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Its not just the f*cking sandbox (twitter.com/joedaroo)

×0.92 | 1 points by jumploops 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI and the Revenge of the Non-Techies (maroun-baydoun.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by maroun-baydoun 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI's next training data: your dodgy gaming skills (wired.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by promptspheree 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humanos – Help Building the Human Operating System (tryhumanos.com)

×1.91 | 2 points by zevinclark 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Things to Make Them (aimode.substack.com)

×0.83 | 1 points by warthog 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6 Astra Is the Best Vision Model We Have Tested (roboflow.com)

×0.83 | 1 points by gmays 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why embeddings don't solve RAG [video] (youtube.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by softwaredoug 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM makes decisions to raise its training scores, and ignore user directives (joinhandshake.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by guardiangod 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B (bloomberg.com)

×1.90 | 2 points by sbulaev 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)

×0.88 | 2 points by henrychannel 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prenatal exposure to the plasticizer DEHP increases autism and ADHD (elsevier.com)

×1.84 | 2 points by OutOfHere 15 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atrocious AI-Written Tests (gruhn.me)

×0.79 | 1 points by ngruhn 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong (c3-lang.org)

×1.88 | 2 points by birdculture 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World (nytimes.com)

×0.82 | 1 points by georgex7 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN

×0.66 | 1 points by humbu-ndou 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China broadens travel curbs to encompass family of top AI talent (business-standard.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by jnord 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LightSpeed – Interactive visualizer of time dilation from 0 to C (webland.pl)

×0.54 | 1 points by webland 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse Engineering How Meta's Muse Shops (caeliai.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by kalanpeace 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs (reuters.com)

×5.40 5 #12 | 25 points by 6thbit 39 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia announces AI safety platform (theverge.com)

×1.23 | 2 points by iamdamian 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Holo4: Powering generalist computer-use agents (huggingface.co)

×0.54 | 1 points by 6thbit 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pklm-sandbox – A lightweight open-source LogitsProcessor for local LLMs (github.com/TheImmortalPython)

×0.55 | 1 points by TheImmortalPyth 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Conrad Barski wrote a quirky file explorer (twitter.com/lisperati)

×2.04 24 | 3 points by chungus 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EVs being trialled as giant batteries to power homes for less in Auckland (rnz.co.nz)

×2.04 23 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Come Try the Srena (thearena.rip)

×1.29 | 2 points by DynamicCreation 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark (colossus.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern Warfare 2, Skate 3 and Minecraft in one game, on IW4L, MW2 Rust rewrite (github.com/chasmlol)

×1.29 | 2 points by davikr 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WSJ reports OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns (runtimewire.com)

×2.04 20 | 3 points by smb06 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards (reuters.com)

×2.02 18 | 3 points by geox 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034 (arstechnica.com)

×4.02 51 | 6 points by ihuman 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent token spend distribution: coding versus legal work (lexifina.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by alansaber 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tiny e-ink display for your portfolio (snaptra.de)

×0.52 | 1 points by tma 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MuseTogether – let Meta's Muse agents coordinate plans with each other (musetogether.ai)

×0.53 | 1 points by waylaidwanderer 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MoE Analysis Qwen[3.5|3.6]35B-A3B (gslaller.github.io)

×0.54 | 1 points by gslaller 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When we talk about traffic violence (maxmautner.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by mslate 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Check twice, cut once with LLM search relevance eval (softwaredoug.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by softwaredoug 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say (reuters.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by BiraIgnacio 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Block US sanctions on ICC, EU lawmakers tell Commission (politico.eu)

×1.20 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Training NanoGPT in 39.9 Seconds (hyperstition.cc)

×1.22 | 2 points by Mizza 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLMs Play Chicken in Realtime (wildcardlabs.tech)

×0.49 | 1 points by akcheese 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sonnet 5.5 scores just behind Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)

×1.15 | 2 points by spenvo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ratchet (rubick.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech OpenAI abandons plan to release upcoming model as safety concerns escalate (cnbc.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by paulkrush 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Joseph Henrich's Report on Anthropology (vanderbilt.edu)

×0.50 | 1 points by dash2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mosquitoes Are a Choice (worksinprogress.co)

×1.86 8 | 3 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go Pace Yourself (an example of what AI films done right looks like) (reddit.com)

