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Qwen 3.8 27B
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk
AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding
The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace
A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
The Color of White Light
Could a computer scientist build a brain?
The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
Möbius Strips and Differential Equations
Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents
AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies
It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices
Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships
Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?
Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation
Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star'
Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories
Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead
Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network
France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s
PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider
Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile
Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier
Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Everything is about to “go dark”
Why I remain a skeptic
How Is Compression Prediction?
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends
Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5
ActivityPub Won by Being Boring
Recap: Software Should Work 2026
nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software (2005)
What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine
Power Relations
RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment
Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
Demystifying Type (and some Un-Paradoxing)
We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP
Improving system safety with Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA+)
There Is Still No Silver Bullet
Curl Performance
How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Ironies of Automation (1983)
The Art of CHIP-8
Kernel that only runs an NES emulator
Are Latent Reasoning Models Easily Interpretable?
Top Stories: iOS 27 Beta 5, iPhone 18 Pro Rumors, and More
Should You Buy an iPhone 17 Now or Wait for iPhone 18?
The MacRumors Show: Where Does the Apple Watch Go Next?
Ads Coming Soon to Apple Maps
Best Apple Deals of the Week: Steep Discounts Hit AirPods, MacBook Pro, and Anker Accessories
Tim Cook Reflects on His Legacy in Final Weeks as Apple CEO
30 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 27
Apple Trained Own AI Model for China Market With Help From Alibaba
iPhone 17 Pro One Year Later: What Held Up and What Didn't
What's Coming in September: New iPhones, Apple Watches and More
Ted Lasso Season 4 Premiere is Apple TV's Biggest Launch Ever
Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store
iFixit's Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown is a Preview of Apple's Foldable Challenges
Apple Says iPhone X is Now Obsolete
Apple Opens Houston Advanced Manufacturing Center Ahead of Mac Mini Production
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When is the Next Apple Event?
Amazon Discounts Every 2026 MacBook Pro With Up to $500 Off
Apple TV Gains Classic Movies Collection
'iPhone Ultra' Could Face Staggered Market Rollout, US Only at Launch
Shipping less JavaScript with Baseline
The Next.js team is doing a Reddit AMA
Building terminal UIs with HTML and CSS
How Claude’s text watermark works
The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work
How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops
Testing ads in ChatGPT
Daybreak models are now available on AWS
OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol
What building an AI-native finance function taught me
Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands
Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows
Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business
Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work
How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets
What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML
Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Northern Gannet
Don't classify. Hallucinate!
sqlite-utils 4.2.1
sqlite-utils 4.2
llm-gemini 0.33
alchemy-utils 0.1a1
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)
alchemy-utils 0.1a0
Quoting Florian Herrengt
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
Introducing Muse Glimmer
Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)
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
React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue
[AINews] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefront
[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace
🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
Mapping the AI economy
How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
Secure all your internal vibe-coded applications — in one click
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal
Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
Everything we launched during Agents Week
Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees
How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps
Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!
What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era
GitHub availability report: July 2026
Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app
Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Multiple redirect URIs and token refresh for OAuth apps
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 10
License data quality improvements
Block users from comments in personal repositories
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app
Rule insights for organizations in public preview
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate
Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN
Inside the Vercel intern experience
GLM 5.2 free for eve agents through August 27 via Blackbox on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off
One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions
Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer
Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace
DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve
Building a software factory for AI SDK
Set up coding agents in one command with AI Gateway
Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams
Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway
How we migrated the database behind every Vercel build
Vercel Connect adds observability support
Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available
Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
Everything hackable will get hacked
DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace
Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images
Simplified onboarding for deepsec
Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint
Link Discord and WoW to Keep the Guild Chatting Wherever You Are
Discord Update: August 11, 2026 Changelog
Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb
How we improved APM Java startup by encoding a prefix trie as a JVM constant
Automated agent triage with Agent Tracing and Claude Routines
What's new in Sentry Logs: The summer 2026 roundup
Node.js Interactive 2026: A Recap- The new Qwen 3.7 27B, running as a 17GB GGUF in LM Studio on my M5 Max MacBook P…
- Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a…
- Watching Silo genuinely makes me want to hook up some generative AI abomination…
- Blink and you’ll miss it, but apparently I was in a BBC news report from Belfast…
- Journal: Girls In Their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien A grim tale by a great wri…
- Journal: Chíne tréile A good kind of mistake, as Gaeilge.
- A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible.
- Join me, @t3.gg, @angiejones.tech, and @johnlindquist.com for a quick workshop o…
- Most people use an agent to write the code.
- Pretty niche, but @codepen.io passes the ?query params from a Pen down to the pr…
- (Museum of ice cream interviews) OK, Jill, Jane, how many scoops of ice cream ca…
- Parents gotta connect 5.
- Stories that did not happen for 100.
- @samuel.fm @darrin.bsky.team when the design requires a layout shift during page…
- ok i'm really glad this explanation exists bsky.network/docs/how-it-...
- tfw you're a non-technical pm on a software project
- svelte is the number two framework
- stable release coming soon!
- What happens inside a company which has no external customers, no deadlines, but…
- when I said that “even AGI can't solve exponential complexity curves”, I meant s…
- i'll vote for anyone for the packaging council who does something against cookie…