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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• GitHub▲ 439

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf

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• Tcl Language Organization▲ 260

Tcl/Tk 9.1

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• Postal Employee Network▲ 202

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

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• BL2▲ 178

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

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• BBC▲ 141

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

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• The Guardian▲ 126

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

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• Electrek▲ 49

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

Tesla's profits keep falling, but it has guided for higher CapEx in the coming year. To fill the gap, it just opened a $30B credit line.

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• GitHub▲ 48

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust

A custom AI architecture being developed in rust . Contribute to Sparticle62ops/pssa development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• AGMAI▲ 23

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary…

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• MightyGodKing▲ 29

Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)

So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Electronic Frontier Foundation▲ 535

DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising, which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data they’...

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• Square Orbits▲ 448

macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements throughout the system.

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• Derek Thompson▲ 771

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975

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• The Guardian▲ 478

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

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• IEEE▲ 472

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent

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• OpenAI▲ 845

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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• GitHub▲ 391

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf

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• Tom's Hardware▲ 369

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.

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