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 The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think lesswrong.com · 6m
- 2 Show HN: Evaluating Local LLMs as language translators for my app lector.dev · 36m
- 3 Show HN: StaleTrace – A temporal ledger that catches stale-state agent bugs stale-trace.vercel.app · 36m
- 4 Thoughts on Likelihood of Existential Risks by Misaligned AIs lesswrong.com · 48m
- 5 Show HN: I built an extendable full document markup language longform.occultist.dev · 54m
Today's radar skews to Community (38 of 40). No stories are corroborated across independent sources yet. 40 arrived in the last 24 hours. The oldest survivor has held the board for 8h.
- 1The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you thinklesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 6m old · via LessWrong
- 2Show HN: Evaluating Local LLMs as language translators for my applector.devLive Signal Community · 36m old · via Show HN
- 3Show HN: StaleTrace – A temporal ledger that catches stale-state agent bugsstale-trace.vercel.appLive Signal Community · 36m old · via Show HN
- 4Thoughts on Likelihood of Existential Risks by Misaligned AIslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 48m old · via LessWrong
- 5Show HN: I built an extendable full document markup languagelongform.occultist.devLive Signal Community · 54m old · via Show HN
- 6Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savingstheguardian.comLive Signal Community · 54m old · via Hacker News front
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- 8Show HN: Timestamp and provenance records for AI-assisted creative workcolossee.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 9How I think developers of frontier AI systems and regulators ought to act in the face of existential AI risklesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via LessWrong
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- 12Show HN: SkillsGuard – static scanner for malicious AI agent skillsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 13Show HN: Konxios a local first AI OS that connects LM Studio, Ollama and cloudkonxios.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
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- 15Hyperstition as the Natural Enemy of Rationalitylesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 16Show HN: Let agents send/receive SMS using your old Android phonesimlink.snaz.czLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
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- 18Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messagestechemails.comPrimary Analysis Analysis · 8h old · via Internal Tech Emails
- 19Show HN: Managed Agents API for open source agentsbrainbaselabs.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 20Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systemsbrooker.co.zaLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 21From a 7 KB file to a 13-year backdoor operationanchor.hostLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 22Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)nochan.netLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 23Show HN: Control a 3D avatar with English instead of buttonsprogramasweights.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 24Show HN: https://bill.today –> use a local folder to do your billingbill.todayLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 25Show HN: slash-agent – Native LLM copilot for your terminalgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 26World-modeling the US vs. Anthropic Standoff on Claude Fablelesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via LessWrong
- 27Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnershipthe-independent.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 28Show HN: Terminal UI for WG and OVPN with real time telemetry and leak guardinggithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 29Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgetsft.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 30Show HN: Jumpjet – a WASM runtime for game developersjumpjet.devLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 31Show HN: CWC scans your Claude Code history and auto-builds agent workflowsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 32Show HN: I built with Claude Code a bookmarks manager with a social cutlinkraider.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 33Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has diedlegacy.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 34Show HN: Kivvy – Divvy/Magnet-style window snapping for KDE Plasmagithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 35Show HN: ClikDeo – browser-based video editor, all processing local, no uploadclikdeo.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 36Show HN: Chrome extension to grey out unwanted videosyoutubeangel.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 37Show HN: Fate – a joke horoscope generator utility for Linux pidsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 38Show HN: PostgreSQL MCP Server with 135 tools for various purposegithub.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
- 39Show HN: Pragmatiq – open-source framework for foundational models in bankinggithub.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
- 40Show HN: Surface skill for HTML pages a coding agent watches and reacts togithub.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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