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A new account made over $515,000 betting on the U.S. strike against Iran
xcancel.com
When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
ejholmes.github.io
New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
sciencedaily.com

Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high hydrogen peroxide levels—the tiny iron-based structure sparks not one but two intense chemical reactions, flooding tumors with cell-damaging oxygen molecules. This dual attack overwhelms cancer cells w

US Military says 3 service members have been killed
apnews.com

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that a new leadership council “has begun its work” after death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pezeshkian made the comment in a prerecorded message aired on Iranian state television.

Why XML Tags Are So Fundamental to Claude
glthr.com
AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
ivanturkovic.com

ivan.turkovic - Writing code is easier than ever. Being a software engineer is harder than ever. The paradox nobody talks about, and what engineers and leaders should do.

Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak
theguardian.com

With the rise of influencer Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxers’, sexist language from niche memes has infiltrated official government accounts and NYT headlines

Ape Coding
rsaksida.com

Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.

AI is making junior devs useless
beabetterdev.com

Daniel - All things Software Engineering, Software Design/Architecture, and AWS.

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
ghostty.org

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported
99helpers.com

Experience what AI chat looks like with heavy advertising: banners, interstitials, sponsored responses, freemium gates, and more.

Flightradar24 for Ships
atlas.flexport.com
4,500 Physicians Agree (About Bacon)
machielreyneke.com

On breakfast, engagement rings, and regime change.

Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?
joelsiks.com
Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
mlu-explain.github.io

An introduction to the Decision Trees, Entropy, and Information Gain.

Switch to Claude without starting over
claude.com

Transfer your preferences, projects, and context from other AI providers into Claude. Switch without losing what makes your AI useful.

10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
modernaicourse.org
The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024)
dl.acm.org
Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading
9to5google.com

Ben Schoon - Some Android recovery menu tools and options are being removed in the latest Samsung Galaxy updates, but the reason is unclear.

Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%
sciencedaily.com

Eating nothing but oatmeal for just two days might sound extreme, but it delivered a striking payoff in a new clinical trial. People with metabolic syndrome who followed a short, calorie-reduced oat-based plan saw their harmful LDL cholesterol drop by 10%, along with modest weight loss and lower blood pressure. Even more surprising, the cholesterol benefits were still visible six weeks later.

Microgpt
karpathy.github.io
Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster
amd.com

Step-by-step guide to clustering AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ systems for local one trillion-parameter LLM inference using llama.cpp RPC and ROCm.

Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
apps.apple.com

Discover the top games and apps for iPhone, including Claude by Anthropic, ChatGPT, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Google Gemini on the App Store.

Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities
fortune.com

Jason Ma - "We will no longer invest in institutions that fail to sharpen our leaders' warfighting capabilities or that undermine the very values they are sworn to defend."

Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2
github.com/jonwiggins
show

A pure Rust reimplementation of libxml2. Contribute to jonwiggins/xmloxide development by creating an account on GitHub.

HN is drowning in AI comments
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute
techcrunch.com

Anthony Ha - Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
dl.acm.org
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
npr.org

Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's second supreme leader, has been killed. He had held power since 1989, guiding Iran through difficult times — and overseeing the violent suppression of dissent.

Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition
alexlitzenberger.com

A blog post by Alex Litzenberger

We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
twitter.com
MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO
blog.vonng.com

Ruohang Feng - MinIO’s repo is officially archived and abandoned. And how AI Agents helped bring MinIO back from the dead.

Our Agreement with the Department of War
openai.com
Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
venturebeat.com
Khamenei Dead
twitter.com
Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” Alerts
robservatory.com
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow
windowscentral.com

After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
collapseofindustrialcivilization.com

Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …

Monitor the Situation
monitor-the-situation.com

Monitor the Situation - The last 24 hours of what's happening around the world. Live news, conflicts, disasters, and markets on an interactive map with AI-powered analysis.

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
gist.github.com

Verified Spec-Driven Development. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The whole thing was a scam
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
help.obsidian.md

Headless Sync - Obsidian Help

Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it
fireborn.mataroa.blog
Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document
github.com/rivet-dev
show

Rivet Actors are a serverless primitive for stateful workloads. Each actor has built-in state, storage, workflows, scheduling, and WebSockets — everything needed to build the next generation of sof...

Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
rockoder.com

Ganesh Pagade - A systems analysis of how AI-assisted development creates a gap between output speed and understanding, and why organizations cannot see it happening.

Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications
cerovac.com

Perhaps well-intended, the auto-scrolling content can be a real nightmare for multiple groups of users. I've done a mobile app audit and turning on screen reader exposed quite a messy experience - and yes, web can suffer from the same issue.

Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation
github.com/nocodemf
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agentic life simulation from inception. Contribute to nocodemf/werld development by creating an account on GitHub.

Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access
github.com/google-gemini

Over the past week, we saw reports from Gemini CLI users experiencing account disruptions. These were the result of a series of Antigravity bans rolled out to address violations of the Antigravity ...

OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
wired.com

Kate Knibbs - Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

The Life Cycle of Money
doap.metal.bohyen.space
Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
nowigetit.us
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Customer Update on Simplenote
forums.simplenote.com

Simplenote Forums Support Customer Update on Simplenote Customer Update on Simplenote staff-lynn · Staff · September 5, 2025 at 6:09 pm Copy link Add topic to favorites We appreciate your…

Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government
anthropic-timeline.vercel.app
What AI coding costs you
tomwojcik.com

What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Latency numbers every programmer should know
cheat.sh
Show HN: Gitcredits – movie-style end credits for any Git repo in your terminal
github.com/Higangssh
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Roll movie-style credits for your git repo — right in the terminal - Higangssh/gitcredits

Don't trust AI agents
nanoclaw.dev

AI agents need a security model that assumes things will go wrong. The right response isn't better permission checks, it's architecture that makes trust unnecessary.

Claude just jumped to #2 on the iOS App Store
xcancel.com
Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash
github.com/junevm
show

compress any image to 16 bytes and reconstruct a blurry preview. Like blurhash and thumbhash, but smaller. - junevm/splathash

OpenAI – How to delete your account
help.openai.com

Delete your account by submitting a request to our Privacy Portal or within ChatGPT directly.

The Future of AI
lucijagregov.com

The Parents’ Paradox: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of Machine Morality This post is based on a talk I gave at The AI & Automation Conference in London on February 25, 2026, and my slides. A…

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
mksg.lu

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.

US Customs destroy a rare floppy disk containing demo version of Tsukihime
timeextension.com

Time Extension - "One of only 50 copies in the world"

Israel Is Attacking Iran
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
unsloth.ai

A big new upgrade to our Dynamic Quants!

Iran agreed zero enriched uranium, and israel immediately bombs Tehran
twitter.com
Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements
dspace.networks.imdea.org
US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran
cnn.com

Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, Haley Britzky, Eugenia Yosef, Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, Nadeen Ebrahim - Israel launched what it called a “preemptive strike” against Iran Saturday morning, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz, as a state of emergency was declared across the country.

U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran
nytimes.com
The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
cnn.com

Oren Liebermann - Israel launched what it called a “preemptive strike” against Iran Saturday morning, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz, as a state of emergency was declared across the country.

How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
help.openai.com
Rust is just a tool
lewiscampbell.tech

A programming language should not be your identity.

Cash issuing terminals
computer.rip
OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network
reuters.com
Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
blog.timcappalli.me

Tim Cappalli - Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
twitter.com
"Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Dept. of War to deploy our models"
twitter.com
Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
a-cup-of.coffee

Discover how Bootc and OSTree are revolutionizing Linux system deployment, offering modern, efficient, and immutable management.

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
glashrvatske.hrt.hr

Interior Minister Davor Božinović announced Friday that Croatia is officially free of landmines. Thirty-one years after the end of the Homeland War, all known minefields have been cleared — a major milestone for the country.

Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court
reuters.com
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
anthropic.com

Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

We Will Not Be Divided
notdivided.org

Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself
science.org
Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute
thehill.com
Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux
github.com/wkoszek

Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust. Boots Linux. - wkoszek/emuko

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
twitter.com
The Lancet: Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
thelancet.com
Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health
emt.pensoft.net

Alessandra Bez Birolo, Marcelo Tosatti, Oldemar de Oliveira Carvalho Junior, Assiya Haddout - Estuaries are vital ecosystems bridging terrestrial and marine environments, supporting nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and services like flood protection. Yet, they face threats from pollution, habitat fragmentation, overfishing, and climate change, demanding robust bioindicators for effective monitoring. This synthesis highlights otters—semi-aquatic mustelids such as the Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis), Nort

Trump Bans Anthropic from All US Federal Agencies
twitter.com
The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages
blog.cloudflare.com

We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user interface.

Trump orders US Government to cut ties with Anthropic
abcnews.com

ABC News - The Pentagon had set a 5:00 p.m. ET deadline for Anthropic to agree to a deal.

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
npr.org

Trump announced that Federal agencies would be cease using Anthropic's tools within six months.

Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff
nytimes.com
Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic AI tech 'immediately'
cnbc.com
Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount
reuters.com
The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock
origami-robotics.com
Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
beyondthejoke.co.uk

Tributes have been paid to Rob Grant, the comedy writer best known as the co-creator of long running hit sitcom Red Dwarf. Grant was also one of the main writers on Spitting IMage for many years, writing regularly with Doug Naylor.The news was broken by the Red Dwarf fan site, Ganymede and Titan. (note - at the time of writing the site has gone down due, presumably, to so many fans trying to find out more details).Cr

Leaving Google has actively improved my life
pseudosingleton.com

In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...

Let's discuss sandbox isolation
shayon.dev

A dive into the spectrum of sandboxing and isolation, from Linux namespaces and gVisor to hardware-enforced microVMs and WebAssembly, and why picking the right boundary matters for multi-tenant workloads.

GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware
promptarmor.com

Vulnerabilities in the GitHub Copilot CLI expose users to the risk of arbitrary shell command execution via indirect prompt injection without any user approval. We demonstrate that malware can be downloaded from external servers and executed with no user interaction beyond the initial query to the Copilot CLI.

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