1. Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent (github.com)

Unofficial Grafana Agent Observability plugin for Hermes Agent - alexander-akhmetov/grafana-agento11y-hermes

A new unofficial plugin for Grafana Agent offers enhanced observability for the Hermes Agent, potentially improving monitoring and data visualization capabilities. Check it out if you’re looking to optimize your Hermes setup.

2. Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax (github.com)

The best syntax all inside a fast programing language (syntax inspired from rust, python, java, js). Drop a star :) tryna hit 30+ stars soon - abhiramasonny/jaithon

Jaithon 3 combines a user-friendly syntax influenced by popular languages like Rust and Python with impressive speed, making it an appealing choice for developers. Check out its GitHub page to see how it aims to gain traction in the programming community.

3. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)

New research has uncovered how a London estate agent used immersive cosmorama displays to give wealthy buyers a Victorian-era virtual preview of luxury homes decades before photography or the internet.

A London estate agent in the Victorian era utilized immersive cosmorama displays to offer affluent buyers a preview of luxury homes long before the advent of photography and the internet. This research sheds light on an innovative marketing strategy that transformed property viewing in its time.

10. The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank (www.motherjones.com)

A regulatory charter for World Liberty Financial could be "the most brazen act of self-dealing our system has ever seen."

The push for World Liberty Financial’s regulatory charter raises serious ethical concerns, with critics labeling it as a potential example of extreme self-dealing within the financial system. This development could have significant implications for both the Trump family and the broader cryptocurrency landscape.

11. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (www.wunc.org)

Just a few miles from the tallest concrete dam east of the Mississippi River, there's a paved road that ends at a mysterious tunnel. This unfinished roadway, deep inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is known as the Road to Nowhere.

A paved road leading to a tunnel in the Great Smoky Mountains has a rich and intriguing backstory. Discover the history behind this unfinished route and its connection to the region’s past.

13. Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)

Ordinary WiFi networks could quietly become powerful surveillance tools, allowing people to be identified without cameras, special sensors, or even carrying a connected device. Researchers showed that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create radio-based images of people and recognize them within seconds. In tests involving 197 participants, the system identified individuals with nearly 100% accuracy, even from different angles and regardless of how they walked.

Researchers have demonstrated that standard WiFi networks can be used to identify individuals with remarkable precision, relying solely on the unencrypted signals exchanged between devices and routers. This breakthrough raises significant privacy concerns as it allows for recognition without the need for cameras or connected devices.

14. Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports

A recent examination of the Kimi Work desktop app revealed that user feedback reports automatically include the last five raw agent sessions without any prior warning. This raises privacy concerns, as users may inadvertently share sensitive information without realizing it.

15. Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter (www.cnbc.com)

The jump in revenue underscores the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering.

Anthropic’s revenue surge to over $11.5 billion in the second quarter highlights its swift expansion and sets the stage for a significant initial public offering. This financial milestone reflects the increasing demand for AI technologies like the Claude chatbot.

17. ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year (aicharts.grok.me)

Worldwide AI-chatbot web visits: ChatGPT 76% → 54%. Gemini 6% → 28%. Claude 1% → 9%. This is not monthly users and not revenue. See who took the share →

ChatGPT’s share of web visits has significantly decreased over the past year, dropping from 76% to 54%, while competitors like Gemini and Claude have gained ground. Find out which platforms are capturing the attention of users and how the landscape of AI chatbots is shifting.

21. It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs (arxiv.org)

Professional communication is increasingly mediated by LLMs - but do these models serve all users equally? We show that when prompts contain linguistic features more commonly used by women (hedges, tag questions, collective reference), they systematically elicit shorter, less sophisticated, and less formal responses across three document types and four models. These effects persist after controlling for prompt complexity and feature carry-over. Explicit gender cues like sign-off names are encoded in the same representational space as linguistic dialect - suggesting shared underlying mechanisms - yet linguistic register is far more influential, producing large, consistent effects where names produce none. Our results further reveal that post-hoc mitigation is challenging: because these patterns are culturally embedded and outside conscious control, users cannot easily avoid them through strategic self-presentation, and mechanistic analysis reveals that linguistic features are encoded in early transformer layers and entangled with other features. Our work calls for upstream consideration of the influences of linguistic variation to mitigate disparate impacts of LLM-mediated workplace communication.

24. Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com (anthony.dev.profullstack.com)

In the 90s, walking away from an unlocked workstation at PayPal meant an email went out from your account to every engineer in the building. It was the best security training I ever got, and it cost a box of donuts. Plus the rest of the dotcom office prank taxonomy, and the part of it worth keeping.

25. In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (www.slowtravelberlin.com)

Thalia Gigerenzer on the Treptow family who lived literally in the shadow of the Berlin Wall… on Slow Travel Berlin

Thalia Gigerenzer shares the poignant story of the Treptow family, whose lives were deeply affected by the Berlin Wall’s presence. Their experiences offer a unique perspective on the impact of this historical divide.

26. Not sure where I am going with this garbage collection rabbit hole (ikouchiha47.github.io)

How Go, Kotlin coroutines, and BEAM handle preemption safely, why GC safe-points exist, and a source-grounded tour of tricolor GC, G1, ZGC, Shenandoah, C4, a...

Discover how different programming languages and garbage collection algorithms manage preemption and safe-points, with insights into various GC techniques like tricolor, G1, and ZGC. This piece offers a technical overview for developers looking to deepen their understanding of memory management.

27. Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils (blog.pickcode.io)

In 2022 while I was still teaching high school CS, I wrote a Python class called PaintBrush for my students to use. This took 20-30 minutes on a Sunday afternoon with my laptop and a cup of coffee. Today, that code could be written by Claude in 20-30

A high school computer science teacher reflects on creating a simple Python class for students and compares the ease of coding today with the help of AI tools like Claude. The piece highlights how accessible programming has become, even for beginners.

29. Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings (unslopai.com)

A writing tool that preserves your voice through AI editing. Fixes cadence, structure, and lexical density. Not just synonyms.

A new writing tool uses AI to enhance your writing while maintaining your unique voice, focusing on cadence, structure, and lexical density rather than just replacing words with synonyms. It’s designed to help you refine your work without losing your personal style.

30. Health benefits of Tai Chi (www.health.harvard.edu)

Tai chi is gentle and not strenuous. Benefits have been shown to include a positive effect on muscle strength, flexibility, and balance, and it can be practiced by people in nearly any state of hea...

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