You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

102 barry-cotter 2026-09-29 11:22:35 UTC derekthompson.org Llama Share 58

Americans have seen a significant decline in socializing over the past few decades, with hosting dinner parties and attending community events decreasing by 70% since 1975. This decline is attributed to various factors, including increased busyness due to work and parenting responsibilities, decreased leisure time, and the rise of solo activities like watching TV or exercising.

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

168 damaru2 2026-09-29 09:22:35 UTC jorgegarciaherrero.com Llama Share 47

Conversational AI services are increasingly adopting advertising-based business models, which raises concerns about user privacy. A systematic analysis of nine prominent conversational AI services found that they expose sensitive information to third-party tracking services, including conversation-derived artifacts such as titles, prompts, and screenshots. These disclosures can be linked to ...

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

44 nicowaltz 2026-09-29 11:22:35 UTC github.com/posthog Llama Share 9

A Jeeves model with a Qwen3.5-9B decision model, LoRA, and pointer head outperforms Kev-9B and Jev on test data without thinking, achieving 0.889 accuracy on unseen data. The model can be sped up by truncating chain length or using a drafter to reason before deciding.

Using any C++ library in Godot

68 czoido 2026-09-29 09:22:35 UTC blog.conan.io Llama Share 21

Godot is a free, open-source game engine that allows developers to create 2D and 3D games using GDScript or C++. It can load native code through GDExtension and godot-cpp bindings.

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

62 ilamont 2026-09-29 11:37:35 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 23

A 6-month trial of live facial recognition in London's railway stations cost £320,000 and led to only one incorrect alert. The technology aimed to catch offenders but failed to make any arrests during the trial period.

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

29 mywacaday 2026-09-29 11:46:35 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 4

The Dutch government is replacing its reliance on US-based software and services with a new system called DAWO, built around NixOS. The goal is to ensure the government's systems are not vulnerable to being shut down by foreign countries like the US.

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

168 evakhoury 2026-09-29 03:22:35 UTC jagi.studio Llama Share 21

The author created a cellular LED matrix inspired by phyllotaxis, a pattern found in nature, and programmed it to react dynamically to sound using an STM32 board. The project evolved into an interactive installation at Recurse Center, featuring a website for attendees to upload sketches and games.

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

91 doener 2026-09-29 06:22:35 UTC computerworld.com Llama Share 36

A 1993 Stratus server, still operational after 24 years, has been maintained by Phil Hogan at Great Lakes Works in Michigan. The server will be retired in April after a planned upgrade, marking the end of its nearly three-decade run.

The systems that no one will test

87 perone 2026-09-29 06:22:35 UTC blog.christianperone.com Llama Share 33

The author found a vulnerability in a system during the pandemic, allowing access to Brazilian federal records of 200+ million people. This experience has led them to worry about the growing capabilities of AI models and their potential for misuse by nation-states.

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

261 randycupertino 2026-09-28 20:22:35 UTC kqed.org Llama Share 663

California wine growers are struggling to sell their grapes due to declining demand, forcing some to tear out vineyards that have been in their families for generations. The industry is facing significant losses as prices paid for grapes drop and many growers are left with unsold crops.

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

41 airhangerf15 2026-09-29 07:22:35 UTC enikofox.com Llama Share 4

The author developed a software-rendered occlusion culling solution for their game Block Game, which runs on a weak GPU. The solution uses depth buffers and frustum culling to reduce the number of chunks that need to be rendered, resulting in significant performance improvements.

Pirating the Pirates

617 piotrgrabowski 2026-09-28 16:22:35 UTC mubi.com Llama Share 314

The author and his roommate hacked together a restored version of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after MGM altered it for profit. They collaborated with other preservationists to create an official release that closely matched their work.

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

24 sschueller 2026-09-29 08:22:35 UTC startup-nights.ch Llama Share 11

The Startup Nights 2026 event connects entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders for networking opportunities and insightful talks. Attendees can pitch their ideas, showcase solutions, or learn from successful founders in a space designed to spark meaningful conversations.

Tank Body Problem

132 jimbooonooo 2026-09-29 01:22:35 UTC jimsitu.com Full Share 30

↑↓ Elevate │ ←→ Power │ A/D Move │ J/L Weapon │ SPACE Fire │ SPACE AGAIN = Laser/Plumage │ Cheese bounces 3x │ Poison drops bubbles │ Moon gravity

Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote

15 luu 2026-09-29 08:22:35 UTC countingfromzero.blog Llama Share 3

The author reflects on four CHI 2026 papers that sparked their interest, exploring potential research directions and collaborations. They consider how these papers might have been written by them if they had pursued similar ideas earlier in their career. The author now seeks to proceed with next steps discussed above or engage in slower reading and journaling to gain further insight into what ...

