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 10 Sept 2026, 23:57 UTC · 67/78 feeds live · 18,789 tracked since 12 Jun
- 1 One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire interconnects.ai · 9h
- 2 JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation openjdk.org · 6h
- 3 Subagents comply more lesswrong.com · 48m
- 4 Show HN: Papiers.ai, a new workspace for reading and research papiers.ai · 48m
- 5 The Locally Optimal Discursive Posture lesswrong.com · 54m
470 stories entered the watched feeds in the last 24 hours — 175 in papers, 5 in repos, 260 in community, 30 in analysis. The scored board skews to Community (39 of 40). 4 stories are heating across independent sources, and the median lead across the ledger's 25 observed fires is 8h — measured, not estimated. Freshest receipt, 6h ago: caught in Hacker News front 1h before Interconnects carried it. The oldest survivor has held the board for 10h.
- Community → Analysis +1h lead Hacker News front first · then Interconnects 6h agoOne resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
- Papers → Community +16h lead arXiv cs.AI first · then Hacker News front 27h agoProcedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents
- Community → Analysis +2h lead Hacker News front first · then OpenAI News 2d agoChatGPT Images 2.5
- 1One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfireinterconnects.aiLive Signal Community · 9h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2 +1h lead
- 2JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilationopenjdk.orgLive Signal Community · 6h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
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- 4Show HN: Papiers.ai, a new workspace for reading and researchpapiers.aiLive Signal Community · 48m old · via Show HN
- 5The Locally Optimal Discursive Posturelesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 54m old · via LessWrong
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- 7AI lab employees should consider a strike before it's too late!lesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via LessWrong
- 8Show HN: Papiers.ai, a new workspace for reading and researchtwitter.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 9Show HN: Vector transfer project, replicate vectors/metadata across databasesgithub.comLive Signal Community · 1h old · via Show HN
- 10Astra is much better at reasoning with filler tokens than previous modelslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
- 11Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCEcodeberg.orgLive Signal Community · 8h old · seen in 2 sources HEATING ×2
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- 14To Thine Own AI Be Truthful: emergent misalignment in alignment researchlesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via LessWrong
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- 16Show HN: ZestSSH, my capstone SSH client that people started paying forzestssh.comLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 17Show HN: An interactive 3D Pattern Language made with Astralivedin.co.ukLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Show HN
- 18NTSB Issues Investigative Update on B-767 Runway Excursion Accident in Miamintsb.govLive Signal Community · 2h old · via Hacker News front
- 19Megastructures can speed up interstellar travel, but they have to be HUUUUGElesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 20The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking aboutjohndcook.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Hacker News front
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- 22Show HN: Stitchwink – Cross-stitch pattern making with AIstitchwink.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
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- 24First Bill Introduced to Ban Superintelligent AIlesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 25Claims about Properties are Claims about Symmetrieslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
- 26RSI systems may collapse into a small set of goalslesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via LessWrong
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- 28Show HN: CodePress – Save $50k+ a month on Cloud Agentscodepress.devLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
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- 30Show HN: Charter – Operate production-safe agents that run on your own infragithub.comLive Signal Community · 3h old · via Show HN
- 31Show HN: WordPress security skills for coding agentsgithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 32Show HN: I created a list of projects with embedsembedcatalog.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 33Doom as a bad method not a utopia trade-offlesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via LessWrong
- 34Shopify moves back to Native from React Nativeshopify.engineeringLive Signal Community · 10h old · seen in 4 sources HEATING ×2
- 35What the Pro-Democracy Movement Knows About Quitting in Protestlesswrong.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via LessWrong
- 36Show HN: Natively – comms for agents built by agentsnatively.ioLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 37Show HN: Shine – a terminal Markdown previewer and docs lintergithub.comLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 38Show HN: LOL Bench – a benchmark for whether LLMs get jokeslolbench.lolLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Show HN
- 39Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganographymerybenavente.meLive Signal Community · 4h old · via Hacker News front
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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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