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Record 15092026 · captured 2026-09-16

Tuesday, 15 September 2026

The world looked up John Tuggle. 30 tracked subjects, 25 discussions, 25 papers. This record is frozen and will not change.

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Attention 30

What the most people looked up, ranked by Wikipedia pageviews for that day.

  1. 334,076views

    John Tuggle

    John Davis Tuggle was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for one season with the New York Giants. He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected by the Giants as the fina

  2. 326,126views

    Alexander Zverev

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  3. 230,507views

    2026 Swedish general election

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  4. 215,885views

    Lanterns (TV series)

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  5. 165,788views

    September 11 attacks

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  6. 160,695views

    Bob Mackie

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  7. 138,518views

    Deaths in 2026

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  8. 133,988views

    Cam Skattebo

    Cameron Skattebo is an American professional football running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Sacramento State Hornets and Arizona State Sun Devils. Skattebo was selected by the Giants in t

  9. 130,366views

    Jaxson Dart

    Jaxson Chase Dart is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Dart played college football for the USC Trojans and Ole Miss Rebels and was selected by the Giants in the first round of the 2025

  10. 124,156views

    Sydney Sweeney

    Sydney Bernice Sweeney is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018. She received wider acclaim for her performances in the drama series Euphoria (2019–2026) and the fir

  11. 117,261views

    Hayden Panettiere

    Hayden Lesley Panettiere was an American actress and singer. She first appeared on screen when she was 11 months old, in a 1990 commercial; by age five, she had appeared in more than 50 commercials. Her first major television roles were as Sarah Roberts in the

  12. 112,930views

    Neatsville, Kentucky

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  13. 112,377views

    Ben Shelton

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  14. 112,212views

    Killing of the Clancy children

    On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States. She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and n

  15. 111,024views

    Hanuman Ansh

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  16. 107,352views

    Odell Beckham Jr.

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  17. 91,976views

    Madison Beer

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  18. 90,948views

    Trinity Rodman

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  19. 83,522views

    Vishwanath & Sons

    Vishwanath & Sons is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language romantic family drama film written and directed by Venky Atluri. Produced by Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas, the film stars Suriya, alongside Mamitha Baiju, Radhika Sarathkumar, and Raveena Tan

  20. 77,193views

    Elizabeth Holmes

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  21. 76,423views

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    Elena Rybakina

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    Robert Kraft

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  24. 72,247views

    Macklemore

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  25. 71,848views

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day

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  26. 69,379views

    The Gentlemen (2024 TV series)

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  27. 69,219views

    Dario Amodei

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  28. 68,489views

    Ganesh Chaturthi

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    United Airlines Flight 93

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Frontier 25

What the people building things argued about, from Hacker News.

  1. 1,631points

    Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

    203 comments

  2. 1,360points

    Introducing System One Models and Jev

    388 comments

  3. 1,062points

    I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

    447 comments

  4. 854points

    25 years of mass surveillance is enough

    314 comments

  5. 528points

    An update on Wayback Machine access

    269 comments

  6. 485points

    Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

    426 comments

  7. 461points

    US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

    333 comments

  8. 406points

    Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

    265 comments

  9. 383points

    Let's make quality the norm again

    391 comments

  10. 366points

    Linux from Scratch

    109 comments

  11. 333points

    Java 27

    348 comments

  12. 327points

    Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

    136 comments

  13. 313points

    Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

    180 comments

  14. 293points

    America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

    176 comments

  15. 292points

    Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary

    75 comments

  16. 273points

    We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub

    153 comments

  17. 254points

    Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

    101 comments

  18. 253points

    CSS-Tricks in Limbo

    117 comments

  19. 224points

    Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

    135 comments

  20. 221points

    There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet

    160 comments

  21. 220points

    Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

    239 comments

  22. 216points

    German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

    77 comments

  23. 189points

    Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device

    33 comments

  24. 180points

    Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

    98 comments

  25. 170points

    Chopping up books when they're physically too big

    157 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2609.17527

    Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness

    An agentic society is a collection of AI agents that coordinate autonomously across trust boundaries, on behalf of different principals whose objectives may only partially align. We show experimentally that in agentic societies even honest, competent agents often fail to reach satisfactory outcomes with existing harnesses and messaging primitives, and that faulty or malicious agents can stall collaboration, influence

    Tapan Chugh, Vidushi Singh, Krish Jain, Arvind Krishnamurthy et al.

  2. arXiv2609.17523

    ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

    We introduce and release ScienceBuddy, an interactive scientific research workspace that brings continually improving scientific agents into researchers' everyday workflows. ScienceBuddy supports researchers in carrying out scientific tasks while transforming their requests, feedback, and execution evidence into tasks and evaluation rubrics for continual learning. At its core is recursive-in-recursive self-improvemen

    Shuhan Xue, Jianyuan Zhong, Ziyuan Nan, Wenbin Li et al.

