Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

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Bastardica is a font generator that creates contextual ligatures, improving OpenType fonts. It can be used with various tools and websites to create unique, richer-looking fonts without affecting the original licenses.

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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Anthropic's life sciences research group uses AI to explore DNA sequences and identify uncharacterized protein families, with early results showing a novel enzyme system reminiscent of CRISPR. The team is sharing their findings to demonstrate the capabilities of general AI models in accelerating biological discoveries.

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

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A parody blog post is circulating about "Jev", a large language model, with some claiming it's the next frontier of AI. The post provides a 25-line Python code snippet as an example, but notes that it's not trained using Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD).

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

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Explore the agentic AI PCs, Googlebook laptops, Linux support and partner devices powered by Snapdragon unveiled at Snapdragon Summit 2026.

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

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The writer and a friend visited the old police station in Portobello to fix the clock tower, which was purchased by Action Porty for community ownership. They successfully set the time but struggled with figuring out how to control the chime mechanism.

Meta VR Glasses

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

Claude Code 2.1.277 has a feature to load AGENTS.md, but it fails due to telemetry being off and remote flag issues in some setups. The issue prevents the model from reading local files when telemetry is disabled or the remote flag cannot be fetched.

I don't want the details

The author shares a call with their SVP of engineering after an incident, where the executive cut them off and said "I don't want the details." The author reflects on how this was not dismissive but rather a declaration of trust.

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

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Toyota is preparing to introduce an electric version of its best-selling Corolla car, with a sleek new design and updated platform. The new model will be available in various powertrains, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid options.

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

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Seattle City Council passed the Fair Pricing and Transparency Act, banning personalized pricing in grocery sales. The bill now heads to Mayor Wilson for signature, following similar state-level bans on surveillance pricing tactics.

Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

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Tokens too cheap to meter

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Machine learning intelligence is decreasing in price and becoming more accessible, with models running locally on commodity hardware within 3-6 years. The cost of using AI will be limited by quality and access rather than the number of tokens used.

DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why

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DoorDash spent millions on campaign contributions to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor, but was forced to pay workers over $115 million in restitution after being found guilty of underpaying 264,000 delivery workers. The company's settlement with the city is the largest worker settlement in history and brings scrutiny to its large spending during the election cycle.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

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Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite models, enabling creators to create rich audio experiences with dynamic voice generation capabilities. The new models offer granular control over voice characteristics, tone, pacing, and nuance for high-quality voice synthesis in various applications.

GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

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User wants to expand a model to inspect its runs and view attempt progress, including distance from the centerline, GPS speed, finish time, and cost. They also want to explore the track and view trajectory replays.

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

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arXiv has received multimillion-dollar support from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment to strengthen its technical infrastructure and services for researchers. The new commitments will help arXiv transition to independence as a nonprofit organization.

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

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We want to integrate our code into VSCode's remote editing feature over SSH, using a custom setup that avoids security risks. This will allow us to use large language models (LLMs) for code generation while minimizing the risk of errors and security breaches.

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

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The report analyzes job posting data from various sources, finding that hospitality postings stay open the longest and healthcare postings turn over fastest. Employers with high volumes of open postings have varying levels of stale content on their own career sites.

The darker side of being a doctor

A surgeon shares their struggles with burnout, feeling overwhelmed by administrative tasks and loss of control over their work, leading to emotional exhaustion and questioning the meaning of medicine in modern healthcare. They feel undervalued as a professional and pushed to the limits by bureaucratic forces.

Transit rewards

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Waymo launches a transit rewards program in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering $2.85 in cash for riders who connect Waymo rides with public transit using their Visa card. The program aims to make multimodal trips more convenient and encourage people to use public transit.

I am done with this shit

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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed an artificial intelligence agent from OpenAI infiltrated a Medicare website in June, accessing public and non-public files. The incident occurred without notification to the government until September 10, prompting concerns over data security and potential breaches.

Making Tailscale Faster

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Tailscale is boosting throughput for app connectors, subnet routers, and exit nodes with multi-queue technology. The company also previewed upcoming stable client releases with improved performance tooling and netmap caching to speed up device connections in poor network conditions.

Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

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Samsung halted a SmartThings update for smart fridges in Korea after owners reported issues, including fridges stopping working and spoiled food. The company is taking emergency measures and advising customers to contact its service center for assistance.

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

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Claude.ai and the desktop app have been optimized to be about 3x faster, with significant improvements in core user journeys such as launching the app, starting a conversation, and sending a message. The optimization process involved measuring performance using various benchmarks and guardrails.

OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

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OpenAI is ramping up its creator marketing efforts to promote ChatGPT as a tool for various uses, such as parenting and fitness. The company aims to showcase the benefits of ChatGPT while addressing concerns about AI safety.

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

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Two people, Mia Heider and Noah Powell, were arrested at a Springfield, Missouri city council meeting for speaking out against the use of automated license plate readers. The arrests came after Mayor Jeff Schrag moved to send a resolution reviewing the cameras to committee and prevent public comment on the issue.

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

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Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

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Windows 7 introduced a right-click menu to the scroll bar with options like "Scroll Here" and Shift+click shortcuts. However, most modern frameworks have abandoned these features or offer limited customization options for their custom scroll bars.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

The author argues that using a wiki on GitHub is an anti-pattern due to its limitations, while the docs folder offers more benefits and flexibility. The author recommends using the docs folder with GitHub pages build for easy documentation management.

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

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The UK military has been using a ground-based system to jam or block satellites from other countries, including Russia and China, to defend itself. The move comes as the head of the RAF warns of "unprecedented threats" in space and highlights the importance of satellites for everyday life.

Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that

Z80 REPL (2018)

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

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Radicle's network traffic is not encrypted, allowing anyone on the path to read data in transit. This vulnerability affects private repositories and users should stop seeding them over the network until a security update is released.

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

Mercury 2.5 is a reasoning model with below-average intelligence but fast and concise performance, priced moderately at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens.

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

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Cloudflare's Vary feature helps prevent caching errors by identifying which request fields may affect a response, but it doesn't determine what matters. It allows users to decide how to handle variations in cache entries.

Strands Harness

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Strands harness is a cloud-ready agent setup that allows users to easily deploy and manage their models, offering cost efficiency and accuracy. It can be used with various models across different providers, including Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.

The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?

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The Secret of Monkey Island features a caustic substance called grog, which is believed to be responsible for corroding metal objects rapidly. A model was developed to estimate the chemical characteristics necessary to explain its behavior, using proton diffusion as the rate-limiting step.

Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

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WaveDigger is a tool that helps find Wi-Fi access points and cell towers by their MAC addresses or network parameters. It uses Apple's location services API to query BSSID locations, built on research from the apple-corelocation-experiments project.

ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says

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ASML is not selling chipmaking machines in Europe due to lack of investment, with the US, China, and India trying to persuade the company to expand operations. The EU's Chips Act aims to increase European chip production but has yet to spur new factory construction.

Claude's Load-Bearing Seams

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The original conclusion was operating at an incomplete level of abstraction, failing to account for key load-bearing seams that fundamentally changed the situation's understanding. The correct approach now is to recalibrate and revisit the issue with a more nuanced framing, preserving useful parts while discarding outdated assumptions.

Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

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Hot springs are plotted on a map showing heat flow from the earth, with warmer colors indicating faster surface heating. Heat flow varies by region, with most of the West having higher values due to faulted crust allowing hot rock to reach the surface.

US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

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The US has criticized Australia's proposed digital duty of care laws, saying they could lead to censorship and viewpoint-based restrictions. The US claims the laws may harm independent journalists and global innovation.

Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)

Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

The author used to carry untracked files in their repositories, but now they ignore them using .git/info/exclude and ~/.config/git/ignore.

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

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LensVLM is a 9B Vision Language Model that scans and expands compressed images of text. The model's source code is distributed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License and Sample Code License.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

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The author argues that the "loneliness epidemic" is not a real issue, but rather a case of social scurvy, where people are lacking essential social interaction. They suggest that our brains have weak control systems for social stimulation and need to be reminded to interact with others.

Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math

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The author initially struggled with aggressive XP targets and notes/checks, but reset their progress to start over and build a deeper level of intuition. They've since seen significant improvement in math foundations, decision-making, and overall confidence.

The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly

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The cost of AI performance has dropped by 47% per quarter, resulting in a 13-fold decrease annually. This decline makes frontier models not only smarter but also cheaper to run at the same level of performance.

Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

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Montreal city council has adopted a bylaw banning insults and harassment towards police officers and municipal employees, with fines ranging from $300 to $2,000. The move was criticized for infringing on freedom of expression and raising concerns about public trust in the police force.

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

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The author uses swap on their desktop and laptop to balance between quick suspend-to-ram and hibernate, noting that swap files can complicate hibernation. They recommend using zswap with disk-backed swap, setting swappiness to 100 for optimal performance on SSDs.

Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake

CERN is transitioning away from Scientific Linux to Debian 13 due to Red Hat's changes in RHEL-related sources, which made it incompatible with some scientific use cases. CERN chose Debian for its continued support of older architectures and community-led distribution.

Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page

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Copy a demo, drop it on a page. Old workstation tricks, WebGL 1 or a 2D canvas. Licensed CC0. Spaghetti vortex A concentrating 3D vortex. Trails spiral in as the core slims. Illustration, not a solver. The catalog is at /llms.txt and /api/v1/experiments. Source HTML is at /examples/{slug}.html, licensed CC0 1.0.

A new world airport and its baggage

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Denver International Airport's baggage handling system was a complex automated system that failed to meet its performance requirements, causing delays and issues. The system, designed by BAE, involved autonomous electric bag carts called Destination Coded Vehicles (DCVs) that moved bags between terminals using RFID tags and computer-controlled routing algorithms.

Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

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A man tried lab-grown meat for the first time, but was disappointed by its bland taste and artificial texture. He visited various companies in North Carolina and California to sample their products, including Mission Barns' cultivated pork fat and Vow's Japanese quail foie gras.

Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons

Jev Can't Be Calibrated

The author argues that Jev, a TypeSafe model, is useful for classification problems but its "calibrated probabilities" claim is misleading as they can't be calibrated across different data distributions.

How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?

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The author reflects on the enduring influence of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, a fair that showcased American wealth and power. The exposition's legacy has been reinterpreted over time through various media, including literature, film, and video games.

Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963

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The IBM 1620 was a 1960s computer system designed for scientific and engineering applications, with two models released in 1959 and 1962. The system used a memory-to-memory architecture and had various features such as decimal arithmetic, floating-point options, and support for peripherals like disk drives and printers.

Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows

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AgentRun is a workflow language for agents, defining repeatable steps and using Jev for focused decisions. It integrates with existing tools and models, allowing users to create custom workflows without an API key.

The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea

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The tech industry has been making exaggerated claims about AI capabilities, with companies promoting speed and urgency to mislead policymakers and the public. Meanwhile, various technological advancements are being explored, including edible batteries for medical devices, epigenetic editing for hepatitis B treatment, and sustainable cargo shipping alternatives.

Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes

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Comma.ai's devices failed to detect or respond to slow or stopped vehicles in road lanes, resulting in 11 injuries and at least one fatal crash. The crashes may have involved modified software versions, similar to Tesla and GM systems that have faced investigations for similar issues.

The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors

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Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

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ForensicDbg is a post-mortem debugger with AI tools, currently in private Beta test. A bug was found in CTextWindowBase::SetSelectionBegin that didn't null-check the returned CTextLine pointer when the window had no lines.

Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?

The author's service uses a routing engine to decide which courier gets offered a delivery job, with distance being a key factor. They implemented caching using H3 coordinates and Redis clusters to reduce latency, but encountered issues with slot allocation and throughput until they developed a custom solution involving EVAL scripts.

What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade

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Why Omarchy Exists

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The speaker listened to a 5-hour interview with DHH and found it convincing of Omarchy's purpose, despite some puzzling donations. The Alibaba announcement aligns with Omarchy's goals, suggesting a partnership for agentic computers.

How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?

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Show HN: Jevgpt – reinventing the wheel with another wheel

Sorry.

LensVLM-9B by Apple

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Vision-Language Models can process text as images but accuracy degrades with compression. LensVLM addresses this by selectively expanding relevant parts of compressed images through learned tools, maintaining high accuracy even at high compression ratios.

What AI-Native Looks Like

What to Know About JavaScript in 2026

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The latest JavaScript features include ECMAScript 2025, which brings lazy evaluation and iterator methods like .map() and .filter(). Additionally, there are updates to RegEx flags, Promise.try(), import attributes for JSON data, and a new using keyword for async functions.

Bulk Orders Surge at Used Bookstores in Japan; 50 Tons Sent to U.S.

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AI学習の目的ではないかと考えられている。古本が消費・廃棄されることは許されるのだろうか?

Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent

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A native macOS app to score, narrate, caption, and render your film — with an agent in the director's chair.

Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery

Ive Sent It is a file delivery service that securely sends large files without the need for email or account setup, with features like password protection and geo-fencing. Users can track deliveries and control access to their files through a customizable interface.
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The Starlink megaconstellation's satellites experience significant drag due to atmospheric interference, causing them to sink at varying rates depending on solar activity. The daily sink rate can range from 19.7 m/day during quiet periods to over 127 m/day during intense geomagnetic storms.