C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game (gamesexplained.com)
Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net)
Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com)
USPS shuts down site that sold 5M counterfeit postage labels for 2 each (postalemployeenetwork.com)
What are you reading? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market (gamersnexus.net)
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
AI needs 6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom (www.thenationalnews.com)
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
What Sentry''s 16GB selfhosted taught me (epure.sh)
What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging (prospect.org)
NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)
New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released (github.com)
ChatGPT Pro 500 (help.openai.com)
Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released (www.tcl-lang.org)
Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn''t it causing a scandal in the US? (english.elpais.com)
Dots (openai.com)
GPT 6.1 Sol (openai.com)
A Staff Engineer''s Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers (www.eff.org)
Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won''t Let Go of It (www.nytimes.com)
NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
Walking Men (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here (america.gov)
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (www.squareorbits.com)
Why Doesn''t Anyone Want to Fix One of America''s Scariest Roads? (www.newyorker.com)
Where''s the "Intelligence Explosion"? (www.noahpinion.blog)
Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021) (longcreek.me)
Claude partial outage (status.claude.com)
Unsurprisingly, Meta''s new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions (appleinsider.com)
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (www.theregister.com)
What makes software development engineering (parksb.github.io)
Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
The new Firefox design is here (blog.mozilla.org)
Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum''s 1-Bit Beeper (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second (4hiroshimas.info)
Without the Hot Air (www.withouthotair.com)
1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (www.cbc.ca)
The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines (phys.org)
Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent (spectrum.ieee.org)
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (www.tomshardware.com)
Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI (github.com)
Evan Doorbell''s Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World (evan-doorbell.com)
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500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (www.theguardian.com)
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner (www.derekthompson.org)
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com)
Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945) (albert.ias.edu)
Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland (www.startup-nights.ch)
New Cyber-OSINT model released (twitter.com)
AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
Four CHI ''26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
Using any C library in Godot (blog.conan.io)
Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning (twitter.com)
Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark (github.com)
Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (www.computerworld.com)
OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro 200 subscription (twitter.com)
US Forces Exit Iraq (www.reuters.com)
The systems that no one will test (blog.christianperone.com)
Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
Simulating Airband Am Radios (bitbashing.io)
Profit Margins of the Largest Companies (www.visualcapitalist.com)
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
Who Killed Paulina Borsook''s Career? (www.wired.com)
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 (oilprice.com)
Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator (game.wedgworth.com)
Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra (bluegraph.io)
We found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent (github.blog)
Tank Body Problem (www.jimsitu.com)
The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero (priceonomics.com)
AI and the Revenge of the Non-Techies (maroun-baydoun.com)
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns (www.nytimes.com)
Humanos – Help Building the Human Operating System (tryhumanos.com)
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics (jamiesimon.io)
Behold the pawpaw (www.cbc.ca)
Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny (jonworth.eu)
Anthropic''s IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs (www.reuters.com)
What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance (journals.sagepub.com)
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model (github.com)
3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (www.science.org)
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? (blog.greenpants.net)
What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (this.os.isfine.org)
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline (theintercept.com)
Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs (www.lesswrong.com)
Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden (www.arctictoday.com)
Best of British Design (best-of-british-design.vercel.app)
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
It''s Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, 30 ms (github.com)
World Labs Is Joining AMD (www.worldlabs.ai)
12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)
California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops (www.kqed.org)
California expanded the right to delete today (www.getprivisy.com)
Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) (slashdot.org)
First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (blog.plcred.org)
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM''s in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
Sonnet 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
GrapheneOS – When an App Is Slow (blog.wirelessmoves.com)
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
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Who Wrote Elizabeth I''s Most Scathing Letters? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola (www.newyorker.com)
Destroy Any Website with Stickman (destroy.spritefusion.com)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
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Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody) (definitelynotwindows.com)
Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP (www.vespper.com)
OpenAI still doesn''t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity (techcrunch.com)
Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn''t (www.techdirt.com)
How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work (www.pewresearch.org)
Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (blog.cloudflare.com)
HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
13 Months Sober (2025) (www.bobbytables.io)
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The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore (www.ssp.sh)
Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
Hijacking the PS5''s RTMP Stream (yashgarg.dev)
Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com)
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (madrobot.blog)
I Switched to Brave Browser (kevquirk.com)
What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like? (blog.glyph.im)
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (www.thisamericanlife.org)
What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators (benovermyer.com)
Jensen Huang says AI distillation is ''competition.'' (www.cnbc.com)
MongoDB CEO resigns "effective immediately" to join Meta, stock drops 20% (www.reuters.com)
Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (www.nytimes.com)
Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? (theeducatorsroom.com)
Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes (blog.alexewerlof.com)
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (www.petervijeh.com)
Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com)
PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com)
Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step (www.engadget.com)
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded (www.theverge.com)
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (git.mills.io)
Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network (nine.ch)
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)
Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots (markmanson.substack.com)
37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (www.habibicode.org)
SpaceX''s Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today (www.space.com)
Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK (www.carbonbrief.org)
Maybe don''t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account (www.threads.com)
