Claude Fable 5

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Claude Fable 5 is a state-of-the-art AI model with exceptional performance in various areas, but it comes with risks and requires safeguards to prevent misuse. The model is released with conservative safeguards that trigger in less than 5% of sessions, and a trusted access program will be expanded to allow more users to access its capabilities.

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

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The user is developing a side-project called Catlantean 3D, a traditional raycaster first-person shooter with a 256-color palette, aiming to recreate the feeling of early 90s games while using modern tools. The user has implemented various techniques to achieve this, including asset creation, lighting, and animation, and is planning to release the game on Steam in Q1 2027.

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

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Microsoft's Azure and AI development tools were hacked, allowing hackers to steal users' passwords and sensitive credentials. The company has temporarily removed some repositories, notified affected customers, and is continuing to investigate the breach.

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

Anthropic has implemented safeguards in Claude to limit its effectiveness for frontier LLM development without user notification. This creates supply chain risk for businesses as they can't trust their infrastructure due to hidden policy restrictions.

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

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The FCC plans to require telecoms to store personal info like ID numbers and addresses for all phone customers, alarming privacy advocates. This change aims to combat scammers but could impact low-income people, domestic abuse survivors, and those seeking anonymity.

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

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Rockstar developers and AI tools can create messy codebases that are hard to understand and maintain. To avoid this, lead the engineering and guide AI tools to generate high-quality, understandable code.

Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Albania's government is under pressure to protect a luxury resort project backed by Jared Kushner, while EU officials warn of potential membership delays.

CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs

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CEOs are overhyping AI tools, forcing employees to use them without understanding their limitations. This "AI psychosis" leads to unrealistic expectations and potential layoffs, which may be an excuse for poor hiring decisions.

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

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GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI

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GentleOS/32 is a retro OS for tinkering with old hardware, requiring i386 CPU, 4MB RAM, and VGA display. It supports standard PC devices and has a 16-bit spin-off, GentleOS/16, targeting 80186 devices.

Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

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A Facebook investigation found that some overseas accounts, including one from Indonesia, were posing as Canadians and posting divisive content about Alberta separatism to generate income. Facebook's monetization incentives may be contributing to the spread of inauthentic content.

GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)

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OpenAI's GPT-2 was deemed too powerful to release due to concerns of misuse, but a smaller model was released for researchers. GPT-2 has 1.5 billion parameters and was trained on 40GB of web texts, achieving state-of-the-art results in various language tasks.

We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

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Morningstar values SpaceX at $63 per share, a 53% discount to the IPO's offering price. This valuation is based on three scenarios, with a 7% chance of the company achieving a $1.97 trillion valuation in the most optimistic scenario.

Job: Head of Stonehenge

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English Heritage is a charity that cares for over a million objects and historic sites in England, aiming to connect people to the past and each other. They are seeking a Head of Stonehenge to lead a team and deliver exceptional visitor experiences while driving financial performance.

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 are two configurations of a new large language model from Anthropic. Mythos 5 is available to vetted partners, while Fable 5 is released for general access with additional safeguards to prevent misuse.

Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12

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npm v12 introduces security changes to npm install, requiring explicit opt-in for scripts and Git dependencies. Upgrade to npm 11.16.0, review warnings, and use npm approve-scripts to allow trusted packages.

Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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A federal judge blocked President Trump's $100,000 H1-B visa fee, saving hundreds of education jobs in Alaska. The ruling could help rural schools hire international teachers, who make up 50% of some districts' staff.

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack

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Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

The iPhone's Last Stand?

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Microsoft's Project Solara showcases a thin client approach where AI agents live in the cloud and interact with devices as portals. Apple's Siri, despite being behind the state of the art, is sufficient for consumers who don't want to work or care about productivity.

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Apple's Platform State of the Union demo featured an origami app to showcase foldable design. The demo hinted at an upcoming iPhone Ultra with a foldable screen, prompting Apple to prepare developers for adaptable designs.

