France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

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Compression is prediction

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Annie Sexton explains that compression and language models are related, as both aim to predict the most likely next symbol or data. She discusses how entropy coding, a method used in compression algorithms, is similar to how large language models (LLMs) work.

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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England is close to eliminating hepatitis C, a liver-attacking virus, with 80% of cases treated and deaths falling by 36%. The country aims to meet its targets by 2030 but urges those at higher risk to test for free.

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

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H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

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The MiniMax-H3 project is a sequence of working vertical slices for native inference on Apple Silicon, focusing on Metal performance and memory optimization. The current work involves incremental H3-specific Metal performance and memory optimization on M3 Max and M5 Max GPUs.

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

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AI is increasingly used to generate code, but humans must review and verify it. Go's design prioritizes readability, simplicity, and compatibility to ensure maintainability and reliability in production environments.

Mojo 1.0

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Mojo language has reached version 1.0, marking a stable foundation for developers to build on with a vibrant community contributing over 1,100 pull requests. Mojo's evolution will continue with new features and improvements in the next phase of its development.

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

Nvidia's Risky Business

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Jay Cooke's financing of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1870 led to a global financial crisis, triggering the Panic of 1873. This event shares similarities with today's tech industry, where companies are raising massive amounts of debt and equity to fund AI infrastructure investments.

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Chicken Scheme 6.0

The CHICKEN compiler has been updated to fix various bugs and add new features, including improved support for foreign function interfaces, better handling of large literals, and enhanced security measures. The update includes over 200 changes across multiple areas of the codebase, including core libraries, modules, tools, and runtime systems.

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

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WorldClaw is an agentic framework that turns one open-ended prompt into an explicit, explorable, and editable open-world 3D scene.

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

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NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a high-efficiency model for agentic AI workloads, and NeMo Switchyard, an open source library for smart routing inside popular agent tools.

US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers

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The FAA hired over 2,000 gamers to train as air traffic controllers, meeting 94% of its hiring goal. The recruitment campaign aims to extend the agency's reach and utilize gaming skills that are similar to those required for the job.

Making holograms with a pen plotter

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The author created holograms using a pen plotter and oil on their phone screen, achieving 3D depth information without math or prior knowledge of holography. They experimented with various materials to find the best results, ultimately using old CD jewel cases.

U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

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Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Manus will delete user data on December 29, 2025, and allow users to back up their data before August 23, 2026. Affected users can restore their data starting from August 25, 2026.

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

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The author recounts their first big career success as Polo Ralph Lauren's in-house photographer, which they found through a classified listing in the New York Times. They later verified this story by searching their archives and finding the original job listing on the Times Machine archive.

Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Git-knife is a GUI tool that edits commit metadata, including message, author date, and committer date. It safely rewrites commits without touching remote history or pushing changes to the server.

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

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To make web text stand out, consider using background images, aligning text horizontally and vertically, and styling line breaks. These five CSS properties - background-clip, vertical-align, align-content, box-decoration-mode, and letter-spacing - can help create visually appealing typography visuals.

Recycle – Floppydisks

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Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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Bluesky's mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year, with daily active users declining by 25.6%. The company is shifting focus to its underlying protocol and new products like Attie, rather than solely relying on Bluesky's app success.

Hyperspace

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Hyperspace is a free app that scans for files with identical contents and reclaims disk space without removing any of the files. It uses standard macOS file system features to create space-saving clones, preserving metadata such as creation dates and permissions.

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

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Researchers tested whether large language models can introspect on their internal states by injecting known concepts into the model's activations. The results showed that some models, particularly Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, demonstrated functional introspective awareness of their own internal states.

Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client

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Mcptoon is a CLI client that connects to any MCP server and outputs TOON instead of JSON, saving 60% tokens. It supports various tools and servers, including stdin support for large content.

pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries

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The pg_clickhouse project has made significant progress in improving pushdown coverage for analytic workloads, with full pushdown across the TPC-H benchmark suite. The current focus is on resolving issues with join-tree-on-both-sides limitation and pushing down PostgreSQL functions.

Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Europe's population has grown overall, but many cities and rural areas have lost residents between 1961 and 2024. The EU is at a turning point, with total population growth expected to peak around 2029 before declining due to low birth rates and aging populations.

US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat

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US President Donald Trump used a secret military flight from Turkey to Britain in July after an Iranian assassination threat, hiding him in an airport catering container. The operation involved concealing his actual location from journalists and some White House staff.

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

Mozilla has updated its GPG signing subkey used for Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts, including Linux tarballs, RPM packages, checksum files. To verify the signatures manually, import the new key and revoke the old one; some manual intervention may be required when using Firefox RPM packages.

Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

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Researchers at the SNO+ neutrino experiment in Canada have detected geoneutrinos, particles produced by Earth's heat, for the first time. The detection provides a new perspective on the planet's radioactive interior and may reveal differences between regions of mantle below different experiments.

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

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The author strongly disagrees with their father's comparison of using generative AI to playing Guitar Hero, arguing that the two are fundamentally different in terms of skill and impact. The author believes that while Guitar Hero may not teach you how to play a real guitar, it still requires skills like rhythm and timing.

RSI Simulator

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A web game simulates the economics of AI research and development, exploring recursive self-improvement. The game uses actual economic models from papers on the topic to understand how AI capabilities accelerate research.

Closing Canario Terminal source code

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The author has been involved in open source since age 17 and worked at Mozilla, but now they're closing Canario due to lack of time and energy. They built Canario for personal use, not expecting commercial success or maintenance costs.

Panic of 1873

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The Panic of 1873 was a global financial crisis that lasted from 1873 to 1879, causing widespread economic depression in Europe and North America. The crisis was triggered by a combination of factors, including the demonetization of silver, speculative investments in railroads, and economic dislocation resulting from the Franco-Prussian War.

OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO

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OpenAI is offering liquidity to employees through a tender offer as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The deal allows current and former staff to sell stock at the company's $852 billion valuation, alleviating near-term pressure for liquidity.

Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is AI

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Research Gold claims to offer human-written research services, but it's actually using AI-generated content and fake PhD reviewers. The company has been caught misrepresenting its staff and methodology in an attempt to sell its services to medical researchers.