Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-11.

24 new stories since Lunch.

Measuring the sloppiness of code

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 175 points, 199 comments (discussion)

All: please don't post generic reflexive reactions to titles. That's covered by this guideline, among others, in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to resp...

A misalignment of AI in mathematics

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 108 points, 195 comments (discussion)

As a mathematician maybe I am a little more optimistic than this declaration. I am thinking of Mochizuki's abc conjecture: He worked in relative isolation, and dumped a huge incomprehensible proof on the community (to oversimplify a bit). That's not totally unlike what might happen if AI generates...

So you want to use OpenRouter?

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 587 points, 162 comments (discussion)

This squares with my, much much, smaller OpenRouter usage. It’s just incredibly unreliable and you are forced to pin providers and even then it can be a crapshoot as the author found. OpenRouter sells the idea of swapping being commodity providers but it couldn’t be further from the truth. Provider ...

Feeling sad about AI

Sources: Lobsters

Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development

Sources: Slashdot

Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists

Sources: The Register

Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game

Sources: Hackaday

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 433 points, 492 comments (discussion)

Claude Executive: Damn, we hardly know who our users are, can't we just force them to say their full name or ban them? Claude Product Manager: No, that'll piss people off too much, and sadly we can't just ask for ID either... Claude Executive: There must be some way we can force people to link their...

Power grab

Sources: Lobsters

UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI

Sources: Slashdot

Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Podcast Episode 386: Doomscroll Tamagotchis, Clavichords, and Vibrotrucks

Sources: Hackaday

Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 254 points, 258 comments (discussion)

This is basically due to Google probably rightly believing that electricity price in Finland is going up due to all these datacenters and also a pr stunt that the current government loves because they can claim that they aren't allowing these datacenters to raise electricity price. This isn't invest...