What's moving through AI, ranked by lead time.
Radar is an hourly index of what's moving through the AI ecosystem, ranked by where each story sits on the lead-time gradient: papers become repos become community threads become analysis. The earlier a story is caught, the more head start you have before the crowd. Every row carries its receipts — which source saw it first, how many independent sources have it, how long ago — so the ranking explains itself. It's the public face of the same pipeline that feeds Vlad's Newsletter.
frozen 17 Jun 2026, 23:51 UTC · 67/78 feeds live · 2,803 tracked since 12 Jun
- 1 The (real) dead economy theory pluralistic.net · 48m
- 2 Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf the-criterion-closet.vercel.app · 54m
- 3 A preliminary experiment regarding consistency as a measure of conceptual abilities in language models lesswrong.com · 54m
- 4 Show HN: Righthand – Autonomous AI assistants with skills, goals, and a CLI rigthhand.ai · 1h
- 5 Show HN: WaylandClientKit – a Swift Wayland client substrate for Linux github.com · 1h
Today's radar skews to Community (39 of 40). 1 story is heating across independent sources. 40 arrived in the last 24 hours. The oldest survivor has held the board for 9h.
- 1The (real) dead economy theorypluralistic.netLive Signal Community · 48m old · via Hacker News front
- 2Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelfthe-criterion-closet.vercel.appLive Signal Community · 54m old · via Show HN
- 3A preliminary experiment regarding consistency as a measure of conceptual abilities in language modelslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 54m old · via LessWrong
- 4Show HN: Righthand – Autonomous AI assistants with skills, goals, and a CLIrigthhand.aiLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 5Show HN: WaylandClientKit – a Swift Wayland client substrate for Linuxgithub.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 6Show HN: Canipls – see caniuse.com global support percentages as you typegithub.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 7Show HN: Reyn – local-first AI that journals and recalls your workusereyn.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 8Show HN: Tablething – local-first database client with BYOK AItablething.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 9Show HN: Play the US President in the real current week; your timeline forksplaypotus.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
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- 11Show HN: Chatty Lingo – A language practicing appchattylingo.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 12Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colorsstoriedcolors.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
- 13Show HN: I built a spelling app for kids with my 7-year-oldspellabee.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 14Show HN: Any Search, One APIsearchrouter-demo.vercel.appLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
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- 16Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a yeararstechnica.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
- 17Show HN: OptiSYS – an open source Windows optimizer that isn't snake oildttdrv.xyzLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 18Show HN: Matrix Engine WGPU – focus on mobile]maximumroulette.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 19Show HN: ToolSchema Kit – reproducible MCP contract drift lab (10-min tutorial)github.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 20Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conductarstechnica.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 21A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?openrouter.aiLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 22Show HN: ESP32 512kB – Tailscale, English to Python LLM and 8 containers localpunnerud.github.ioLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 23Show HN: Tabia – The first free, open-source chess opening trainergithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 24Epic Games announces Lore version control systemlore.orgLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 4 sources HEATING ×2
- 25Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fictionloreline.appLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 26Show HN: Cost efficient version control system for Gaming Assetsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 27Show HN: Koala: Cross-Substrate Tactical Representations in Graph-Based Go [pdf]github.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 28Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27manualdousuario.netLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
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- 30Show HN: Selora – local model for Home Assistantgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 31Show HN: RealNear – nearby places ranked by quality score, not adsrealnear.appLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 32Show HN: Leakproof – local secret-egress firewall for Claude Code/Cursor/aidergithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 33Show HN: Vessel Browser – Open-Source AI-Native Browser with Skillsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 34Show HN: A distributed computing project for finding primes of the form k·2^n−1primecrunch.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 35Show HN: I turned 250 movies into wormholesinside.thecolorsofmotion.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 36Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layoutflickey.siteLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 37Show HN: Learn math as a tour of duty in a Martian Navymartiannavy.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 38Show HN: Models Pie – LLMs ranked by fast / cheap / good tradeoffsmodelspie.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
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- 40Show HN: ReplyVoice – mic overlay that transcribes into any app (Android + PC)play.google.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
How Radar works
The gradient. Stories travel through the AI ecosystem in a rough sequence: they appear first in papers (arXiv, Hugging Face) or repos (GitHub), then surface in community discussion (Hacker News, Lobsters, LessWrong), then get interpreted in analysis (operator newsletters and essays). Radar ranks by where a story sits on that gradient. The earlier it is caught, the more lead time you have before it reaches consensus.
The score. Each story gets a recency-decayed signal score. Every source tier carries a weight and a half-life, so live signal moves fast and fades fast while analysis sources move slowly and stay relevant longer. A story scores higher when two or more independent source families carry it — corroboration, not popularity, which is why five feeds of the same site count once. A small bonus applies when a story has visibly climbed the gradient. Stories past their tier's maximum age expire from the board.
Heating and lead time. A story is heating when it has surfaced in two or more independent source families. When the same story is observed first at an earlier stage and later at a higher one, Radar records the gap in hours — for example, seen on arXiv fourteen hours before it reached the Hacker News front page. That gap is the reader's lead time, and it is a measured span, never an estimate.
The honesty rule. Every value on this page is an observed fact from the feed log — which source carried a story, when, and how many. Radar makes no claim about what a story means; that is the newsletter's job. When a reading does not exist yet — no stories heating, nothing upstream — the page says so rather than inventing one.
- The spectrum band
- A filled flame tick is an early, lead-time-rich stage; a hollow tick is a later stage; a hollow ring on an empty span is a station with nothing on it yet.
- Signal class
- The tier chip: Live Signal moves fast and decays fast; analysis sources stay relevant longer. The ranker weights each accordingly.
- heating
- The same story in two or more independent source families — not two feeds of one site.
- seen in / via
- How many families carried it, or the single source that did.
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