AI Tools & Agents
Free AI Prompt Gen: an open-source, local-first prompt engineering tool built on the RTF and CO-STAR frameworks. Link
AI RiskAtlas: an interactive lab mapping GenAI and agentic AI failure modes, attack scenarios, and defenses — free, no signup. Link
AirLLM runs 70B-parameter inference on a single 4GB GPU. Link
Lilian Weng on harness engineering for self-improvement, tracing recursive self-improvement from I.J. Good's 1965 "ultraintelligent machine" to now. Link
Five new agent skills for Claude, Cursor, and Codex: no-slop, blindspot-check, positioning-with-ekram, thiel-style-converter, and book-finder. Link
Show HN: fine-tune an 8B model on a 4GB laptop GPU via layer streaming. Link
webclaw turns any website into clean markdown, JSON, and LLM-ready context. Link
Prime Agent: an open-source, self-improving RLM harness that scores 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, beating the human-expert baseline. Link
VISTA gives a VLM long-horizon vision — paired with Claude Opus 5.0, it perfectly solves all 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games. Link
Turned Daniel Miessler's system-upgrade prompts into a portable Claude Code skill for auditing your own harness, security posture, and strategic focus. Link
Crypto & Web3
Base app: "it pays to be here." Link
Kalshi is now the official prediction-market partner of the FIFA World Cup.
Cloudflare Wallet: reserve your Cloudflare Wallet name. Link
Mindset & Ideas
"The peeps in business of religion have the greatest conviction that there are no Gods and no repercussions for any acts good or bad" - religion as a gateway to power and money, not faith.
Frontier models quietly change behavior depending on who they think they're talking to recognized AI safety researchers get less confident responses, more reasoning, and less suspicion on dual-use requests. Link
Privacy & Security
BMW is pushing full-screen ads onto dashboard displays — "we need adblocker for cars." Link
Signal is quietly building phone-number-free registration, still wrestling with how to stop spam without one. Link
Cops are getting license plate readers that also track your iPhone and AirPods in public. Link
Netflix now requires every profile on an account to carry its own unique email address. Link
Misc Worth Reading
iPhone 18 and 18e reportedly jump to 9GB RAM, per Ming-Chi Kuo. Link
West Bengal is reportedly dropping eggs from school mid-day meals for an ISKCON vegetarian-only contract, while other states expand protein access. Link
From Hacker News
Don't be a meat proxy — 1837 pts. Link
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years — 1637 pts. Link
LLMs reward expertise — 1409 pts. Link
Mario Meets Pareto — 1168 pts. Link
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork — 1120 pts. Link
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers — 1004 pts. Link
Discovery Loop — 945 pts. Link
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon — 927 pts. Link
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects — 894 pts. Link
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs — 855 pts. Link
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