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Post #232083 2.69K Sep 12, 2026, 19:31 UTC

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
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Jake Gold An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights! Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down…

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Post #232082 2.43K Sep 12, 2026, 18:58 UTC

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
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Lalit Maganti I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …

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Post #232081 2.35K Sep 12, 2026, 18:57 UTC

My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them
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Book DNA Delenda Carthago's favourite sci-fi books about how we build absurd societies and keep justifying them Delenda Carthago wrote Nature Against. These are their favorite books on how we build absurd societies and keep justifying them.

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Post #232080 2.43K Sep 12, 2026, 18:44 UTC

Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health
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PubMed Central (PMC) American College of Sports Medicine Position Stand. Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy, and Physical… The aim of this overview of reviews was to determine the impact of resistance training (RT) prescription on muscle function and hypertrophy, utilizing evidence synthesis methods. It updates the American College of Sports Medicine 2009 Position ...

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Post #232079 2.33K Sep 12, 2026, 18:39 UTC

A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages
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Post #232078 2.44K Sep 12, 2026, 18:35 UTC

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats
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The Trail of Bits Blog How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats Signal recently launched Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate that your chats are secure without requiring direct safety number comparison. Trail of Bits built and operates one of the three auditors that make this system trustworthy.

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Post #232077 2.54K Sep 12, 2026, 17:20 UTC

Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
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Bbc Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down Amodei's call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.

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Post #232076 2.32K Sep 12, 2026, 17:19 UTC

Will There Be a 7G?
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arXiv.org Will there be a 7G? The transition from 5G to 6G is becoming concrete: the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework has established the high-level vision and capability set for 6G, while 3GPP Release 21 has defined the path toward...

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Post #232075 2.4K Sep 12, 2026, 17:00 UTC

I refuse to let SPICE die
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GitHub GitHub - nefarius/vd_agent: Windows SPICE guest agent. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent. Windows SPICE guest agent. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent. - nefarius/vd_agent

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Post #232074 2.35K Sep 12, 2026, 16:43 UTC

Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes
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Post #232073 2.38K Sep 12, 2026, 16:36 UTC

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
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Righto Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating...

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Post #232072 2.51K Sep 12, 2026, 16:31 UTC

Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For
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Oil Price Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For Europe runs on 44% less energy per euro than it did in 1995, and when the Strait of Hormuz closed, Europe barely flinched.

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Post #232071 2.34K Sep 12, 2026, 16:04 UTC

LG responds to TV spying allegations
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The Verge LG responds to TV spying allegations The company claims reports about its capturing and uploading audio are misleading.

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Post #232070 2.42K Sep 12, 2026, 15:52 UTC

LLMs are real, AI is fake
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Post #232069 2.41K Sep 12, 2026, 15:49 UTC

Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
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Yale Environment 360 Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could…

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Post #232068 2.26K Sep 12, 2026, 15:36 UTC

Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
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Post #232067 2.36K Sep 12, 2026, 15:31 UTC

Nvidia is the central bank of AI
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The Economist Nvidia is the central bank of AI But will its loans prove sound?

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Post #232066 2.35K Sep 12, 2026, 15:11 UTC

You Don't Need Matrix Calculus
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Post #232065 2.42K Sep 12, 2026, 14:53 UTC

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
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Los Angeles Times Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun,' authorities say Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal 'ghost gun.'

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Post #232064 2.55K Sep 12, 2026, 14:25 UTC

We Must Pace the Frontier
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Darioamodei Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

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