Discovery Loop(discoveryloop.com)
902 points by xtreak29 | 568 comments
Landing page for Discovery Loop, an organization branded around "continuous exploration" with approach, mission, team, and join-us sections.
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs(blog.google)
817 points by colesantiago | 871 comments
Google blog post by Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis announcing leadership changes at Google DeepMind, with Hassabis moving from CEO to Chair and Chief Scientist.
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work(blog.cloudflare.com)
641 points by speckx | 315 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing Cloudflare OS, an open platform for building and running AI agents, collaborative apps, and workflows across a company.
Zed DeltaDB(zed.dev)
511 points by ahamez | 296 comments
Early access signup page for DeltaDB, Zed's version control system that records work as it unfolds and links changes to the conversations behind them.
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking(wired.com)
431 points by dzdt | 225 comments
WIRED Big Story by Jeff Wise examining whether military GPS jamming tied to drone warfare caused a civilian plane crash in New Mexico.
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava(runnersworld.com)
423 points by aanet | 97 comments
Runner's World news article about a physicist who connected his pet hamster's wheel to upload nightly runs to Strava, revealing how far it runs.
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models(neon.com)
415 points by moonikakiss | 114 comments
Neon blog post describing how a 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform matches GPT-5.6 Sol on search-result retrieval accuracy at about 100x lower cost.
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing(randsinrepose.com)
409 points by ExMachina73 | 198 comments
A Rands in Repose essay praising the typography of Blade Runner's title cards, set in Goudy Oldstyle, and reflecting on appreciating type design.
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux(runarcn.no)
388 points by speckx | 395 comments
Personal blog post explaining the author's decision to replace Android with a Linux-based OS on their phone, citing Google's changes to AOSP and surveying mobile Linux options.
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage(blog.fogus.me)
387 points by lladnar | 453 comments
Blog post by Fogus exploring why niche hobby programming communities like OSDev, LangDev, and chess engine developers are hostile toward LLM usage.
Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind(axios.com)
351 points by ot | 200 comments
Axios article reporting that Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind; the capture shows only a Cloudflare bot check.
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2(research.meta.ai)
314 points by paulkrush | 242 comments
Position: LLMs Can't Jump(openreview.net)
290 points by theanonymousone | 192 comments
Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet(nytimes.com)
271 points by louiereederson | 57 comments
Qwen 3.0 Image Pro(qwencloud.com)
184 points by theanonymousone | 47 comments
The Valley of Webhooks(weli.dev)
183 points by weli | 82 comments
Helsinki Hacker News Meetup(calpaterson.com)
162 points by calpaterson | 113 comments
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness(data4sci.com)
107 points by Anon84 | 41 comments
Painting with Gaussians(yogthos.net)
90 points by yogthos | 16 comments
Faster Than Ninja(build2.org)
82 points by elasticdog | 28 comments
Crickets as pets(en.wikipedia.org)
79 points by Michelangelo11 | 36 comments
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Monitors for Work(etbe.coker.com.au)
69 points by edward | 43 comments
Jeff Dean Leaving Google(twitter.com)
67 points by bifftastic | 3 comments
An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3(github.com)
55 points by pavelai | 17 comments
