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Wednesday, 05 August 2026

• Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
  research.meta.ai · Discuss

• Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog
  sagredo.dev · Discuss

• Zed DeltaDB
  zed.dev · Discuss

• What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
  norbertkozsir.com · Discuss

• Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
  blog.fogus.me · Discuss

• Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
  neon.com · Discuss

• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Antigravity 2.0
  antigravity.google · Discuss

• Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
  promptarmor.com · Discuss

• Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure
  securelist.com · Discuss

• AI is a bubble, just like dot-com
  constraintlab.com · Discuss

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

• I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
  naomibashkansky.com · Discuss

• Stop sending me your errors
  kramkow.ski · Discuss

• Discovery Loop
  discoveryloop.com · Discuss

• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down
  axios.com · Discuss

• Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
  blog.google · Discuss

• The Valley of Webhooks
  weli.dev · Discuss

• Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
  404media.co · Discuss

• Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices
  images.seroundtable.com · Discuss

• International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF)
  knock-knock.net · Discuss

• Qwen 3.0 Image Pro
  qwencloud.com · Discuss

• Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
  cnelecar.com · Discuss

• The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
  sightlessscribbles.com · Discuss

• Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
  campion.edu.au · Discuss

• Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words
  vocab.top · Discuss

• Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
  rubinobservatory.org · Discuss

• Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
  writingruxandrabio.com · Discuss

• TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas
  tson.io · Discuss

• Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else
  observer.co.uk · Discuss

• Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
  franciscotrindade.me · Discuss

• Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
  data4sci.com · Discuss

• Painting with Gaussians
  yogthos.net · Discuss

• Faster Than Ninja
  build2.org · Discuss

• Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy
  apoxy.dev · Discuss

• KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs
  ktxconverter.robertborghesi.is · Discuss

• Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash
  iowaattorneygeneral.gov · Discuss

• TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
  vincentschmalbach.com · Discuss

• Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
  bbc.co.uk · Discuss

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

• Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
  quantamagazine.org · Discuss

• Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
  scientificamerican.com · Discuss

• Position: LLMs Can't Jump
  openreview.net · Discuss

• No Data Centers in My Backyard
  jasmi.news · Discuss

• The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
  calpaterson.com · Discuss

Tuesday, 04 August 2026

• Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
  blog.rust-lang.org · Discuss

• The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• The auto industry is building for a past that's never coming back
  wardsauto.com · Discuss

• After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
  asiae.co.kr · Discuss

• Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s
  sonar21.com · Discuss

• Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Bugtraq is back
  lists.securityfocus.com · Discuss

• Flowise is shutting down
  flowiseai.com · Discuss

• Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
  queue.acm.org · Discuss

• IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
  mysk.blog · Discuss

• Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication
  unit42.paloaltonetworks.com · Discuss

• FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it
  808bits.com · Discuss

• libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
  blog.hartwork.org · Discuss

• Western Sahara
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
  seg6.space · Discuss

• Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
  earendil.com · Discuss

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

• AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
  africanews.com · Discuss

• Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
  openai.com · Discuss

• Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
  troyhunt.com · Discuss

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

• The Law of Jante (2015)
  theparisreview.org · Discuss

• In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
  writings.stephenwolfram.com · Discuss

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

• Waymo in Dallas
  waymo.com · Discuss

• Web Security is Too Hard
  textslashplain.com · Discuss

• The Golden Age of British Ice Cream
  vittlesmagazine.com · Discuss

• The Sound of Inevitability
  panoptica.com · Discuss

• Blackmail Fail (2013)
  gwern.net · Discuss

• Why some people mow a lawn better than others
  pudding.cool · Discuss

• AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
  gadgetreview.com · Discuss

• Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game
  hop.earth · Discuss

• Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
  vlt.io · Discuss

• What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?
  stlouisfed.org · Discuss

• Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields
  mentalium.me · Discuss

• The Warp Agent CLI
  warp.dev · Discuss

• All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
  valleynewslive.com · Discuss

• Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story
  jg.gg · Discuss

• Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
  mistral.ai · Discuss

• When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
  not-ship.com · Discuss

• The AI Demand Bubble
  wheresyoured.at · Discuss

• Perspec 1.0
  adriansieber.com · Discuss

• Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees
  thisandthat.chat · Discuss

• Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
  this.weekinsecurity.com · Discuss

• Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
  solarquarter.com · Discuss

• Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
  birchtree.me · Discuss

• Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Everything I Know (1975)
  bfi.org · Discuss

• AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
  nelson.cloud · Discuss

• Nobel Disease
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
  aikido.dev · Discuss

• Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller
  ssp.sh · Discuss

• Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic
  ekxide.io · Discuss

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

• Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)
  computerenhance.com · Discuss

• Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
  live.euronext.com · Discuss

• Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang
  picburn.xyz · Discuss

• CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

Monday, 03 August 2026

• Apple is getting this wrong
  openai.com · Discuss

• The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man
  om.co · Discuss

• Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
  nooneshappy.com · Discuss

• Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
  nooneshappy.com · Discuss

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

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

• Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
  virtuallyfun.com · Discuss

• LLMs reward expertise
  seangoedecke.com · Discuss

• AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
  fortune.com · Discuss

• DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
  status.digdir.no · Discuss

• The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
  mcgill.ca · Discuss