year-old student in Indiaβs Madhya Pradesh has single-handedly cleaned up a trash-filled river.
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DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale

Israeli PM says money he facilitated Qatar in sending to Gaza was recommended byΒ Israeli security agencies.

Isar Aerospace says its 28-metre-long Spectrum rocket blasted off into space from AndΓΈya spaceport in Arctic Norway.

Hi HN, I built Vibes because I wanted a small sense of company while working on my own projects. Itβs a native Mac app that shows which friends are online, what theyβve chosen to put in their status, and a summary of their dayβs Git activity. You pick local repositories and connect with friends through invite links. There are orbit and list views, plus optional music and weather sharing. The idea is to glance over and see that a friend is around building something too. Git scanning happens locally. Source code, file contents, repository paths, branch names, and commit messages arenβtβ¦

CowBull is a word game where you have to find the hidden four-letter word. You make guesses and get back the count of exact letter matches (bulls) and partial matches (cows). Itβs a bit like Wordle, but you are not told the exact letters which match, only the count of matching letters. Scoring is based on the number of guesses and time used. There is a single player mode and a multi-player mode (no account required). The game source code is at https://github.com/claceio/cowbull . When I was younger, we used to play this game on paper at the back of the classroom during school and college inβ¦
Article URL: https://cococut.app/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582167 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

The pop star's first album since 2021 deals with the mental health fallout of perimenopause.

I've loved stacker type games for as long as I can remember. But I've always wanted a version with a bit more strategy and puzzle dynamics. Blocknado is a game I've always wanted to play, maybe others will too. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582075 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

The comedian is making his stage acting debut and says he wants to move away from social content.

Speculation has been building recently that an announcement about Daniel Craig's successor could be close.

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Article URL: https://www.openmonitor.website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581999 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
IRGC says it fired ballistic missiles at US aircraft carrier and destroyer as standoff intensifies in Strait of Hormuz.

Ukraine's third-biggest city Odesa decides this week whether to ban Russian-language content in music and literature in public.

Generate AI Images Programmatically Submit prompts, receive image URLs, and integrate Midjourney into any app or workflow. Supports Python, Node.js, and any HTTP client. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581947 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://undercolony.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581927 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Some of the biggest names in women's boxing pay tribute to Katie Taylor after the Irish great ended her career with victory over Flora Pili at Croke Park.

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870 Points: 24 # Comments: 0
Planning, organising and remembering household tasks falls disproportionately to mothers - here are some tips to help.

Bluetooth is a common setting that's typically always on in modern phones, but this feature may be leaving your phone open to a rather significant issue.

Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?

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At least six other people were injured in the tanker blast on Iran's Hamedan-Sanandaj highway, officials say.

Several papers feature stories on what they say is Liam and Noel Gallagher's first joint interview in over 20 years.

Highlights of eight Premier League matches, including Hull City v Aston Villa.
You can still buy music from the iTunes Store, believe it or not.

US president has pledged more than $400m through his super PAC to boost Republican candidates in the upcoming midterms.

Hello. Macs are starting to support more and more games. Now, you want to play games not only at home but also on the go. So I developed TouchNow so I can use a virtual game controller to remotely control my Mac when I'm out and about. You can even customize the controller layout for different games. It also supports internet connectivity, not just your home Wi-Fi. It's part of the Apple Ecosystem, so it delivers maximum Apple performance, offering many features that other Remote apps can't provide. It displays real app icons, shows real-time thumbnails of each window, and allows you to streaβ¦

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
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The Steam Deck is a solid gaming handheld, but after the arrival of several competitors and higher prices, is it still worth picking one up?

US ambassador visits Palestinian town amid rise in West Bank settler violence Β Β Reuters
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China's Zheng rediscovers competitive spark at US Open Β Β Reuters