Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
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Grok 4.7
Article URL: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788838 Points: 489 # Comments: 408
Attention is all you have
Article URL: https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787726 Points: 563 # Comments: 168
ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you
https://zuckoff.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785397 Points: 365 # Comments: 332
Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
Article URL: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730 Points: 494 # Comments: 256
Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Disney%2B_ad_policy_change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784336 Points: 485 # Comments: 342
I don't want to read what you didn't write
Article URL: https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794330 Points: 185 # Comments: 66
Transformers Explained Visually
Article URL: https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792342 Points: 177 # Comments: 34
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Article URL: https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792067 Points: 128 # Comments: 120
Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?
Article URL: https://safedep.io/mathmain-encrypted-loader/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791378 Points: 104 # Comments: 27
Python Workers are now generally available
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787142 Points: 179 # Comments: 29
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the
STAT+: Members of Congress push back on plan to create a commission of political appointees to review NIH grants
Tensions over increased White House control of federal biomedical research funding escalated in recent days, with several members of Congress voicing strong opposition after news leaked about a plan to create a panel of political appointees to sign off on all National Institutes
STAT+: What a vote on Grail’s cancer detection test could mean for the company, patients, and regulators
Shares in Grail, the company developing a blood test aimed at detecting many different types of cancer early, when they can be treated more effectively, surged 33% Monday after the Food and Drug Administration posted documents ahead of an advisory committee meeting that suggest t
STAT+: Lilly’s breast cancer combo wins approval
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hi! Today we have some consolidation in radiopharma, an early ADHD signal for orexin agonists, and a call from Reed Jobs to double NIH funding. I like that
How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution
You might imagine that the DNA in your cells has a simple history. Even though it’s been recombined in every generation through sex and gained the occasional mutation, on the whole the genome has been stable and has been passed down reliably from your ancestors. But that’s not th