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Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg posted in a Slack channel visible to all employees that the companyโ€™s Chief Financial Officer, Mark Davies, had โ€œconspiredโ€ with other board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker to vote to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence. The message…
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A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of Specification Gaming Behaviours โ€“ SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of Specification Gaming Behaviours โ€“ SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over. An evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and crash. A game-playing agent accrues points by falsely inserting its name as the author of high-value items.ย  These bizarre exploits and dozens more can be found in the list of specification gaming behaviours [sic; British], a document put together by DeepMind Safety Research. โ€œA reinforcement learning agent can find a shortcut…
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Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Somewhere between โ€œnanoGPT toyโ€ and โ€œyou need a research labโ€ thereโ€™s a large, under-described region where one person with a few thousand dollars can train a meaningful model. I wanted to see language and understanding emerge from random weights for myself, and to learn the parts you can only learn by starting from scratch. This project was written in the evenings, debugged on a 5090 and finished on rented B200s. It was heavily inspired by Andrej Karpathyโ€™s nanochat. The result is a 3.8B-parameter model scoring…
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Relativity Park: Walking Speed of Light

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Relativity Park: Walking Speed of Light Special relativity with c = 5 km/h Field guide (Help) H Settings Tab Your velocity 0.00km/h ฮฒ: ย v / c0.0000 ฮณ: ย Lorentz factor1.000 Lengths aheadร— 1.0000 Doppler at crosshair 1.000 at rest Elapsed Your watch0:00.0 World clock0:00.0 World clocks tick ร— 1.000 faster than yours. Galilean view (aberration off) Arrows / W A S D: accelerate Mouse: look Space: stop L G C B: toggle effects R: reset Light is slow here In this park, the speed of…
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I’m sorry, you’re not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

I’m sorry, you’re not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Opinion writer and economist Noah Smith just dropped an article about AI-designed superviruses. Oh man. I used to think Smith was a person with informed opinions, but reading his take on a topic close to my own expertise makes me question this premise. No worries though. Iโ€™m sure Iโ€™ll read his takes on inflation tomorrow and nod along. Gell-Mann amnesia is real.The article opens with a fictitious story about a disgruntled teenager in 2029 who asks an AI to design some lethal viruses, which he…
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Muse, The Band, Lost Its Social Media Handles To Muse, Meta’s New AI Agent

Muse, The Band, Lost Its Social Media Handles To Muse, Meta’s New AI Agent

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Muse, Meta's newly-released AI agent, is now using social media handles once controlled by Muse, the English rock band. The exact circumstances surrounding how the accounts changed hands are unclear, but it has once again raised questions about Meta and other large platforms' ability to commandeer usernames when it suits them. Muse, the band, which trademarked its name in 1999, according to its wiki, has used the @muse moniker on Instagram and on X for years. But earlier this summer fans noticed the band's Instagram…
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Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System

Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: September 9, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System Apple Watch Series 12 offers the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable, higher-frequency heart rate and HRVย sensing, a readiness score, and Audio Intelligence features built with privacy at the core CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced Apple Watch Series 12, engineered with advanced health sensors and all-new Apple silicon to deliver the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable,1 and advanced health and fitness features. With the…
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South Park creators rename show ‘South America’ in apparent dig at Trump

South Park creators rename show ‘South America’ in apparent dig at Trump

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The creators of South Park, the animated TV show, have announced that its new series will be named South America, in an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump's attempts to rename a lake and a gulf."Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA," creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote in a statement. Trump signed an executive order in August to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, and last year declared…
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Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs

Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The state of New Jersey previously sued Amazon in October 2025, alleging widespread discrimination against pregnant workers and employees with disabilities. Amazonย reportedย $200.6 billion in net sales in Q2 2026 and a net income of $62.6 billion. Amazon says it approved 99.9% of pregnancy requests Amazon said in a statement provided to Ars that the claims in the New York-based workersโ€™ lawsuit โ€œcontain inaccuracies and omit important detailsโ€ and โ€œdo not reflect the full facts of these cases or the reality of our extensive accommodations processโ€ฆ.…
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OtoDock/oto-dock: Your personal AI agent platform โ€” self-hosted, BYO Claude/Codex subscription ยท GitHub

OtoDock/oto-dock: Your personal AI agent platform โ€” self-hosted, BYO Claude/Codex subscription ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: OtoDock โ€” Collaborative Agents The brains of your company, built on Claude Code & Codex, working on your Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions. Docs ยท Install ยท Features ยท Discussions Self-hosted ยท Multi-tenant by design ยท Fair sourceRuns onย  Claude Code ยท Codex ยท your API keys ยท local models Dashboard highlights. The two-minute video tells the whole story. If OtoDock is useful to you, a star on this repository helps other people find it. OtoDock acts as the brain of your company. You create powerful…
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