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(Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations 40 by bikenaga | 19 comments on Hacker News.

1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists 18 by donohoe | 5 comments on Hacker News.

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts 34 by i5heu | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Audiophiles Can't Distinguish Audio Sent Through Copper, Banana or Mud 36 by RandomGerm4n | 25 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills 12 by fabienpenso | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN. I'm Fabien, principal engineer, 25 years shipping production systems (Ruby, Swift, now Rust). I built Moltis because I wanted an AI assistant I could run myself, trust end to end, and make extensible in the Rust way using traits and the type system. It shares some ideas with OpenClaw (same memory approach, Pi-inspired self-extension) but is Rust-native from the ground up. The agent can create its own skills at runtime. Moltis is one Rust binary, 150k lines, ~60MB, web UI included. No Node, no Python, no runtime deps. Multi-provider LLM routing (OpenAI, local GGUF/MLX, Hugging Face), sandboxed execution (Docker/Podman/Apple Containers), hybrid vector + full-text memory, MCP tool servers with auto-restart, and multi-channel (web, Telegram, API) with shared context. MIT licensed. No telemetry phoning home, but full observability built in (OpenTelemetry...

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics 5 by davidbarker | 0 comments on Hacker News.