Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content (www.abc.net.au)
Dutch Train Map Simulator (spoorkaart.zaza.dev)
Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (www.cbc.ca)
Worms: The Future of Yesterday''s Worms Today (worm.net)
Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class (www.bbc.com)
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (www.cringebot3000.com)
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CVE-2026-53361 AF_Unix GC vs. MSG_PEEK use-after-free container escape (github.com)
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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. (refp.se)
llama.cpp (llama.app)
Dropbox, loved by the masses, a shareholder dead end (s-1.vercel.app)
Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (www.science.org)
Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors (github.com)
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
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Company Offering ''100% Human-Written, Never AI'' Medical Research Is 100% AI (www.404media.co)
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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (www.quantamagazine.org)
Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (www.economist.com)
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight (arstechnica.com)
Retire the Abstractions (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York (www.cftc.gov)
Line9 - a Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)
US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (www.cbsnews.com)
Ethical Cold Outreach (blog.val.town)
Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com)
pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries (clickhouse.com)
WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)
Give Palantir up to 244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo (www.theregister.com)
Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products (www.suzanne3d.com)
Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics (momath.org)
The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth (www.effort.news)
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (techcrunch.com)
RSI Simulator (www.paradigm.xyz)
Grok Bot (x.ai)
AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes (www.simulationslabs.com)
Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed (gizmodo.com)
An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (www.psupress.org)
Don''t Look Up (www.wheresyoured.at)
The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment (economist.com)
Your phone is the most intricate machine you''ve ever held. Let''s take it apart. (everythingmachine.io)
Bluesky''s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 lightning and Nemo Switchyard (blogs.nvidia.com)
The whole of PyTorch on one page (tensor.khalilli.ai)
Making Holograms with a Pen Plotter (blog.jordan.matelsky.com)
CSS properties you should know for better text designs (master.dev)
A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart (www.nytimes.com)
The Tradeoffs Facing Japan''s Economy (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
We Used to Get Jobs (ironicsans.ghost.io)
OpenSSH 10.5 released, AI fixes now welcome (www.openssh.org)
Mojo 1.0 Is Here (www.modular.com)
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Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The SpaceX Sham (dissentmagazine.org)
Grok Bot by SpaceXAI (x.ai)
Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch (guessingheadlights.com)
Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering (developers.googleblog.com)
iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades To''Curb Mental Health Crisis'' (www.wsj.com)
Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme (jolt-lang.github.io)
Federal vendor with 50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (www.propublica.org)
Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (flowingdata.com)
Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com)
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16 Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp (github.com)
Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything (www.trykeet.com)
Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server (github.com)
The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses (www.theguardian.com)
Greenland issues "strong warning" as American oil firm illegally drills wells (www.theguardian.com)
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf (www.tomshardware.com)
Why Did OpenAI''s Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave? (aimagazine.com)
New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog (consumerrights.wiki)
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (huggingface.co)
It''s time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video] (www.youtube.com)
England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (www.bbc.com)
What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)
How to organize Claude Code for product work (www.theaithinker.com)
Immersion lithography saved Moore''s Law (2023) (www.asml.com)
Nvidia''s Risky Business (stratechery.com)
More than 10 firms pay up to 100k a month for access to Truth Social posts (www.bbc.com)
OpenAI''s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month (gizmodo.com)
Hollywood and Shanghai Cinema in the 1930s [pdf] (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
Panic of 1873 (en.wikipedia.org)
Closing Canario Terminal source code (rapha.land)
London Underground begins scanning passengers'' faces (www.btp.police.uk)
Programming the Gigatron (www.iwriteiam.nl)
The Water Footprint of AI (doi.org)
About Rx Kids (rxkids.org)
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
To Save C, We Must Save ABI (thephd.dev)
Faster floating point math with Rust''s new API (pythonspeed.com)
Half of Europe''s towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago (correctiv.org)
OpenAI wraps 7B share sale ahead of potential IPO (www.cnbc.com)
France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls (www.nytimes.com)
DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself (manish.sh)
Once More in Triple Time (theamericanscholar.org)
Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97% (github.com)
Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta ''Photos'' App (www.neowin.net)
LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero (whatever.scalzi.com)
Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases (blog.mozilla.org)
Claude will watermark AI-generated text and images (tokenstead.ai)
Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)
US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat (www.theguardian.com)
Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control (www.wsj.com)
Recycle – Floppydisks (www.floppydisk.com)
Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java (www.choral-lang.org)
Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers (github.com)
GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)
SQRL wan''t wrong, it was early (sjg.io)
Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don''t (www.nytimes.com)
Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby''s grave (www.bbc.com)
Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released (code.call-cc.org)
ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir (www.404media.co)
The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (gigamonkeys.com)
The UK''s War on Anonymity Has Come to America (www.effort.news)
Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik''s Cube states (everycube.alen.is)
Mark Zuckerberg''s Yacht Refused to Help Ship in Distress (nymag.com)
AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status (github.com)
The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain''s life (resobscura.substack.com)
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)
What''s the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse (thewalrus.ca)
Stowaway – take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead (stowaway.live)
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (www.ycombinator.com)
We cut a 40-day financial integration down to 5 days using Google Anti (discuss.google.dev)
Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (arachnoid.com)
How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)
Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane (number-garden.com)
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (arstechnica.com)
In Japan, ''calf hair harassment'' exposes gender-based appearance conflicts (www.lemonde.fr)
Stop Killing Games: It''s time to sue Sony, join us (www.massaschadeconsument.nl)
Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification (linuxstans.com)
Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word (fabscene.medium.com)
Attacker Takes over Zoom AI (www.promptarmor.com)
Why Can''t You Pack a Bag? (www.newyorker.com)
Rust SIMD on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox (alphatheta.com)
The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert (en.wikipedia.org)
Learning more about Claude''s mathematical capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them (galratner.substack.com)
Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words (stochastic.blog)
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)
MergeImage – merge and stitch images locally in the browser (mergeimage.app)
Extreme 220GHzBroadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11 (pim.murata.com)
Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
Sonic Pi v5 Released (www.patreon.com)
Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (www.stoaexchange.com)
Why Addresses Have Numbers (thehistoricalinsights.page)
Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (www.neurology.org)
AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power (ai-updates.net)
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com)
GLP-1 drugs linked to bigger jump in women’s employment than a college degree (finance.yahoo.com)
Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com)
Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (jackschaedler.github.io)
Force-Fed by ICE (www.theguardian.com)
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
Oil giants face backlash as Iran conflict fuels multi-billion-pound profits (leftfootforward.org)
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints (www.wcax.com)
Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)
Every Company Needs a Cassandra (sunilpai.dev)
There Is No "Done": Reflections on a Completed at Thru-Hike (2022) (thetrek.co)
Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines (blog.sshh.io)
Open-Source Greptile Alternative (github.com)
OpenAI''s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over 300 (www.bloomberg.com)
Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it''s 20g bigger than today''s (www.bbc.com)
Convince an AI it''s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You''re Human (www.theguardian.com)
Itadakimasu: A Word You Say to the Food, Not the Cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)
''Pervert glasses'': Backlash against Meta''s smart glasses grows (www.seattletimes.com)
Sea Lion Radio brings Seattle''s barks, bleats and yaps to the world (www.seattletimes.com)
In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? (news.ycombinator.com)
OpenAI''s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future (www.meta.com)
Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k4 (github.com)
Mark Zuckerberg attacks ''closed'' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
China is now the world''s greatest oil power (www.economist.com)
Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
Defending my own brain against enshittification (mrmarket.lol)
Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn''t be powered through its GPIO pins (82mhz.net)
Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015) (lwn.net)
50k Boat Names (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app (bobdahacker.com)
Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes (squeak.org)
DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user 1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years (twitter.com)
Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength (github.com)
Because It''s Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (bytecode.news)
A ''bananas'' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion (www.irishtimes.com)
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (lwn.net)
COLDCARD''s Random Numbers Weren''t (coldcard.rip)
Meta''s new open-weight model targets local agentic AI (twitter.com)
One Email, Three Identities: SPF, DKIM and DMARC Explained (senderledger.com)
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model (research.meta.ai)
How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (www.youtube.com)
Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler (lordgoati.us)
An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com)
An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise (www.dsprelated.com)
Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (www.docker.com)
Why do we assume everyone should be working? (wilsoniumite.com)
The Philippines'' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (www.economist.com)
Slap ROM Patcher (nyuu.page)
Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy (July 2026) (www.nber.org)
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)
Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (www.whodunnitai.com)
Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com)
Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (www.cnbc.com)
Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language (memelang.net)
What Happened to HackerOne? (blog.teknogeek.io)
ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
The Ambition Project (www.betonit.ai)
How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (www.snowflake.com)
The German Mittelstand (kieranvelasquez.substack.com)
Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (www.dpreview.com)
Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (www.abc.net.au)
"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes (www.nytimes.com)
Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster? (github.com)
Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (www.wtoc.com)
Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle (www.science.org)
I''ve yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union (mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)
Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been" [video] (www.youtube.com)
Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)
New Zealand lost its music media, and what we''re building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
Archival Resource Key (Ark) Alliance (arks.org)
The Hacker''s Renaissance (phrack.org)
How not to turn ideologically crazy (blog.andymasley.com)
Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices (blog.raed.dev)
I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared) (mynoise.net)
The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (www.economist.com)
Deletes all instances of Microsoft''s GDID and prevents minting of new ones (github.com)
Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (www.euronews.com)
When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
The Meme Factory: The Indonesians Making Money Off Facebook Outrage (netbajura.blogspot.com)
How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (www.newyorker.com)
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager (www.theregister.com)
I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite (github.com)
Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards (www.nytimes.com)
Saying No (rozumem.xyz)
If experience is the goal, then you always win (www.startingfromnix.com)
Cross-Compilation with Wails (chriswheeler.dev)
OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video] (www.youtube.com)
A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com)
An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power (ai-updates.net)
UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account (unyolo.io)
Why climate, fertility collapse, and AI compute share the same bottleneck? (bytepith.com)
What are you working on? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon (frequal.com)
Literary Sins (www.thedial.world)
Banksy works cost public almost 150k (www.bbc.co.uk)
FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (www.tomshardware.com)
Crickets as Pets (en.wikipedia.org)
Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley (pubsonline.informs.org)
Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com)
Every fast write moves work somewhere else (www.shayon.dev)
Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) (alexanderwanyoike.github.io)
I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won (jorypestorious.com)
Cool URIs Don''t Change (1998) (www.w3.org)
Today''s cities on a globe of Earth''s tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Willoughbyland: England''s Forgotten South American Colony (www.historytoday.com)
Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change (82mhz.net)
Windows 11''s built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer''s (theconversation.com)
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
Tom Stanton''s supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (www.techeblog.com)
When the apartment listing is too good to be true (blog.denv.it)
70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic (www.youtube.com)
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (news.stanford.edu)
Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA (dylancastillo.co)
A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)
Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech''s Debt (www.youtube.com)
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)
Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta (www.cnbc.com)
The Dynamics of the Egg (www.the-hinternet.com)
Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center (www.tomshardware.com)
DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space (blog.n.ichol.ai)
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue (github.com)
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded (www.theatlantic.com)
Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)