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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2026-10-08 Build your auth like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor. Free for your first 1M users (Sponsor) AuthKit is the complete enterprise auth solution for your app. Powered by WorkOS, AuthKit lets you: Offer SSO, MFA, passkeys, passwords, email codes, and social sign-in Add and remove users automatically with SCIM provisioning Track who did what with audit logs It's compatible with any app architecture so you can easily sync user updates via realtime APIs. And user management is FREE for up to 1M monthly active users. See why WorkOS is trusted by companies serving billions of users: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Replit, Granola, and +3,000 others. Start with AuthKit today → 📱 Big Tech & Startups Claude Haiku 5.5 (4 minute read) Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's latest fast and low-cost model. The model is priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens up to 100,000 tokens, after which the price increases 5x. Under 100,000 tokens, Haiku is the same price as GPT-6 Luna and reports higher benchmark scores, but above 100,000 tokens, Luna looks like a much better deal. The Mathocalypse (9 minute read) OpenAI recently released 372 breakthrough results in the field of mathematics. However, it appears no human has understood any of the proofs yet. Experts reading the proofs say the papers are so horribly written they're impossible to read without AI help. The citations are also often irrelevant and confusing. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Zuckerberg's Biohub Partners With DOE, NIH to Invest $1.8 Billion in Biological Data for AI Models (1 minute read) Biohub, a nonprofit co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is working with the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and other funding partners to invest $1.8 billion in building biological data ready for AI models. The investment is aimed at providing data sets that allow researchers to use AI models to find new ways of preventing and treating diseases. The DOE will invest more than $500 million across five years in lab measurement, modeling, and computation to build an AI-ready open data resource; the NIH will coordinate the contribution of relevant datasets, repositories, and knowledge bases; and Biohub will work with the NIH to standardize the datasets for AI model training. In Vienna and Beijing, the First Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick (6 minute read) Two independent teams in Vienna and Beijing have simultaneously built the first clocks that keep time by counting the squishing and unsquishing of the atomic nuclei of thorium. The clocks are so precise that they only lose one second once every few million years or so. Nuclear clocks have the ability to search for certain kinds of dark matter. If a particle of dark matter passes through the thorium nuclei, it could register as a wobble in the nuclear clock's otherwise steady tick-tock. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Ship an age-adaptive app in one day at Google (Sponsor) Google and k-ID host 15 developer teams in San Francisco on October 21. ✅ New k-ID tooling, revealed that morning, adapts your app to every age automatically ✅ Mentors and judges from Google and k-ID on site ✅ Free, 18+, bring any stack >> Apply by October 12 >> Watch the livestream Influence without authority (4 minute read) Super ICs gain influence by repeatedly doing the unglamorous things. Over time, making the work better, making the story clearer, and making it easier for other people to succeed changes how people behave around you. Authority is a natural side effect of being the person others rely on. Focus on sharpening your craft, turning ideas into stories people can retell, packaging your thinking so it travels without you, and helping your peers hit their goals. Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (12 minute read) Readers need a compelling reason quickly to continue reading. The reader should be able to read an article fr