No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
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Benjamin Franklin''s Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws (www.morganlewis.com)
Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients (github.com)
Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (artificialanalysis.ai)
I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter (github.com)
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out This release is PACKED (pcsx2.net)
RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (blog.python.org)
Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Lawmakers added 1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (www.texastribune.org)
Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (www.latimes.com)
I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)
The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it (github.com)
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online (defrag98.com)
Palestinian woman and NBC News team attacked by masked Israeli settlers (www.nbcnews.com)
The Wandering Yamamura Theater Troupe (cinemasojourns.com)
44M Solar-Powered EV Production Deal Struck (frequal.com)
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (www.strangeloopcanon.com)
A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn''t so safe (blog.elis.cc)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday (www.npr.org)
Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org)
LLMs are making me lose my savviness (pgaleone.eu)
Domain-Driven Agents (coldtake.dev)
The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead (shitposting.ai)
Recovering Corrupt Zip Files (www.construct.net)
Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview (www.tencent.com)
vLLM v0.28.0 (github.com)
Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude (claude.com)
Kmart Digicam Mod Part 2 (mason.bearblog.dev)
DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (www.theguardian.com)
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now (www.stephendiehl.com)
A better SQL in 11 lines of code (prela-lang.org)
Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022) (www.coolboulder.org)
Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality (optimizedbyotto.com)
Vim''s UserGettingBored Autocmd (evanhahn.com)
Claude permanently raising weekly limits by 25% (bsky.app)
Claude Code is going reduce limits by 25% from September 14 (twitter.com)
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)
Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language (r136a1.dev)
Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (science.nasa.gov)
GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) (bsky.app)
Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV (www.dampfkraft.com)
SQLite as a Document Database (2020) (dgl.cx)
Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack (uecker.codeberg.page)
Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" (lwn.net)
I''m teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering (shukla.io)
Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript (typebase.io)
Creating the Aetheryte Radio (haz.ee)
EVE Online moves to Python 3 (www.eveonline.com)
POWBlock is a universal bot/DDoS defense primitive for any server (github.com)
Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer (galaxium.app)
Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (www.bbc.com)
Glacier Mice (en.wikipedia.org)
Time complexity of operations on Python''s built-in types (docs.python.org)
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It (matduggan.com)
Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems (sigma-star.at)
Autistici/inventati: Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002) (www.inventati.org)
e is a customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme (github.com)
Europe''s last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service (parowozowniawolsztyn.pl)
Samsung''s Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)
Queen Caroline turned King Arthur into an 18C royal PR strategy (theconversation.com)
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Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python (aconcan.io)
I''m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company''s AI (www.mcsweeneys.net)
Review: Chuwi''s 449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo (arstechnica.com)
TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com)
Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop (www.kumander.org)
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (openai.com)
Monzo Stand-In (monzo.com)
StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator (github.com)
Experiments with Plotter Art (sometimes.digital)
PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry (www.rascal.news)
9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight (azmirror.com)
I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis (pwning.systems)
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before Sept25 Sabot Media (www.wewillfreeus.org)
Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events? (www.vectorian.be)
A Japanese shrine has recorded one lake''s ice for 583 years, as a divination (jivx.com)
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple''s Virtualization.framework (github.com)
Identifying fake cosmetics using AI (groverlab.org)
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The ArtQrCode a twist on the classic black and white Quick Response Code (art-qrcode.com)
Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey''s cadillac todo list (charlesleifer.com)
You''ve heard of CSV files, but have you heard of CCSV files? (robida.net)
Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager (usesesame.app)
Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math (ben3d.ca)
Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (www.s-config.com)
Racter (1984) (www.ubu.com)
Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete (isitdoneyet.gg)
Chrome Deletes the Last Manifest V2 Extensions on August 31 (bumbletap.com)
Bye, Bye GitHub (log.ozgur.works)
Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention (boyter.org)
The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager (tmog.org)
25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA (www.thehealthy.com)
Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls (github.com)
The Analytical AI Handbook (handbook.sutro.sh)
