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    I asked Rep. Ilhan Omar about Bernie Sanders telling @jonfavs that, “No serious person that I know who is running for office believes in quote unquote defunding the police.”
    Fin 23m ago 58/hr +7.2σ
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    astra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available. we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few. given its cyber capabilities, we need a little big longer to do do this safely. but hopefully not too long!
    AI 3h ago 273/hr +6.5σ
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    I feel Theo is in need of a reset 👀
    AI 4h ago 214/hr +5.1σ
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    App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours || 167 Comments
    HN 7h ago 23/hr +4.3σ
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    Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale || 173 Comments
    HN 7h ago 22/hr +4.1σ
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    New in Claude Code: your sessions can now message each other. Instead of having to re-explain yourself in another session, you can now tell Claude to do it. It sends a summary (not your history or files), and the other session picks it up mid-task.
    AI 6h ago 175/hr +4.1σ
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    Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? || 47 Comments
    HN 2h ago 21/hr +4.0σ
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    Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief || 89 Comments
    HN 4h ago 18/hr +3.3σ
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    Citi cuts Micron price target on peaking memory prices Citi downgraded Micron, arguing that both DRAM and NAND prices will see QoQ gains decelerate over the next four quarters, with pricing peaking in the May (F2Q) quarter of next year. Specifically, Citi revised its QoQ DRAM p
    Fin 3h ago 28/hr +3.2σ
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    The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded || 14 Comments
    HN 1h ago 13/hr +2.4σ
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    Somewhere on your phone you have the closest thing to magic we have shipped. It does things for you. All day if you want. Go try it.
    AI 4h ago 101/hr +2.2σ
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    BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Pentagon’s top general Caine looking for exit route from the Iran war — per CNN
    Fin 3h ago 18/hr +2.0σ
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    U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative || 41 Comments
    HN 3h ago 11/hr +1.8σ
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    Kakashii is a must-subscribe. Bull or bear, his research must-read, must-think, must-act material.
    Fin 4h ago 14/hr +1.5σ
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    ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests' || 73 Comments
    HN 7h ago 9.1/hr +1.5σ
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    Ukrainian attack drones struck Russia's Syzran Oil Refinery tonight, setting the facility ablaze. Locals reported multiple explosions and a large fire around the refinery complex.
    Fin 53m ago 12/hr +1.2σ
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    Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it || 53 Comments
    HN 7h ago 7.2/hr +1.1σ
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    The US assessed that an explosive-laden drone discovered at an airport in Germany on Wednesday belonged to a Russian intelligence service - US defense official to CNN An airport bus driver managed to swat the drone out of the air before it could hit a Ukrainian An-124.
    Fin 6h ago 10/hr +0.9σ
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    Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength || 32 Comments
    HN 5h ago 5.5/hr +0.7σ
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    AWS Leadership: Cut CPU Resource Waste to Address Capacity Constraints Apparently, engineers now even have to wait days to secure CPU server capacity.
    Fin 1h ago 6.7/hr +0.5σ
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    SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It’s Real, Will Drive $500B ARR for SpaceX, and Why Microsoft Will Be the Largest Offtaker Inference at 100B/GW/year, SpaceX's stellar pace, Microsoft's 10GW 2026 Awakening, Azure Can Grow Tiple-Digits semianalysis.substack.com/p/… || semianalysis.substack.com
    Fin 6h ago 6.3/hr +0.4σ
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    We shipped four updates to Claude Managed Agents this week. First, you can now set a budget for sessions to keep spend predictable. Sessions that hit the limit pause with a budget_reached event, you can raise the budget to resume.
    AI 3h ago 25/hr +0.4σ
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    Cockpit view from a Ukrainian Army Aviation Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunship of a strike mission this summer, flying at treetop level just behind the frontline.
    Fin 2h ago 5.4/hr +0.3σ
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    The team and I use Auto mode exclusively, and have been for many months. I couldn't imagine going back to permission prompts! Really excited to get this out to everyone.
    AI 7h ago 23/hr +0.3σ
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    Scoop! Meta's CTO, Boz, recently told employees that any extra time freed up by AI should NOT be used for vacation. Instead, it should go towards building "cooler stuff" at Meta. Requesting more time off from your boss is not a "good career strategy," he added.
