Fluorescent lamps (don''t) have ears (blog.coredump.cx)
HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who''s Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
OpenAI: Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards (openai.com)
Java Is Memory Efficient (inside.java)
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Dyson Launches Toothbrush (www.dyson.com)
I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost 400 (iurii.net)
Apple reveals ''shocking evidence'' from ex-employee''s MacBook in OpenAI suit (9to5mac.com)
Newton''s Orchard – Browser-based space/gravity playground (newtonsorchard.app)
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
Specifications Don''t Exist (www.galois.com)
Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope (tomverbeure.github.io)
There Is No AI (wadler.blogspot.com)
What''s the Scam? (www.schneier.com)
How accurate have Ed Zitron''s AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence (www.worldlabs.ai)
How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018) (www.dougbarnesauthor.com)
Magic eye tube (en.wikipedia.org)
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (www.anthropic.com)
UEFA''s Champions League draw creates unfair clusters; a Cayley graph fixes it (sariyuce.com)
What''s new in Claude Fable 5.1 (platform.claude.com)
The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC (ersc.io)
Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development (www.norirobotics.com)
US lawmakers demand investigation into admin''s secret surveillance of Americans (www.theguardian.com)
Quill (YC W20) Is Hiring a Fullstack SWE (news.ycombinator.com)
Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at 12 tok/s (github.com)
Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga (moviescenemap.com)
Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again (www.washingtonpost.com)
Dwarf Fortress'' creator says the industry''s in shambles over AI (www.pcgamer.com)
Physically Immutable Optical Archive Libraries (savartus.com)
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users (gitlab.com)
Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL (keenableai.github.io)
Dr. Melvin Scheinman: 40th Anniversary of Catheter Ablation (ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu)
Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS (ambientcss.vercel.app)
A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents (ooxml.silurus.dev)
Christian Employers Can Now Discriminate Against Trans People (theintercept.com)
Ubisoft''s FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
A Genealogy of Freudenthal''s Lincos (www.shellsandpebbles.com)
EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California''s AB 1709 (www.eff.org)
Who is hiring? (September 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations (huggingface.co)
Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services (www.nber.org)
GrapheneOS may skip Pixel 11 over missing hardware security feature (cyberinsider.com)
We Are Rebuilding Monica (www.monicahq.com)
Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (blog.mozilla.org)
Saab Enters Collaborative Combat Aircraft Race with High-End Concept (aviationweek.com)
Io_uring Without Readahead (frn.sh)
Benchmarking Vector Indexes (www.percona.com)
Please stop calling databases CP or AP (2015) (martin.kleppmann.com)
Fuck you, show me the prompt (hamel.dev)
We Let AI Agents Rewrite a 92M-Message-a-Day Service in Go (www.checklyhq.com)
Fractal Jittered Voronoi Partitions (www.boristhebrave.com)
EFF to Courts: Don''t Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype (www.eff.org)
Nemotron 3 Ultra Explained (miraflow.ai)
Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (www.anildash.com)
DIY – Build a Potato Box (2022) (www.rebootedmom.com)
Lake Ontario ("Lake America") (community.openstreetmap.org)
Codes – typed application outcomes for Kotlin and Java (github.com)
NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe (science.nasa.gov)
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link (github.com)
44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents (mvakde.github.io)
Global Trade and the United States Navy (acoup.blog)
American Airlines'' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career (simpleflying.com)
Polishing Cloth Updated (512pixels.net)
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too (www.hermit-tech.com)
Roget''s Thesaurus (artflsrv04.uchicago.edu)
Vermell – Minimal, dependency-free C web framework using epoll (github.com)
Is MCP Good Yet? (ismcpgoodyet.com)
GPU World (www.gpuworld.org)
Flat vs. segmented memory – it''s recursive (www.humprog.org)
Restroom Archive (restroomarchive.com)
DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs (www.dolthub.com)
A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter (byopiapress.wordpress.com)
Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost) (antigravity.google)
Fastpotify (fastpotify.rocks)
Tailcat: Tailscale Without Tailscale, by Tailscale (tailscale.com)
RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3 (github.com)
Optimal transport is art: images to collection of optimally placed particles (blog.wolfram.com)
Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur (www.bbc.com)
Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public (www.wallpaper.com)
2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up (jkm.dev)
Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers? (twitter.com)
Snakes and Ladders (entropicthoughts.com)
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination (datacolada.org)
Visualizing Combos in Judo in R (www.r-bloggers.com)
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Lion-man – the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered (en.wikipedia.org)
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Claude retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive (dmitrybrant.com)
Markdown Viewer and Editor (kingsbridge-consultancy.com)
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
Autonomous (YC F25) Is Hiring Engineers (news.ycombinator.com)
The river of Apple''s interface guidelines (hig.josefrichter.design)
''Mad honey'' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user (eris-system.dev)