Visual Analysis of Binary Files (binvis.io)
Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment (arxiv.org)
I Design with AI (ref.tools)
Secrets of the Atomic City (longreads.com)
EasyEffects: Essential for Enhancing Laptop Speaker Sound on Linux Distributions (www.osnews.com)
Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research (www.ycombinator.com)
Global demand has spawned a worldwide boom in illegal sand mining (2015) (www.wired.com)
Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days (anil.recoil.org)
How Dactyl Works (dactyl.dev)
Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio (terminalbytes.com)
Lake formed after ice-rock avalanche remains at a high level and is overflowing (kathmandupost.com)
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)
Don''t use musl if you care about performance (blog.brokk.ai)
Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom (www.wsj.com)
Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says (decode39.com)
Htmx 4.0.0 has been released (four.htmx.org)
''Recent revelations'' prompt Pflugerville to abruptly kill Flock camera access (www.mysanantonio.com)
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight (twitter.com)
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Africa''s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need (geekyschmidt.com)
Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits (www.hanselman.com)
Are Crows Our Friends? (www.audubon.org)
"Weird" is a weird word (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
Autistici/Inventati''s main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation (mastodon.bida.im)
OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2026 (2026.stateofthemap.org)
The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)
Get your Windows license refund (en.refund4freedom.org)
httpx2 (github.com)
I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn''t Do It Again (joshkaramuth.com)
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws (www.epa.gov)
Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI) (github.com)
U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective (www.inventati.org)
Teleport: Pack an agent session, resume it anywhere on any harness (github.com)
"IT WoRKs BeTter in the App " (shkspr.mobi)
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions (www.orbify.eu)
Talos – An AI agent with a permission kernel between model and shell (talos-agent.ch)
Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator (iainschmitt.com)
What Running Kafka on VMs Taught Us About Systems Thinking (engineering.moniepoint.com)
ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse''s Bubbling Surface (www.almaobservatory.org)
Bhartrhari''s Paradox (www.futilitycloset.com)
Advertisers Could Soon Demand ''Verified Clicks'' (www.amediaoperator.com)
Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise (www.nature.com)
AI Agent Has Root (infernalcode.com)
OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2 (github.com)
Pentagon''s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules (www.reuters.com)
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice (blog.luanti.org)
South Korea''s ''AI for All'' Push Gives Free Access to Every Citizen (www.wsj.com)
SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material (subsmith.app)
Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis (cartographia40k.com)
FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com)
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (alyssarosenzweig.ca)
Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing (www.bbc.com)
That''s a Lot of YAML (noyaml.com)
Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest (www.science.org)
A Looming Rare Earth Shortage Threatens Critical Tech (spectrum.ieee.org)
Sovereign Tech Agency invests 500k in Flatpak (modal.cx)
We will need more (not fewer) scientists (blog.valency.io)
My Business Is Dying (bankstatementconverter.com)
Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV (neilalexander.dev)
CSV merger that lines up mismatched columns by header, browser-only (usefiletools.com)
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why (lwn.net)
USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust (github.com)
Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal (www.nytimes.com)
Stripe said to abandon 50B pursuit of PayPal (www.bloomberg.com)
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video] (www.youtube.com)
Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (www.terminal-bench-science.ai)
Select * from Internet.blogposts (pfrazee.leaflet.pub)
Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal (www.newscientist.com)
OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance (github.com)
AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab (github.com)
We built open OpenRouter that distills usage into a better model (github.com)
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away from Top U.S. Universities (www.nytimes.com)
Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them (github.com)
900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor (www.independent.co.uk)
Meta Paid 17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform (www.techdirt.com)
Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (blog.google)
Voronoi Go (voronoigo.com)
Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force (news.bgov.com)
Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology (www.science.org)
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard (www.anthropic.com)
Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go. (github.com)
Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS (morphing.cloud)
I measured what my Claude.md, skills and hooks are worth (github.com)
M5Stack Launches PaperMono (shop.m5stack.com)
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (blog.google)
We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (code.ffmpeg.org)
The terrifying mechanics of the Nepali flash flood (www.economist.com)
Two German airport workers die of malaria after ''mosquito arrives on plane'' (www.bbc.com)
CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0''s New API (wagtail.org)
BRIN is 1/4570th the size of a B-tree, until 5% of rows are updated (deepsql.ai)
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1''s DNS cache (blog.cloudflare.com)
My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com)
