Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Depa...
A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littletonâ(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without i...
Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and…read more
A while ago I started working on Colibrì to see if it was possible to run huge LLMs on a normal computer. The project grew far beyond what I expected, thanks in large part to the HackerNews community....
In Brief Posted: 1:35 PM PDT · August 9, 2026 Anthony Ha Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majo...
Sadly, there hasn't been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast's series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don'...
GitHub Models is now retiredI missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for mysimonw/researchrepository failed with this error message:GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part ...
NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down compute...
Article URL:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236541Points: 10# Comments: 0
Research:SQLite compressed text-history prototypesI'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taki...
XDA Developers reports: On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that "treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch" on his X acc...
Article URL:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236439Points: 19# Comments: 3
Article URL:https://www.wtoc.com/2026/08/07/savannah-police-department-fires-6-employees-over-flock-safety-system-misuse/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236033Points: 17# Comments:...
Article URL:https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourwareComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235859Points: 54# Comments: 58
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Article URL:https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-mediaComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235641Points: 20# Comments: 4
Article URL:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5441Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235572Points: 3# Comments: 3
Article URL:https://arks.org/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235486Points: 3# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#articleComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235378Points: 15# Comments: 6
Article URL:https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turnComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235349Points: 14# Comments: 11