Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts (www.economist.com)
Stephen Wolfram''s Wife Has Died (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)
The Red Strings Club (www.vegard.net)
Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI (blog.cloudflare.com)
EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
Security Is Hard, Y''all (textslashplain.com)
Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
What''s Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (www.stlouisfed.org)
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
Mistral''s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off (www.not-ship.com)
America''s ''weird'' and ''unwise'' intervention in the Japanese yen (www.msn.com)
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
The Pedagogy Behind the Studio (gail.wharton.upenn.edu)
cMCP, deny an AI agent''s tool call and get a signed receipt (github.com)
The Judgment Reservoir (shannph.com)
Haters (www.paulgraham.com)
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (www.gadgetreview.com)
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (www.vlt.io)
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (mentalium.me)
The Warp Agent CLI (www.warp.dev)
All of Winona Police Department''s Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com)
It''s not a fear of "AI communism"; it''s a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune''s moons (www.reuters.com)
The AI Demand Bubble (www.wheresyoured.at)
Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI (github.com)
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (www.righto.com)
Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
FFmpeg 9.0 Released (git.ffmpeg.org)
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (www.computerenhance.com)
Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (blog.omgmog.net)
Dates That Don''t Exist (2015) (blog.yossarian.net)
Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
Xbox goes down. You can''t play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)
Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2''s ByteAtomic (ekxide.io)
Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com)
An Honest Review of AI Programming (mropert.github.io)
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know (www.bfi.org)
Nobel Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller (www.ssp.sh)
Ray Bradbury''s "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
U.S. used ''virtually all'' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (www.cnbc.com)
Cyberpunk Video Games (shellzine.net)
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (www.upi.com)
Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (www.nytimes.com)
FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with 1.3B Airtable deal (live.euronext.com)
You don''t need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (physics.aps.org)
NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (www.publictechnology.net)
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July (ing.dk)
Beauty In My Backyard (worksinprogress.co)
Nobody checked which state IBM''s flagship quantum chemistry results compute (zenodo.org)
Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man (om.co)
IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf] (scancad.net)
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (blog.rootsofprogress.org)
The Apple Calculator Language (wadetregaskis.com)
Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com)
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible (nooneshappy.com)
Living in the Math World Means Threading the Needle (www.quantamagazine.org)
Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (www.science.org)
There Will Come Soft Rains [pdf] (users.wpi.edu)
Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video (leoaido.com)
They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video] (media.ccc.de)
Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Who is hiring? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Battle of the Beams (en.wikipedia.org)
Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode – Bumbershoot Software (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
Boarding China''s Last Bus (asteriskmag.com)
LLMs reward expertise (www.seangoedecke.com)
KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (github.com)
AI''s debt binge can''t last, hidden borrowing reaches 1.65T (fortune.com)
Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery (ei3lh.eu)
DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status (status.digdir.no)
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real (www.mcgill.ca)
200 Milliseconds (200ms.thenodebook.com)
ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
The Potomac River Midair Collision (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
Kelly Criterion Simulator (kellysimulator.com)
Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (hamvocke.com)
Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech (www.404media.co)
The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (blog.cloudflare.com)
Help Wanted (lake.computer)
Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (changelog.complete.org)
SearXNG in Rust (github.com)
Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
C float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)
Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
What''s the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (note.com)
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time (www.intellinews.com)
Kraid is a now a real compiler (www.collabora.com)
Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days (www.marlerblog.com)
Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? (lapcatsoftware.com)
DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Flock''s CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop (www.thedrive.com)
Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first (www.sltrib.com)
Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)
Hollywood Stopped Making Movies in Hollywood (www.statsignificant.com)
The Future, Made in China (www.newyorker.com)
Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? (news.ycombinator.com)
GLM-5.3 Soon (github.com)
SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros (dmarcguard.io)
30 years of CPUs at Tom''s Hardware – looking back on three decades of processors (www.tomshardware.com)
Walk on Decomposed Subdomains (clementjambon.github.io)
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (blog.comfy.org)
The fading American Dream: Visa uncertainty drives Indian tech workers back home (thefederal.com)
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com)
The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town (defector.com)
The AI bubble is popping; we just don''t know it yet (www.theregister.com)
9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released (9front.org)
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability (research.jfrog.com)
Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell (arxiv.org)
ICE Collected Nearly 1M People''s DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (www.wired.com)
Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com)
Train Simulator Controller (z80.me)
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
Less Coffee, Better Sleep (www.marginalia.nu)
PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (github.com)
The true power of regular expressions (2012) (www.npopov.com)
Medieval Ideas About Food (lithub.com)
MPs demand answers on Fujitsu''s inclusion in lucrative frameworks (www.computerweekly.com)
We Fixed UniFi''s Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
Bonsai: Janestreet''s UI Library (github.com)
Octane – React''s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
The Shape of Things to Come (yegge.ai)
The AI Productivity Gap (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
I created a project management system (is.team)
Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
How do you rewrite C/C projects to Rust? (blog.jetbrains.com)
Emulating ALiBi with Rope (alexlitzenberger.com)
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com)
More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
Don''t be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
Òrbites – el puzzle de les constel·lacions (orbites.cat)
Convergence Is Not Enough (www.inkandswitch.com)
AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included (arxiv.org)
Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku (cro.raku.org)
OpenAI''s super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics (www.modelrepublic.org)
Why we write our own C and C inference engines (localai.io)
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T (runtimewire.com)
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze (www.rfc-editor.org)
Isopolis – isometric pixel map of SF (sf.isopolis.city)
ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
A Playable History of Sudoku (doku.su)
Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud (www.ycombinator.com)
Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App (daringfireball.net)
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com)
Why Book Corners won''t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (www.andreagrandi.it)
Playing with Georgia (mighil.com)
Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours (github.com)
AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest (www.ohiostatefair.com)
The Computational Theory of Mind (2015) (plato.stanford.edu)
Mu – Tools for Agents (github.com)
A tool for finding the causes of unstable Python tests (github.com)
Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island''s Emerging Open-Air Prison (www.11971.com)
Californians'' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 (www.nbcsandiego.com)
Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (mattbeton.com)
MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C 1MB binary (github.com)
Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else (hedgehogreview.com)
WireguardTCP: WireGuard over TCP (wireguardtcp.net)
Bubble Memory (en.wikipedia.org)
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation (linuxiac.com)
Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door (github.com)
Adding Go''s Defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console (blog.lon.tv)
Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust (github.com)
AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens (seanhelvey.com)
Anthropic''s Fever Dream: Claude''s package that stole real keys (www.aikido.dev)
Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild (dobrowolski.dev)
Let the Machines In (blog.semenzin.com)
Effective HTML (www.effectivehtml.com)
The Myth of Snow Leopard (www.rubenerd.au)
Schmitt Trigger: Robust Comparator Design with Hysteresis (www.wevolver.com)
My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw." (frogs.vaguespac.es)
EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What''s going to change? (www.euronews.com)
German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe (www.ft.com)
Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share (cleantechnica.com)
''Crush this lady'': how eBay harassment campaign led to 56M payout (www.ft.com)
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management (unattributed.cc)
SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity (ykvm.com)
Cancelling Cursor (www.jitbit.com)
Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% (www.theverge.com)
Turtle-inspired interactive Python project (www.codembark.com)
Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network (uphillsecurity.com)
The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached 88.6M (medium.com)
Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now. (lists.archlinux.org)
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust (stackoverflow.blog)
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America (linuxiac.com)
NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com)
GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet (ge97.com)
Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com)
Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N (blog.juni-mp4.com)
Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com)
When transit passes were designed by hand (letterformarchive.org)
How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
Norway Salmon (www.abc.net.au)
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology" (2005) (www.ursulakleguin.com)
The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition (seinfeld.visualisingdata.com)
Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 (16-bits.org)
(Rust) All-Hands 2026 Retrospective (blog.rust-lang.org)
F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)
LLMs Discover PNP (Comic) (chatgpt.com)
I made a Promise-aware debounce and throttle library for TypeScript (github.com)
ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification (peterneufeld.wordpress.com)
Folding Paper Globes (foldingglobes.com)
Has the New Cocaine Arrived? (playboy.substack.com)
Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (www.riscosopen.org)
Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers (website-auditor.io)
Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python (github.com)
The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions (dallasexpress.com)
An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems (twitter.com)
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager (www.ycombinator.com)
Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)
Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm (en.wikipedia.org)
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books (arxiv.org)
US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (www.ft.com)
Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Holocloth (holocloth.vercel.app)
Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today? (mattsclancy.github.io)
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)
Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
Cyberscript (cyberscript.dev)
Mathematics Without Mathematicians (borretti.me)
Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts (www.bbc.com)
IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System (osadmins.com)
Agent4Lease (agent4lease.com)
Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com)
Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours (www.uclahealth.org)
Instrumenting my espresso machine with OpenTelemetry (clickhouse.com)
The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago (mastodon.online)
Logan Basic v2.1 - An online BASIC interpreter. (sinusoft.com)
Tone Generator (soundtonegenerator.com)
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I don''t recommend Tailwind CSS (en.andros.dev)
Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
CRM: An open-source, agentic-first CRM (github.com)
Australia''s social media ban has failed (www.reuters.com)
A big win for Android interoperability (www.openhomefoundation.org)
Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components (elenajs.com)
Canadians are leaving the country at record levels. Can anyone solve this? (thehub.ca)
P[drive failure]: how reliable is your NAS? (khz.ac)
The Prospects for 128 Bit Processors ( John Mashey SGI 1995) (yarchive.net)
Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 (www.wafer.ai)
Don''t credit the LLM (isaacsu.com)
OpenAI''s claimed disproof of Connes'' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf] (philarchive.org)
Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (old.reddit.com)
The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes (blog.silentsignal.eu)
The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe (www.bbc.com)
Deep-sea vehicles spot ''alien'' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific (www.science.org)
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Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (www.regen.co.uk)
The Theater of Sport: Bill Buford Revisits Among the Thugs (www.theparisreview.org)
Futurism says Meta has "almost nothing" to show for AI. The numbers say (runtimewire.com)
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
When random.bytes() runs but doesn''t work (insider.btcpp.dev)
CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators (costperprompt.com)
Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter (chrismorgan.info)
Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment (rodneybrooks.com)
I''m a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com)
Why Is Europe Burning? (www.newyorker.com)
ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine (plug-world.com)
Art Invented Humanity (aeon.co)
China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines (www.reuters.com)
AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates (news.emory.edu)
Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)