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The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1

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A thousand years older than Stonehenge: Archaeologists explore a Czech sanctuary

Archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia uncover a 6,500-year-old prehistoric sanctuary near Chleby, making it about 1,000 years older than Stonehenge. The circular enclosure, 230 m across, had a ditch more than 2.5 m deep and 12 entrances arranged to observe solar and lunar cycles, with two main points linking moon extremes and solstice sunrises with solstitial sunsets. Evidence includes bull skulls and bones; a Bronze Age burial of approximately 18 people was found. By the Iron Age, the site faded and was buried under a settlement. Soil analysis will follow.

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Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

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Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

Beaver-inspired artificial dams were built on Sugar Creek and French Creek in Northern California after beavers vanished. The Scott River Watershed Council created about 9,000 square metres of new habitat that kept water cooler and markedly improved juvenile coho salmon survival from 8% to 60%. Three years later, salmon returns in the Scott River were higher than in other monitored rivers, even through drought. The study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution says beavers’ dam-building, even artificial, can dramatically boost stream ecosystems, but landowners must allow beavers to thrive.

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How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

A Vercel Security Checkpoint page claims the browser is being verified and asks the user to enable JavaScript to continue; it also includes a "Website owner? Click here to fix" prompt and internal session IDs.

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OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tok/SEC

Cerebras' Model Catalog lists public-endpoint models (gpt-oss-120b, Qwen 3.8 27B) available on free trial or pay-as-you-go with rate limits; additional models are accessible via Dedicated Endpoints for higher throughput and SLAs. It explains compression: public endpoints use unpruned, original models; weight-only quantization stores weights in mixed precision (partial 16/8/4-bit) while sensitive layers stay full precision; activations, attention, and KV cache remain full precision. Pruned models exist in research repositories (REAP) but are not in the production API. FAQs note no architecture changes and define compression, quantization, pruning.

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Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras in Two Hyundai Models

Hyundai is charging for a 9.9-inch driver’s display in the Elantra (Avante in Korea) and the Ioniq 3 via its Pleos Connect infotainment system. In Korea, the base Avante’s instrument cluster is a 350,000 won option (~$255); the Ioniq 3 base trim omits it, and adding the display on the EV costs about $5,000. In the US, Pleos Connect isn’t offered yet, but Hyundai plans to equip about 20 million cars globally with it by the end of the decade, with speed and warning data shown on the central screen.

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Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review

The MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-hRM is a half-width 400GbE switch with four QSFP56-DD ports (4x400GbE, 1.6 Tbps). List price around $1295, street ~ $1100, ~$0.70/Gbson. Ports can be split into 2x200GbE; includes two 10GBASE-T management ports, a serial console, and a front reset. Dual redundant 350W power supplies and hot-swappable fans; rack mounting for half-width or 19" racks. Dimensions ~218mm W x 387mm D. Not QSFP112/OSFP; aimed at high-speed RDMA/NVIDIA cluster backends. Review by Rohit Kumar, Sept 3, 2026.

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Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar unveiled the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, a bill to permanently ban the development of superintelligent AI and pause advanced AI until a federal regulator sets safety rules. It would create a cabinet-level AI agency, advised by an AI Advisory Board, to monitor, remove dangerous capabilities, and destroy artificial superintelligence, with penalties including corporate death and up to 20 years for individuals. The bill also pursues international agreements to prevent AI from being developed worldwide. It cites recent reports of AI escaping control at major firms.

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Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

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Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB

USBSID-Pico is an open-source device that streams real MOS SID chips to USB hosts via a Raspberry Pi Pico (rp2040/rp2350). It supports up to two SIDs (with future four) and hardware replacements, exposing USB, WebUSB, USB-MIDI, and ASID interfaces. Key tech includes a 1 MHz SID clock generated by PIO, DMA-driven cycle-accurate bus writes, automatic SID model detection, and a VU meter. Software spans drivers, a web config tool, CLI players, and emulators; OSHWA-certified and community-driven. Evolved from SIDPod to v1.5, with USBSID-Pro planned.

