BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job (basedagents.ai)
DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude (twitter.com)
The collapse of complex software (2022) (nolanlawson.com)
LLM Visualizer – Build a Transformer from Scratch (jayvisaria.github.io)
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ClassicPress: Forked from WordPress without the block editor (www.classicpress.net)
DHH Omarchy Doctrine: Fascism Stage One by Definition (www.flyingpenguin.com)
Physicist does the math on Star Trek''s "Picard maneuver" (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI''s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit (thenextweb.com)
Tesla Autopilot was on in I-35 crash that killed its driver (electrek.co)
The Kirkversary: An AI Carnival (thecarrierwave.substack.com)
RWK – A Text Mmorpg Still Active Since 2001 (rwk1.racewarkingdoms.com)
DoD cyber strategy aims for ''something big, something muscular'' in offensive ops (breakingdefense.com)
Genome Duplication Is an Evolutionary Gamble (www.quantamagazine.org)
Anthropic Staffers Again Sound the Alarm on AI Catastrophe (www.motherjones.com)
T-Mobile to Charge 5 a Month for iOS 27 iPhone Handoff (www.macrumors.com)
GE Acquires NBC – 1985 (www.s-1.site)
Try GPT-6 Astra for a few bucks (trylatestmodel.com)
Hired to Code, He Built Hudson River Trading and a 27B Fortune (www.bloomberg.com)
A mini-game around fake news (unspin.hidden-pond-5e6a.workers.dev)
In Japan, Television Viewing Doesn''t Have to Take a Back Seat (2013) (www.wsj.com)
AI #185: Preference Cascade (thezvi.substack.com)
Sky sphere representation in language models (29 Jul 2026) (arxiv.org)
A fossil feather in dinosaur poop may explain why birds survived mass extinction (phys.org)
How My Students Think About AI (www.lesswrong.com)
How do Necco wafers, paper receipts, and farmers almanacs still exist? (thehustle.co)
Allow Carriers on Planes (www.jefftk.com)
I built a simulator for the iPhone Duo (progressier.com)
PanoDrop (www.panodrop.app)
The Poisoned Chalice and the Court of the Opened Eye (danverbraganza.com)
SmartDB Todo tu trabajo con datos, en el contexto de tu proyecto (smartdb.bytss.com)
Parameter (www.parameter.ai)
Where Learning Becomes the Next Problem (medium.com)
Three Weeks in a Village of Builders (www.edventures.co)
Image Dithering in R (2019) (www.sumsar.net)
ASCII arcade: 3D engine for the terminal (ascii-arcade.dev)
Zero heap allocation chess engine in OxCaml (github.com)
Developer created an app to detect nearby Meta glasses (www.businessinsider.com)
Identity Verification in Japan: What Happens Behind the Scenes (www.tokyodev.com)
FunClock – Relaxing Tick, Animated Clock for Focus and Sleep (play.google.com)
LightSleep – Gentle Sounds for Better Sleep App (play.google.com)
Nari Labs: Multimodal inference at the speed of light (narilabs.com)
OpenAI Is Open to Slowing Cutting-Edge AI, CEO Sam Altman Tells Staff (www.bloomberg.com)
YouTuber, or someone, wants to send nice emails to active military personnel (mic.sandboxx.us)
Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (www.antipope.org)
Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds (www.upsocl.com)
Herdr Studio (powerfooi.github.io)
Donald Trump boxed his party in (www.economist.com)
Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac (tensorsandtokens.com)
Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant (www.bbc.com)
Abu Dhabi buys into China''s Luckin Coffee with 1B deal (www.ft.com)
The New Cinema Camera Dominating the Film Industry (www.indepthcine.com)
YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning (map-yue2.github.io)
Details.so (www.details.so)
Release 13.1.5 · Grafana/Grafana (github.com)
Kinapod: Throw metrics from an AirPod in your disc (kinapod.com)
Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots (arxiv.org)
Countries 15x10 Pixel Flags (github.com)
I turned off my algorithm for 24 hours. Is this how social media used to be? (www.theguardian.com)
New audit combo for AI agents (lexifina.com)
Self-hosting your own agent infrastrcuture (centaur) (www.youtube.com)
