Stephen Wolfram''s Wife Has Died (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
Web security is too hard (textslashplain.com)
All of Winona Police Department''s Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know (1975) (www.bfi.org)
Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)
The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (www.upi.com)
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)
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
You don''t need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
Xbox goes down. You can''t play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
Ray Bradbury''s "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
U.S. used ''virtually all'' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (www.cnbc.com)
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)
NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (www.publictechnology.net)
Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com)
Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (users.wpi.edu)
Who is hiring? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (www.mcgill.ca)
AI''s debt binge can''t last, hidden borrowing reaches 1.65T (fortune.com)
Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com)
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (blog.cloudflare.com)
LLMs reward expertise (www.seangoedecke.com)
The AI Productivity Gap (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (changelog.complete.org)
Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first (www.sltrib.com)
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
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Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (www.regen.co.uk)
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time (www.intellinews.com)
Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days (www.marlerblog.com)
Octane – React''s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com)
Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (blog.comfy.org)
ICE Collected Nearly 1M People''s DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (www.wired.com)
Bonsai: Janestreet''s UI Library (github.com)
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability (research.jfrog.com)
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com)
The myth of Snow Leopard (www.rubenerd.au)
Why Book Corners won''t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (www.andreagrandi.it)
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T (runtimewire.com)
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America (linuxiac.com)
More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
Don''t be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N (blog.juni-mp4.com)
Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective (blog.rust-lang.org)
OpenAI''s super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics (www.modelrepublic.org)
Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (sf.isopolis.city)
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours (github.com)
NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com)
Californians'' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 (www.nbcsandiego.com)
My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw." (frogs.vaguespac.es)
AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest (www.ohiostatefair.com)
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation (linuxiac.com)
Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
''Crush this lady'': how eBay harassment campaign led to 56M payout (www.ft.com)
SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com)
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)
Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development (sprocket-demo.spikonado.com)
F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)
How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine (plug-world.com)
A Rant About “Technology” (2005) (www.ursulakleguin.com)
Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (www.riscosopen.org)
Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com)
Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation (www.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)
US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (www.ft.com)
Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
But can your calculator run Linux? (raymii.org)
Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers (github.com)
Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm (en.wikipedia.org)
Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter (chrismorgan.info)
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I don''t recommend Tailwind CSS (en.andros.dev)
A big win for Android interoperability (www.openhomefoundation.org)
Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses (alexiglad.github.io)
I''m a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com)
Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 (www.wafer.ai)
Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (old.reddit.com)
Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)
YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview (sfstandard.com)
Anime User Interfaces (animeuserinterface.tumblr.com)
Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (www.seriouseats.com)
Just because a game is on disc doesn''t mean it will work in the future (arstechnica.com)
AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions (mitsloan.mit.edu)
Seedance 2.5 (seed.bytedance.com)
Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 (leodemoura.github.io)
Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)
The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder (zaksa.zip)
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
Google News is just Forrest Gump''s shrimp boat now (elgan.com)
NetBSD 11.0 Released (blog.netbsd.org)
Authorize, don''t authenticate (blog.marcua.net)
A directory of people who love RSS (andrewshell.org)
The Art of 64-bit Assembly (nostarch.com)
Charlie Stross – On the non-use of AI in my writing process (www.antipope.org)
Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export (forum.cursor.com)
A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention (www.michaelgeist.ca)
RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com)
The development pipeline is a production system (sundry.jerryorr.com)
Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way (maurycyz.com)
RamenHaus (ramen.haus)
AI doesn''t generate working products, that''s still your job (weeraman.com)
Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified (nascompares.com)
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
Let''s make the worst Htmx (zserge.com)
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era (microsoft.github.io)
The Absurdity of Albert Camus (www.historytoday.com)
I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (code.intellios.ai)
How to Exist (www.raptitude.com)
BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising (consumerrights.wiki)
Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours (manifest.build)
Progressive Web Components (arielsalminen.com)
June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)
Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)
Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy (www.theexamination.org)
Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types (github.com)
Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (www.quantamagazine.org)
The most official water costs 120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)
Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s (github.com)
Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (www.bloomberg.com)
Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
Tailscale didn''t stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption (lwn.net)
qm (github.com)
Danube''s record low levels force shutdown of Hungary''s only nuclear plant (www.bbc.com)
Big Food vs. the People (www.lighthousereports.com)
U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (fred.stlouisfed.org)
Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout (www.wsj.com)
The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) (arxiv.org)
Premier league bans gambling sponsors (www.footyheadlines.com)
The End of an Era (hughhowey.com)
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all (github.com)
Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)
JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com)
Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (www.cam.ac.uk)
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (api-docs.deepseek.com)
The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)
The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
The bond market isn''t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling (www.reuters.com)
The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it (greyswansignals.com)
A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return (www.science.org)
Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn''t transfer censorship. Try it (www.ctgt.ai)
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (www.anthropic.com)
I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)
The AI Aesthetic (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)
Making Postgres queues scale (www.dbos.dev)
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com)
The lost civic life of movie rental stores (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)
CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (www.uefa.com)
We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost 447 (www.bottlenecklabs.com)
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don''t Add Up (www.quantamagazine.org)
Why don''t people use formal methods? (2019) (www.hillelwayne.com)
Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (www.projectpluto.com)
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (www.construction-physics.com)
Europe''s fires are just the start (economist.com)
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
''VPNs are lawful technical tools,'' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)
Azulejo (en.wikipedia.org)
Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (www.grumpygamer.com)
GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (android-developers.googleblog.com)
Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
A Trampoline (dogdogfish.com)
1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed (noyb.eu)
The Productivity Mirage (frantic.im)
LLM Honeypot (llm2human.pages.dev)
The Cold Email (zachholman.com)
Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) (prilik.com)
Some thoughts about Anthropic''s new cryptanalysis results (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
AI''s top startups are barely publishing their research (www.science.org)
The coolest use for the Vision Pro (christianselig.com)
Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved (status.claude.com)
Kimi K3-256k (www.kimi.com)
CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under 10 (cheapfoodmap.com)
Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (www.digitalfoundry.net)
A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands (www.nytimes.com)
Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution (aistack.imec-int.com)
After the AI Crash (potsandpansbyccg.com)
Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem (www.claire-blackshaw.com)
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident (huggingface.co)
Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical (www.superlogical.com)
Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto (mitchellh.com)
San Francisco: Don''t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing (www.eff.org)
Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com)
Darktable (www.darktable.org)
Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents (arxiv.org)
French musician Kavinsky found dead (www.euronews.com)
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word (enklypesalt.com)
KOReader (koreader.rocks)
SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers (micrologics.org)
Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents (www.hubble.md)
ReFrame – The EPaper Camera (reframe.camera)
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (www.datagubbe.se)
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland (blinry.org)
LearnVector – Andrew Ng''s AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences (learnvector.ai)
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)
Pacing the frontier (www.pacingthefrontier.com)
I''d not buy a LG monitor (beko.famkos.net)
Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max (github.com)
MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com)
Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth''s stability, researchers warn (scripps.ucsd.edu)
Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (mac-classic.com)
XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com)
Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library (cacm.acm.org)
Uv 0.12.0 (github.com)
How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)
The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (www.apple.com)
Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly (unawatch.com)
OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security (github.com)
Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (www.anthropic.com)
Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (sbcl.org)
Donate to GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong? (anthropeum.com)
Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com)
Deflock Casa Grande (deflockcg.com)
Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)
Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (sebastianraschka.com)
Zig''s Incremental Compilation Internals (mlugg.co.uk)
Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women (ooni.org)
Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be ''Last to Breaking News'' (www.slow-journalism.com)
Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention (blog.doubleword.ai)
GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (www.pcmag.com)
DMARC Has Been Public Since 2012. 68.4% of Domains Still Don''t Enforce It (ciphercue.com)
Google''s Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era (spawn-queue.acm.org)
Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts (arsastronomica.com)
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (arxiv.org)
Why a 154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights (fortune.com)
Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives (en.wikipedia.org)
New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (www.lji.org)
I''m 38 and I Can''t Support Myself Anymore (itsmevox.substack.com)
About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 (support.apple.com)
US DOT deleting bike lane references (www.npr.org)
Neutrino-1 8B (www.fermionresearch.com)
Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)
Professor''s invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI (www.techspot.com)
DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)
An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan (www.lrb.co.uk)
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 (status.claude.com)
Vehicle Motion Cues (support.apple.com)
7.1 Earthquake in Japan (www.data.jma.go.jp)
A 500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)
FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)
Using an open model feels surprisingly good (matthewsaltz.com)
Astronauts describe persistent ''observer'' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (github.com)
Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise (www.inc.com)
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
Our position on open-weights models (www.anthropic.com)
Exploiting Volvo/Eicher''s fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
Worse on Purpose (ledger.worseonpurpose.com)
Judge Rejects Google''s Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (www.techdirt.com)
Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used (fontsinuse.com)
Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website (www.sgieurope.com)
Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)
MAI-Cyber 1 (microsoft.ai)
Teaching Kids Forth (gracefulliberty.com)
VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (code.videolan.org)
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Modern email can be built from borrowed parts (en.andros.dev)
AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (www.ft.com)
Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com)