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Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list

1 hour ago

13 upvotes – 0 comments

Trump Throws His Support Behind Flock Cameras: 'I Like Them'

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-throws-his-support-behind-flock-cameras-i-like-them/

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/

22 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

AI bubble pops – Cory Doctorow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case and blames ChatGPT

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/chatgpt-invented-fake-police-testimony-murder-appeal-new-mexico-high-court-says-2026-09-11/

52 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/

1 day ago

749 upvotes – 434 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating

1 day ago

593 upvotes – 652 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads

7 hours ago

573 upvotes – 269 comments

Homebrew 7.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/

16 hours ago

559 upvotes – 225 comments

JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini

17 hours ago

526 upvotes – 212 comments

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich

4 hours ago

1 change
432 upvotes – 179 comments

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/tesla.html

7 hours ago

397 upvotes – 111 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment

10 hours ago

371 upvotes – 175 comments

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/

9 hours ago

354 upvotes – 187 comments

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

https://www.investigatetv.com/2026/09/08/flock-worker-calls-police-investigatetv-reporter-filming-public-camera-installation/

11 hours ago

338 upvotes – 245 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data

11 hours ago

2 changes
298 upvotes – 157 comments

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428

5 hours ago

272 upvotes – 115 comments

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460

8 hours ago

247 upvotes – 184 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689

12 hours ago

201 upvotes – 47 comments

Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco

https://guessingheadlights.com/global-shortage-has-led-to-motor-oil-rationing-at-costco/

7 hours ago

1 change
199 upvotes – 166 comments

Aligned to whom?

https://hyperbo.la/w/aligned-to-whom/

22 hours ago

1 change
172 upvotes – 113 comments

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-requests/

15 hours ago

167 upvotes – 118 comments

The Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/

22 hours ago

161 upvotes – 24 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html

11 hours ago

156 upvotes – 72 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows

10 hours ago

★ 68 PowerShell
139 upvotes – 70 comments

Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100

https://invezz.com/news/2026/09/11/nvidia-says-every-1-it-invests-brings-back-100-so-why-does-the-stock-keep-falling/

14 hours ago

133 upvotes – 183 comments

After Math

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/after-math/

22 hours ago

130 upvotes – 142 comments

The contagion of fear

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/

2 hours ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 87 comments

Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koclOnlde0E

6 hours ago

1 change
123 upvotes – 80 comments

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/us-customs-supervisor-busted-for-stealing-core-i7-cpus-ram-and-hard-drives-from-homeland-security-pcs-stolen-tech-swapped-with-inferior-hardware-and-cashed-out-on-newegg

12 hours ago

123 upvotes – 105 comments

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/fingerprints-inside-sun-could-reveal-if-it-once-swallowed-planet

13 hours ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7586821/2026/09/12/football-black-card-referee/

8 hours ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-1-the-pc-side/

11 hours ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/houthis-used-claude-code-to-develop-missile-guidance-software-anthropic-s52mnx4pwpo

11 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 84 comments

Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account

https://newrepublic.com/post/215320/texts-kash-patel-order-staff-mean-social-media-posts-ifindretards

17 hours ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/canada-alliance-eu-carney-276f1778

1 day ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686380

7 hours ago

78 upvotes – 148 comments

There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier

https://singjupost.com/startalk-there-is-no-ai-really-its-just-people-w-jaron-lanier-transcript/

5 hours ago

66 upvotes – 82 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10

3 hours ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/

6 hours ago

1 change
64 upvotes – 57 comments

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-black-hole-caught.html

21 hours ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

https://belderbos.dev/blog/how-libraries-run-rust-inside-python/

10 hours ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments
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