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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Hey buddy,

Man, you wouldn't believe the stuff that popped up on Hacker News today, Tuesday. It was like, a non-stop AI and security rollercoaster. Lemme hit you with the highlights:

Crazy AI Models Dropping

First up, Anthropic just rolled out Claude Opus 5.5. People are saying it's ridiculously smart, like, one guy in the comments mentioned it wrote the equivalent of a "full-length novel" just to figure out an answer! Wild. Apparently, it's super efficient on cost if you're doing really complex tasks, but some folks are still scarred from previous versions being a pain to use in real-world work, no matter how good the benchmarks looked.

Then, not to be outdone, OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Sol and Luna. Sounds like these are big for coding, with some comparing them to Anthropic's top models. The general vibe is that AI can help with almost anything now, but you still need a human to be the creative boss. And yeah, the usual privacy concerns popped up – someone basically said, "let's be real, Western AI companies are probably training on your data anyway."

AI Cracks an Old Code & Causes Trouble

Speaking of OpenAI, their GPT-6 Astra apparently cracked an Enigma message that's been unsolved since 2005! How nuts is that? Comments were a mix of "AI is amazing!" and "well, it probably just solved something no human cared enough to spend weeks on." Plus, a little debate on whether it truly did it "on its own" if it had to write software for it.

But it's not all sunshine and code-breaking. The Pentagon admitted that overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike on an Iran school. Yikes. Some comments were arguing that AI might just be a convenient scapegoat, but it still highlights how risky it is to put these things in charge of life-or-death decisions. Someone even brought up a past incident where AI almost made a US ship mistakenly board a Chinese one.

Security Scares & AI Shenanigans

And then there's this: hackers claim they've got data on ALL FBI employees. If that's true, that's a huge deal. The general consensus in the comments was "assume anything you have is semi-public if someone's interested enough." People were talking about super secure system designs to prevent this, but it just goes to show how tough security is.

On the weirder side of AI, someone asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem, and it just dumped 6.8GB! Seriously, like, the whole internal file structure. People were baffled, wondering how secure these AI assistants really are, and if they're just glorified "stateless algorithms" that people are mistaking for actual thinking entities.

The Wisdom Debate

Finally, there was a thought-provoking post called "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You." It argues that if we rely too much on AI, we might actually lose our own ability to gain wisdom. It sparked a lot of debate about what "wisdom" even means, and whether AI will eventually automate everything, even architectural design. Good food for thought amidst all the AI hype.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. Crazy day for tech news, right? Gotta run, talk later!

All Stories from Today

Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)

GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)

I said no and Apple said yes (dbushell.com)

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (www.techradar.com)

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (www.cryptocellar.org)

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school (www.bloomberg.com)

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (www.404media.co)

Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev)

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (foxscript.org)

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)

There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027 (grapheneos.social)

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)

Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)

AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? (board.flatassembler.net)

SAML: A fractal of bad design (blog.trailofbits.com)

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals (www.kqed.org)

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE (github.com)

9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" (www.bristol.ac.uk)

Unreal Agent (unreallabs.ai)

Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)

People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes (www.bloomberg.com)

MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

LLM Ass Bench (www.assbench.com)

Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved (status.claude.com)

Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity (obscura.com)

Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day (arstechnica.com)

16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985) (allpoetry.com)

An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord (discord.com)