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Erlang: a programming language built in a Swedish telecom lab in the 1980s, ended up running the biggest messaging app WhatsApp. Told by its co-creator.

Fabrice Bellard wrote the code that carries the world's video, spins up its clouds, and speaks to its cell towers. But this ultimate coder has no face.

Thingway is an offline-first mobile writing app combining planning, editing, citations, bibliographies, and local storage without mandatory accounts.

GTM engineers are building the engine that monetizes the product, not just the product itself. Being tied directly to revenue is a rare and enviable spot.

Proposed acquisition would bring a gold-backed decentralized financial ecosystem, including decentralized financial infrastructure targeting retail, institution

Article URL: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893002 Points: 112 # Comments: 23

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-certificate-authority/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893144 Points: 39 # Comments: 24

I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893157 Points: 175 # Comments: 425

One of the things that Windows really got right is WSL2. I drive an atomic Linux distro for daily use, but wanted a way to develop with multiple different distros with that same WSL UX. NSL is my answer. It is a faithful reproduction of the developer experience, powered by a single VM that hosts one or more systemd-nspawn containers with your development instances. Host file edits and port sharing come along for the ride, just like WSL. Take a look and tell me what you think... It's yet another...

Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895864 Points: 49 # Comments: 14

I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work. I used Astra to build out the inner components through a combination of reference images, writing out hundreds of extremely detailed prompts, and building my own inspection tools to ensure that every part is sized and positioned in a historically accurate way. It's still a work in progress, but wou...

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keeping-the-lights-on-during-storms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897993 Points: 115 # Comments: 104

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898050 Points: 86 # Comments: 54

Article URL: https://space.bl2.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898778 Points: 152 # Comments: 35

Article URL: https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling-millions-of-counterfeit-postage-labels/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899090 Points: 188 # Comments: 114

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901149 Points: 39 # Comments: 6

Article URL: https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736 Points: 343 # Comments: 147

Article URL: https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/nrc-issues-first-us-construction-permit-bwrx-300-small-modular-reactor-tva-clinch-river Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902019 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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By sharing the same platform, the Sport gets the same specs as the classier Range Rover Electric, but with added torque at a smaller outlay.

Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn't reviewed edits since April, but the platform's live updates site is now showing various recent changes to pages - though as I write this, many are just a […]

Dutch police say they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks on Ticketmaster, Rockstar Games, and more recently, the FBI. In a press release, Dutch authorities state that they arrested the suspect on September 15th - just days before the hacking group claimed to […]

When BMW first announced it was reimagining the i3 as an all-electric four-door sedan built on its Neue Klasse platform, it left out a lot of important details, like battery capacity, range, and price. Today, the German automaker is finally starting to fill in the blanks on the i3. Let's start with price. BMW says […]

The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump. "The word super is the best word of all, and it's the simplest," Trump said […]

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.

The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.

EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.

Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.