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

257 logicallee 2026-09-28 19:22:35 UTC stateofutopia.com Llama Share 89

The model is evaluated based on objective checks, not writing quality. The 135M model's performance is measured by speed and accuracy metrics from runs in the browser.

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

148 yusufaytas 2026-09-28 20:22:35 UTC archaeologymag.com Full Share 42

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

111 nkko 2026-09-28 22:22:35 UTC github.com/low-zi-hong Full Share 24

This project runs a sliced 0.5B LLM across a cluster of 7 ESP32s3. One act as master and others are node. The master node runs the tokenizer and embeding and the other attention layer and MLP ran on the nodes. The master and node communicate through high speed SPI Daisy-Chain. This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

521 firelex 2026-09-28 21:22:35 UTC github.com/firelex Llama Share 197

This text describes a new model called Jeff, which is a small, fast decision-making system for zero-shot classification tasks. It can be fine-tuned on specific examples to improve its accuracy.

Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World

9 mikecarlton 2026-09-29 09:22:35 UTC evan-doorbell.com LocalLLM Share 0

Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes document the old phone system from the 1970s. They are available narrated and raw, free to redistribute but not for sale.

Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders

4 dabinat 2026-09-29 10:22:35 UTC streaminglearningcenter.com Prefix Share 0

If you’re producing solely H.264-encoded video, optimizing your encodes can save you bandwidth costs and deliver a higher quality experience to your viewers. If you’re considering adding HEVC or AV1 to the mix, you have another reason. Before you attempt to compute the bandwidth savings and quality improvements these codecs deliver, you should know just how much quality and bitrate you can ...

Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

193 jonbaer 2026-09-28 16:22:35 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 243

Nvidia is releasing a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The platform, called Open Agent Safety Platform, aims to provide a secure environment for AI models to operate within.

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

671 slowin 2026-09-28 16:22:35 UTC twitter.com/aliabunimah Full Share 540

Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.

Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI

4 cyfyifanchen 2026-09-29 10:22:35 UTC github.com/evermind-ai Prefix Share 0

One Surface, All Agents: Raven generates DAGs and orchestrates multiple specialized agents for complex tasks. Raven is the harness of harnesses, built for recursive self-improvement (RSI). As a Host Agent, it brings built-in and third-party agents together to carry out complex tasks. Its modular architecture supports iterative improvement of Raven's own harness: proposing changes to how ...

New Cyber-OSINT model released

20 soltanov 2026-09-29 11:22:35 UTC twitter.com/0x0sojalsec Llama Share 7

The Cyber-OSINT model is a locally run, 7B cyber model trained on 6,500 OSINT/CTI instructions and fine-tuned for threat actor attribution and IoC pivoting. It can be used for investigative work with an 8GB GPU.

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

264 ibobev 2026-09-28 16:22:35 UTC yashgarg.dev Llama Share 87

The author created a custom solution to bypass Sony's restrictions on streaming from the PS5, using DNS spoofing and RTMP redirection. A macOS app manages dnsmasq and nginx-rtmp to intercept streams destined for Twitch or YouTube, allowing them to be redirected to the author's Mac instead.

Sonnet 5.5

825 D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 2026-09-28 18:22:35 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 556

Sonnet 5.5 is a faster and lower-cost version of Sonnet 5, suitable for everyday tasks and well-scoped work, with improved design capabilities.

Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

247 p-s-v 2026-09-28 16:22:35 UTC petervijeh.com Llama Share 310

The author analyzed Reddit's "what should I buy" threads in six knife subreddits to see if brand-heavy accounts were over-represented. The analysis found that these 49 accounts wrote 11.3% of the buying-thread mentions, significantly above chance.

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

433 simonpure 2026-09-28 16:22:35 UTC thisamericanlife.org Llama Share 232

A public radio show host, Dave Blanchard, noticed unusual comments on an episode featuring author Elizabeth Gilbert. He suspected bots but couldn't understand their behavior. A young NPR employee, Hannah Chinn, investigated and discovered that the commenters were actually middle school kids using Spotify to chat with each other in a private group chat-style setting.

Simulating Airband AM Radios

54 shellpipe 2026-09-29 03:22:35 UTC bitbashing.io Llama Share 4

The author created a digital simulation of an AM radio to accurately model the sound of multiple transmitters interfering with each other, mimicking real-life air traffic control scenarios. The simulation uses complex numbers and phasors to represent frequencies and phases, allowing for realistic modeling of signal degradation and interference.