The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With (www.vice.com)
How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN? (news.ycombinator.com)
Stepfun Step 5 Preview (LLM): On AA Pareto frontier (artificialanalysis.ai)
Veronese''s Dogs (publicdomainreview.org)
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (www.prinzai.com)
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (www.quantamagazine.org)
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds (med.stanford.edu)
You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (www.tigrisdata.com)
NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model (newsroom.usra.edu)
Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die (github.com)
Harm Laundering in GPT Models: Gender Discrimination Transformed Rather Than (arxiv.org)
San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (www.wired.com)
Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step (github.com)
Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sdcc.sourceforge.net)
Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google''s AI (www.reuters.com)
Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
The Contract on America (3quarksdaily.com)
Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)
LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe (liveworld.info)
Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions (www.scmp.com)
LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (www.lispbm.com)
Column built an issuer processor from scratch (column.com)
The US ''Kill Chain'' That Destroyed an Iranian School (www.bloomberg.com)
A 1542 papal cipher cracked with simulated annealing (simonklee.dk)
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (spectrum.ieee.org)
US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four (www.reuters.com)
Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? (www.bbc.com)
Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (blog.ndepend.com)
Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md (code.claude.com)
Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue (www.koreajoongangdaily.com)
"From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers" by Jack Rusher [video] (www.youtube.com)
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) (blog.cloudflare.com)
Apple releases iPhone Duo simulator and Xcode 27.1 beta (developer.apple.com)
Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged: Study (www.newscientist.com)
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) (archive.org)
The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (www.nationalgeographic.com)
A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig (antfly.io)
The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security (arxiv.org)
Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud (blog.ferstar.org)
How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (www.construction-physics.com)
Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product? (www.ax-check.com)
Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion (lawandcrime.com)
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 (x.ai)
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report (www.cnn.com)
Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks (brand.systemd.io)
There''s no point at which turning your brain off will work (danluu.com)
Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug (donjon.ledger.com)
Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (cactuscompute.com)
Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing (scry.io)
Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization (github.com)
US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments (wolfstreet.com)
AI is an elite crime spree (www.thebignewsletter.com)
GrassLobster: AI Agentic Generation of Parametric Geometry Workflows (www.miro.vision)
Jev vs. GPT-5.6 and Claude Haiku at Pong (jev-pong.ably.dev)
HEIF Heist: image parser RCE exploit (heif-heist.com)
Build Faster Feedback Loops Using Qualitative User Research (blog.nseldeib.com)
Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe (rickub.com)
AI Protest in Montreal (montrealgazette.com)
North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes – Science – AAAS (www.science.org)
Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich (www.quantamagazine.org)
BeanShell3 in Development (beanshell.github.io)
Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (try.cloudflare.com)
NATS Major Incident Preliminary Investigation Report [pdf] (www.nats.aero)
C26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (www.sandordargo.com)
Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
I Vibed a Proof of Conway''s Conjecture (overreacted.io)
Second Circuit Allows Government to Search Electronic Devices at the Border (knightcolumbia.org)
NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September (www.nats.aero)
New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member (www.bbc.com)
AI chatbots becoming experts at changing people''s minds. What''s their secret? (www.science.org)
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents (arxiv.org)
If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious (www.jstor.org)
The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands (gods.art)
I don''t like passkeys (hawksley.dev)
Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap (blog.liampwll.com)
Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors (lemire.me)
Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him (www.nytimes.com)
ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history (tokenstead.ai)
Dr Julius Neubronner''s Miniature Pigeon Camera (publicdomainreview.org)
OpenJev (openjev.com)
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ''the largest theft of labor in human history'' (techcrunch.com)
Replacing Pull Requests with Delta (zed.dev)
When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader (crocidb.com)
Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)
Jemalloc 5.4.0 (github.com)
Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2 faster) (sam.dev)
The Scourge of x86 Emulation (fex-emu.com)
Khipu (Quipu) Field Guide (www.khipufieldguide.com)
Waymo in Singapore (waymo.com)
Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)
The open source version of Claude Project that gives you the context ownershp (github.com)
Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM) (byteshape.com)
Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit (www.scientificamerican.com)
Hacking OpenAI (www.hacktron.ai)
Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer (askamonk.online)
Better Icon and Label Alignment (ishadeed.com)
Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 (www.netnod.se)
Claude Code from Source (claude-code-from-source.com)
I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X (playtaurus.com)
Goose: 1.16x faster than C and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe (github.com)
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash (qwen.ai)
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Plugin4Shell – Zero Click RCE Vulnerability found in top four coding agents (www.air.security)
Landing the Space Shuttle – A Flying Machine and the Thrill of a Lifetime (inspire.eaa.org)
Computer Reset, Dallas (dfarq.homeip.net)
More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older (www.bbc.com)
How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (www.sci.news)
Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup (snapdrop.me)
I Hate You Microsoft (henriquenunez.eu)
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse (www.iankduncan.com)
How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms (www.uber.com)
Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python (flet.dev)
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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint (prismml.com)
The most important product decision is what you don''t build (liamnugent.me)
GraphViz Pocket Reference – Make a Graph (graphs.grevian.org)
Bend (bend-lang.com)
Astra for Law (openai.com)
Everybody''s Lost Their Minds (www.netmeister.org)
Don''t Just Say Hello (nohello.net)
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Canto: A speech model built for the real world (wisprflow.ai)
How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? (mathoverflow.net)
André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture (jiahao116.github.io)
Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs (www.stlpr.org)
Wax Motor (en.wikipedia.org)
Don''t Make Job Referrals Public (blog.melashri.net)
TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node (iedm26.mapyourshow.com)
T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees (www.nytimes.com)
Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human (skillbay.sh)
Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos (juandecos.github.io)
Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001) (news.slashdot.org)
Economic Policy for AGI (institute.deepmind.com)
Towards Self-Driving Codebases (blog.detail.dev)
Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data (arxiv.org)
Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet (vhaudiquet.fr)
AutoBot – live voice control for long-running AI work (github.com)
The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities (www.newyorker.com)
Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI (zscc.ai)
I didn''t sign the Fields medallists'' letter (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Aclif – Agent CLI framework: one grammar, canonical names across SaaS (www.aclif.ai)
Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter (gowers.wordpress.com)
hister (github.com)
Die With Me – Claude and Codex rate limits as AIM away messages (diewithme.co)
Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown (blog.johnnovak.net)
Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents (skillsync.com)
How to recover Google auth after phone stolen? (news.ycombinator.com)
Whoisinspace.com/ (whoisinspace.com)
Vinix – A modern operating system written in V (vinix-os.org)
CrowdSec Source Code Leak (www.crowdsec.net)
OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints (alignment.openai.com)
LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering (minimallysufficient.com)
Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing (about.gitlab.com)
OpenAI''s Misalignment Framework: A Tactical Bid to Preempt Global AI Governance (asiaai.fyi)
Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters (www.economist.com)
Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs. Neato vs. Twopi vs. Circo (guides.visual-paradigm.com)
I Don''t Like LLMs (martinfowler.com)
Share your AI Setup, Learn from others (mysetup.ai)
Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds (www.theguardian.com)
Canada welcomes EU proposal to become ''associate member'' (www.bbc.com)
I had Gemini train its own replacement for 9 (www.petervijeh.com)
I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app (flat.social)
Neovim have a 800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023 (news.ycombinator.com)
Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)
GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure (z.ai)
CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 (events.ccc.de)
Lucasart''s Afterlife (togameforlife.wordpress.com)
Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (global.fujitsu)
Online Z3 Guide (microsoft.github.io)
Sixteen Locks Ought to Be Enough for Anybody (thebuild.com)
One Year of Sponsored Servo Development (servo.org)
The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk)
US interest rates raised for first time in three years (www.bbc.com)
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I''m deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com)
Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com)
Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning (www.madshrimps.be)
ASCII City (asciicity.live)
Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver''s license barcodes (ryan.science)
A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server (labs.watchtowr.com)
Monsanto''s Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (www.vanityfair.com)
Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (www.bbc.com)
Pangram – AI detector for text and images (www.pangram.com)
DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (www.danvk.org)
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior (www.nytimes.com)
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (www.amazon.science)
HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
