00:11 <Byte> WIRED | Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01 Jeremy White · 11m ago · 7 min read Following a viral rebrand and two years without selling a new vehicle, the British marque takes the covers off the most divisive electric car yet seen. Read full story

00:16 <Murphy> arXiv.org | UniEvo-VL: An On-policy Self-Distillation Training Recipe for Multimodal Model Self-improvement 1h ago · 3 min read Modern multimodal models bring generation and understanding into a single unified system, which enables them to provide and learn from their own feedback. Motivated by this unified capacity, we introduce UniEvo-VL, a self-evolving framework for multimodal models to learn from this constructive self-correction feedback during test-time compute. Instead of ... Read full story

00:16 <Murphy> ScienceDaily | Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis 15h ago · 12 min read Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also helped prevent osteoarthritis after ACL-like knee injuries, while human cartilage taken from knee replacement patients began producing new, functional joint... Read full story

00:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | State of Devs 2026 49m ago · 9 min read Comments Read full story

00:16 <Murphy> GitHub | math/preprints/Integer-multiplication-below-n-log-n-September-23-2026 at main · openai/math 1h ago Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

00:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks 55m ago Comments Read full story

00:46 <Murphy> GitHub | boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows 1h ago · 1 min read Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows - boykopovar/AnyPS5 Read full story

02:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years 32m ago Comments Read full story

02:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald 34m ago Comments Read full story

02:48 <Murphy> SREGym | Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed | SREGym Blog 1d ago · 13 min read A Jev-driven SRE diagnosis pipeline passed 76.2% of 105 diagnoses. Explore its workflow, successful and failed traces, and interactive time and cost comparisons. Read full story

02:48 <Murphy> GitHub | M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock: Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash, binary-searched. UDP DNS sinkhole + web dash... 1h ago · 8 min read Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash, binary-searched. UDP DNS sinkhole + web dashboard. https://youtube\.com/shorts/RaxszOUMi8E?fe\.\.\. Read full story

02:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | Science fiction and technology writer - Post 2d ago · 20 min read Comments Read full story

02:48 <Murphy> Strands Agents | Introducing Strands Decider 2B: a small, open source, decision model Marc Brooker · 6d ago · 8 min read Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation. Read full story

03:18 <Murphy> The Verge | Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights Tom Warren · 5h ago · 1 min read The streaming rights come in November, when Microsoft is opening up access to Xbox Cloud Gaming. Read full story

03:47 <Murphy> GitHub | superdesigndev/treg: OpenRouter for agent tools. Join community here: https://discord\.gg/6mQYYfFMAn 11h ago · 18 min read OpenRouter for agent tools. Join community here: https://discord\.gg/6mQYYfFMAn - superdesigndev/treg Read full story

03:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Accessing La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez · 30m ago · 4 min read Accessing La Cueva BBS (Bulletin Board System) in Mexico in 1993, replaying the 64 kilobytes of data captured from a modem. Read full story

04:18 <Murphy> Orchid Files | Account bans on Reddit Orchid · 12h ago · 2 min read I wanted to share my open-source solution on Reddit. I created an account, found a community where people post links to their projects, and posted a link to my GitHub project there. The post was immediately deleted, and my account was banned. It turns out you first need to write Read full story

04:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | NetBSD Blog 2d ago · 12 min read Comments Read full story

04:50 <Murphy> the Guardian | ‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb Samira Shackle · 1d ago · 29 min read The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking Read full story

04:50 <Murphy> Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings | What is Codemode Armin Ronacher · 15h ago · 18 min read If you just need bash, why do you need codemode? Read full story

04:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Calling it quits on ServerFault 13h ago · 2 min read It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first Read full story

05:20 <Murphy> Joe Karlsson | My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost 05 Mar 2026 · 33 min read Two years after a $200 ThinkServer: two Dell R730s, 73 containers, metered power data, and an honest look at whether a homelab pays for itself. Read full story

05:50 <Murphy> Ars Technica | Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services Dan Goodin · 10h ago · 3 min read Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs. Read full story

06:22 <Murphy> The Public Domain Review | Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35) 2d ago · 9 min read Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze. Read full story

06:22 <Murphy> GitHub | shader-effects-inc/shaders: WebGPU components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JS & Framer 43m ago · 5 min read WebGPU components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JS & Framer - shader-effects-inc/shaders Read full story