  3. arXiv2609.17521

    PhysStream: Streaming Physics-Grounded Video Generation with Structured Scene Memory and Fine-Grained Motion Control

    Interactive control for video generation is moving from coarse prompts toward fine-grained, physically meaningful manipulation of dynamic scenes. Yet existing controllable methods either require the full control schedule before generation starts, or use pixel-space signals that dictate object positions rather than physical dynamics. To address these limitations, we propose PhysStream, an autoregressive model for phys

    Chuhao Chen, Peter Wonka, Chaoyang Wang, Chen Wang et al.

  4. arXiv2609.17516

    When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control

    Large language models can produce fluent answers when their factual support is weak. This paper introduces Chain-of-Self-Questioning (CoSQ), a prompt-only framework that makes answer commitment conditional on an explicit assessment of the information required to answer a question. We evaluate three CoSQ variants under seventeen conditions on the 817-item TruthfulQA multiple-choice validation set using eleven open-wei

    Ali Şenol

  5. arXiv2609.17509

    LACE: Layer-Wise Compression for Dynamic Frame Rate Codecs

    Neural audio codecs are a key component in speech language modeling. However, their high frame rates lead to long sequence lengths, increasing computational costs. Dynamic frame rate codecs mitigate this by reducing the effective frame rate using a compression step to merge multiple frames together. However, most prior methods either operate on single-codebook codecs or apply a single compression step before multi-la

    Thanapat Trachu, Samuele Cornell, William Chen, Shinji Watanabe

  6. arXiv2609.17499

    ENCP: Episode-Normalized Conformal Prediction for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Uncertainty estimation for Vision-Language-Navigation (VLN) models is a critical task since it can help identify ambiguous and unreliable predictions, enabling agents to make safer navigation decisions. As one of the most advanced uncertainty estimation frameworks, conformal prediction (CP) offers a promising approach for uncertainty estimation in VLN. However, given that VLN agent requires a sequence of steps, stand

    Vicky Feliren, A. Taufiq Asyhari, Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra

  7. arXiv2609.17496

    Verifiable Social Reasoning for LLM Assistants

    LLM assistants are widely used for daily social advice, yet evaluating their social reasoning in such consultation settings remains challenging since (i) it requires setups where the assistant learns about social situations from subjective user narratives, and (ii) social properties, such as others' intentions, typically lack verifiable ground truth. To address these challenges, we introduce Fuse, a multi-agent simul

    Amir Taubenfeld, Zorik Gekhman, Avigail Grinstein-Dabush, Itay Laish et al.

  8. arXiv2609.17488

    LimiX-2: A Contextual Mechanism Network Towards General Structured-Data Intelligence

    We introduce LimiX-2, a new model in the LimiX family, developed through model and data scaling guided by our previously established scaling laws. LimiX-2 adopts the Contextual Mechanism Networks (CMNs) paradigm and is pretrained with Context-Conditional Masked Modeling (CCMM). CMNs shifts the organizing principle of in-context learning from target-centric prediction to mechanism-oriented joint modeling. Rather than

    Xingxuan Zhang, Gang Ren, Hao Yuan, Hao Zou et al.

  9. arXiv2609.17479

    Det-LIME: Detector-Aware, Multi-Instance Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations for Automated Marine Mammal Detection

    Despite the rapid uptake of black-box object detectors in marine mammal research and monitoring, explainability techniques are rarely integrated into conservation workflows. Furthermore, most classification-oriented explainability tools are ill-suited to detection tasks involving imagery of social organisms or those with colonial life histories, as they ignore multiple detections within a scene and produce single-ins

    Jiayi Zhou, David W. Johnston, Brinnae Bent

  10. arXiv2609.17475

    JustFit: 200K-Token LLM Serving on a 24 GiB Laptop with Just-in-Time State Management

    Capable open-weight models make local coding and reasoning attractive, but their context and execution state strain laptop memory. We present JustFit, an MLX-based inference runtime that combines KVExec for compressed KV execution, PhaseSwap for component residency, and StateTrans for state-preserving serving transitions. These mechanisms fuse reconstruction and coordinate just-in-time materialization and release, in

    Yuhua Chen

  11. arXiv2609.17474

    Coupled Calibration and Learning: Mitigating Teacher Bias in LLM Distillation without Target-Domain Reward Feedback

