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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
What happened to the Snowden archive
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
I am often wrong
The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea?
North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown
Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State'
The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs
To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App
Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal
Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees
Developer Abandons 'PS5 Linux' Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
Fake AI Intelligence Almost Made the US Military Start a War With China
US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers
Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI
Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?
AI Insiders Issue New Warnings - Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon
Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands?
Rust is Now a 'Tier One' Language at Microsoft
Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)
An actively maintained and updated Motif fork actually exists
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
Lambda MicroEgg
Beyond jj: config & tools ecosystem
Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS
Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell
Thoughts on the Future of Web Browsers
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
Roku launches open-source Roku LT OS for creative programmers
Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd
AI Is an Elite Crime Spree
Using non-breakable spaces in test method names
we have a year to fix security everywhere
Adversarial examples for fast hash functions
How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs
V Language Review (2023)
HEIF Heist
Quarkdown: Turing-complete Markdown typesetting system
I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models a Year Ago. Then a Frontier Lab Called It a "Breakthrough"
A study of sequence weighting at scale
What's been going on in w64devkit the past year
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)
What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing? (2022)
iFixit Shares iPhone 18 Pro Teardown With Inside Look at New Features
Apple Fitness+ Layoffs Reported Ahead of Potential 'Major' Changes
A Shorter Apple Pencil Was Supposed to Launch Alongside iPhone Duo
Siri AI Settlement Website Now Live: Apple to Pay Some iPhone Owners
M6 Pro Chip Result on Geekbench is Likely Fake
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Sees First Discount After Launch, Now $779.99 on Amazon
Top Stories: iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate Out Now, Siri AI Waitlist, and More
Apple Exec Says 'Hold Us Accountable' on iPhone Duo Crease
iPhone 18 Pro Max Requires 'Prepare to Ship' Battery Drain Before Shipping
Hands-On With the Apple Watch Series 12
iPhone 18 Pro Max in U.S. Has Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80 Modem
M5 Ultra and M6 Chip Benchmark Results Reveal Graphics Performance
Apple Releases Xcode 27.1 Beta With iPhone Duo Support
Apple Watch Series 12 vs. Ultra 4 Buyer's Guide
MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone Duo From iMazing
'Shop Different': Apple Retail Pioneer Ron Johnson Shares the Inside Story
Apple Teams Up With ROSÉ for iPhone 18 Pro Camera Ad
The MacRumors Show: Is the iPhone Duo Actually Worth It?
Apple Designers Explain the Thinking Behind iPhone Duo
Are iPhone 17 Pro Cases Compatible With iPhone 18 Pro? Here's What Apple Says
Functional programming jargon, mapped out
Why Lovable built a Vite-compatible dev server in Rust
Node 26.9 turns on FFI by default
Introducing the Life Sciences Verification Program
Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs
Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation
Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Introducing Astra for Law
Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
Reimagining advertising with AI
Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
How to connect AI usage to business value
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
How workers are unlocking new ways of working
How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?
Quoting voxium
llm-keys-ui 0.1
datasette-explain 0.2.2
datasette-auth-github 1.0
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
Note on 18th September 2026
Quoting Thariq Shihipar
The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans
How To Write With An LLM
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
datasette 1.0a40
datasette 0.65.5
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Quoting Mustafa Suleyman
Gemini Live audio
The contagion of fear
What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
Quoting Laurie Voss
[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
[AINews] not much happened today
[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC
[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive
Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror
Analyzing rising fraud attempts among travel and leisure businesses on Stripe
SaaS platforms are surging despite the SaaSpocalypse
What Stripe data shows about fraud at AI startups
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers
Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
Copilot code review: An improved review experience
Manage the code coverage ruleset condition with the REST API
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 14
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-October
Stage-only npm tokens for safer automation
Copilot impact dashboard now shows feature engagement
Agentic CLI customizations now in the usage metrics API
Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration
Workflow execution protections in GitHub Actions generally available
Automate SSO authorization for classic PATs and SSH keys
Spend Management expands to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plans
WebMCP support now available in mcp-handler
v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables
Jev is the fastest-adopted model in AI Gateway history
Reproducing, disclosing, and fixing the libheif vulnerability with Hacktron and the maintainers
GLM 5.3 FlashX now available on AI Gateway
Sub-second artifact deployments are now supported in Vercel CLI
Turbo build machines can now be enabled per deployment
Run Terminal-Bench and other Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox
The skills CLI now supports Notion hosted skills
Open-weight models take 56% of token volume, Astra doubles Fable 5.1 spend
GPT-Live 1 now available on AI Gateway
Native Marketplace integrations now support custom environments
Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage
Secure Compute and Static IP builds start 64% faster
Mem0 joins the Vercel Marketplace
TypeSafe AI's Jev now available on AI Gateway
Is Agentic now tailors its audit by site type
How Delphi ships 100 times a day with its Python backend on Vercel
Gemini 3.8 Live models now available on AI Gateway
AI SDK harness layer now supports native subscription authentication
Adding the Discord Updates YOU Want to See
The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgement
Node.js 26.9.0 (Current)- Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting r…
- Journal: Stalling installing Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C.
- On stage in Cáceres.
- Last night’s fun.
- If you can only repeat the feature request, you do not understand the problem ye…
- You would be surprised how many people never click through the feature they just…
- The PM is the compass.
- Boooo.
- This GIF from @joshwcomeau.com's last email is mesmerizing.
- sloptalkshow.com lol @ @gregwolanski.com
- David Sacks' complaint about Pangram giving his longform tweet a 100% AI rating…
- Lobsters broke their Anubis rollout and now you can't upvote or message the mode…
- i spent all of my free time for a month on this.
- great guest post by @3blue1brown.com
- we're on hnnnn
- iPhone duo simulator just released: No sign of the viewport segment or device po…
- Has webkit ever kept CSS features under wraps until after an Apple product annou…
- *takes a glance at my GitHub inbox* I’m gonna block so many accounts once I’m ba…