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

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The user successfully ported coreboot to a ThinkPad x61 using a Large Language Model (LLM) to reverse engineer the firmware, which would have taken months to accomplish manually. This achievement demonstrates the feasibility of using LLMs for reverse engineering firmware, potentially making it easier to develop open-source alternatives to closed-source firmware.

Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day

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Europe's solar power has saved over $135 million a day by reducing fossil fuel costs. Renewable energy is becoming more dominant, with $2.2 trillion expected to flow into clean energy this year.

What it feels like to work with Mythos

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The user tested the first public Mythos-class AI model, Claude 5 Fable, and found it to be a significant leap over previous models, capable of complex tasks with minimal human input. Fable's ability to delegate tasks to other models and generate impressive results with little human oversight raises concerns about the black box nature of AI and the potential loss of human control.

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

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The user's Master's thesis involves designing hardware architectures for ultrafast inference and online learning using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). KANs are a natural fit for efficient, expressive LUT-NNs and can be trained on FPGAs for ultrafast inference and online learning.

Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

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Where is the AI jobs crisis?

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Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?

User is unhappy with Apple Vision Pro's limitations and price, but acknowledges its potential as a productivity tool. They're looking for alternative uses, such as ergonomic setups for development, but haven't found a killer use case yet.
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Researchers compared retrieval strategies in Large Language Model agents, finding grep generally yields higher accuracy than vector retrieval. However, accuracy still depends on agent architecture and tool-calling paradigm.

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)

Biologist Scott Poethig discovered a single molecule, miR156, that locks plants in a youthful state, a phenomenon called neoteny. This finding has big implications for conservation, horticulture, and more, as it could help scientists tailor plants to different needs and environments.

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 has been released with several updates and deprecations. Key changes include the removal of pkg_resources and additional GTK 2 and Qt5 packages.

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps

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The user has released the first library, biff.core, which provides system composition and interfaces for Biff projects. This library includes init functions that allow for clean extraction of logic and late binding, making it easier to manage project structure and dependencies.

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

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Researchers compared LLM-based and classical hyperparameter optimization methods on a small language model. A hybrid approach, Centaur, combining classical CMA-ES with an LLM achieved the best results, suggesting LLMs are most effective as a complement to classical optimizers.

It's death

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The narrator's day starts with a series of unfortunate events, including a melted hand and temporary blindness, but he continues to move forward. He eventually dies after being crushed by a pile of mail and is met by a cloaked figure who advises him to forgive himself for his life's mistakes.

Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs

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SignalTrace β€œlinks devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devicesβ€”and peopleβ€”to cars.

Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale at Amazon

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Researchers developed RNG, a flat network design using random graphs, to improve data center efficiency and scalability. RNG uses 69% fewer routers, delivers 33% higher throughput, and cuts network power by 40% compared to traditional fat-tree networks.

Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools

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Test-case reducers are tools that can automatically reduce the size of an input to a program, making it easier to debug, and can be used in various ways, including to reduce nondeterminism and drive down the length of program traces. By writing custom interestingness tests, programmers can use test-case reducers to focus on specific properties of the input, such as reducing the length of ...

Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Apple's new password-changing feature in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 uses AI to automatically change weak or compromised website passwords. However, security concerns arise from the potential for AI to introduce risks, manipulate user data, and create a larger security blast radius.

AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice

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Jalil Richardson was wrongly arrested and incarcerated for 3 months due to AI facial recognition technology misidentification. Charges were dropped, but Richardson lost his job, home, and custody of his children.

Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents

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The user created a library-based, memory-safe, and idiomatic Rust reimplementation of Git called Grit, which passes over 99% of the entire Git test suite, but is not tested and should be used with caution. The user used a swarm of agents to accomplish this task, but encountered difficulties with long-running and parallel tasks, and had to adapt their approach multiple times to manage costs ...

