GPT-5.4
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-4-thinking-system-card/
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620619743219811
Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14555
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...
https://old.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1rllcdg/megathre...
The Brand Age
The article discusses the importance of branding in the modern business landscape, highlighting how a strong brand can provide significant value and advantages over competitors. It explores the key elements that contribute to an effective brand and the strategies companies can employ to build and maintain a distinctive brand identity.
Let's Get Physical
The article discusses the importance of physical activity and how it can improve both physical and mental health. It provides practical tips and strategies for incorporating more physical activity into daily life, emphasizing the benefits of regular exercise for overall well-being.
Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details
This article delves into the technical details of hardware hotplug events on Linux, exploring the kernel internals and the various subsystems involved in handling these dynamic device changes, providing a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk
The Pentagon has formally labeled Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, as a potential supply chain risk, escalating tensions between the U.S. government and the AI industry. This move reflects growing concerns about the national security implications of advanced AI technologies developed by private companies.
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
The article discusses 'clinejection', a phenomenon where an AI tool installs another AI model without the user's knowledge or consent. This can lead to unexpected changes in the tool's behavior and functionality, raising concerns about transparency and user control.
Good software knows when to stop
The article discusses the importance of knowing when to stop developing software, highlighting the need to balance features, complexity, and user experience. It emphasizes that good software prioritizes simplicity, ease of use, and meeting core user needs over endless feature additions.
Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework
Hi HN!
I'm the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a production-hardened framework to build, manage and run Agents on the BEAM.
Jido now supports a host of Agentic features, including:
- Tool Calling and Agent Skills - Comprehensive multi-agent support across distributed BEAM processes with Supervision - Multiple reasoning strategies including ReAct, Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought, and more - Advanced workflow capabilities - Durability through a robust Storage and Persistence layer - Agentic Memory - MCP and Sensors to interface with external services - Deep observability and debugging capabilities, including full stack OTel
I know Agent Frameworks can be considered a bit stale, but there hasn't been a major release of a framework on the BEAM. With a growing realization that the architecture of the BEAM is a good match for Agentic workloads, the time was right to make the announcement.
My background is enterprise engineering, distributed systems and Open Source. We've got a strong and growing community of builders committed to the Jido ecosystem. We're looking forward to what gets built on top of Jido!
Come build agents with us!
Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
Hi HN! We're Gobhanu and Saatvik (brothers), building Vela (https://tryvela.ai) - AI agents that handle multi-party, multi-channel scheduling.
Scheduling is a constraint satisfaction problem disguised as email! It’s easy when it’s two people, one timezone, one channel. But it becomes a constraint satisfaction problem when inputs are unstructured natural language across multiple communication channels, constraints change mid-solve, and the objective function includes social dynamics that don't exist formally anywhere.
What if scheduling just happened? For example: a recruiter sends one message, and every interview across five candidates, three hiring managers, and two time zones gets booked, confirmed, and updated automatically. No links, no back-and-forth, no one spending hours with 20 emails. Everyone just gets the right invite at the right time, on whatever channel they actually use. That's what we built Vela to do.
You loop in Vela into your emails, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, phone or integrate into an ATS etc and it takes over: reads context, checks calendars, proposes times, follows up when people ghost, and rebooks when things shift.
One of our first customers is a staffing firm that searched for a scheduling solution for almost eight years. Their coordinators manage hundreds of candidate-client interviews where each side needs separate email threads, separate Zoom accounts to avoid double-booking links, and calendar invites connecting parties who never directly communicate. A client reschedules one interview and it cascades into four others. A candidate responds on SMS to a thread that started on email. Vela solved this in just 10 minutes of onboarding.
The hardest part has been the data problem. Scheduling behavior varies enormously across populations. C-suite folks respond to email within hours and expect formal 3-option proposals. Truck drivers applying for logistics roles respond to SMS at odd hours from shared devices with "y tm wrks." The failure mode isn't parsing -- it's applying the wrong interaction pattern for the wrong segment and watching the conversation die. We've been building behavioral datasets from thousands of real interactions: response latency by role, channel preference by demographic, follow-up timing curves, how many options to propose before you hit decision paralysis. This data doesn't exist anywhere.
The core agent challenge is state across channels. When someone responds on SMS to a thread that started in email, Vela needs to unify identity, merge context, and continue without losing information. Phone numbers don't map cleanly to emails, people use nicknames on text, shared devices mean the responder might not be who you reached out to. Temporal NLU is its own problem -- "next Friday" means different things on Monday versus Thursday. We extract structured constraints from natural language and resolve against calendar state. When ambiguity can't be resolved, Vela asks -- but deciding when to ask versus infer depends on the stakes of getting it wrong.
