EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

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Most EBP data is updated daily, but some portals submit data at longer intervals, causing blank areas in recent weeks. Incomplete weeks may not be fully reflected until the next update cycle.

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Claude Fable 5.1 solved Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, a centuries-old cryptogram, using a simple rule based on the book itself and its accompanying poem. The solution was surprisingly straightforward in hindsight, demonstrating that models can solve historical mysteries with persistence and creative analysis.

A 386 PC for Your RP2350

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The Frank-386 emulator is designed for RP Pico 2 boards with VGA/HDMI output, SD card storage, and keyboard input. It emulates an i386 PC with peripherals like the 8259 PIC and sound devices.

Who Aligns the Aligners?

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Dario Amodei proposes a global AI regulation framework to slow down the development of AI, but critics argue that this could lead to government control and censorship. The proposal has raised concerns about First Amendment rights in the US.

Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely

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Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band

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A native Swift app using neural band for gesture-based control of macOS features. Setup involves pairing a neural band, enabling accessibility, and customizing gestures via the menu bar.

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

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The three-body problem has thousands of periodic orbits, each with its own page on a map. These orbits can be rated and ranked in battles, forming families or constellations that display their unique characteristics.
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OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures

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This repository provides hand-written PyTorch implementations of modern open-source LLM architectures from scratch. It aims to clarify and learn the architectural choices behind these models, prioritizing readability over performance.

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

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Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

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The user has legitimate concerns about zero-knowledge proofs, but disagrees with the application of this technology. Signal's design inherently protects user anonymity and safety through its distrustful client-server model.

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

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Download precise dimensional drawings and technical specifications for Apple devices to ensure your accessory designs meet the exact requirements.

The case against JPEG XL

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The author believes JPEG XL is not suitable for the web due to its complexity, lack of support for progressive decoding and deblocking loop filtering, and potential performance issues. The author thinks AVIF is a better fit for the web platform.

Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports

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ScreenSize.net sessions show desktops at 1920x920 pixels, mobiles at 400px, and most devices have a pixel ratio of 1.0. The site measures browser sessions without storing IP addresses or user data, honoring global privacy controls.

HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory

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HP's ZGX Fury AI station is now available for order, featuring NVIDIA's DGX Station design with a custom-built GB300 superchip. The system offers up to 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute and is designed as a shared inference box for departments or branch offices.

Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

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Apple's new iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate release introduces a deeper integration of third-party AI models with Siri, allowing for more advanced capabilities. This move is seen as a response to the EU's Digital Markets Act, which requires Apple to give third parties effective access to its hardware and software features.

Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls

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Drawably generates hand-drawn UI elements with seeded randomness, offering variants like outline and scribble. It includes state management for async actions and a custom pen font, with minimal dependencies and a focus on accessibility.

The Nature of Dance

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The writer reflects on their love of dance, exploring the connection between physical and mental aspects, including proprioception and emotional openness. They ponder how to teach students with varying levels of proficiency and consider the role of cognitive biases in understanding partner dancing.

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

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Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, is on paid leave after the board voted to remove him. He claims to be back in control and has been posting on company Slack despite being officially removed.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

The author is working on various projects, including AI modeling for 3D printing and an Anki extension that generates text, speech, and images. They are also building a website to discover first names and a game project called Vestiges.

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

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The author discusses benchmarks for computer performance, AI model evaluations, and car tire performance. They analyze the napkin math repository and find issues with the code used to estimate memory latency and disk read throughput.

Julia 1.13 highlights

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Julia version 1.13 has been released with several improvements, including faster precompilation times and enhanced code introspection macros. The new release also includes changes to the hash function, object loading in sysimage and package images, and improved garbage collection performance.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

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The author reported a deceptive ad on YouTube that mimicked an iOS system alert, but Google's review process approved it twice despite AI detecting the violation. Google has access to AI tools to detect such ads, yet failed to use them effectively in this case.

A Vacuum Diode for Make: Magazine

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The author built a diode tube from scratch, using the pinch method to create a vacuum seal and documenting the process for Make: Magazine. The finished tube was successfully evacuated and tested, producing a beautiful glow of Tungsten light.

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

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The author attended a week of events in Leipzig, Germany, focusing on industrial culture and shared their story about East German botanists who successfully grew coffee in Vietnam after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They highlighted the complexities of this history and its relevance to understanding today's world.

D-Matrix Raptor 3D-DRAM Accelerator for Generative Inference at Hot Chips 2026

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d-Matrix's Raptor 3D-DRAM accelerator targets high bandwidth and capacity for AI inference, offering 20x more bandwidth per mm² than HBM4. It addresses memory bottlenecks in decode phases with innovative 3D stacking and efficient data movement.

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison's NTP server was flooded with hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second from Netgear routers, causing operational problems. The flood was caused by a design flaw in the Netgear products' SNTP client implementation, which hardcoded a source port number and allowed for excessive traffic to be sent to the university's time server.

Pkgsrc Is Cool (2022)

The author discovered pkgsrc, a package manager that supports building packages from source on various Unix-like operating systems. They found it useful for installing software locally in their home directory and building packages offline using a custom distfile mirror.

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

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Nike, the sportswear company named after the Greek goddess of victory, is losing its spot in the top 100 U.S. companies for the first time in nearly two decades due to a significant decline in market value. The company's market cap has dropped by over $200 billion since its peak in 2021, and it will exit the S&P 100 on September 21.