INDUS-SDE: A Language Model for Scientific Content Curation and Discovery (science.data.nasa.gov)
Macron urges Europe to develop crewed spaceflight program (www.lemonde.fr)
A Vacuum Diode for Make: Magazine (www.nickpoole.me)
Generative AI Using Linuxulator and eGPU on FreeBSD (www.tumfatig.net)
Satellite images before and after Nepal''s devastating floods (artifactbin.dev)
AI Agent Builder gives memory across voice, SMS, email, web chat and social (boldagents.co)
Portal 2 Beta Decompilation (github.com)
Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons (thenextweb.com)
Steam''s Programming Fest (store.steampowered.com)
Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (www.youtube.com)
Russia trafficking foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Amnesty says (www.courthousenews.com)
The Confused Engineer (thebsq.com)
AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google: ''There are no adults in the room'' (www.nbcnews.com)
DreamLayer: OpenRouter for Image Models (dreamlayer.io)
A 537 Local LLM Machine (2025) (blog.lewman.com)
M. Williams, OpenAI: Human extinction in the next few years seems likely (xcancel.com)
Stop externalizing the cost of your AI use to me (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
AI Is Not Going to Kill My Love of Math (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Biff 2.0 Is Released (biffweb.com)
More Anthropic researchers warn of AI''s perils as Musk terms fears a ''psyop'' (www.theguardian.com)
Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety (www.nytimes.com)
Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory (system76.com)
The Cost of Cognitive Debt (ljtn.github.io)
California Tesla drivers could get 350 from class action settlement (ktla.com)
LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users'' Chrome extensions (arstechnica.com)
Open Letter: Civil society coalition urges EU to kill the cookie banner (noyb.eu)
Does the Body Really Keep Score? One of Trauma''s Most Contentious Debates (www.psychotherapynetworker.org)
Bill Biggart, 9/11 photographer (www.billbiggart.com)
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit''s looming data sale to Google (arstechnica.com)
Prime Air crash: 10 mandatory go-around triggers were ignored [video] (www.youtube.com)
Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop (nasutton.notion.site)
Elon Musk attacks film-maker Alex Gibney about upcoming documentary about him (www.theguardian.com)
Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day (arstechnica.com)
Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers (arstechnica.com)
Anthropic CEOs wife once asked Epstein to fund porn venture – now steers Claude (nypost.com)
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand (techcrunch.com)
Computing a lower bound on matrix rank (www.johndcook.com)
Proof of the Rank-Trace Theorem (www.johndcook.com)
Revisiting Spectral Representations in Generative Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
Puns and allusions to The Beatles in titles of scientific papers (www.science.org)
Ngram Error Rate (www.johndcook.com)
Microsoft Excel KB5002914 update breaks copy and paste for some users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Potential Nintendo Switch Information Leak Due to Proximity-Based Remote Attack [pdf] (www.nintendo.com)
The terrible menu bar in the Windows 11 Notepad (blog.yuo.be)
Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages (2023) (arxiv.org)
1M German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings (spacedaily.com)
GraphQL: Supercharging AI (graphql.org)
The Wind, the Wind (exple.tive.org)
Formal methods let you explore the corners (www.johndcook.com)
Fastly Speed Test (speed.edgecompute.app)
Recursive Self-Improvement (en.wikipedia.org)
Using Forester Behavior Trees for Virtual Commissioning of Robotic Cells (besok.github.io)
Xteink X4 Pro Review (abstractnonsense.xyz)
Robots stage ''protest'' demanding stricter AI rules in Poland (www.polskieradio.pl)
Auth.md – Enable agents to register users without the sign-up form (workos.com)
