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F-Droid 2.0
Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Two-tier encryption in the UK
Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Fearless SIMD v1.0
Nokia Design Archive (2025)
California is chasing wealth that has feet
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
2DWillNeverDie
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Goodbye Google
Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations
Geothermal heat map of US hot springs
How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability?
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI
Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux
Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules
Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?
Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment
Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents
Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off?
'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit
Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB
F-Droid 2.0
File Notification Attacks: Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS
AI Workers' Inquiry 2026
Lobsters: Rename vibecoding to llms (Greasemonkey script)
Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain
Parsing Expression Grammar vs. regexes: Building Org parser in Lisp that exports to HTML (via SXML)
The Story of Mel
katamari architecture
Pencils Down, Eyes Open: A Rails Developer After Rails World
Apple's Two-Tier Encryption in the UK
Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Introducing Lev
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Real-Time Telemetry with Eventlog Live
agent-shell 0.78 updates
Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time
Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser
Goodbye Google
Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History
Beware overreliance on metaphor
Launching FreeBSD/EC2 desktop AMIs
From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The tine Build System
What's Gone in macOS Golden Gate and What's Next in macOS 28
TestFlight App Gets New iOS 27 Features
Google Photos Wardrobe Feature Comes to iOS
Apple Music to Host Free Head Trip Festival Livestream
watchOS 27.2 Code Hints at iPhone-Style Screenshot Previews
Beats 360 Headphones Now Available in Apple Stores
Apple Shares New Video Promoting iOS 27 Parental Controls
Apple Has Announced 12 New Products in the Past Month
Apple Watch Ultra 2 vs. Ultra 4 Buyer's Guide: Should You Upgrade?
Here's When Apple TV is Airing Free 'Peanuts' Holiday Specials This Year
Square Announces Apple Business Integration
AirPods Pro 3 on Sale for $199 This Week on Amazon
Qualcomm Announces Renewed Agreement With Apple
Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Bug Fix Update is Coming Next Week
Full iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Q&A Video Surfaces After 16 Years
Meta Did a 'One More Thing' and It's an AI Tamagotchi
iPhone Handoff in iOS 27: How It Works, Pricing, and Carrier Support
ChatGPT in Siri 'Persistently Underperforming,' Says OpenAI
You Can Now Try Apple's Unreleased Copland OS in Your Browser
Apple Releases watchOS 27.0.1 With Fix for Restart Bug
JavaScript desktop apps in under 10MB
12 Node built-ins that replace npm packages
The Situation Report
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Two years of OpenAI Academy
OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Introducing MentalHealthBench
ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models
Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
Better prompt caching for GPT-6
Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Building standards for the next phase of AI
Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory
Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured
commit-rewriter 0.2
datasette 1.0a41
Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Shadow roots, explained with live examples
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
llm 0.36
Quoting @therealcornpop
llm-anthropic 0.29
llm-typesafe 0.1a0
Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
Quoting voxium
MCP was always a bad idea?
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
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science
[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror
New trends in global card fraud: How 3D Secure and regional mandates are affecting risk
How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Introducing Worker Previews: Isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes
Python Workers are now generally available
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses
Open-Sourcing Rebalancer: A Generic, High-Performance Library for Solving Assignment Problems
Inside Petal: Building the World’s First Petabit-Class Transoceanic Subsea Cable
When chat is the wrong UI
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1,000 GitHub users told us they need.
Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
Default Enablement of Copilot Features for Copilot Business and Enterprise
Require proof of presence for high-impact actions
More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews
Node 20 is no longer available in GitHub Actions
Local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app
OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app
New features and improvements in Copilot for JetBrains
Faster C++ code intelligence with whole codebase indexing
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna now available
The Vercel Bug Bounty Program is now publicly available
How Klaviyo shipped 356 internal apps in two weeks on Vercel
Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AI
Unlimited Vercel Blob stores on every plan
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams
Deployments now show billable duration and CPU minutes
MiMo V2.6 models now available on AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports TypeSafe clients and an HTTP API for Jev
Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eve
Spend Management expands to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plans
WebMCP support now available in mcp-handler
v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables
Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults
Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdan on moving from AI adoption to transformation
Introducing our new Dropbox API documentation
Measuring the back/forward cache with Application Metrics
Building Sentry's Laravel AI Integration
Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS)
Node.js 26.10.0 (Current)- Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting r…
- Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision m…
- Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Lu…
- Back from Spain with a good haul… 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22773
- On stage in Cáceres.
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22775
- This is fantastic.
- If you can only repeat the feature request, you do not understand the problem ye…
- A daily friction log.
- This is such a weird thing you can do.
- It's a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation.
- Bass I bought a standup bass back in June!
- i spent all of my free time for a month on this.
- great guest post by @3blue1brown.com
- ok i take it back Astra is good how to work with it: 1.
- iPhone duo simulator just released: No sign of the viewport segment or device po…