Creative Code
Products & Announcements
Blender Lab: An Open R&D Space to Drive Future Innovation
Damage Control
First AI-Agent Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Disrupted; Defense Must Adapt
Research & Understanding
Three meanings of world model: assets, simulators, and brains
Research & Understanding
Nano Banana: Google’s AR Image Model That Actually Follows Your Prompts
Creative Code
Interactive Shader That Reveals Your Fovea’s Footprint
Products & Announcements
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.1: Smarter Chats, Easier Personalization
Creative Code
WIP AI Music-Video Generator: Image + Audio In, Video Clip Out
Research & Understanding
600+ AI Image Tests: OpenAI = Creative, Gemini = Realistic, Seedream = Fast
Damage Control
Study: US AI Adoption Could Add 900,000 Tons CO₂ Annually—About 0.02% of National Emissions
Creative Code
One-Line Strudel Code for a TR-909 Drum Groove
Research & Understanding
Netflix’s Rules for Responsible GenAI Use in Production
Creative Code
Pose Animator: Real-time SVG Puppeteering with TensorFlow.js
Products & Announcements
What HN Is Building: Practical AI, Local‑First Apps, and Indie Tools (Nov 2025)
Market Forces
Samsung 2025 Family Hub Update: Unified UI, Smarter Food Tracking, Stronger Security
Meatspace
How Not to Die of Heart Disease: The Affordable Prevention Playbook
Market Forces
Farmers’ Almanac Ends After Two Centuries: 2026 Will Be the Final Edition
Creative Code
Game Design in 12 Principles: A Practical Cheat Sheet
Creative Code
Before Wordle: DEC’s 1973 BASIC “WORD” and the Roots of Guessing Games
Creative Code
TheoryTab: Explore Song Theory by Chord Progressions and Real Examples
Biz
From Leads to Trust: How to Win When AI Makes Everything Look Credible
Creative Code
Color-Coded Harmony: Learning Western Music Through 100 Popular Pieces
Optimism, Market Forces
Africa’s PAYG Solar Is Building 21st-Century Infrastructure
Programming
Ditch the Cloud: Run a Few Linux Servers and Save 10x
Programming
Codemaps: Just-in-time AI maps for understanding and navigating your codebase
Programming
Turning FFmpeg into a Serverless Browser Tool
Research & Understanding
Sparse Memory Layers: Targeted Continual Learning Without Forgetting
Damage Control
Join Me for No Socials November
Products & Announcements
Skyfall-GS: Real-Time City-Scale 3D from Satellite Images via Diffusion-Guided Refinement
Research & Understanding
AI as Compression: Why LLMs May Truly Be Thinking
Market Forces
What 180M Job Postings Reveal About AI’s Real Impact on Jobs in 2025
Creative Code
Explore Named Colors Across Color Spaces
Programming
Operationalizing Claude Code: Guardrails, Context Hygiene, Skills, and CI
Products & Announcements
Google’s Pomelli: AI-Branded Campaigns for SMBs, Now in Beta
Research & Understanding
A Web Server With No App Code: LLM + 3 Tools
Damage Control
ICE Facial Recognition App Mandates Scans, Keeps Photos 15 Years
Products & Announcements
Affinity by Canva: Free All‑in‑One Creative Suite with Optional AI
Research & Understanding
Don’t Cite Chatbots as Proof
Creative Code
Dithering Basics: How Black-and-White Patterns Fake Shades
Damage Control
AI Is Ending the Rip-Off Economy
Products & Announcements
Composer: A Fast, RL-Trained Coding Agent for Real-World Software Development
Research & Understanding
Working After a Parietal Stroke: Protect Bandwidth, Single-Thread, Use AI, Say No
Damage Control
Bots Overwhelmed Bear’s Reverse Proxy—What Broke and How It’s Now Hardened
Research & Understanding
Tinker to Learn: Balance, Practice, and Taste
Research & Understanding
Single‑Pass Image Editing Showdown: Style Wins, Precision Still Hard
Products & Announcements
Claude Code on the Web: A Solid v1 That Outshines Cursor
Damage Control
AI Misidentifies Doritos Bag as Gun, Police Detain Teen at Baltimore School
Programming
Durable Workflows for TypeScript: Reliability and Observability with Zero Plumbing
Products & Announcements
Google expands Earth AI: Geospatial Reasoning, Google Earth tools, and Cloud access