Coding Sahayi – Local-first autonomous AI coding IDE (WinUI 3 and Ollama) (codingsahayi.github.io)
Ramp: How we built OCA, our AI on-call assistant (builders.ramp.com)
Cfo.ai (cfo.ai)
We All Deserve a Better Internet, Not a Smaller One (www.eff.org)
Am I Being Gaslit by AI? (keenen.xyz)
NTSB Issues Investigative Update on B-767 Runway Excursion Accident in Miami (www.ntsb.gov)
Effect MQ (www.effect-mq.com)
How Pokémon Go turned its players into Pentagon cartographers (thecradle.co)
The AI Takeover Checklist: A Devil''s Advocate Audit (nochan.net)
Navier-Stokes in the News (www.johndcook.com)
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AI Is an Intelligence Multiplier (www.johndcook.com)
Wall Labels Are in a Sorry State (news.artnet.com)
Apple Health and Quest team up for 119 blood panel (appleinsider.com)
Grok Bot Galaxy (x.ai)
Bro-Skill (github.com)
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek (techcrunch.com)
Tylenol use in pregnancy may be linked with uterus, ovary changes in daughters (www.reuters.com)
California''s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills (www.nytimes.com)
Oracle Q1 FY2027 Earnings Results [pdf] (s23.q4cdn.com)
Bodily Oddities (vester.si)
AI-powered biowarfare is coming; the Army lays plans to ''fight through'' it (www.defenseone.com)
The secretive process that will decide the BBC''s future (www.theguardian.com)
My favourite agent does a simple job (chiragdesai.uk)
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for 1.355B, weeks after Airtable (thenextweb.com)
The Palm Pre Is the Reason You Love Your Phone (2009) [video] (www.youtube.com)
From Git to Fossil (lucio.albenga.es)
A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real (github.com)
Knap – Turn Data into Markdown (knap.md)
Why Beyond Traditional RAG? (chandula7.gumroad.com)
Times Newer Roman (timesnewerroman.com)
What if this is why humanity goes extinct? (www.aidoomday.com)
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash vs. ChatGPT Pro Subscription (aicharts.io)
Google to invest at least 13B in AI infrastructure in Finland (bntnews.bg)
Blueferry: iMessage over Bluetooth on Linux (blueferry.weirdware.io)
Dependency Hygiene (stitcher.io)
Railcode: Secure Cloud for Internal Software (railcode.dev)
The Thrill of Wanting AI to Destroy the World (www.theatlantic.com)
Summation: AI Data Analyst (www.summation.com)
macOS Tahoe silently sabotaged the login keychain (lapcatsoftware.com)
The Association for Human Mathematics (www.ahmath.org)
Read in Parallel, Reason in Depth for Long-Context LLM Agents (academy.dair.ai)
NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools (www.theregister.com)
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash – Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
The Great Health Plan Replacement (www.a16z.news)
Can you design a chip? Announcing the protocol emulator ASIC competition (blog.janestreet.com)
Why Are Women over 100% of Jobs Gained Under Trump''s Second Term? (newsletter.mikekonczal.com)
Farewell, programming (staltz.com)
Milkman Zero (milkmanzero.com)
How a Mechanical Watch Works (e6.ai)
pgterm (github.com)
Measuring tactical intelligence targeting and conventional weapons capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit (www.theregister.com)
AI Evaluation Is Execution (jasondoyle.ie)
Pentagon Employee Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against Autistici/Inventati (theintercept.com)
The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No (theintercept.com)
Bad actors in China and Russia are weaponizing Anthropic''s AI (www.politico.com)
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac (auberon.xyz)
Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere (www.theguardian.com)
Instinct is cute until it tries to log into your Verizon account from Tehran (twitter.com)
Tried to recreate the iPhone Duo animation on my Fold 8 (www.reddit.com)
Patients Are Flying to China for the Latest Cancer Treatment (www.wsj.com)
Stackness Launch (stackness.dev)
OpenAI Agents API (openai.com)
ChatGPT Pro 20x plan is now unavailable for purchase (twitter.com)
