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• In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful YearsHacker News · 8/4 · 1346 points
• Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on discHacker News · 8/4 · 650 points
• Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tonesHacker News · 8/4 · 530 points · in the email
• Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderationHacker News · 8/4 · 411 points · in the email
• There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]Hacker News · 8/3 · 382 points
• Pi's Minimalism Is Its AdvantageHacker News · 8/4 · 358 points
• Waymo in DallasHacker News · 8/4 · 291 points
• libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 monthsHacker News · 8/4 · 271 points · in the email
• AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – InterpolHacker News · 8/4 · 239 points
• Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAIHacker News · 8/4 · 208 points · in the email
• Stateless MCP has recaptured my interestHacker News · 8/1 · 193 points
• We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebarsHacker News · 8/4 · 132 points · in the email
• Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhoneHacker News · 8/4 · 114 points · in the email
• IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private RelayHacker News · 8/4 · 107 points · in the email
• DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)Hacker News · 8/4 · 100 points
• When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark SaturationHacker News · 8/4 · 99 points · in the email
• Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in PracticeHacker News · 8/5 · 86 points
• Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speedHacker News · 7/31 · 70 points
• “Gravity is worth asking about”Hacker News · 7/30 · 66 points
• Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational powerHacker News · 8/2 · 62 points · in the email
• Watch a SpaceX Rocket Crash Into the MoonSlashdot · 8/5
• Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming DemandSlashdot · 8/5
• EA Is Now Officially Privately OwnedSlashdot · 8/4
• Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI SlopSlashdot · 8/4 · in the email
• Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable For $1.28 BillionSlashdot · 8/4
• Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'Slashdot · 8/4
• Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall StreetSlashdot · 8/4
• Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center DevicesSlashdot · 8/4
• Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAISlashdot · 8/4
• Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User DataSlashdot · 8/4
• Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash StandardSlashdot · 8/4
• Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunchSlashdot · 8/4
• Spain Offers $1.14 Billion To Get Thirty Meter Telescope Moved To Canary IslandsSlashdot · 8/4
• OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000Slashdot · 8/4
• An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake ItSlashdot · 8/3
• Security is Hard, Y’allLobsters · 8/4
• The Lua community needs to learn to move onLobsters · 8/4
• Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightlyLobsters · 8/4 · in the email
• Liquid Glass effect for GNU/EmacsLobsters · 8/4
• we finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebarsLobsters · 8/4 · in the email
• Soppo - Go, with the features it's missingLobsters · 8/4
• irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC clientLobsters · 8/4
• designing a query systemLobsters · 8/4
• The Nix sandbox is a hidden inputLobsters · 8/4 · in the email
• Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of MacrosLobsters · 8/5
• FFmpeg 9.0Lobsters · 8/4 · in the email
• Nehir: a tiling window manager for macOSLobsters · 8/5
• Tests for a PDFLobsters · 8/4
• Amélie (2023)Lobsters · 8/4
• BorrowSanitizerLobsters · 8/4
• Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speedLobsters · 8/4
• Kill the Cookie BannerLobsters · 8/3
• A Revised Haskell 2010 Language ReportLobsters · 8/4
• Twenty Years of PandocLobsters · 8/3
• Taming the Steam arm64 client (on pmOS)Lobsters · 8/4
• Add html element to allowed comment syntaxLobsters · 8/4
• Lisp in 99 Lines of C and How to Write One YourselfLobsters · 8/4
• The Story of Mac: A Just-So StoryLobsters · 8/5
• Anti-fascist PieFed featuresLobsters · 8/4
• The Future of GNOME BoxesLobsters · 8/3
• CarPlay is Coming to Pontoon BoatsMacRumors · 8/4
• Everything Apple Is Expected to Announce in SeptemberMacRumors · 8/4
• Telegram CEO Says Extortionist Manipulated Apple Into App Store RemovalMacRumors · 8/4
• Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI SlopMacRumors · 8/4 · in the email
• Apple Releases New AirPods Beta Firmware With iOS 27 FeaturesMacRumors · 8/4
• Apple Starts Preparing for September iPhone EventMacRumors · 8/4
• Amazon Discounts New M4 iPad Air Models by Up to $69MacRumors · 8/4
• Bigger Displays Rumored for Next Year's iPhone ModelsMacRumors · 8/4
