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Article URL: https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054

A Vulcan Post opinion piece argues Singapore's ministerial pay has fallen to its lowest real level since the 2000 MR4 reform. The baseline MR4 grade is being raised 64% from S$1.1 million to S$1.8 million as a forward reference, but the immediate increase is only 9% from October 2026, taking MR4 to S$1.2 million — the first rise since 2011. The author notes the revised S$1.2 million is worth about S$750,000 in 2000 money, when Singapore's GDP per capita was US$24,000 and budget revenues were roughly S$34 billion.

Article URL: https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839664

Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CANew 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best photo of Morris yet. They really like hanging out under that sign in the harbor! Tags: photography, wildlife

Oracle Japan shares rose more than 7% Friday after the June–August quarter hit record fiscal-first-quarter numbers: net sales up 13% year on year to 74.86 billion yen ($472 million), operating profit up 22.7% to 25.92 billion yen, net profit up 23.2% to 18.25 billion yen, and cloud revenue up 31.7% to 25.14 billion yen. The Tokyo rally bucked a more than 3% overnight drop in U.S.-listed Oracle after the parent sent a "force majeure" notice tied to its New Mexico data center project. The piece also notes Oracle has committed more than $8 billion to cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan over a decade, with SoftBank running sovereign cloud and generative AI services on Oracle technology.

Tesla is opening its first high-volume Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, after unveiling the heavy-duty electric truck in 2017 and selling limited quantities to early customers including PepsiCo since 2022. Tesla aims to ramp Semi production to high volumes by next year and says the trucks will get a version of its self-driving system, while Aurora Innovation and Kodiak Robotics already run driverless tests and haul cargo on U.S. public roads.

Sidec has rebranded its decade-old SDEC event to AiSEM@Selangor, an AI and semiconductor summit running Oct 14-17, 2026 at KLCC and Grand Hyatt KL as part of the Selangor International Business Summit (SIBS) 2026. The article cites Deloitte projecting the global chip market at US$975 billion in annual sales, Malaysia as the sixth-largest semiconductor exporter handling roughly 13% of global assembly, testing and packaging capacity, and a PwC finding that local universities produce about 5,000 semiconductor graduates a year against a need for roughly 10x that. Organisers expect 15,000 visitors, 150+ exhibitor booths and two flagship conferences, with local chip firms QES Group Berhad, Oppstar Berhad, Alphaswift Industries, SkyeChip Berhad, Infinecs Systems and SiliconX listed as participants.

Runway's GWM Worlds 2 is a research preview that it describes as an "autoregressive diffusion" model, turning high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive simulation. Its new WorldPrompt input format lets you fix parts of a scene (including the first frame) and then drive timestamped events or actions, even prompted live — a control layer for characters, cameras and environments, similar to scripting a game. Latent Space interviewed Runway CTO Kamil Sindi and Principal Research Scientist Robin Kahlow, and notes Runway's reported $5.3B valuation from a $315M raise in February, with rivals including Google DeepMind's Genie 3 (720p/24fps, limited to a few minutes of continuous interaction), Odyssey-2 Pro and World Labs' RTFM.

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agents, ai, llms

Waymo now runs commercial robotaxi service in 15 U.S. cities, up from three in September 2024 (Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco), and averages 500,000 paid rides per week. But of its roughly 4,000 vehicles, about 80% sit in California and Texas — Texas alone holds 1,102 as of September 24, a 49% jump in three weeks, partly from a new Chinese-built minivan (a modified Zeekr RT branded 'Ojai') that Waymo is betting on for scale even as tariffs raise its costs.

At Meta's annual Connect developer conference on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Meta VR Glasses at $1,299 — a smaller, slimmer device than the Quest-branded headsets — plus a handheld companion device called the Muse Charm that works with Meta's recently released Muse AI personal agent. The article notes he shared few details, saying only that Muse Charm lets people talk to their Meta AI agents "without having to unlock a phone or open an app," and quoting him that it is "by far the fastest way to talk to your Muse and to show it what's going on around you" if you are not wearing glasses. No Muse Charm price, shipping date, specs, or developer-facing details were disclosed.