    Large language model (LLM) distillation aims to transfer the capabilities of a powerful teacher to a smaller student. Direct imitation, however, can also transfer the teacher's systematic bias and errors. This challenge is particularly pronounced under covariate shift, when the teacher's reliability on target questions is uncertain and target-domain reward feedback is unavailable. We propose Coupled Calibration and L

    Haichen Hu, Yuheng Zhang, David Simchi-Levi

  12. arXiv2609.17464

    Decomposition Buys Integrity, Not Yield

    Multi-agent systems split a task across a tree of agents and justify the split with folklore: smaller contexts, cleaner separation, parallelism. We ask what the split does to how much of what the leaves discover reaches the root. Model a decomposition as a tree in which an agent handed $b$ items keeps any one with probability $r(b)$. If $r(b)=1/b$, every tree delivers exactly one finding, for every task size and ever

    Rong He

  13. arXiv2609.17439

    Evaluating Verified Autonomy in Quantum Engineering

    Reliable quantum engineering is essential for turning quantum phenomena into practical technologies. As quantum platforms grow in scale and complexity, their characterization and operation require increasing human effort and coordination. Scientific artificial intelligence agents, which can plan experiments, operate instruments, and analyze observations, offer a promising route towards autonomous quantum engineering.

    Naixu Guo, Changhao Li, Siyu Cheng, Qicheng Tang et al.

  14. arXiv2609.17434

    CareMirror: Bringing Caregiver Wellbeing into the Dementia Care Ecosystem

    Family caregivers of people living with dementia shoulder emotional and practical responsibilities, yet their own wellbeing often remains peripheral to dementia care. We built CareMirror, an envisioned caregiver wellbeing ecosystem with interconnected caregiver- and clinician-facing interfaces for longitudinal reflection, personalized support, and caregiver-controlled sharing with clinical care. We conducted semi-str

    Jiayue Melissa Shi, Ethan Nguyen, Drishti Goel, Upasana Natarajan et al.

  15. arXiv2609.17429

    Learning-Guided Planning in Large Dynamic Action Spaces: Budgeted Tree Search for One-to-Many Mobile Charging

    Many learned sequential decision systems map the current state directly to an action. That shortcut becomes brittle when candidate actions are numerous, geometrically structured, and rebuilt with the state. One-to-many mobile charging makes this setting concrete: with N=250 sensors, the initial state induces about 1,125 candidate charging-stop actions; each chosen stop simultaneously serves its in-range sensors, and

    Liang-Ching Tao, Pi-Chung Wang

  16. arXiv2609.17427

    Tracking the Unseen: An Occlusion-Robust Framework for Target Tracking Under Full and Long-Term Occlusion

    Real-time multi-object tracking systems remain highly vulnerable to full and long-term occlusion, where targets temporarily or completely disappear from the camera's field of view. Conventional trackers may terminate trajectories prematurely, resulting in identity loss and reduced situational awareness in applications such as defense and surveillance. This work proposes an occlusion-robust target tracking framework t

    Mais Mohammed, Sharifa Mohammed, Hanan Awadh, Haneen Bamaas et al.

  17. arXiv2609.17394

    Coding Agents Have Converged: Why the SWE-bench Leaderboard Can No Longer Order Its Top Entries, and What to Measure Instead

    Small differences on coding-agent leaderboards are often read as an ordering of systems. We audit whether the published verdicts support this reading, using 254 SWE-bench submissions across four splits without running models. On Verified, the leading two entries each resolve 396 of 500 instances. The top ten share 285 successes and 51 failures, leaving 164 instances that distinguish their outcomes. Frontier solution

    Fengshuo Liu, Ying Liu, Ruize Sun, Lie Luo et al.

  18. arXiv2609.17391

    FlashVector: Agent for Hierarchical Model Serving Stack Optimization

    Model serving is one of the largest cost drivers in production recommender systems. Maximizing its throughput requires navigating a deeply layered hierarchy: GPU kernels, the ML framework computation graph, the model server, and on-demand feature processing -- each demanding specialized domain expertise. Such cross-layer expertise is inherently difficult to acquire, and does not scale with a workload that continuousl

    Qi Wu, Lohan Lemire, Kai Meng, Zhongmou Cai et al.

  19. arXiv2609.17346

    Where Should a Document Live: Context, Representations, or Parameters?

