Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858676 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software like Draw.io which are powerful but are very time consuming (and inefficient for agents to manipu...
Apple hit with a $5.7 billion verdict for alleged patent infringement
Apple is reportedly looking to appeal the jury verdict.
The Evolution of Vending Machines
Article URL: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vending-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858424 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Levoit’s new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment
This $189.99 air purifier is specifically designed to tackle pet odors, removing up to 70% in one hour.
Apple Watch Series 12 one week later: There’s so much more than meets the eye
When Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12, two features stood out: the new Siri Recap feature, as well as the much improved heart rate monitor. While those two features were part of the reason I was compelled to buy the new Apple Watch, I’ve found myself delighted by much more than just those...
TikTok will pay Alabama $100 million to settle social media addiction lawsuit
TikTok has settled Alabama's social media addiction lawsuit before it was supposed to go to trial.
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet...
The MacBook models that macOS 27 Golden Gate does not support
macOS Golden Gate refines the Mac software experience, but not everyone can upgrade.
Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 appears to be changing how it writes, with new analysis showing fewer obvious AI writing patterns, shorter sentences, and simpler wording compared with Opus 5. [...]
Garmin Fenix 9 vs Fenix 8: How much of an upgrade is the new model?
Which sport smartwatch should you get?
Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Article URL: https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857729 Points: 99 # Comments: 32
Microsoft pauses KB5002907 update after Office license deactivations
Microsoft has paused the rollout of the KB5002907 Microsoft 365 update after users report that it deactivated, or in some cases completely removed, perpetual Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations. [...]
Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
We found an approach to get Jev-like properties from standard LLMs like GLM-5.3-Flash. The core idea is to craft the input prompt so that the first output token answers the question. This makes it possible to get a decision with a single forward pass. In the blog post, we describe the approach in...
Why NVIDIA's most powerful GPU is so rarely sold to consumers
NVIDIA's $16,000 RTX PRO 6000 can beat the RTX 5090, but gamers aren't who it's built for.
27-year-old GTA 2 gets full path tracing and 60 FPS frame generation via RTX Remix
Modder releases GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that adds path tracing and a dynamic time of day to the 27-year-old Grand Theft Auto 2.
Get better audio quality from your vinyl by upgrading this part
Swapping out your turntable's stylus is an easy upgrade.
Go Concurrency Distilled
Article URL: https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Russia bombs Ukrainian data centers in latest escalation
Russia has begun targeting data centers and internet infrastructure in its latest attacks, disrupting critical services for Ukrainian civilians. The attacks have left 100,000 households in the area without an internet connection, although a senior government official claimed that the country's in...
Is your Roku TV talking to you? Here's why and how to turn it off
Relax, that voice you're hearing from your Roku is pretty easy to turn off.