×1.23 | 2 points by johnnyApplePRNG 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electronics in U.S. homes by income [pdf] (eia.gov)

×1.26 | 2 points by kbelder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rogue Agent Investigation by Asymmetric Security (asymmetricsecurity.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by r_singh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Transparent Society (1998) (wikipedia.org)

×1.65 2 #47 | 6 points by sans_souse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Duet For The End Of Math [pdf] (caltech.edu)

×0.48 | 1 points by optimalsolver 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Scrapped Newest Model Release (bloomberg.com)

×1.82 1 | 3 points by pliiight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taking 'execute logging' a bit too literally CVE-2026-88771 (europa.eu)

×0.50 | 1 points by airhangerf15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Edge of California Is Falling into the Ocean (theatlantic.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by blondie9x 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A diagram language where you say where things go (reladraw.github.io)

×0.50 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This Battery Is Ready to Eat (acs.org)

×1.14 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)

×1.66 5 | 3 points by thefourthchime 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion? [pdf] (casp.ac)

×0.47 | 1 points by whyleyc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a FIDO2 hardware key. OpenAI says it isn't hardware enough (voidnullvalue.github.io)

×1.10 | 2 points by voidnullvalue 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frogs Wear Bacterial Armor to Defend Against Fungus (nautil.us)

×1.05 | 2 points by whiteblossom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging (hackaday.com)

×1.71 12 | 3 points by whiteblossom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War – and No One Seems to Care (theintercept.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimize Tetris NP-Complete Solution with AlphaEvolve (bufferof.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by vikas-sharma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
10 Tokens for Your Meat Brain LLM (jimmysastra.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by sastra 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reliable AI automation done right (not with a model) (skeptical.ai)

×1.12 | 2 points by senorcarbone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is eroding the barriers that kept biological weapons rare (statnews.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SBX env: consistent and shareable AI sandbox configurations (docker.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by pploug 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta Poaches MongoDB CEO "Effective Immediately" (tikr.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Procedural universe generation without N-body loops (github.com/PJHkorea)

×1.01 | 2 points by PJHkorea 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathathon: Old Problems, New Proofs (mathathonchallenge.com)

×0.40 | 1 points by JohnHammersley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boeing's Starliner won't launch astronauts until 2028 (and may need new rocket) (space.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned (sentientmedia.org)

×1.54 18 | 3 points by voidmain0001 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them (nature.com)

×1.01 | 2 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Store review allowed a Meta Muse copycat (lapcatsoftware.com)

×2.22 3 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukrainian forces advance in key eastern battlefield (reuters.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orcarouter/OrcaSAQ-2-27B (huggingface.co)

×0.45 | 1 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the Internet got 32-bit addresses, as explained by Vint Cerf (in 2026) (emot.substack.com)

×2.19 | 4 points by emot 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Munich 787 Vietnam Airlines Interim report is out (bfu-web.de)

×1.56 20 | 3 points by nixass 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Destroy Any Website with a Stickman (twitter.com/HugoDuprez)

×1.03 | 2 points by hackerbeat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toughen GPS to resist jamming and spoofing (2022) (gpsworld.com)

×1.67 21 | 3 points by conorcleary 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns (wsj.com)

×5.56 53 | 13 points by borski 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MoreWrong (morewrong.lol)

×1.70 22 | 3 points by etc-hosts 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replace Your OpenAI, Anthropic or Google API Call with Middleware (middleware.now)

×0.47 | 1 points by aperi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Designing an iPhone gaming dock in an afternoon with GPT-6 Astra (getdockade.com)

×1.11 | 2 points by shashu10 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? (greenpants.net)

×1.97 37 #54 | 32 points by Greenpants 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metadata requests not tracked [since about a month ago] in PyPI download counts (pypi.org)

×0.48 | 1 points by zahlman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Code-rendered music video for "I'm Upping My P(doom)" (github.com/mexicat)

×1.10 | 2 points by aziis98 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Having a Good Frequency at VCFMW21 (michaelwashere.net)

×1.09 | 2 points by geerlingguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Jev Parse CSV? (remy.wang)

×1.12 | 2 points by remywang 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Escalate hard decisions with the advisor tool (claude.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NYT head of engineering and gaming experience allegedly shot by elderly in-laws (nbcnews.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by Vaslo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???