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Playa Phone
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
Fastpotify
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
Run macOS Software on Linux
Reverse engineering my ADHD test
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Show HN: Laser Graffiti
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
GPU World
Lion-man
2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk
Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed'
FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers
Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Broadcom Pledges to Lock Down Open Source Python, Java Libraries
Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos
Bank of England Chief Warns New AI Models Threaten Global Financial Stability
Tim Cook's Last Day As CEO of Apple
MapQuest's App Surges to No. 1 In Navigation After Refusing to Rename Lake Ontario
A 12TB Steam 'Teraleak' Spills More Than a Decade of Lost PC Gaming History
Berlin Is Being Blackmailed By Hackers
California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact
OpenAI To Cut Off AI Models For SpaceX-owned Cursor
Amazon's HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded
Multikernel Linux Tree Released: Runs Multiple Kernels On Bare Metal Without a Hypervisor
Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen
curl: a CVE dispute
VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0
RangeFrom, Part 2..: What I think is wrong about the design
I attended a conference recently and AI use by academics was absurd
July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more
Janet 1.42.0
A Better SQL in 11 Lines of Code
The U.S. is more than just the US (according to the ISO)
Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown (2013)
Are We Legacy Computing Yet?
On not becoming a cyborg
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Bootstrappable builds: how and why
V0.1.0.0 of ghcup-gtk released
Cancelation Terminology
Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System
What are you doing this week?
Repeating Ourselves Less with M4
Could Cargo's scheduler be better?
Any user process can escalate to root
CSS is Still Awesome
But where does taste come from?
Andy Hertzfeld oral history
C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments
Rootless Docker and Its Hidden Security Trade-Offs
Qualcomm Raising Chip Prices Starting Tomorrow
Apple Releases New iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and tvOS 27 Public Betas
Apple Says Former Engineer Used Stolen Trade Secrets at OpenAI, Taught AI Agent to Run Them
AirPods With Cameras Could Bring Improved Spatial Audio Head Tracking
Apple Adds Three More Macs to Obsolete Products List
Apple Seemingly Made a Mistake When Announcing the New Mac Studio
Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 8
Apple Seeds Eighth iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Betas to Developers
Apple Seeds watchOS 27 Beta 8 to Developers
Apple Seeds tvOS 27 Beta 8 to Developers
Apple Seeds Eighth visionOS 27 Beta to Developers
Apple's Phil Schiller Scales Back Role as John Ternus Era Begins
Tim Cook Comments on His Final Day as Apple CEO
MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing 'Lake America' Change
Apple Inducted Into 'Brand Hall of Fame' for Iconic Ads
Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S., Apple Maps Yet to Follow
Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO Tomorrow
Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
New Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 Features Revealed
Apple Pencil for iPhone Ultra Was Tested
Moving a 400-route app from Next.js to TanStack Start
Node 26.8 reads and writes ZIP files
Expanding our support for scientists
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Improving our alignment and security efforts
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
A milestone in expanding access to AI
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts
Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex
The full stack behind abundant intelligence
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
Introducing wrapture
Quoting Andrew Digby
Understanding ChatGPT Work
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Quoting Paul Dix
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!
[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier
[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026
[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use
🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
How to evaluate LLMs before production
GitHub Copilot in VS Code, August 2026 releases
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24
Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing
Better label management on issues is generally available
Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities
GitHub Classroom deprecated
Actions retention will cover checks, workflow runs, and statuses
Close all open contributions authored by a blocked user
Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces
fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway
How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md
Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway
Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
Vercel CLI expands commands for DNS, domains, and projects
Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
The best workflow engine is a programming language
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available
Python projects now support routing rules
Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities
Speed Insights now has a free tier
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize
Testing cookie behavior across hundreds of web surfaces with our in-house auditor
From one switch to a control panel: meet `dataCollection`
How to evaluate session replay software: a developer's guide
Node.js 26.8.1 (Current)
Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)
Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)- My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-c…
- Here's my attempt at explaining what ChatGPT Work can actually do - it's a deepl…
- Best news all year!
- Met up with brainbox Steven Pemberton for coffee and a chat.
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22736
- Salter Cane, fifteen years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTMy1-VgIA Come…
- @shaundai.com's product habit: walk the feature as a user first.
- Ticket-taking used to feel like the job.
- You already pay for more than one agent.
- 46 It's my birthday!
- She was bluegrass when bluegrass wasn't cool, they said.
- Woke up excited about subdomains.
- prediction: Lean usage will explode in serious software projects in the next fiv…
- preparing to publish my vibecoded math lean proof to github and i kinda feel ner…
- found the magic prompt that fixes all my Lean.
- Happy birthday @chriscoyier.net 🎂🎂🎂
- WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, o…
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- a few weeks ago I recorded an updated Svelte(Kit) workshop with @frontendmasters…
- It's rate to see a non-AI frontier lab build an in-house AI coding tool that wor…