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Wed, Sep 9, 2026
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iPhone Duo apple.com
Apple is launching the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone, designed to combine a compact form factor with a massive 7.6-inch inner display.
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Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue opusfived.dev
Giving AI coding assistants narrow, overly specific instructions for small changes can lead to unexpected regressions in larger codebases.
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Shopify acquires Tailwind tailwindcss.com
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify to ensure the framework's long-term stability and maintenance.
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I resigned from Anthropic today twitter.com
Leading AI labs like OpenAI and OpenAI are prioritizing a race to create self-improving superintelligence over safety and responsibility.
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What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks tautology.town
Visa and Mastercard are not banks or card issuers, but rather card networks that act as the essential infrastructure connecting cardholders, banks, and merchants.
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit newyorker.com
Flock Safety's expansion of automated license-plate readers across the U.S.
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GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning magazine.sebastianraschka.com
GPT-6 Astra likely utilizes looped transformer architectures, which reuse the same weight blocks multiple times to increase effective depth without increasing parameter count.
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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device desertant.com
Desert Ant Labs is launching a suite of small, specialized on-device AI models designed to replace expensive and slow cloud APIs for common tasks.
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No Man's Sky Cosmos nomanssky.com
No Man's Sky Update 7.0 introduces a massive expansion of gameplay mechanics, allowing players to become directors of space stations and form galactic alliances.
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Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives spectrum.ieee.org
Emerging data from both advanced driver assistance systems and fully autonomous vehicles suggests that self-driving technology significantly reduces traffic accidents and injuries.
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How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads xlii.space
Google Ads' automated security systems can mistakenly flag legitimate software as malicious, leaving developers in a frustrating loop of unexplained suspensions and rejected appeals.
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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max apple.com
Apple has introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, focusing on significant hardware upgrades in camera technology, processing power, and battery efficiency.
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iPhone Duo apple.com
Apple has launched the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone, which combines a compact 5.4-inch outer display with a 7.6-inch inner display to offer a more versatile user experience.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists prospect.org
Anthropic is developing a sophisticated predictive surveillance system to monitor and preemptively report activists who oppose the rapid growth of AI.
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Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished grapheneos.social
The Mastodon web application requires JavaScript to function correctly for users accessing it via a browser.
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Apple Watch Series 12 apple.com
Apple has introduced the Apple Watch Series 12, a wearable focused on advanced health monitoring and artificial intelligence.
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What will our economic future look like? anthropic.com
AI will likely drive overall GDP growth regardless of the scenario, but the distribution of this wealth will shift significantly from workers to capital owners.
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Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills gist.github.com
Providing a small fragment of a high-performing teacher model's reasoning process can significantly increase a target model's likelihood of reaching the same final answer.
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The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem simonwillison.net
The recent resolution of the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem by OpenAI's agents demonstrates the immense power of massive compute and LLMs in mathematics, but it also raises serious ethical concerns.
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“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain blog.ericgoldman.org
A recent court ruling in X Corp.
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GNU Radio in the browser gnuradioworld.com
GNU Radio World enables users to build and execute software-defined radio flowgraphs entirely within a web browser.
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Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs about.readthedocs.com
Read the Docs faced a sophisticated DDoS attack in June 2026 that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute, necessitating a shift from simple IP blocking to a defense-in-depth strategy.
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Coyote v. Acme (1990) newyorker.com
Wile E. Coyote is filing a lawsuit against the Acme Company for product liability, claiming that their defective merchandise consistently causes him severe physical injury and financial loss. He argues that Acme's gross negligence in manufacturing and safety labeling has…
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Planet Labs' open satellite feed tech.marksblogg.com
Planet Labs provides an open, high-resolution satellite imagery feed for disaster response that can be programmatically accessed and analyzed using modern data tools.
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Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch buttondown.com
Lotus Notes was a visionary collaboration tool that anticipated modern digital workspaces by integrating email, databases, and community forums long before the internet became ubiquitous.
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Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' 404media.co
Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has been placed on a leave of absence by the company's board of directors.
