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Boox Go 6 (Gen II) review: A worthy Android ereader, with some tradeoffshttps://www.engadget.com/2249888/boox-go-6-gen-ii-review

The Boox Go 6 (Gen II) is a versatile Android ereader with the ability to take notes directly in books.

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Leclerc leads Hamilton in first practice at Monzahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/cgk5g0z26yxo

Charles Leclerc leads Lewis Hamilton in first practice at the Italian Grand Prix to start the weekend off on a positive note for Ferrari.

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Show HN: GPU Computers for Agentshttps://tama.computer

Article URL: https://tama.computer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563492 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping languagehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1143457/the-download-ukraine-selling-drone-data-ai-reshaping-language

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace β€”Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…

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Show HN: Million Bricks – a 3D tower of one million bricks you can buy for $10https://www.millionbrickshomepage.com

Article URL: https://www.millionbrickshomepage.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563463 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: MRDown – a Mac Markdown app that diffs what your AI just rewrotehttps://github.com/MR-TABATA/MRDown

Article URL: https://github.com/MR-TABATA/MRDown Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563459 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SFhttps://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563415 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Bluetti launches β€˜e-generator’ to take on noisy, stinky, polluting gas generatorshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/986123/bluetti-pioneer-5000-solar-generator

Bluetti doesn't want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen) even though that's what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off solar - aka, a SoGen - is the dolly cart and up to 18KW of instant surge power available to start […]

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We spent the week testing IFA’s best (and weirdest) gadgets, ask us anythinghttps://www.theverge.com/tech/989199/ifa-berlin-2026-gadgets-ask-us-anything

Europe's biggest tech trade show, IFA, has taken over Berlin this week - and we've been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure you have questions, so we're hosting an AMA that's exclusive to Verge subscribers at 12PM ET today. That's when we'll start dropping answers, but you can ask […]

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Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989617/instagram-ai-content-label-confusion

Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an "AI Content" label to images that they didn't create or edit using generative AI […]

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How to edit Claude's memoryhttps://www.engadget.com/2246397/how-to-edit-claude-memory

Claude has the ability to use past chats with you as context for current and future prompts, so it's important that they are accurate.

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Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moonhttps://www.wired.com/story/japan-launching-probe-to-collect-first-ever-samples-martian-moon

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

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Show HN: What if AI did the prompting – and humans did the thinking?https://www.antiagent.site

The agent asks you questions until you have clarity on what to do. Experimenting with this idea through AntiAgent. I'd love Hacker News to challenge this idea. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563390 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Xbox caps cloud gaming at 15 hours a month for Game Pass subscribershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj06zd4l99lo

Xbox said the limits were due to the rising cost of cloud gaming, and would allow it to invest more in its performance

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Xbox caps cloud gaming at 15 hours a month for Game Pass subscribershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj06zd4l99lo

Xbox said the limits were due to the rising cost of cloud gaming, and would allow it to invest more in its performance

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Volkswagen confirms cutting 50,000 jobs as part of its survival planhttps://www.engadget.com/2250927/volkswagen-confirms-future-plan-2030-50000-job-cuts

The Volkswagen Group has revealed a 'transformation program' that includes layoffs, potential factory closures and brand shutdowns.

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The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buyβ€”and Some to Avoidhttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-dyson-vacuums

Feeling the pull of a new clean machine? I'll help you make sense of Dyson’s whirlwind vacuum lineup.

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Arsenal to face Barca and Lyon in Women's Champions Leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c05rnv2rq85o

Arsenal will face holders Barcelona and record winners Lyon in the Women's Champions League, while Chelsea will travel to Lyon and Man City will take on Bayern Munich.

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Trump asks SCOTUS to OK changes to mail-in ballots. And, diesel prices hit record highhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/g-s1-141972/up-first-newsletter-usps-mail-in-voting-irs-schools-christian-castro

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to lift the block on his plan for the USPS to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterm elections. And, diesel prices have reached a record high.

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Russell Howard 'devastated' after his baby son died hours after birthhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg491g7rnqqo

The comedian says his son Felix died earlier this year shortly after his wife Cerys had given birth.

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Chris Mason: 'This is not what Farage wanted today to look like'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c86xjeqn4qyo

Chris Mason speaks from the Reform UK conference as two of its senior officials step down following a Channel 4 investigation.

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Show HN: MCP Security Auditor – Zero-execution static scanner for MCP servershttps://apify.com/neon_innovation_lab/mcp-security-auditor

Share the 23-server benchmark findings (0% false positives on reference implementations vs. 4 vulnerabilities found in community servers). Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563084 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Amadunia – a world auxiliary language with 300 roots and no exceptionshttps://amadunia.com

Show HN: A conlang site where every number is derived from the source repo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563073 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Security Vulnerability in a Voting Systemhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/security-vulnerability-in-a-voting-system.html

It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it to analyze voter behavior in Georgia (one of the 21 states that uses affected scanners) in the recent May 2026 primary. Notably, I never touched a voting machine, exploited a network, examined source code, or accessed anything non-public. After pointing a coding agent to the original vulnerability paper, I supplied it with two data sources highlighted in the paper: the early-voting list for…

The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robothttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-automatic-cat-litter-boxes

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

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Show HN: I got BPM detection from 42% to 85% on GiantSteps with TempoCNNhttps://www.audioforges.com/guides/bpm-detection-tempocnn

Article URL: https://www.audioforges.com/guides/bpm-detection-tempocnn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562958 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Former Olympic champion Jonny Brownlee retireshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cwyzqejdvgko

Jonny Brownlee, a former Olympic triathlon champion and six-time world champion, says "it's over for professional sport".

