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A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022) (iagoleal.com)
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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town''s Flock-style cameras (www.foiaball.com)
Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou (www.theparisreview.org)
Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles (www.ycombinator.com)
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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (en.andros.dev)
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Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold (blog.google)
Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (huggingface.co)
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Worms: The Future of Yesterday''s Worms Today (worm.net)
Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (www.cringebot3000.com)
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llama.cpp (llama.app)
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Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (www.quantamagazine.org)
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CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York (www.cftc.gov)
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US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (www.cbsnews.com)
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Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products (www.suzanne3d.com)
Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics (momath.org)
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (techcrunch.com)
RSI Simulator (www.paradigm.xyz)
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AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes (www.simulationslabs.com)
Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed (gizmodo.com)
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Don''t Look Up (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Compression Is Prediction (ngrok.com)
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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 lightning and Nemo Switchyard (blogs.nvidia.com)
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Mojo 1.0 Is Here (www.modular.com)
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Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Grok Bot by SpaceXAI (x.ai)
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iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades To''Curb Mental Health Crisis'' (www.wsj.com)
Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme (jolt-lang.github.io)
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Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (flowingdata.com)
Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com)
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16 Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp (github.com)
Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything (www.trykeet.com)
Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server (github.com)
The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses (www.theguardian.com)
Greenland issues "strong warning" as American oil firm illegally drills wells (www.theguardian.com)
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf (www.tomshardware.com)
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New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog (consumerrights.wiki)
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (huggingface.co)
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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (www.bbc.com)
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Nvidia''s Risky Business (stratechery.com)
More than 10 firms pay up to 100k a month for access to Truth Social posts (www.bbc.com)
OpenAI''s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month (gizmodo.com)
Hollywood and Shanghai Cinema in the 1930s [pdf] (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
Panic of 1873 (en.wikipedia.org)
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London Underground begins scanning passengers'' faces (www.btp.police.uk)
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The Water Footprint of AI (doi.org)
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France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
To Save C, We Must Save ABI (thephd.dev)
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Half of Europe''s towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago (correctiv.org)
OpenAI wraps 7B share sale ahead of potential IPO (www.cnbc.com)
France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls (www.nytimes.com)
DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself (manish.sh)
Once More in Triple Time (theamericanscholar.org)
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Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta ''Photos'' App (www.neowin.net)
LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
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Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases (blog.mozilla.org)
Claude will watermark AI-generated text and images (tokenstead.ai)
Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)
US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat (www.theguardian.com)
Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control (www.wsj.com)
Recycle – Floppydisks (www.floppydisk.com)
Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java (www.choral-lang.org)
Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers (github.com)
GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)
SQRL wan''t wrong, it was early (sjg.io)
Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don''t (www.nytimes.com)
Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby''s grave (www.bbc.com)
Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released (code.call-cc.org)
ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir (www.404media.co)
The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (gigamonkeys.com)
The UK''s War on Anonymity Has Come to America (www.effort.news)
Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik''s Cube states (everycube.alen.is)
Mark Zuckerberg''s Yacht Refused to Help Ship in Distress (nymag.com)
AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status (github.com)
The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain''s life (resobscura.substack.com)
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)
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Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse (thewalrus.ca)
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Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (www.ycombinator.com)
We cut a 40-day financial integration down to 5 days using Google Anti (discuss.google.dev)
Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (arachnoid.com)
How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)
Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane (number-garden.com)
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (arstechnica.com)
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Stop Killing Games: It''s time to sue Sony, join us (www.massaschadeconsument.nl)
Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification (linuxstans.com)
Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word (fabscene.medium.com)
Attacker Takes over Zoom AI (www.promptarmor.com)
Why Can''t You Pack a Bag? (www.newyorker.com)
Rust SIMD on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox (alphatheta.com)
The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert (en.wikipedia.org)
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CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them (galratner.substack.com)
Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words (stochastic.blog)
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)
MergeImage – merge and stitch images locally in the browser (mergeimage.app)
Extreme 220GHzBroadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11 (pim.murata.com)
Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
Sonic Pi v5 Released (www.patreon.com)
Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (www.stoaexchange.com)
Why Addresses Have Numbers (thehistoricalinsights.page)
Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (www.neurology.org)
AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power (ai-updates.net)
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com)
GLP-1 drugs linked to bigger jump in women’s employment than a college degree (finance.yahoo.com)
Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com)
Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (jackschaedler.github.io)
Force-Fed by ICE (www.theguardian.com)
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
Oil giants face backlash as Iran conflict fuels multi-billion-pound profits (leftfootforward.org)
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints (www.wcax.com)
Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)
Every Company Needs a Cassandra (sunilpai.dev)
There Is No "Done": Reflections on a Completed at Thru-Hike (2022) (thetrek.co)
Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines (blog.sshh.io)
Open-Source Greptile Alternative (github.com)
OpenAI''s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over 300 (www.bloomberg.com)
Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it''s 20g bigger than today''s (www.bbc.com)
Convince an AI it''s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You''re Human (www.theguardian.com)
Itadakimasu: A Word You Say to the Food, Not the Cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)
''Pervert glasses'': Backlash against Meta''s smart glasses grows (www.seattletimes.com)
Sea Lion Radio brings Seattle''s barks, bleats and yaps to the world (www.seattletimes.com)
In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? (news.ycombinator.com)
OpenAI''s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future (www.meta.com)
Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k4 (github.com)
Mark Zuckerberg attacks ''closed'' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
China is now the world''s greatest oil power (www.economist.com)
Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
Defending my own brain against enshittification (mrmarket.lol)
Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn''t be powered through its GPIO pins (82mhz.net)
Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015) (lwn.net)
50k Boat Names (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app (bobdahacker.com)
Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes (squeak.org)
DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user 1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years (twitter.com)
Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength (github.com)
Because It''s Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (bytecode.news)
A ''bananas'' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion (www.irishtimes.com)
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (lwn.net)
COLDCARD''s Random Numbers Weren''t (coldcard.rip)
Meta''s new open-weight model targets local agentic AI (twitter.com)
One Email, Three Identities: SPF, DKIM and DMARC Explained (senderledger.com)
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model (research.meta.ai)
How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (www.youtube.com)
Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler (lordgoati.us)
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I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com)
An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise (www.dsprelated.com)
Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (www.docker.com)
Why do we assume everyone should be working? (wilsoniumite.com)
The Philippines'' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (www.economist.com)
Slap ROM Patcher (nyuu.page)
Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy (July 2026) (www.nber.org)
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)
Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (www.whodunnitai.com)
Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com)
Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (www.cnbc.com)
Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language (memelang.net)
What Happened to HackerOne? (blog.teknogeek.io)
ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
The Ambition Project (www.betonit.ai)
How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (www.snowflake.com)
The German Mittelstand (kieranvelasquez.substack.com)
Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (www.dpreview.com)
Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (www.abc.net.au)
"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes (www.nytimes.com)
Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster? (github.com)
Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (www.wtoc.com)
Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle (www.science.org)
I''ve yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union (mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)
Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been" [video] (www.youtube.com)