Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-09-17.

Showing top 30 of 75 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).

Reversing Factorio's RNG

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 172 points, 21 comments (discussion)

How to get a DOI for your blog posts

Sources: Bubbles (Terence Eden), Lobsters

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 487 points, 172 comments (discussion)

I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p into your C++ codebase, it is very hard to get rid, and you end up with code that is either tied to a single vendor or an #ifdef hell, probably both. The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same...

I don't believe anything coming out of frontier model CEOs mouths. Their stakes are extremely high, and they have inc...

Sources: Bubbles (Panagiotis Vryonis)

The end of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru

Sources: Lobsters

Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards

Sources: Slashdot

Recreating Unobtainable Diagnostic Tools For The Jaguar XJ220

Sources: Hackaday

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 470 points, 95 comments (discussion)

our lady of perpetual emotional comfort

Sources: Bubbles (deerhoof)

Introducing GNOME 51

Sources: Lobsters

As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?

Sources: Slashdot

Introducing the Periodic Table of US Electrical Receptacles

Sources: Hackaday

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 354 points, 90 comments (discussion)

More meaningful online interactions, please

Sources: Bubbles (Joel Chrono)

Why i'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

Sources: Lobsters

Ride the Rails on a OneWheel

Sources: Hackaday

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 316 points, 242 comments (discussion)

This interview with an AWS leader isn’t aging well, from CBS Sunday morning: Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew it up. Are you saying that it's so backed up and redundant that you probab...

Birding around Onuma Quasi-National Park

Sources: Bubbles (Emma Goto)

OSRS Wiki and RuneLite are increasingly under strain from low-effort AI development

Sources: Lobsters

A 3D Rasterizer For Embedded Devices

Sources: Hackaday

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 236 points, 42 comments (discussion)

To the mom in the white minivan who ran me off the road this morning in a school zone

Sources: Bubbles (Jeffrey Pillow)

C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour

Sources: Lobsters

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 191 points, 49 comments (discussion)

Doing things out of spite, but in a good way

Sources: Bubbles (Mindless Talk)

Unicode 18.0.0

Sources: Lobsters

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 171 points, 22 comments (discussion)

WordArt is still supported… in Microsoft Outlook!

Sources: Bubbles (Dan Q)

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

Sources: Lobsters

The DeepMind Institute

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 164 points, 56 comments (discussion)