ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room

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ZuckOff is an app that detects nearby camera glasses via Bluetooth, listing brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley. The app supports independent development and works with privacy groups to improve detection capabilities.

Attention is all you have

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The Tetris effect shows how focused attention shapes thoughts, but modern technology often takes control of what we see and hear. Intentional internet browsing is still available, requiring a slower pace to find quality content.

What Sun got wrong

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The Oxide team is gathering in Emeryville for their annual meetup, wearing t-shirts that pay homage to past computer companies like Sun. The nostalgia for Sun has sparked a discussion about what the company got right and wrong, with lessons learned from both serving as inspiration and warning for Oxide's own approach.

Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

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Disney+ updated its Subscriber Agreement to allow ads in all subscription tiers, including those marketed as "no ads" or "ad-free". This change was made via an update to the service's terms & conditions, binding existing subscribers.

Grok 4.7

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Grok 4.7 is a highly capable model for coding and knowledge work, offering improved performance on difficult tasks and enhanced safeguards. It is competitively priced at $2 per million input tokens and available through various platforms.

Xiaomi MiMo v2.6

Introducing the MiMo-V2.6 series: frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public.

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

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Kev is a family of small decision models built on Qwen3.5, with pretrained weights or trainable from scratch, and runs on CUDA and Apple Silicon. The API matches TypeSafe's System One, allowing for Python SDK integration.

ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

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A Polish developer created ZuckOff, a Bluetooth detection app that identifies nearby Meta smart glasses. The app can detect the presence of these glasses but not who is wearing them or if they are recording.

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

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After Anthropic made Fable 5 permanently available in subscription plans, I noticed a large drop in performance. The model felt dumber, and I couldn't explain why. Measured five different ways, August delivered dramatically fewer thinking tokens than July.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

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The mini-AGI is a continually learning byte-level language model that trains on a single 8 GB VRAM GPU, storing its weights as ordinary files on disk. It reads from a stream of characters and grows new capacity while training, pruning what's not needed.

Heretic removes restrictions from language models

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Take control of the most important technology of our time Heretic removes restrictions from language models, making sure they always follow your instructions

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

You can turn off Apple Intelligence features like Siri AI and summarization on your Mac by going to System Settings, clicking the relevant options. This will disable these features but may require a future fee for expanded access.

Jev-Leftpad

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The code uses leftPad from 'jev-leftpad' to add spaces before a string, and it doesn't require an API call.

M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

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The author has been testing the M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM and found it to be a powerful machine for running local AI agents, outperforming their previous setup with the M3 Ultra. The M5 Ultra's unified memory architecture and faster GPU make it ideal for modern agentic coding workflows.

Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

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macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

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US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut

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Python Workers are now generally available

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Cloudflare Workers now supports Python as a first-class language, allowing developers to run Python applications in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. This enables seamless integration with existing Python packages and frameworks.

Transformers Explained Visually

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Transformer is a neural network architecture that has revolutionized AI, used in text-generative models like GPT and Llama, and applied to various domains such as audio generation and image recognition. It operates on next-token prediction, using self-attention mechanism to process entire sequences and capture long-range dependencies.

I don't want to read what you didn't write

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The author expresses frustration with the increasing use of AI to generate writing, citing its inability to convey nuance and context. They argue that this approach can lead to unreadable documents and a loss of human connection in communication.

Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death

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A California arbitrator has ordered Uber and driver Vu Tran to pay $40 million each in damages after Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was killed on a freeway after being left at an off-ramp by Tran following an argument. The award also found Uber vicariously liable for Tran's negligence as a common carrier.

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'

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Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

You disabled Siri in Settings and Screen Time, but a related process remained. Many users have reported similar issues with macOS 27, suggesting it's not possible to fully turn off all Siri-related services.

Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com

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Don't Use AI to Write

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The author suggests using AI tools like Claude, Codex/ChatGPT, and Gemini for coding, research, and data analysis but not for writing. Writing forces deep thinking about a problem before communicating it to readers.

Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain

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A Barcelona theatre was banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own on Facebook and Instagram due to its "social topics". The ban was lifted after the theatre removed key words, but it highlighted concerns about bias and manipulation in social media.

Good people refuse to do bad things

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic due to concerns about the company's rush to develop self-improving superintelligence, which he believes could harm humanity. He joins Frances Haugen in speaking out against companies prioritizing profits over safety and responsibility.

Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

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The DRUGS Act (‘Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act, H.R. 6352 & S.3399) is legislation that would rob you and millions of Americans of daily medications that keep them healthy and alive. Worse yet, the legislation is backed by Big Pharma front groups.

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

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The author optimized Linear's Continuous Integration (CI) process, reducing PR wait time and runner time by 34% and 52%, respectively. These changes improved the overall performance of CI, allowing for faster code shipping and reduced infrastructure costs.

Winning the visa lottery

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Researchers found that low-skill immigrant workers complement native labor, but their impact on US employment is zero or positive. High-skill immigrants boost revenue and investment, while low-skill immigrants fill seasonal jobs without reducing American employment.

Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

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A remote access implant was found hidden in an npm package, mathjs, which copies the popular library. The malicious code decrypts a payload and runs it when a specific equation is solved with the library.

