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Canto: A speech model built for the real world

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

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Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?

I'm the co-founder of Gauge, and I built ax-check.com to quickly test how well coding agents can onboard to your product.You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding session…

Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++

I'm writing a custom assembler for CHIP-8 and just finished adding support for the DB/.byte directive so I can embed sprites in the ROM and finally get something drawn on the screen. It SHOULD support…

A 1542 papal cipher cracked with simulated annealing

Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)

T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees

gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science/trex-dinosaur-tem...paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7653

Economic Policy for AGI

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI

I didn't sign the Fields medallists' letter

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

From Stonemasons to Carpenters

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

Show HN: AutoBot – live voice control for long-running AI work

I wanted to manage long horizon agentic workstreams via voice, then put my phone down, and have a harness manage completion - extending into full computer use.I was trying to build a personal Jarvis,…

Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human

hey, i'm nick (@skeptrune on X). i have been using ai for a lot of things i'm not an expert in and thought it would be nice to try and buy paid skills for helping it accomplish those tasks more effici…

Show HN: Aclif – Agent CLI framework: one grammar, canonical names across SaaS

Simple discovery of the provider's default schemas is possible without any credentials (since they are built into the binary). If you want it to fetch customizations of your specific instance, give it…