Everything else

The full seven-day window, including what did not make the email.

• A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfareHacker News · 8/19 · 847 points · in the email
• OpenRouter is joining StripeHacker News · 8/19 · 794 points · in the email
• Go 1.27Hacker News · 8/19 · 582 points · in the email
• Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programmingHacker News · 8/19 · 457 points
• Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source codeHacker News · 8/19 · 445 points
• PostgreSQL for EverythingHacker News · 8/19 · 348 points
• Casio F-B100W-1AHacker News · 8/19 · 337 points
• Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcamHacker News · 8/19 · 269 points
• fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.Hacker News · 8/18 · 237 points
• Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFsHacker News · 8/19 · 233 points · in the email
• Feature Request: Support AGENTS.mdHacker News · 8/19 · 212 points · in the email
• Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut MakerHacker News · 8/19 · 190 points
• Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-ImprovementHacker News · 8/19 · 188 points
• Mathematics in the age of AIHacker News · 8/19 · 153 points
• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilitiesHacker News · 8/18 · 147 points
• Turns are Better than Radians (2022)Hacker News · 8/20 · 144 points
• Extensible Software in the age of LLMsHacker News · 8/19 · 142 points
• Sol loves to cheatHacker News · 8/18 · 138 points
• The little-known winstart.bat batch fileHacker News · 8/15 · 108 points
• Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper SculpturesHacker News · 8/19 · 108 points
• Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against MetaSlashdot · 8/20
• PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC ShortagesSlashdot · 8/19 · in the email
• Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 BillionSlashdot · 8/19 · in the email
• Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and TownsSlashdot · 8/19
• Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, AnthropicSlashdot · 8/19 · in the email
• CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure OrgsSlashdot · 8/19
• Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From ReturningSlashdot · 8/19
• X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study FindsSlashdot · 8/19
• Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment IncentiveSlashdot · 8/19
• Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market DebutSlashdot · 8/19
• Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer RiskSlashdot · 8/19
• Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 KilometersSlashdot · 8/19
• Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal CrashesSlashdot · 8/19
• Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub AlternativeSlashdot · 8/18
• Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion DetectorsSlashdot · 8/18
• HTML Can Do ThatLobsters · 8/19
• Plain Text Accounting is Pretty CoolLobsters · 8/19
• Why I still hand write my commit messagesLobsters · 8/19
• Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking goodLobsters · 8/19
• Go 1.27 is releasedLobsters · 8/19 · in the email
• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keysLobsters · 8/19
• Reclaim the terminalLobsters · 8/19
• Ploopy A+ (external trackball)Lobsters · 8/19
• SQLite for EverythingLobsters · 8/19
• Introducing MicrolighterLobsters · 8/19 · in the email
• Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundationLobsters · 8/19
• Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binariesLobsters · 8/19
• Packing Malware in Rosetta 2Lobsters · 8/19
• capri: Type-safe, atomic Gleam bindings for Khepri, the modern distributed database for the BEAMLobsters · 8/19
• a filename when none existsLobsters · 8/19 · in the email
• Things I want in a modern relational query languageLobsters · 8/19
• Parsing IP addresses in C# at crazy speedsLobsters · 8/20 · in the email
• Extreme Programming: A Gentle IntroductionLobsters · 8/19
• Goroutines 101: A basic walkthroughLobsters · 8/20
• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)Lobsters · 8/18
• Mojo is now open sourceLobsters · 8/18
• Poisoned Postgres connection poolsLobsters · 8/20 · in the email
• Go 1.27 Release NotesLobsters · 8/19 · in the email
• What software do you use daily in 2026?Lobsters · 8/18
• Opinions About Compiler BuildingLobsters · 8/19
• EU Welcomes Apple's App Store Changes, Epic Slams 'Junk Fees'MacRumors · 8/20
• Apple's Camera AirPods Not Launching Until 2027 Despite Leaked VideoMacRumors · 8/19
• Meta AI Launches Mac App With Screen Sharing and DictationMacRumors · 8/19
• New Apple Store Reportedly Opening in IdahoMacRumors · 8/19