06:52 <Murphy> GitHub | nano-muse/nanoMuse: nanoMuse: an open-source personal agent for every device you own — one agent with a name and a face that does things, keeps working while the app is closed, ... 3h ago · 5 min read nanoMuse: an open-source personal agent for every device you own — one agent with a name and a face that does things, keeps working while the app is closed, remembers you, and asks before anything ... Read full story

07:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models 1d ago · 12 min read A shared framework for video-action programs and local-context dynamics, evaluated through robot control, frozen-component transfer, and action-conditioned prediction. Read full story

07:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Legend of the Paper Crane - Mazda Stories 2d ago · 4 min read Mazda Stories explores the ancient art of origami, its importance in Hiroshima and how it's believed to have miraculous powers… Read full story

08:23 <Murphy> GitHub | peterretief/yggstore: Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil: lend each other disk space, send files by sending a sealed stub. 3h ago · 11 min read Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil: lend each other disk space, send files by sending a sealed stub. - peterretief/yggstore Read full story

08:23 <Murphy> Hacker News | Gallery of Processor Cache Effects 2d ago Comments Read full story

08:42 <Byte> WIRED | Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’ Joel Khalili · 12m ago · 5 min read Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans. Read full story

09:07 <Byte> Engadget | How long have wireless gaming controllers been around for? Dave Meikleham · 9h ago · 4 min read The wireless controller you use today has a long legacy to thank, and it stretches back to the early days of gaming. Read full story

09:07 <Byte> Engadget | Apple TV’s F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos Mariella Moon · 8m ago · 1 min read Apple TV’s F1 coverage will feature Dolby Atmos support, starting with the US Grand Prix in Texas later this month. Read full story

09:12 <Byte> WIRED | Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily Dell Cameron,Hugo Lowell · 12m ago · 4 min read To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. Read full story

09:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | First Steps into Memory Management in Python | Daniel's Tech Blog 1d ago · 5 min read Personal tech notes, experiments, and lessons learned Read full story

09:54 <Murphy> GitHub | szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font: Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. 36m ago · 2 min read Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. - szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font Read full story

09:54 <Murphy> Structure and Interpretation of Computer Prog... | Reasons to dislike AI coding 19h ago · 4 min read Code as Art I covered this before in Art or tool? If you think of software as artistic output then generated software isn't real because it doesn't have the creative ineffability that's a sign of true art. There's no argument against this one except that the people who want software typically aren't paying for artworks,... Read full story

10:14 <Byte> WIRED | A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat Brian Kahn,Molly Taft · 14m ago · 7 min read Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity. Read full story

10:24 <Murphy> GitHub | travelonium/arcadeia: Arcadeia is an open-source, self-hosted photo and video library. Find clips with animated previews, search filenames and descriptions, and make spoken word... 2d ago · 5 min read Arcadeia is an open-source, self-hosted photo and video library. Find clips with animated previews, search filenames and descriptions, and make spoken words searchable with optional local transcrip... Read full story

10:34 <Byte> Engadget | Jaguar's controversial Type 01 EV looks like a '40s gangster car built for the modern electric era Steve Dent · 6m ago · 2 min read Jaguar's Type 01 EV is designed to attract affluent young buyers with its deliberately polarizing design. Read full story

10:45 <Byte> WIRED | A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers Vittoria Elliott · 15m ago · 9 min read The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel. Read full story

10:53 <Murphy> NobelPrize.org | Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 1h ago · 3 min read The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.” Read full story

11:03 <Byte> Engadget | How to watch the Microsoft Windows and Surface event Deven McClure · 3m ago · 2 min read Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang join Windows and Devices chief Pavan Davuluri at the company's San Francisco event today. Read full story

11:03 <Byte> Engadget | Ultrahuman now offers on-demand heart rhythm scans Daniel Cooper · 3m ago · 1 min read Ultrahuman is now offering on-demand heart rhythm scans to help you check for signs of Afib in real-time. Read full story

11:14 <Byte> WIRED | OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me Reece Rogers · 14m ago · 6 min read Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha. Read full story

11:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | AstroHelm – Plate Solving & Push-To Telescope App for iOS and Android 2d ago · 3 min read Find galaxies, nebulae and stars with your existing telescope. AstroHelm uses fast on-device plate solving to turn smartphones into precision push-to telescope finders. Read full story

11:24 <Murphy> Sci.News: Breaking Science News | Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Canadian Analysis Says | Sci.News Enrico de Lazaro · 1d ago · 4 min read Canadian health researchers are urging the country to choose permanent standard time over permanent daylight saving time if it ends the twice-yearly clock change, warning that darker winter mornings could harm sleep and mental health. Read full story

11:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ilograph Interactive Diagrams Ilograph LLC · 15m ago · 5 min read Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph Read full story

11:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace 1h ago Comments Read full story

11:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus 31m ago Comments Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Criteo Tech Community | Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop For You Elise Baturone · 5h ago · 15 min read AI can write code, but it cannot make you senior. Learn how curiosity, emulation, autonomy, and collaboration help engineers grow in an agentic world. Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Hacker News | TIL: Rust's derive often implies inline 3d ago · 5 min read Comments Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Hacker News | It may soon be possible to create "mirror life" 1h ago Comments Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Five Minutes Forward | Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese Travis Smith · 3d ago · 11 min read Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output tokens on the API's own meter, and models across four families still recover the information at full fidelity. For machine-to-mach... Read full story

13:03 <Byte> Engadget | Xreal's Aura Android XR smartglasses will cost you at least $1,279 Mariella Moon · 1h ago · 1 min read Xreal’s Aura smartglasses are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite chip. Read full story

13:03 <Byte> Engadget | Microsoft Windows and Surface event 2026: Live updates as Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang take the stage Cherlynn Low · 1h ago · 1 min read More details on the Surface Laptop Ultra and NVIDIA RTX Spark are coming, but what else? Read full story

13:03 <Byte> Engadget | Google's experimental Playground platform uses AI to create games for you Mariella Moon · 1h ago · 1 min read Google launches an AI-powered game creation platform called Playground. Read full story

13:03 <Byte> Engadget | The Social Reckoning is a timely reminder that we shouldn't trust Meta Devindra Hardawar · 3m ago · 3 min read Don't make Aaron Sorkin tap the sign. Read full story

13:04 <Byte> WIRED | I Put on Meta and Xreal’s XR Glasses. Face Computers Are Finally Getting Good Boone Ashworth · 1h ago · 3 min read Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses. Read full story

13:04 <Byte> WIRED | ‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels Irrelevant Miles Klee · 4m ago · 7 min read Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless. Read full story

13:30 <Murphy> Hacker News | Timber Frame Tools » Mallet Head Angle 1d ago · 12 min read Comments Read full story

13:30 <Murphy> Hacker News | Plastic Straw Ban Isn't Environmentalism–It's Virtue Signaling – Oregon Catalyst 40m ago Comments Read full story

13:33 <Byte> WIRED | ‘Digger’ is a Box Office Flop. It Might Be the Most Relevant Film of the Year Carla Sertin · 2h ago · 3 min read Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet. Read full story

13:34 <Byte> Engadget | OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems Steve Dent · 25m ago · 2 min read The company said that most results were produced in a response to a single prompt given to a single AI agent. Read full story

14:07 <Byte> Engadget | Google's AI detection website is now available Karissa Bell · 7m ago · 2 min read SynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies. Read full story

14:07 <Byte> Engadget | Ring's smart lock has a hand crank so it works even if the power's out Daniel Cooper · 7m ago · 2 min read Ring’s smart lock has a built-in hand crank to generate power when the batteries are dead. Read full story

14:07 <Byte> Engadget | Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform Lawrence Bonk · 7m ago · 2 min read Cisco's Dialog feature promises to turn "fragmented interactions into continuous customer relationships." Read full story

14:07 <Murphy> Hacker News | - YouTube 48m ago Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Read full story

14:07 <Murphy> Hacker News | A Walkable History of Art · Every artist, every work, under one roof 1h ago An interactive 3D museum of art history. Zoom through more than a thousand years of periods and artists, then walk first-person galleries of their real paintings — all drawn from Wikipedia. Read full story

14:39 <Murphy> Ambrook | Southern Olive Oil 9d ago · 6 min read As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source. Read full story

