Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
What is Lofi Cities? A free website at loficities.com that shows animated pixel-art city nights (Paris, Tokyo, New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco, Hamburg and Amsterdam) with endless lofi music composed live in your browser, plus each city’s ambient sounds. Is Lofi Cities free? Yes. It runs entirely in […]
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’S Threat to Humanity [video]
Ember-1
Ember-1: half the tokens, same answers Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens. Built on Kimi K3, it learned to cut unnecessary reasoning while keeping the thinking that matters. We tested it on external benchmarks, in live customer A/B tests, and on our own […]
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond […]
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook. Welcome to the Flashpoint. Everyone’s talking about AI, but the words we use are making things worse. Until the conversation gets back to reality, our understanding of what AI is an where it’s going will remain incomplete. AI cannot think for itself, nor […]
Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
In a recent episode of President Curtis, the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don’t work because there are obstructions in the way: a body initially, then roughly a billion dollars worth of gold. In both instances, in response to the frustration, the character mutters “stupid thing sucks.” This […]
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”
A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch […]
Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old fragment of the world’s oldest known peace treaty, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced. The agreement, known as the Treaty of Kadesh, was signed around 1269 B.C. by Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II and Hittite king Hattusili III. Other parts of the treaty have already been found, but […]
Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World
September 25, 2026 Ten lines of code that, one way or another, mean something to me. Either because I wrote them, or I extensively copied them, or they made me laugh. Or cry. Hello World 10 PRINT “HELLO, WORLD!” 20 GOTO 10 I don’t know when I typed this for the first time, or if […]