Claude Opus 5.5(anthropic.com)
1764 points by km144 | 1070 comments
Anthropic's announcement page for the Claude Opus 5.5 model, with sections on introduction, performance and cost, safety, and availability.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna(openai.com)
1731 points by OfficialTurkey | 822 comments
OpenAI announcement page introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna, new models aimed at bringing frontier intelligence into everyday work.
Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school(bloomberg.com)
843 points by devonnull | 450 comments
News article reporting that an unreleased Pentagon investigation found overreliance on Palantir AI contributed to a U.S. strike on a school in Minab, Iran, that killed 123 children.
'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees(404media.co)
775 points by spenvo | 561 comments
404 Media article reporting hackers' claims that they breached the FBI and obtained data on all FBI employees.
Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy(techradar.com)
736 points by MC995 | 540 comments
TechRadar news article reporting user frustration over persistent promotional 'ads' Apple has added to iOS.
I said no and Apple said yes(dbushell.com)
724 points by thatslast | 576 comments
David Bushell's blog post about macOS enabling a feature that phoned home with personal data, which he disabled, and Apple later overriding his choice.
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005(cryptocellar.org)
718 points by sohkamyung | 431 comments
A cryptocellar.org write-up validating a break, attributed to OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, of the German Army Enigma message MVUEH of 10 July 1941, unsolved since 2005.
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived(foxscript.org)
450 points by boredjohnny | 243 comments
Landing page for FoxDev Studio/FoxScript, an open-source reimplementation of the Visual FoxPro 9 language and runtime in Rust/wasm for running legacy FoxPro apps.
My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps(ahmedhossamdev.com)
404 points by ahmedhossamdev | 172 comments
Personal blog post by Ahmed Hossam about his hobby of virtually exploring Tokyo streets using Google Maps Street View.
Can gzip be a language model?(nathan.rs)
384 points by networked | 149 comments
A blog post by Nathan Barry exploring whether gzip compression can be used as a language model to generate text, with an interactive beam search demo.
What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals(kqed.org)
356 points by Jtsummers | 683 comments
KQED news article on what California is learning from pilot projects placing solar panels over irrigation canals to generate clean energy and reduce water evaporation.
SAML: A fractal of bad design(blog.trailofbits.com)
328 points by aray07 | 175 comments
Trail of Bits blog post arguing SAML's design-by-committee complexity makes it insecure and that it should be deprecated in favor of OpenID Connect.
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)(artificialanalysis.ai)
320 points by theanonymousone | 101 comments
Artificial Analysis model page benchmarking Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) on intelligence, speed, and price.
2DWillNeverDie(2dwillneverdie.com)
319 points by surprisetalk | 82 comments
2D Will Never Die is a retro-styled website celebrating 2D video game pixel art, featuring a sprite gallery with downloadable character sprites.
AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You(alexn.org)
311 points by dimonomid | 438 comments
Blog post by Alexandru Nedelcu arguing that AI lacks wisdom and that relying on it for coding, skipping code reviews and reading code, erodes developers' own judgment.
Fearless SIMD v1.0(linebender.org)
307 points by verdagon | 48 comments
Linebender blog post announcing the v1.0 release of fearless_simd, a Rust library for safe portable SIMD, and reflecting on its goals and design.
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev(arcturus-labs.com)
301 points by JohnBerryman | 213 comments
An Arcturus Labs blog post speculating whether OpenAI will copy TypeSafe's Jev LLM approach and whether TypeSafe has a moat.
There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027(grapheneos.social)
257 points by Cider9986 | 106 comments
A Mastodon post from GrapheneOS saying devices will likely be sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027, though probably not at initial launch.
I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB(mouse.dev)
251 points by Aeroi | 134 comments
Blog post by Mouse describing how asking Meta's Muse AI for its filesystem resulted in a 6.8 GB export of its sandbox runtime.
AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?(board.flatassembler.net)
235 points by BruceEel | 178 comments
Flat assembler forum thread reporting that RDRAND/RDSEED on AMD (possibly Zen2) CPUs never return 0 at a given size, with a test app for others to try.
People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes(bloomberg.com)
226 points by alephnerd | 302 comments
Bloomberg Businessweek article reporting that some people addicted to vaping are switching to cigarettes as a way to quit vapes.
WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE(github.com)
226 points by vntok | 124 comments
GitHub security advisory for a critical WordPress unauthenticated path traversal in page-template resolution leading to conditional RCE, listing affected and patched versions.
Unreal Agent(unreallabs.ai)
219 points by trollied | 114 comments
Unreal Labs blog post announcing Unreal Agent, an open-source agent harness claiming up to 40% cost savings versus Codex on coding and science benchmarks.
Claude Opus 5.5(anthropic.com)
219 points by throwaway371647 | 149 comments
Anthropic's announcement page for the Claude Opus 5.5 model, covering introduction, performance and cost, safety, and availability.
The "Windows XP Box" (2003)(mini-itx.com)
217 points by doubletwoyou | 45 comments
A 2003 mini-itx.com project write-up by Andy France about building a small Mini-ITX Windows XP PC inside a Windows XP retail box.
Enjoy Every Sandwich(bradmontague.substack.com)
167 points by NaOH | 85 comments
A Substack post by Brad Montague with his drawn remembrance of Warren Zevon's 2002 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity(obscura.com)
159 points by Flimm | 119 comments
Product page for Obscura, a VPN that relays WireGuard traffic over QUIC to Mullvad servers so no single party can correlate user identity and traffic.
9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"(bristol.ac.uk)
152 points by KellyCriterion | 197 comments
University of Bristol press release on a study finding World Cup viewers saw junk food, alcohol and gambling branding every seven seconds, over 93,000 appearances.
The mystery animal on an ancient god's head(signoregalilei.com)
145 points by surprisetalk | 37 comments
A Signore Galilei blog post exploring the identity of a mysterious animal depicted on an ancient god's head.
MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis(artificialanalysis.ai)
141 points by theanonymousone | 60 comments
Artificial Analysis benchmark page for Xiaomi's open-weights MiMo-V2.6-Pro model, covering intelligence index, output speed, cost and verbosity rankings.
Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support(droprun.sh)
139 points by mixedbit | 48 comments
Project homepage for Drop, a rootless Linux sandbox using namespaces and optional gVisor to isolate programs and coding agents in a familiar environment.
Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models(status.claude.com)
136 points by corvad | 102 comments
Anthropic's Claude status page incident report on elevated errors affecting multiple Claude models across claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Cowork.
16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)(allpoetry.com)
119 points by rbanffy | 15 comments
An allpoetry.com page for the poem "16-bit Intel 8088 chip"; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models(benchmarkheaven.com)
119 points by florianstandhar | 32 comments
Benchmark Heaven's JevBench v1.3.0 leaderboard page ranking 52 Jev-class typed decision models on intelligence, calibration, speed and cost across 534 decisions.
Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS(github.com)
108 points by arbayi | 37 comments
GitHub repository of example Gea applications and tools, including an app gallery for the simulator, embedded targets, GeaOS and Apple targets.
LLM Ass Bench(assbench.com)
108 points by fragmede | 32 comments
LLM AssBench is a website comparing interactive 3D models of a human buttocks in a thong, each generated by a different LLM from the same prompt.
The current balance of power in open models(interconnects.ai)
105 points by gmays | 42 comments
Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post expanding his Congressional testimony on the state of open-weight AI models amid U.S.-China competition.
RAM: the forgotten history (2024)(blog.coredump.cx)
101 points by Luc | 5 comments
A Substack essay by lcamtuf arguing that modern computers owe more to the invention of electronically controlled working memory than to Charles Babbage.
An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord(discord.com)
98 points by meetpateltech | 51 comments
Discord blog post explaining how the platform confirms users' age groups as part of teen safety measures while keeping the experience the same for adults.
Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day(arstechnica.com)
97 points by pavel_lishin | 40 comments
Ars Technica article reporting a serious zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse AI assistant, including a ClickFix attack that can hijack the agent.
Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster(minimaxir.com)
85 points by mooreds | 46 comments
Max Woolf blog post on using AI coding agents to iteratively optimize Rust code until it outperforms state-of-the-art libraries.
Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly(evalapply.org)
84 points by pvdebbe | 13 comments
Blog post by Aditya Athalye recounting a hiring anecdote that avoided the Secretary Problem, framed within optimal stopping theory and the post-ZIRP software job market.
Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations(github.com)
78 points by frostbyte7 | 23 comments
GitHub repository "awesome-jev" curating Jev demos posted on X along with related tools, skills, and integrations.
Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B(verda.com)
77 points by cmrdporcupine | 27 comments
Verda blog post explaining what its $189M Series B funding round means for customers of its platform.
Writing Parquet files using Haskell(datahaskell.org)
75 points by cosmic_quanta | 18 comments
A DataHaskell blog post announcing a Parquet file writer in the DataHaskell Dataframe library, with example code using writeParquet.
Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'(variety.com)
75 points by CharlesW | 37 comments
Variety news article reporting Zelda Williams criticizing fans who create AI-generated videos of her late father Robin Williams.
Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents(eff.org)
74 points by hn_acker | 15 comments
EFF article arguing the D.C. Circuit should vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents.
The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin(blog.asciitweezers.com)
71 points by evakhoury | 62 comments
Blog post explaining why the warmth of sunlight is not a reliable indicator of UV exposure and sunburn risk, using numbers to examine the difference.
When the Debugger Lies(danielmangum.com)
60 points by hasheddan | 17 comments
Daniel Mangum's blog post on unexpected memory values seen via the debugger while exploring the nRF54L key management unit and how SoC internals explain it.
Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler(nanochess.org)
58 points by nanochess | 8 comments
Oscar Toledo G. describes recovering his late-1990s transputer C compiler from a floppy disk and making its code portable to modern compilers.
Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone(arxiv.org)
57 points by jochenmadler | 14 comments
arXiv paper "SlopShape" presenting a classifier that detects AI-generated commercial blog posts and attributes their source model using structural features rather than wording.
Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising(stanfordreview.org)
57 points by docdeek | 42 comments
Stanford Review article reporting that Stanford's Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to alter students' race in promotional images.
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI(404media.co)
54 points by pier25 | 35 comments
404 Media article reporting that workers hired to train OpenAI's models were fired for using AI tools to do the training work.
Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station(bbc.com)
53 points by dabinat | 61 comments
BBC News article by music correspondent Mark Savage reporting that Apple Music will open a concert venue at Battersea Power Station in London.
Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs(github.com)
50 points by hsfzxjy | 12 comments
GitHub repository for npunlock, a tool to write and run custom C kernels on Intel Core Ultra NPUs.
Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences(norwegianscitechnews.com)
47 points by giuliomagnifico | 69 comments
Norwegian SciTech News article on a study finding that users aged 9 to 18 are turning from Google search to AI chatbots, with uncertain consequences.
Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963(github.com)
47 points by abrax3141 | 12 comments
GitHub repository for a web-based emulator and operating environment for the IBM 1620 Model 2 computer, including IPL-V sample programs.
The JavaScript Midlife Crisis(maroun-baydoun.com)
45 points by maroun-baydoun | 29 comments
Blog post by Maroun Baydoun about the JavaScript ecosystem increasingly turning to younger, faster languages for its tooling and what could go wrong.
Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent(coveragecat.com)
45 points by botacode | 28 comments
Homepage of Coverage Cat, a licensed insurance broker for comparing home and umbrella coverage, with an MCP/agent API for personal AI agents.
Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter(github.com)
44 points by 91awebsi | 3 comments
GitHub repository for treepeat, an open-source tool that detects duplicate and structurally similar code across many languages using Tree-sitter ASTs.