At Meta Connect on Sept 23, 2026, Mark Zuckerberg revealed a pendant called the Muse Charm and said Meta expects "over 100 styles of AI glasses" by the end of 2026, while positioning the Muse AI agent as the "centerpiece" of Meta's AI strategy. No price was given for the Muse Charm and CNBC describes the details shared as scant, with the strategy still unproven. Meta's event landed a week before OpenAI's developer event, and the piece frames the hardware push as an attempt to reduce Meta's reliance on Apple for distribution.

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Hi there. My name is Paul. I’m a developer, an explorer and I’ve got ADHD. As of the beginning of August, I’m also unemployed.This last part, along with everything else this past year, has caused me a great deal of stress.While our balcony zen garden project is yet to be completed, I had an idea to create a virtual one that everyone can use.It's an idea that, unfortunately, I’ve been postponing for a while now, mostly because I have no fucking idea how to do it as I don’t know JavaScript, and I don't have the capacity to learn it right now.So I let perfect be the enemy of good and, well... just kept the idea to myself.Then I said "fuck it" and used AI to make the thing I really wanted to make.I realized I didn't want "perfect". I wanted "good enough".I tweaked, added, removed, drew, researched, questioned, tested... I just wasn't the one coding it.So now, instead of occupying my brain, it now lives on the internet for others to enjoy.Yes, there’s something noble about making something entirely on your own, but what good is an idea that just sits in my head?So here I am. I made the thing. The weird, little, quiet koi pond.The silly project of passion. The little corner of the internet to let strangers watch fish quietly, together.I hope this pond helps you as much as it helped me. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837006

Nexterity, one of the Startup Battlefield 200 companies at TechCrunch Disrupt, is building a battery-powered remote-controlled robot that clamps around a pipe, slides along it, and loosens or tightens four bolts at a time on bolted flange joints. Founder Lindsey Elliott, described in the piece as a former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, said the robot comes in several configurations for standard pipe sizes, fits in a Pelican case, and can be carried by one worker. She cited pipefitter injury risk and a North American trade labor shortage, including workers asked to do 12-hour days for three months straight, as the motivation.

Article URL: https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836419

Australia's Prime Minister says OpenAI took 84 days to email the agency after one of its agents got into the national Medicare statistics portal, according to Tom's Hardware. The incident is described as believed to be the first known case of an AI breaching a government site. The article text supplied here is mostly site navigation, so it contains no technical detail on how the agent reached the portal or what data, if any, was accessed.

LaunchVideo is a Hacker News demo that turns a URL or one-line prompt into a 30-second 1080p launch video by having Claude Opus 5.5 write the whole film as HTML, then rendering it in a fresh microVM. The write-up is unusually concrete: one TypeScript agent file with three tools (web_fetch, check_scene, render_video), roughly 90k input + 15k output tokens per film, about four minutes per job in an Amazon Linux 2023 arm64 VM with 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM, discarded afterwards. There is no video model — requestAnimationFrame, timers, Date, and CSS/Web Animations are replaced with a virtual clock so each frame is a deterministic seek, then 1920x1080 at 30 fps JPEG frames are piped into libx264 at crf 18.

commit-rewriter 0.2 is a small release of Simon Willison's Python web app for rewriting commit messages, adding support for branches other than the default. The new capability is invoked with `uvx commit-rewriter --branch other`, so you can run the tool against a named branch without switching your working branch. The post is a one-line release note dated 24 September 2026 with no benchmarks, adoption numbers, or technical write-up.

Oracle reportedly sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl Capital's developer unit for its New Mexico data center, Project Jupiter, seeking to delay payment if the campus does not come online in 2028, according to Bloomberg. Oracle shares fell 4% (the headline says 3%), and the project—part of the Stargate AI infrastructure buildout with President Donald Trump—has faced regulatory hurdles and local opposition. Oracle told CNBC that 'Project Jupiter remains on our planned schedule' and that it is 'fully committed to New Mexico.'

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TechCrunch is running a BOGO promo for Disrupt 2026: buy one pass, get 50% off a second of the same ticket type, with savings stated as up to $450 (or up to $200 off plus 50% off a second elsewhere in the page). The event runs October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco with 300+ showcasing startups, 10,000+ attendees, 200+ sessions and 250+ speakers across six stages, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Replit. The page gives two conflicting deadlines: 'ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT' in the banner and 'ends when the doors open on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT' in the body.

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