OpenAI – How to delete your account

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To delete your OpenAI account, submit a request through the Privacy Portal or within ChatGPT directly, and confirm by typing your account email and 'DELETE'.

Don't trust AI agents

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NanoClaw uses container isolation to ensure AI agents are untrusted and can't access each other's data. Its architecture contains the damage when agents misbehave, providing hermetic security through mount restrictions and filesystem isolation.

We Will Not Be Divided

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Google and OpenAI employees can sign a letter anonymously or publicly, with verified signatures displayed. The letter aims to find common ground on AI misuse, with signatures manually reviewed by one person for authenticity.

Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs

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Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 quantization outperforms leading methods, preserving accuracy in LLMs. It now supports all models, including non-MoEs, with custom-tailored quantization schemes.

Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash

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SplatHash encodes images into 16 bytes and decodes them into 32x32 previews in 0.067 ms. It optimizes for decoding, running once at upload and every page load.

Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Upload a scientific PDF and get back a shareable, interactive web page that explains it in plain language.

Customer Update on Simplenote

Simplenote Forums Support Customer Update on Simplenote Customer Update on Simplenote staff-lynn · Staff · September 5, 2025 at 6:09 pm Copy link Add topic to favorites We appreciate your continued use of Simplenote and the support of our community over the years. Simplenote is no longer in active development, and while the app remains available, only…

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

The history of software development shows a pattern of tools promising to simplify creation and eliminate the need for programmers, but ultimately creating new categories of work and demand for specialized developers. Despite the hype, the fundamental challenge of translating human intent into correct, efficient, and maintainable software remains unchanged, and human skills such as ...

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

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A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

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California requires operating system providers to implement age verification for users. This law, Assembly Bill No. 1043, aims to provide a signal regarding a user's age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.

More Cows, More Wives

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Marriage customs vary widely across cultures, with some societies practicing monogamy, polygyny, or other forms of marriage, often driven by factors such as resource management, wealth, and social status. The evolution of marriage has been shaped by factors like farming, inequality, and changes in wealth and inheritance, leading to diverse forms of marriage and relationships around the world.

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

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OpenAI raises funds in a new round, partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure development. The company plans to use the funds to scale AI infrastructure and meet growing demand.

US and Israel launch strikes on Iran, as Trump says ‘massive’ campaign underway

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US and Israel launched a massive military campaign in Iran targeting its ballistic missiles and missile launchers. The attack follows weeks of US-Iran negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and threats from President Trump.

The Future of AI

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The speaker argues that we are raising a new species with AI, which lacks millions of years of evolution and biological hardware for empathy, and therefore we need to install morality in AI from scratch, but this is a difficult task that may be mathematically impossible. The speaker believes that the real problem is not AI itself, but rather our own human limitations, such as our inability to ...

Cash issuing terminals

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The United States is shifting away from cash and towards electronic payments, with cards and other forms of digital transactions dominating everyday commerce. The history of ATMs began with token-based machines in the 1960s, which evolved into modern online ATMs in the 1970s with the introduction of IBM's System/360 and the 2984 Cash Issuing Terminal.

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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The challenge is to build the smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers with >= 99% accuracy using a held-out 10K test set, with constraints on architecture, training, and inference. The current smallest model has 36 parameters, achieved using hand-coded weights and ALiBi compression with a 2-layer decoder.

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

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Croatia is officially free of landmines after a 31-year effort that cost 208 lives and 1.2 billion euros. The country has removed 107,000 mines and 407,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance.

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Anthropic's AI model Claude may be restricted in US military contracts due to a supply chain risk designation by the Department of War. This action does not affect individual customers or commercial contracts, only Department of War contractors.

Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment

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The user is exploring Bootc and OSTree for managing Linux systems, finding them to be a modern and efficient solution for deployment and updates. They successfully deployed Fedora Silverblue on a server using Bootc and OSTree, and set up a CI/CD pipeline to automate updates and ensure consistency between the image and the deployed system.

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

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The Web streams standard has fundamental usability and performance issues that cannot be fixed with incremental improvements, including locking models, BYOB reads, backpressure, and promise-heavy design, which add complexity and overhead. Implementers have resorted to non-standard internal optimizations to achieve acceptable performance, leading to fragmentation, inconsistent behavior, and a ...

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer

The user created a fuzzer to test an optimizer's correctness by generating random programs and checking for heap consistency between optimized and un-optimized versions. The fuzzer revealed an aliasing problem in the optimizer when its main load-bearing pillar of correctness was commented out.

Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself

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NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a revised Artemis moon program plan, adding a 2027 test flight to lay groundwork for lunar landings. The revised plan aims to accelerate launches and reduce risk by testing technologies in low-Earth orbit before attempting moon landings.

SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf]

The SHELL allows procedures to be called with variable arguments, storing BCD strings and modifier values. It looks for meta-arguments and takes action on the CUROPTIONS segment, handling (MORE) requests.

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation

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A Chinese influence operation used ChatGPT to intimidate dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials and spreading false information. OpenAI banned the user after discovering the activity, which involved hundreds of operators and thousands of fake online accounts.

Package Managers à la Carte: a formal model of dependency resolution

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Researchers propose Package Calculus, a unified formalism for dependency resolution across diverse package managers, enabling translation and resolution across ecosystems. This formalism models real-world package managers' diversity and addresses fragmentation in multilingual projects.

Better Activation Functions for NNUE

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Inspired by the reading I did for my post on secret GLUs in NNUE, I decided to experiment with changing the activation functions used in Viridithas's NNUE. This has gone excellently. Viridithas 19's NNUE has four layers. L₀ is activated with pairwise-multiplied clipped ReLUAs mentioned in the previous post, this is a GLU variant. ↩, L₁ and L₂ with squared clipped ReLU, and L₃ with the ...

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

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As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]: * California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027. * Colorado residents may no longer u...

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive

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Kyber is hiring Enterprise Account Executives to drive revenue growth and scale its AI-native document platform for enterprises. The ideal candidate has an Olympic work ethic, outstanding communication skills, and a proven track record of meeting quotas.

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading

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OpenAI has fired an employee following an investigation into their activity on prediction market platforms including Polymarket, WIRED has learned. OpenAI CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, disclosed the termination in an internal message to employees earlier this year. The employee, she said, “used confidential OpenAI information in connection with external prediction markets (e.g. ...