• Apple Card Now Fast-Tracks Booking.com Perks With Just One TripMacRumors · 8/4
• WhatsApp Adds '@ all' Mentions and Poll Upgrades to Group ChatsMacRumors · 8/4
• Apple's Annual India Sales Surpass $10 Billion for First TimeMacRumors · 8/4
• OpenAI Posts Public Rebuttal to Apple's Trade Secrets LawsuitMacRumors · 8/4 · in the email
• Telegram Briefly Removed From App StoreMacRumors · 8/4
• Apple Plans iPhone-to-Windows Copy and Paste in EU After Microsoft RequestMacRumors · 8/3
• Apple Will Judge Your Mustache Authenticity at Its Ted Lasso Look-Alike ContestMacRumors · 8/3
• Apple's Next CEO Adds Retired Hardware Executive to His TeamMacRumors · 8/3
• Fitbit Data Can Finally Sync to Apple HealthMacRumors · 8/3
• Apple Pay Launches in the PhilippinesMacRumors · 8/3
• Apple's iCloud File Sharing Left Ex-Employees With Access to Secret DocumentsMacRumors · 8/3
• India Moves to Extend Tax Break Apple Lobbied ForMacRumors · 8/3
• Reimplementing htmx from scratchJavaScript Weekly · 8/4 · in the email
• TanStack's new look, and life without RSCReact Status · 7/31
• npm to scan packages for malware at publish timeNode Weekly · 7/30
• Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationsAnthropic · 7/30
• Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs OfficerAnthropic · 8/4
• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI modelsOpenAI · 8/4
• New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and CodexOpenAI · 8/4
• Apple is getting this wrongOpenAI · 8/3 · in the email
• How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six monthsOpenAI · 8/3 · in the email
• Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technologyOpenAI · 8/3
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer scienceOpenAI · 8/1
• Advancing responsible AI across EuropeOpenAI · 7/31
• Building abundant intelligenceOpenAI · 7/31
• Univé builds an AI-ready workforceOpenAI · 7/31
• Disrupting a Criminal Scam OperationOpenAI · 7/31
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6OpenAI · 7/30
• How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-RealtimeOpenAI · 7/30
• How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmarkOpenAI · 7/29
• Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic ResearchersOpenAI · 7/29
• Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaborationGoogle DeepMind · 7/30
• We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative controlGoogle DeepMind · 7/29
• Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6BHugging Face · 8/4 · in the email
• GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded AircraftHugging Face · 7/30
• New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter loggingSimon Willison · 8/4 · in the email
• llm-anthropic 0.26Simon Willison · 8/4 · in the email
• PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlxSimon Willison · 8/4
• llm 0.32Simon Willison · 8/4
• Quoting Steve YeggeSimon Willison · 8/4
• Don't be a meat proxySimon Willison · 8/3
• Quoting David Crawshaw's promptSimon Willison · 8/3
• Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)Simon Willison · 8/3
• condense-json 1.1Simon Willison · 8/3 · in the email
• condense-json 1.0Simon Willison · 8/2
• Open letters about AI developmentSimon Willison · 8/2
• July 2026 newsletterSimon Willison · 8/2
• Quoting Greg BrockmanSimon Willison · 8/1
• datasette-apps 0.2a0Simon Willison · 8/1
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer scienceSimon Willison · 8/1
• deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731Simon Willison · 7/31
• Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)Simon Willison · 7/31
• llm-mcp-client 0.1a0Simon Willison · 7/31
• Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon WillisonSimon Willison · 7/31
• smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnessesSimon Willison · 7/31
• Slack Emoji MakerSimon Willison · 7/31
• datasette-agent 0.4a0Simon Willison · 7/31
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6Simon Willison · 7/30
• Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationsSimon Willison · 7/30
• llm 0.32rc2Simon Willison · 7/30
• Quoting Bruce SchneierSimon Willison · 7/30
• llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0Simon Willison · 7/30
• llm 0.32rc1Simon Willison · 7/30
• Quoting D. Richard HippSimon Willison · 7/29
• AI Worming through WordSimon Willison · 7/29
• [AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so backLatent Space · 8/5
• Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion UsersLatent Space · 8/4
• [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and CoworkLatent Space · 8/4
• The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, BasetenLatent Space · 8/3
• [AINews] not much happened todayLatent Space · 8/1
• [AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimizationLatent Space · 7/31
• Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic WebLatent Space · 7/30
• [AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now openLatent Space · 7/29