Kids These Days (smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net)
Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme (corporatemindgames.com)
Laser Graffiti (laser.consti.de)
Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message (www.gadgetreview.com)
''Stunning'' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions (www.quantamagazine.org)
Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting (www.theguardian.com)
Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires (www.governance.fyi)
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (www.chosun.com)
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (www.youtube.com)
Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
The Safest Job from AI May Be Writing (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (www.wsj.com)
Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com)
An HN client that summarises long threads and lets you chat with them (github.com)
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You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting (www.olafalders.com)
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Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5 (tmpout.sh)
LeanDB a strongly Typed SQL front end (theoric.com)
Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [pdf] (ajmp.uwr.edu.pl)
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British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry (www.theguardian.com)
Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout (prospect.org)
German Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding (www.mdr.de)
I Turned My Security Cameras into an Automatic Bird Identification System (jasontucker.blog)
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Agents still can''t automate Excel (www.orcaset.com)
ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
MapQuest app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario (techcrunch.com)
Marx, Keynes, and A.I (www.unpopularfront.news)
Navigation App for People with Blindness and Low Vision (seas.harvard.edu)
Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
Doubling of Kobo''s U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base (www.reddit.com)
2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and research (www.coralbricks.ai)
C26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments (www.cppstories.com)
Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com)
Agentic Trust Controls (trustcontrols.ai)
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Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri (serverbox.stupidlabs.lol)
Hit anything. Discover how it rings (fraware.github.io)
Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons (omarchy.org)
All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi (home.cern)
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DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure (labs.ripe.net)
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site)
SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030 (www.sammyfans.com)
SlideOps, slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code (github.com)
Interviewing IBM''s Christian Zoellin and Christian Jacobi (chipsandcheese.com)
The Art of Chip-8 (beyondloom.com)
Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (www.macrumors.com)
State of the Map 2026: OpenStreetMap conference (povesham.wordpress.com)
The British state has lost the argument (jonathancook.substack.com)
The Universe as a Minified Bundle (andrewarrow.dev)
ReactOS 0.4.16 (reactos.org)
AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That? (martiansoftware.com)
Early 2000s were peak of humanity (lukaszkups.net)
Notes on Private Trackers (www.jenn.site)
What I Learned About AI Trust from Reconciling over 100B Transactions (engineering.moniepoint.com)
I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo (blindlock.app)
The AI-Native SDLC Starts with Your Infrastructure (metalbear.com)
Malleable software solid bases and custom code (www.mdubakov.me)
Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU (floe.audio)
The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer (www.bbc.com)
I Think the Military Commissary''s Freezers Were Hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
Agent Memory as a File Format (calpaterson.com)
Using floci to emulate Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) (flowg.cloud)
A CVE Dispute (daniel.haxx.se)
The ISBN was invented in 1970. Your books don''t care (www.shelvd.org)
OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before (www.openshot.org)
Study: Blue light impairs the eye''s ability to distinguish fine detail most (research.uga.edu)
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real (github.com)
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com)
Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem (github.com)
Meta Security Researcher''s AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails (au.pcmag.com)
What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive (studyfinds.com)
A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care (hank.bond)
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Why OOP Exists (mathspp.com)
Prove your code produced your claims without making reviewers rerun it (github.com)
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (openclaw.ai)
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures (sandyuraz.com)
The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers (tokenstead.ai)
UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations (www.dailycal.org)
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film (www.pv-magazine.com)
Flock Safety''s controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine (www.neowin.net)
CobaltC – The Successor to C? (strawberry9.github.io)
Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing? (news.ycombinator.com)
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (blog.vghaisas.com)
Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
Adding a directional cost bias to a TSP heuristic reveals better local optima (tsp.uncledroid.app)
How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (www.abortretry.fail)
Yen weakens past 160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero? (www.johndcook.com)
