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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• agentexecutor.io▲ 374

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

Declare an agentic task in YAML. AX sandboxes it, wires up its workspace, fences its network, and helps running it at scale.

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• en.sedaily.com▲ 417

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

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• libroot.org▲ 297

What happened to the Snowden archive

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• maharship.com▲ 92

Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea?

Why MCP was always a bad idea and I

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• lithub.com▲ 121

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

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• github.com▲ 113

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

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• github.com▲ 105

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

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• aeaweb.org▲ 26

Winning the Visa Lottery

Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans.

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org25 items
• Brian Cantrill▲ 553

What Sun got wrong

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies. Thanks to our designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, all of these homage shirts are amazing — but one of them was simply too hot to leave as a surprise:

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• Alice GG▲ 686

Attention is all you have

The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...

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• X.AI▲ 537

Grok 4.7

SpaceXAI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.

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• Colin Breck▲ 505

I don't want to read what you didn't write

Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.

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• Consumer Rights▲ 493

Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

In January 2025, Disney+ updated its Subscriber Agreement to include provisions allowing advertisements in content across all subscription tiers, including those...

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• Kev▲ 426

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 you can train and run on your own - jaredpalmer/kev

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• Xiaomi Corporation▲ 742

MiMo v2.6

Introducing the MiMo-V2.6 series: frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public.

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• Wired▲ 382

ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

You can't always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses – but your phone can help.

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• Twitter▲ 378

Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

After Anthropic made Fable 5 permanently available in subscription plans, I noticed a large drop in performance. The model felt dumber, and I couldn't explain why. Measured five different…

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• ZuckOff▲ 595

ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room

ZuckOff listens for the Bluetooth advertisements camera glasses emit and tells you when a lens is in the room. Everything stays on your phone.

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• Jason McDonald▲ 365

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

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• Science▲ 360

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

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• Poloclub▲ 303

Transformers Explained Visually

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