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  • 0 15

    Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.wired.com)
  • 1 6

    What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
  • 5 11

    Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (cacm.acm.org)
  • 2 11

    Ban the Throbber (banthethrobber.neocities.org)
  • 18 34

    Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
  • 0 13

    Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
  • 1 3

    Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (benchmark.clickhouse.com)
  • 12 20

    Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
  • 5 14

    You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021) (www.wbur.org)
  • 1 13

    See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 17

    Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
  • 9 19

    Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (forum.proxmox.com)
  • 25 97

    Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
  • 68 64

    Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)
  • 10 45

    Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 8 25

    Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 13 78

    Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
  • 26 49

    GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (www.gnu.org)
  • 32 26

    Antigravity 2.0 (antigravity.google)
  • 1 54

    Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
  • 0 7

    Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs (elman.ai)
  • 54 18

    I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words (dylan.blog)
  • 22 69

    Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 78 45

    I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
  • 6 26

    Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
  • 31 21

    AI is a bubble, just like dot-com (www.constraintlab.com)
  • 7 6

    When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)
  • 18 29

    Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (www.hyperprobe.co)
  • 2 79

    Jeff Dean Leaving Google (twitter.com)
  • 390 222

    Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
  • 0 8

    What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)
  • 225 373

    Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
  • 168 162

    The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)
  • 9 296

    Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 369

    Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind (www.axios.com)
  • 2 21

    The Law of Jante (2015) (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 56 84

    Western Sahara (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 18 48

    Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11 (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 36 82

    The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
  • 105 149

    Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (www.cnelecar.com)
  • 52 188

    Qwen Image 3.0 Pro (www.qwencloud.com)
  • 6 14

    Where was Mythos when WordPress fell? (patrik.re)
  • 46 39

    Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up (www.cnbc.com)
  • 9 38

    Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (www.righto.com)
  • 169 289

    Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (www.404media.co)
  • 16 54

    International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) (knock-knock.net)
  • 24 26

    Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices (images.seroundtable.com)
  • 3 9

    Cloudflare OS (os.cloudflare.app)
  • 5 13

    Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (www.koreajoongangdaily.com)
  • 99 109

    Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
  • 15 28

    People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying (www.thenerve.news)
  • 27 76

    Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (www.science.org)
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  • 8 40

    Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (apoxy.dev)
  • 13 71

    Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
  • 1 5

    KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs (ktxconverter.robertborghesi.is)
  • 9 23

    OpenAI settles claims of discrimination against US workers for $3.2M (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 3 80

    The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
  • 38 76

    Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
  • 50 45

    Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else (observer.co.uk)
  • 88 82

    Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)
  • 8 61

    Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
  • 46 48

    TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
  • 11 16

    Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words (www.vocab.top)
  • 54 129

    Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (www.campion.edu.au)
  • 26 71

    Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
  • 203 370

    Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 14 39

    Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport (www.cnn.com)
  • 108 77

    A Sick People (householderkarl.com)
  • 76 38

    Universities would prefer no AI (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
  • 9 23

    Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon (www.reuters.com)
  • 20 48

    Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack (www.bbc.co.uk)
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  • 3 29

    BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake (github.com)
  • 13 16

    'I want to rejoin the EU Brexit has been a disaster' – Andy Burnham (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
  • 118 121

    Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 11 20

    The journalist taking on the 'tech fascists' of Silicon Valley (www.theguardian.com)
  • 90 213

    TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
  • 109 58

    Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash (www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
  • 1 11

    The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (www.novaspivack.com)
  • 62 39

    Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 151 122

    Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
  • 60 26

    Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers (www.politico.com)
  • 141 210

    Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
  • 12 82

    Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (labs.quansight.org)
  • 203 409

    Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (www.wired.com)
  • 132 46

    No Data Centers in My Backyard (jasmi.news)
  • 9 47

    Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  • 127 176

    Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
  • 4 8

    Bitcoin BIP110 mandatory activation this Saturday, how game theory will unfold? (www.simondixon.com)
  • 78 48

    The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 6

    I ran a 1998 artificial life SIM at 560x speed and caught a rare easter egg [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 19

    Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack (github.com)
  • 10 49

    The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851) (www.thehopkinthomasproject.com)
  • 66 103

    Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (blog.rust-lang.org)
  • 117 191

    “Gravity is worth asking about” (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 34 79

    Why is it all in the kernel? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 12 82

    Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
  • 6 18

    Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert (www.bbc.com)
  • 20 62

    An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (github.com)
  • 68 74

    The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized (www.bbc.com)
  • 60 68

    The Golden Age of British Ice Cream (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
  • 106 48

    Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base (www.wardsauto.com)
  • 14 39

    Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s (sonar21.com)
  • 17 50

    Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable (rioterm.com)
  • 208 367

    Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
  • 3 24

    From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (www.practicallyefficient.com)
  • 108 85

    After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (www.asiae.co.kr)
  • 19 53

    Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 37 56

    Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 (www.godox.com)
  • 45 57

    Flowise is shutting down (flowiseai.com)
  • 89 103

    Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
  • 30 76

    Bugtraq is back (lists.securityfocus.com)
  • 13 15

    Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
  • 234 275

    Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)
  • 29 166

    IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
  • 10 60

    Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com)
  • 27 39

    FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it (808bits.com)
  • 45 48

    Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (unit42.paloaltonetworks.com)
  • 267 502

    Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
  • 70 310

    libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)
  • 3 16

    The physics of Docker build caching (www.blacksmith.sh)
  • 151 179

    We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
  • 49 160

    Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
  • 20 142

    DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
  • 221 301

    I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com)
  • 9 14

    The Sound of Inevitability (www.panoptica.com)
  • 19 83

    Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
  • 234 288

    AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (www.africanews.com)
  • 51 60

    Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] (cdn.prod.website-files.com)
  • 7 52

    Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (openai.com)
  • 79 328

    Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (www.troyhunt.com)
  • 89 70

    New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year (www.transportenvironment.org)
  • 130 118

    Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (www.thisandthat.chat)
  • 181 255

    Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (www.sec.gov)
  • 87 42

    Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short (electrek.co)
  • 34 76

    Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
  • 63 41

    Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts (www.economist.com)
  • 8 22

    The Red Strings Club (www.vegard.net)
  • 93 1576

    In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 667 315

    Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
  • 6 53

    Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 34 39

    Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
  • 8 141

    How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
  • 3 41

    Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
  • 117 222

    Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)
  • 79 35

    What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (www.stlouisfed.org)
  • 182 191

    Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
  • 126 468

    Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
  • 18 77

    Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
  • 0 17

    America's 'weird' and 'unwise' intervention in the Japanese yen (www.msn.com)
  • 84 82

    Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off (www.not-ship.com)
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  • 2 14

    The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
  • 6 9

    Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform (github.com)
  • 1 10

    The Pedagogy Behind the Studio (gail.wharton.upenn.edu)
  • 22 67

    AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt (github.com)
  • 25 16

    Haters (2020) (www.paulgraham.com)
  • 6 11

    The Judgment Reservoir (shannph.com)
  • 44 88

    Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
  • 244 385

    All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
  • 62 108

    The Warp Agent CLI (www.warp.dev)
  • 2 4

    How to Get More Customers Without Paying for Ads – Playistry (playistry.com)
  • 23 30

    Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (mentalium.me)
  • 19 54

    Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (www.vlt.io)
  • 23 63

    MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com)
  • 84 95

    It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
  • 7 11

    Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks (gettably.tech)
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  • Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 144 110

    The AI Demand Bubble (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 6 36

    Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons (www.reuters.com)
  • 120 103

    When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
  • 14 35

    Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI (github.com)
  • 7 37

    Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (www.righto.com)
  • 280 382

    Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
  • 99 594

    Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
  • 199 139

    Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
  • 100 241

    Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)
  • 13 48

    FFmpeg 9.0 (jbkempf.com)
  • 38 75

    Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
  • 4 21

    Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (blog.omgmog.net)
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  • 174 144

    "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (www.computerenhance.com)
  • 82 124

    Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (blog.yossarian.net)
  • 18 54

    Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
  • 136 248

    Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
  • 29 24

    How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
  • 28 14

    Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic (ekxide.io)
  • 459 777

    AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
  • 21 115

    Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 28 132

    Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)
  • 740 692

    Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
  • Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 59

    Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com)
  • 75 50

    An Honest Review of AI Programming (mropert.github.io)
  • 33 113

    Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
  • 10 69

    Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
  • 130 120

    Nobel Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 33 144

    Everything I Know (1975) (www.bfi.org)
  • 6 500

    Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
  • 53 33

    Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller (www.ssp.sh)
  • 67 57

    Cyberpunk Video Games (shellzine.net)
  • 692 375

    U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (www.cnbc.com)
  • 35 15

    Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
  • 103 375

    DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
  • 13 49

    Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (www.nytimes.com)
  • 79 112

    The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (www.upi.com)
  • 113 109

    Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (live.euronext.com)
  • 97 453

    FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)
  • 110 137

    You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
  • 1 16

    Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (physics.aps.org)
  • 37 155

    NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (www.publictechnology.net)
  • 75 318

    Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
  • 0 10

    RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 31 50

    Beauty in my backyard (worksinprogress.co)
  • 81 58

    Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July (ing.dk)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 9

    Nobody checked which state IBM's flagship quantum chemistry results compute (zenodo.org)
  • 292 283

    Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
  • 6 20

    The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man (om.co)
  • 12 15

    IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf] (2010) (scancad.net)
  • 68 74

    Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (blog.rootsofprogress.org)
  • 305 145

    That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
  • 137 307

    Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com)
  • 30 41

    Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible (nooneshappy.com)
  • 0 11

    Living in the Math World Means Threading the Needle (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 3 18

    LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
  • 203 270

    Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (www.science.org)
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    Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video (leoaido.com)
  • 429 422

    There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (users.wpi.edu)
  • 2 59

    They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video] (media.ccc.de)