    To answer questions outside of their pre-training data, large language models (LLMs) need access to new information, which can be presented in the context window as documents, encoded into the model's parameters, or injected as latent representations. However, each of these methods comes with different efficiency, cost, and performance trade-offs, with no single winner. We present a controlled comparison of represent

    Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina, Momchil Hardalov, Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert

  20. arXiv2609.17331

    Self-Emergence Agent Architecture:Behavior-Inertia HMM, Reflexive Metacognition,and Social-Contrastive Self-Modeling

    Large language model (LLM) agents exhibit strong language-generation and problem-solving capabilities, yet suffer from three structural limitations: personality drift, non-evolutionary reflection, and the absence of a self-other boundary. Existing generative-agent simulations rely on static memory and fixed prompts, maintaining neither behavioral inertia nor endogenous self-evolution. We propose the Self-Emergence Ag

    Xiaoyang Liu

  21. arXiv2609.17327

    Vroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs

    This paper describes our submission to the SHROOM-Visions shared task on detecting and classifying hallucinated character spans in vision-language model outputs across four languages. We employ several fine-tuned vision-language models as independent annotators and combine their span predictions through character-level majority voting, and additionally explore activation probes. The approach ranks first in three of f

    Toqeer Ehsan, Nico Penttilä, Richard Schmidt, Arash Hajikhani et al.

  22. arXiv2609.17326

    From Transient Prompts to Persistent Control: Scientific Poster Generation via Recursive Semantic-Geometric Contracts

    Scientific poster generation distills a multimodal paper into a single-page visual artifact, forcing strict trade-offs between informational coverage and readability under a fixed spatial budget. Existing methods pass plans as transient prompts and validate individual stages in isolation. This strategy causes requirements to drift across content and layout modules, and previous checks to be silently invalidated. We i

    Runze Li, Yukun Zhao, Can Xu, Yucheng Shen et al.

  23. arXiv2609.17325

    Intrinsic Motivation in Reinforcement Learning: A Research Agenda for Adaptive Self-Organisation

    Biological cells can be viewed as individual, interacting agents whose collective dynamics give rise to adaptive behaviour at multiple levels of organisation, from individual cells through tissues to whole multicellular organisms. In this perspective and tutorial article we discuss whether intrinsic rewards in artificial neural systems can support adaptation, functional specialisation and higher-level self-organisati

    Anatoly Belikov

  24. arXiv2609.17306

    Mo' Models, Mo' Problems: How to best select model pools when designing Multi-Agent Systems

    Multi-agent Systems (MAS) combine multiple model outputs to solve complex reasoning tasks. However, despite rapid growth of available open-source models, there is limited research on how to select optimal model candidates out of this massive pool. We systematically evaluate 8 model selection strategies (including model size, accuracy and answer diversity) across before-generation (routing) and after-generation (major

    Sara Vera Marjanović, Jiacheng Xu, Aleksandr Laptev, Grigor Nalbandyan et al.

  25. arXiv2609.17291

    Extracting ontology-compliant knowledge from scientific text describing irradiated materials using large language models

    The quest for new materials increasingly relies on predictive models and comprehensive simulations that span scales from atomic to macroscopic levels. However, essential data necessary for these models and simulations are often embedded in scientific literature as unstructured text, limiting reusability and posing challenges for researchers seeking to leverage existing knowledge effectively. While extracting structur

    Marco Luca Sbodio, Marcos Martínez Galindo, Vanessa Lopez, Blanca Biel et al.

Who invites agents in 14,770 probes

Origins publishing files written for machines rather than people. Measured against a frozen cohort, so a change in the number means a change in adoption.

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llms.txt (apex domain) 9.7% (97)5.6% (56)60.91% (67)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 4% (40)1.1% (11)44.55% (49)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)8.18% (9)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.2% (2)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 17

Notable events recorded on this day and month across all years.

  1. 2020year

    The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C. (signatories pictured), normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

  2. 2017year

    A homemade bomb partially exploded on an eastbound District line train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, injuring 30 passengers.

  3. 2013year

    The Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.

  4. 2008year

    Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over $600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.

  5. 1972year

    Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt to force the release of those arrested for the assassination of the Yugoslav ambassador the previous year.

  6. 1963year

    The 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people.

  7. 1954year

    The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.

  8. 1944year

    World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai.

  9. 1944year

    World War II: The Greek People's Liberation Army won the Battle of Meligalas and began the execution of many prisoners of war and civilians.

  10. 1935year

    Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws (pictured), which deprived Jews of their citizenship.

  11. 1862year

    American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.

  12. 1830year

    The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) (depicted), the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, opened with the Duke of Wellington in attendance.\

  13. 1821year

    The Province of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire.

  14. 1795year

    French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.

  15. 1791year

    French playwright Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality.

  16. 1776year

    American Revolutionary War: British forces made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.

  17. 1462year

    The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos ended upon the surrender of commander Niccolò Gattilusio; the conquering Mehmed II executed 300 Italian soldiers by chopping them in half, claiming he was fulfilling a promise to "spare their heads".