14:39 <Murphy> Hacker News | Google Playground 57m ago Comments Read full story

14:39 <Murphy> Hacker News | Crowd Detection & Occupancy Monitoring | Minut 20m ago · 1 min read Know when occupancy levels spike. Detect unauthorised gatherings in real time, while fully respecting guest privacy. Read full story

14:39 <Byte> WIRED | Stock Up on the Best Prime Day Deals on Mobile Accessories Les Shu · 13m ago · 7 min read Just bought a new phone or looking to enhance an existing one? Prime Day is the time to save on accessories like batteries, chargers, and more. Read full story

14:39 <Murphy> Hacker News | SynthID Detector 22m ago Comments Read full story

14:39 <Murphy> GitHub | Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized: Lean formalization of the optimality proof of the 11 square packing 28m ago · 3 min read Lean formalization of the optimality proof of the 11 square packing - Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized Read full story

15:08 <Byte> Ars Technica | If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency Stephen Clark · 4h ago · 11 min read We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US." Read full story

15:08 <Byte> Ars Technica | Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger Jennifer Ouellette · 2h ago · 7 min read Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale. Read full story

15:08 <Byte> Ars Technica | AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 3 min read More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups. Read full story

15:08 <Byte> Ars Technica | Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally Ryan Whitwam · 1h ago · 3 min read The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more. Read full story

15:08 <Byte> Ars Technica | Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models WIRED · 56m ago · 3 min read Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight. Read full story

15:10 <Murphy> GitHub | akawashiro/procinsh: ProcInSh is a web-based process inspector for Linux. 2h ago · 2 min read ProcInSh is a web-based process inspector for Linux. - akawashiro/procinsh Read full story

15:10 <Murphy> Hacker News | Tokens to GPUs Calculator | Cedana 20h ago · 4 min read Convert a token volume into a GPU count. Enter tokens per day, month, or year and pick a model; the calculator returns how many A100, H100, or B200 GPUs that works out to, with a sourced uncertainty range. Read full story

15:10 <Murphy> Bluesky Social | James O'Malley (@jamesomalley.co.uk) 6h ago Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps https://getartcraft\.com/apps Read full story

15:39 <Murphy> GitHub | snuri00/psp-web-recomp: PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel and a WebGL2 renderer 4h ago · 8 min read PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel and a WebGL2 renderer - snuri00/psp-web-recomp Read full story

15:39 <Murphy> Hacker News | Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging 15h ago · 10 min read Effective writing for software developers Read full story

15:40 <Murphy> Claix | RAG for AI Agents: Why Agentic Retrieval Is Replacing Fixed Vector Pipelines Gael Anaya · 2d ago · 16 min read What agentic RAG is, how it differs from traditional retrieve-then-generate pipelines, when vector databases still make sense, and how to design document capabilities for agents. Read full story

15:40 <Murphy> ascii.rest | animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line @bas3line · 34m ago · 380 min read 191 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed. Read full story

15:40 <Murphy> Hacker News | Why were Victorian elites so effective? - Works in Progress Magazine Samuel Hughes · 1d ago · 28 min read The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon. Read full story

15:40 <Murphy> Hacker News | Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions 22m ago · 2 min read GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions. Read full story

15:40 <Byte> WIRED | The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos Maddy Varner · 6m ago · 5 min read The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Read full story

16:36 <Byte> Engadget | We now have images of the smart home products that Apple and LG are reportedly cooking up Lawrence Bonk · 53m ago · 1 min read These include a lock, a thermostat and a temperature sensor. Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> Techdirt | Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain Of Disastrous Debt 4h ago · 7 min read Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-quality product, and news outlets like CNN bec… Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> Bloomberg.com | Study Shows AI Chatbots Offer the Rich Higher Price Recommendations Jacob Reid · 5h ago · 1 min read Research on how Claude and ChatGPT act as shopping assistants could lead to more regulation calls. Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> I, Cringely - on technology | The Auditor’s Opinion | I, Cringely Robert X. Cringely · 16 Jul 2026 · 9 min read Last week somebody rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents bossed around by a smarter one, and the whole thing cost about eight dollars -- sandwich and a coffee. But the part that lit up my corner of the internet wasn’t the website. It was that the agents caught their own Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> Hacker News | Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation Over ‘Anticompetitive’ Merchant Credit Card Transaction Fees Corrado Rizzi · 1d ago · 4 min read A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees. Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> Hacker News | ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests – Krebs on Security BrianKrebs · 2h ago · 10 min read A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle "Rey," was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting ... Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> Pew Research Center | Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy Richard Wike · 6d ago · 21 min read Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics. Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> Hacker News | Wood Tape 1d ago · 11 min read Comments Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> HUMXN | HUMXN Launches Free Home Service Program to Build Real-World Training Data for AI and Robotics 1d ago · 5 min read HUMXN is paying for qualifying home-service appointments in three U.S. cities, turning skilled trade work into real-world training data for AI and robotics. Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> GitHub | AL-255/FM-1-RE: Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware 1h ago · 3 min read Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware - AL-255/FM-1-RE Read full story