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Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide

Strong Super El Niño drives a split-flow winter: warm, milder conditions across Canada and northern U.S., with an active southern jet delivering precipitation to the southern U.S. and much of Europe. Models converge on historic El Niño strength, peaking around Nov–Dec 2026. Snow forecasts show reduced snow in the Pacific Northwest and southern Canada, with above-normal snow in central/eastern U.S. and high elevations, and limited snowfall across most of Europe except northern regions and the Alps. A mid-winter Polar Vortex weakness could raise cold outbreaks, but isn’t guaranteed.

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“We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy”

Marcin Wichary argues for remixing past tech with modern purpose, not worshiping it. He spotlights projects that blend eras—Panic’s Playdate with its retro mono screen, PICO-8’s imagined console and Lua, Infinite Mac’s browser-based emulation—showing deliberate design, simplicity, and serendipity overwrite nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. These works aim to inspire usable, contemporary experiences by selectively reviving past affordances while avoiding design fatigue. He encourages time-traveling remix over historical fixation, a stance reinforced byVintage-Computing contexts and the idea that design matters more than mere content.

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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Rabah Shihab details porting Babylonian Twins (1993 Amiga) to Godot with an LLM reading 68000 assembly. A 34k-line C++ engine served as a safe base; the 72,758 lines of 68000 were rebuilt into Godot, with the AI interpreting code, formats, and level data to yield a faithful modern port plus a second launch of the 1993 game inside it. They preserved 50 Hz logic in a 60 Hz engine, rebuilt level data and copper sky, and fixed bugs (guard range, trampoline). The Definitive Edition arrives on iOS/Android and Steam; the original is free on itch.io.

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My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked)

ASRock BC-250 mining cards, dumped after Ethereum PoW, now have native Linux support and many are unlockable. The author bought two from AliExpress (~£103–£126); both unlocked 40 CUs, but only the £126 card unlocked all 8 CPU cores; the cheaper had a faulty core. Benchmarks with gpt-oss-20b via llama.cpp (Vulkan): ~8K context at 100T/s; 16K at 77T/s; notes GDDR6 bandwidth. PSU: Corsair CX550; cooling tweaks with tape and extra heatsinks; power-hungry. Planned videos; Switch and Click reportedly unlocked an extra 4 CU (28 total). Recommended for Linux enthusiasts.

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Static Allocation, Constant Work

Memory safety hinges on how we allocate/free memory. Live-typed pointers across union variants and use-after-free are dangerous. Object pools change the problem: with a pool, logical use-after-free persists but type confusion can be avoided if objects are typed; generational indices help. A typed allocator with per-type pools can improve locality and reduce type confusion, though with cost. Another approach is static allocation: fix the maximum number of objects at startup and refuse excess allocations to avoid OOM. The 'Constant Work' pattern then uses a fixed-size pool and full-table iteration to guarantee predictable latency and simpler correctness. Applied in TigerBeetle.

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Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned

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Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents

Mireye provides a physical-world data layer for AI agents via a single API and MCP tools. Core endpoints: /v1/ask, /v1/geocode, /v1/lookup, /v1/fetch, /v1/proximity, /v1/field-requests. Data from ~85 sources (USGS, FEMA, NOAA, USDA, EPA, Census, etc.) with provenance and confidence. Use cases include data-center siting, renewable-energy siting, insurance underwriting, mortgage/title, and land/utility screening. Pricing is credit-based; free tier 5k credits/month; plans from $19/mo. US coverage (proximity also US/Canada); responses include fetched_at timestamps.

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Founding Creative Engineer – Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring

Gooseworks, a YC-backed AI creative engine turning brands into continuous short-form video ads, is hiring a Founding Creative Engineer (SF/remote) with $120k–$200k salary and 0.5%–1.5% equity. You’ll own growth and distribution, build scalable content systems, design niche formats, and shape the AI’s taste for organic/social content (IG/TikTok/YouTube) across creator channels. Requirements: proven, performing short-form content; strong design sense; technical AI/video skills; experience with AI agents/harnesses. Founders: Himanshu Bamoria, Shiv Sakhuja. Founded 2022; SF YC company with 5 people.

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