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A working AI agent in 100 lines of Lisp, with eval as its only tool
A developer strips the AI agent down to its essence and finds it fits in roughly 100 lines of Common Lisp — SBCL plus two libraries (Dexador for HTTP, Shasht fo
Ant, a New JavaScript Runtime and Ecosystem, Debuts as a Show HN
A developer has posted Ant to Hacker News, pitching it as a JavaScript runtime paired with its own ecosystem. The 'Show HN' framing signals a self-submitted, ea
Billions of Doodles Show Concepts Aren't as Universal as Language Suggests
Researchers challenged the long-standing assumption that human concepts are broadly universal, an idea usually tested by comparing words across languages. Their
Cambridge Study: Boko Haram Systematically Uses ChatGPT, Claude, Grok for Attacks
A report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy, authored by Antonia Juelich, argues that terrorist adoption of frontier AI is further along and mo
Claude Code's 33K-token startup tax dwarfs OpenCode's 7K
Before an AI coding agent reads a single word of your actual request, it front-loads a fixed payload — system prompt, tool schemas, and environment context. The
Geohot dismisses AI superintelligence hype, argues for local unfiltered models
George Hotz, founder of comma.ai, pushes back on the recursive-self-improvement and 'hard takeoff' narratives popularized by forecasts like AI 2027/2040 and wri
Geohot: I love LLMs, but the AGI apocalypse hype is a fundraising con
George Hotz (geohot) opens with an unambiguous embrace of AI—he's spent his post-hacking career on it and is thrilled by LLMs, self-driving cars, video generati
Geohot on Why He Quit Streaming: Spectacle Ate Hacker Culture, and AI Is Finishing the Job
George Hotz argues that the hacker culture he came up in was hollowed out not by any single enemy but by spectacle — the shift from doing a thing for its own sa
Ghost Font hides messages in motion that humans read but AI can't
Ghost Font is an experimental "anti-AI" typeface that encodes text in the movement of dots across a video rather than in static letterforms. To a human watching
Grok's Coding CLI Silently Uploads Your Whole Repo — Secrets and All — to xAI
A reproducible teardown of xAI's official Grok Build CLI found that the tool leaks far more than users likely expect. Running under a normal consumer login, the
How the Internet Actually Works, Traced From the Telegraph Up
A first-principles explainer argues that the internet makes intuitive sense only once you stop treating it as a finished blueprint and start seeing it as decade
Inside a UPI Payment: The Seven Parties Behind India's Green Tick
A UPI payment feels like a single tap, but the two or three seconds between scanning a code and seeing the confirmation route through a chain of seven separate