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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

Why AI food looks like thathttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989376/ai-generated-food-why-does-it-look-like-that

There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut shrimp, Reubens from the deep, wormlike noodles, and noodle-like pastries and stringy chicken. There's also construction material masquerading as ice cream, ice cream masquerading […]

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How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boomhttps://www.wired.com/story/secret-orangutan-breeding-program-creating-baby-boom

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild.

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UK will 'resolutely uphold' Falklands self-determination, Miliband sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn45jg3zlz4o

The foreign secretary's comments come as Argentinian president Javier Milei says the "winds of change" favoured his country's claim on the British Overseas Territory.

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Show HN: Sponsee – The Sponsorship CRM for Streamershttps://sponsee.app

Article URL: https://sponsee.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562920 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Gasly loses Monaco podium after McLaren win appealhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/c4gq26zglpzo

McLaren win their appeal against the result of the Monaco Grand Prix after a controversy over multiple incorrect pit-lane speeding penalties.

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Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a β€˜distraction-free Windows experience’ for developershttps://www.theverge.com/news/990051/microsoft-project-zenith-windows-developers

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. "Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a […]

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US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on averagehttps://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562814 Points: 13 # Comments: 5

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Sam Altman apologizes for β€˜messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying usershttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990060/altman-apologizes-messy-astra-rollout

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a "generational leap in capability" on Thursday and described it as the start of "the […]

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Show HN: A browser IDE that builds and deploys your project to a live URLhttps://cloudeide.com

Article URL: https://cloudeide.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562792 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networkshttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/ai-coding-agents-are-installing-unknown-untrusted-code-on-corporate-networks.html

We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy : Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companies. Of the 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files they found (many sites hosted both an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt file), 120 of them, each on a different site, pointed to one or more code packages or domain names that weren’t registered. To test what happens when an AI agent processes such files, the researchers registered a handful of the unclaimed names and hosted packages that caused a…

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakouthttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562744 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

ICE Wants to Know Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Yearshttps://www.wired.com/story/ice-wants-to-know-who-bought-a-certain-green-beanie-from-rei-in-the-last-2-years

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choiceshttps://www.wired.com/story/measles-outbreaks-immunocompromised-kids-schools

With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.

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The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macshttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-monitors-for-mac

Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.

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Show HN: viaSocket – AI-built workflows, and your apps as an MCP serverhttps://viasocket.com

Article URL: https://viasocket.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562701 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Woman sentenced after cousin killed in XL bully attackhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn45jvgk97xo

Kelcie Reed admitted being in control of a dangerous dog which killed 19-year-old Morgan Dorsett.

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Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challengehttps://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html

Article URL: https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage and Russia is the chief suspecthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4g6meekro

Germany has blamed Russia for an attack on Leipzig airport but there has been a series of suspicious incidents elsewhere.

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It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovanhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/mark-zuckerberg-resign-meta

The CEO is the throughline in a history of billion-dollar blunders that have caused real harm, culminating in last week’s settlement Last week, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn after dozens of US states accused it of harming children with addictive products. The settlement’s regulatory implications for social media will affect every user, far beyond teens. But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users, the board should request the resignation of Mark Zuckerberg and restructure to put safety above profit. Contin…

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Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autismhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5954823/profound-autism-proteins-genes-map-treatments

Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.

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Germany's far-right poised for power in state electionhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5946404/germany-far-right-election

Germany's AfD's TikTok-fueled rise in Saxony-Anhalt is raising fears the country could see its first far-right governor since World War II.

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AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loophttps://www.wired.com/story/ai-job-market-infinite-doom-loop

Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.

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US diesel prices hit an all-time-highhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7903r0grx0o

Fuel prices have soared since the Iran conflict began at the end of February, mirroring the surge in wholesale oil prices.

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Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI agehttps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/4/israel-takes-its-war-on-palestine-into-the-ai-age

The Hanover affair exposes a new front in Israel’s long-running effort to shape how Palestinians are understood.

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This NAS company wants to run your local smart homehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/990006/this-nas-company-wants-to-run-your-local-smart-home

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system, managed by a […]

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Thieves target mail order sales as PokΓ©mon card prices soarhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/sep/04/thieves-target-mail-order-sales-as-pokemon-card-prices-soar

As one card recently sold for Β£12m, opportunistic thefts have surged – envelopes are being opened en route, costing small businesses thousands PokΓ©mon’s success over the last 30 years has seen it grow from a much-loved Game Boy classic, to a world-dominating brand with TV shows, spin-off games, toys and even a theme park. The trading card game is a huge part of that, with more than 85bn cards printed over its lifetime, and the appetite for them shows no signs of slowing down. Packs get snapped up after release so quickly it’s now almost impossible to find them in shops , and a booming…

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73 goals from dropping deep - we ask Kane to break down how he did ithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cx2z7rjn2p2o

Harry Kane was the highest goalscorer in Europe last season, yet he plays like a midfielder. We ask him to break down his game.

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What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturnhttps://www.wired.com/story/another-perfect-geometric-shape-detected-on-saturn

The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand.

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What are you doing this weekend?https://lobste.rs/s/ku30xf/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplacehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1143452/drone-data-wild-west

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…

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After renewed US-Iran strikes - how could the conflict end?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjql614glvo

Three experts give their BBC their thoughts on whether an imminent end to the conflict is likely.

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CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institutionhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562262 Points: 17 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Professional Security Testing Platformhttps://bugbounty-arsenal.net

Article URL: https://bugbounty-arsenal.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562246 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMshttps://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md

I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even on a Raspberry Pi Zero) both in the terminal or client-side in a browser tab and responds in milli…

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Why England wing Caluori played on with detached wrist ligamenthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c750d3z07p6o

Wing sensation Noah Caluori says he played through the pain of a torn wrist ligament during his break-out season for Saracens and England

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