2. Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat (2026) (www.inventbuild.studio)
AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history
3. Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening (www.techradar.com)
What are the privacy implications?
4. Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
Personal site
5. I think I hate the internet (strategictree.bearblog.dev)
I’ve just finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and was equally parts shocked and unsurprised by the events she witnessed at Facebook / Met...
6. Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (en.wikipedia.org)
7. Factoring RSA 260 (cognition.com)
How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…
8. >10x More Efficient Pretraining (magic.dev)
Research update on compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models.
9. Neki by PlanetScale (neki.dev)
Sharded Postgres by PlanetScale. Scale real Postgres to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data with zero-downtime resharding.
10. Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes (hugovergnes.github.io)
A 3.8B model pretrained from scratch to 0.384 CORE on 65B tokens in 43 hours, for $998.
11. ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol (geo-tp.github.io)
12. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
13. Version Control Second Coming (psantosl.github.io)
The very same week we signed our first ever angel investor for Plastic SCM, in early summer of 2005, Linus Torvalds announced Git. I had spent more than a year pitching investors to build a new version control, and suddenly the creator of Linux was building one himself. That week I understood the road ahead was going to be much harder than I had anticipated.
I hadn’t felt that same electricity again in twenty years. Until a few months ago.
I hadn’t felt that same electricity again in twenty years. Until a few months ago.
15. Recursion into Madness (blog.coredump.cx)
16. Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it (mrdee.in)
Draw with radial symmetry, or generate a mandala from 19 motif types, 24 palettes and 9 colour harmonies. One page, nothing saved, no accounts.
17. Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT (www.marketingdive.com)
19. Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (gizmodo.com)
The 'Wallace and Gromit' studio is turning the big 5-0, and that involves selling a lot of its production history in a global auction.
20. A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming (slimemoldtimemold.com)
Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over. An evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory an…
21. PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in (twitter.com)
As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, w…
22. Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons (www.nytimes.com)
23. What happens when a GPU writes memory (blog.doubleword.ai)
Following an STG.E SASS instruction through the hardware units in an RTX 4090.
24. Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (tokenstead.ai)
SWE-2: hardware requirements, quantization options, and live cloud pricing on Tokenstead.
25. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
MultiMatte is a promptable image background removal model. Tell it what you want to keep, and MultiMatte will remove the rest.
26. Who People Talk to When They're Struggling (www.graphsaboutreligion.com)
27. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
28. Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B (investors.bendingspoons.com)
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.