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Post #232663 2.58K Sep 22, 2026, 12:24 UTC

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
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Alexandru Nedelcu AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You Certainly the industry is transforming, however, the people and organizations falling into the trap of no longer reading and writing code only do so at their peril.

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Post #232662 2.6K Sep 22, 2026, 12:21 UTC

Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?
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A blog by Alberto Arena Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It? Agents can build in minutes what used to mean installing someone else's package. A debate about whether open source still has a reason to exist once packages are this easy to reinvent.

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Post #232661 2.45K Sep 22, 2026, 12:06 UTC

Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)
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Post #232660 2.48K Sep 22, 2026, 11:46 UTC

Type Punning in C and C++
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Personal Workflow Blog Type Punning in C and C++ I had a bug that took me a while to track down. The problem was type punning. A pointer cast worked fine at -O0 and silently broke at -O2. The C vs C++ distinction here is genuinely treacherous, and most blog posts on the topic get it wrong.

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Post #232659 2.57K Sep 22, 2026, 11:30 UTC

JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
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The JetBrains Blog JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development - The JetBrains Blog AI can produce code. Organizations still have to produce software. Agentic development is changing how software gets made, but it hasn’t changed what it costs to be wrong. Six months ago, we began

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Post #232658 2.41K Sep 22, 2026, 11:23 UTC

A Tokyo school counts the mornings it can see Mt. Fuji: 22 in 1965, 170 in 2023
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Jivx Tokyo saw Mt. Fuji 22 mornings in 1965. In 2023, 170. Since 1963 a school rooftop in Kichijoji has looked for Mt. Fuji every morning at 9. Since 1894 the Kofu weather office has dated its first snow by eye. Sixty-one years of clear mornings and 132 first snows, drawn as one mountain.

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Post #232657 2.42K Sep 22, 2026, 10:56 UTC

Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
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Verda What $189M in funding unlocks for Verda customers Verda has raised $189 million in new funding, led by Emergence Capital, to accelerate its full-stack AI cloud, from data centre capacity to large-scale serving.

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Post #232656 2.42K Sep 22, 2026, 10:51 UTC

9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
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Post #232655 2.59K Sep 22, 2026, 09:54 UTC

AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
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board.flatassembler.net AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0 (+ app)

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Post #232654 2.65K Sep 22, 2026, 09:22 UTC

Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
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Norwegian SciTech News Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences A review of nearly 200 studies on how artificial intelligence reveals we know very little about how AI use impacts younger school children.

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Post #232653 2.66K Sep 22, 2026, 09:13 UTC

Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
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Post #232652 2.58K Sep 22, 2026, 09:04 UTC

I said no and Apple said yes
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dbushell.com I said no and Apple said yes The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.

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Post #232651 2.65K Sep 22, 2026, 07:15 UTC

Can gzip be a language model?
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nathan.rs Can gzip be a language model? A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …

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Post #232650 2.52K Sep 22, 2026, 06:08 UTC

Firmware Freedom
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Playtaurus Firmware freedom Every multi-effects unit sells unlimited tweakability, and every working guitarist ends up on two sounds. We should buy hardware for what it is and run the firmware we choose on it. On $4 chips that outrun old DSPs, why there is no secret sauce, and an open…

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Post #232649 2.5K Sep 22, 2026, 06:01 UTC

MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
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artificialanalysis.ai MiMo-V2.6-Pro - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis Analysis of Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

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Post #232648 2.41K Sep 22, 2026, 05:45 UTC

Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
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Bbc Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea The tech giant has built its own concert hall, but says its not in competition with small venues.

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Post #232647 2.47K Sep 22, 2026, 05:30 UTC

U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore
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Glog U.S. small biz can’t ship to the EU anymore The EU’s latest extra customs fee adds to shipping costs and the overhead for VAT collection, making it unaffordable or impossible for smaller U.S. businesses to sell to EU customers.

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Post #232646 2.37K Sep 22, 2026, 02:49 UTC

Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'
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Variety Robin Williams’ Daughter Calls for Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor to ‘Have Some Shame’: ‘Leave Him Out of Your Delusional… Zelda Williams is calling for fans to stop circulating AI-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams.

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Post #232645 2.36K Sep 22, 2026, 01:17 UTC

The agents, they just want to talk
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snats.xyz The agents, they just want to talk After reading about the Huggingface incident from the OpenAI report, I got the idea of trying to replicate the self organizing behavior of agents by modifying the Pi harness to run locally. Whilst doing it, I also ended up replicating the tragedy of the commons.

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Post #232644 2.36K Sep 22, 2026, 01:07 UTC

Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models
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Claude Elevated errors for multiple models Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors for multiple models.

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