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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Making Postgres queues scale
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
CodePen 2.0
So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring
Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Hacker Public Radio
Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost
Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms
Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality
RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)
Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents
Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library
Are We Stuck with Lean?
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reddit
toptal
C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
The AI Aesthetic
deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
What side projects have you enjoyed the most?
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
A universal approach to mocking with continuations
Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
KindaRails2Shell - Critical RCE in Rails via Active Storage (CVE-2026-66066)
First CHERIoT Silicon
Logic for Programmers
The strain in your brain
Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python
Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse
The Difference Between a Button and a Link
GCC steering committee announces AI policy
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale
Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
std.Io.Writer.Allocating ate all my memory
Setting timers in simple games (feat. the frame rule)
A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam v.1.18.0 release
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Aerial waterbombing with insane accuracy to stop the spreading wildfire in its tracks
In the Odyssey(2026) Lupita Nyong'o was cast to play Helen of Troy, who according to the source material was the most beautiful woman in the world. While very attractive, she was miscast because the most beautiful woman in the world is actually my wife.
Forgive her
Eerie right?
Photo of a mosquito flying in front of the lens makes it look like a giant monster in the mist
This cat's name
Anti-Trump flags flown from pickup truck in Winston-Salem, North Carolina today.
UEFA will boycott FIFA tournaments if Gianni Infantino goes ahead with his proposal to sell off a stake in the World Cup. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of all UEFA’s 55 member associations this afternoon.
Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget — 'catastrophically expensive' coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics
I discovered if I hit this interchange at 5 o'clock traffic, the red route takes 20 minutes, but the blue route takes 5 minutes
Firefighters show up at gym after someone accidentally pressed fire alarm and rep 225 lbs while others cheer him on
Trees flowing away
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference | US foreign policy
TIL that two homes in the US state of Texas were accidentally demolished when the demolition company followed the GPS to the wrong address
When you graduate from the U.S. Army or Air Force, you can't leave your post until a family member touches you. This young woman went with her daughter so she could touch her father.
To make English the official language of New Zealand
Classic MAGA. More upset about a car rental than a serial child rapist. Disgusting.
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I mean... please Hollywood!
Apparently if you are messing with Flock cameras, You can just tell the cops you are doing an update. The more you know!
DOGE Must Face Lawsuit Over Accessing Americans' Personal Info, Court Rules
Fauci Diaries Expose Depths of Katie and Stephen Miller’s Hypocrisy: Before Katie and Stephen Miller called for Dr. Fauci’s imprisonment, they were actually on very friendly terms.
Liabetes
New PC came in, found the sticker “warning” amusing
NATO has confirmed that an unknown object that crashed in a field in Poland on Thursday morning, was a Russian missile.
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Using Spring Boot OAuth2 for Secure Application Development
Declarative vs. Imperative Programming: A Practical Guide for Choosing the Right Paradigm
Salesforce Data Migration Guide: Steps, Tools, and Best Practices
React State Management Libraries: Top Tools and How to Choose One
Terraform vs. CloudFormation: Choosing the Right IaC Tool
Client-side vs. Server-side Development: Key Differences and Advantages Explained
Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Modern Front-end Development?
gRPC vs. REST: Key Differences, Performance, and Use Cases
Python Logging Handlers: A Deep Dive Into Types, Configuration, and Best Practices
Laravel API Tutorial: Creating and Testing a RESTful API
How AI Medical Imaging Is Powering Precision Healthcare
The 10 Most Effective Shopify Tools for E-commerce Development, From an Ex-Shopify Engineering Leader
Strategies for Structuring and Scaling High-performance Data Labeling Teams
Automatic Speech Recognition: A Comprehensive Guide Featuring Expert Perspectives
Fine-tuning LLMs for Your Industry: Optimal Data Labeling Strategies
Advanced Data Labeling Methods: From Hybrid Approaches to LLMs
Architecting Effective Data Labeling Systems for Machine Learning Pipelines
Theory, Tools, and Business Applications: An In-depth Look at Quantum Computing
Increase Developer Productivity With Generative AI: Tips From Leading Software Engineers
Using an LLM API As an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Python Development
Ask a Security Engineer: From DevSecOps to Cloud Security
Advancing AI Image Labeling and Semantic Metadata Collection
Apache Spark Optimization Techniques for High-performance Data Processing
WordPress-powered Angular: JWT Authentication Using GraphQL
Next.js Rendering Techniques: How to Optimize Page Speed
Ask a Cybersecurity Engineer: Trending Questions About AI in Cybersecurity
5 Pillars of Responsible Generative AI: A Code of Ethics for the Future
Computer Vision Pipeline Architecture: A Tutorial
Tested Solutions: Working With React Design Patterns
Ask an AI Engineer: Trending Questions About Artificial Intelligence
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Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls
Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel
Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot
Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide
GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code
Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims
Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight
AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands
Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots?
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project
Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine
NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus
DoorDash Is Building Its Own Drone Delivery Business
Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism
Sources: DeepSeek plans to build a 1 GW data center in Inner Mongolia and aims to bring at least part of its capacity online by the end of 2027 or early 2028 (Bloomberg)
Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet (Carly Page/The Register)
At a hearing, a US judge says "I don't see additional evidence" from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk (Maria Curi/Axios)
Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late May (Bloomberg)
Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab)
Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios)
LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB would have let a hacker remotely compromise any of its users; Microsoft has seen "no evidence of customer impact" (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days (Financial Times)
Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses (Wall Street Journal)
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired)
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic
Back to School Office Chair Deals 2026: $200 and Less
For the First Time, Zoox Can Charge People for Rides in Its Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
Razer Huntsman V3 HE Review: Jumping on the Bandwagon
DOGE Veterans Are Landing Big Jobs at Prediction Markets
Best Vacuum Cleaners (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons
7 Best Shower Filters of 2026 Are WIRED-Tested and -Approved
4 Best Budget Smartwatch Models for Less Than $250 (2026)
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners
Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for August 2026
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