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Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

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Attyn

Bringing intelligence to your cursor Discussion

GPT-5.6 Luna default 🌙, Agent Plugins 🔌, AMD Taalas acquisition 🧩

We’re reaching peak camera with the Sony A7R VI

Maximum camera. Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It wasn't long ago that shooting with a super high-resolution camera meant making serious sacrifices for the sake of all those megapixels. Enter the A7R VI .…

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

alchemy-utils 0.1a1

Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here .

The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

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2026.33: The CapEx Train Keeps Rolling

(Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are…

GitHub vs Vercel vs Replit: What Dev Platforms Do When AI Code Is Cheap

GLM-5.2 - Fine-tune and deploy your own instance (Sponsored) GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship long-horizon coding model, featuring a usable 1M-token context window that reliably maintains API contracts and engineering intent…

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it's only within the last five years that the company has begun flying the rocket dozens and then hundreds of times a…

When housing is unaffordable, this artist’s device makes pedaling harder

Justin Blinder had just been laid off when he first came up with the idea for Ground Truth. It was 2020, two weeks before covid lockdown went into effect, and the Brooklyn-based artist and technologist had no idea what…

Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Brought to You by • Antithesis —…

Anthropic slips an invisible signature into Claude

That memo you just worked with Claude to write? It might soon carry an invisible signature that says so. Anthropic just quietly detailed the rollout of invisible watermarks that label everything its Claude models touch,…

Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI

We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”. This is a live, cohort-based course for software engineers. This course is about teaching engineers how to reliably ship production-grade…

GLM-5.3

Coding leap from scaled post-training on the same base Discussion

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Self-sustaining and self-replicating AI viruses are here:…

Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Society can be reward-hacked, just like cyber environments:…

nenspace

the lo-fi of LLMs: your mind, made larger Discussion

Context engineering with Dex Horthy

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Spotify , and Apple . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Brought to You by • Antithesis — with…

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the…

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of…

AI giants head to the White House to discuss safety

After OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed breaches led by their agents, the conversation around AI security has picked up fast… and Washington’s response is now on the table. The White House has invited both companies, along…

A Detailed Guide to API Composition Techniques

In a service-based architecture, a single product screen showing a user profile, that user’s five most recent orders, the delivery status of each order, and a short list of recommendations requires data from four…

Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver

Before we start: I’ll be in New York, on 15 September, presenting the keynote at LDX3 New York , doing a book signing, and hanging out with attendees. The focus of the conference is engineering leadership at a time when…

The AI Situation in Software Development

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I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove

The OhSnap Snap Grip Stand, in black and silver. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge I told myself I wouldn't buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I'd tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed.…

Google LLM router ➡️, Cloudflare Wallets 💳, Anthropic and Volta 🤝

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

How building software is changing at Anthropic

Much-improved AI tooling is changing how we build software, and I want to take a peek into how the future of software engineering may unfold under its influence. What better place for that than with tech’s most…

EP222: What is Google’s TPU?

Architect the Future at AWS re:Invent (Sponsored) This isn’t a conference you sit through. AWS re:Invent includes 2,200+ sessions, and 70% are interactive; workshops, code talks, AWS Jams, GameDays, and the Architecture…

Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy

Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech. This was fodder for…

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Grok’s CLI uploaded all your local files…

388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

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Meta returns to its open-source roots

Meta has had an incredible AI turnaround in 2026, and its latest move now has the company going back to its Llama roots. With a new open-weight Muse Glimmer model and Muse Spark 1.2 also going open "soon", the…

Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math”

this is Gergely with the monthly, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. If you’ve been forwarded…

OpenAI Astra pause 🚨, Claude Code cross-session 🤖, how Cursor Router works 🔀

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

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Apple Earnings, More on Amazon’s Earnings

Apple's earnings (and stock) are limited not by memory but rather chip shortages; then, more on Amazon's earnings and Andy Jassy's market analysis.

Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Epoch and METR release MirrorCode, a benchmark for seeing…

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

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Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Fable writes a decent GPU kernel, hinting at broader AI R&D…

Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . AI researchers launch new safety startup because “alignment…

Claude Chrome Cowork 🌐, Grok 4.6 🚀, DeepSeek v4-Pro-0813 🧠

Anthropic’s Watermarking, How It (Probably) Works, Worse Than It Seems

Anthropic is adding watermarking in response to the E.U.'s AI law. It's a terrible idea, first and foremost for philosophical reasons.

llm-gemini 0.33

Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash , gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding…

Joy

A Mac menu bar app that throws confetti for your wins Discussion

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really…

FileRouter

Take control of files and editors Discussion

Google DeepMind reshuffle 🧠, Meta Muse Code 💻, Anthropic chip team 🧩

OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips

OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face, but the takeaways are more encouraging than people realize.

ChronicleBio 🧬, Mind Lab continual learning 📈, GPT-Live architecture 🎙️

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

There is a lot of excitement and some trepidation among The X-Files fans about Ryan Coogler's reboot for Hulu, currently in production. While we're waiting, Hulu just released Chris Carter's revamped (and R-rated)…

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices have skyrocketed…

Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest

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2026.32: Earnings and Learnings

(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for…

Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It

On-call Best Practices for SREs (Sponsored) On-call shouldn’t feel like constant firefighting. This guide from Datadog breaks down how high-performing SRE teams reduce alert fatigue, streamline incident response, and…

Muse Glimmer ✨, OpenAI Cyber 🛡️, Claude vs Riemann Hypothesis 🧠

How Cloudflare Is Making AI Pay for Content

Optimizing Write-Intensive Database Performance (Sponsored) Free masterclass: Learn practical strategies for predictable low-latency writes at scale Free Masterclass: Optimizing Write-Intensive Database Performance…