Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers
How it works From RFQ to settled trade. One structured path through the market – every step explicit, every step on record. Describe the trade Describe the hardware in plain language or attach a quote PDF. AI drafts the RFQ – you stay in control of every field. Review and send Terms, delivery, and deadlines […]
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very very very very very very very long interrupt. It turns out that you can break SMM — the secure, ultra privileged execution environment running invisibly in the background of every x86 CPU — with nothing more than an obscenely long-running machine instruction. SMM requires that all cores are […]
Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
Alpha preview: expect breaking changes and incomplete functionality. macOS and Linux only; on Windows we suggest WSL. A ghost in your shell. Ante is a self-contained coding agent that lives in your terminal and self-organizes. One ~15MB Rust binary from Antigma Labs, zero runtime dependencies, built to get the most out of any model. It […]
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons
Abstract:Artificial intelligence is reshaping cognitive work, but Human Resource Development scholarship has treated this transformation as an organizational training challenge, leaving the collective regeneration of professional expertise unexamined. This conceptual paper introduces the Cognitive Commons framework, integrating commons theory, HRD scholarship, and distributed cognition to explain how rational AI adoption decisions can deplete the shared […]
Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook
On a small Japanese word that everyone has heard and almost everyone has misaddressed, and what changes when you find out who it is for. There is a Japanese word that almost everyone reading this has already heard — “itadakimasu” (いただきます) — said in a film, or a cooking video, or by a friend pressing […]
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Kinney Drugs is scaling back its AI assistant after customers reported incoherent calls, wrong dosages, and missed prescription notifications. Kinney Drugs first introduced Burt, an AI assistant named after the pharmacy chain’s founder, back in May. The bot’s role was to communicate with patients about prescriptions and refills. But customers quickly […]
Mistral Patent for ”Code implemented tool calls”
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a server, a user request for execution of one or more tool calls; generating, by a large language model (LLM), a code block in a programming language, the code block configured to encapsulate the one or more tool calls; executing, by the server, the code block in a sandbox; […]
Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015)
Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! Processor architectures are far from trivial; untold millions of dollars and many thousands of […]
50k Boat Names
A smattering of boat names found in NOAA’s Marine Cadastre data set. Source: NOAA. Visualization: Jon Keegan/Beautiful Public Data. In the vast ocean of government datasets that I trawl through, I am always on the lookout for moments where people express themselves, leaving behind their own little datum of personality. These tiny expressions of creativity […]
Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app
I reported this on January 28th, 2026. It is now July 2026. Six months later. The Firestore database is still wide open. The CTO never responded. I guess my emails were too long and they didn’t view them. What is tl;dv? tl;dv (Too Long; Didn’t View) is an AI meeting recording platform. It drops a […]