    Fin 5h ago 4.9/hr +0.2σ
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    Merged and shipped 48 PRs in 2 days 💀
    AI 5h ago 20/hr +0.2σ
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    I recommend checking out @zephyr_z9's comments on memory. Our Citrini Semi team posts commentary like this in the Citrini Substack chat. open.substack.com/chat/posts… || open.substack.com
    Fin 2h ago 4.4/hr +0.2σ
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    turns out you can get indirect prompt injection to ~0 on unseen attacks if you stack enough layers (model training + input probes + a classifier checking intent). didn't expect that a year ago. auto mode is default in claude code as of next week claude.com/blog/auto-mode-de… || claude.com
    AI 3h ago 17/hr +0.2σ
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    Major Friday-night Ukrainian attack drone raid into Russia ongoing, with another wave of a few hundred drones headed towards Russian targets.
    Fin 3h ago 3.8/hr +0.1σ
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    State Dept: US collaborating with Congress to reveal $1 billion aid for Colombia in security deal
    Fin 1h ago 3.7/hr +0.1σ
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    Interesting that in Kevin Warsh’s first full month as Fed chairman, the only two eventual taskforces leads he met with are on the data timliness taskforce (#3). federalreserve.gov/foia/chai… || federalreserve.gov
    Fin 1h ago 3.6/hr +0.1σ
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    Great point from @_SidVerma "If you really want to understand the divide between Silicon Valley and Wall Street, look no further than the money flowing back into Situational Awareness."
    Fin 4h ago 3.6/hr +0.1σ
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    Definitely possible that in the future, thanks to AI, we’re going to have A LOT of free time on our hands.
    Fin 5h ago 3.6/hr +0.1σ
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    Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support || 14 Comments
    HN 6h ago 2.1/hr +0.0σ
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    dear openai just make a new phone everyone wants openaiphone we can read 2-4x faster than we talk and speak openai alexa reachy hybrid is fine but pls just be a stepping stone to phone we want phone signed, everybody
    AI 1h ago 12/hr +0.0σ
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    Ask HN: What art would you like to express? || 11 Comments
    HN 5h ago 2.1/hr +0.0σ
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    Still using it a lot. Still an incredible model. Not the most "wise" but damn is it good at solving puzzles. Had sol and fable debug a network issue in parallel. Fable took 85 minutes. Sol took 4.
    AI 4h ago 12/hr +0.0σ
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    Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode || 14 Comments
    HN 7h ago 2.0/hr +0.0σ
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    opencode2 has tool search and codemode built in this means it can handle infinite mcps, custom tools, apis, etc and it's the simplest implementation we've seen
    AI 3h ago 11/hr +0.0σ
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    automode is much safer than any other permission system out there, especially reviewing them yourself excited to announce we're rolling it out to everyone by default, with no overhead cost for the classifier
    AI 7h ago 11/hr +0.0σ
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    For all of the talk about how loose fiscal policy is to blame for higher long-term Treasury yields, the proximate explanation is getting ignored: Tariffs might amount to fiscal tightening, but they've substantially lifted inflation readings. Which have caused the Fed to get more
    Fin 1h ago 3.1/hr −0.0σ
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    Of all major institutions in America right now, the Federal Reserve is the LEAST screwed up. Maybe that's an indictment of the larger situation that we're in, but it's obviously true. I challenge those who disagree to name an institution that they would trust more than the Fed
    Fin 1h ago 3.1/hr −0.0σ
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    Gold has been stuck in a range around $4,000 all year, and based on the triangle chart pattern alone, it might well go a bit lower than that. But the good news for gold is that the global money supply is rising again, with its growth rate recovering from 7% to 9%. It’s still down
    Fin 3h ago 3.0/hr −0.0σ
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    Strongest tape of the year imo. Everything rallying. Earnings implosions recovering in a week for lots of names. Earnings pops not being faded, some getting chased. Imagine if Iran conflict actually ends.
    Fin 6h ago 2.7/hr −0.1σ
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    CHART OF THE WEEK: Equity ETF flows during weeks when the S&P 500 is red. This dip buying army is made up of both degens and Vanguardians, an odd couple, but this is what the bears are up against. Good luck with that.. via @psarofagis
    Fin 5h ago 2.7/hr −0.1σ
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    Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wrote up the details here, it's pretty wild simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7… || simonwillison.net
    AI 2h ago 8.7/hr −0.1σ
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    i used to be cool now i wear sandals
    AI 6h ago 8.0/hr −0.1σ
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    Siri sucks. So I made a way for Codex to act as my iPhone's voice assistant. Now Codex can read my screen, control apps, and take actions on my behalf – all in vanilla iOS 27.
    AI 7h ago 7.8/hr −0.1σ
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    Our cybersecurity deep dive is live.
    Fin 7h ago 2.5/hr −0.1σ
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    did you train your harness from scratch or is it just a finetune
    AI 1h ago 7.2/hr −0.1σ