A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory (polign.com)
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Product and AI Engineers (www.bild.ai)
Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source) (github.com)
See fiber breaks linked to a map (react-networks-lib.rackout.net)
Numerical (In)Stability of Recurrence Relations (www.johndcook.com)
Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration (www.windriver.com)
Small Models Have Arrived (calv.info)
Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into food (acs.digitellinc.com)
Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products (news.ycombinator.com)
Hollywood''s Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good? (www.statsignificant.com)
The model picker is a dead end (lovable.dev)
The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT (www.mux.com)
Suica, Japan''s First IC Transit Card (www.tokyodev.com)
Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino (www.bbc.com)
Needle: The benchmark your search engine can''t memorize (keenable.ai)
Nvidia projects 673B in sales as AI demand widens (forgeeks.net)
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days (blog.chrislewis.au)
Japanese polka dot artist Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97 (www.bbc.com)
Corporate political donations shatter record at 646M so far for US midterms (www.reuters.com)
Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots (news.ycombinator.com)
Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in ''Transformers,'' Dies at 85 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall (www.groundbrkr.com)
Launching Route 53 Files (www.daemonology.net)
Software engineering is about managing complexity (hack8s.com)
French CII''s Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress (github.com)
Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents (blog.exe.dev)
The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
Classical chess ranks 562nd of 960 starting positions after 460,800 games (chess960v2.com)
Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore (github.com)
507 Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)
Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know (www.accessnow.org)
US Government Designates Host of Noblogs.org a "Global Terrorist" (crimethinc.com)
MIT''s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training (aiandeducation.mit.edu)
AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents (www.ac2protocol.org)
Harness Engineering (habitat-thinking.github.io)
Trade (and Tariffs) (xkcd.com)
Did Meta''s Big Settlement Actually Help It? (www.nytimes.com)
Aphantasia Beginner''s Guide (aphantasia.com)
Never Launch Alone (launchgenius.app)
Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals (joinpause.co)
CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem – CoMaps (www.comaps.app)
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode (rahuljuliato.com)
RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages) (github.com)
Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets (github.com)
"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens (xeiaso.net)
Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts (www.nytimes.com)
Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday''s catastrophic glacier collapse (twitter.com)
Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity (humanprogress.org)
Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck (pollen-robotics.com)
YC Partner H-1B Comments Spark Controversy (www.ababnews.com)
Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down (news.ycombinator.com)
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS (news.ycombinator.com)
The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement (www.siliconcontinent.com)
Pnpm 12.0 (pnpm.io)
Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards (economist.com)
Laion Big Video Dataset (projects.laion.ai)
Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97 (news.jp)
Getting video models to learn better, faster (www.linum.ai)
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO (github.com)
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (infrequently.org)
High-Resolution Imaging for Statistical Validation of TESS Planet Candidates (arxiv.org)
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for 13B (www.businessinsider.com)
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (www.mturk.com)
Zohran and the Short Link (iamwillwang.com)
Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
Clerky Is Joining Stripe (www.clerky.com)
The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 (nhess.copernicus.org)
Build your own theme park (www.magicpatterns.com)
Qwen 3.8 27B Uncensored – Testing the Uncensored Qwen Model (imageat.com)
Infrastructure as Raclette (lois.postu.la)
mold: A Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)
Just say something people want (www.gkogan.co)
WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI (openai.com)
Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game (pushup.quest)
What will be left for us to work on (icml.cc)
Product Development is being Rewritten (revyl.com)
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor (newsroom.ibm.com)
We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule (cradrill.com)
Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)
A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation (arxiv.org)
The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023) (www.gatesnotes.com)
GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
Super Curry Combat II Turbo – Legend Edition (curry-combat-2.com)
Dallas startup enriches Uranium (www.actinideinc.com)
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (www.state.gov)
Study Reveals UnitedHealth''s Profit Margins Four Times What It Claimed [pdf] (insurancewatchdogcoalition.com)
The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications (www.wsj.com)
YouTube Format IDs (gist.github.com)
Tailcat: Secure Tunnels in Seconds (Tailscale) (github.com)
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries (foresightplanner.com)
CDs vs. NIMBY (www.betonit.ai)
Graze Joins Flipboard (graze.leaflet.pub)
CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer (www.fda.gov)
Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants (e360.yale.edu)
US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKK (home.treasury.gov)
Memory Ordering in CPUs (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)