GPT-6 Sol and Luna

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OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna, more cost-efficient models that offer advanced AI capabilities. These models are designed to be used at different scales, rhythms, and budgets, with improved performance in areas such as coding, computer use, and alignment.

Claude Opus 5.5

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Claude Opus 5.5 has been released with significant improvements in performance, safety, and efficiency, surpassing previous models like Opus 5 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on various benchmarks and tests.

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

A team led by Carter Leffer used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to break a 75-year-old Enigma message, MVUEH, which had resisted solution since 2005. The AI achieved this feat on its own after analyzing the message and using a crib technique, revealing the correct key and plaintext.

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

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An unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary code on a WordPress site by manipulating the page-template resolution, potentially leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE). The vulnerability affects certain themes and PHP versions.

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

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Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) is a proprietary model that scores 58 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and has a context window of 1M tokens.

There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] There's a high chance of devices being sold with it preinstalled in 2027 but probably not for the initial launch.

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

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TypeSafe's Jev has taken the AI world by storm with its fast and accurate classification capabilities, but OpenAI may replicate it soon. TypeSafe's training data and reinforcement learning process are their main moat to protect themselves from being copied.

16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)

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A 40-year-old poem discusses the frustrations of early personal computing, listing incompatible systems and echoing a lifelong disgust with proprietary technology. The poem's switch to a turkey buzzard's mating ritual serves as a commentary on the timeless nature of human experience amidst technological chaos.

Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent

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Coverage Cat is a licensed insurance brokerage that compares home, auto, and renters coverage with real broker support. It's available in 5 states and aims to provide honest price ranges through AI-guided intake.

Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

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The author experimented with using large language models to write faster Rust code, achieving 2-32x speedups over state-of-the-art approaches. They developed a set of constraints and prompts to guide the model's optimization process.

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

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iOS users are upset about Apple inserting ads for its own products into the Settings app, with no clear way to disable them. Many have taken to social media and Reddit to express their frustration over the persistent notifications.

Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why

ai·rete·rag pairs a Rete rule engine with retrieval-augmented generation: rules decide the what, auditable and repeatable; retrieval explains the why, grounded in your own documents.

George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts

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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD Architects, opened in Los Angeles with a diverse collection of 1,300 objects showcasing humanity's stories and artists. The museum features exhibits on Star Wars, comics, and other narrative art forms in a unique blend of architecture and design.

Solitaire Alone Together

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Play solitaire with the rest of the internet.

Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support

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Install Drop Run agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions to create isolated environments for running programs, containing damage within a sandbox. This setup prevents malicious programs from accessing the host kernel and reduces potential exploits.

Can gzip be a language model?

A compressor like gzip can be used for language modeling without neural networks by scoring continuations based on their compressed length. Gzip's DEFLATE algorithm uses a sliding window to find matches and compresses them, allowing it to predict the next bytes in a text prompt.

One Minute Park

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One Minute Park is a project where users record 60-second videos of park scenes from around the world. The project aims to fill in all minutes of a day with user-submitted content and has received recognition for its innovative approach.

AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

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The author has discovered a bug in AMD's RDRAND and RDSEED instructions, which can't generate the number 0 at a given size.

Truman World

This release uses the existing planner. JEV fast-action selection and the candidate library are not enabled; only recorded actions are shown below.

Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor

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The InstinctFlash project supports RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 GPUs with Python/WebSocket serving, achieving up to 33.78x speedup in LingBot-VA @2V/4A.

Training a model to identify AI-generated web content from structure alone

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A study shows structural analysis can identify AI-generated text with high accuracy, even after rewording. The method uses 214 features to detect AI content across multiple models and domains, outperforming word-level detectors.

Relativistic raytracing

Relativistic raytracing - h1m3 - Powered by Obsidian Publish.

The Economics of Open-Weight Inference

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This paper challenges the common assumption that newer NVIDIA GPU generations render older ones obsolete by examining their economic usefulness. Older GPUs can remain competitive and retain a multi-year earning life if they serve suitable workloads competitively.

MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco

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The user attended Muni Heritage Weekend 2026 in San Francisco, capturing tram photos with a line scan camera. They shared interesting facts about historic trams like Muni No. 1 and Milan tram, despite some photo failures due to technical issues or background distractions.

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

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The user discovered internal files and documentation of Meta's Muse AI system, including its Linux environment, skills, and memory storage. The findings raised concerns about potential security risks due to the exposure of sensitive material through ordinary conversations and connected export destinations.

Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents

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The EFF and ACLU joined forces with other organizations to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violates the First Amendment right to record law enforcement. The restriction, which was later rescinded, aimed to ban drones from recording immigration agents and hinder accountability for their actions.

Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day

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Meta's AI assistant Muse has a zero-day vulnerability allowing local apps and terminal commands to control the agent, raising serious doubts about its security. Amazon has blocked Muse from its site amid concerns over user data privacy and security after a macOS security expert discovered the flaw.

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

I said no and Apple said yes

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The author discovered a feature in macOS 15.3 that phoned home with personal data and was unable to turn it off, highlighting the lack of consent in AI technology. The author expresses frustration with Apple's handling of their concerns and criticizes the AI industry for prioritizing profit over user privacy.

MiMo v2.6

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