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No Man's Sky 'Cosmos' Rebuilds Deep Space, Adds DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3

Hello Games has shipped Cosmos, a major update to No Man's Sky timed to the game's 10th anniversary. The headline change reworks star systems into persistent, e

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open-sourcedevops

Planet Labs Publishes an Open Ephemeris Feed for Its 97 Orbiting Satellites

Planet Labs, the San Francisco Earth-imaging company that photographs the planet's landmasses daily, maintains a publicly accessible ephemerides service listing

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aiopen-source

Reasoning-prefill test hints Qwen was distilled from GPT, not Claude

A v1.1 rerun of an earlier 'reasoning prefill' experiment swaps in GPT-5.5 Pro as the teacher model to probe where open-weight models may have learned their rea

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Saint-Exupéry Quote Tops Hacker News: No Article, Just a Mastodon Post

There is no substantive article here to summarize. The link points to a single-line Mathstodon (Mastodon) post reproducing the well-known epigraph from Antoine

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Shopify acquires Tailwind CSS; framework stays MIT-licensed

Tailwind CSS, the utility-first styling framework now pulling more than 110 million weekly installs and used behind interfaces like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, and

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The Data Piles Up: Robotaxis and Driver-Assist Tech Are Crashing Far Less Than Humans

A growing body of research is undercutting public skepticism about self-driving cars. Even the mandated building blocks of autonomy are already paying off: the

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Visa and Mastercard Explained: The Networks That Route Every Card Swipe

Despite being the most visible brands in payments, Visa and Mastercard don't issue cards, hold your money, print plastic, or run the point-of-sale terminals — a

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tech-culturedevops

Why software work turns level-headed people into b-tier Bond villains

Most software is mundane underneath the branding — forms, endpoints, permissions, a database, maybe a queue. Yet the act of building it reliably pushes sane adu

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A browser engine that draws topological surfaces as hand-inked pen-and-ink art

This is an interactive web project that renders mathematical surfaces — Boy's surface, Morin's surface, torus knots, and other immersions of the real projective

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A Browser Visualizer That Shows Which Past Tokens an LLM Actually Attends To

A developer built an interactive web tool that exposes the attention mechanism inside a transformer LLM, letting you hover over any generated token and watch th

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Anthropic pretraining researcher quits, warns of reckless AI superintelligence race

A researcher posting as @hilbertspaess announced their resignation from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, capping a three-year stint doing pretraining research sp

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Apple unveils iPhone Duo, its first foldable, leaning hard on on-device AI

Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, positioned as the thinnest iPhone with the largest display the company has shipped — a 7.6-inch i

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