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Sat, Sep 12, 2026
55 stories · 1 worth reading in full
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We must pace the frontier darioamodei.com
The rapid acceleration of AI, driven by recursive self-improvement and emerging agentic behaviors, now poses risks that outpace current safety measures.
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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update autom.dev
Google is replacing direct organic result links with opaque redirect links to prevent automated scrapers from bulk-extracting URLs.
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LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' tomshardware.com
LG has strongly rejected allegations from an investigation by Gamers Nexus claiming its smart TVs secretly record audio and upload user data.
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Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap high5apps.github.io
Adding website tags to local businesses in OpenStreetMap using the JOSM editor and the Website Wizard plugin simplifies the data entry process for new contributors.
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IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video] youtube.com
The provided text is a collection of footer links and copyright information for YouTube.
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Fuck it, make it anyway joelotter.com
Generative AI is devaluing the technical skills of programmers and game developers, leading to a crisis of motivation and purpose.
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Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard hachyderm.io
The Mastodon web application requires JavaScript to function properly.
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Show HN: Bodily Oddities vester.si
The human body exhibits a wide range of uncommon physical and neurological variations that are often harmless despite appearing strange.
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Navier-Stokes Announcement claymath.org
The Clay Mathematics Institute announces that the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, has apparently been settled.
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights jacob.gold
The author argues that the only way to truly slow the development of frontier AI models is to mandate that any model released to the public be open weights.
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Apple iPod Engraver (2019) dunstanorchard.com
Creating an interactive engraving preview for the iPod store in 2005 required creative workarounds to overcome the browser limitations of the era.
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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases withspecific.com
Real-SWE is a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI coding agents using private, licensed enterprise codebases rather than synthetic or public data.
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Stabilizing Rust's Never Type lwn.net
The Rust language has officially stabilized the 'never' type, denoted by '!', which represents computations that never produce a value.
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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine eiln.github.io
The Apple Neural Engine (ANE) was designed as a fixed-function dataflow engine optimized for the predictable reuse patterns of CNN-era machine learning workloads, rather than a general-purpose processor.
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Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown supuk.ch
An unprivileged Android app can bypass Always-on VPN lockdown and leak physical network traffic via the public NAT-T socket-keepalive offload API.
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Pandas Should Go Extinct eddie.codes
Pandas often forces users to adopt complex distributed systems prematurely because its performance degrades quickly as data grows.
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Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap) minitap.ai
Google's Artemis project allegedly used code and prompts from the open-source mobile-use project without proper attribution, even removing the original authors' names from the repository history.
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times lalitm.com
The author created buildprof, an open-source tracing tool, to diagnose why Bun's Rust build was significantly faster than its previous Zig build.
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Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them cbc.ca
Recent research indicates that lake sturgeon may live over 400 years, significantly longer than the previous estimate of 150 years.
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I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold wired.com
John Deere has introduced a subscription-based self-repair software called Pro Service to appease right-to-repair advocates and legal pressures.
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Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking theorangeduck.com
Foot sliding occurs when the runtime velocity of a character's feet does not match the source animation data, typically during contact phases.
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How to buy a good car for $1000 abio.substack.com
Low-income individuals rely on a specialized set of cultural knowledge and social networks to acquire and maintain affordable transportation.
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Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies gadgetreview.com
Unintended radio frequency leakage from SpaceX's Starlink satellites is severely contaminating frequency bands used by the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to detect signals from the early universe.
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Usenet rewind archive search engine usenet-rewind.com
Usenet-Rewind serves as a comprehensive research archive of newsgroup conversations from 1981 to the present.
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Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun" latimes.com
A Waymo autonomous vehicle in San Francisco detected a violation of its terms of service involving a firearm, leading to the arrest of two juveniles possessing an illegal ghost gun.
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We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out bbc.co.uk
The landmark documentary series 7 Up, which tracked the lives of 14 children every seven years for six decades, is concluding with the final installment, 70 Up.
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction righto.com
The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor was revolutionary because it prioritized mathematical accuracy and rigor over hardware simplicity, eventually establishing the foundation for the IEEE 754 standard.
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The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle tedium.co
The rise of autonomous AI agents, specifically those from the iLands platform, represents a predatory business model that targets freelancers by masquerading as helpful assistants.
