Year: 2026

MiMo-V2.6-Pro – Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

MiMo-V2.6-Pro – Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MiMo-V2.6-Pro is amongst the leading models in intelligence and reasonably priced when comparing to other open weight models of similar size. It's also notably fast, however somewhat verbose. The model supports text, image, speech, and video input, outputs text, and has a 1M tokens context window.MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 18). When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 140M tokens, which is somewhat verbose in comparison to the median of 140M.Pricing…
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I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write

I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: People who rarely produced original writing are suddenly producing extensive design proposals, business plans, documentation, presentations, tickets, pull requests, blog articles, and meeting summaries, all generated by AI. It is all unreadable. AI is helping me write better and faster, but I’m fed up with reading almost anything written by AI. In this essay, I want to express my frustration, and describe how I’m finding value in AI for writing. AI Is Terrible for Writing A pattern I see is that people use AI to…
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Socrates vs. the Written Word – Wondermark

Socrates vs. the Written Word – Wondermark

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Previously, I shared a curmudgeonly 1889 article about the menace of electricity and the telephone and its spiritual cousin, a fifteenth-century screed lamenting the printing press. I’m collecting data here in service of a hypothesis that progress is universally despised, that the “get off my lawn you whippersnappers” feeling that we all occasionally experience is more tied to our makeup as humans than the technology and the changes themselves. These feelings, I posit, are universal, and perhaps make us feel disconnected — we see…
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Robin Williams’ Daughter Says Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor Should ‘Have Some Shame’

Robin Williams’ Daughter Says Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor Should ‘Have Some Shame’

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Zelda Williams is calling for fans to stop circulating AI-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams, nearly a year after she last took to social media to ask them not to send her augmented content featuring the actor. In a statement posted to X on Monday, the “Lisa Frankenstein” director wrote that a “supposedly ‘private video’” circulating of her father “is clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI,” she wrote. “Anyone who claims to be a fan who believes it clearly listened to…
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Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for Elevated errors for multiple models via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda (+1)…
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Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0 [LWN.net]

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: By Jonathan CorbetSeptember 18, 2026 The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so changes, especially incompatible changes, are of great interest to the developers involved. The Git 2.56 release, which can be expected around the end of September, is currently available in release-candidate form. It is not the most earth-shaking of releases, but the one that follows, which might be the long-awaited Git 3.0, may well be. No AI slop, all substance: subscribe to LWN today LWN has always…
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Spymarks, not Watermarks – brand

Spymarks, not Watermarks – brand

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There’s a sneaky new evolution of the “watermark”, let’s call it — the spymark. A watermark is a visible mark embedded in a physical or digital medium to verify authenticity or assert ownership. A spymark is a hidden signal that makes your work traceable without your knowledge or consent. Spymarking is sneaking onto the internet Google SynthID is a spymark that embeds secret hidden signals “imperceptible to humans” (Google’s own words) into images, audio, text, and video. This signal can encode database identifiers that map…
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Data Protection Commission fines Google €403 million following Inquiry into Google’s processing of location data | 21/09/2026

Data Protection Commission fines Google €403 million following Inquiry into Google’s processing of location data | 21/09/2026

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced its final decision following an Inquiry into Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). This own-volition Inquiry was launched by the DPC, in its role as the Lead Supervisory Authority for Google, in February 2020, following receipt of complaints from several European consumer rights organisations, including BEUC, regarding Google’s processing of location data in connection with certain services and products. The scope of the Inquiry concerned Google’s processing of location data in three specific features – “Web & App Activity”,…
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Food Prices Today: US Produce Price Charts from USDA Data

Food Prices Today: US Produce Price Charts from USDA Data

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Daily US food prices from USDA, from the farm gate to the supermarket ad.Latest report 18 Sep 2026. Updated every business day.OnionsIdaho Falls shipping point+100%past year$15.00 to $18.00per 50 lb sack$17.00 to $20.00per 50 lb carton$22.00 to $24.00per 5 kg/11 lb flat$10.00 to $18.00per flats 8 1-lb containers with lid$23.25 to $27.25per cartons 2 layer$0.82per dozenBiggest moves this weekWholesale benchmarks, compared with a week earlier.Retail pricesWhat US supermarkets advertised this week, averaged across stores.ItemAd priceA year earlierChange, 1 yearStoresAvocadosHass$0.94$1.10-15%3,893EggsLarge Brown, Shell Egg, 12, Pasture Raised$6.83$6.44+6.1%3,159OnionsYellow$2.47$2.43+1.6%2,135PotatoesRusset$3.18$2.65+20%3,807Strawberries$2.97$3.16-6.0%1,714TomatoesPlum…
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LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained

LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Transformer is a neural network architecture that has fundamentally changed the approach to Artificial Intelligence. Transformer was first introduced in the seminal paper "Attention is All You Need" in 2017 and has since become the go-to architecture for deep learning models, powering text-generative models like OpenAI's GPT, Meta's Llama, and Google's Gemini. Beyond text, Transformer is also applied in audio generation, image recognition, protein structure prediction, and even game playing, demonstrating its versatility across numerous domains. Fundamentally, text-generative Transformer models operate on the principle of…
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