Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

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Flock Safety's founder, Garrett Langley, advocates for widespread surveillance to combat crime, but critics argue this comes at the cost of individual privacy. The company's cameras have been linked to police abuse and mass surveillance.

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

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Desert Ant Labs launches a European frontier AI lab building on-device intelligence models for audio, vision, and text. The first 18 models are live today, offering fast and cost-free inference for various tasks.

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Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch

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Lotus Notes was a pioneering collaboration tool that introduced features like encryption, rich text formatting, and attachments before MIME standards. It allowed users to build custom applications and share knowledge in synced databases.

Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue

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Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

DSeek plans to release V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026, which surpasses V4 Pro in performance and cost. The pricing for the Flash series will change at launch with off-peak rates of $0.003-$0.6 per unit and peak-hour prices double that amount.

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

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Mr. Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Company for damages due to personal injuries and loss of business income caused by defective products, including a rocket sled, rocket skates, explosives, and spring-powered shoes.

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor

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Roame is hiring a Content Editor to build and run the machine that produces video content for their platform, focusing on speed, systems, and audience growth. The ideal candidate has strong editing skills, AI fluency, and experience with short-form content creation.
A mathematician collaborated with a Large Language Model (LLM) to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but OpenAI claims to have solved it first. The LLM was used to push the collaboration's work from rough forcing to smooth forcing and incompressible Euler equations.

Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch

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The author spent 8 months designing and building a wall lamp from scratch, despite having no prior experience in woodworking or LED strips. The final result is a sleek and functional lamp with individually controllable LEDs that can illuminate the room or serve as a reading light.

Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes

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An interactive 3D anatomy explorer is built with React, Three.js, and shadcn/ui. It features 2,234 meshes of the adult male reference body parts and supports exploration of 15 anatomical systems and search for named concepts.

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

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How to build a printer

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The author built a custom firmware for the Xteink e-ink display to enable wireless printing from their MacBook using the Internet Printing Protocol. They successfully implemented this feature, allowing them to print documents directly onto the device's screen.

Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language

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A teaching IDE based on SMoL allows stepping through S-expression programs with visual debugging and variable annotations. It includes in-browser git management and is open for feedback and improvements.

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

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Scientists have developed the AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting effects of single nucleotide variants in the human genome. The Atlas helps researchers quickly prioritize promising research areas by providing an easy-to-use score for coding and non-coding regions.

Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time

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Teenagers are reading at the lowest levels this century, with scores declining in reading, mathematics and science. Digital distraction is linked to lower science scores and excessive smartphone use can hinder learning.

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have developed a method to determine if pottery is ancient or not by analyzing its magnetic signatures, which can help weed out forged artifacts. The technique involves heating samples and measuring when their weak signals disappear, leaving only the stronger thermal remanent magnetization signal.

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

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Lee Holloway, a co-founder of Cloudflare, was a brilliant engineer who created several key technologies before being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) at age 36. He left the company in 2016 due to his illness and has since become an advocate for FTD research and awareness.

How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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A graduate student used AI to streamline her experiments on quantum chips, freeing her time for data analysis and design. The AI successfully ran routine measurements autonomously, saving significant time and allowing researchers to focus on higher-level work.

Mercury 2.5

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Mercury 2.5 is the latest production model from Inception, offering a 40% increase in intelligence and comparable cost to GPT-5.6 Luna, with prices starting at $0.04 per million input and output requests.

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

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I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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User wants to update jsonwebtoken API in auth.ts and run tests, also reviews claude plugin versions.

“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

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A court ruled that X Corp, formerly Twitter, has not abandoned its TWITTER trademark due to evidence of ongoing use in the Apple App Store listing. The TWEET and Bird Logo trademarks are likely abandoned as they were not found on X's website or app store listing.

On Really Trying (2009)

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A person's motivation and ability to tackle complex problems can be influenced by their upbringing, including parental loss or absence. Many famous individuals have credited their drive for success to overcoming adversity, such as Bill Murray and Norbert Wiener.

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

Mathematicians are collecting open problems in a non-renewable way, potentially leading to scarcity. Most generated problems are trivial or unproductive, while few hold the potential for breakthroughs and connections.

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

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The author tested various GPU RAM requirements for running Qwen3.8 27B without sacrificing quality, finding that a 24 GB card like RTX 4090 can handle the full BF16 model with some context reduction.

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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Researchers at OpenAI have developed a proof that the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid motion can develop a singularity in finite time, resolving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The solution involves an internal model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra and demonstrates the potential for AI to advance research and technology benefiting humanity.