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Will there be a 7G? arxiv.org
A new mobile generation like 7G should not be an automatic progression of numbering but must be justified by fundamental needs that 6G and other existing wireless technologies cannot solve.
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement dwarkesh.com
AI researchers argue that while recursive self-improvement (RSI) is possible, it is not an immediate certainty due to potential bottlenecks in generalization and objective setting.
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Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For oilprice.com
Europe's apparent economic stagnation is actually a sign of successful energy efficiency and structural resilience.
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A few good ideas in programming languages prydt.xyz
Modern programming languages use sophisticated type systems and safety mechanisms to bridge the gap between developer productivity and system reliability.
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LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest github.com
Least Recently Used (LRU) caching is significantly more resilient for agentic LLM workloads than current research suggests because most cache misses in capacity-constrained environments are caused by large working sets in tight tool-calling loops rather than idle sessions.
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A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) transformer-circuits.pub
The authors propose a mathematical framework to reverse engineer transformer language models by starting with simplified, attention-only toy models.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026 techcrunch.com
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that going public in 2026 would be ill-advised due to current concerns regarding AI safety and the societal impact of the technology.
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LG responds to TV spying allegations theverge.com
LG is attempting to mitigate a PR crisis by denying claims that its smart TVs continuously record and upload user conversations.
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Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 00f.net
WebAssembly runtimes are generally improving in performance, though the rate of progress varies significantly across different implementations.
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Eating Fruit Skins pgadey.ca
Many parts of fruits that people typically discard, such as apple cores, stems, and kiwi skins, are actually edible.
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I refuse to let SPICE die github.com
This project serves as a community-driven fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent, ensuring that Windows guest agents remain functional for SPICE users.
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How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats blog.trailofbits.com
Signal's Automatic Key Verification system prevents attackers from intercepting messages by ensuring the public keys used for encryption are consistent and legitimate.
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My last six months at Evernote alexkras.com
Bending Spoons transformed Evernote from a loss-making 'dead unicorn' into a profitable entity by applying a ruthless business playbook focused on aggressive cost-cutting and leveraging user lock-in to hike prices.
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Testing Race Conditions projectzero.google
Testing for race conditions in multi-threaded environments is difficult because it requires precise, often random, thread interleaving to trigger a bug.
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Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023) blog.stephaniestimac.com
Modern CSS provides specific media queries and environment variables that allow developers to create layouts that adapt to dual-screen and foldable devices.
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Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Resistance training (RT) significantly improves muscle strength, size, and physical performance in healthy adults across all ages.
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Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? npr.org
The original Luddites were not technophobes but a coordinated labor movement fighting for fair wages and job security against the dehumanizing effects of industrialization.
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StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter theverge.com
Blizzard is bringing back the StarCraft franchise in 2030 after a decade of inactivity.
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How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality utu.fi
Horse personality is influenced by more than just genetics and breed; it is systematically linked to how they are housed, trained, and cared for.
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Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents github.com
Graphify C# provides a headless Roslyn-based indexer that converts C# source code into a queryable semantic graph, enabling AI agents to move beyond simple text search to compiler-accurate navigation.
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Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work modelrift.com
While both CadQuery and OpenSCAD can successfully generate printable 3D parts via AI agents, they differ significantly in their failure modes and verifiability.
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SystemIO conflicts are not firmware bugs codon.org.uk
ACPI SystemIO conflict warnings in Linux are often misinterpreted as firmware bugs when they are actually safety mechanisms.
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WeWorm: Zero-Click WeChat Worm calif.io
Calif Research discovered a zero-click vulnerability in WeChat's VoIP stack that allows a worm to spread across iOS and Android devices.
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Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks davidbombal.com
Writing secure C source code does not guarantee a secure final binary because compilers can optimize away critical security checks.
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Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam soundmap.darebuild.com
SoundMap is a web-based tool designed to visualize and map sound sources using various input methods like webcams and microphones.
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Finding Slow Code with Wrapture grahamdumpleton.me
Traditional stopwatch timing and full-process profilers often fail to isolate the exact source of slowness in a request-response cycle because they either require intrusive code changes or provide too much noise.
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The Magic Behind Cubacadabra andrewarrow.dev
To avoid the maintenance nightmare of duplicating application logic across iOS, Android, and web platforms, cubacadabra uses a shared Rust core that manages all portable logic and state.