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Post #231583 2.61K Sep 3, 2026, 22:56 UTC

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
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Read the Tea Leaves The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-…

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Post #231582 2.54K Sep 3, 2026, 22:33 UTC

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
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Armature Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions to find out. We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.

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Post #231581 2.58K Sep 3, 2026, 21:08 UTC

Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
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Senator Bernie Sanders NEWS: Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence…

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Post #231580 2.79K Sep 3, 2026, 21:04 UTC

120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
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Tuta Google plans to restrict side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom | Tuta Starting 2027, Google will block apps on Android devices whose developers have not registered with Google, paid, and given their ID. It’s fair to say that Google is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.

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Post #231579 2.56K Sep 3, 2026, 20:54 UTC

The death of San Francisco's Market Street
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Post #231578 2.66K Sep 3, 2026, 20:21 UTC

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
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ARC Prize OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 | ARC Prize OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reaches state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3

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Post #231577 2.58K Sep 3, 2026, 20:19 UTC

GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index
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artificialanalysis.ai Benchmarking GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Astra ties leadership with Claude Fable 5.1 in both of our flagship Indices, at lower cost. Astra equals Fable 5.1 in the Intelligence Index at ~40% of the cost, and in the Coding Agent Index at ~60% of the cost.

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Post #231576 2.57K Sep 3, 2026, 19:49 UTC

GPT-6-Astra: infinitely pairs of consecutive primes with distance at most 186
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GitHub GitHub - openai/PrimeGaps186: Conditional Lean formalization and numerical certificate for prime gaps at most 186. Conditional Lean formalization and numerical certificate for prime gaps at most 186. - openai/PrimeGaps186

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Post #231575 2.46K Sep 3, 2026, 19:41 UTC

Gloria Steinem has died
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the Guardian Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92 Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wars

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Post #231574 2.43K Sep 3, 2026, 19:36 UTC

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
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Post #231573 2.54K Sep 3, 2026, 19:34 UTC

GPT-6 Astra System Card
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OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub GPT-6 Astra System Card - OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub Today, we are releasing GPT-6 Astra, the most capable model we have ever broadly deployed. Astra is our first model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

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Post #231572 2.55K Sep 3, 2026, 19:09 UTC

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
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Discover Wildlife People started building artificial beaver dams in California. Now something "mind blowing" is happening | Discover Wildlife Following the construction of the dams, one river saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates soar from 8% to 60%.

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Post #231571 2.94K Sep 3, 2026, 18:43 UTC

GPT-6 Astra
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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

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Post #231570 2.54K Sep 3, 2026, 18:40 UTC

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
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CNBC OpenAI begins rolling out Astra model after warning of its advanced cyber capabilities OpenAI said companies participating in its application-based cybersecurity program will be first to get access to Astra.

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Post #231569 2.65K Sep 3, 2026, 18:35 UTC

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tok/SEC
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Cerebras Inference Model Catalog - Cerebras Inference Browse all models available with Cerebras Shared Inference.

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Post #231568 2.47K Sep 3, 2026, 18:11 UTC

Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide
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Severe Weather Europe Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide Winter 2026/2027 forecasts show a strong Super El Niño pattern across the United States and Canada, with snowfall and Polar Vortex signals also emerging

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Post #231567 2.5K Sep 3, 2026, 17:57 UTC

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
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Babylonian Twins Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly — Babylonian Twins Babylonian Twins is an Amiga platformer I built in Baghdad in 1993, in 68000 assembly. This summer an LLM ported it to Godot, and this is what I found when I read back through what it did. The original disks are now free on itch.io.

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Post #231566 2.33K Sep 3, 2026, 17:48 UTC

Claude for Commerce Agents
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Claude Building Commerce Agents with Claude | Claude by Anthropic We're launching a blueprint to help build commerce agents on Claude. It contains the harnesses, patterns, and guardrails an engineering team needs to get a commerce agent running in days.

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Post #231565 2.49K Sep 3, 2026, 17:31 UTC

Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB
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SmallRun USBSID-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB For many of us retro enthusiasts, the Commodore 64’s MOS Technology SID chip (6581 and 8580) is regarded as one of the most iconic sound chips in audio histo...

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Post #231564 2.39K Sep 3, 2026, 17:25 UTC

VC isn't VC anymore – understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
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Anil Dash VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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