16:37 <Murphy> arXiv.org | Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs 1h ago · 3 min read Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this process, an AI system translates the text from a natural language (NL) into a formal language such as Lean. Once this translation is done, the argument expresse... Read full story

17:04 <Byte> Ars Technica | Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 7 min read Trump's aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates. Read full story

17:04 <Byte> Ars Technica | Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 5 min read Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs. Read full story

17:06 <Murphy> BIGWORDS.PAGE | Turn any screen into a sign 1h ago · 1 min read Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free. Read full story

17:06 <Murphy> GitHub | trigora-dev/trigora: Durable execution for long-running AI agents and programs. 1h ago · 3 min read Durable execution for long-running AI agents and programs. - trigora-dev/trigora Read full story

17:06 <Murphy> iwrzwr/visual archive | sound & music visualizer experiments 1h ago · 2 min read 160+ sound visualization experiments across 25+ categories. explore waveform animations, spectrum-inspired patterns, matrix displays, particles, rhythm and memory. Read full story

17:06 <Murphy> Hacker News | - YouTube 18h ago Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Read full story

17:06 <Murphy> GitHub | TerseAI/durable-actors: Durable Actors in Typescript 1d ago · 4 min read Durable Actors in Typescript. Contribute to TerseAI/durable-actors development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

17:06 <Murphy> Hacker News | A cop's case for Flock - Works in Progress Magazine Ned Donovan · 28 Aug 2026 · 11 min read People are right to want less police intrusion in their lives. The way to get there is more precision, not less. Read full story

17:36 <Murphy> Normal Tools | Useful online tools, no nonsense Normal Tools · 2h ago · 16 min read Small, useful online tools that work directly in your browser. Read full story

17:36 <Murphy> MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines Adam Zewe | MIT News · 1d ago · 4 min read A 3D printing platform developed at MIT can utilize multiple functional materials to fully print a complex electronic device, like an electric linear motor, in a matter of minutes. Read full story

17:36 <Murphy> Amazon Web Services | All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS 1d ago · 3 min read Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics […] Read full story

18:03 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | Secret protection must scale with software Erin Havens · 18m ago · 7 min read The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it. Read full story

18:05 <Murphy> GitHub | forgeplane/pinrail: Human in the loop for agentic workflows 50m ago · 5 min read Human in the loop for agentic workflows. Contribute to forgeplane/pinrail development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

18:05 <Murphy> Hacker News | City 2026 1d ago Comments Read full story

18:05 <Murphy> Hacker News | The life-saving scientific knowledge hiding in plain sight | Aeon Essays 2h ago · 18 min read Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all Read full story

18:05 <Murphy> EmDash CMS | How EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry Scott Buscemi · 1h ago · 3 min read Every plugin listing in the EmDash registry is now screened by Cloudflare's Clef decision model. Here's how one fast, multimodal model helps us catch phishing, impersonation, offensive content, and other abuse before a plugin appears in the catalog. Read full story

18:05 <Byte> WIRED | My Favorite LED Mask Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day Boutayna Chokrane · 8m ago · 1 min read The Shark CryoGlow face mask is my favorite LED device, and it’s $299 on Amazon Prime Day. Act fast. Read full story

18:05 <Byte> WIRED | The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell Reece Rogers · 5m ago · 2 min read OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs. Read full story

18:06 <Byte> Engadget | Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event Kris Holt · 24m ago · 2 min read The company is highlighting agentic AI features for Windows. Read full story

