There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

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The US government has banned access to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models due to national security concerns, citing a potential method of bypassing the models. This move has sparked concerns about government regulation of AI and the potential restriction of strong language models for public use.

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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The US government has issued a directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to a potential jailbreak method, citing national security concerns. Anthropic is complying with the directive but disagrees with the decision, stating it's a misunderstanding and is working to restore access as soon as possible.

Electric motors with no rare earths

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Renault Group is a pioneer in electric motors without magnets, using electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM) technology. Their range includes 5A, 5AL, 6A, 6AM, and 6AK motors with outputs from 57 to 160 kW.

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

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User tested Anthropic model with a personal game idea, Shepherd's Dog, and it successfully generated a 2,319 line game in one shot. The model's output was a fun and accurate representation of the user's idea.

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have developed a CRISPR-based approach to selectively destroy cancer cells with a specific mutation in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. This method, called RNA-triggered chromatin shredding, can target "undruggable" cancers and potentially open up new targets for cancer therapy.

Open source AI must win

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The public risks losing operational freedom if AI access depends on closed institutions and shifting terms. America must maintain freedom to run, inspect, and modify AI infrastructure with global open standards.

On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles

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The CPU's performance is affected by various factors such as parasitic capacitances, cache levels, and branch prediction, which can impact the execution time of operations. The main memory access latency is around 200-300 CPU cycles, while accessing persistent storage can take tens of thousands to millions of CPU cycles.

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

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Depthfirst's autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, including 8 with assigned CVEs, using a specialized security agent that analyzes code and generates concrete, reproducible PoC inputs. The agent found a heap buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AV1 RTP depacketizer that can be triggered by a single 183-byte packet, allowing an attacker to redirect execution and ...

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

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A daily hole of mini golf. Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific.

The Future of wasi-gfx and wasi:webgpu

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WASI graphics interfaces are being split into two namespaces: wasi:webgpu remains in WASI for stability, while wasi:surface and wasi:frame-buffer move to wasi-gfx for faster iteration. wasi-gfx will be a user-space library for graphics, allowing for experimentation with new UI interfaces.

The computer science degree isn’t dead

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Recent engineering graduates face a 6.1% unemployment rate, but underemployment is low at below 20%. Engineers rank among the top fields for overall labor market outcomes despite a mismatch between job postings and actual hiring.

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

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User upgraded Gemma 4 to MTP, achieving 72.2 tokens/second on an Apple M1 Max. MTP draft model improved performance by 24% with optimal settings found to be 3 draft tokens.

Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering

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EZRA is a persistent task queue backed by SQLite and powered by Erlang/OTP runtime, allowing services and workers to run in any language with a Redis client. It ensures tasks are never silently lost and can be retried with a visibility timeout.

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

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Generate dashboards and analysis in BitBoard using AI chat or coding agents to create connected assets. Store connections, queries, and code for reproducible analysis and collaborate with teams in the browser.

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

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Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift to improve security and performance, achieving a 13% speed increase and exact compatibility with the C implementation. The Swift interpreter's design and optimizations, such as using noncopyable structures and Span, demonstrate the language's ability to balance safety, ergonomics, and performance, making it suitable ...

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

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Malware developers added nuclear and biological text to spyware to evade AI security scanners. This highlights the need for balance between safety and functionality in AI models.
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The House passed H.R. 6028, a bill that would change the US Copyright Office's structure and make it more political. The bill would transfer power from the Library of Congress to the Register of Copyrights, a presidential appointee.

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine

Tectonic is a tool that converts TeX files into PDF files with precision typography and automatic equation handling. It's a self-contained library that can be embedded in other applications and is licensed under the MIT License.

Automating Myself Out of Development

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I want to start by saying that I’m neither an AI-fanatic, nor an AI-doomer and you can read about my conflicted relationships with it in my previous article. What I really like, is creating something and I’ve come to terms with the fact that it’s impossible to create anything, before making a mess first. And as any tool, AI-assisted development, and Claude Code in particular require usage to ...

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

User trying to generate decent-looking programs with AI, found a "Qt style" trick that works for them, and wants feedback on its effectiveness and potential for other styles. They've successfully translated personal software to "Qt style" with AI tools like Codex.

TycoonLE: A Jax reinforcement learning environment for long-horizon planning

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TycoonLE is a reinforcement learning environment for long-horizon planning in a simulated logistics economy. It allows agents to allocate capital, build routes, and manage debt while optimizing delayed returns.

A key remapping daemon for Linux

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keyd is a system-wide daemon that remaps keys using kernel level input primitives, providing a flexible solution for key remapping. It supports various display servers, including X11, sway, and gnome, and has a simple config format.
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A generic dynamic array in C that stores no capacity and needs no struct

SkillSpector

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Skillspector is a security scanner for AI agent skills that detects vulnerabilities and malicious patterns before installation. It scans skills for 64 vulnerability patterns across 16 categories and provides a risk score, severity, and recommendations.

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

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Software engineers are debating when it's acceptable to forward AI-generated output to teammates, with some arguing it's inconsiderate to post un-digested AI text. Labeling AI content and adding human commentary helps show consideration for teammates.

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

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A freelance translator in Ottawa prioritizes work over gym classes due to tight deadlines. She explains to a Director General that AI translation tools like ChatGPT are not a replacement for human translators, requiring constant coaching and double-checking.

Adaptive PDFs

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A PDF can store both visual and structured data. By using a specific property in the PDF spec, a document can be created that renders visually the same but extracts clean markdown text when read by machines.

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

The user successfully booted a UEFI HTTP(S) setup using Qemu and OVMF, but encountered issues with certificate validation due to a security level mismatch. The problem was resolved by either upgrading the server's TLS certificate or patching the OVMF firmware to match the default security level.