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)
Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (www.science.org)
Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words (www.vocab.top)
Rubin Observatory''s first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else (observer.co.uk)
OpenAI settles claims of discrimination against US workers for 3.2M (finance.yahoo.com)
Not hiring junior engineers won''t solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
Google''s HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (apoxy.dev)
KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs (ktxconverter.robertborghesi.is)
Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment (github.com)
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (www.campion.edu.au)
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)
A Sick People (householderkarl.com)
Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
Universities would prefer no AI (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon (www.reuters.com)
Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport (www.cnn.com)
Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack (www.bbc.co.uk)
BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake (github.com)
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (www.quantamagazine.org)
Iowa asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed (www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? (www.scientificamerican.com)
Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers (www.politico.com)
Position: LLMs Can''t Jump (openreview.net)
Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (labs.quansight.org)
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (www.wired.com)
No Data Centers in My Backyard (jasmi.news)
Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
The software group Palantir paid just 2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
I ran a 1998 artificial life SIM at 560x speed and caught a rare easter egg [video] (www.youtube.com)
Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack (github.com)
The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (www.thehopkinthomasproject.com)
Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (blog.rust-lang.org)
"Gravity is worth asking about." (unsung.aresluna.org)
Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
An SLM trained on 8 ESP32-S3 (github.com)
Why is it all in the kernel? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
Saudi-led group completes 55B purchase of gaming giant EA (www.bbc.com)
The Golden Age of British Ice Cream (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
The auto industry is building for a past that''s never coming back (www.wardsauto.com)
Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s (sonar21.com)
Rio-vt and librio: Rio''s terminal engine, now embeddable (rioterm.com)
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (www.practicallyefficient.com)
After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (www.asiae.co.kr)
Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 (www.godox.com)
Flowise Is Shutting Down (flowiseai.com)
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
Bugtraq Is Back (lists.securityfocus.com)
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)
A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (unit42.paloaltonetworks.com)
FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it (808bits.com)
SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com)
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)
Pi''s Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
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The physics of Docker build caching (www.blacksmith.sh)
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc (twitter.com)
The Sound of Inevitability (www.panoptica.com)
Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL (www.africanews.com)
Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] (cdn.prod.website-files.com)
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (openai.com)
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (www.troyhunt.com)
New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year (www.transportenvironment.org)
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla''s camera-only self-driving falls short (electrek.co)
Oxide Computer raises 445M (SEC Form D) (www.sec.gov)
Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (www.thisandthat.chat)
Don''t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts (www.economist.com)
Stephen Wolfram''s Wife Has Died (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)
The Red Strings Club (www.vegard.net)
Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI (blog.cloudflare.com)
EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
Security Is Hard, Y''all (textslashplain.com)
Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
What''s Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (www.stlouisfed.org)
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
Mistral''s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off (www.not-ship.com)
America''s ''weird'' and ''unwise'' intervention in the Japanese yen (www.msn.com)
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
The Pedagogy Behind the Studio (gail.wharton.upenn.edu)
cMCP, deny an AI agent''s tool call and get a signed receipt (github.com)
The Judgment Reservoir (shannph.com)
Haters (www.paulgraham.com)
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (www.gadgetreview.com)
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (www.vlt.io)
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (mentalium.me)
The Warp Agent CLI (www.warp.dev)
All of Winona Police Department''s Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com)
It''s not a fear of "AI communism"; it''s a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune''s moons (www.reuters.com)
The AI Demand Bubble (www.wheresyoured.at)
Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI (github.com)
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (www.righto.com)
Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
FFmpeg 9.0 Released (git.ffmpeg.org)
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (www.computerenhance.com)
Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (blog.omgmog.net)
Dates That Don''t Exist (2015) (blog.yossarian.net)
Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
Xbox goes down. You can''t play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)
Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2''s ByteAtomic (ekxide.io)
Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com)
An Honest Review of AI Programming (mropert.github.io)
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know (www.bfi.org)
Nobel Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller (www.ssp.sh)
Ray Bradbury''s "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
U.S. used ''virtually all'' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (www.cnbc.com)
Cyberpunk Video Games (shellzine.net)
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (www.upi.com)
Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (www.nytimes.com)
FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with 1.3B Airtable deal (live.euronext.com)
You don''t need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (physics.aps.org)
NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (www.publictechnology.net)
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July (ing.dk)
Beauty In My Backyard (worksinprogress.co)