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Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

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Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

Rune 1.1 makes Rune free for personal use and adds a perpetual commercial license, a workspace symbol index, first-class Python support, an Emacs editor, and substantial improvements to SSH workspaces.

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks.

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The AI Aesthetic

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

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CodePen 2.0

Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn't the place to describe every detail of what we did and why we did it. If you're interested, perhaps our Why 2.0? podcast or the What's…

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Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.

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2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

Calibrate your enthusiasm

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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

We reviewed 22 ML conference submissions this summer. Fifteen had fabricated citations, hallucinated authors, or clear LLM slop, so we complain about that a bit, and release the paper references audit we now run.

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Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

We’re looking for a process engineer with 5+ years of experience in scaling catalytic technologies to pilot and beyond. You will play a central role in designing, constructing, and commissioning our pilot unit and subsequently designing our first commercial unit. Required core competencies: - Procuring, integrating, operating, and fixing pilot-scale equipment; - Pilot chemical plant commissioning and operation; - Experience with recycling loops; - Experience with gas-to-liquids processes (syngas-to-methanol preferred); - Collaboration with EPCs in overseeing FOAK commercial unit design; - Experience with Aspen or other process simulation software. Preferred qualifications: - PLC/SCADA design and integration; - Experien

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Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 45 points more censored on China-sensitive questions than on matched controls. Every model trained on it stays at the level of the untouched American base.

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI labs to perform similar reviews.

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

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Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish

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Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

A simple 6502 based computer. Contribute to MemoireMorte/Memo-1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

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On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

The AI Aesthetic

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

CodePen 2.0

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

Vanuatu gains independence.

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.

Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.

England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time.

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.

The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.

The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.

The Valuev Circular bans the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire.

First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.

English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.

Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.

An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.

Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is destroyed by a fire.

Baghdad is founded.

Election of pope Vitalian following the death of pope Eugene I in the previous month.

Mark Antony wins a final cavalry battle against Octavian in the battle of Alexandria, but his infantry is defeated and the next day his fleet and troops start to desert to Octavian.

On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.