Germany Proves Again That Censorship Doesn''t Work (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
Speedrunning-Burnout (andotherthings.me)
They do think AI might kill everyone (www.seangoedecke.com)
On Next-Gen Transformer: Loops Are Not What You Need (zartbot.github.io)
A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018) (www.ccdatalab.org)
Aging US Water Systems Are No Match for Climate Change (www.bloomberg.com)
Explore the ocean by answering trivia – Endless Krillion (playdaily.org)
PISA Founder: AI Is Hollowing Out Youth Skills [video] (www.euronews.com)
Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat (2026) (www.inventbuild.studio)
Pi-hole-like DNS server based on list of blacklists (codeberg.org)
Fly Around the Bay Area at Mach 10 with an Apple Vision Pro, Built with Astra (apps.apple.com)
I''m a Proud Luddite. That''s Why I Use Linux (thelibre.news)
Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop (aws.amazon.com)
Bones found in Yukon ID''d as ice-age cheetah (www.cbc.ca)
Linus skill/soul: how I distilled the knowledge for code reviews from 32k emails (daniele.tech)
Repomanager – A web UI for managing Debian/RPM mirrors (github.com)
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda (2023) (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Cybersecurity experts raise alarm after back-to-back data breaches (www.rnz.co.nz)
Book-to-screen adaptations to watch at TIFF 2026 (www.cbc.ca)
Purism – Liberty Phone (puri.sm)
The Iron Heel by Jack London (www.gutenberg.org)
It Breaks a Village: Bevy''s 6th Birthday (blog.fallible.net)
Postgres Calculations and the Ambiguity of Null (www.crunchydata.com)
Climate ''feedback loops'' could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150M driver''s licenses stolen (techcrunch.com)
Apple release candidate unfixed bugs (lapcatsoftware.com)
How DaVinci Resolve Free v21.1 Scripting Changes Affect Puget Bench (www.pugetsystems.com)
Fear Is Not an Argument (lemire.me)
PCBGolf challenge: Are you better than an autorouter? (github.com)
AI researcher who warned of ''disaster'' is now a target of the right (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity: An Anthropology of AI Safety (twitter.com)
Weeks before wildfires, Spokane practiced a mass evacuation – the drill paid off (theconversation.com)
CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian (www.infoq.com)
Michael Levin: Ingressing Minds (www.mdpi.com)
Robinhood CEO says companies can''t control how their stock is tokenized (www.cnbc.com)
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record [pdf] (blog.archive.org)
Democratizing AGI (cowboy.inc)
European Railway Station Index 2026 (consumerchoicecenter.org)
OpenAI pausing new 200 plan subscriptions (twitter.com)
Apple''s new A20 Pro smartphone chip around 25% faster than its predecessor (www.tomshardware.com)
AMD releases new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 to save budget PC building (www.tomshardware.com)
A remote island, these GPS hackers are preparing for an invisible war (www.bbc.com)
The Global Data Center Boom Is a Gift to Spies (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Chinese AI Giants Accused of Sending User Queries to U.S. Models (www.wsj.com)
Can Grindr stay up during RNC conventions? (www.irishstar.com)
U.S. Code § 597 – Expenditures to influence voting (www.law.cornell.edu)
Musk Mocks Ex-Anthropic Researcher''s AI Extinction Warning, Calls It a ''Setup'' (www.analyticsinsight.net)
Bad Vibes Coding (spectrecollie.com)
Not one of 426 open NIH funding opportunities has a machine-readable deadline (grantping.com)
Moonshot Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says (www.bloomberg.com)
Dioxus Labs (YC S23) Is Joining Cognition (dioxuslabs.com)
Don''t Get in a Crash in a Cybercab (schwarztech.net)
The Magic Behind Cubacadabra (andrewarrow.dev)
Study: A burst of "pink noise" may lead to more restorative sleep (news.mit.edu)
Study confirms permanent loss of Canada''s last Arctic epishelf lake (news.ubc.ca)
People''s Old Saves Kinda Make Me Sad (blog.absurdpirate.com)
Distant sensors announced a fearsome tsunami''s birth (www.nature.com)
