Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

752 u1hcw9nx 2026-09-13 21:41:39 UTC vals.ai Llama Share 316

Claude Fable 5.1 solved Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, a centuries-old cryptogram, using a simple rule based on the book itself and its accompanying poem. The solution was surprisingly straightforward in hindsight, demonstrating that models can solve historical mysteries with persistence and creative analysis.

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

154 zdw 2026-09-14 01:41:39 UTC spaceships.treybastian.com Full Share 28

Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

198 Cider9986 2026-09-13 22:41:39 UTC community.signalusers.org Llama Share 91

The user has legitimate concerns about zero-knowledge proofs, but disagrees with the application of this technology. Signal's design inherently protects user anonymity and safety through its distrustful client-server model.

The case against JPEG XL

105 contact9879 2026-09-14 01:41:39 UTC giannirosato.com Llama Share 130

The author believes JPEG XL is not suitable for the web due to its complexity, lack of support for progressive decoding and deblocking loop filtering, and potential performance issues. The author thinks AVIF is a better fit for the web platform.

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

127 herbertl 2026-09-14 00:41:39 UTC developer.apple.com Full Share 41

Download precise dimensional drawings and technical specifications for Apple devices to ensure your accessory designs meet the exact requirements.

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

34 knowablemag 2026-09-14 02:41:39 UTC knowablemagazine.org Full Share 3

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

45 rasengan0 2026-09-14 01:41:39 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 11

This report explores potential AI security threats and proposes ways to forecast, prevent, and mitigate them. It also suggests areas for further research to improve defenses against these threats.

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

381 bookofjoe 2026-09-13 14:41:39 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 201

Automakers collect and sell vast amounts of data on their customers, often without clear consent or transparency. A growing movement seeks simpler vehicles with minimal data collection to address concerns over privacy and consumer control.

Julia 1.13 highlights

201 eigenspace 2026-09-13 19:41:39 UTC julialang.org Llama Share 18

Julia version 1.13 has been released with several improvements, including faster precompilation times and enhanced code introspection macros. The new release also includes changes to the hash function, object loading in sysimage and package images, and improved garbage collection performance.

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)

54 andsoitis 2026-09-14 00:41:39 UTC honisoit.com Full Share 28

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

133 david927 2026-09-13 17:41:39 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 377

The author is working on various projects, including AI modeling for 3D printing and an Anki extension that generates text, speech, and images. They are also building a website to discover first names and a game project called Vestiges.

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

102 ilamont 2026-09-13 20:41:39 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 153

Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, is on paid leave after the board voted to remove him. He claims to be back in control and has been posting on company Slack despite being officially removed.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

752 iamflimflam1 2026-09-13 17:41:39 UTC atomic14.com Llama Share 338

The author reported a deceptive ad on YouTube that mimicked an iOS system alert, but Google's review process approved it twice despite AI detecting the violation. Google has access to AI tools to detect such ads, yet failed to use them effectively in this case.

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

10 luu 2026-09-14 05:41:39 UTC danluu.com Llama Share 1

The author discusses benchmarks for computer performance, AI model evaluations, and car tire performance. They analyze the napkin math repository and find issues with the code used to estimate memory latency and disk read throughput.

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

20 fdeth 2026-09-14 03:41:39 UTC eterdb.com Llama Share 3

eterDB is a database system that allows for point-in-time recovery without full restore or downtime, tracking reads and writes to undo past mistakes. It can revert specific rows or columns to their previous state, even after other transactions have been written on top of them.

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

78 walrus01 2026-09-13 20:41:39 UTC pages.cs.wisc.edu Llama Share 9

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's NTP server was flooded with hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second from Netgear routers, causing operational problems. The flood was caused by a design flaw in the Netgear products' SNTP client implementation, which hardcoded a source port number and allowed for excessive traffic to be sent to the university's time server.

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

59 NaOH 2026-09-13 21:41:39 UTC katjahoyer.uk Llama Share 20

The author attended a week of events in Leipzig, Germany, focusing on industrial culture and shared their story about East German botanists who successfully grew coffee in Vietnam after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They highlighted the complexities of this history and its relevance to understanding today's world.

Open-source AI and open models reading list

84 simonpure 2026-09-14 00:41:39 UTC interconnects.ai Llama Share 9

This user shares research materials on open models, discussing their definition, benefits and risks, adoption rates and performance gaps with closed models. They also highlight the impact of Chinese labs on the AI ecosystem.

Making Startups Powerful

199 tosh 2026-09-13 14:41:39 UTC paulgraham.com Llama Share 90

The author shares strategies for making startups more powerful, including creating network effects, owning the customer relationship and money flow, going full stack or eating away at customers' work. These ideas aim to make the startup valuable in the long term by improving customers' lives.

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

242 ibobev 2026-09-13 12:41:39 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 55

The ud2 instruction is an architecturally undefined instruction that raises an "invalid opcode" exception, used to mark unreachable code and prevent crashes. It was created as a result of Hyrum's Law, where software relied on the 0F FF sequence being invalid, prompting Intel to make it official with the ud2 instruction.

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

20 negura 2026-09-14 02:41:39 UTC calif.io Llama Share 3

This research series aims to create a single, reliable and portable unprivileged Android app-to-root exploit chain targeting Samsung, Xiaomi and Oppo/OnePlus/Realme devices. The strategy focuses on finding page Use-After-Free (UAF) bugs in OEM-specific kernel drivers that can be reached via an OEM sandbox escape.

Who gets to define the rules for AI?

16 throwworhtthrow 2026-09-14 05:41:39 UTC cohere.com Llama Share 12

The author argues that a small group of AI companies should not dictate the rules and safety standards for the entire world, as this could lead to a cartel-like situation. Instead, they propose an evidence-based risk framework, mandatory transparency, testing against specific gaps known to get exploited, and real assurance mechanisms to ensure safe development.

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

70 andsoitis 2026-09-14 03:41:39 UTC fortune.com Llama Share 68

Nike, the sportswear company named after the Greek goddess of victory, is losing its spot in the top 100 U.S. companies for the first time in nearly two decades due to a significant decline in market value. The company's market cap has dropped by over $200 billion since its peak in 2021, and it will exit the S&P 100 on September 21.

CUDA for AMD on Windows

152 chiassedu80 2026-09-13 14:41:39 UTC github.com/speedstu Llama Share 79

A reproducible Windows CUDA setup is built around ZLUDA + AMD HIP/ROCm for CUDA-facing compute applications, including LibTorch workloads. The validated hardware is currently an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU only, with other GPUs to be tested and reported separately.

“Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

26 sbulaev 2026-09-14 00:41:39 UTC science.org Full Share 10

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

22 akkartik 2026-09-14 00:41:39 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 4

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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

421 Levitating 2026-09-13 14:41:39 UTC lesswrong.com Full Share 191

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Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

33 kristianp 2026-09-14 03:41:39 UTC securityaffairs.com Llama Share 12

A 15.5 GB file containing over 7.3 million Chess.com user records was leaked online, with evidence pointing to large-scale scraping rather than a server breach. The data includes email addresses, usernames, and internal Google Ad Manager audience tags that are not publicly available on the platform's API.

Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media

10 ryanpere2298 2026-09-14 01:41:39 UTC thevidmarket.com Full Share 1

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

76 rzk 2026-09-13 18:41:39 UTC aprilnea.me Llama Share 18

Researchers reverse-engineered Claude Code, an unstripped Go binary from Anthropic's secret deployment platform, discovering a full AI-native PaaS architecture with local-cloud consistency and MicroVM technology. The analysis revealed a mature production-grade deployment protocol without any exploits or privilege escalation.