"I just chose words carefully." (unsung.aresluna.org)
Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV''s Magnifica Humanitas (adropincalm.com)
Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs (academa.ai)
Mark Zuckerberg''s Social Reckoning (www.newyorker.com)
Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock (jointhefreeworld.org)
Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM''s) (sander.ai)
Norway Shrugged (paragraph.com)
NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)
Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (www.righto.com)
I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (igupta.in)
1kB Website as Status Symbol (async.cat)
The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change (economist.com)
Startup Anti-Patterns (www.itamarnovick.com)
Sort branches by last commit date (ryangreenberg.com)
Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver (github.com)
Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals (kabaragoya.com)
Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream (openrun.dev)
Flock''s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media''s Reporting on Abortion Case (www.404media.co)
Should We Have Kept the American Empire? (www.maximum-progress.com)
''They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money'' (www.theguardian.com)
Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code) (www.philrees.co.uk)
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES (www.artie.com)
Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)
METR and Redwood Offer Holy % Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (thezvi.wordpress.com)
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)
Electric rain can eat through metal (www.scientificamerican.com)
12TB Steam leak reveals unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds (www.tomshardware.com)
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (www.haiku-os.org)
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
Dad''s Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser (www.goto10retro.com)
Zoom activated my mic and played "recording in progress" at 4AM (imgur.com)
Europe''s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)
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When Fruit Is Scarce, These Monkeys Hunt Animals (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Creepy Crawlies (people.kernel.org)
No AI Fridays (noaifridays.com)
What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s (askmike.org)
Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com)
Automating Immersive Reading (smoores.dev)
An implementation of Conway''s Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later (www.muppetlabs.com)
Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)
The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical (www.gatesnotes.com)
Leak of Internal Valve Data (www.pcgamer.com)
monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic''s Monty Python Interpreter (github.com)
One Nix flake to rule them all (fzakaria.com)
Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website (github.com)
My life was changed by four sentences in four books (sive.rs)
My fat loss experiments with ChatGPT and water fasting (community.webminal.org)
Fair Work Commission condemns ''plain wrong'' AI legal advice (www.abc.net.au)
Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack (blog.lyc8503.net)
Spark: Sparklines in your shell (git.zx2c4.com)
Nvidia''s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU (techcrunch.com)
JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (blog.jupyter.org)
Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (www.theregister.com)
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (www.qubes-os.org)
Orbs (ampcode.com)
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)
Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry (www.ft.com)
Xcena and Samsung''s Near Memory Compute CXL Device (chipsandcheese.com)
The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (invention.si.edu)
Pop-2000, a lingua-franca POP-2 dialect (hitogata.neocities.org)
The Internet Archive''s Vintage AI Collection (archive.org)
A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat. (wiki.xxiivv.com)
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (www.dwarkesh.com)
Daycare Pseudoscience (worksinprogress.co)
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (www.tomshardware.com)
Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (www.muppetlabs.com)
No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
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Benjamin Franklin''s Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws (www.morganlewis.com)
Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients (github.com)
Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (artificialanalysis.ai)
I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter (github.com)
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out This release is PACKED (pcsx2.net)
RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (blog.python.org)
Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Lawmakers added 1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (www.texastribune.org)
Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (www.latimes.com)
I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)
The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it (github.com)
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online (defrag98.com)
Palestinian woman and NBC News team attacked by masked Israeli settlers (www.nbcnews.com)
The Wandering Yamamura Theater Troupe (cinemasojourns.com)
44M Solar-Powered EV Production Deal Struck (frequal.com)
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (www.strangeloopcanon.com)
A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn''t so safe (blog.elis.cc)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday (www.npr.org)
Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org)
LLMs are making me lose my savviness (pgaleone.eu)
Domain-Driven Agents (coldtake.dev)
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Recovering Corrupt Zip Files (www.construct.net)
Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview (www.tencent.com)