271: DTF:HN for September 28, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for September 28, 2026. Featuring: Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC, Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock, Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'", Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021), Ember-1, and more.

Stories covered:

1. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:23)
2. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 3:42)
3. Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:22)
4. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 10:23)
5. Ember-1
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 13:43)
6. When did Google get so weird?
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 17:02)
7. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 20:14)
8. Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 23:23)
9. Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 26:30)
10. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 29:50)