Apple Mac mini review

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The new Mac mini features a powerful M6 chip with 12 CPU cores, including two "Super" cores, and improved GPU performance. However, its starting price of $899 is significantly higher than the previous model's $599 price tag.

Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

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The author argues that the future of research is not about having the most resources, but rather about using limited resources to create something valuable. Academia will experience a renaissance due to this shift in approach.

Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser

Apple's Copland OS was cancelled and replaced by Mac OS X, but its last build is now available in emulation. The 11 patches to unlock it are on a forked branch for wasm compatibility.

A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix

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A restored PDP-11/83 computer system features a Mentec M11 processor, DEC and Emulex controllers, and classic storage devices. It runs 2.11BSD UNIX with networking capabilities and a small HTTP server.

HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances

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Peter Bloom's nonprofit Rhizomatica builds shortwave radios with better data rates and encryption, connecting remote communities worldwide. Their open-sourced HERMES system uses the ionosphere for long-distance communication and can send various files over high-frequency radio waves.

The Claude Delusion

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The author discusses how becoming an atheist changes one's perception of sunsets, shifting from seeing them as intentional creations to viewing them as empty yet beautiful. This perspective is contrasted with the way people perceive AI-generated content, which lacks intentionality and can be seen as eerie or hallucinatory.

Sublime Text Build 4213

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The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence aims to advise AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research, promoting transparency and accountability. The group seeks input from the mathematical community to inform recommendations for OpenAI's release of significant results in mathematics produced by its internal model.

Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data

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The Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million for violating GDPR rules on processing location data. The commission ordered Google to bring its practices into compliance within 6 months.

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

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OpenAI has developed a new internal model that resolved over 100 open math problems, sparking discussions on responsible deployment and collaboration with the math community. An independent advisory group of mathematicians will review and communicate emerging results to ensure academic standards are met.

Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018)

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The author explains why backpropagation, an algorithm for computing the gradient of a neural network, must go backwards. They show that by using the multivariable chain rule and message passing between nodes, they can compute derivatives in linear time with respect to the number of nodes.

Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing

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Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees

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Seattle City Council passed a ban on rental "junk fees" and requires clear upfront pricing for tenants. The measure aims to make the city's rental market more transparent and affordable, with violators facing triple damages in court.

Wall Street is growing skeptical of the data center boom

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Help 404 Media Find Out How Your Local Police Are Surveiling You

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Cities are switching from Flock to Axon's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras, raising concerns about data sharing and usage. Residents can request public records on Axon's activity logs to learn more about police use of these cameras.

How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)

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Traffic management in dense urban areas is a complex problem with conflicting goals and challenges, requiring careful analysis of space, cost, approach speed, cycle time, sight distance, types and volumes of traffic. Traffic signals are a common solution to control the right-of-way at intersections.

Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes

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2023-12: A personal AI's long-term memory system was first conceptualized, focusing on raw conversation logs and timestamps.

Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell

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The Functional Core, Imperative Shell architecture divides code into two parts: a deterministic core handling business logic and an imperative shell dealing with external dependencies. This separation makes the core amenable to testing due to its determinism.

Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser

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Spymarks, Not Watermarks

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Google's SynthID embeds secret signals into images, audio, and video to track users without consent. This technology is part of a growing trend of "spymarks" that can be used to monitor and control individuals' online activities.

In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization

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The author is working on composing self-stabilizing systems using the rely-guarantee approach, inspired by a 2017 control theory paper. They have developed a parametrized model of their retry storm system and applied the small gain theorem to analyze stability. However, they found that the memoryless view of components used in the paper limits its applicability to their example.

We write code by hand

A writer and developer claims that natural intelligence is not used in software development, but rather handcrafted code. He partners with businesses to create human-touched applications outside of hype cycles.

Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents

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Foremerge is an open-source coordination protocol for coding agents, allowing isolated worktrees to share intent and semantic claims. It detects conflicts and suggests coordinating on stable abstractions like PaymentProvider.

Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?

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The study evaluated three AI policies on a set of five tasks, including actions that could cause harm to humans. The policies were Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, and Ai2's MolmoAct2, each tested 20 times per task.

In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches

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Yet *another* record week for AI development of Linux. Last week there were 1,634 code submissions to the Linux Kernel which were written by AI. So far, in September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches.

Show HN: A website that tracks US food prices every day

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Food prices today for onions, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, avocados and strawberries: USDA wholesale and shipping point quotes with price charts, change against a year earlier, grocery ad prices by region and daily updates. Latest report 18 Sep 2026.

Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support

Gravity Linux for M4 Mac mini is released as an early alpha, supporting DCP and GPU with KDE and Wayland. It's intended for developers, has known issues but works on most features.

First Shader from Zero in Godot 4

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A shader is a program that runs directly on the computer's graphics card, controlling how 3D models, particles, and other elements are drawn to the screen. In this guide, we will learn how to write shaders in Godot 4 by creating a portal effect from scratch, including animating it with breathing movements and adding details using textures.

Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system

TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging

TXR is a pragmatic, convenient tool for text processing and data extraction with dual personalities: pattern matching and data-processing languages. It's relatively new, started in 2009, and has a large reference manual due to its complexity.

Grok 4.7 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

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Grok 4.7 (xhigh) is a reasonably priced model with high intelligence, but slow and verbose, scoring 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens, making it moderately priced compared to other models in its class.