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 8 Jul 2026, 22:18 UTC · 67/78 feeds live · 11,465 tracked since 12 Jun
- 1 TypeScript 7 devblogs.microsoft.com · 6h
- 2 Almost Always Unsigned graphitemaster.github.io · 6h
- 3 SpaceWASM: NASA/JPL's Wasm interpreter for spacecraft sequencing github.com · 30m
- 4 Show HN: Probed – Talk to your People. Customer chat, feedback, and roadmaps probed.chat · 42m
- 5 Show HN: Runtime security enforcement and capability scoping for agents clayseal.com · 54m
Today's radar skews to Community (39 of 40). 5 stories are heating across independent sources. 40 arrived in the last 24 hours. The oldest survivor has held the board for 9h.
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- 2Almost Always Unsignedgraphitemaster.github.ioLive Signal Community · 6h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 3SpaceWASM: NASA/JPL's Wasm interpreter for spacecraft sequencinggithub.comLive Signal Community · 30m old · via Lobsters
- 4Show HN: Probed – Talk to your People. Customer chat, feedback, and roadmapsprobed.chatLive Signal Community · 42m old · via Show HN
- 5Show HN: Runtime security enforcement and capability scoping for agentsclayseal.comLive Signal Community · 54m old · via Show HN
- 6Show HN: Mtok.market – a non-custodial spot market for AI inference tokensmtok.marketLive Signal Community · 54m old · via Show HN
- 7Optimum number of items to inspect before buying onelesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 54m old · via LessWrong
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- 11Show HN: Mark Highlight, a Xcode-Style VSCode Extensionmarketplace.visualstudio.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 12The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealouscombine-lab.github.ioLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
- 13Show HN: Handsum: An LQIP Image File Formatnigeltao.github.ioLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 14Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge basegithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
- 15Show HN: Nully – FOSS AI chat without the bloatnully.chatLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 16How Multigres Supports LISTEN/NOTIFY Across Pooled Connectionsmultigres.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Lobsters
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- 18Show HN: Skill-extractor turns coding agent transcripts into reusable skillsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 19Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring postshnwork.appLive Signal Community · 2h old · seen in 2 sources
- 20Show HN: REST – Living Without Burnoutthemanifesto.restLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 21Childhood and Education #20: Phones and Screenslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 22Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensusblog.cloudflare.comLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
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- 24Show HN: Nodeup – automate Node.js version upgrades and NPM package migrationgithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 25Show HN: Connect DuckDB to any database that has an ADBC drivergithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 26A bug which only affected left-handed usersshkspr.mobiLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 27Show HN: Nino – a dedicated CFP/CPA team and AI to manage your financial lifeusenino.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 28Separating signal from noise in coding evaluationsopenai.comLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
- 29Show HN: Genbuzz – An agent-driven news aggregator for AI filmmakinggenbuzz.newsLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
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- 32A Real-Life Example of an Aligned System Killing Hundreds of Peoplelesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via LessWrong
- 33Show HN: Leafwright – Generate PDFs without running headless Chromeleafwright.coLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 34Notes on technical alignment via human-like social driveslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · seen in 2 sources
- 35Show HN: Axiom-02 – Deterministic engine modeling cognitive dissonancegithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 36Show HN: MacPad – a tiny macOS Notepad.exe-style editorgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 37Show HN: Moo, Git versions code, moo versions machinesgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 38OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotageforum.openmandriva.orgLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 39Show HN: A YC/PG Essays Directory Roadmapnews.ycombinator.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 40Show HN: Open-source GUI for editing 3D molecular structures with diffusiongithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h 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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