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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

18 hours ago

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds

7 hours ago

How to Exist

https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/

1 day ago

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153

10 hours ago

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/

11 hours ago

Google has abandoned Google News?

https://elgan.com/google-news-is-just-forrest-gumps-shrimp-boat-now

6 hours ago

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Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/

22 hours ago

AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/

17 hours ago

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494

13 hours ago

★ 66.8k Rust Unlicense

BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising

22 hours ago

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RamenHaus

https://ramen.haus/

16 hours ago

NetBSD 11.0

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released

7 hours ago

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The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

https://zaksa.zip/blog/silicon-valley-founder-meat-grinder/

5 hours ago

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2

11 hours ago

Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified

https://nascompares.com/2026/07/31/the-10-ways-nas-is-getting-enshitified/

20 hours ago

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/

5 hours ago

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5

4 hours ago

A directory of people who love RSS

https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/

8 hours ago

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The development pipeline is a production system

https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system

22 hours ago

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-right-questions

3 hours ago

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On the non-use of AI in my writing process

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html

12 hours ago

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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/

7 hours ago

Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0

18 hours ago

★ 2.4k Ruby MIT

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe

9 hours ago

YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview

https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/30/lemonlime-tattoo-job-interview/

4 hours ago

Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136990

7 hours ago

A week in Matrix

https://piegames.de/dumps/a-week-in-matrix/

1 day ago

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How to Do Great Work (2023)

https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

17 hours ago

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GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement

https://lalitm.com/post/github-alternatives/

10 hours ago

BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-think-its-a-treat/

9 hours ago

Anime User Interfaces

https://animeuserinterface.tumblr.com

2 hours ago

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/

10 hours ago

EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2

https://www.engadget.com/2227966/eu-mandate-labels-on-authentic-looking-ai-content/

17 hours ago

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

https://censys.com/blog/cisa-alert-water-tower-plc-targeting/

6 hours ago

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb

9 hours ago

Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/us/politics/iran-cyberattack-water-systems.html

9 hours ago

Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/01/neil-hopper-surgeon-amputated-legs-fetish-extreme-mutilation-patients-questions

5 hours ago

Google kills Earth AI generator after one day

https://twitter.com/newsfromgoogle/status/2083249962150760610

12 hours ago

But can your calculator run Linux?

https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html

5 hours ago

Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5910660/big-oil-earnings-q2-2026

7 hours ago

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

https://kaisel.dev/

8 hours ago

Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose

5 hours ago

What liberal arts education is for (2024)

https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

21 hours ago

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Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/2AX2BCJ3EQX7G3YXSDX73BR4NCAWXXBZ/

13 hours ago

Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZpvIfho0

2 hours ago

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