• College Students Can Get a Free Year of Google AI ProMacRumors · 8/19
• Beats 360 Over-Ear Headphones Leak in Retail ListingsMacRumors · 8/19
• Anker and Jackery Kick Off Power Station Sales With Up to $1,500 OffMacRumors · 8/19
• Apple Accidentally Leaked More Than 10 New Products in macOS UpdateMacRumors · 8/19
• Next Apple TV Rumored to Have Five New Features, Including Siri AIMacRumors · 8/19
• Things 3.23 Brings Long-Requested Overhaul of Repeating To-DosMacRumors · 8/19
• Amazon and Best Buy Offer Up to $500 Discounts on 2026 MacBook ProMacRumors · 8/19
• iPad Mini 8: Release Date, Pricing, and What to ExpectMacRumors · 8/19
• iPhone 17 Pro Cases Fit iPhone 18 Pro - Or At Least Otterbox Thinks SoMacRumors · 8/19
• Apple's iPhone 18 Release Schedule: What's Coming and WhenMacRumors · 8/18
• iCloud, Photos, Find My and More Experiencing IssuesMacRumors · 8/18
• Apple's Home Hub Will Have a Widget Gallery With iPhone Widget SupportMacRumors · 8/18
• National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching August 23MacRumors · 8/18
• Apple's Camera AirPods May Launch as 'AirPods Pro,' Not 'AirPods Ultra'MacRumors · 8/18
• Apple Overhauls EU App Store Fees to Settle Digital Markets Act DisputeMacRumors · 8/18
• The Next.js team is doing a Reddit AMAReact Status · 8/14
• How Claude’s text watermark worksAnthropic · 8/14
• Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier modelsOpenAI · 8/19 · in the email
• Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI · 8/19 · in the email
• ChatGPT Ads expands across EuropeOpenAI · 8/18
• Strengthening democratic oversight in national securityOpenAI · 8/18
• Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generationOpenAI · 8/18
• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilitiesOpenAI · 8/18
• Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protectionsOpenAI · 8/18
• How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT WorkOpenAI · 8/18
• Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with CodexOpenAI · 8/18
• The Defender’s WindowOpenAI · 8/17
• OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike projectOpenAI · 8/17
• New policy ideas for the Intelligence AgeOpenAI · 8/17
• The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6OpenAI · 8/13
• Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speedOpenAI · 8/13
• OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue OfficerOpenAI · 8/13
• Introducing Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle DeepMind · 8/13
• LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware DistillationHugging Face · 8/19
• How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?Hugging Face · 8/18
• Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence TransformersHugging Face · 8/18
• Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the OrderHugging Face · 8/17
• State of Open Models: Summer 2026 ObservationsHugging Face · 8/14
• Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage BucketsHugging Face · 8/13
• smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScriptSimon Willison · 8/19 · in the email
• Quoting Jeremy MorrellSimon Willison · 8/19
• Conceptual integrity and counting lines of codeSimon Willison · 8/19
• Mojo🔥 is now open sourceSimon Willison · 8/18
• Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSimon Willison · 8/17
• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilitySimon Willison · 8/17
• Markdown SVG upgradesSimon Willison · 8/16
• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingsSimon Willison · 8/16
• Quoting Dario AmodeiSimon Willison · 8/16
• CORS ChatSimon Willison · 8/15
• Northern GannetSimon Willison · 8/15
• Don't classify. Hallucinate!Simon Willison · 8/14
• sqlite-utils 4.2.1Simon Willison · 8/13
• sqlite-utils 4.2Simon Willison · 8/13
• llm-gemini 0.33Simon Willison · 8/13
• [AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling LawLatent Space · 8/20
• [AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 monthsLatent Space · 8/19
• Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model RoutingLatent Space · 8/18
• [AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7BLatent Space · 8/17
• React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, FlueLatent Space · 8/15
• [AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closesLatent Space · 8/14
• [AINews] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefrontLatent Space · 8/14
• Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payoutsStripe · 8/19
• New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costsStripe · 8/17
• A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare · 8/19 · in the email
• BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234Cloudflare · 8/18
