Zig v0.17.0 (ziglang.org)
Everyone''s Packing Up (widdershins.verja.net)
Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)
Muse Gadgets (gadgets.muse.ai)
Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com)
GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression (discuss.grapheneos.org)
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (developer.apple.com)
Hardly Promethean (jardo.dev)
Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens (gizmodo.com)
Around 2-6% of World Bank foreign aid got siphoned into crypto wallets (www.nber.org)
The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie''s (onlineonly.christies.com)
The Only Intuitive Interface Is the Nipple (www.greenend.org.uk)
Apple Pass Designer (developer.apple.com)
Scientists Untangle the Biology of an ''Undruggable'' Cancer Gene (www.nytimes.com)
How accurately calibrated is Jev? (maximumeffort.substack.com)
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 (dwarfstar.sh)
Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
Decision models like Jev don''t beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (developers.redhat.com)
On building a worm detector (bencology.bearblog.dev)
Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs (gizmodo.com)
AI as Normal Technology (2025) (knightcolumbia.org)
Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
What if we stopped using GPUs? [video] (www.youtube.com)
One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash (wagtail.org)
SequenceHash: Multihashing for the rest of us (blog.trailofbits.com)
Robot Hands for Modern AI and Real Work (bostondynamics.com)
Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market (bigthink.com)
100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections (blog.archive.org)
On Social Reality in China (www.lesswrong.com)
Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
F.02 Decommission (www.figure.ai)
Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com)
ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com)
Leaderboards and speedrun.com''s new terms of service (therun.gg)
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI–until now (arstechnica.com)
Capcom RE:Dox, open source serialization/deserialization for game engines (github.com)
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] (www.youtube.com)
Fast Blur with Animated Radius (aras-p.info)
Martian chaos terrain (en.wikipedia.org)
Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com)
PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps (github.com)
Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers (erictopol.substack.com)
Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers (agostbiro.net)
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (www.nytimes.com)
STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985) (en.wikipedia.org)
We built a real-time desktop companion for patient''s telehealth visits (openhand.health)
ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts (www.npr.org)
Dutch Computer Museums (aresluna.org)
Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf] (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu)
Tiny Brutalism (placeholders.itch.io)
Court agrees with EFF: Utah''s VPN law demands a technical impossibility (www.eff.org)
Sites in ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)
Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge (www.kapa.ai)
Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL (www.reddit.com)
Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (www.science.org)
Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas (stillwet.art)
The OpenAI Decisions API needs a confidence you can trust (anth.us)
Now That''s an Impurity Story (www.science.org)
FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac context manager for AI (innerloop.works)
Fixing GRPO''s credit assignment problem without evaluating every step (arxiv.org)
GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow (agent-wow.sh)
Supabase Is Acquiring Turso (supabase.com)
A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking (www.biometricupdate.com)
The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding (distantprovince.substack.com)
We''re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
Power approval set to delay Oracle''s Wisconsin AI datacenter (www.theregister.com)
America''s Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit (insideclimatenews.org)
Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator (support.soloist.ai)
AI Makes Me Sad (mondobe.com)
Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we''re renaming ours (www.home-assistant.io)
Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code (liquidbrain.net)
Amazon seeks to offload 8B of Nvidia chips to investors (www.reuters.com)
Don''t be fooled–LLMs don''t reason (www.technologyreview.com)
Claude-Shaped Science (www.anthropic.com)
The Legend of von Neumann [pdf] (gwern.net)
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 (arstechnica.com)
European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance (www.rte.ie)
Alarm Grows over ''Clearly Illegal'' US Election Meddling in Brazil (www.commondreams.org)
Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude (www.reddit.com)
Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl (www.theguardian.com)
Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com)
US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban (www.reuters.com)
Building reliable (and fast) directory sync (www.firezone.dev)
Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
Meta''s Muse is fantastic for web scraping (sigh.dev)
Turbo Haskell (comonad.com)
To grieve, or not to grieve? (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows (www.deepseek.com)
How Singapore''s government-run dating service works (www.singapore-samizdat.com)
Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines (www.frogandtoad.ai)
Personal Computing 2.0: It''s time for a personal computing revolution (ideas.imbue.com)
Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald''s AI thinks people nearby can afford it (neow.in)
Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators (www.essex.ac.uk)
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
DoGBench: The first user-facing docs generation benchmark. No model scores 50% (dogbench.ai)
Apple''s smart home camera reportedly won''t record video (www.theapplepost.com)
Aweb – Communication for AI Agents (aweb.ai)
2026 International Utility Locate Rodeo (locaterodeo.net)
Don''t Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype (www.technologyreview.com)
Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com)
OpenRadioss is not open anymore (www.siemens.com)
CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development (www.cssbed.com)
SvelteKit 3 Is Here (svelte.dev)
Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly (rhun.app)
Effect 4.0 (effect.website)
The death of web development education (molily.de)
Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia (github.com)
ArXiv''s Updated Rate Limit Policy (blog.arxiv.org)
Manyfold''s Agents.md Is Based (github.com)
Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels. Here''s Who''s Listening (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)
Pi Durable (earendil.com)
iPod of 2026 (sudo.music)
Pi 1.0 (earendil.com)
Terminal Email: terminal email clients for every system (terminalemail.com)
Big Tech''s Capex Is Half of Wall Street''s Profit Growth (inlevel9.com)
Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be "dead zones" but clue to early life (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
SlutCon (www.thenewcritic.com)
Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests (tangled.org)
macOS 27 is so buggy (osxdaily.com)
I am so tired of this bullshit (rmoff.net)
Vote on which of Hacker News'' challenges for AI have been met (stoppels.ch)
