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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm
nytimes.com
Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)
davidtinapple.com
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
arstechnica.com

“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.

Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”
consolebytes.com
Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels
burn.dev

We implemented a sophisticated matrix multiplication engine in CubeCL that rivals the performance of cuBLAS and CUTLASS while supporting a wider range of GPUs. Leveraging double buffering, tensor cores, and vectorization, it compiles seamlessly to CUDA, ROCm, WebGPU, Metal, and Vulkan backends without relying on proprietary or third-party binaries. Matrix multiplication is central to modern AI workloads, especially

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
paulkedrosky.com

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom

Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data
reddit.com/r/Steam
Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
github.com/bitnami

📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing on...

Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets
librari.io
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Manage your library with ease. librari.io is a platform that provides a wide range of tools and services to help you stay on top of your library. Generate reports, manage books and everything else that you need to get your library off the ground.

Asynchrony is not concurrency
kristoff.it
DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'
techdirt.com

The DHS has been hyping assault stats for weeks, making it sound like there’s an actual war on ICE officers. The reality was much more underwhelming: the 700% increase touted in press release…

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with a VIC-20, an Abacus, and a Dog
eprint.iacr.org

This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise.

Show HN: Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace
molab.marimo.io
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marimo - Cloud-based notebooks for our community

Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis
sciencenews.org

Tiny, newly formed tumors shed small fragments of DNA that are swept into the bloodstream. Future cancer screening tests could detect them early.

How I keep up with AI progress
blog.nilenso.com
Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy
biocentury.com

A third patient, a 51 year-old in a Phase I study of SRP-9004 for Limb-Girdle muscular dystrophy Type 2E, has died from a Sarepta gene therapy.Like two dea...

Section 174 is reversed, mostly
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Gergely Orosz - Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is.

Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach
cnbc.com
The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)
salon.com
Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
lists.archlinux.org
The year of peak might and magic
filfre.net
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
techcrunch.com

Aisha Malik - DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

Gmail's backup codes are useless to access account
news.ycombinator.com
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LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats
neowin.net

Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.

H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022
twitter.com
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
pcgamer.com

It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.

Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page
imgur.com

Imgur - Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.

In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)
josephg.com

I wrote this in response to a comment thread on hackernews Defending GCC considered futile. There's been a megathread in the last week about whether Emacs should support LLVM, with Richard Stallman and now Eric Raymond joining the frey. Personally, I use a BSD license for all my code and

Ask HN: GCP Outage?
news.ycombinator.com
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A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity
quantamagazine.org

A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity.

ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data
wired.com

Leah Feiger - A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.

The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
news.ycombinator.com
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The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes
bitecode.dev

Bite Code! - On a QWERTY keyboard

French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution
lemonde.fr

Nearly 3,500 residents across 16 rural villages have been unable to drink tap water since July 10 due to a record-breaking contamination by PFAS, a group of toxic substances known as 'forever chemicals.'

Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
cnbc.com
Exposed MCP servers across the internet
knostic.ai

Knostic mapped 1,862 internet-exposed MCP servers via Shodan. 100 % lacked auth, revealing immature and risky GenAI endpoints.

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year
npr.org

A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester
thecity.nyc

Samantha Maldonado - Barred from using Clearview AI, NYC police relied on a marshal in the fire department to run a search that turned up photos of the student at his high school graduation.

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
news.ycombinator.com
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I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One
thewalrus.ca

Duelling makes a comeback

lsr: ls with io_uring
rockorager.dev

ls but with io_uring

Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Cancer patients often develop chronic, clinically significant symptoms of depression and anxiety. Previous studies suggest that psilocybin may decrease depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The effects of psilocybin were studied in 51 cancer ...

Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance
phoronix.com
CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download
spectrum.ieee.org

Gary Kildall’s story shows how he paved a path for the start-up culture, say his children

When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering
rsadowski.de

Rafael Sadowski - Rafael Sadowski

Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
news.ycombinator.com
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Why is AI so slow to spread?
economist.com

Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills

Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given
twitter.com
This month in Servo: network inspector, a11y first steps, WebDriver, and more
servo.org

The Servo Project Developers - Plus some big perf gains, thanks to our incremental layout work.

Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
ifspp.substack.com

Kevin Lynn - The Promise That Became a Lie

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
lwn.net

Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]

Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
bozmen.io

Barış Özmen - Barış Özmen Blog

NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
lewiscampbell.tech

Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.

Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)
houssemnasri.github.io

How water reflections revealed a regression in D3D9 - and how it was fixed!

