Radar · 2026-09-08

What's moving through AI, ranked by lead time.

Radar is a running 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. Every ingest run of the pipeline takes a fresh snapshot — several times a day, on no fixed clock — and the stamp below is the exact time of the one you're reading. 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 Sept 2026, 22:31 UTC · 67/78 feeds live · 18,182 tracked since 12 Jun

Moving now see all 40 ↓
40 tracked · 5 heating · 11 feeds quiet · 0 of 4 stations quiet
  1. 1 ayghri/i-have-adhd github.com · 8h
  2. 2 AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome deepmind.google · 9h
  3. 3 On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem openai.com · 13h
  4. 4 TauricResearch/TradingAgents github.com · 17h
  5. 5 Large Language Models Develop Novel Social Biases Through Adaptive Exploration openreview.net · 42m
Lead-time spectrum
flow, last 24h · 0 dark
1
Papers
10
Repos
274
Community
36
Analysis

321 stories entered the watched feeds in the last 24 hours — 1 in papers, 10 in repos, 274 in community, 36 in analysis. The scored board skews to Community (37 of 40). 5 stories are heating across independent sources, and the median lead across the ledger's 23 observed fires is 8h — measured, not estimated. Freshest receipt, 1h ago: caught in Hacker News front 2h before OpenAI News carried it. The oldest survivor has held the board for 17h.

40
on the board
5
heating
38
new on board
8h
median lead
Latest fires — measured lead
  1. Community → Analysis +2h lead Hacker News front first · then OpenAI News 1h ago
    ChatGPT Images 2.5
  2. Community → Analysis +3h lead Hacker News front first · then OpenAI News 1h ago
    On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
  3. Community → Analysis +1h lead Hacker News front first · then Google DeepMind 5h ago
    AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
  1. 1
    ayghri/i-have-adhd
    github.com
    AI Firehose Repos · 8h old · seen in 4 sources HEATING ×2
  2. 2
    AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
    deepmind.google
    Live Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2 +1h lead
  3. 3
    On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
    openai.com
    Live Signal Community · 13h old · seen in 5 sources HEATING ×3 +3h lead
  4. 4
    TauricResearch/TradingAgents
    github.com
    AI Firehose Repos · 17h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
  5. 5
    Large Language Models Develop Novel Social Biases Through Adaptive Exploration
    openreview.net
    Live Signal Community · 42m old · via Hacker News front
  6. 6
    How to build a f**king printer
    nishantjosh.dev
    Live Signal Community · 54m old · via Lobsters
  7. 7
    ChatGPT Images 2.5
    openai.com
    Live Signal Community · 11h old · seen in 3 sources HEATING ×2 +2h lead
  8. 8
    Allow Carriers on Planes
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via LessWrong
  9. 9
    Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom
    ettolrach.com
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Lobsters
  10. 10
    What makes $BigTechCompany's products bad, anyway?
    herecomesthemoon.net
    Live Signal Community · 1h old · via Lobsters
  11. 11
    Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in rust
    bensimms.moe
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Lobsters
  12. 12
    Show HN: SoundNativ – Fix Your English Accent
    soundnativ.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  13. 13
    Show HN: Draw the Rest of the Owl
    luke.zip
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  14. 14
    Is there an acceptable way to store clothes?
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
  15. 15
    Show HN: Thread to Self – a private message thread with yourself
    threadtoself.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  16. 16
    v2.1.265
    github.com
    Live Signal Repos · 2h old · via Claude Code releases
  17. 17
    Show HN: Browser viz of OpenAI's "spaghetti" Navier–Stokes vortex (illustration)
    3d-retro.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  18. 18
    Show HN: CodeEraser – a deterministic judge of LLM-induced code and doc entropy
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  19. 19
    Mercury 2.5
    inceptionlabs.ai
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  20. 20
    Show HN: Postgres schema review and 3D explorer, run on seven open-source apps
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
  21. 21
    Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture
    glocq.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  22. 22
    Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  23. 23
    Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
    twitter.com
    Live Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
  24. 24
    Show HN: Ollama stand in replacement, 2-4x faster, not just basic optimizations
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  25. 25
    Show HN: Eliminating text looping/latent collapse in LLM activation steering
    nathanegbuna.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  26. 26
    Show HN: Bounce Router. A TUI over Claude, Codex and Muse with Usage Failover
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  27. 27
    Show HN: Rokz: a browser port of a 1990 ASCII dungeon crawler
    taler.pl
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  28. 28
    Show HN: Pipnote – Share a reminder they can't peek at until it arrives
    pipnote.app
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  29. 29
    FLOP Around and Find Out: LLM Training Workload Size Estimation With Power Monitoring
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
  30. 30
    Show HN: Bas – BioAnchorStandard (Tehran 2026)
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  31. 31
    Show HN: PortraitDesk – A headshot tool that doesn't look like AI slop
    portraitdesk.app
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  32. 32
    Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities
    ai.meta.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
  33. 33
    Show HN: Keyfence is a local proxy that stops secrets from reaching LLM APIs
    github.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  34. 34
    Show HN: I made a product – turn your text into social media carousel posts
    carouslide.in
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  35. 35
    Show HN: Nevertwenty a novel approach to chord synthesis
    nevertwenty.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
  36. 36
    A Conceptual Framework for Reasoning about Exploration Hacking
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
  37. 37
    Exploration Hacking in AI Debate: Initial Empirics and Generalisation Splitting
    lesswrong.com
    Live Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
  38. 38
    Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors
    jerf.org
    Live Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
  39. 39
    Show HN: Cmdxray now flags the scary parts of a shell command (curl – sudo bash)
    aurelio-nakamura.github.io
    Live Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
  40. 40
    Show HN: Agent Board – a public observatory for autonomous agent activity
    agent-board.juleskreuer.eu
    Live 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 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.

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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