Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
All modern language models sometimes act like they have emotions. They may say they’re happy to help you, or sorry when they make a mistake. Sometimes they even appear to become frustrated or anxious when struggling with tasks. What’s behind these behaviors? The way modern AI models are trained pushes them to act like a […]
Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks
In 1990, Europe produced around a third of its electricity from nuclear power. That has now fallen to an average of 15%, leaving the continent ”completely dependent on expensive and volatile imports” of fossil fuels, she said, putting Europe at a disadvantage compared with other regions of the world.
Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the world’s largest foreign reserve asset in 2026: Gold has climbed past U.S. government bonds to become the largest foreign reserve asset held by central banks worldwide, marking a major shift in global financial markets. The total value of gold held by foreign official institutions is now approaching $4 trillion, […]
Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI
AI-powered travel hacking with points, miles, and award flights. Drop-in skills and MCP servers for OpenCode and Claude Code. Ask your AI to find you a 60,000-mile business class flight to Tokyo. It’ll search award availability across 25+ programs, compare against cash prices, check your loyalty balances, and tell you the best play. Quick Start […]
The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post. The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists, from flying drones within half a mile of any ICE or CBP vehicle. In January, […]
Extra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)
To celebrate the launch of usage bundles, we’re giving every Pro, Max, and Team plan subscriber a one-time extra usage credit equal to your subscription price or as otherwise listed below. Credit amount Eligibility requirements To be eligible for this promotion, you must meet the following criteria: You’ve subscribed to a Pro, Max, or Team […]
Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Received the following email from Anthropic: Hi, Starting April 4 at 12pm PT / 8pm BST, you’ll no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. You can still use them with your Claude account, but they will require extra usage, a pay-as-you-go option billed separately from your subscription. […]
Fake Fans
Edit 4/2: One day after this piece went up, Chaotic Good made significant changes to their website — including pulling the “Narrative Campaign” section completely. Some of the artists I write about here no longer feature on the website, though it is not clear if they are still clients of Chaotic Good (my suspicion is […]
Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
Run Linux containers on Android — no root required. Podroid spins up a lightweight Alpine Linux VM on your phone using QEMU and gives you a fully working Podman container runtime with a built-in serial terminal. Highlights Containers Pull and run any OCI image — podman run –rm -it alpine sh Terminal Full xterm emulation […]
Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C
An ultra-lightweight real-time operating system for resource-constrained IoT and embedded devices.Kernel footprint under 10 KB, 2 KB minimum RAM, preemptive priority-based scheduling. Category Details Kernel Preemptive priority-based scheduling (256 levels), round-robin within same priority, O(1) priority lookup via bitmap, priority inheritance Synchronization Mutex (with priority inheritance), semaphore, condition variable, event groups, message queues Software Timers […]