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Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and ...

The Verge • 3w ago • Terrence O’Brien
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Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’

What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?

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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-microcode-reverse-engineering-fscale.html Comments URL: https://news.y...

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LG responds to TV spying allegations

Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about...

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Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://archive.ph/kt50V Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673098 Points: 218 # Comments: 165

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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/buildprof/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672842 Points: 22 ...

Technology 3w ago

Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute

President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data cen...

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Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial r...

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I refuse to let SPICE die

Article URL: https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672641 Points: ...

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Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/juveniles-riding-in-waymo-arrested-after-police-find-g...

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We must pace the frontier

Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

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A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

Article URL: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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A few good ideas in programming languages

Article URL: https://prydt.xyz/blog/a-few-good-ideas-in-pl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671972...

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Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth

Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto International Film F...

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Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max

The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongsid...

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Fuck it, make it anyway

Article URL: https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

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How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/11/how-trail-of-bits-helps-verify-the-integrity-of-your-signal-chats/...

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The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-email-spam-kaixin-tang/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.

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The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’

A subset of male gamers have spent years warning that the transgressive series has been neutered by progressive develope...

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OpenAI just wants to win

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, ...

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From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to s...

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An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

Article URL: https://www.threebodyorbits.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670852 Points: 37 # ...

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‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs

Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the sei...

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Branch Ergonomic Chair Pro (Sega Edition) Review: Comfy, Not Boring

Turns out that the best office chair is also the best gaming chair, now with aesthetics to match.

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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules

And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.

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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

Article URL: https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670032 Points: ...

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Navier-Stokes Announcement

Article URL: https://www.claymath.org/news/navier-stokes-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

Article URL: https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496...

Technology 3w ago

Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services

"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."