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Post #231883 2.1K Sep 9, 2026, 15:29 UTC

YC created Flock 10 years ago
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Post #231882 2.33K Sep 9, 2026, 15:26 UTC

Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
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CBS NEWS Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" A top Anthropic researcher says there's more than a 10% chance AI "could kill all humans," after a colleague resigned over similar concerns.

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Post #231881 2.28K Sep 9, 2026, 15:08 UTC

Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch
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GitHub GitHub - Atomburstofficial/geiger: A Geiger counter for AI agents — one read-only command that inventories every agent, MCP server… A Geiger counter for AI agents — one read-only command that inventories every agent, MCP server, plugin, and AI extension on a machine - Atomburstofficial/geiger

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Post #231880 2.34K Sep 9, 2026, 14:14 UTC

What will our economic future look like?
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Anthropic Scenarios for our Economic Future The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.

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Post #231879 2.4K Sep 9, 2026, 14:02 UTC

Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
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Post #231878 2.46K Sep 9, 2026, 13:54 UTC

Playing whack-a-mole is losing
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David Adrian Playing whack-a-mole is losing I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and…

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Post #231877 2.45K Sep 9, 2026, 13:53 UTC

Do people prefer stories written by AI?
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Cambridge University Press & Assessment Do people prefer stories written by AI? New study reveals people gave the highest ratings to AI-generated stories that they were told had been written by a human.

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Post #231876 2.57K Sep 9, 2026, 13:31 UTC

Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
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Tailwindcss Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.

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Post #231875 3K Sep 9, 2026, 13:14 UTC

Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
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opusfived.dev Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

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Post #231874 2.49K Sep 9, 2026, 12:55 UTC

Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch
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Post #231873 2.63K Sep 9, 2026, 12:02 UTC

I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
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xlii.space How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads A caller phones Radio Erywan. “Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?” “True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”.…

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Post #231872 2.65K Sep 9, 2026, 11:57 UTC

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
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Desert Ant Labs On-device intelligence for every product We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.

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Post #231871 2.48K Sep 9, 2026, 11:56 UTC

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
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Post #231870 2.6K Sep 9, 2026, 11:42 UTC

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
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BBC News Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

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Post #231869 2.88K Sep 9, 2026, 11:28 UTC

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
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The New Yorker Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11 surveillance boom.

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Post #231868 2.44K Sep 9, 2026, 10:53 UTC

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
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Science How an AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy OpenAI spent millions to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but who should get credit?

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Post #231867 2.42K Sep 9, 2026, 10:33 UTC

Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
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Buttondown Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch You either loved it, or were using it wrong.

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Post #231866 2.5K Sep 9, 2026, 10:22 UTC

Quoting Terence Tao: «incentives... of no longer sharing promising research»
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Simon Willison’s Weblog A quote from Terence Tao I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. …

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Post #231865 2.64K Sep 9, 2026, 09:57 UTC

Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
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POLITICO ‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safety – POLITICO “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” staffer says in resignation post after leaving the tech giant.

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Post #231864 2.53K Sep 9, 2026, 08:41 UTC

AI Has a Discovery Problem
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Miguel Acevedo The Discovery Problem The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption isn't intelligence. It's discovery. The system can do almost anything, but it still requires you to already know what to ask for.

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