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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? Asus Bike Booster Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk Health benefits of Tai Chi Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) Software Engineering fundamentals matter more Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter	Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug Falstad Math and Physics Simulations	Tea5767-Radio-Tuner AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen A spectre is haunting Unicode AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code Not sure where I am going with this garbage collection rabbit hole Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin Why I remain a skeptic Everything is about to “go dark” Zig Day Seattle, WA #3 How Is Compression Prediction? Recap: Software Should Work 2026 Power Relations What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better Aiki reaches recursive self-interpretation Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability What do you think of LazyPromise as a lightweight alternative to Effect? On Knowledge Representation Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5 Haskell: origins, evolution, and future nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode ActivityPub Won by Being Boring Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software (2005) Ironies of Automation (1983) RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine Demystifying Type (and some Un-Paradoxing) How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up MORE	Mom gets keyboard tattooed on her arm so autistic son can always ‘talk’ to her How nice— wait a minute… meirl Don't forget this scum "Bunny Harvestman" discovered in 1959,native only to the Amazon rainforest Younger days Our hotel room has glass brick windows that face directly into our room Remember when we Heard what Amber did? Tennessee County Commissioner Calls Flock CEO "an enemy of the American people." 4 freshmen just ordered 50 waters. A video from the Titanic Museum shows how cold the water was for the Titanic Victims Woman Jumps Two Floors into Fire Brigade Basket in Berlin High-Rise Rescue My local library showing off the new books in the best way possible. Fear of bullets, not of ballots The National Association of Black Journalists gives Stephen A. Smith the “Thumbs Down” award for his “recurring public pattern of disparaging public commentary directed at prominent Black women across politics, sports and media.” Everyone deserves to be seen as more than one dimensional I FINALLY made something that I'm 110% happy with!!! I never thought I'd see the day! 67780 I Invented a Bank Robbing Robot US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere Another Day, Another Recall maga woman gets triggered by combat veteran  dude had to use a robot to invent the scene, it's so rare anime irl A metallurgical worker does a complex maneuver with red-hot metal whilst pouring water upon himself MORE	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 MORE
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SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star' Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead	Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog) Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face) BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times) Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI) Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population (Grace Shao/Bloomberg) Dario Amodei defends his policy proposals, warns open weights won't decentralize power, endorses pre-launch vetting, says real accomplishments will earn trust (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei) How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post) A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (Zeyi Yang/Wired) Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information) Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information) A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (Washington Post) Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite (Anthropic) Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy (William Sandlund/Financial Times) BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)	This Beautifully Weird Necklace Is Secretly a USB Drive Retrospec Joe Rev 2 Review (2026): Putting the ‘Joy’ in Joyride 6 Best Apple Watch Accessories to Upgrade Your Watch (2026) Instapaper, the Original Read-It-Later App, Just Got a Huge Upgrade Auk Mini 2 Indoor Smart Garden Review: Better Where It Counts Zyzz Was the Original Looksmaxxer. His Rise and Untimely Death Feel More Relevant Than Ever 5 Best Apple Watch Bands: Nike, Nomad, and Hermés (2026) Puerto Rico Is Rationing Water. It Could’ve Avoided It by Harvesting Rainwater Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for August 2026 New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG The Best Movies to Stream This Month (August 2026) The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want Best Wireless Chargers (2026): My Picks After Testing 100+ The 4 Best Planners of 2026: Roterunner, Hobonichi, Cloth & Paper FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2026): Mous, dbrand, Bellroy I Wore an Electrical Muscle Stimulation Body Suit to Zap Myself Into Fitness
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