• Modeling Device Capabilities for AnalyticsNetflix Tech · 7/31
• GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at NetflixNetflix Tech · 7/30
• The Agent Development Lifecycle has arrived on CloudflareCloudflare · 8/4
• Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic InternetCloudflare · 8/4
• Run CI/CD for millions of repos — on your platform, on CloudflareCloudflare · 8/4
• How Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AICloudflare · 8/4
• Introducing: Cloudflare AgentsCloudflare · 8/4
• Your agent can now debug Workers with local tracingCloudflare · 8/4 · in the email
• How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zeroCloudflare · 8/4 · in the email
• Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computerCloudflare · 8/3
• Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPCCloudflare · 8/3
• Introducing the Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for CloudflareCloudflare · 8/3
• Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scaleCloudflare · 8/3
• Workers RPC now works across Python and JavaScriptCloudflare · 8/3
• Welcome to Agents WeekCloudflare · 8/2
• An API for MoQ: provision your own isolated relaysCloudflare · 7/31
• Dogfooding at scale: migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare’s Developer PlatformCloudflare · 7/30
• Post-quantum authentication to origins is now supportedCloudflare · 7/29
• GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation ModelMeta Engineering · 8/3 · in the email
• How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflowsGitHub Blog · 8/4
• Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stackGitHub Blog · 8/4
• Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speedGitHub Blog · 7/31
• Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot appGitHub Blog · 7/30
• Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fastGitHub Blog · 7/29
• Customize code scanning default setup at scaleGitHub Changelog · 8/4 · in the email
• Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview appGitHub Changelog · 8/4
• Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.comGitHub Changelog · 8/4 · in the email
• Customize Dependabot pull request branch namesGitHub Changelog · 8/4 · in the email
• Code coverage automatic enablement in Code Quality settingsGitHub Changelog · 8/4
• CodeQL 2.26.2 adds Swift 6.3.3 and Kotlin 2.4.10 supportGitHub Changelog · 8/4
• Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agentGitHub Changelog · 8/3
• Enterprise team specialization for managed settingsGitHub Changelog · 8/3
• Trigger Copilot automations with commentsGitHub Changelog · 8/3
• Triage role can bypass issue creation restrictionsGitHub Changelog · 8/3
• Next.js 16.3 support on VercelVercel · 8/4 · in the email
• Skill packs are now available on skills.shVercel · 8/4 · in the email
• Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many ISR pagesVercel · 8/4
• Give your eve agent a browserVercel · 8/4 · in the email
• DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI GatewayVercel · 8/4
• Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally availableVercel · 8/3
• How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on VercelVercel · 8/3
• Share Vercel Container Registry repositories across teamsVercel · 8/3
• Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI GatewayVercel · 8/2
• AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgetsVercel · 7/31
• DeepSeek V4 Flash now runs updated weights on AI GatewayVercel · 7/31
• Chat SDK now supports reactions and ephemeral messages on TeamsVercel · 7/31
• AI Gateway logs now have a dedicated pageVercel · 7/31
• Vercel MCP now supports the 2026-07-28 MCP specificationVercel · 7/31
• Expanded search for workflow runs in Vercel ObservabilityVercel · 7/31
• 10x more capacity for Laguna S 2.1 on AI GatewayVercel · 7/31
• Vercel Passport is now generally availableVercel · 7/31
• AI Gateway adds unified fast mode supportVercel · 7/31
• Server-Timing response headers will pass through to the clientVercel · 7/30
• Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding Hydrogen for faster storefrontsVercel · 7/30
• Run multiple isolated agents in a single SandboxVercel · 7/30
• MiniMax H3 now available on AI GatewayVercel · 7/30
• Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI GatewayVercel · 7/30
• Turborepo and Vercel Remote Cache now support OpenID Connect (OIDC)Vercel · 7/30
• AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 pricing and speed updatesVercel · 7/30
• Deployments are now up to 7 seconds fasterVercel · 7/30
• Latest MCP spec now supported in mcp-handlerVercel · 7/30
• Introducing Enterprise Flexible Commitment for Vercel MarketplaceVercel · 7/30
• Project-scoped TokensVercel · 7/30
• Squircles, Styles, and Spacing: How Your Feedback is Helping Improve MobileDiscord Engineering · 8/4
• Node.js 26.6.0 (Current)Node.js · 8/3
• Node.js 24.19.0 (LTS)Node.js · 8/3
• Node.js 24.18.1 (LTS)Node.js · 7/29
• Node.js 26.5.1 (Current)Node.js · 7/29
• Node.js 22.23.2 (LTS)Node.js · 7/29