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 (platform.claude.com)
Made by Mechanical Means (felixrieseberg.com)
Footguns with Postgres "at time zone ''UTC''" (bookofrevenue.com)
An Antidote to Roko''s Basilisk (news.ycombinator.com)
Packing Binary Is Fun (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (www.youtube.com)
Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered (jakegoldsborough.com)
Was Silent Reading Unusual During Augustine''s Time? (www.historyofinformation.com)
Deterministic Concurrency [video] (www.youtube.com)
Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition (arxiv.org)
TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn''t train won 14/14 (efraingaray.com)
Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily (github.com)
Microsoft drops Copilot branding from its new laptops (www.tomshardware.com)
Nissan''s third generation e-POWER powertrain (www.nissan-global.com)
Musk, the Movie (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (www.inkandswitch.com)
Panda, the world''s first personal AI computer (pandax1.com)
As A.I. Makes Law Firms More Efficient, Clients Ask: ''Where''s My Discount?'' (www.nytimes.com)
Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer (www.theguardian.com)
Every Household in This Rural Town Receives 10k If a Data Center Gets Built (www.wsj.com)
Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com)
The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country (www.theatlantic.com)
Have an LLC (zachholman.com)
Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers (www.utilitydive.com)
Coltrane''s Shadow (www.tabletmag.com)
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (david.alvarezrosa.com)
A New Experiment Meta-Strategy (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Why do we let the AI companies dominate regulation discussion? (news.ycombinator.com)
EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at 10 a Gallon (www.bloomberg.com)
My Recent Woodworking Projects (notoriousbfg.com)
Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world (code.garage44.eu)
S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past (btrblocks.com)
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
Lunar Terminator Paradox (notes.secretsauce.net)
Allegations of US interference in Quebec election (globalnews.ca)
When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)
What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress (en.wikipedia.org)
Alan Kay''s answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? (www.quora.com)
Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com)
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
Kicki: A DECsystem1060 – Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (www.youtube.com)
I don''t read code anymore (blog.duyet.net)
Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
John Coltrane Centenary''s – Impulse Records Release the Legendary Tiberi Tapes (www.jazzwise.com)
Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up fields from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
Trail – new kind of logic game (trail.franzai.com)
42x faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
The Greatest Pun in JavaScript (shukla.io)
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.''S Threat to Humanity [video] (www.youtube.com)
Don''t couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (www.markdown.beauty)
The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue (www.theguardian.com)
There are no "rogue" AI agents (eoinhiggins.substack.com)
The Mars Delusion (www.noemamag.com)
Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com)
TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
postmarketOS Rebrand: Nura (nura.eco)
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (www.ihatethefuture.com)
Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World (pixelambacht.nl)
Font where each token is equal-width (twitter.com)
Writing Efficient C Code (asawicki.info)
"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." (unsung.aresluna.org)
10 Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
In an 80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (www.nytimes.com)
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page (3d-retro.com)
Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don''t validate" (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling (quasiben.github.io)
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest (www.reuters.com)
DeepSeek has 64% market share (twitter.com)
"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
LightCloud – A cloud console organised like file system (www.light-cloud.com)
Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (www.sciencenews.org)
The internet discovers TLA. Now what? (reasonable.io)
LP Voting and Investor Consent for AIFs (taghash.io)
Meta Blocks President Lula''s Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (www.reddit.com)
OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News (authorsguild.org)
C''s Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
Bob Mackie dressed stars–if they were brave enough (www.economist.com)
Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (blog.codinghorror.com)
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website''s API fields (swarmcha.se)
Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview (mgrebler.substack.com)
What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages (jimmyhmiller.com)
Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap (blog.ericgoldman.org)
OpenAI (2015) (openai.com)
Sousveillance (en.wikipedia.org)
Things You Notice Rewatching Ed, Edd N Eddy as an Adult (noxluneworld.com)
Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike (www.quantamagazine.org)
Why Buran Had Four Computers, Not Three (zatona.dev)
HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own (tml.stanford.edu)
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087''s tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (www.righto.com)
The Evolution of Vending Machines (www.saturdayeveningpost.com)
Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (www.privatemode.ai)
Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (www.fu-berlin.de)
Does Georgism work? Five years later (www.astralcodexten.com)
Claude Deleted 48k Files (web.archive.org)
God''s Eye UAP – documented UFO cases on a 3D globe, with the evidence (domw99.github.io)
Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (alignment.openai.com)
How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC (blog.scrt.ch)
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (ampdot.mesh.host)
Evolving programming languages in the AI era (dashbit.co)
Dutch designer made DE9: Closer to the Edit into a playable web-based instrument (www.creativeboom.com)
ASML says it sold ''absolutely nothing'' in Europe in 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
Stop Sending Pictures of Your Palm (www.bbc.com)
Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors (www.nature.com)
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (www.lightspeedmagazine.com)
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth (basin.la)
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
The Rise of Audio AR (www.dbreunig.com)
Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com)
Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt (www.aljazeera.com)
OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites (www.bbc.com)
A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (www.movingimagearchive.com)
US jury says Apple owes record 5.7B in haptic technology patent case (www.reuters.com)
Make Claude your assistant in excalidraw (tangled.org)
I''m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband (themomoftheyear.substack.com)
Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees (www.macrumors.com)
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU (jia.je)
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people''s data to the web (techcrunch.com)
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave (techcrunch.com)
A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games (github.com)
New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth''s Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely (scitechdaily.com)
Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (www.economist.com)
PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com)
A Roman Name for Software (marcosmagueta.com)
Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia (blog.priyan.in)
Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest (www.sciencedaily.com)
Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math (gmays.com)
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers – Castle Game Engine (castle-engine.io)
Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior (www.lasso.security)
CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled (www.lemonde.fr)
ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says (nltimes.nl)
The Copilot PC brand is dead (www.windowscentral.com)
Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf] (www.osti.gov)
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)