• How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure itCloudflare · 8/14
• Secure all your internal vibe-coded applications — in one clickCloudflare · 8/14
• Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and PortugalCloudflare · 8/13
• Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally availableCloudflare · 8/13
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your workGitHub Blog · 8/19
• How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficientGitHub Blog · 8/17
• How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent appsGitHub Blog · 8/14
• Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!GitHub Blog · 8/13
• What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI eraGitHub Blog · 8/13
• CodeQL 2.26.3 improves GitHub Actions queries and JavaScript modelingGitHub Changelog · 8/19 · in the email
• Track organization code quality trendsGitHub Changelog · 8/19
• Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrainsGitHub Changelog · 8/18
• Credential revocation and deauthorization by token typeGitHub Changelog · 8/18
• Multiple redirect URIs and token refresh for OAuth appsGitHub Changelog · 8/14
• Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub CopilotGitHub Changelog · 8/14
• GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 10GitHub Changelog · 8/14
• License data quality improvementsGitHub Changelog · 8/13
• Block users from comments in personal repositoriesGitHub Changelog · 8/13
• Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub CopilotGitHub Changelog · 8/13
• Algolia joins the Vercel MarketplaceVercel · 8/19
• Introducing Vercel for SlackVercel · 8/19 · in the email
• Compliance documents are now available in Team settingsVercel · 8/19
• Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for freeVercel · 8/19 · in the email
• Vercel for Slack now in public betaVercel · 8/19 · in the email
• Vercel Connect now supports MicrosoftVercel · 8/19
• Chat SDK adds Instagram adapterVercel · 8/19
• Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositoriesVercel · 8/18
• $1 million hacker challenge for Vercel SandboxVercel · 8/18
• Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layerVercel · 8/18
• GLM 5.3 now available on AI GatewayVercel · 8/18
• Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keysVercel · 8/18
• Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public betaVercel · 8/17
• GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next monthVercel · 8/17
• Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDNVercel · 8/14
• A letter to the Discord community in BrazilDiscord Engineering · 8/17
• How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)Airbnb Engineering · 8/19
• Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AIDropbox Tech · 8/18
• 20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at DatadogDatadog Engineering · 8/19 · in the email
• Automated agent triage with Agent Tracing and Claude RoutinesSentry · 8/13
• Node.js Interactive 2026: A RecapNode.js · 8/14
• Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this m…Simon Willison (Bluesky) · 8/16 · 218 points
• The new Qwen 3.7 27B, running as a 17GB GGUF in LM Studio on my M5 Max MacBook P…Simon Willison (Bluesky) · 8/14 · 182 points
• Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a…Simon Willison (Bluesky) · 8/15 · 169 points
• Monday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22719Jeremy Keith (Bluesky) · 8/17 · 4 points
• Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22722Jeremy Keith (Bluesky) · 8/18 · 3 points
• Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22724Jeremy Keith (Bluesky) · 8/19 · 2 points
• A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible.Kent C. Dodds (Bluesky) · 8/13 · 9 points
• @shaundai.com on collaboration: every cross-team ask is a micro-sale.Kent C. Dodds (Bluesky) · 8/20 · 8 points · in the email
• The craft "dying" is your opportunity.Kent C. Dodds (Bluesky) · 8/18 · 8 points
• This is why I was ranting the other day on @shoptalkshow.com about why favicons…Chris Coyier (Bluesky) · 8/20 · 14 points · in the email
• I finished one post.Armin Ronacher (Bluesky) · 8/19 · 37 points · in the email
• ok i'm really glad this explanation exists bsky.network/docs/how-it-...Dan Abramov (Bluesky) · 8/14 · 58 points
• tfw you're a non-technical pm on a software projectDan Abramov (Bluesky) · 8/14 · 40 points
• unexpected and coolDan Abramov (Bluesky) · 8/14 · 36 points
• stable release coming soon!Rich Harris (Bluesky) · 8/14 · 75 points
• between weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and…Hynek Schlawack (Bluesky) · 8/16 · 7 points
• when I said that “even AGI can't solve exponential complexity curves”, I meant s…Hynek Schlawack (Bluesky) · 8/13 · 5 points