Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible (www.bitlog.com)
Wikipedia''s Cleanup of AI-Generated Content (spectrum.ieee.org)
Gforth 1.0 (gforth.org)
Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking (open3dlab.com)
Turning VS Code into a control panel with custom extensions (medium.com)
I will no longer upload to NEW (lists.debian.org)
AI is ruining haunted houses (www.plagiarismtoday.com)
Encarta 95 Web (benwinding.github.io)
LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel (github.com)
New ''Circadian'' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients (www.sciencealert.com)
A simplified proof of ETH is False [pdf] (shivakintali.github.io)
The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI (j11g.com)
Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and Plant Managers (www.seeingthesystem.com)
Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it (www.unix.dog)
Txoko: Basques'' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a delicious culture (johnhendersontravel.com)
UK to charge universities 1,200 per international student (africa.businessinsider.com)
There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek (allmodels.io)
Migrate Your 300-Node Redis Cluster to Just 3 Lavik Nodes (lavik.dev)
How to grow a cacao tree at home (www.cocoterra.com)
Incremental rust builds up to 92x faster than cargo/rustc (github.com)
I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0 (eliasfarhan.ch)
Historical Telecommunications (retronetworking.org)
APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing (www.nextplatform.com)
Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998) (www.latimes.com)
16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows (github.com)
In Context [video] (www.youtube.com)
Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera (petapixel.com)
LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (t3x.org)
Just Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger (nautil.us)
Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses) (blog.cloudflare.com)
Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It (www.gregoryalexander.com)
The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] (github.com)
Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor (arxiv.org)
A Printer Printing onto Paper (twitter.com)
Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding (openai.com)
CorridorKey 2.0 (corridorkey.com)
The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive (www.motherjones.com)
US designates helium as a critical material (apnews.com)
Type Server Protocol (github.com)
GPT-6.1 Terra (openai.com)
Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 (blog.enlyth.com)
In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn''t Real (www.404media.co)
A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can''t Stop Abstracting (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems (www.404media.co)
Should Police Wipe a Criminal''s Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. vs. Stathas (blog.ericgoldman.org)
Nietzschian Debugger (github.com)
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model (cohere.com)
Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT (github.com)
Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port) (dbohdan.github.io)
An incremental approach to JIT construction (dl.acm.org)
World Wars I and II Military Aviation Museum Collection (www.militaryaviationmuseum.org)
Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx (categorica.io)
Who killed the EV cert? A browser whodunit for Halloween (qwac.com)
Diamond Transistor (www.df.com)
CSS-Tricks has a new owner (css-tricks.com)
NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket (www.nytimes.com)
Everything (github.com)
Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce (www.seattletimes.com)
Sebastian Raschka''s from-scratch video course on building reasoning models (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a 2 microcontroller (shraiwi.com)
''It''s offensively cheap'': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear (www.bbc.com)
Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video] (www.youtube.com)
Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at Univ of Washington (www.theguardian.com)
Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST (github.com)
DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay (freedom.press)
AmiJa, a cycle-exact Amiga emulator written in Java (www.reddit.com)
Vegemite is not a human right (www.cnn.com)
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI (www.brown.edu)
PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025) (hallofdreams.org)
OLED iPad Mini (www.apple.com)
The new iPad mini (www.apple.com)
Colorfigures (april-zhu.com)
Anthropic S-1 (www.sec.gov)
Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM (www.ubicloud.com)
Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist (english.elpais.com)
Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code (danielmiessler.com)
Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository (typemill.net)
One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport (humantransit.org)
Websites Should Be Printable (brennenputh.me)
Vazhaipoo Vadai – Banana Flower Recipe (www.vegrecipesofindia.com)
Two Million Hornets (dark-mountain.net)
Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline (www.bbc.com)
Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale (blocks.manifold3d.ch)
Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part (www.a16z.news)
The result of the C26 DIS ballot (train-it.eu)
Growing Trees (brashandplucky.com)
The Curse of Soldered RAM (blog.hardill.me.uk)
Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism (contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management (proc-cli.com)
Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write? (www.chronicle.com)
Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf] (gwern.net)
US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low (fred.stlouisfed.org)
Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained (shattered.io)
The Fall of Scientific American (www.thenation.com)
Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office (exhibits.stanford.edu)
PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP (github.com)
TitleArt – Make text like it''s 1997 (titleart.dvy.io)
If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay (www.economist.com)
A Truly Modular Keyboard (github.com)
Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback (www.bbc.com)
RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love (rainbowsay.ai)
Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category (korindiehacker.bloffy.blog)
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem (www.theregister.com)
Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC (github.com)
Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria (archaeologymag.com)
iPhone Duo Teardown (www.ifixit.com)
ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git (adrs.systems)
Chip Builder is a puzzle and strategy game that teaches you chip design (chipbuilder.org)
Attention Is Not What You Need (arxiv.org)
Lula wins election after final votes tallied (www.reuters.com)
Lula Wins Brazilian Election (resultados.tse.jus.br)
Lula Wins a Record Fourth Term in Brazil in a Surprise Comeback (www.bloomberg.com)
What Security Teams Need to Know About Agents Using Abliterated Models (eve.security)
Retired decorator''s Pokémon cards sell for 1.5M (www.bbc.co.uk)
F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS (hypnotize.works)
Proton Flock Camera Map (proton.me)
Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker (blog.simone.computer)
Europe''s summer heat wave killed more han 50k people in urban areas (www.science.org)
Apollo says AI has delivered ''zero financial payoff'' outside the tech industry (www.businessinsider.com)
Crosscut – Drawing Dynamic Models (www.inkandswitch.com)
Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again (www.getty.edu)
AI didn''t cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there''s no recovery (vithushansylvester.com)
Serbia''s Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? (minimaxir.com)
The State of Context Engineering (www.dbreunig.com)
Focused Company Operating Principles (focused.io)
Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs (charliegerard.dev)
Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) (iosiflazaridis.github.io)
What goes into making an animated film? (www.disneyanimation.com)
Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens (www.wiz.io)
The U.S. Power Grid (nomagicpill.site)
Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) (armincat.com)
Why I Am a Programmer (www.alfie.wtf)
Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42% (arstechnica.com)
UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms (unicode.org)
JetBrains Thinkrail (github.com)
Dijkstra vs. A* vs. Contraction Hierarchies (arcadedb.com)
Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English (huggingface.co)
All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" (isburmistrov.substack.com)
Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass (www.theguardian.com)
I made a virtual pet fruit fly that Twitch chat can interact with (www.twitch.tv)
Dolly Parton''s Imagination Library (imaginationlibrary.com)
Amazon''s "digital pacifier" for toddlers (oligarchwatch.substack.com)
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet 2.5M for Records About One Cop (theintercept.com)
What is the main bottleneck facing Agentic AI today? (news.ycombinator.com)
ReVault – new secure archive format (news.ycombinator.com)
Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer (www.raspberrypi.com)
Fuck Nuance (2015) (crookedtimber.org)
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis (lynchlab.net)
I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 (talkweb.eu)
Jukebox-OS: Deterministic time-travel replay and ACID tool sandbox for AI agents (github.com)
Sabre Wulf Remastered (gp-64.com)
A Mathematician Reads the AI Future (www.theatlantic.com)
Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers (techbronerd.substack.com)
Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset (www.dreamhoststatus.com)
VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for ''90s TV [video] (www.youtube.com)
Flapping Airplanes (flappingairplanes.com)
Bentley''s Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war (www.autonext.co)
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see ''no point'' in grading homework (www.dailycal.org)
Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia (news.ycombinator.com)
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens (scabshack.lol)
A Few Thoughts on Intensity (www.tylerhogge.com)
I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles (bigwhalehunting.com)
Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events (twitter.com)
Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On (daily.jstor.org)
Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless (twitter.com)
US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect (theconversation.com)
R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs (www.reddit.com)
Did it just build.. a clock? (theclock.online)
Farol – a risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it (github.com)
The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk (www.lego.com)
Challenge Is Gone (blog.alxgsv.com)
Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505 (loeffelholz-codex.org)
Radio Days (oldster.substack.com)
XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop (www.dell.com)
fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine (github.com)
Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you (twitter.com)
Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI (www.techspot.com)
Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires (rec98.nmlgc.net)
France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms (www.blast-info.fr)
Cannabis legalisation and cardiovascular hospitalisations in the USA (bmjopen.bmj.com)
Not Palantir (notpalantir.eu)
Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics (xtramagazine.com)
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism (www.panamericandispatch.org)
Tablesample Picks Rows (boringsql.com)
Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai (polygonjs.com)
New Open-Source Cybersecurity Platform Uses AI Agents to Hunt Threats (medium.com)
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made (kottke.org)
Picasa Photo Viewer Rebuilt for Linux, Project Named Licasa (github.com)
Monoidal computer I: Basic computability by string diagrams (2012) (arxiv.org)
Five Qwen3.8-27B models outperform Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness (github.com)
Attention people who think UB is fine (blog.habets.se)
