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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
True Rate of Unemployment
My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope
Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
Sonic Pi
The efficient frontier of LLM inference
NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter
GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger
Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads
Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You
BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of 'Multiplayer' AI Coding
Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda
Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders
Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways
California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall
Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings
Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed'
FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor
Is Minifying CSS Necessary? (2023)
A Crash Course in Predicate Logic
The Endless Temptation of Claude
Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI
The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
A bicycle for the mind
"iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!"
Wasmi 2.0 - Engineering of the Fastest Wasm Interpreters
GentleOS/16 hobby OS for vintage 16-bit PCs
Janet 1.42.0
Flat vs segmented memory -- it's recursive
The pattern language of software architecture
Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together
This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026
A community that works together, builds together
Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown (2013)
44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents
RISC-V interpreter from the future
RangeFrom, Part 2..: What I think is wrong about the design
curl: a CVE dispute
Bluefin is a capability system
AyanDict 3.0.0 Released
VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0
Why I'm excited about effect systems (2025)
Mac App Store Apps Can Now Drop Support for Intel Macs
iPhone Air Review: One Year With Apple's Super Thin $999 iPhone
Here's What Apple is Paying John Ternus to Run the Company
Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America'
macOS Golden Gate Seems to Hint at MacBook Pro With OLED Display
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 With Lower Costs and Fewer False Positives
Foldable iPhone Ultra Likely Has MagSafe Charging
Read John Ternus' First Memo to Apple Employees as CEO
Ex-Apple CFO Luca Maestri Winding Down His Time at the Company
Apple Teases 'Huge Launch' Next Week
Apple's M4 iPad Air Gets Best Discounts Since Summer Price Hikes
Apple's New CEO John Ternus is Now on X
iPhone 18 Pro Colors Apparently Include Black, But Skip Silver
John Ternus is Now Apple's CEO
Firefox for iOS Gets Built-In Ad Blocker
Dispute With OpenAI Said to Be a 'Mess of Apple's Own Making'
Apple's Vision Pro Layoffs Were Broader Than First Reported
Qualcomm Raising Chip Prices Starting Tomorrow
Apple Releases New iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and tvOS 27 Public Betas
Apple Says Former Engineer Used Stolen Trade Secrets at OpenAI, Taught AI Agent to Run Them
How to fit Minesweeper into 247 bytes
Moving a 400-route app from Next.js to TanStack Start
Node 26.8 reads and writes ZIP files
Expanding our support for scientists
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Improving our alignment and security efforts
Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
How law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
A milestone in expanding access to AI
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous
Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
Quoting Rick Brewster
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Codex bundles LibreOffice
GeoJSON Map Viewer
Quoting Tarn Adams
datasette-mcp 0.2
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
Introducing wrapture
Quoting Andrew Digby
Understanding ChatGPT Work
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Quoting Paul Dix
PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier
[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026
[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use
🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available
Set an expiration date for individual user budgets
Copilot code review can now approve pull requests
Block users from discussion comments in personal repositories
Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub CLI: Media in issues, pull requests, and comments
Copilot model access update for GitHub Team plans
Selected GitHub Copilot models deprecated
GitHub Copilot in VS Code, August 2026 releases
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update
Compute that takes any shape
Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway
Claude Fable 5.1 now available on AI Gateway
AWS PrivateLink is now available on Pro and Enterprise
fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway
How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md
Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway
Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
Vercel CLI expands commands for DNS, domains, and projects
Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
The best workflow engine is a programming language
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
Testing cookie behavior across hundreds of web surfaces with our in-house auditor
Making Rust observability reliable at scale with OpenTelemetry
Application Metrics caught my broken size estimator
From one switch to a control panel: meet `dataCollection`
How to evaluate session replay software: a developer's guide
Node.js 26.8.1 (Current)
Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)
Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)- My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-c…
- A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got…
- Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full cop…
- Tuesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22743
- Met up with brainbox Steven Pemberton for coffee and a chat.
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22736
- Ticket-taking used to feel like the job.
- You already pay for more than one agent.
- @shaundai.com's homework: try Josh Comeau's Whimsical Animations without AI.
- 46 It's my birthday!
- Woke up excited about subdomains.
- if i was a flight attendant I'd try to guess if people are coming or going based…
- prediction: Lean usage will explode in serious software projects in the next fiv…
- preparing to publish my vibecoded math lean proof to github and i kinda feel ner…
- found the magic prompt that fixes all my Lean.
- Happy birthday @chriscoyier.net 🎂🎂🎂
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- a few weeks ago I recorded an updated Svelte(Kit) workshop with @frontendmasters…