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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
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Trump: "this is a last chance for Iran to sign a good document"
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Over 1,300 employees of frontier labs have called for us to slow down. The letter was supported officially by both Anthropic and OpenAI. Why the sudden shift?
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NEW: Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinki
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“Any country with windmills is a loser,” President Trump says.
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where are all the scary founders
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The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
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ok seriously though. can we start talking about ubi or something like it because like. if you hadn’t notice. we’re in an actual singularity. probs should have plan
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Christ, Opus, talk like a normal person I built this app and I have no idea what it's saying
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Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
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President Trump: “Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism.”
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“Frankly, I think she choked,” Trump says of Jeanine Pirro.
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DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
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Devtools must be open source
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Unlimited Seedance for 11 days. Seedance 2.5 is coming soon to Higgsfield. Start with 4 days of Seedance 2.0 in 4K, the most premium Seedance model right now, then spend 7 more on ANY other Seedance model. Seedance 2.5 is coming soon to Higgsfield.
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Ferran Torres will join me at 9 p.m. ET tonight.
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
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Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
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by the end of the year we will be deep into the heart of the singularity. mentally prepare for this scenario.
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TRUMP: CHEVRON, EXXON MADE TOO MUCH MONEY
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We've been asked why Cline works better with open weights models like DeepSeek than other harnesses and want to share some detail (more in our blog below). Our internal evals show that many open weights models like DeepSeek, GLM, and Kimi are RL trained to spend more tokens veri
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every company is publishing random ai benchmarks because they're desperately looking for some way to market their product it's useless noise. no one working on the things they're benchmarking pay any attention to them
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i was saying yesterday it's basically impossible to assess this what would happen if they took a hit on their valuation? how principled would people remain
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What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
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Don't get too excited, but SPX is on track for a +36.1% August.
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Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first
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Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x. Recorded a video version of this blog post. Also up on YouTube, pod feed, and Substack.
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Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents
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At least make Non Profit Hospitals show all their financials to the public. The taxpayers are subsidizing them A new Illinois law keeps hospital finances hidden from the public wbez.org/health-medicine/202…
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wbez.org
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I think a lot of people don't realize- if you connect a Claude Connector (e.g. your gmail, calendar, slack, etc), Claude Code will also be able to use them, including in Artifacts.
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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
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I was excited about “source code becoming like assembly” 18 months ago. After years of bending and pushing coding models to their limits. I am not sure I am excited about it now. It is the future but we are far from being “on the verge” of it for serious software with uptime an
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Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years
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open-source is very close to catching up to Fable. any second now! they just need to beat GPT-5.6-Sol first and then TRIPLE their score
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if you don't have this realization at least once a week then you are not doing interesting shit: as soon as you go slightly off distribution they fail horribly. But this doesn't matter at all and we are still going to get an intelligence explosion
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AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
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US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran
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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
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US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
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16 Year old used AI to disprove professor
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SPX is now up +11% YTD. It has been up at least +11% YTD at some point during August in 47 calendar years going all the way back to 1923 (S&P Index then S&P 500 Index). Of those 47 years, there's only been one time that the entire year finished negative (Jan-Dec).
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US manufacturing is booming, expanding at the fastest pace since 2022 and beating expectations in many metrics for the month of July. Omar Sharif of Inflation Insights points out that the ISM production index rose by the most for any July since 1951. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Ukrainian attack drones reportedly struck a major power substation in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine tonight, causing a widespread blackout.
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S&P 500 profit margins spiked to 16.7% in Q2, which is by far their highest level in history. “Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins don't mean revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits don
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Can an AI Model Obey a Strict Style Guide?
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Fintwit on a generational run. Scream about memory p/b November - February and get totally left out, then ape in at the may top and get mega bearish Amazon before it biblically rips and memory crashes
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SearXNG in Rust
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Anthropic is ready with their ads for Black Hat / Def Con! (For the avoidance of doubt, this is a joke)
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