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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A little over a month ago, I ran into a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley Flea Market, where else? Other than some dirty buttons, a few smudges here and there, and the usual assortment of calibration and asset tracking tags, the unit was in excellent cosmetic shape, but the price tag of $700 was way out of line: as I write this a try-before-you-buy TDS7104 can be had on Craigslist for the same price. But Paul, the seller/liquidator, has a habit of saying “I’ll…

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A tight little cluster hidden in the 2025-26 Champions League draw shows why the “new format” needs one small tweak, and gives a beautiful excuse to talk about symmetric graphs. TL;DR: UEFA’s new league-phase format can accidentally produce small clusters of teams that play each other disproportionately often, hurting their collective chance of advancing all at once. A single symmetric graph on 36 vertices, C(36; ±🔥), eliminates this risk provably. Deploying it needs one small tweak to the country rule for UCL/UEL, and no…

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We’re introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They’re the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work—and their research capabilities offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is available only through our trusted access programs; its safeguards are specifically designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.Alongside its increased capabilities,…

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ubisoft have announced that their third-person hero-based melee fighting game FOR HONOR will be blocking all SteamOS / Linux players on September 10th. The game uses Easy Anti-Cheat which is currently enabled for Linux, but they plan to disable it - making it another game that will no longer be playable across Linux Desktop, Steam Deck and Steam Machine. In an announcement on the official site they said: "To reinforce a fair competitive environment, the team is introducing additional player safety measures. We are…

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online communities they can't access offline. That’s why we’re urging Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the measure.  Should the law go into effect in January, platforms…

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I trained a small transformer from scratch in 1.5hrs on a 5090Beats many LLMs, and scores the same as TRM/HRMThis is an upgrade to my previous model Faster, better, cheaper and still open source.Also gets 7% on ARC-2Discussion on Twitter, Code on github Performance on ARC-1 public eval. I only compare against models that do similar test time training This is the 3rd blog in a series of works on ARC-AGI. Prev: Blog 2, Blog 1.Many ppl thought the prev result was impossible. It got…

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The history of technology is rife with copyright panics.  In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” Then, the Supreme Court declined to embrace the hype, noting that the VTR was capable of all kinds of non-infringing uses, like time-shifting and cautioning courts to avoid rewriting copyright law in response to new technologies. We believe that…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CAM-Gerlach (C.A.M. Gerlach) August 27, 2026, 10:10pm 1 Here we go again… A few hours ago, US President Trump signed an Executive Order ordering GNIS to be updated to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America”, and it seems the update has already taken effect (although to note, the GNIS entry cites “Executive Order 14420”, but that is in fact the executive order on “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans”; this new executive order has not been officially published in the Federal Register yet…