Pragtical v3.14 Lua-based text editor adds menus, floating views, and sessions (pragtical.dev)
Xbox Turns Down Netflix 500M Offer (www.darkhorizons.com)
Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
In Rainbows (hitogata.neocities.org)
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models (www.cerebras.ai)
Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? (arxiv.org)
A story of a Figma bug that wasn''t a bug at all (2021) (aresluna.org)
"Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week (www.showbiz411.com)
Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities (tailworm.com)
Why a Great Product Won''t Succeed Without a Community (news.ycombinator.com)
FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered (codeberg.org)
Reactive Optimizers: rewrite the optimizer''s source code during training (xingjianbai.com)
Why Gopher in 2026? (gopher.muffinlabs.com)
Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats (www.makeuseof.com)
America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI? (www.apricitas.io)
We should be more ambitious with the software we build (danluu.com)
Small Programs and Languages (ratfactor.com)
The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (ratfactor.com)
Steal My Bitcoin (stealmybitcoin.com)
No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector (www.apollo.com)
Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz (missileer.watch)
SpeedCrunch 1.1 (www.speedcrunch.org)
The Goose Programming Language (aardappel.github.io)
Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (bbtree.xiangpeng.systems)
I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers (rootkitlabs.com)
Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe (www.cambridge.org)
Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)
Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI''s math write-ups (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia (github.com)
Israeli soldiers raze neighbourhood in Hebron, driving families from homes (www.theguardian.com)
Argus- open source security platform to protect against agentic attacks (github.com)
Sam Altman: ''I No Longer Think We''re Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'' (gizmodo.com)
The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise (de.numista.com)
Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961) (en.wikipedia.org)
Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (blog.roku.com)
Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions (actu.epfl.ch)
Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees (github.com)
FreeDNS (freedns.afraid.org)
Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center (nypost.com)
I built a neural network using DOOM games (github.com)
GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000''s cards (github.com)
One Must Fall 2097 Remastered (github.com)
TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications (www.infoq.com)
Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology (steveblank.com)
Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns (catlikecoding.com)
Appreciating the beauty of all your body''s scars and scratches (1000awesomethings.com)
Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706 (gitlab.com)
Node.js Vulnerability Blog (nodejs.org)
AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn''t Exist (torrentfreak.com)
The Chalk and the Airplane (unintendedconsequenc.es)
Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps (www.aikido.dev)
I Don''t Understand Quantum Physics (www.southampton.ac.uk)
U-2 spy plane makes rare appearance in Bay Area flyover (www.sfgate.com)
ThinkRail from JetBrains (thinkrail.ai)
How to run a city builder on 16 MHz (larstofus.com)
Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month (www.scientificamerican.com)
Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (www.reddit.com)
Apple Security Research Device (security.apple.com)
A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) (www.ediblegeography.com)
OBS Studio 33 (github.com)
CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] (www.youtube.com)
Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk Acquires 1B Stake in CNN''s Parent Company (symby.com)
How close can pure functional programming get to C? (rtfeldman.com)
A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com)
One Man''s Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses (funcarena.com)
The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
Twelve Years of Distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
Alzheimer''s breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (www.sciencedaily.com)
Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California''s Proposed Wealth Tax (www.nytimes.com)
C vs. C#: racing VLC''s Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
Bringing uv and ty together (astral.sh)
Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (www.cam.ac.uk)
German court calls Google aerial imagery ''spying'' (www.courthousenews.com)
Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed (github.com)
Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (www.computerworld.com)
Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
John Snow Cholera Data (johnsnow.rtwilson.com)
CVE Tracker (cve.0xosprey.com)
No Source Code? No Problem (queue.acm.org)
A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (e360.yale.edu)
A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (quantum5.ca)
OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That''s Left (www.techpowerup.com)
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev)
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (www.theverge.com)
Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home (www.nbcnews.com)
Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party? (fsi.stanford.edu)
Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built (block.xyz)
Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line (artificialanalysis.ai)
Reforming English Spelling (blog.oup.com)
Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines (www.jefftk.com)
Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7) (drop7.dev)
Apple Music 404 Not Found (music.apple.com)
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen (twitter.com)
AI Is Not a Tool (write.as)
Can we replace a 150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files? (david.lequin.dev)
UUIDv7 doesn''t have the properties you think it does (alexsci.com)
Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)