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Glyphack▲ 713

It's getting harder to focus every day

I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I don’t know how and when this happened. During the last few years I was always studying, working, and doing open source. And actually got stuff done. Doing all of those at the same time requires paying attention to what I wanted to do and ignore the noise.

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Ptrchm▲ 674

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value…

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Anthropic▲ 1435

Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

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CNBC▲ 572

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter.

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BFL AI▲ 554

Flux 3

FLUX 3, our new multimodal frontier model, jointly learns from images, video, and audio to build one representation of the world. Now available in Early Access.

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The Guardian▲ 471

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that?

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The Hindu▲ 436

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth app Bitchat over security risks amid internet restrictions during protests, says Jack Dorsey.

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Psychotechnology▲ 342

Em dashes are amazing

An ode to a punctuation mark

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BFL AI▲ 313

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

FLUX 3 is running robots. Built with mimic and deployed at Audi, FLUX-mimic shows content creation and physical AI share one foundation: a model that understands the world.

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HHH HN▲ 550

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird

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Claude▲ 300

Claude Cookbook

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Haiku OS▲ 288

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

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House of Saud▲ 276

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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HN — Best of the Week

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Neal Stephenson▲ 1130

Writing by hand is good for your brain

Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

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Futurism▲ 631

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Politico▲ 816

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

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J Dan▲ 376

98.css

A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs.

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Stephen Follows▲ 329

What happened to TheNumbers.com

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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Simon Willison▲ 452

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

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Citizen▲ 448

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

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Y Combinator27d ago

Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (that is registered to me under my name, address, and phone number). During…

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Y Combinator27d ago

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

I’ve been building Echo (https://echo.tracerml.ai/), an experiment in making one AI system out of a pool of open-weight models rather than choosing a single model and using it for every…

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