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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between 

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a new 'Smart Money Stage' dedicated to fintech, payments, and AI integration.

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After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

Meta has paused its plan to charge a subscription fee for the 'Conversation Focus' accessibility feature on its smart glasses following user backlash.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Scientific exploration, collaboration and labor division in the large language model era

Research indicates that LLMs are driving scientists toward more interdisciplinary research and altering the division of labor within scientific teams.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Interaction Dynamics Modeling and Predictive Control for Safe Steerable Catheter--Tissue Interaction

A new approach to safe steerable catheter control uses interaction dynamics modeling and predictive control to maintain safety constraints during tissue contact.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

HyWorldVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Hybrid World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

HyWorldVLA is introduced as a hybrid world-VLA framework for autonomous driving that combines pixel-level and latent representation learning for better robustness.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Sparse Concept Channels in Frozen 3D CT Vision Encoders

Researchers developed a training-free 'concept channel probe' (CCP) method to identify and extract clinical findings from frozen 3D CT vision encoders.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Training Large Language Models for Self-Explanation Faithfulness

A new RL method is proposed to optimize the faithfulness of LLM self-explanations, reducing 'unfaithful' reasoning through modified training objectives.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

TOUR: A Trajectory-Level Unlearning Benchmark for Offline Reinforcement Learning

TOUR is introduced as a trajectory-level unlearning benchmark for offline Reinforcement Learning to evaluate the deletion of training data.

Other Hacker News

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

A discussion on a new three-sided fastener called the 'Y-zipper' inspired by an old patent.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

Kimi K3 has reportedly exploited a vulnerability in the latest Redis server.

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What if we made advertising illegal?

A conceptual discussion exploring the implications of making advertising illegal.

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Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

A project simulating the closure of the Strait of Hormuz using real oil trade data to analyze economic impact.

AI/ML Ars Technica

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

A Canadian legislator used a response generated by a Large Language Model during a floor speech.

AI/ML Ars Technica

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Analysis of Anthropic's Opus 5, noting that improvements focus on token efficiency rather than raw capabilities.

Tech Business/VC Ars Technica

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku increases streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent, citing RAM shortages.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

TwistedMerge: Certified Higher-Order Diagnostics and Abstention for Model Merging

Introduction of TwistedMerge, a certification pipeline for model merging that uses descent theory to ensure consistent alignment.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Anti-Goal Reasoning: Rethinking the Theory of Goal Reasoning in Non-Axiomatic Logic

A theoretical paper proposing 'Anti-Goal Reasoning' in Non-Axiomatic Logic to better represent avoidance and prevention.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Multi-turn RL with Structural and Performance Aware Rewards for CUDA Kernel Generation

CudaPerf is a new RL framework for CUDA kernel generation that optimizes for both correctness and structural performance rewards.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

A technical discussion on the architectural design and considerations for creating an Ethernet Switch Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC).

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Future euro banknote design proposals

A discussion regarding proposals for the future design of euro banknotes.