Radar · 2026-06-26

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 26 Jun 2026, 23:44 UTC · 67/78 feeds live · 6,664 tracked since 12 Jun

Moving now see all 40 ↓
40 tracked · 2 heating · 11 feeds quiet · 2 of 4 stages quiet
  1. 1 Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness lesswrong.com · 48m
  2. 2 The US lifts its block on Mythos 5 twitter.com · 54m
  3. 3 Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) physics.stackexchange.com · 1h
  4. 4 Show HN: Imap2gmail – A self-contained mass-migrations orchestrator for Gmail github.com · 1h
  5. 5 Visual Basic on the PC w/Windows 3.1 stonetools.ghost.io · 1h
Lead-time spectrum
4 stations · 2 dark
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Papers · dark
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Community
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Analysis · dark

Today's radar skews to Community (39 of 40). 2 stories are heating across independent sources, and the sharpest lead time is 1h — caught that long before the crowd. 40 arrived in the last 24 hours. The oldest survivor has held the board for 14h.

40
on the board
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heating
40
new in 24h
1h
notable lead
  1. 1
    Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 48m old · via LessWrong
  2. 2
    The US lifts its block on Mythos 5
    twitter.com
    Live Signal Community · 54m old · via Hacker News front
  3. 3
    Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
    physics.stackexchange.com
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Hacker News front
  4. 4
    Show HN: Imap2gmail – A self-contained mass-migrations orchestrator for Gmail
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
  5. 5
    Visual Basic on the PC w/Windows 3.1
    stonetools.ghost.io
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Lobsters
  6. 6
    Show HN: Skillmaxxing – make every agent self-evolving
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
  7. 7
    AI in Mathematics Is Forcing Big Questions
    spectrum.ieee.org
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Hacker News front
  8. 8
    Just a Wrapper? How Much Do Scaffolds Matter?
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via LessWrong
  9. 9
    Show HN: All-in-one memory for AI Agents
    parcle.ai
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
  10. 10
    Show HN: RAG Vector DB Cost Calculator
    tools.superml.org
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
  11. 11
    What did "scheming" and "mech interp" mean pre-2023?
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
  12. 12
    The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    news.ycombinator.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  13. 13
    Why are adversaries assumed to be incapable of responding to AI risk?
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
  14. 14
    Show HN: RevealSafe: Buyer and seller privately submit price; reveal together
    revealsafe.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  15. 15
    Show HN: TripTip – A minimalist travel planner from wiki data
    triptip.cat
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  16. 16
    Show HN: Even, the terminal-first desktop workspace
    eventerm.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  17. 17
    Introducing Flink's Native S3 FileSystem: Built for Performance, Designed for Production
    flink.apache.org
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Lobsters
  18. 18
    v2.1.195
    github.com
    Live Signal Repos · 2h old · via Claude Code releases
  19. 19
    Show HN: Forensic stock analysis from SEC filings, no LLM guessing (free)
    stockonomy.net
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  20. 20
    Show HN: Deskmate Live – AI Desktop Pet Companions
    deskmatelive.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  21. 21
    The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths
    outsideonline.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  22. 22
    A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  23. 23
    The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
    blog.doubleword.ai
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
  24. 24
    We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
    eff.org
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
  25. 25
    Screencasts could be scalable data + evals for single-user emulation (Guardian Angels)
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
  26. 26
    Designing a personal Pebble watchface
    jonashietala.se
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Lobsters
  27. 27
    Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
    hightouch.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
  28. 28
    Show HN: I Derived a Steak
    absurdlyoptimized.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  29. 29
    Show HN: LAN Scout – Local network scanner with traffic monitor and honeypot
    enthrall0.gumroad.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  30. 30
    Show HN: SchoolFinder – A School Directory for the Gulf
    schoolfinder.io
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  31. 31
    L-system
    en.wikipedia.org
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Lobsters
  32. 32
    Randomness Testing with Bayesian Stats
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
  33. 33
    Show HN: Statey – the database your AI shares across every chat, over MCP
    statey.ai
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  34. 34
    PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
    kotaku.com
    Live Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
  35. 35
    Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
    openai.com
    Live Signal Community · 14h old · seen in 4 sources HEATING ×2 +1h lead
  36. 36
    Show HN: Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
  37. 37
    Show HN: A free ACP payments module that adds Stripe payments to MCP tools
    afcommerce.com
    Live Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
  38. 38
    Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off
    bbc.com
    Live Signal Community · 5h old · via Hacker News front
  39. 39
    Should we combine protocols for AI Control Research?
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 5h old · via LessWrong
  40. 40
    Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
    nesbitt.io
    Live Signal Community · 11h old · seen in 4 sources HEATING ×2

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.

How to read a row
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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