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Claude: System Prompts
A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+- The AI Credit Resale Economy
- Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
- Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
- Protobuf has LSP support
- SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
- Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
- Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
- How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
- MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
- GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
- GIMP Development Update
- AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
- Rhombus 1.1 is now available
- Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront- Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance?
- Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes
- Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features
- China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried
- Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU
- Could a Disc-Free PlayStation Actually Lower Game Prices?
- Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading
- Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, 'Avatar' Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland
- Researchers Use Ordinary WiFi Connections to Create Images of Nearby People and Their Surroundings
- Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other
- SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart
- Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design
- X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms
- Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves
I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong- Every Fucking Website
- A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
- Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
- A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
- You can just choose how many bugs you want now
- People of ACM - Russ Cox
- Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
- AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
- A Tour of Magit's Status Interface
- Pony's Arena Allocator
- Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
- SCM_RIGHTS API quirks (2019)
- Four levels of in-place initialization
- Build-time systemd schedule
- Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
- (What Comes) After FOSS?
- What are you doing this week?
- Anti-Social Media
- Why I remain a skeptic
- Agents in Orbs
- SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
- The Limits of AI (1985)
- WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone
- Monitoring SystemD services with Healthchecks.io
AirPods 4 ANC Hit $134.99 Low Price on Amazon, Plus Pro 3 for $189.99- 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
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
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
Markdown SVG upgrades- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
- Quoting Dario Amodei
- CORS Chat
- 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
React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue
[AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes- [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
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…
- Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this m…
- Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a…
- Blink and you’ll miss it, but apparently I was in a BBC news report from Belfast…
- Journal: Polytropus ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον 🔗https://adactio.com/jou…
- 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…
- @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…
- between weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and…
- when I said that “even AGI can't solve exponential complexity curves”, I meant s…