Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-01.

21 new stories since Lunch.

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 414 points, 122 comments (discussion)

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 86 points, 66 comments (discussion)

Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI

Sources: Lobsters

BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion

Sources: Slashdot

ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs

Sources: The Register

Reactive Heat and Wind Come to VR, Thanks to Smart Plugs

Sources: Hackaday

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 725 points, 203 comments (discussion)

Apps need to exit the Play Store. I have a whole slew of apps which haven't been updated for a while now because Aurora Store isn't working because of whatever Google of doing. Meanwhile the ones installed via FDroid and other means are perfectly up to date. It's a crappy state of affairs as Google ...

Is Minifying CSS Necessary? (2023)

Sources: Lobsters

OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of 'Multiplayer' AI Coding

Sources: Slashdot

Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Europe 2026: Playstation 4 to Psychometer

Sources: Hackaday

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 426 points, 371 comments (discussion)

(I work at Anthropic) Beyond all the benchmarks, I think Fable 5.1 is a big improvement in writing style. It sounds a lot less stereotypically like other Claude models, has (imho) a much more natural style, and responds to my style instructions more reliably. More work to be done (and we will!) but ...

A bicycle for the mind

Sources: Lobsters

Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed

Sources: The Register

It’s Teletext, But On The Radio

Sources: Hackaday

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 339 points, 123 comments (discussion)

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders

Sources: Slashdot

ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango

Sources: The Register

PETG: the PLA Filament Alternative that Just Works

Sources: Hackaday

American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 336 points, 132 comments (discussion)