The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn't just a Swiss party.
Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
The studio released an official catch-up list ahead of December’s release. We have easy links to watch every one of the movies so you can get up to speed.
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Article URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167 Points: 182 # Comments: 165
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Article URL: https://pushin.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573680 Points: 228 # Comments: 115
GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
Article URL: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra-code-review-evaluation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572875 Points: 59 # Comments: 43
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 Points: 292 # Comments: 107
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571632 Points: 123 # Comments: 47
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571465 Points: 156 # Comments: 68
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
DLSS 5 officially launches inside NBA 2K27, limited to RTX 50-series GPUs for now — Nvidia promises to bring neutral rendering tech to RTX 40-series soon
Nvidia's controversial neural-rendering tech, DLSS 5, is now officially available in NBA 2K27, marking the start of a new era for the company. DLSS 5 will also come to RTX 40-series soon after current work on optimizing it for the RTX 50-series has reached a satisfactory state.
How to see what's taking up space on your Windows PC
Use a methodical approach to see what's using the most space on your PC and easily clean it up.
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
Article URL: https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571047 Points: 95 # Comments: 22
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570772 Points: 464 # Comments: 361
The Tetris Company wants nothing to do with the White House's new copycat game
Tetris knockoff 'Build the Wall' is one of six new games hosted on the White House website, and The Tetris Company is not happy.
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669 Points: 545 # Comments: 288
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545 Points: 239 # Comments: 150