Hacker News Digest

· 11 Hacker News

  1. ▲ 129GPT-6 Astra helped me jailbreak my Kindle

    I turned an unused Kindle into a photo frame with help from AI coding agents. GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's models failed, but GPT-6 Astra succeeded. The key was setting up a feedback loop so the agent…

  2. ▲ 111Blood cells from an 80-year-old donor become stem cells with a molecular age under 20

    Researchers report that blood cells taken from an 80-year-old donor were reprogrammed into stem cells whose molecular age measures under 20. The finding suggests cellular aging may be partly reversib…

  3. ▲ 80A single cell without a brain can smell, remember, and hunt for food

    E. coli chemotaxis reveals intelligence in its most elemental form: a cell with no brain that senses chemicals, remembers recent concentrations, and adapts across five orders of magnitude. The signal…

  4. ▲ 56After 20 Years in Tech and 24 Rejections, I'm Leaving the Industry

    Ryan Bigg, a developer of 20 years who maintains two of the most downloaded Ruby packages and grew a team from 2 to 12, has applied for over three dozen jobs and been rejected by 24. He's stepping aw…

  5. ▲ 50Janas streams 48 GB LLMs from SSD on a 32 GB laptop, beating llama.cpp by 8x

    Janas-LLM, a C engine by Maurizio Cammalleri, runs mixture-of-experts models larger than RAM by streaming experts from an NVMe SSD. On a 32 GB laptop, Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) hits 37 tok/s with drafts…

  6. ▲ 24Auto Research: AI Agents Race to Break the n log n Integer Multiplication Barrier

    A live dashboard tracks AI-assisted research on integer multiplication bounds, where contributors using Claude, Codex, and other agents submit pull requests to improve on the n log n limit. It ranks…

  7. ▲ 22Blokkily - Pattern-first DAW with synchronized editors and MCP

    Blokkily is an experimental pattern-first DAW where a single event model powers three synchronized editors: a tracker, piano roll, and step grid. It treats CLAP as a required native plugin format, no…

  8. ▲ 17Your Brain Won't Let You Declutter—Here's Why

    Neuroscientist Emily Falk explains why parting with old belongings feels so hard: the brain regions that judge value overlap with those that define our sense of self, so we overvalue what's ours and…

  9. ▲ 10China Overtakes U.S. as World's Top R&D Spender for the First Time

    China's total research and development spending reached ¥97.1 trillion in 2024, a 13.1% jump that pushed it past the United States (¥95.3 trillion) for the first time since the 1980s, according to Ja…

  10. ▲ 10Anthropic's New Defenses Cut Distillation Attacks by Up to 99%

    Anthropic has rolled out stronger defenses against distillation attacks—covert campaigns that extract a model's reasoning to train rivals. Early results show a 90–99% drop in data harvested. The meas…

  11. ▲ 3GitHub Warns Users About Codespaces Port URLs

    GitHub now displays a warning when someone accesses a development port served by another person's codespace. The notice tells visitors to proceed only if they trust the sender, and warns that persona…