William Buckland''s Theology of Geology (www.historytoday.com)
My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it (suganthan.com)
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (www.independent.co.uk)
Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it''s look (www.truegrittexturesupply.com)
OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
Backups Aren''t Simple (filipovski.net)
Why Does the Universe Expand? (cosmicave.org)
I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds (micahflee.com)
Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (www.autism.org.uk)
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (developer.nvidia.com)
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
AWS says it can''t restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (www.wsj.com)
Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Randomized query complexity can beat certificate complexity (arxiv.org)
AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
Japan''s book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
Xiami Mimo 2.6 Live Training Dashboard (mimo.xiaomi.com)
macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review (arstechnica.com)
Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com)
An inside view of Montana''s new biotech law (news.ycombinator.com)
Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6 Faster (www.linum.ai)
Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator (restarted.io)
WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags (barndoor.ai)
Fed Raises Rates for First Time in Three Years (www.wsj.com)
Reversing Factorio''s RNG (gegell.github.io)
A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs (www.businessinsider.com)
Why a fast-growing German AI startup is moving its parent company from the US (www.euronews.com)
How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields (www.reuters.com)
Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP) (github.com)
145 Days of Uptime, 56 TiB of Traffic, One Debian Upgrade (sarah-robin.com)
We''ve created the first vectorized Quicksort (opensource.googleblog.com)
GitHub Is Having Trouble Counting Things (chuckgreenman.com)
ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market (temertymedicine.utoronto.ca)
Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" (evanhahn.com)
The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
The DeepMind Institute (institute.deepmind.com)
Prisma''s pgbouncertrue on Supabase made every query 4 round-trips (postmortem) (blog.simbastack.com)
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
Code Is Crap (testing.googleblog.com)
Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling (loiseaujc.github.io)
Small Programming Tricks (will-keleher.com)
Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages? (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have ''disastrous impact'' on humanity (www.bbc.co.uk)
Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
Free WhatsApp MCP (UI) – Give Your AI Agents Access to WhatsApp (news.ycombinator.com)
Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don''t understand" (frvr.com)
We know what a world without work looks like (asteriskmag.substack.com)
A warning about ''model welfare'' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
DeepMind Paper: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents (openai.com)
How Big Are Factorials? (eli.thegreenplace.net)
How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (stale.jock.pl)
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works (www.wired.com)
Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (www.cloudx.ai)
ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds (github.com)
We tasted and ranked 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one (aakritwrites.com)
Tiny village votes for ''independence'' from UK amid asylum seeker row (www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ''broken wide open'' after 26 years (www.tomshardware.com)
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent 118,000 on YouTube ads (www.tomshardware.com)
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
Salesforce Global Outage (status.salesforce.com)
Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (www.bbc.co.uk)
Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy (techwontsave.us)
EU chief opens door for Canada to become ''associate member'' (www.bbc.com)
Better routing, probe fixes, plugin updates in Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1507 (www.hyphanet.org)
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (blog.ploeh.dk)
ZTE B860H: Getting Armbian into It (pen.waltuh.cyou)
EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc''s First ''Associate Member'' (www.bloomberg.com)
Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)
MartyPC – A Cycle-Accurate IBM PC/XT Emulator (github.com)
A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (forum.vcfed.org)
Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)
Piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes (www.science.org)
Datamimic – don''t let your coding agent invent its own test world (github.com)
Doing Everyone Else''s Job (yosefk.com)
I made a flight simulator, except you''re just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (blog.archive.org)
An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told (originmap.sunnyguha.com)
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (security.apple.com)
Cloudflare: Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training (blog.cloudflare.com)
The madman''s guide to stamp collecting (www.wsj.com)
Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II (www.colino.net)
Saving Jet Fuel (tech.marksblogg.com)
XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis (google.github.io)
Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
Why I''m still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes (dank.systems)
Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background (github.com)
Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go (theconsensus.dev)
German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol (rheinmetall.github.io)
Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating? (joecmarshall.com)
Jean-Pierre Serre is 100 years old today (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)