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Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please blog.hofstede.it
Modern programming languages are unnecessarily aggressive in their terminology and syntax, treating computers as servants rather than collaborators.
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The UN challenges five centuries of cartography not-ship.com
The United Nations has endorsed a new map projection called Equal Earth to replace the long-standing Mercator projection.
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Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance current.fas.harvard.edu
Traditional suicide prediction models fail because they rely on long-term forecasts and infrequent clinical visits that miss the transient nature of suicidal thoughts.
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South Park creators rename show 'South America' bbc.co.uk
The creators of South Park are renaming their show 'South America' to mock President Donald Trump's executive orders renaming geographic features like Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico.
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27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter gpu-lexer.vercel.app
gpu-lexer is a language-agnostic syntax highlighter that replaces traditional grammar-based parsing with a small WebGPU-powered machine learning model.
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On Really Trying (2009) gwern.net
Human motivation and problem-solving efficiency are profoundly influenced by the psychological certainty that a solution is possible.
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A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) note.com
Lee Holloway, a co-founder and the primary architect of Cloudflare's technical foundation, possessed an extraordinary intellect that enabled the company's massive scalability.
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Apple Watch Ultra 4 apple.com
Apple has launched the Apple Watch Ultra 4, a rugged wearable designed for athletes and adventurers.
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Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes github.com
Human Atlas is an open-source web application that allows users to explore human anatomy through an interactive 3D model.
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Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch mbugert.de
Building a high-end custom wall lamp from scratch is a complex multidisciplinary effort that requires integrating woodworking, electronics, and mechanical engineering.
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An Accidental Blackboard martinfowler.com
Software development with multiple AI agents can be significantly accelerated by using a shared communication space, similar to a blackboard system, to coordinate tasks and track progress.
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Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field smithsonianmag.com
Researchers have developed a new method to distinguish between ancient and modern pottery by analyzing the magnetic signatures stored in clay.
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We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory bnext.bio
The advancement of synthetic cell research is hindered by brittle supply chains and restrictive licensing that make baseline materials nearly impossible for most labs to acquire.
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Playing whack-a-mole is losing dadrian.io
The security industry often prioritizes a 'hacker' identity focused on discovering clever bugs over a 'robustness' mindset focused on building fundamentally secure systems.
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Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales bbc.com
Archaeologists have discovered cave art in south-west Ireland dating back 15,000 years, suggesting that early humans migrated from Wales via a prehistoric land bridge.
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Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up jamescherti.com
The Consult package for Emacs uses debounce and throttle delays to manage asynchronous search processes, which can make the UI feel sluggish compared to other packages.
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Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents arxiv.org
LLM agents often struggle with long-term planning and repetitive mistakes because they rely on implicit procedural knowledge.
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Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language eighty-twenty.org
The smolts IDE provides a an interactive, browser-based environment for learning the Standard Model of Languages.
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Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker thran.uk
Modern Docker containers allow users to recreate the early 2001 forum experience by running phpBB 1.4.4.
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Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments github.com
OtoDock is a self-hosted platform designed to act as a central brain for a company by managing collaborative AI agents.
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Use Vsock with Libzmq blog.remijouan.net
Integrating AF_VSOCK support into libzmq allows developers to implement high-level messaging patterns and security features over a specialized socket family designed for guest-to-host communication.
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Generating the P3 Tiling k-monk.org
Penrose P3 tilings, which are aperiodic patterns using two rhombii, can be generated through a recursive subdivision process using Robinson triangles.
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Better AI code comment detector entropicthoughts.com
The author developed a revised AI code comment classifier using public data and a calibrated logistic regression model to distinguish between human-written and robot-generated comments.
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The origins of Partner’s computer case racunalniski-muzej.si
The Iskra Delta Partner, a successful Slovenian microcomputer, was not a fully original creation but a result of globalized manufacturing where components were sourced from international suppliers.
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Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme codeberg.org
The maak.el package integrates the Maak command runner, which uses Guile Scheme instead of traditional Makefiles, into the Emacs editor.