Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap

AI chatbots becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?

An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.20804: An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents

If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious

Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

OpenJev

Run typed option logits and autoregressive JSON locally with open models and WebGPU.

ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

ZCode, the GLM coding agent from Z.ai, uploads full workspaces with .git history, LFS cache and reflogs to Aliyun OSS. UI toggles do not stop it.

Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

Bend: a fast language that blocks AI mistakes via proof.

The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands

Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

I don't like passkeys

Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B retains 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B benchmark performance in a 5.9GB footprint, with multimodal and agentic capabilities.

The scourge of x86 emulation

Show HN: Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos

Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

About Cekura Cekura is building the infrastructure for self-improving conversational agents. Teams use Cekura to test, monitor, debug, and improve AI agents across voice, chat, SMS, phone, and web. We help them catch failures in latency, barge-in, tool calls, hallucinations, instruction-following, regressions, and production workflows. We’re YC F24, growing fast, backed by top investors, and working with teams deploying AI agents in the real world. About the Role We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with technical customers and help them get value from Cekura. You’ll sit at the intersection of customers, product, engineering, and GTM. Your job is to deeply understand how customers build agents, help them create se

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

Jemalloc 5.4.0

Contribute to jemalloc/jemalloc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Replacing Pull Requests with Delta

From the Zed Blog: Delta is now in public beta. Replacing pull requests is our first step toward replacing GitHub.

Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.