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I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
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I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity. Here's how. The following is a true story. Or maybe it's just based on a true story. Perhaps it's not true at all. (with apologies/thanks to David Gilbertson, whose format I'm shamelessly borrowing from "I'm harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site") 2026 has been a wild year for AI news. Around the turn of the year, there was a noticeable...
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend Itâs finally time I go crawling back to Node! Iâve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so goodâ½ Deno has been my go-to runtime for so long I forgot how to Node. Now Iâm back, I find all the ECMAScriptâ sugar is supported and the old annoying APIs have been replaced or modernised. Most importantl...
Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
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Posted by E-Reverance. Score: 147 points. Comments: 33.
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
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We’re all used to two types of magnet. The common one, the fridge magnet, is ferromagnetic — its atomic magnets all point the same way (up or down), adding their magnetic effects. The less well known one, the antiferromagnet (AF), has neighbouring atomic magnets that point opposite ways and exactly cancel out magnetically. For a long time, there’s been an intense drive in computer memory research ...
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
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Introducing Beam: Reflection’s 501B open-weight model October 5, 2026 8 min readWe are introducing Beam, Reflection’s first open-weight model. Beam is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 501 billion total parameters, 23 billion active, built for coding, reasoning, and agentic workloads. Beam’s capabilities come from major investments in both pretraining and reinforcement learning (RL). We pretr...
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
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Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s environment, in particular, are known to have used other public wikis (collaboratively edited websites not owned by us) to communicate and coordinate with each other. These types of successful intrusions can e...
The future of independence is interdependence
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The future of independence is interdependence Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is. I spend most of my life in one room. At first glance, that may not sound much like independence. I cannot easily walk through my house. I need my husband’s help with some ordinary tasks. My daughter brings me things from the outside world. Groceries, medications, ...
Web Search API
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Introducing Web Search API Web Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff. At launch, you can choose between three search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. All three support Zero Data Retention for requests made thr...
Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement
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This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Read our privacy policy Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement Summary: - Huawei and Qualcomm today announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement that includes cross licenses to the companies' patent portfolios across a range of technology fields, including 5G, compute, AI...
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and remove its downloaded models. macOS 27 no longer has a single switch for Apple Intelligence, and its models stay on disk after the features are turned off. RemoveMacAI turns the features off, removes the models and prevents macOS from downloading them again. All changes can be reverted. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/ma...
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
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Independent browser-native Visual Basic style IDE, runtime, form designer and single-file HTML compiler.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
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English · 简体中文 · 日本語 · Deutsch · Français · Español · Português Run a 125-billion-parameter AI model on your own gaming PC NVIDIA or AMD graphics card (12 GB or more) · Windows or Linux · free and open source A voxel pagoda garden, 1 shot prompt running on an RTX 5070 with Strata (IQ3_S, 128K context) · full video (49 s) Strata runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a normal PC. This is a large, smart AI mode...
In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
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When Russian air strikes knocked out Ukrainian power plants across the country earlier this year, most of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv in southeastern Ukraine was unable to pump fresh water to the city’s housing blocs. But in an easterly suburb of Mykolaiv, drinking water flowed from kitchen taps, as it has since last year thanks to a small off-grid solar field tucked inconspicuously into i...
Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
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Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those advocates. The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it for you? Whatever you build, it’s likely to have poorer performance and worse usability than so...
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything 3rd October 2026 Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say “after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors”. These need to be hard limits. Soft c...
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
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How to prompt Opus 5.5, steer a long run, and check your results in Claude apps and Claude Code. Opus 5.5 works well with the way you already use Claude. A few things behave differently, though: it works for longer on its own, it tells you plainly what it did, and it thinks before every reply. This guide covers how to work with Opus 5.5 in Claude apps and Claude Code, including how to prompt the m...
Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]
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Posted by yu3zhou4. Score: 109 points. Comments: 5.
Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
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Agents Don’t Need Memory. They Need Documentation. A memory plugin analyzes your conversations. It generates 1,000 isolated snippets and inserts them into a vector database. With your every prompt, it attaches the five most similar snippets; if the agent is confused (which it is), it manually searches for more. That’s the product they call “memory.” It’s a strange thing to use when you think about...
Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works Kolibri is an open-weight large language model (LLM) from Aleph Alpha for German and English: a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters that only uses about 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. It came out on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, the weights are on Hugging Face, and it was trained from scratch o...
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model On the Day of German Reunification, we are releasing our new model: Kolibri. Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer with 78B total parameters, 3B active. It supports context lengths of up to 1M tokens. The model can be downloaded with the full weights on Hugging Face and used under the Apache 2.0 license terms. Koli...
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
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Posted by azhenley. Score: 136 points. Comments: 34.
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
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CORE 01 Asymmetric 2-bit quantization Compress the routed experts, keep critical shared paths precise. That is how the supported routed-MoE builds fit their target machines. DS4 · LOCAL FRONTIER INFERENCE DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines. It supports DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.x and Qwen3.8 Flash Next, with text and vision models, local ...
Supabase is acquiring Turso
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AI is enabling builders to create an immense amount of software. Today, agents are spinning up millions of databases to power the prototypes, explorations, dashboards, and apps they're building. This new pattern, at this massive scale, requires an evolution in database infrastructure. Turso is joining Supabase to build this evolution. For existing users, nothing changes. Supabase will continue bui...
AI Makes Me Sad
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AI Makes Me Sad October 2nd, 2026 Am I allowed to say that? Because it does. Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness. And I'm saying this as someone who is absolutely in a position to be...
Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours From ever-increasing subscription prices to outages and data harvesting: we don’t like what the cloud has come to represent. So we’re redefining what an online service should be: private, optional, and free from lock-in or walled gardens. That’s why today Nabu Casa is renaming Home Assistant Cloud to more accurately describe what the service actual...
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
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Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years. But one classic game called Stratego held out. Even DeepMind, with its exceptional budget, couldn’t build a machine that reliably beat the best human players. Now, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford Univ...
The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
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Posted by suopspaces. Score: 169 points. Comments: 96.
On social reality in China
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[Epistemic status: intuitions and anecdotes.] Recently, several posts and projects (Thoughts Memo, Babel Translation, Please Give Them a Chance) have taken important steps towards raising AI safety awareness and sharing rationalist philosophy in China. It’s great that we’re recognizing the importance of solving the messaging problem for China, and thus laying the groundwork for an international AI...
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]
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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
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Frog and Toad face the most modern of challenges
The death of web development education
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In a personal blog post, Baldur Bjarnason describes how he worked in various fields and positions: as an author, publisher, consultant, developer, educator, as well as radio and TV producer. None of these jobs were economically viable in the long term. Adding insult to injury, the respective communities alienate interdisciplinary people who do not fit into their narrow conception of the field. For...
Pi 1.0
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Pi 1.0 Today we are proudly shipping Pi 1.0: a hardened, minimal, extensible agent harness that you can make your own. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Pi every week. Many of you submit issues and pull requests. Over the course of many months, we have used that feedback to improve, harden and evolve Pi into a stable piece of software that people and businesses can depend on. Pi...
FLUX 3 Image
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Compose images from scratch. Lay out the image exactly how you want using bounding boxes. Le Festival du Soleil, generated from bounding boxes and a scene prompt View the element table5 rows [ { "id": "Fr_Text_1", "bbox": [10, 200, 170, 800], "desc": "\"LE FESTIVAL DU SOLEIL\" written in a thin, elegant, serif typeface in a light cream color" }, { "id": "town_1", "bbox": [280, 700, 420, 1000], "de...
