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Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
Sigabrt.dev offers a simple cron‑job heartbeat service: you add a curl to your script, and the service notifies you via email/ntfy if the ping is missed. It also provides an SSH‑based terminal UI to view endpoint status.
Hacker News front pagesigabrt.dev1 minreleaseHN7834Laya the open source version of Jev
Laya is an open‑source, bidirectional‑encoder model family for ultra‑fast, calibrated decision‑making (choice, score, boolean) over structured schemas. It runs 6‑8× faster than the closed‑source Jev, supports 100+ languages via three checkpoints, and includes a lightweight router that selects the appropriate checkpoint before inference. Benchmarks show higher accuracy, far better calibration (ECE…
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Prompting LLMs with explicit design style descriptors yields a wide variety of non‑generic AI‑generated event posters, letting you avoid the bland, repetitive look that dominates many community flyers.
Hacker News front pagehartnup.uk7 minHN1854942Chess Atlas
Hacker News front pagevercel.appHN3916If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
The author argues that mathematics should reward “motivated explanations” – narrative, intuition‑driven expositions that clarify why a theorem is interesting and how it fits into broader context – on par with traditional proof‑oriented work. He defines the concept, contrasts it with proofs, cites examples (Princeton Companion, Thurston’s essays, Chow’s exposition paper), and suggests formalizing…
Hacker News front pagewordpress.com12 minHN423284Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford researchers discovered that the human brain develops from two separate progenitor lineages—one for forebrain/midbrain (Otx2) and one for hindbrain (Gbx2)—and used this insight to grow functional hindbrain neurons from pluripotent stem cells. This breakthrough provides a platform for studying brain‑stem diseases such as SMA and ALS and reshapes our understanding of brain evolution.
Hacker News front pagestanford.edu5 minreleaseHN654257San Francisco Onion Futures Company
The article linked from Hacker News contains only a title and URL with no actual content. There is nothing to summarize or learn from.
Hacker News front pageonionfutures.com1 minHN397176SDCC – Small Device C Compiler
Hacker News front pagesourceforge.netHN13737Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Alibaba's Damo Academy open-sourced Damo Radar, an AI model that detects nearly 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers, from CT scans. It achieved an average AUC of 0.913 across 146 clinical findings and outperformed most human radiologists in a comparative study.
Hacker News front pagescmp.com1 minHN15127How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
OpenAI designed its Jalapeño AI accelerator chip in under 20 months, claiming 3.6x lower inference latency than Nvidia's GB300. This rapid timeline was achieved by leveraging internal LLMs to accelerate front-end design, high-level synthesis, and post-silicon software optimization.
Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
Claude Code 2026‑09‑18 release adds AGENTS.md fallback when CLAUDE.md is missing and makes the auto‑mode classifier server‑side by default. It also introduces several new env vars, header maps, and dozens of bug‑fixes that improve stability and startup speed.
Hacker News front pageclaude.com474 minreleaseHN733275Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
South Korea’s privacy regulator will fine companies up to 10 % of revenue for large‑scale data breaches, a jump from the previous 3 % cap. The rule applies to intentional or grossly negligent leaks affecting 10 M+ people, with reductions for proactive security investments and rapid breach response. Companies must also notify users within 72 hours of a high‑risk exposure.
Hacker News front pagekoreajoongangdaily.com3 minHN335113Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
Android 17 QPR1 is the first Android release since 3.x to introduce new APIs without an AOSP update. The APIs are currently limited to Pixel devices and not yet exposed to other OEMs.
Hacker News front pagegrapheneos.social1 minreleaseHN1163710- 1 points
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Cloudflare reduced the memory footprint of its Pingora Backend Router by re‑examining the consistent‑hashing implementation in the pingora‑ketama library. By increasing the number of virtual hash points per server from the default 1 to the standard 160 (and applying weighted hashing based on disk capacity), they cut the per‑node overhead enough to reclaim >100 TB of RAM across the fleet. The post…
Apple releases iPhone Duo simulator and Xcode 27.1 beta
Apple announced a new iPhone Duo simulator and the Xcode 27.1 beta, but the release notes contain no technical details beyond the headline features.
Hacker News front pageapple.com1 minreleaseHN153116US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
A US Special Operations analyst used an AI chatbot to augment an intelligence report that falsely claimed a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear‑related cargo. The report triggered a near‑miss military operation that was aborted once the hallucination was discovered. The incident highlights the lack of verification standards and the risk of relying on AI‑generated intel for targeting decisions.
Hacker News front pagecnn.com4 minHN513388A Model for Winning Survivor
Hacker News front pagevictoriaritvo.comHN5328Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
Researchers used photon‑emission microscopy to locate the DEBUGEN register on a decapsulated RP2350, then applied focused laser pulses to flip its bits, re‑enabling Secure debug and extracting a secret stored in OTP memory. The attack needs physical access and a $250 k lab setup, showing that the chip’s permanent debug‑disable can be overridden.
Hacker News front pageledger.com13 minHN21792Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged: Study
A new study shows that the forebrain and hindbrain develop from distinct progenitor cells (OTX2‑expressing and GBX2‑expressing) in mouse, human, chicken, zebrafish and acorn worm embryos, suggesting the vertebrate brain originated from the merger of two primitive nervous systems over 550 M years ago. This insight enabled the first successful in‑vitro generation of human hindbrain motor neurons.
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