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
overengineer.dev

Dennis Schubert - A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.

CBS Canceling 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' After Next Season
nytimes.com
Louisiana cancels $3B coastal repair funded by oil spill settlement
apnews.com

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune
pweb.cfa.harvard.edu
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
newsletter.vickiboykis.com

One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...

No vegan milk is equivalent to dairy, nutritionists conclude
thetimes.com

Eleanor Hayward, Health Editor - Soya, oat and almond drinks are only deemed acceptable alternatives if they’re fortified, especially for young children

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
news.njit.edu
23andMe is out of bankruptcy and it still hasn’t substantially changed its ways
washingtonpost.com
People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)
cbc.ca

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money from the provincial government with no-strings attached.

Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?
news.ycombinator.com
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Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop
mythcreants.com

Some shortcuts aren't worth taking.

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
techcrunch.com

Russell Brandom - Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan. 

OpenAI investor suspected to fall into ChatGTP-induced psychosis
twitter.com
Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js
nodejs.org

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
news.ycombinator.com
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How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression
datadoghq.com

Nayef Ghattas - We rolled out Go 1.24 and saw a memory regression. Here's how we dug into system metrics, uncovered a bug in the runtime allocator, and worked with the Go team to help fix it.

ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images
404media.co

404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.

Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3
tomshardware.com

Snazzy Labs' Quinn Nelson has fallen foul of Nintendo's aggressive anti-piracy measures

The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore
home.dartmouth.edu
Extreme skydiver Baumgartner dies in paragliding accident
dw.com

Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media. The 56-year-old shot to global fame in 2012 with his record-breaking free-fall from space.

The AI Replaces Services Myth
aimode.substack.com

Mert Deveci - During college, my class was instructed to study Schopenhauer in political philosophy.

The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake [video]
youtube.com
My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures
sankalp.bearblog.dev

Hatching... Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16,...

Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price
fortune.com

Irina Ivanova - The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.

The impact of file position on code review
arxiv.org

The most popular code review tools (e.g., Gerrit and GitHub) present the files to review sorted in alphabetical order. Could this choice or, more generally, the relative position in which a file is presented bias the outcome of code reviews? We investigate this hypothesis by triangulating complementary evidence in a two-step study. First, we observe developers' code review activity. We analyze the review comments p

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025
machinelearning.apple.com

We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and…

Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration
tsx.is

tsx (TypeScript Execute) - The easiest way to run TypeScript in Node.js

All AI models might be the same
blog.jxmo.io

Jack Morris - what can language model embeddings tell us about whales speech, and decoding ancient texts?      (on The Platonic Representation Hypothesis and the idea of *universality* in AI models)

NYC's office-to-residential conversions could create 17,000 new homes
6sqft.com

Aaron Ginsburg - The report finds that 44 office conversions initiated after the pandemic could deliver as many as 17,400 homes in the coming years.

ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
openai.com
Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis
english.elpais.com

Manuel Ansede - The discovery, made thanks to an experiment involving hundreds of bank employees in Spain, opens the door to new treatments beyond reducing cholesterol

Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
news.ycombinator.com
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How I Use Kagi
flamedfury.com

My block list and some fun search lenses. Don't @ me that damn article about the guy whinging about Kagi.

Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
mistral.ai

Introducing Deep Research, plus Audio-in, Projects, and other updates.

Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode
thomascountz.com

thomascountz - This is Unsafe If you type thisisunsafe on a Chrome SSL error page, Chrome will bypass the error and load the page for you. Try it yourself here: https://expired.badssl.com/ There’s no textbox to type into, just type thisisunsafe blindly with the page in focus. TIP: To revert the bypass, click the “Not Secure” button in the URL bar and then click “Turn on warnings.” History of the Bypass Code I discovered Chrome SSL

Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
michaelbastos.com
Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists
wired.com

Makena Kelly - A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

Texas has banned talking on college campuses at night. Seriously
houstonchronicle.com
The rise of AI as a threat to the S&P 500 [pdf]
autonomy.work
We've got to stop sending files to each other
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.  ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I remember having a stand-up argument a decade ago with a project manager who wanted us …

Hand: open-source Robot Hand
github.com/pollen-robotics

Code and model to control the AH! Contribute to pollen-robotics/AmazingHand development by creating an account on GitHub.

My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
moritz-mander.de

TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail As I was writing my first post some weeks ago, I got an email from my bank in my inbox:

Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government
androidauthority.com

Italian law allows for up to three years in jail for “promotion of pirated copyrighted materials.”…

Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election
theguardian.com

16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration and crackdown on foreign interference

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