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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)- A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub- How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
- Olo (Color)
- AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
- Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
- GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released- How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
- Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
- Sun Clock
- GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
- An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
- Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
- Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
- Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
- India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions
- A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'
- Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent- Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine
Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More US States- Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data
- Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction
- US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies
- OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee
- Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility
Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'- OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging
- EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law
- Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits
- 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
- GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots- Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
- Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
- Vetted AI code is hard to justify
- A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
- The benchmarkpocalypse
- AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
- When the Down Arrow is not an Upside-Down Up Arrow (2022)
- Writing a Fast Compiler
- I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
- Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS
- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
- A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
- Thinking about tests: assertions and matchers
- We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- Every Fucking Website
- A practical workflow for LLM-assisted development
- Actual Budget
- Four levels of in-place initialization
- Retrofitting a build system into a compiler
- What are you doing this week?
- MuQSS CPU scheduler for Linux 7.2 by Con Kolivas
- Why BQN Wins
- AppleWorks on the Apple II
- Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
- macOS Tahoe 26.7 is Full of References to Unreleased Apple Products
- Apple Releases New iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and tvOS 27 Public Betas
- Apple Adds More New Wallpapers in macOS Golden Gate
- iOS 26.6.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Fix Nearly 30 Security Vulnerabilities
- Siri AI Settlement: Apple Won't Begin Paying Customers Until Next Year
- Best Buy 60th Anniversary Sale Brings Massive Deals on Apple Products and More
- iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: New Details Leak as Apple Event Nears
- Apple Releases iOS 26.6.1, macOS 26.6.2, and More
- Apple Seeds Sixth iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Betas to Developers
- Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 6
- Apple Seeds watchOS 27 Beta 6 to Developers
- Apple Seeds tvOS 27 Beta 6 to Developers
- Apple Seeds Sixth visionOS 27 Beta to Developers
- Apple Sports App Updated With More Soccer Leagues
- Apple Agrees to Make 'App Tracking Transparency' Changes in Germany
- Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More U.S. States
- iOS 27 Finally Fixes Replying to Android Texts
- AirPods Max 2 Discounted by $120 Across Amazon and Best Buy
- Apple's macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Is Being Exploited in the Wild
The Next.js team is doing a Reddit AMA
Building terminal UIs with HTML and CSS- How Claude’s text watermark works
- The Defender’s Window
- OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project
- New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age
- 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
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash- Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order- 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
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index- We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- 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
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
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
- New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs
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
How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees- How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
- 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
- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt
- Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
- From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
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
- Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta
- GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month
- 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
A letter to the Discord community in Brazil
Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb- 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
- Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this m…
- 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…
- Monday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22719
- 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…
- 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…
- ok i'm really glad this explanation exists bsky.network/docs/how-it-...
- tfw you're a non-technical pm on a software project
- unexpected and cool
- 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…