ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author''s style (arstechnica.com)
TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (www.nature.com)
The phone book that led us to Assad''s spy chief in hiding (www.bbc.com)
When Feature Flags Do and Don''t Make Sense (software.rajivprab.com)
The AI Apocalypse Is Here (www.compactmag.com)
Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal (www.nyujll.com)
Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
You can build an AI agent''s memory layer with only Go''s standard library (towardsdev.com)
The Sound and Music of ''Hyper Light Drifter'' [video] (gdcvault.com)
Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause (bigthink.com)
Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (www.redblobgames.com)
My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler (github.com)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (web.njit.edu)
Making difficulty curves in games (www.davetech.co.uk)
Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (www.science.org)
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
Python string literals are kinda funny (sebsite.pw)
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students'' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
Monitors for Work (etbe.coker.com.au)
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
Cruise ship helps stranded skiff, crew in Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by (alaskabeacon.com)
Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp (www.fratepietro.com)
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
You can''t have 24hour sunlight AND low altitude, low-latency orbits (mastodon.social)
OpenAI Trained Models While They Were Coordinating Exploits via Message Boards (thezvi.substack.com)
From your doorbell to your home network (adepts.of0x.cc)
Sensitive Info Goes into ''No Reply'' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (www.wired.com)
BYOC Is Not Just ''Deploy into Their Cloud'' (omnistrate.com)
Don''t use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (specification.website)
Gateway 2000''s hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore (www.wired.com)
The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference (www.redhat.com)
Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol) (andreadimatteo.com)
A Tome of Forbidden Technologies (ecosophia.net)
The USSR in 100 Photographs (trinixy.ru)
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
DeepMind''s WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com)
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices (www.nytimes.com)
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
US Military''s Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
Europe''s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site) (en.wikipedia.org)
Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers (ai-updates.net)
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
How the ''fecal revolution'' changed Earth''s ecosystems (phys.org)
Stack Overflow new questions are down 98.5% since ChatGPT ( 5 other platforms) (www.harperflow.io)
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle''s Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
As a Windows user, it''s a surreal way to install a program (unsung.aresluna.org)
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (web.archive.org)
Modern C Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com)
Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster''s Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night (www.runnersworld.com)
SupererDuperer (www.shirtpocket.com)
I''m Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store (www.abeautifulsite.net)
NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (www.space.com)
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? (www.economist.com)
Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com)
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)
Curlese, Five Years Later (www.hypertesto.me)
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com)
Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
Water system controllers don''t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (www.theregister.com)
Opus5/low can do CryptoNote base58 decoding toolless, in working memory alone (bsky.app)
Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support (www.uawire.org)
Guarded Methods in OCaml (xvw.lol)
The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer''s Odyssey by Claude Fable 5 (theclaudyssey.com)
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (github.com)
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% (www.databricks.com)
Carl''s Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency''s ''best interests'' (apnews.com)
Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)
The End of No Code (blog.exe.dev)
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)
Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years (www.cbc.ca)
Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (eco3min.fr)
Building Community Out of Strangers (tracydurnell.com)
This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It''s Opening Again (www.bloomberg.com)
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) (www.lse.ac.uk)
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
The AI Billboards Are Killing SF (sfstandard.com)
Zohran Mamdani''s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been (www.wired.com)
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (www.sdss.org)
Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined (www.freeformatter.com)
Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (blog.stackdump.com)
Software is about people, not code (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (patronview.com)
Terafab (www.terafab.ai)
US''s largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (www.niemanlab.org)
textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
Thoroughly Understanding C ABI (ykiko.me)
U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower (www.wsj.com)
Wyzer Programming Language (github.com)
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (www.fastcompany.com)
Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? (www.noemamag.com)
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (www.sciencealert.com)
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (www.nbcnews.com)
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)
The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale (w.on-t.work)
DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (www.politico.com)
How to Generate a TLSA Record and Fix the 3 1 1 Mismatch (dmarcguard.io)
Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas (www.newsweek.com)
TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (www.typestax.com)
Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity (whatever.scalzi.com)
Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (github.com)
The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate (www.currentaffairs.org)
The BBC Tetris Companion (www.leadedsolder.com)
US strikes 1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (www.bbc.com)
Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding (www.coinbase.com)
A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (www.youtube.com)
All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out (www.ign.com)
I won''t read LLM authored fiction (mccormick.cx)
Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses (www.bbc.co.uk)
Parsers don''t have to be complicated (bkaradzic.github.io)
A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson (read-the-water.netlify.app)
What Is a Product? (roge.onwrite.app)
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human (www.shreveporttimes.com)
Reverse Jevons Paradox (mht.wtf)
I''ve succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian (www.reddit.com)
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (community.frame.work)
Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money (finance.yahoo.com)
Atomic Clocks (www.nist.gov)
Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware (socket.dev)
Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone (onekey.so)
Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids (www.wired.com)
Shades of Meaning (2018) (mag.uchicago.edu)
Four simple rules behind Japan''s most liveable cities (www.bbc.com)
Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it''s Sao Paulo''s largest park (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (www.bbc.com)
Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders (www.bbc.com)
Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds (github.com)
Meta Ordered to Pay 942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (www.wsj.com)
The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (www.futilitycloset.com)
STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com)
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (www.aleksagordic.com)
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers (www.sciencedaily.com)
Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades (www.pbs.org)
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (mastodon.gamedev.place)
Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (www.makeuseof.com)
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (slayersclub.bethesda.net)
The Era of (Good) Personal Software Has Arrived (hec.works)
xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)
Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings (mainichi.jp)
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (blog.janestreet.com)
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (www.nbcnews.com)
Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users (openai.com)
Taste Is All That''s Left (notashelf.dev)
The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer (news.ycombinator.com)
Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale (www.independent.co.uk)
California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (www.techdirt.com)
Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (www.dezeen.com)
Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561) (github.com)
Almost no skill required to cook a steak (blog.sydorets.com)
Building progressively enhanced forms using Htmx (www.rafa.ee)
Cities Are Ditching Flock, Replacing It with Axon License Plate Readers (www.404media.co)
What Happened to Talenti? (www.nytimes.com)
The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com)
ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (www.githubstatus.com)
I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
Science for Kids (science.ocaho.com)
Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (notes.secretsauce.net)
The Simple Elegance of the Integrated Timing Belt Loopback Fastener (danielmangum.com)
Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak triples in size (efoodalert.com)
Degrees of Wealth (jaapgrolleman.com)
DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (platform.deepseek.com)
The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges (abovethelaw.com)
US beef prices have soared but farmers aren''t making more money (www.bbc.com)
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I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me (en.andros.dev)
Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way (www.sciencedaily.com)
Telephones Caught in Between (computer.rip)
Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel (blog.hofstede.it)
demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)
Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move? (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
Join Me in Jamverse (contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism (intergalacticrobots.app)
Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise (news.gallup.com)
On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com)
Pareto Front (en.wikipedia.org)
What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
Let''s all meet up in the Y2K (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
Morioka Shoten (www.takram.com)
Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure (www.realtor.com)
Ryg_rans Is Not a Library (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn''t (www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com)
Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents (github.com)
Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com)
Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom (www.economist.com)
Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla) (brill.com)
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (www.costar.com)
New Keyboard: Alicja v2 (marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
LLMs won''t break symmetric crypto (www.bfswa.blog)
Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (www.greyblake.com)
The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 (www.truegrittexturesupply.com)
DHS Wants Protesters'' Signal Group Chats (www.wired.com)
Something is changing in the unit economics of software (nicolo.xyz)
See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (www.bbc.com)
Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com)
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing (randsinrepose.com)
Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X (twitter.com)
Nvidia''s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record (community.openai.com)
Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as 5.5M in Insider Trading (cmarmitage.substack.com)
We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native. (reelang.com)
I''m switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
The Job Board Is Lying to You (nanomicon.com)
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.wired.com)
What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
Stop Sending Me Your Errors (kramkow.ski)
Goodhart''s Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (cacm.acm.org)
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (benchmark.clickhouse.com)
Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (forum.proxmox.com)
Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)
Microsoft''s AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (www.bloomberg.com)
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (arxiv.org)
Antigravity 2.0 (antigravity.google)
GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (www.gnu.org)
I''m Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words (dylan.blog)
Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs (elman.ai)
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
Why I''m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
AI is a bubble, just like dot-com (www.constraintlab.com)
When "no healthy upstream" isn''t about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)
HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (www.hyperprobe.co)
Jeff Dean Leaving Google (twitter.com)
Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
The next chapter of our AI momentum (blog.google)
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)
What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down (www.axios.com)
Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet (www.nytimes.com)
Western Sahara (en.wikipedia.org)
The Law of Jante (2015) (www.theparisreview.org)
Fed''s Kashkari says ''now is the time to start slowly moving'' rates up (www.cnbc.com)
The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
Where was Mythos when WordPress fell? (patrik.re)
Qwen 3.0 Image Pro (www.qwencloud.com)
Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits (www.cnelecar.com)
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (www.404media.co)
Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices (images.seroundtable.com)
Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (www.righto.com)
Cloudflare OS (os.cloudflare.app)
Citigroup, Idaho, and Build-a-Bear Launched a Coordinated Attack on Me (knock-knock.net)
Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (www.koreajoongangdaily.com)
People who tell you ''AI is changing everything'' are lying (www.thenerve.news)