What Happened at the White House That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump (www.politico.com)
Life as a Terrorist: Uncovering my FBI file (2013) (harpers.org)
Mischievous AIs (www.strangeintelligence.ai)
Oslo bans smart glasses in schools (www.thelocal.no)
What Comes After Git (ersc.io)
Practical Methods for Programming Self-Study (www.simplethread.com)
Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care (globalnews.ca)
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8 (pikuma.com)
Secrets of a Dinosaur Mummy (2021) [video] (www.youtube.com)
A 50-year-old computer-assisted proof (www.johndcook.com)
We Benchmarked 83 Frontier AI Repos–None Passed with an A (opsera.ai)
Autism Is a Scary Word (ezducate1.substack.com)
When Computers Were Magic (www.goto10retro.com)
Ruining a Blog by Using an LLM (www.bentasker.co.uk)
Chinese Industry Is Starting to Wean Off Fossil Fuels (e360.yale.edu)
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (www.anthropic.com)
What Autism taught me about education (ezducate1.substack.com)
OpenAI Targets Work of Wall Street with New ChatGPT for Financial Services (www.cnbc.com)
30 Years of Postgres Architecture (www.snowflake.com)
PPI moves up 4.8% (annualized) in August; goods advance 13.2% (annualized) (www.bls.gov)
Europe''s LLM Router (cortecs.ai)
Arbel: Building the Impossible RISC-V CPU (www.nextsilicon.com)
House Democrat urges US action over sleeping Tesla drivers (www.reuters.com)
What happens if we build less AI infrastructure vs. more: a 2027-2030 forecast (hunchfox.substack.com)
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (musictheory.pugetsound.edu)
Warner Music made Suno shut down its original AI model (old.reddit.com)
AI boom poses new financial stability risks, BIS head says (www.reuters.com)
The Download: a "God-driven" cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap (www.technologyreview.com)
The Age-Gating of History (heatherburns.tech)
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons (www.nytimes.com)
How Did AI Get So Biased in Favor of the Left? (www.cato.org)
GPT-Live-1 in the API (openai.com)
If approved, Project Taurus will use more electricity than Colorado Springs (www.cpr.org)
How to Handle a Difficult Colleague (www.thetrueengineer.com)
Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1966) [pdf] (incompleteideas.net)
Cognition''s SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (tokenstead.ai)
We wanted to use Baseten for inference, we got admin access to their GitHub (www.strix.ai)
The Floppy Disk Nightmare: Why Installing Windows 95 Was Pure Survival (comuniq.xyz)
Gemini Desktop (gemini.google)
The Philosophy Behind "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" [video] (www.youtube.com)
Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples from a Martian Moon (www.wired.com)
OpenAI shares they have made substantial progress on another Millennium problem (www.nytimes.com)
EU unveils ''buy European'' public procurement rules to counter China (www.theguardian.com)
Hear Me Out: If We Find Life Out There Maybe We Should Kill It (joecmarshall.com)
Apple Is Gunning for Whoop (www.bloodtestcomparison.com)
Superintelligence Is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm (calnewport.com)
Neat-annotations: hand-drawn annotations for your page (neat-annotations.syabro.com)
Defeat in Detail (en.wikipedia.org)
Agricultural Involution (en.wikipedia.org)
Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe [audio] (www.econtalk.org)
Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time''s Not Going So Well (www.nytimes.com)
Architecting Zero Trust for Urgent Care Clinics (NIST SP 800-207) (codeandcypher.com)
What Is an Agent Action Capsule? (agentactioncapsule.org)
Software Drives People Insane (graybeard.ing)
Why the best AI startups write bad prompts (twitter.com)
Title: Show HN: Scaling a TSP heuristic to 20k cities, public benchmark data (largetsp.uncledroid.app)
My philosophy on banning AI in projects (cyrneko.eu)
He Paid 998 to Train a 3.8B Parameter AI (netbajura.blogspot.com)