The better the autopilot the worse the pilot

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Automated systems can lead to complacency in operators, making them less ready for system failures. Regular manual practice is necessary to maintain situational awareness and prevent skill decay.

Exif Smuggling

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A Proof-of-Concept using Cache Smuggling + Exif data to passively download a second stage payload - signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc

RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

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The user participated in a hackathon in Vilnius where they created a project that integrated an old rotary phone with a Raspberry Pi and AI agent to play niche music via the Spotify API. They believe hackathons should focus on hardware and innovative projects rather than just coding, and predict a shift towards hardware hackathons in the coming months.

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)

To diagnose shared library loading problems, set the LD_DEBUG environment variable to dump debug information. This can be used to resolve most loading problems quickly on Linux.

Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs

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Researchers propose PR-CAD, a framework that unifies text-to-CAD generation and editing for controllable and faithful modeling. PR-CAD achieves state-of-the-art results and improves CAD modeling efficiency through a reinforcement learning-enhanced reasoning framework.

Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone

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Eagle Computer was a leading producer of CP/M computers in 1983, but its fortunes changed after CEO Dennis Barnhart's death in a car crash on June 8, 1983. The company struggled to compete with IBM and other clone makers after the IBM lawsuit and increased competition in the market.

Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy

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Brexit has made the UK economy smaller than it would have been, with a gradual and cumulative drag on trade, investment, and productivity. The effect is estimated to be several percentage points below pre-Brexit levels, with trade and investment being the most economically significant channels.

Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted

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Agora Cosmica is a Living Library with 30 historical figures, offering free wisdom teachings and live AI conversations. It's a nonprofit, open-source platform with no tracking cookies or profiling, built on learning science and self-hosted speech tooling.

Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'

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The author reflects on Google's 20% time policy, which allowed engineers to spend a day a week on personal projects. The policy was not about the time itself, but the environment and trust it created.

I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit

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The author criticizes Rutger Bregman's School for Moral Ambition for lacking transparency and substance, and being elitist and funded by billionaires like Bill Gates. Bregman's views on AI and climate change are also seen as overly optimistic and dismissive of criticism.

Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients

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Researchers found that transient images on Palomar sky surveys show coma aberration patterns, ruling out plate artifacts as an explanation. This supports hypotheses that transients have a physical origin rather than being instrumental effects.

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

Julius, Jago, and Nils are building transload, a system that uses existing security cameras to automatically measure freight dimensions in LTL trucking terminals. Their system has two main steps: associating barcode scans with the correct objects in video footage and estimating the objects' dimensions in real-world units.

CRDTs merge concurrent edits. Why not concurrent creation?

Two users concurrently create a child container under the same Map key, causing data loss. Loro solves this with Mergeable Containers, which identify child containers by their logical position, not creation operation.
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Starlink now charges a $10 monthly rental fee for hardware in addition to internet service prices. Customers can buy hardware instead, but it's not currently an option on Starlink's sign-up page.

Claude Mythos 5 / Fable 5

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Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-level model for ambitious coding projects, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. It handles complex knowledge work with minimal oversight, including large migrations, complex implementations, and multi-day autonomous sessions.

How we run untrusted customer code at scale

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Nango built a platform to run untrusted customer code securely, initially using a Node.js sandbox, then switching to AWS Lambda for better isolation. They now use Lambda with per-customer functions and periodic no-op invocations to keep functions warm, addressing security and performance trade-offs.

Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime

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Nucleus is a minimalist container runtime for Linux that provides isolated execution environments using Linux kernel primitives. It supports production services with declarative configuration, reproducible root filesystems, and egress policy enforcement.

Show HN: Open-source version of Anthropic's internal analytics engine

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ktx is a self-improving context layer that teaches agents to query warehouses accurately. It learns from company knowledge, maps the data stack, and builds a semantic layer for agents like Claude Code.