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.

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

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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.

How an MIT research project became the Julia 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.

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.

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

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A massive data breach has exposed 153 million driver's license scans, available for sale on the dark web, highlighting the huge privacy risks of age verification technologies. This breach is a stark warning to those pushing for age verification laws and shows that no system can be completely safe from data breaches.

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.

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.

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.

From Hookswitch to Grave

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Western Electric, a subsidiary of AT&T, operated a massive metal recycling facility on Staten Island from 1930 to 2001, processing millions of tons of scrap and producing valuable metals for the telephone industry. The site was eventually remediated after years of environmental contamination and is now considered suitable only for limited industrial use due to strict institutional controls.

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.

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.

Show HN: Reactor Atlas

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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.

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

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The author created Jactl, a secure scripting language for Java applications that compiles to bytecode and allows long-running operations without blocking the execution thread. It uses a continuation mechanism to save the execution state of scripts when they are suspended due to long-running operations.

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.

A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

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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.

In defense of two-state theme toggles

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In case you haven’t kept up on the most recent bikeshedding discussion in frontend: there’s a lively debate going on over the merits of a simpler two-state theme toggle (light/dark), vs. a more explicit three-state toggle (with dark and light, plus a third “system” option), and whether the clarity of that third option is worth the additional complexity it introduces. But let’s back up to ...

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.

Unusual Suspects

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.

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

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.

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

The browser's main thread is expensive

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Frontend optimization involves managing the main thread, which handles tasks such as JavaScript execution, drawing, and event handling. To optimize performance, developers can use techniques like splitting tasks into smaller chunks (splitting), batching similar tasks together (batching), prioritizing and deferring non-essential work to free up resources for critical tasks (prioritizing and deferring).

Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys

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This is a deterministic, reversible encoding method called Sing-song that converts arbitrary byte strings into pronounceable CV syllables for human-readable usernames. It uses a 64-syllable alphabet and self-sizing complete forms with optional variants.