10

Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)

68

Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts (economist.com)

11

Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.25B (businesswire.com)

77

Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)

14

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

111

Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died (stephenwolfram.com)

18

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13

Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video] (youtube.com)

54

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

20

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109

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47

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

122

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16

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17

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

23

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

14

Data Centers Broke American Politics (wired.com)

13

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

15

Gaza's Deadly Soil (nybooks.com)

11

Scientists find clearing cholesterol from blood also removes forever chemicals (independent.co.uk)

49

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

304

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

51

The Warp Agent CLI (warp.dev)

42

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34

[flagged] Haters (paulgraham.com)

30

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30

Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (vlt.io)

14

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10

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12

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47

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14

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12

Diamond industry misjudged threat of lab-grown gems, says Anglo American CEO (ft.com)

19

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

13

Flyte 2 is GA: durable distributed AI workflows using regular Python (union.ai)

15

Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers (engadget.com)

59

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

37

Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI (github.com/chiaro-hq)

12

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17

Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)

95

The AI Demand Bubble (wheresyoured.at)

192

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

10

This Month in Ladybird – July 2026 (ladybird.org)

181

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

122

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

105

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

24

Less Protein, Not More, May Lead to Healthier Aging (nautil.us)

55

[flagged] FFmpeg 9.0 (jbkempf.com)

17

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71

[flagged] Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com/tikalk)

22

Computer Anthology: A continuously evolving benchmark family for AI agents (vetto.ai)

55

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

20

Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com/david-g-3654)

16

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34

US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran (cnn.com)

40

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

100

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44

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

23

How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?

11

Ioskeley Mono (github.com/ahatem)

43

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

431

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

372

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)

10

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252

[dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

51

Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)

18

[flagged] Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)

46

Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller (ssp.sh)

60

Nobel Disease (wikipedia.org)

202

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

129

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)

89

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

75

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

81

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

185

FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)

86

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

20

Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B (businesswire.com)

10

Kelly Criterion Simulator (kellysimulator.com)

33

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105

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

11

C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)

59

Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July (ing.dk)

184

Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)

28

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36

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)

83

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)

27

[flagged] Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible (nooneshappy.com)

15

Telegram Removed from App Store (apps.apple.com)

14

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142

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)

13

Native apps should be avoided whenever possible (nooneshappy.com)

11

Gmail support for sending from third-party email addresses ends January 2027 (support.google.com)

12

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)

48

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)

13

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)

13

Mathematicians Need to Act (tasmin.substack.com)

18

Seven Russian banks have moved to a certificate authority run by the state (zona.media)

11

Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)

12

Ask HN: Who is firing? (August 2026)

10

Apple's iCloud File Sharing Left Ex-Employees with Access to Secret Documents (macrumors.com)