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Claude Fable 5 improvises browser automation stack to chase a CSS bug

Simon Willison's first days with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 left him describing the model as 'relentlessly proactive.' Given only a screenshot of an errant hori

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aicybersecurity

Claude Fable 5 lands mid-table on vuln-fixing benchmark despite four record solves

Endor Labs put Anthropic's newly released Mythos-class model, Claude Fable 5, through 200 real-world vulnerability-fixing tasks in its Agent Security League and

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aitech-culture

FablePool crowdfunds AI builds: strangers pool cash behind a single prompt

FablePool, a new Show HN launch, is a crowdfunding platform where the thing being funded isn't a team or a product — it's a prompt. Backers pool contributions a

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privacypolicy

FCC's Anti-Robocall KYC Proposal Would Turn Phone Access Into an Identity Checkpoint

Bitcoin security engineer Jameson Lopp argues that an FCC rulemaking adopted April 30, 2026 — pitched as a robocall crackdown — would in practice build a teleco

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tech-cultureopen-source

Half-Life runs at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95, complete with Bluetooth mouse support

Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has the original 1998 Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone from 2007, and has wired up Blueto

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tech-cultureopen-source

How Jordan Mechner squeezed Prince of Persia into 48K and defined a genre

Jordan Mechner, who broke into games by mailing floppy disks to publisher Broderbund from his Yale dorm, spent four years building Prince of Persia (1989) under

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tech-culturepolicy

Kids' reading for fun has cratered since 2012, federal data shows

New National Center for Education Statistics survey data shows recreational reading among American schoolchildren has fallen steeply over the past 13 years. The

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aiopen-source

MaxProof: MiniMax-M3 tops IMO and USAMO gold thresholds via test-time proof search

MaxProof is a test-time scaling framework from the MiniMax-M3 series aimed at competition-level mathematical proof. Rather than relying on a single forward pass

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aiopen-source

Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% in open-weights coding model

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7-Code on Hugging Face, an open-weights model tuned for agentic coding work. Built on Kimi K2.6 with the same architecture as t

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aitech-culture

New workplace rule for the AI era: don't ask colleagues to read what you didn't

Software engineer Tom Bedor proposes an etiquette principle for teams drowning in machine-generated text: anyone requesting a colleague's attention should demon

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aitech-culture

One weird trick for less sloppy AI frontends: ask for Qt style

A developer experimenting with AI-generated personal software ran into a familiar problem: no matter what visual style they requested, the output carried the sa

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open-sourceai

Open source maintainer bans LLM-generated pull requests: "I am not a reverse centaur"

Miguel Grinberg, a veteran open source developer, says the flood of contributions to his projects has shifted almost entirely to LLM-generated code — and he ref

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