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.
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- 1 Research agenda: Interpretive debate lesswrong.com · 12m
- 2 The AirPods Effect theescapenewsletter.com · 48m
- 3 Does it feel any different to be reverse-chiral life? lesswrong.com · 1h
- 4 Show HN: Crawlie – Free open-source SEO audit tool for humans and agents github.com · 1h
- 5 Show HN: PinLeads pinleads.org · 1h
Today's radar skews to Community (40 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.
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- 3Does it feel any different to be reverse-chiral life?lesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via LessWrong
- 4Show HN: Crawlie – Free open-source SEO audit tool for humans and agentsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
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- 6Midjourney's Spa, or when sci-fi tries to become mundanelesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
- 7Show HN: I built a multiplayer dominoes gamepipsgg.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 8Reinforcement learning towards broadly and persistently beneficial modelslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
- 9Zero-Touch OAuth for MCPblog.modelcontextprotocol.ioLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
- 10Show HN: Sycloop – An AI marketplace that closes multi-party barter loopssycloop.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 11Show HN: Pagecord Spotlight – discover trending independent posts on Pagecordpagecord.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 12The distillation double bind: Distilling misaligned models either transfers misalignment or it doesn'tlesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 13Updating Stacked Pull Requests with git rebase --ontobd103.devLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Lobsters
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- 15Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopediabomwiki.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 16Show HN: Veneerly – See your own face with veneers before you committryveneerly.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 17What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000movq.deLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 18Show HN: Are You in the Weights?intheweights.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · seen in 2 sources
- 19Show HN: Torum – your own portable HN clonenews.ycombinator.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 20Show HN: OSymandias – Open-source runtime for multi-agent AI systemsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 21Show HN: bote - A fast, modern and low-memory approach to processing a big JSONgithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 22Zork name origin got an update on Wikipediadpolakovic.spaceLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 23Show HN: AutomateOrNot – decide if you should automate a testautomateornot.devLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 24Show HN: Open-source back end for multi-user AI agents with shared memorygithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 25Show HN: I built a daily flag quiz in honor of the World Cuporbisearth.web.appLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
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- 28Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pagesgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 29Show HN: Browser calls with live translation in the speaker's cloned voicewhisperbridge.appLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
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- 31Show HN: I Made TTSC, TypeScript v7 ToolChain for Plugins Like Typiagithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 32Show HN: Prompt Fusion Using Dags and OpenRoutertwitter.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
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- 34Show HN: After years as data engineer, I built the tool I wish my colleagues hadnews.ycombinator.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
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- 36Show HN: AI Commander – TeamViewer for AI Agents, No VPN or SSHaicommander.devLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
- 37Show HN: An atlas of China's manufacturing geographychinaindustryatlas.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
- 38Show HN: Turn any photo into a Fujifilm film-simulation recipefujicipe.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
- 39Show HN: A photography app with nicer colorstestflight.apple.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
- 40Show HN: A website to understand and study AI papersintuitivepapers.aiLive 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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