Pi Durable
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Pi Durable Today Earendil and the Pi community shipped Pi 1.0. This reflects our belief that after countless hours of hardening, maintenance, and active development, Pi is now a solid foundation on which to build. Pi also continues to evolve. Together with Pi 1.0, we are shipping an experimental new package called Pi Durable. Pi Durable was built specifically for long-running, durable, and malleab...
SlutCon
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THE NEW CRITIC Overlocked is the pseudonym of a 26-year-old lawyer from Auckland, New Zealand. The two men in our circle were about what I expected. Both were readers of the blog LessWrong and worked for some kind of amorphous tech venture. The other girl and I were “flirt girls,” a compensated worker or volunteer whose job for the weekend was to let men practice flirting on them. The four of us s...
Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
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Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform Michelle Chen, Alex Reneau, and Kevin Flansburg Over the last few weeks, there has been lots of buzz around decision models such as Typesafe AIâs Jev System One model. While classifier models have been around for some time, Jev introduces a new decision model concept into the world of AI â a model that produces b...
Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
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Times Exclusive How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors. “Every sign t...
FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
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The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies over the potential dangers posed by their products, an agency spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The probe adds to the mounting scrutiny that OpenAI and Anthropic have been facing over their safety practices, especially after industry researchers warned about how the companies' ...
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
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Thursday, October 1st 2026 Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says memory and storage supply will likely be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than it was in 2026. He made the remarks during Micron's fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call on September 30, where the company reported record quarterly revenue of $54.2 billion. Here's what he s...
How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 My last post on the Rust compiler’s performance was two months ago and a lot has happened since then. Overall progress The measurements for the period 2026-07-29 to 2026-09-28 can be seen here. The mean wall-time reduction was 4.57%, which is a remarkable improvement in just two months. Of the 629 benchmark measurements, 555 of them improved and ...
GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
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Companies form strategic partnership to dramatically advance and accelerate semiconductor innovation News Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) and OpenAI today announced a strategic partnership that brings together OpenAI's advanced AI capabilities with Synopsys' industry-leading EDA tools and agentic AI capabilities to revolutioni...
Gemini 4 Argon
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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program. Built to sustain deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google. It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows ...
America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
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Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings Introduction I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, and assessed the energetic state of my body, all in the space of a few seconds. How is the brain able to do this? Partly by harn...
Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
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Run open models as fast as your hardware allows Magnitude is an open source inference engine for agents that optimizes itself for your exact hardware. It compiles and tunes its kernels on your device, so open models run up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. One click connects the agent you already use (Pi, OpenCode, Hermes, Codex, and more). Works on Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD, or nothing but a CPU. Dow...
Commit description as a thinking tool
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Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that for several reasons. I wanted to include all the useful information so readers wouldn’t have to hunt for it in multiple places. I wanted to explain what and, more importantly, why. Th...
The AI Race Just Got Awkward
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If you read the news headlines these days, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Western labs are getting spawn-camped by Chinese labs en masse. The Distillation Drama Not a week goes by when Anthropic doesnât release another article on how the Chinese are distilling their models, becoming a danger to humanity itself, etc. Itâs beneficial for them to say that because it sets the ground for t...
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use The vast majority of data centers in Europe keep information about their environmental impact secret, according to a study by Lighthouse Report in collaboration with Trouw and other European media. In the Netherlands, less than a quarter of larger data centers publish data about their electricity and drinking water usage. The r...
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
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“You Said No MCP!” If you went to pi.dev in the past, you found a proud declaration that Pi does not support MCP. If you listen to podcasts where we talked about Pi, you will have found more than one dismissive statement about MCP from us. Including a post by Mario about it. And yet, if you upgrade to Pi you will find MCP is now a supported piece of functionality. What happened? Things Change The ...
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
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This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. One of the signature public service announcements of my youth was created by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in 1987. A father finds a stash of pot and confronts his son: “Who taught you how to do this stuff?” “You, all right!” the kid snaps back. “I learned it by watching you!” I am bound by the AP Stylebook ...