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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics- Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
- Everything you do is being recorded
- Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
- Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
- What Happened to HackerOne?
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code- Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
- OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
- I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
- The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
- New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
- How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
- Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
- ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers
- Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice
Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro- Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
- The German Mittelstand
How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?- Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines
- Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses
- AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
- Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town
- California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack
- AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch
- Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
- Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro
OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra- Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine
- GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship
- Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
- Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
- RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out
Who Should Pay For Source Code Availability?- IRC technology news from the first half of 2026
- nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
- Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
- Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
- Relying on Go
- I got an email about resistance
- Toggles Considered Harmful
- Dithered QR codes
- I think the vibecoding tag has gotten out of hand
- Light/Dark/System Theme Setting Design
- IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
- Profile-guided optimization in Go
- Undo/redo systems and collaborative editing (2024)
- Rails is done
- SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (2016)
- "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
- Make the PDS Your Own: Customization and Metrics
- Commit message test plans
- my server is a phone now
- an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
- How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
- Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD
- Counting the days, revisited
- some software talks i like
- Ceramic Case Could Return With Apple Watch Series 12
- Foldable 'iPhone Ultra 3' Rumored to Feature Larger Displays
- Apple Watch Rethink Could See Debut of Round Model, Screenless Fitness Tracker, and More
- Foldable 'iPhone Ultra' Rumored to Come in These Two Colors
- Score the A16 iPad for Its Best Price Since June's Hike
- Top Stories: Apple's September Announcements, MacBook Air Shortages, and More
- Claude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging on macOS
- iPhone 17 Prices Could Rise as Soon as Monday, Rumor Claims
- OpenAI Delays Next Major AI Model 'Astra' Over Critical Hacking Concerns
- iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine
- Apple Rumored to Launch Three New 'Ultra' Products by Early Next Year
- The MacRumors Show: iPhone Air 2 - What Changes After a Difficult First Year
- Apple Flags Discovery Delays in Its Lawsuit Against Jon Prosser
- Apple Captures 65% of Global Premium Smartphone Market
- Apple Testing iOS 26.6.1 Update for iPhones
- AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99, $25 Best Buy Gift Card With MacBook Neo, and More Apple Deals This Week
- Apple Account Card Expands Again: What It Is and What It Isn't
- Mac Pro Turns 20 Today, Five Months After Apple Killed It
- iOS 27's New Compact Clock Gives Your Wallpaper Room to Breathe
- iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Could Sell Out Fast Due to Memory Shortage
Reimplementing htmx from scratch
TanStack Table v9 and Next.js 16.3
Node.js 26.7, vlt 1.0, and Shai-Hulud Returns- Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer
- Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards
- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
- How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
- Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
- Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
- From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
- Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
- New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
- Apple is getting this wrong
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?- Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
- Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
Quoting OpenClaw- Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
GitHub Models is now retired- SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
- Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
- Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
- Quoting John Gruber
- Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
- Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)
- The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
- datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
- datasette 1.0a38
- datasette 0.65.3
- Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
- An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
- Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
- Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
- Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
- One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
- New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
- llm-anthropic 0.26
- PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx
- llm 0.32
- Quoting Steve Yegge
- Don't be a meat proxy
- Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt
- Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents- [AINews] AMD buys Taalas
- [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
- [AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
- Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
- [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
- The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…
Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet- Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
- Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
- Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
- Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data
- The next generation of MCP
- From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
- Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers- Give any website a WebMCP interface
- Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports
- The Agent Access Model
- How we’re rethinking work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS
- Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
- WriteGuard: fine-grained controls for MCP Servers
- Catching rogue AI behavior with identity-aware analytics
- The Agent Development Lifecycle has arrived on Cloudflare
- Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
- Run CI/CD for millions of repos — on your platform, on Cloudflare
- How Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI
From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking- GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model
- A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app
- How we took malware advisories beyond npm
- How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows
- Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
- GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3
- Enterprises can now install third-party GitHub Apps
- Copilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section
- Copilot code review effort levels are generally available
- Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity
“Relates to” issue relationship in public preview and multi-select fields is generally available- Secret scanning coverage updates
- GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer
- MCP allowlists in enterprise managed settings
- Set pull request limits at the organization level
- Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
- Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
- Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther- Skill packs are now available on skills.sh
- Free domain now included with new Pro subscriptions
- Give every agent in Herdr its own Vercel Sandbox
- Introducing Agent Plugins
- Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
- Marketplace integrations now install provider skills
- Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway
- Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0
- Pause workflows for approval with Chat SDK
- Set your own project avatars
- New setup page after domain checkout
- Export AI Gateway traces with Vercel Drains
- Introducing the new v0 API
- AI Gateway is now available on AWS Marketplace
- Muse Spark 1.2 is now available on Vercel AI Gateway
- Vercel Sandbox now supports 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and 5,000 vCPUs per minute
- Search and buy domains in the dashboard
- Measure time between steps in Vercel Workflows
- Full Sandbox egress firewall now available on Hobby plan
- Vercel Sandbox now supports Devin Outposts
- Next.js 16.3 support on Vercel
- Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many ISR pages
- Give your eve agent a browser
- DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway
- Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available
Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2026- General Availability of Mobile Platform Support Arrives in Discord Social SDK Version 1.10
- Squircles, Styles, and Spacing: How Your Feedback is Helping Improve Mobile
How we built an automated debugging workflow at Sentry- Your OTel spans, our errors: A Sentry love story in one trace
- Node.js 26.7.0 (Current)
- Node.js 26.6.0 (Current)
- Node.js 24.19.0 (LTS)