How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain (mailfully.com)
Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance (news.ycombinator.com)
ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements (www.paradedb.com)
Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes (github.com)
Git 3.0''s upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake (blog.gitbutler.com)
Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers (www.rtl-sdr.com)
Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Who is hiring? (October 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Context Language Models (arxiv.org)
Clef: our open-source decision models (blog.cloudflare.com)
Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence (apnews.com)
RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave (www.dropsitenews.com)
Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams (blog.cloudflare.com)
Red Hat Being Phased Out of Existence (Like Many Other Companies IBM Bought) (techrights.org)
OpenID Foundation: Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (openid.net)
Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi (twitter.com)
Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models (www.polyedergarten.de)
RacketCon Is Saturday (con.racket-lang.org)
Cops Can Bypass iPhone''s Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones (www.404media.co)
Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] (www.tomandmaria.com)
Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (www.nytimes.com)
An AI sovereign wealth fund isn''t progressive – it''s techno-imperialism (www.ft.com)
Strutt''s Powered Wheelchair Is Not a Wheelchair (For Legal Reasons) (www.core77.com)
FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks (www.cnbc.com)
Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks (www.osnews.com)
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 (www.techpowerup.com)
How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 (nnethercote.github.io)
The Beclowning of Scott Bessent (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Speeding up the separating axis test using inscribed spheres (box2d.org)
Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant (arstechnica.com)
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (github.com)
Multi-connectivity for real-time streaming over Wi-Fi (nanoping.com)
GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design (news.synopsys.com)
Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit (blog.vero.site)
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring a GTM Founder''s Associate (www.ycombinator.com)
Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980) (www.csmonitor.com)
OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia''s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network (github.com)
PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video] (www.youtube.com)
Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns (bookofshapes.com)
cmart''s Hardcore Coworking (cmart.blog)
California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states (www.bbc.com)
Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line (cmungall.github.io)
Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C (github.com)
Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program (www.404media.co)
Parmiagiano and Financialisation: Cheese as Gold for the Gold of Cheese (developingeconomics.org)
10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years (www.wsj.com)
What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases (www.nytimes.com)
A Closer Look at Australopithecus Africanus (lflank.wordpress.com)
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
pldb: programming languages papers (pldb.kirancodes.me)
EDG C Compiler is open source (github.com)
Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors [video] (www.youtube.com)
Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 (groundrun.io)
The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (www.thespacereview.com)
Coltrane''s Tone Circle (jtomschroeder.com)
Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth''s history (news.berkeley.edu)
Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller''s Monster") (www.software3d.com)
Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games (log.schemescape.com)
Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (www.worksinprogress.news)
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (unsung.aresluna.org)
CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (www.chompiclub.com)
Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com)
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com)
Functional Ultrasound Imaging from Scratch (www.neuroai.science)
Recursive Make and -J (quuxplusone.github.io)
Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (www.tokyodev.com)
Gitea 28.0.0 Is Released (blog.gitea.com)
CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
Dear Software Makers (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic 3B Gift from Ken Griffin (www.cmu.edu)
Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (www.mattkeeter.com)
Claude Says (ohhfishal.net)
EDG C front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain''s Inner Workings (www.quantamagazine.org)
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (www.netlify.com)
Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (www.eia.gov)
Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com)
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool (yedhu.me)
Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
Let''s Ditch Google (Verb) (adam.farkas.pro)
Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes (setecastronomyinc.com)
Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
What TLA can and can''t check (buttondown.com)
SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)
Reverse-engineering a 35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com)
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)
I Could''ve Accessed 17T Microsoft Records (blog.faav.net)
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)
The last time my family was replaced by technology (manuel.darcemont.fr)
Wavelets in 3D Graphics (comonad.com)
Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (projecthub.arduino.cc)
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)
Postgres with QUIC (blogs.lupyd.com)
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP (earendil.com)
Built Dental Scope (dental-scope.com)
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (www.bigmessowires.com)
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com)
RSS Feeds for Last.fm (lfm.xiffy.nl)
NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (www.gevernova.com)
Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (www.mattkeeter.com)
Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) (retromash.com)
Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com)
I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box (voidnullvalue.github.io)
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
Corral – Kill every command your agent starts (github.com)
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (www.theguardian.com)
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (www.bbc.com)
A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
Needed 11, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it (railcode.dev)
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com)
Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (www.backblaze.com)
UnoDOS (github.com)
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (lucumr.pocoo.org)
''Pink Slime'' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms (www.politico.com)
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)
Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
How El Niño Made the Atlantic Hurricane Season Disappear (www.wsj.com)
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)