Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-09-02.

Showing top 30 of 103 distinct stories after deduping (0 appeared in more than one source).

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 561 points, 643 comments (discussion)

One thing I’m observing in these comments is a willingness of folks to project their own predictions onto Ed’s statements when validating their plausibility. Eg. “I think he’s wrong about the timing but I do expect AI companies to go to zero.” You can do that, but then you’re no longer discussing hi...

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Sources: Bubbles (Brennan Kenneth Brown)

A Crash Course in Predicate Logic

Sources: Lobsters

LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter

Sources: Slashdot

Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025

Sources: The Register

A Defrag Simulator In Your Browser

Sources: Hackaday

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 375 points, 126 comments (discussion)

Digital Sketchbooks in Procreate

Sources: Bubbles (a smol miscellanea)

The Endless Temptation of Claude

Sources: Lobsters

GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger

Sources: Slashdot

Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes

Sources: The Register

Haiku OS Releases Beta 6

Sources: Hackaday

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 318 points, 146 comments (discussion)

In Search of More Friends

Sources: Bubbles (Lyteforce Writes)

Wasmi 2.0 - Engineering of the Fastest Wasm Interpreters

Sources: Lobsters

Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?

Sources: Slashdot

Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked

Sources: The Register

Building An Airsoft Claymore Mine

Sources: Hackaday

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 221 points, 70 comments (discussion)

i accidentally turned myself into a lightning rod

Sources: Bubbles (Amy Tries Life)

The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

Sources: Lobsters

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads

Sources: Slashdot

Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans

Sources: The Register

How Gold Plastic Syndrome is Killing Toys and Game Consoles

Sources: Hackaday

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 205 points, 221 comments (discussion)

Diffusion | All | SF Bay (Peninsula) | On site, full-time Justin here, founder @ Diffusion. Formerly co-founder & CTO @ StrongDM. We're finding the steepest gradients in the economy between model capability and deployed practice. A large part of that work is currently related to software factory con...

My User Guide

Sources: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)

GentleOS/16 hobby OS for vintage 16-bit PCs

Sources: Lobsters

Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You

Sources: Slashdot

Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks

Sources: The Register

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 189 points, 30 comments (discussion)