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 Better Models: Worse Tools lucumr.pocoo.org · 3h
- 2 Chip Off The Old Block astralcodexten.com · 4d
- 3 Show HN: WifeBench – My wife vibes LLM rankings wifebench.com · 1h
- 4 Show HN: Isthistechdead.com got a full UI revamp isthistechdead.com · 1h
- 5 How to call Linux code from a Wine process arcanenibble.com · 1h
Today's radar skews to Community (38 of 40). 5 stories are heating across independent sources. 38 arrived in the last 24 hours. The oldest survivor has held the board for 4d.
- 1Better Models: Worse Toolslucumr.pocoo.orgLive Signal Community · 3h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 2Chip Off The Old Blockastralcodexten.comContrarian Analysis · 4d old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 3Show HN: WifeBench – My wife vibes LLM rankingswifebench.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 4Show HN: Isthistechdead.com got a full UI revampisthistechdead.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 5How to call Linux code from a Wine processarcanenibble.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Lobsters
- 6Show HN: Apple Foundation Model in Xcode-Betagist.github.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 7Show HN: Desunofier – Removing shimmer from Suno songsinstasong.coLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 8GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performancegithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
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- 11Please stop the AI Confidence Theaterelenaverna.comOperator Peers Analysis · 2d old · seen in 3 sources HEATING ×2
- 12EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?endbasic.devLive Signal Community · 8h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 13Show HN: Mise – A keyboard-driven Python/Qt6 browser built for fanless laptopsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 14Show HN: Sieze the means of production from our agentic overlordsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 15Show HN: I built an encrypted BLE dongle for pasting stuff to air-gapped devicesgithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 16Show HN: Using Wake-on-LAN for an AI Projectguilhermefrj.medium.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 17Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)github.comLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 18The Lion, The Witch, and the audacity of recruitershauleth.devLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Lobsters
- 19Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Sharearxiv.orgLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
- 20Show HN: Grade your code's post-quantum crypto exposure A–F, free, in-browserthrondar.aiLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 21Show HN: TeXposit – LaTeX and Markdown Editortexposit.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 22Show HN: Waypoint.nvim – A Neovim plugin for bookmarking lines of codegithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 23Show HN: Infra Commits – Conventional Commits but for infrastructure/operationscodeberg.orgLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 24Show HN: Clipart.free – Public-Domain Clipartclipart.freeLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 25Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fablegithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · seen in 3 sources
- 26Show HN: Typocalypse – An Arcade Typing Rogueliketypocalypse.florianrudaj.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 27Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conferenceirishtimes.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 28As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towersseattletimes.comLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Hacker News front
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- 35thundersnap v0.01: an undo button for everythinggithub.comLive Signal Community · 6h old · via Lobsters
- 36Verizon is About to Break our Watchesjefftk.comLive Signal Community · 6h old · via Hacker News front
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- 38Show HN: A home for short stories generated from 5 random emojismoon-zine.netLive Signal Community · 6h old · via Show HN
- 39BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experimentsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 6h old · via Hacker News front
- 40No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Eartheso.orgLive Signal Community · 6h old · via Hacker News front
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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