HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver''s license barcodes (ryan.science)
DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com)
OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
Backups Aren''t Simple (filipovski.net)
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review (arstechnica.com)
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (www.independent.co.uk)
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (developer.nvidia.com)
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
AWS says it can''t restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (www.wsj.com)
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (mimo.xiaomi.com)
The DeepMind Institute (institute.deepmind.com)
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields (www.reuters.com)
ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market (temertymedicine.utoronto.ca)
Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (opensource.googleblog.com)
Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
A warning about ''model welfare'' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
Small Programming Tricks (will-keleher.com)
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents (openai.com)
PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don''t understand" (frvr.com)
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works (www.wired.com)
Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ''broken wide open'' after 26 years (www.tomshardware.com)
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (blog.archive.org)
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
Salesforce Global Outage (status.salesforce.com)
Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (blog.ploeh.dk)
Doing Everyone Else''s Job (yosefk.com)
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
EU chief opens door for Canada to become ''associate member'' (www.bbc.com)
How much oil-market buffer is left? (www.depletion.org)
Saving Jet Fuel (tech.marksblogg.com)
Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (security.apple.com)
Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (www.formas.ai)
The k-server conjecture is true (arxiv.org)
Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com)
Why I''m still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes (dank.systems)
The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol (rheinmetall.github.io)
Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers'' names without credit (www.reddit.com)
GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month (codyho.dev)
Chopping up books when they''re physically too big (attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com)
The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com)
Iranian banks'' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions (digiato.global)
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI 100M for hacking it (thenextweb.com)
Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster (typesafe.ai)
We got admin access to Baseten''s production GitHub in 25 minutes (www.strix.ai)
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
An Update on Wayback Machine Access (blog.archive.org)
America''s Driver''s License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Australia ''on the same page'' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance (www.reddit.com)
How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? (tintotint.eu)
Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality (dallincrump.com)
There''s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet (www.404media.co)
I''m not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I''m addicted to information (explorator.dev)
Most people prefer traditional architecture (www.worksinprogress.news)
Swift 6.4 Released (www.swift.org)
Hacking a 20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)
A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: ''LMAO'' (www.techtimes.co.uk)
Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers (www.reuters.com)
Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (withcapsule.app)
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier] (www.lawfaremedia.org)
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for 300M (techcrunch.com)
Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers'' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary (www.reutersconnect.com)
Java 27 Released (mail.openjdk.org)
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)
Let''s make quality the norm again (www.forbrukerradet.no)
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough (www.schneier.com)
CSS-Tricks in Limbo (vale.rocks)
US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons (www.bbc.com)
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (www.bbc.com)
Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding (pub.sakana.ai)
I can''t stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen) (nathannaveen.dev)
Linux from Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org)
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (www.effort.news)
Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon (spectrum.ieee.org)
Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (www.theregister.com)
Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7% (blog.cloudflare.com)
Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
People who can''t picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination (dailyneuron.com)
Charts built for Chat (dbtcharts.com)
GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a 1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review? (entelligence.ai)
Why don''t machine learning research agents overfit? (www.amazon.science)
Cops Search Flock Cameras for Reasons of ''LMAO,'' ''IDK,'' and ''Asdfg'' (www.404media.co)
Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (law.justia.com)
Pelican-bicycle alternatives (gally.net)
Dario, Please (pop.rdi.sh)
Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts (www.techtimes.co.uk)
How my e-reader lost its stripes (www.serpentine.com)
Claude is a Contrarian (medium.com)
Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama (patrickmccanna.net)
Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme (www.neobrutalism.dev)
A Beginning for Mathematics (www.daniellitt.com)
How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? (1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure) (www.thepricer.org)
OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste (www.theregister.com)
Principles for Fast Tokio Applications (dial9-rs.github.io)
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously (andonlabs.com)
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (www.apple.com)
Steam Frame starts at 1059 (store.steampowered.com)
Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (nvartolomei.com)
Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com)
For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype (erkansaka.net)
XCancel service is suspended until further notice (xcancel.com)
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture (www.theregister.com)
What a time to be alive – rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org (tenderlovemaking.com)
Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature (www.reuters.com)
New 100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore (spectrum.ieee.org)
How to Write an Effective Software Design Document (refactoringenglish.com)
OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures (github.com)
Apple''s Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows (www.macrumors.com)
A 386 PC for Your RP2350 (github.com)
XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings" (xcancel.com)
Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe (www.eurobirdportal.org)
The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (en.wikisource.org)
Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic (clashreport.com)
Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a 200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
Open-source AI and open models reading list (www.interconnects.ai)
The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)
Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
Apple''s Dimensional Drawings (developer.apple.com)
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (unsung.aresluna.org)
What are you working on? (September 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)
The contagion of fear (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
Romania soccer introduces black card to ''combat abusive behaviour'' from parents (www.nytimes.com)
OpenAI''s Sam Altman says it would be ''ill-advised'' to go public in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (www.vals.ai)
Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)
Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)
''Fingerprints'' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing (www.youtube.com)
CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (www.atomic14.com)
Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (www.theverge.com)
