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Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'

Kalshi is challenging a Wisconsin law that bans betting on election outcomes, labeling it as voter suppression.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

A former Perplexity employee has launched Polar, an AI-first browser designed for knowledge workers, raising $5.7 million in seed funding.

Other The Verge

The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans

Ferrari's Jony Ive-designed Luce EV has already met its 2026 sales goal, driven largely by demand in China.

Other The Verge

Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off

The Verge highlights various refurbished hardware deals, including the Remarkable Paper Pro and MacBook Air M4.

AI/ML Ars Technica

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

An exploration of how AI is used to decipher lost languages, emphasizing the necessary synergy between pattern recognition and human insight.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LLM as Forecasting Planner: Training-Free Text Conditioning for Time-Series Foundation Models

Introduction of LAFP, a training-free framework using LLMs as forecasting planners to improve text-conditioned time-series forecasting via MCTS.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

Early Detection of Distributed Backdoors in Multi-Agent LLM Systems: A Characterization Study

A study on detecting distributed backdoors in multi-agent LLM systems, where malicious payloads are fragmented across multiple agents.

AI/ML Hacker News

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

TokenTown is a visual tool designed to help users understand the internal workings and tokenization processes of Large Language Models.

Open Source Hacker News

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

Valve is sponsoring the effort to bring the open-source RADV driver to Windows, improving GPU support for open-source drivers on a major OS.

AI/ML Hacker News

Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

A new verification browser for AI agents allows for extremely fast (13ms) one-call checks to validate agent actions.

Other Hacker News

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

A critique of the surveillance pricing models used in San Francisco, arguing against industry-backed defenses of these costs.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

Encore AI has raised $30M to develop AI agents that learn sales techniques from customer calls and CRM data.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Agent Retrieval Bench: Evaluating Repository Context Retrieval for Coding Agents

The Agent Retrieval Bench introduces a new file-level benchmark for evaluating how coding agents retrieve necessary repository context.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Beyond "What to Retrieve": Uncertainty in Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation

OpenCoder is an uncertainty-aware framework designed to improve repository-level code generation by filtering and ranking evidence.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Eliminating Propagation Delay: Attention-Based Spatial-Temporal Fusion Graph Convolution Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

The A-STFGCN is a novel graph convolution network designed to improve traffic flow prediction by removing propagation delay errors.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Mechanisms of Width Scaling in Normalized Residual Networks: The Effective Alignment Dimension

This research introduces the 'effective alignment dimension' to understand how width scaling in residual networks affects generalization on unseen data.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

GAUGE: Grading Agent-Built Financial Models Without a Golden Answer

GAUGE is a new benchmark for evaluating agent-built financial models based on observed analyst practice rather than a single golden answer.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

A community discussion comparing DuckDB and SQLite, highlighting the trade-offs between analytical and transactional workloads.

Open Source Hacker News

Darktable

A discussion thread about Darktable, an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer.

Other Hacker News

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

An article discussing archaeological findings that hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago.