France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (arachnoid.com)
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)
How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)
GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)
What''s the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com)
Chicken Scheme 6.0 (code.call-cc.org)
Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik''s Cube states (everycube.alen.is)
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse (thewalrus.ca)
Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines (blog.sshh.io)
The UK''s War on Anonymity Has Come to America (www.effort.news)
Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
Stop Killing Games: It''s time to sue Sony, join us (www.massaschadeconsument.nl)
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (arstechnica.com)
Rust SIMD on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)
Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com)
Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification (linuxstans.com)
Defending my own brain against enshittification (mrmarket.lol)
Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com)
Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech''s debt [video] (www.youtube.com)
Learning more about Claude''s mathematical capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women''s employment than a degree (finance.yahoo.com)
Mark Zuckerberg attacks ''closed'' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints (www.wcax.com)
SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI''s soaring cost (www.404media.co)
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
50k Boat Names (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
''Pervert glasses'': Backlash against Meta''s smart glasses grows (www.seattletimes.com)
Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it''s 20g bigger than today''s (www.bbc.com)
Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes (squeak.org)
Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author''s style (arstechnica.com)
Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app (bobdahacker.com)
The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT''s Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com)
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model (research.meta.ai)
Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (www.whodunnitai.com)
How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (www.snowflake.com)
Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (www.dpreview.com)
Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (www.docker.com)
New Zealand lost its music media, and what we''re building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)
The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (www.economist.com)
I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
What Happened to HackerOne? (blog.teknogeek.io)
The main way I''ve seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (blog.andymasley.com)
The Hacker''s Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)
Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (www.euronews.com)
Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (www.wtoc.com)
OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)
FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (www.tomshardware.com)
Saying No (rozumem.xyz)
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer''s (theconversation.com)
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
What are you working on? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
Cool URIs Don''t Change (1998) (www.w3.org)
Tom Stanton''s supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (www.techeblog.com)
Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley (pubsonline.informs.org)
Windows 11''s built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded (www.theatlantic.com)
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)
There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)
Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid''s age (itsfoss.com)
Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (academic.oup.com)
The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)
My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
Gateway 2000''s hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students'' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com)
US Military''s cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (specification.website)
Don''t use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)
Europe''s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
DeepMind''s WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
What is a product? (roge.onwrite.app)
NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (www.space.com)
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (www.sciencealert.com)
Water system controllers don''t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (www.theregister.com)
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% (www.databricks.com)
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (www.sdss.org)
ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency''s ''best interests'' (apnews.com)
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (www.ign.com)
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) (www.lse.ac.uk)
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
Wyzer Programming Language (github.com)
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (blog.janestreet.com)
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (www.niemanlab.org)
99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (patronview.com)
DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (www.politico.com)
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (www.fastcompany.com)
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (www.nbcnews.com)
The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate (www.currentaffairs.org)
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (community.frame.work)
US strikes 1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (www.bbc.com)
A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon (www.404media.co)
Four simple rules behind Japan''s most liveable cities (www.bbc.com)
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (www.aleksagordic.com)
The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com)
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (www.sciencedaily.com)
Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades (www.pbs.org)
My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (mastodon.gamedev.place)
Meta Ordered to Pay 942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (www.wsj.com)
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
When online commenters detect my art as AI (www.davidrevoy.com)
Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (slayersclub.bethesda.net)
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (www.nbcnews.com)
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
Taste Is All That''s Left (notashelf.dev)
xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (www.githubstatus.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)
Almost no skill required to cook a steak (blog.sydorets.com)
France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (apnews.com)
I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
Let''s all meet up in the Y2K (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
Rubin Observatory''s first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com)
What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn''t (www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
I''ll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com)
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (www.costar.com)
NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
I''m switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)
Western Sahara (en.wikipedia.org)
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.wired.com)
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (blog.rust-lang.org)
Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits (www.cnelecar.com)
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)
Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (www.campion.edu.au)
Qwen 3.0 Image Pro (www.qwencloud.com)
Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet (www.nytimes.com)
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down (www.axios.com)
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (www.404media.co)
Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (www.quantamagazine.org)
What if one fund held tokenized Gold, tech stocks and digital assets? (wealtii.com)
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)
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)
Position: LLMs Can''t Jump (openreview.net)
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (www.wired.com)
Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
The Warp Agent CLI (www.warp.dev)
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with 1.3B Airtable deal (live.euronext.com)
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)
Pi''s Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (www.thisandthat.chat)
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com)
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (www.africanews.com)
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
Nobel Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
What''s the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (www.troyhunt.com)
Oxide Computer raises 445M (SEC Form D) (www.sec.gov)
The AI Demand Bubble (www.wheresyoured.at)
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)
Mistral''s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (www.computerenhance.com)
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)