I''m being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don''t Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs (www.tomshardware.com)
Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ''distill'' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (www.lesswrong.com)
Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (www.investigatetv.com)
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests (techcrunch.com)
Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)
A few good ideas in programming languages (prydt.xyz)
Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every 1 it invests brings back 100 (invezz.com)
A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) (transformer-circuits.pub)
Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
After Math (terrytao.wordpress.com)
P(doom) (lucumr.pocoo.org)
JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
Will there be a 7G? (arxiv.org)
118M Queries per Second on Neki (planetscale.com)
The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
Don''t be the out of touch Kung Fu master (twitter.com)
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
Microcode in Intel''s 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (www.righto.com)
Europe''s "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For (oilprice.com)
I made a build visualizer to understand Bun''s compile times (lalitm.com)
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)
Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)
I fixed a tractor using John Deere''s self-repair service. Farmers aren''t sold (www.wired.com)
LG Says We''re Fake News [video] (www.youtube.com)
An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights (jacob.gold)
Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard (hachyderm.io)
Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
LG responds to TV spying allegations (www.theverge.com)
Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had ''ghost gun" (www.latimes.com)
The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle (tedium.co)
We''ve followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nvidia is the central bank of AI (www.economist.com)
We Must Pace the Frontier (darioamodei.com)
Usenet rewind archive search engine (www.usenet-rewind.com)
Fuck it, make it anyway (www.joelotter.com)
Project Blinkenlights (blinkenlights.de)
Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered (mullvad.net)
How to buy a good car for 1000 (abio.substack.com)
Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple''s Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement (www.dwarkesh.com)
Navier-Stokes Announcement (www.claymath.org)
Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy''s Most Critical Frequencies (www.gadgetreview.com)
Pandas Should Go Extinct (eddie.codes)
Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap) (www.minitap.ai)
Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results (www.autom.dev)
Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat (github.com)
Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization (www.science.org)
New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over" (www.statnews.com)
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems (www.rubyhack.ai)
CIA Releases President''s Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11 (www.cia.gov)
Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study (snap.berkeley.edu)
Instagram''s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm (thenextweb.com)
I spent 220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots (dayzlegame.com)
Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
GrapheneOS'' rewritten Messages app is released (github.com)
Rune is now open source (rune.build)
Room 641A (en.wikipedia.org)
Diesel prices in U.S. top 6 a gallon for first time (www.cbsnews.com)
Bodily Oddities (vester.si)
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution (capitalbnews.org)
A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Bending Spoons buying Miro for 1.355B (investors.bendingspoons.com)
Global Glacier Extinction Explorer (glacierextinction.com)
Feeling Sad about AI (artificialworlds.net)
Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he''s back in control after ouster (techcrunch.com)
Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree (quesma.com)
HuggingFace: Security.txt (huggingface.co)
Neijuan (en.wikipedia.org)
If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code (earendil.com)
Houthis ''take control'' of key island in global shipping route (www.bbc.com)
YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning (map-yue2.github.io)
AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust (terriblesoftware.org)
Can we please limit the AI news flood? (news.ycombinator.com)
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative (www.researchagenda.news)
Claude is no longer available for minors (support.claude.com)
Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light (www.iaea.org)
Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health (www.cell.com)
Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop (nasutton.notion.site)
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds (www.upsocl.com)
Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory (system76.com)
NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami (www.ntsb.gov)
Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (www.anthropic.com)
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac (auberon.xyz)
Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant (www.bbc.com)
OpenAI Agents API (developers.openai.com)
OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof (www.johndcook.com)
Creativity is the New Moat (www.inventbuild.studio)
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (musictheory.pugetsound.edu)
Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale (neki.dev)
Forgejo 16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org)
Don''t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex (costsofwar.watson.brown.edu)
NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It''s Unveiling Rock Art on Earth (gizmodo.com)
I have a theory that software drives people insane (graybeard.ing)
Neki (planetscale.com)
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math (mathstodon.xyz)
Shopify moves back to Native from React Native (shopify.engineering)
Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft (rustfoundation.org)
OpenAI keeps re-enabling the ''allow training'' setting (news.ycombinator.com)
List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)
Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou (bsky.app)
Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening (www.techradar.com)
Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (en.wikipedia.org)
Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls (www.pv-magazine.com)
Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for 998 (hugovergnes.github.io)
I think I hate the internet (strategictree.bearblog.dev)
The same nine streaming subscriptions cost 702/year more than in 2021 (honestlyranked.com)
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
Factoring RSA 260 (cognition.com)
A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare''s Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
The UN challenges five centuries of cartography (www.not-ship.com)
All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it (mathstodon.xyz)
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (twitter.com)
OpenAI might have stolen another major proof (twitter.com)
On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)
Automattic''s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence (techcrunch.com)
Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (www.gamespot.com)
Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta''s new AI agent (www.engadget.com)
South Park creators rename show ''South America'' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Matt Mullenweg put on ''leave of absence'' (www.404media.co)
Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks (arstechnica.com)
Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives (spectrum.ieee.org)
Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills (gist.github.com)
Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs (about.readthedocs.com)
Planet Labs'' open satellite feed (tech.marksblogg.com)
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max (www.apple.com)
Apple Watch Series 12 (www.apple.com)
GNU Radio in the browser (gnuradioworld.com)
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (tautology.town)
Apple Unveils iPhone Duo (www.apple.com)
Apple Introduces AirPods 5 (www.apple.com)
iPhone Duo (www.apple.com)
No Man''s Sky Cosmos (www.nomanssky.com)
GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists (prospect.org)
What will our economic future look like? (www.anthropic.com)
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch (buttondown.com)
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify (tailwindcss.com)
Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (desertant.com)