2. U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers (www.cnbc.com)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration expects banks to comply in collecting citizenship information from customers.
3. What if database branching was easy? (xata.io)
We usually think branching means copying the whole database. With copy-on-write, it doesn't. Let's compare workflows like seeding to DB branching.
4. Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore (www.nytimes.com)
Amazon is ending support for Kindles released before 2013, which means your old e-reader won’t be able to download new books.
5. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
6. Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (pmasschelier.github.io)
Introduction The C standard library offers a bunch of functions (whose declarations can be found in the string.h header) to manage NULL-terminated strings and arrays. These are some of the most used C functions, often implemented as builtin by the C compiler, as they are crucial to the speed of programs.
On the other hand, the x86 architecture contains “string instructions”, aimed at implementing operations on strings at the hardware level. Moreover, the x86 architecture was incrementally enhanced with SIMD instructions over the years, allowing for the processing of multiple bytes of data in a single instruction.
On the other hand, the x86 architecture contains “string instructions”, aimed at implementing operations on strings at the hardware level. Moreover, the x86 architecture was incrementally enhanced with SIMD instructions over the years, allowing for the processing of multiple bytes of data in a single instruction.
7. Show HN: Docker Compose for VM's (github.com)
docker compose for kvm/qemu. Contribute to zeroecco/holos development by creating an account on GitHub.
8. Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded (www.bbc.com)
Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away.
9. A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) (github.com)
Contribute to esutcu/planb-lpm development by creating an account on GitHub.
10. IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 (lwn.net)
The kernel provides a number of ways for processes to communicate with each other, but they nev [...]
12. Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference (github.com)
Contribute to outcomeops/context-engineering development by creating an account on GitHub.
13. Tracking when Trump chickens out (www.thetacotracker.com)
Tracking every time Trump announces a drastic policy, threat, or ultimatum... and then walks it back two days later.
14. Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over (techcrunch.com)
Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will take over as CEO at the start of September.
17. Knitout and Kniterate 3 (soup.agnescameron.info)
18. AI chatbots could be making you stupider (www.bbc.com)
As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.
19. Tim Cook Stepping Down (www.macrumors.com)
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over, Apple announced today. Cook will continue on as Apple CEO through the summer, with Ternus set to join Apple's Board of Directors and take over as CEO on September 1, 2026.
20. Epicycles All the Way Down (www.strangeloopcanon.com)
21. Why macOS27 won't be supporting Intel anymore (twitter.com)
22. Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet
23. Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding (twitter.com)
24. Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war (www.economist.com)
25. A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (pluralistic.net)
26. NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (www.columbian.com)
27. Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite (aliens.gov)
28. The Work Runs on Different Maps (yusufaytas.com)
The org chart shows formal accountability. It rarely shows how work actually moves. Expertise, decision paths, institutional memory, and boundary-spanning people shape execution far more than most plans admit.
29. Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (www.markrjohnsongames.com)
Hello everyone! We have a bit of a different entry this fortnight. I don’t normally talk too extensively about how things are coded in detail since I prefer to focus on design questions, but …
30. Data Center Is Getting a $77M Tax Break to Create One Job (nysfocus.com)
No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.