Products & Announcements
Claude Adds Project-Scoped Memory and Incognito Mode, Now on Pro and Max
Research & Understanding
LLMs Aren’t Ideologically Neutral: A Black‑Box A/B Test Across Top Models
Products & Announcements
Ovi: Open-Source Text-to-Audio-Video Generation with Efficient Inference
Products & Announcements
ChatGPT Atlas for macOS: An AI Browser with Agents, Memory, and Privacy Controls
Market Forces
Wikipedia: AI Answers and Social Video Drive 8% Drop in Human Visits
Damage Control
Sora Reveals OpenAI’s Pivot From Grand Disruption to Ad-Driven AI Slop
Damage Control
Always-On AI Is Driving Self-Exploitation
Research & Understanding
Canonicalizing LLM Labels with Embeddings and DSU
Damage Control
AWS Outage Exposes Cost of Brain Drain and Lost Tribal Knowledge
Damage Control
AWS US-EAST-1 Incident: NLB Health Subsystem and DNS Issues, Recovery Underway
Damage Control
AI Checkouts Made BMO Stadium Worse: Slower Lines, Fewer Choices
Products & Announcements
Claude Code on the Web: Secure Parallel Coding Tasks in Your Browser
Products & Announcements
DeepSeek-OCR: LLM-Centric Visual-Text Compression for Fast, Flexible OCR
Research & Understanding
Turning BERT’s MLM Into a Text Diffusion Generator
Research & Understanding
Make Your Site the Source in the AI Slop Era
Damage Control
The Only Honest AI Company: A Satire of Profit-First, Post‑Human AI
Programming
Reddit Sentiment: Codex Beats Claude Code, but Claude Wins on Speed and UX
Products & Announcements
Claude Skills: Simple Files, Big Agent Power
Products & Announcements
Claude Skills: Portable, Composable Expertise Across Apps, Code, and API
Products & Announcements
JustSketchMe: Cross-Platform Pose Reference for Artists
Research & Understanding
Skibidi Toilet and Gen Alpha’s Monstrous Digital
Products & Announcements
Claude Haiku 4.5: Near-Frontier Coding at 1/3 Cost and 2x+ Speed
Market Forces
Ireland to Make Artists’ Basic Income Permanent After Positive Pilot
Research & Understanding
Accents in 3D: How a HuBERT Model Maps English Accent Clusters
Programming
AI Isn’t Software You Can Patch
Products & Announcements
nanochat: Train and Serve a $100 Mini ChatGPT in 4 Hours
Market Forces
A Growing Divide Between U.S. Manufacturing and AI
Damage Control
AI’s Unchecked Rise Will Shape—and Unsettle—the 2026 Midterms
Market Forces
Will AI’s Overbuild Become a Public Backbone—or Private Scrap?
Creative Code
Macro Insects as 3D Gaussian Splats via Focus Stacking
Research & Understanding
Why Authors Will Pay to Be in AI Training
Programming
Superpowers: Enforceable Skills for Reliable Coding Agents
Programming
Vibe Code Hell: When AI Builds Your App but Not Your Understanding
Damage Control
AI as Class War: From Productivity Hype to Wage Suppression
Programming
Figure 03: Helix-Ready, Home-Safe Humanoid Built for Mass Production
Programming
We Normalized Broken Software—and Physics Won’t Bail Us Out
Programming
Two Reasons LLM Coding Agents Still Miss the Mark
Damage Control
Sora’s AI Bicycle Puts Meta’s Entertainment Machine at Risk
Products & Announcements
Gemini CLI extensions: Build a personalized, AI-powered terminal with an open ecosystem
Products & Announcements
Recall: Persistent Redis Memory for Claude (v1.5)
Products & Announcements
An Agentic MSA for AI: Contracts That Match Autonomous Software
Products & Announcements
Gemini 2.5 Computer Use: High‑performance, safe UI control via API
Damage Control
Zelda Williams Urges End to AI Recreations of Robin Williams
Market Forces
AMD Lands OpenAI GPU Megadeal, Offers Penny Warrant for 10% Stake
Products & Announcements
Apps SDK Preview: Plan, Build, and Deploy ChatGPT Apps
Market Forces
In the AI Red Ocean, Moats and Distribution Beat Differentiation
Damage Control
When AI Memory Becomes an Informant
Research & Understanding
When ‘Seahorse + Emoji’ Hits an Empty Token: Why LLMs Invent the Seahorse Emoji
Products & Announcements
Microsoft Aims to Run Most AI on Maia Chips, But GPUs Still Essential
Programming