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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher | 60

vals.ai

Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich

Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) | 9

SPACESHIPS — a vector gravity well pulling a ship into it
spaceships.treybastian.com

SPACESHIPS

Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? | 114

atomic14.com

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? | atomic14

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs | 12

community.signalusers.org

Registration without a phone number - Page 10 - Feature Requests - Signal Community

I’m quite sure that there are issues similar to this one. I would like to have the possibility to register to Signal without a phone number but maybe with an email or just an user name . I have got really young cousins …

The case against JPEG XL | 12

The case against JPEG XL

giannirosato.com

The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List | 2

interconnects.ai

Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.

Apple's Dimensional Drawings | 7

developer.apple.com

Page Not Found - Apple Developer

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 | 31

lesswrong.com

Vercel Security Checkpoint

Julia 1.13 highlights | 6

julialang.org

Julia 1.13 Highlights

The official website for the Julia Language. Julia is a language that is fast, dynamic, easy to use, and open source. Click here to learn more.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence | 3

Brundage, Miles | Avin, Shahar | Clark, Jack | Toner, Helen | Eckersley, Peter | Garfinkel, Ben | Dafoe, Allan | Scharre, Paul | Zeitzoff, Thomas | Filar, Bobby | Anderson, Hyrum | Roff, Heather | Allen, Gregory C. | Steinhardt, Jacob | Flynn, Carrick | hÉigeartaigh, Seán Ó | Beard, SJ | Belfield, Haydn | Farquhar, Sebastian | Lyle, Clare | Crootof, Rebecca | Evans, Owain | Page, Michael | Bryson, Joanna | Yampolskiy, Roman | Amodei, Dario

[1802.07228] The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

Abstract page for arXiv paper 1802.07228: The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties | 27

Close Up Of ManÂ’S Hands On The Steering Wheel Of A Car.
theverge.com

Your car is selling your data | The Verge

The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age | 1

knowablemagazine.org

Just a moment...

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster | 24

techcrunch.com

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board | TechCrunch

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) 254

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately? [david927]

news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi | 9

honisoit.com

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) | 5

pages.cs.wisc.edu

Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout | 14

fortune.com

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

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The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire | 7

katjahoyer.uk

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents | 1

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

Hey everyone, a few months ago, after recovering from a Clade-generated bug, I was thinking to myself “wouldn’t it be nice if prod DB writes were easy to roll back”. I’ve put something together: it’s a two-container deploy plus a CLI tool. It’s far from being production ready, so please be gentle. All feedback welcome!

The nitty gritty: https://eterdb.com/tech

GitHub: https://github.com/eterdb/eterdb [fdeth]

eterDB: Break production. Undo it. Even when an agent did it.
eterdb.com

eterDB | Postgres with undo

PostgreSQL 18 with transaction-level undo. Reverse a bad UPDATE, a greedy DELETE, a dropped column or a whole incident, down to the rows it touched, while the database stays live.

Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media | 1

Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media

The idea is to explore whether an intersection of social media, popularity, and prediction markets can exist and what it can look like. [ryanpere2298]

thevidmarket.com

The VidMarket — the daily market for video

"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts | 3

science.org

"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? 11

devblogs.microsoft.com

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

Making Startups Powerful | 31

Making Startups Powerful

paulgraham.com

Making Startups Powerful

CUDA for AMD on Windows | 10

Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows

GitHub - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows: Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. · GitHub

Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows

The Coming War on General Computation (2011) | 6

en.wikisource.org

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

Why is privacy so hard? (2019) | 18

Why is privacy so hard? (2019)

cacm.acm.org

Why is privacy so hard? (2019)

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace | 4

aprilnea.me

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

Bad code is kudzu | 11

Bad code is kudzu

vickiboykis.com

Bad code is kudzu | âś°Vicki Boykisâś°

Delete your features

Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping | 3

securityaffairs.com

Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" | 1

zenodo.org

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