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Drew DeVault argues that Hacker News’s culture follows from Y Combinator ownership, founder privileges, and a contested “apolitical” posture—using policy and history to explain why the site feels the way it does.
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Extending Scapy for Hardware Reverse Engineering
VoidStar Security shows how to use Scapy as a binary protocol framework to dissect SPI/QSPI logic-analyzer captures, trace flash erase/program cycles, and reconstruct firmware without desoldering the chip.
24 min · 5,435 words
Mercury 2.5: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Artificial Analysis profiles Inception's Mercury 2.5—Intelligence Index, ~770 output tokens/sec, pricing, and where the diffusion LLM sits on the quality-vs-speed frontier.
12 min · 2,677 words
OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench: 1,215 expert-rubric mental-health conversations built with 80+ clinicians across 22 countries to score safety, agency, context-seeking, and guidance.
10 min · 2,273 words
Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026
Unlisted finds 28.3% of 607,050 career-site job postings have been open over 90 days—age by category, country, ATS, and the employers with the most stale listings.
7 min · 1,617 words
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Cloudflare Cache Rules now support HTTP Vary on every plan—normalize negotiation headers, pass exact values to origin, or bypass cache when variance is too wild.
12 min · 2,727 words
6 new Google Flow Tools built by industry creatives
Google Labs ships six Flow Tools co-built with creatives in architecture, sound, and digital content—custom workflows like Mondo Sónico and CaptionCast that you describe and compose inside Google Flow.
2 min · 455 words
Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses the UN Security Council on AI as a possible Renaissance vs Industrial Revolution, urging shared capability measurements, safeguards, and keeping frontier systems under human control.
8 min · 1,739 words
Agent-Centric Development Workflow
Yunlong Liu proposes redesigning implementation, CI, and code review around autonomous coding agents—replacing human-paced PR loops with agent-first gates, verification, and review patterns for the agentic era.
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab reports Claude agents autonomously finding an RT-associated enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like RNA-repeat arrays in jumbo-phage DNA—early, still-uncharacterized biology shared to invite follow-on work.
7 min · 1,610 words
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS—more expressive audio models for custom character voices and scene dialogue across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Enterprise, Notebook, and Vids.
6 min · 1,376 words
His frailty made Ozzy’s final gig true heavy metal
Sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris watches Ozzy Osbourne’s seated farewell show while nursing a broken ankle, and finds metal’s hardness was always a thin shell over frailty, shame, love, and bodies that fail.
9 min · 1,958 words
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Simon Willison’s first-look notes on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and Luna launches the same day—pricing, early impressions, and what the renewed model price war means for builders.
5 min · 1,148 words
Senior PhD student Bhavay Tyagi collects practical advice for juniors and undergrads navigating a PhD amid rapid AI change—staying abreast, choosing problems, and keeping research craft intact.
2 min · 490 words
SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content
Research paper introducing SlopShape, a method for identifying AI-generated commercial web content from structural signals alone—motivation, method, and evaluation on web-scale data.
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Evals Skills for Coding Agents
Hamel Husain publishes evals-skills—agent skills for AI product evaluation covering audit, error analysis, synthetic data, judge prompts, evaluator validation, and RAG evals, distilled from work with dozens of companies.
3 min · 585 words
Better prompt caching for GPT-6
OpenAI explains GPT-6 prompt-caching improvements: higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls aimed at cutting latency and inference cost.
3 min · 623 words
Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, independent third-party assessments of frontier models and safeguards—including access models, scope, and public reporting expectations.
9 min · 1,980 words
Thirty years in, Maroun Baydoun reflects on JavaScript’s midlife moment: an ecosystem eyeing younger, leaner languages, and what that restlessness means for the web’s default programming language.
6 min · 1,385 words
Unreal Labs introduces Unreal Agent, an agent harness claiming up to 40% cost savings versus Codex on production workloads and coding/science benchmarks, with details on architecture and evaluation.
5 min · 1,071 words