GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the world's most intelligent and aligned model, offering state-of-the-art performance in computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity and more. The new model is available to all ChatGPT Plus users and will be rolled out to other plans over the coming days.

.name Termination

A user's .name domain is set to be destroyed due to Verisign's proposal, causing their website and email address to vanish. This could lead to potential security risks as vacant 2nd-level domains may become available for registration by others.

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

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Cerebras offers free trial and pay-as-you-go models with rate limits, while dedicated endpoints provide reserved capacity and production SLAs. The company hosts original, unpruned open-source models from the community on its public endpoints.

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

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The author attended a party celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ted Nelson's hypermedia manifesto, Computer Lib/Dream Machines. The event featured vintage computers running Xanadu implementations and stories from former programmers about the challenges of developing hypertext systems in the past.

New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

Eric Harshbarger, a mathematician, created dice to determine who goes first in board games without ties. He and his team developed a set of five 120-sided dice that can guarantee a winner from one roll.

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Researchers created a panel of 75 GitHub repositories to test how coding agents choose third-party services, analyzing over 16,893 runs. They found that popular players like Stripe and Azure often win due to their simplicity and cost-effectiveness, but lesser-known providers can also succeed in specific scenarios.

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

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Researchers built artificial beaver dams in northern California to recreate lost wetlands and boost coho salmon survival. The project, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, showed significant success with juvenile coho survival rates increasing from 8% to 60%.

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

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The author of the game Babylonian Twins, built in 1993 on an Amiga 500, has had his original code ported to modern platforms using AI assistance. The port was done by running the original assembly code through a model that could understand and execute it.

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

IFM is releasing K2 Horizon, a connected fleet of six models with top-tier performance across various tasks. The models are released under the Apache 2.0 license and provide an open blueprint for understanding and advancing AI systems.

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

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Scientists have discovered that a massive solar storm in November 2025 caused widespread disruptions to the US atmosphere, including coast-to-coast disturbances and significant errors in GPS positioning. The effects of this event could have been devastating for industries relying on precision navigation, such as autonomous vehicles and agriculture.

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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You'll draw, step by step: a year, a place, a life, each taken at random from real data. Almost everyone who ever lived was born recently, because population grew exponentially, so a random birth is far more likely to fall near the present.

From Hookswitch to Grave

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Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated corporate history. One of the greatest enterprises in American history, arguably the greatest enterprise, AT&T has often rivaled the federal government in the size of its budget and workforce. One of the reasons, as we well know today, was monopolization and its close relative vertical ...

Xanadu was waiting for agents

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The author revisits the concept of hypertext and its pioneer, Ted Nelson, who envisioned a system called Xanadu that could manage complexity and version control. The author believes that modern technology has finally made it possible to build upon Nelson's ideas.

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

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Shin Jin-seo, a 26-year-old South Korean Go grandmaster, defeated the world's top AI engine KataGo in a historic three-game series under a two-stone handicap.

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

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Julia is a high-performance programming language used by millions of users worldwide for scientific research, data analysis, and modeling complex systems. Its "just-in-time compilation" feature makes it faster and more flexible than other numerical programming languages.

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

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Tasklet is hiring a customer-facing owner to handle support, automate workflows, and improve internal tooling. The ideal candidate is a tech-savvy, charismatic communicator with 1-5 years of experience in a high-agency role.

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

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Jactl is a secure scripting language for Java that enables non-blocking execution through continuations. It uses exceptions to save and restore script state, allowing scripts to resume after long-running operations without blocking event-loop threads.

Audacity 4.0

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Audacity 4 rebuilds the interface on Qt with new features and improvements. It offers various quality-of-life changes, including clip editing, track management, and plugin support.

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

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Unusual Suspects

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

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The author created a credit-card sized NFC chip-powered business card that lights up when tapped, using energy harvested from the phone. The card uses an NTAG I²C Plus chip and has a custom app to send commands directly to the chip.

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

User is discussing MCP, a tool for natural language interaction with APIs and tools. They find it useful for automating tasks and reducing errors, but acknowledge its limitations.

Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

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Antigravity's terms of service can suspend Google accounts for suspected third-party usage, potentially leading to account bans. Using Antigravity outside of official surfaces risks losing entire Google accounts and could be considered life-ruining.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

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GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% for $26K and 99.9% for $19K on ARC-AGI-3, surpassing human baseline in action efficiency with fewer actions taken by the model than humans in most levels.

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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The frontend web development field is facing significant changes with the rise of AI coding, leading to a decline in investment in frontend knowledge. Many well-known luminaries have pivoted from talking about frontend development to other topics.

How to get a free .arpa domain

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A user can reserve .arpa domain space by registering an IPv6 address and its corresponding ip6.arpa records, allowing for a custom website. This is done through services like Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker.net and deSEC, which handle DNS setup.

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

OpenAI and Claude experienced downtime, causing users to migrate to each other, resulting in a cascading effect of distributed system overload. This led to further denial-of-service (DOS) issues as users shifted between providers.