We're live with paying enterprise customers and every client still surfaces edge cases that surprise us. Case studies on our site (https://tryvela.ai/case-studies/). You can check out a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzUOjSG5Uvw.
We'd love feedback from anyone who's worked on multi-agent coordination, conversational AI across channels, or constraint satisfaction in messy real-world domains. Looking forward to your comments!
Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API
The article discusses how Netflix optimized its recommendation system by leveraging the Java Development Kit's (JDK) Vector API, which enabled more efficient vector operations and improved performance without sacrificing accuracy.
Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data
This article presents a comprehensive index of neuro-visual reconstruction datasets, providing researchers with a valuable resource to explore various datasets and their capabilities in the field of neural visual reconstruction.
The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location
The article discusses how the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency can access users' location data through targeted advertising, even without a warrant, raising concerns about privacy and government surveillance.
Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk
This article explores a technique for remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk by leveraging a local proxy and a remote server. The author demonstrates how to set up this system and discusses the potential security implications and considerations around implementing such a solution.
Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app
Title: Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app
Hi HN,
I'm building PageAgent, an open-source (MIT) library that embeds an AI agent directly into your frontend.
I built this because I believe there's a massive design space for deploying general agents natively inside the web apps we already use, rather than treating the web merely as a dumb target for isolated bots.
Currently, most AI agents operate from external clients or server-side programs, effectively leaving web development out of the AI ecosystem. I'm experimenting with an "inside-out" paradigm instead. By dropping the library into a page, you get a client-side agent that interacts natively with the live DOM tree and inherits the user's active session out of the box, which works perfectly for SPAs.
To handle cross-page tasks, I built an optional browser extension that acts as a "bridge". This allows the web-page agent to control the entire browser with explicit user authorization. Instead of a desktop app controlling your browser, your web app is empowered to act as a general agent that can navigate the broader web.
I'd love to start a conversation about the viability of this architecture, and what you all think about the future of in-app general agents. Happy to answer any questions!
Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
The article discusses the development of Nvidia's PersonaPlex 7B, a language model that can perform full-duplex speech-to-speech translation on Apple Silicon devices using the native Swift programming language and the MLX framework.
Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the lead maintainer of the Linux kernel's long-term support (LTS) branches, has announced that he will be extending the support periods for several key LTS kernel versions, providing users with longer-term stability and security updates.
Google Workspace CLI
The Google Workspace CLI is a command-line tool that allows users to manage their Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) accounts and services from the terminal. It provides a range of functionalities, including user and group management, as well as domain and application administration.
A man who broke into jail
https://archive.ph/zt15Q
Fast-Servers
The article discusses the benefits of using fast servers, such as improved performance, reduced latency, and increased reliability. It provides guidance on evaluating and selecting appropriate server hardware and configurations to meet the needs of various applications and workloads.
World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
The European Space Agency has successfully demonstrated the world's first gigabit-per-second laser communication link between an aircraft and a geostationary satellite, paving the way for faster and more reliable in-flight connectivity and data transmission.
Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
The article discusses the challenges of relicensing software projects and explores the use of AI-assisted rewriting to help streamline the process. It highlights the potential benefits and limitations of using AI tools for this purpose, providing insights for software developers and project managers.
Comparing Python packages for A/B test analysis (with code examples)
Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
The article discusses the February 2026 report from Huginn, an artificial intelligence system developed by Norn Labs. The report covers Huginn's analysis of global events and trends, providing insights into technological advancements, economic shifts, and potential future scenarios.
Poor Man's Polaroid
The article discusses a DIY method for creating a 'poor man's Polaroid' camera using a basic digital camera and some household materials. It outlines a simple process to achieve a unique, instant film-like effect through post-processing techniques.
Building a new Flash
The article discusses the recent launch of Bill's new website, which features his latest projects, blog, and social media links. It provides an overview of the website's design and functionality, as well as insight into Bill's creative process and plans for the future.
AI and the Ship of Theseus
The article explores the concept of the 'Ship of Theseus,' a philosophical thought experiment about identity and change. It discusses how this ancient puzzle relates to modern software development, the challenges of maintaining and updating complex systems over time, and the importance of balancing continuity and transformation.
AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time
AMD's upcoming Ryzen AI 400 series CPUs for the Socket AM5 desktop platform will feature upgraded integrated graphics, providing enhanced visual performance for entry-level and mid-range systems.
Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough
The article discusses the strengths and limitations of the Smalltalk browser, a powerful programming environment that is highly capable yet not widely adopted. It highlights the browser's unparalleled features, but also acknowledges the challenges it faces in gaining mainstream popularity.
OpenTitan Shipping in Production
The article discusses the successful launch of OpenTitan, an open-source secure hardware design, into production. It highlights the collaboration between Google and other partners in developing this trusted hardware solution for security-sensitive applications.