Today so far 2026-09-08 · 00:00 UTC

OpenAI's chief scientist is warning that AI labs may need to slow down their development pace, a cautionary note that comes as the industry grapples with safety and oversight concerns highlighted by stories like AI models running real businesses and making costly mistakes. Meanwhile, privacy and safety issues continue to plague major tech companies, with reports that LG TVs may still listen even when powered off and a Tesla fatality involving Full Self-Driving raising fresh questions about consumer trust in connected devices and autonomous systems.

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

Modal has achieved a 40x reduction in GPU inference cold starts by implementing four key techniques: maintaining cloud buffers of idle GPUs, using a custom lazy-loading filesystem for container…

2026-05-18 · 17:56 UTC
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Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion AI Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

2026-05-18 · 17:47

The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury…

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

2026-05-18 · 17:34

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a…

The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest

2026-05-18 · 17:26

Dory CEO claims the $149 signs won't be bricked should Dory go out of business.

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

2026-05-18 · 17:20

Anthropic Acquires Stainless

2026-05-18 · 17:01

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a company specializing in SDK and MCP server tooling that has generated all official…

NYC Health and Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people

2026-05-18 · 16:32

The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics — including…

Show HN: I built a sovereign OS, L1 blockchain, AI agent, and language

2026-05-18 · 16:31

I built IONA over 10 years, working alone.

Qwen 3.7 Preview

2026-05-18 · 16:24

A Rust-Python thing I am working on. Apache 2 licence

2026-05-18 · 16:06

Kevin Chege has developed Nairobi OS, a high-performance Rust-Python infrastructure designed to eliminate inefficiencies…

Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

2026-05-18 · 16:03

Microsoft is also testing a smaller taskbar and more customizable Start menu.

Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

2026-05-18 · 15:40

Hi HN, I'm Hang, cofounder of InsForge (YC P26).

Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients

2026-05-18 · 15:26

The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the…

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

2026-05-18 · 15:24

A GitHub repository was overwhelmed by low-quality AI-generated comments, pull requests, and issues that drowned out…

Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

2026-05-18 · 15:18

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, posted on X accusing journalist Radley Balko of unethical reporting for asking San…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI

2026-05-18 · 15:16

The reaction underscores a growing anxiety among students over AI's impact on jobs and their future careers.

What "Amazon Supply Chain Services" Tells Us About What Amazon Is

2026-05-18 · 15:05

# Summary Amazon launched Amazon Supply Chain Services in May 2026, opening its logistics network to external…

Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

2026-05-18 · 14:56

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized…

I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code?

2026-05-18 · 14:51

# Summary A writer with no coding experience attempts to build their first software application using "vibe…

BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive

2026-05-18 · 14:33

The 2027 M3 CS Handschalter is lighter and comes with three pedals instead of two.

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

2026-05-18 · 14:13

A group of Minecraft enthusiasts completed the largest-ever world download project of the 2b2t server, preserving 15 TB…

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom

2026-05-18 · 13:42

The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not…

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

2026-05-18 · 13:37

Mythos Preview, a security-focused LLM from Anthropic tested through Project Glasswing, represents a significant…

Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

2026-05-18 · 13:33

Files.md is an open-source, privacy-focused note-taking app that stores data as plain markdown files locally on your…

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

2026-05-18 · 13:26

Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

2026-05-18 · 13:23

"Never-ending" AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes.

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

2026-05-18 · 12:49

Chris Willis, Domo's chief design officer, argues that AI companies have created unnecessary anxiety through fear-based…

Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

2026-05-18 · 12:49

Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend

2026-05-18 · 12:41

Hershey is modernizing marketing mix modeling—a traditional tool for measuring how marketing spending drives sales—by…

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

2026-05-18 · 12:20

Linus Torvalds has declared Linux's security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" due to AI-powered bug hunters…

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