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Anthropic previews Model Hardware Standard to let AI agents run lab and factory gear
Anthropic has opened a limited research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification that lets AI agents discover, operate, and coordinate phys
Claude's fingerprints now mark ~40% of 'human' GitHub pull requests
Louis Abraham's Show HN is an interactive chart built on a daily scrape of about 1,000 GitHub pull requests. Across roughly 461,000 PRs and 51 million words col
Experiential: open-source LLM gateway that turns your traces into a custom router
Experiential is an open-source, self-hostable gateway that sits in front of large language models and exposes a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint (it also speak
Federal Judge Voids Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist as Illegal Retaliation
A federal judge in California, Rita Lin, ruled that the Trump administration's move to blacklist AI firm Anthropic was unlawful, finding it violated both the Fi
Gates: The Turbulent AI Era Has Arrived — and No One Has a Plan for the Upheaval
In a ~6,000-word essay published August 26, 2026, Bill Gates argues that AI has crossed from promise into disruption, and that the coming transition could be on
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund puts €509k into hardening Flatpak's sandbox
The German government's Sovereign Tech Agency is committing €508,640 over two years to Flatpak, the packaging and distribution format that underpins image-based
Getting Emacs 31's experimental Markdown tree-sitter mode running
Emacs 31 ships a new built-in markdown-ts-mode, a tree-sitter-based major mode for editing Markdown. Despite being flagged experimental, it is already feature-r
GLM-5.3 ships as open weights with SOTA vulnerability-discovery and exploit skills
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3 as an open-weights model on Hugging Face. It reuses the GLM-5.2 base model unchanged, so the entire jump in capability comes from post
Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe pushes speech-to-text with sub-second streaming
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model it positions as a step beyond conventional recognition engines. Rather than producing raw tran
How Sony and JR East Engineered Suica, Japan's Battery-Free Transit Card
Suica, the contactless IC card millions tap at Japanese station gates, is a quietly remarkable piece of 1990s engineering. Each card stores only two things loca
htmx 4.0 Ships: Explicit Attribute Inheritance, fetch() Internals, Morph Swaps
After eight months of work, the htmx team has released version 4.0, a major update that nonetheless leaves most day-to-day usage untouched. The three changes th
Italian activist tech collective A/I flags U.S. sanctions atop its manifesto
Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is a volunteer-run Italian collective, founded in 2001 out of the autonomous anticapitalist movement, that provides free communication