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 Show HN: AgentTransfer – open-source file transfer for AI agents (one Go binary) github.com · 18m
- 2 Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find news.vt.edu · 24m
- 3 Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh iroh.computer · 36m
- 4 Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM blog.yaelwrites.com · 42m
- 5 Show HN: Token Time – Screen Time, but for your AI agent tokens tokentime.bar · 1h
375 stories entered the watched feeds in the last 24 hours — 170 in papers, 18 in repos, 175 in community, 12 in analysis. The scored board skews to Community (39 of 40). 1 story is heating across independent sources, and the median lead across the ledger's 14 observed fires is 5h — measured, not estimated. Freshest receipt, 0m ago: caught in HF Daily Papers 3d before Hacker News front carried it. The oldest survivor has held the board for 6d.
- Papers → Community +3d lead HF Daily Papers first · then Hacker News front 0m agoBillions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts
- Community → Analysis +2h lead Hacker News best first · then OpenAI News 2d agoGPT-5.6
- Community → Analysis +2h lead Hacker News front first · then OpenAI News 2d agoChatGPT Work
- 1Show HN: AgentTransfer – open-source file transfer for AI agents (one Go binary)github.comLive Signal Community · 18m old · via Show HN
- 2Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers findnews.vt.eduLive Signal Community · 24m old · via Hacker News front
- 3Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on irohiroh.computerLive Signal Community · 36m old · via Hacker News front
- 4Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLMblog.yaelwrites.comLive Signal Community · 42m old · via Hacker News front
- 5Show HN: Token Time – Screen Time, but for your AI agent tokenstokentime.barLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 6Show HN: OpenThomas – weather trader agent for prediction marketsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 7RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratchgithub.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Hacker News front
- 8The current bottleneck is political will, not researchlesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · seen in 2 sources
- 9Show HN: BoundFlow – an open-source control plane for AI agentsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 10Show HN: The Quiet Map – Earth's quietest place, measured by seismometersthequietmap.orgLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
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- 12Show HN: Document Scanner for Freight Verificationcipherandrow.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 13Show HN: OpenBenchmarks – Helping agents discover and pick the right SaaS APIsopenbenchmarks.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 14Introduction for and Reactions to Plan Alesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 15Gamedev in Zig is actually pretty good (2025)youtube.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Lobsters
- 16Show HN: Sanfransim.com – a long waited startup simulation gamesanfransim.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 17Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystemantjs.orgLive Signal Community · 3h old · seen in 2 sources
- 18Show HN: Use GPT-5.6 and other models in Claude Codegithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 19Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQLgithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 20Show HN: Don't let your engineering brain rot in the age of AI30secondsofknowledge.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 21Show HN: Share and explore custom Claude Code status linesclaudelines.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 22The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Humansixthtone.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
- 23Show HN: Beesign – Simple and Secure e-signature platformbeesign.netLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 24Show HN: SEO.bike – Free SEO and GEO tools, plus a managed serviceseo.bikeLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 25Show HN: Wizard – Self-extending Rust terminal AI agent (one-line install)wizard.teddytennant.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 26Show HN: Praana – a terminal coding agent that curates its own contextgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 27Show HN: Catch your local LLM falling back to CPUgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 28Show HN: A Trust Index for MCP Serversindex.canopii.devLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 29Show HN: Slack2PR – Automating the software dev lifecycle from Slack [video]youtube.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 30Show HN: I built a digital game master screenoverseer.studioLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
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- 32Show HN: Free tool that generates a freelance SOW with built-in protectionclauseapp.spaceLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Show HN
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- 35AI 2040 and the cult of intelligencegeohot.github.ioLive Signal Community · 5h old · via Hacker News front
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- 38Show HN: I made a free Islamic prayer app to stop saying "Ill pray in 5 minutes"better-prayer.comLive Signal Community · 6h old · via Show HN
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- 40Show HN: Quantum hardware now fault-tolerant without extra engineeringgithub.comLive Signal Community · 6h 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 spectrum at the top of the page shows the last 24 hours of that flow — every story that entered the watched feeds, counted at the station where it first appeared.
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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