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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
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Assembly Hall of Shame
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
SupererDuperer
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses
US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide
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Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
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Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)
Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Mario Meets Pareto
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Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01
Atomic Clocks
Taste Is All That's Left
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Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)
Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer
Captain Bible Reverse Engineering
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The BBC Tetris Companion
TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface
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Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer
STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST
São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
Building community out of strangers (2023)
Samsung debuts three new memory technologies – zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND
Curlese, Five Years Later
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Facing 474 GW of interconnection requests, Texas hits pause on data centers
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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
\"It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.\"
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
Jujutsu 0.44.0
Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
Discovery Loop
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
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OpenAI Trained Models for Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Show HN: CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
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Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way
Executable Emoji
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature
Germany's gas gamble puts Europe's winter at risk
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
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How to Not Write Parsers
Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
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My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)
“Gravity is worth asking about”
The Valley of Webhooks
Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation
I watched 13 legal pages for two weeks, three of them changed
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The Entropy of a Markov Chain
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86
This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again
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Pareto Front
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
Morioka Shoten
LLMs reward expertise
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem
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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
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Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
Target Is Slicing Open Pokémon Card Boxes Before They're Sold to Deter Scalpers
Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
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Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust
Proxmox VE now available for ARM64
Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization
More German than many Germans
LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates
Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
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American oil company prepares to drill in Greenland
Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python
Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If
GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
Bubble Memory
Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges
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Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas
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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
YouTube's AI Detection Kicked Us in the Face
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Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way
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The Triangle Game, from Zero
Show HN: S-Bahn Seat Picker
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog
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On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
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Everything I Know (1975)
Quantum entanglement generated by sunlight for the first time
State Department Wants Palantir's Advice on Free Speech
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years
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Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents
Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
The Contracting Circle
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
Stowaway – take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
SwiftUI After 7 Years
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Show HN: Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies
What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check
Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
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Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week
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Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware
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Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851)
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
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SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It's Real, Will Drive $300B ARR for SpaceX
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The DISTINCT in Your COUNT
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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
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200 Milliseconds
Nobel Disease
Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies
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AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident
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US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners
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California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time
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Show HN: ssh ssh.place
The AI Productivity Gap
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Perspec 1.0
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
A Gallery of Installing from .dmg
Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
US Sold Euros to Save the Yen, Europe Found Out After
The Warp Agent CLI
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone
Show HN: XSAF – Extra Small Agent Framework
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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages
Western Sahara
New Keyboard: Alicja v2
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not
Cuprate – an alternative and independent Monero node software written in Rust
Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
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OpenBGPD 9.2 Released
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Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
BMW Rolling Out In-Car Spam
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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side
DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says
The Law of Jante (2015)
Something is changing in the unit economics of software
Massively Parallel Postgres Backups
Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1
Premier league bans gambling sponsors
Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K
Detach from your work to make it work
Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines
Read the novels and forget everything else
Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon
\"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been\" [video]
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money
Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable
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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
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Train Simulator Controller
Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake
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The Lisp Machine: Your Next Step in Computing
Meta's Ray-Bans are getting banned from UK pubs, and the EU is circling
MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt
Constructor Theory – David Deutsch(2012)
Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform
Holocloth
What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
Amazon Germany to Accept Wero
AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included
Run full-blown macOS on iPadOS 16
Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode
Proxmox Virtual Environment now available for 64-bit ARM (ARM64)
William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5
Original iPhone Loses Its Last Cellular Network as T-Mobile Kills 2G
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No Meat Proxy
Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach
Smalltalk Report from 1991 to 1996
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark
The Religion of Speed
Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets
Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
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ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode
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Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top
How Ham Radio Made Silicon Valley
Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface
Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019)
Don't be a meat proxy
iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine
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KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone
Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound
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Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC
Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
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Claude Code sessions can now message each other
Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding
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I'm Begging You: Never Write with A.I
Mosh in a Lift (2012)
A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease
Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?
Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning
Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N
Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language
An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Apps for Kobo
Planned satellite megaconstellations could generate runaway space debris
Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat
Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3
Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way
Diátaxis
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore
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AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare
Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100
Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]
The German Mittelstand
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
I've succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian
Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
Beauty in my backyard
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
Fedora Approves a Smaller Grub
Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
The lost civic life of movie rental stores
Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI
Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
SearXNG in Rust
Goiânia Accident
Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
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Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
Linux on ESP32
Show HN: An AI agent that trades inside limits you set, starting on paper
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
OpenAI slows release of Astra model, citing cyber capabilities
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation
TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console
Cyberscript
Better Posture Linked to Better Decision Making and Mood
ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
Ioskeley Mono
SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm
A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite
The Witness
You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Blackmail Fail (2013)
Why and how the Austrian Military moved to LibreOffice (Part 1)
Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
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Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees
Flock Pitched a Plan to Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers into Roaming Surveillance
C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
The Shape of Things to Come
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents
Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor
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Rest in Peace, Heinz Stucke, Who Saw the World by Bike
Salem Brought a Guillotine to Oppose New Data Center
Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding
xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
The Red Strings Club
How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Kelly Criterion Simulator
Manual: •.,:;…!?·
Kraid is a now a real compiler
7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems
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ASCII Today
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The End of an Era
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
What's New in PHP 8.6
KOReader
OpenAI Trained Its Models for Months While They Coordinated Exploits
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Psychological distress isolates men more than women, according to a 14-year study. Men are often expected to be self-reliant and emotionally stoic, which may discourage them from disclosing difficulties or asking others for support.
Study finds infant mortality increased by 43% after Greece introduced austerity measures in 2010. The increase was persistent and sharp.
'Physical Scar': Early Trauma Can Fundamentally Change Brain Cells. Study found that when stresses hit mice at a young age, the coiled DNA inside VTA neurons is marked to loosen slightly, making its gene dials more accessible.
E-scooters far more dangerous than motorbikes or bicycles. Study of accidents in England and Wales shows e-scooter riders 3x more likely to suffer traumatic brain injury than bikers. They also sustained more internal organ and blood vessel damage than did motorcyclists or pedal cyclists.
Parental conservatism does not improve the transmission of religious beliefs, study shows. Young adults are more likely to share their parents’ religious habits when they view their upbringing as warm but structured.
Mental health workers may hold negative beliefs about people who misuse opioids
Wildfires now the dominant contributor of unhealthy levels of air pollution for pregnant women in the US
Researchers have pinpointed the molecular players responsible for plants “feeling full” once they’ve taken up enough nitrogen.
The geometry of ketchup-cap hinges explain how creased-curve origami shells can hold multiple stable shapes, a discovery that led engineers to build a robot that shifts shape and moves using magnets and no motors [PNAS]
Hawaii’s dolphin tourism boom may be taking a toll on spinner dolphins, study finds
Too much screen time increases suicidal thoughts for college students
Common microplastic may increase risk of fatty liver disease. Research found people who ate a more Western-style diet, including foods like burgers and sodas, may have a greater chance of progressing to fatty liver disease if they are also exposed to polyethylene
Atmospheric data show Siberian methane emissions rose 12 teragrams a year between 2010 and 2023, and could offset a fifth of global methane cuts needed by 2050.
How snails engineer their slime | Calcium tunes snail mucus–based materials to multiple functions
Community health workers delivering telehealth coaching plus a structured feedback loop with doctors lowered long-term blood sugar by 1.0 percentage point more than usual care over 12 months, in a randomized trial of 257 uninsured Hispanic adults with diabetes
When parents are stressed, kids get more screen time: according to U.S. study, parents experiencing emotional distress were less likely to consistently enforce screen-time limits, while those who felt overwhelmed by their child's behavior were more likely to use screens to manage difficult moments
A phone-based adherence app raised tuberculosis treatment success from 74% to 82% and cut dropout by nearly a third in Argentina.
The link between vitamin intake and depression largely vanishes when factoring in lifestyle
Patient Experiences and Safety Concerns Regarding GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak
A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. | Filip Roséen
JDK 28 EA Build10 is now available for download and includes JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) from Project Valhalla
Solving and benchmarking QUBO problems with Gurobi in Python
DRY vs. SRP
Here's why OOP makes a lot of sense to me.
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