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Post #231623 2.68K Sep 4, 2026, 19:55 UTC

Can AI design circuit boards yet?
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EEBench Can AI design circuit boards yet? A look at what current models can build, where they fail, and how EEBench tests the electronics in simulation.

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Post #231622 2.6K Sep 4, 2026, 19:47 UTC

Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
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X (formerly Twitter) Georgi Gerganov (@ggerganov) on X Hugging Face has been acquired by NVIDIA It is quite exciting to be a part of this journey! NVIDIA has been an active supporter of the llama.cpp project. For more than a year now, their engineers…

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Post #231621 2.57K Sep 4, 2026, 19:26 UTC

Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
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Rietta Cybersecurity Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch Rietta patched a government client running a Ruby on Rails website within hours of a 9.5 CVSS ActiveStorage CVE. Exploit attempts began before business hours resumed.

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Post #231620 2.73K Sep 4, 2026, 18:57 UTC

Mullvad – Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
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Mullvad VPN Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead | Mullvad VPN Mullvad has operated public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers since 2022. They are unnecessary when using Mullvad VPN — traffic is already encrypted and Mullvad VPN's internal DNS handles all queries.

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Post #231619 2.65K Sep 4, 2026, 18:52 UTC

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
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blog.master.dev React Now Rusted All The Way Out The transition to the Rust version of the React Compiler for the 1,036-file React Router codebase resulted in a significant speed increase, improving build times from 14.3 seconds to 0.81 seconds. The new compiler addresses previous limitations and ensures…

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Post #231618 4.32K Sep 4, 2026, 18:46 UTC

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
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Anthropic Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Post #231617 2.55K Sep 4, 2026, 18:37 UTC

Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
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GitHub NPC-Forge/docs/development.md at main · gioblu/NPC-Forge The open-source neuro-symbolic AI agent framework. - gioblu/NPC-Forge

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Post #231616 2.77K Sep 4, 2026, 18:09 UTC

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
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Torrentfreak Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John Doe' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive * TorrentFreak A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta.

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Post #231615 2.62K Sep 4, 2026, 18:04 UTC

deSEC – Free Secure DNS
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Post #231614 2.69K Sep 4, 2026, 18:00 UTC

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
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WIRED Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

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Post #231613 2.52K Sep 4, 2026, 17:39 UTC

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
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Post #231612 2.79K Sep 4, 2026, 17:18 UTC

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
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PNAS Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals....

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Post #231611 2.51K Sep 4, 2026, 17:01 UTC

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
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The GitHub Blog Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated cost.

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Post #231610 2.66K Sep 4, 2026, 16:14 UTC

US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones
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the Guardian US military disables ad trackers on troops’ phones amid security fears Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East

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Post #231609 2.78K Sep 4, 2026, 16:07 UTC

Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I
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Nytimes Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I. Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Post #231608 2.59K Sep 4, 2026, 15:45 UTC

Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal
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The American Prospect Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Pentagon Minerals Deal - The American Prospect Alan Waldenberg manages Stephen Feinberg’s personal trust and is lead outside counsel to his former private equity firm. He has also represented the agency where Feinberg is the number two civilian official.

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Post #231607 2.55K Sep 4, 2026, 15:25 UTC

GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027
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Google Send emails from a different address or alias - Gmail Help Important: Starting January 2027, Gmail will no longer support the "Send as" feature for third-party email addresses, such as @yahoo.com or @outlook.com. This change does not affect Google Workspace

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Post #231606 2.84K Sep 4, 2026, 14:25 UTC

Burnt out on a three-day week
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Jenny Wanger Burnt out on a three-day week She works three days a week. She's still burnt out. When rest doesn't fix the exhaustion, the workload was never the problem.

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Post #231605 2.84K Sep 4, 2026, 14:17 UTC

US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average
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AP News US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods Diesel has hit a record price in the U.S., soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time.

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Post #231604 2.44K Sep 4, 2026, 14:16 UTC

'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
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