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Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Asahi Linux on M3
An Alien Mind
GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
Keep Our Servers Running
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)
NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple
Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge
Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)
The NX bit is not just about security
Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer
I refused to train the AI that could replace me
Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected
US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops
Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions
TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature 'SkipMode'
Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters
UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents
Private German Rocket Makes History, Reaches Orbit From European Soil
2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel
To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City'
How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters
FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History
Cancer Deaths Attributable to Alcohol Rose 58% Over the Last 33 Years
Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Python Iceberg
NetBSD 11 from scratch
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue
Debian Code Search: Fast TurboPFor with Go SIMD
QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
The revolt of the reader
Terence Tao on “prematurely solving [a maths] problem by purely AI-powered methods”
"Simple Made Easy" (2011)
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
Any Nix package, live in your browser
Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
Posting about online presentations
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security?
M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)
The Ironies of Automation (1983)
Who said a tech addict can't be comfortable far from home?
Why frontends fail when you approach them like a backend
Radix_FW60: handheld CP/M 2.2 computer
NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9
Internationalization and Localization
It matters who teaches you
zopt: low-ceremony command line parsing for Zig
How To: Federated Stars (2024)
AirTag 2 4-Pack Drops to $79.99 on Amazon, Matching Record Low
iPhone 18 Pro: Everything M6 Tells Us About the A20 Chip
Top Stories: 'Surprise and Shine' Apple Event Preview, John Ternus Takes Over, and More
iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18 Pro, and More: Apple's September 9 Event Preview
Apple Planning AI Home Security Camera and Service for 2027
Foldable 'iPhone Ultra' Still Likely to Be Missing These Five Features
Foldable iPhone Ultra: The Latest Rumors Before Apple's Event
Apple's 2026 Studio Display Gets Steep $214 Discount on Amazon
Anthropic's Claude Comes to CarPlay
macOS 26.7 Code Hints at Two Unreleased Apple Game Controllers
Labor Day Deals Offer Up to $330 Off Studio Displays and Mac Mini Pre-Order Savings
iPhone Duo?
Alogic Expands Display Lineup With New 5K and 6K Models, Debuts New Peripherals
Review: Acer's 6K Touchscreen Display Turns Your Mac Into a Giant iPad, Sort Of
MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPad Air and Revamped Rock Paper Pencil Kit From Astropad
Aqara Debuts Five Matter Smart Lights With Apple Home Support
The MacRumors Show: iPhone 18 Pro Event Expectations
Apple Just Fixed TestFlight
Apple Testing New HomePod With Siri AI
iPhone 20 Rumored to Have Biggest Revamp Since iPhone X
How to fit Minesweeper into 247 bytes
Why StyleX is having a moment
Bun now passes 80.5% of Node's test suite
Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
An Alien Mind
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
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
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
Quoting Zach Kehs
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
August newsletter is out
GPT‑6 Astra
llm-gemini 0.34
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
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
OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time
GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training
[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens
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
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB
An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31
GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
New API endpoint provides privacy-safe star history data
Multiple trusted publishing configurations for npm
GitHub Actions: Early September 2026 updates
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models
GitHub CLI Linux package signing key expires September 5
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise signups
CodeQL 2.26.4 improves GitHub actions security detections
Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is now available on AI Gateway for free
GPT 6 Astra now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox
Basic build machines are now available on Pro and Enterprise
Free domain with Pro offer now includes .app and .dev
Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway
GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
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
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
Bun v1.4.2
Bun v1.4.1- New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms…
- A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got…
- Got access to GPT-6 Astra.
- Sunday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22752
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22750
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22747
- AI is not a silver bullet.
- @shaundai.com's homework: try Josh Comeau's Whimsical Animations without AI.
- 46 It's my birthday!
- Wrote about what's up in angle brackets land.
- Resting is so much more restful when you’re rested.
- Have you too started hacking on hardware projects because of LLMs?
- If you look at a release like Astra I feel like you can only draw the conclusion…
- Future language designers please don't make the mistake of Python to use indenta…
- okay, it's out github.com/gaearon/conw...
- silo just went into all time greats i think
- astra is very hit and miss.
- I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts.
- this is a fascinating (and sobering) read
- Due to popular demand (it's me—I'm the demand), I've decided to cut pgbg in two…
- When I was advocating for nogil/free-threading, I always said that it’s importan…