18:06 <Byte> Engadget | Here's everything we know about Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Sam Rutherford · 23m ago · 1 min read Microsoft is finally sharing details about its first builder-class PC. Read full story

18:06 <Byte> Engadget | Microsoft may have finally fixed Windows search by turning it into a chatbot Igor Bonifacic · 19m ago · 1 min read Microsoft's Copilot search redesign arrives this fall. Read full story

18:06 <Byte> Engadget | Disney+ will stream the Super Bowl, along with some Monday Night Football games Lawrence Bonk · 13m ago · 1 min read The big event will also air on ABC and ESPN. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Orazio Scicolone | Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown Orazio Scicolone · 3d ago · 3 min read Infrastructure & SRE Engineer — Cloud, Kubernetes, Automation & Software Engineering Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI Model Groupthink – Magic Numbers 1d ago · 8 min read Comments Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | When the machine boots but the reply disappears · Mainbrella 18h ago · 15 min read What happens when the machine boots but the reply never arrives? A source-level tour of Mainbrella’s backend, from the first reservation to the last saved byte. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI, Work and the Economy 4h ago · 4 min read AI, work and the economy: the argument, the evidence as it arrives, and a model you can run. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> GitHub | Tags · ghostty-org/ghostty 43m ago · 1 min read 👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - Tags · ghostty-org/ghostty Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> GitHub | docker/docker-agent: AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering 45m ago · 3 min read AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering - docker/docker-agent Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone 33m ago Comments Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 18h ago · 8 min read Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use. Read full story

19:05 <Byte> WIRED | These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out Will Knight · 20m ago · 4 min read Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful. Read full story

19:06 <Byte> Engadget | Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: A beautiful beast powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark Devindra Hardawar · 23m ago · 2 min read Yes, it's just a premium laptop. But it sure looks pretty. Read full story

19:33 <Byte> Ars Technica | Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 2 min read Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties. Read full story

19:33 <Byte> Ars Technica | Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns Beth Mole · 1h ago · 3 min read In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs. Read full story

19:33 <Byte> Ars Technica | Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand John Timmer · 44m ago · 6 min read Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life. Read full story

19:35 <Byte> WIRED | Meet the Vendors Selling ‘Cornell Seven’ Merch Ej Dickson · 18m ago · 6 min read Brands, influencers, and Etsy sellers claim they're hawking T-shirts, mugs, and buttons out of solidarity with the woman who accused seven male classmates of sexual assault. Some say it’s shameless. Read full story

19:35 <Byte> Engadget | Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box costs an eye-watering $6,000 Ian Carlos Campbell · 3m ago · 1 min read It ships in November, if you can afford it. Read full story

19:36 <Murphy> Gary Linscott | How Machines Learned Precision 6d ago · 32 min read How do you make an accurate machine without one to copy? Explore flat surfaces, screw-cutting lathes, and millionth-of-an-inch measurements through interactive 3D figures. Read full story

19:36 <Murphy> ICANN | ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains 34m ago · 4 min read ICANN has published the list of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, revealing applied-for strings and applying entities. Read full story

19:36 <Murphy> Hacker News | Push Ifs Up and Fors Down: The Idiom, Its Algebra, and Its Limits | Ruminations of a Programmer 53m ago · 8 min read Tiger Style and matklad recommend pushing ifs up and fors down. This post looks at what the idiom actually says, where it shows up in query optimization and in the algebra of functional programs, and where the analogy stops paying for itself. Read full story

19:36 <Murphy> agent.reviews | agent.reviews · Where agents choose and review software 2h ago · 3 min read Where agents choose and review software. After real tasks, coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity review the tools they used: a rating out of 5, what worked and what got in the way. Read full story

19:36 <Murphy> RS Web Solutions (RSWEBSOLS) | Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools 17h ago · 3 min read Meta and Microsoft are implementing new measures to limit employee use of Claude AI—discover what this means for the future of AI in the workplace. Read full story

20:06 <Byte> WIRED | Last Call for Prime Day Deals on Two Shark Vacuums I Love Nena Farrell · 20m ago · 1 min read Save on two models I recommend after testing, including my favorite robot vacuum and a powerful cordless stick. Read full story

20:06 <Byte> Engadget | Here's what the $6,000 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks like Karissa Bell · 7m ago · 2 min read Honestly, a bit like an oversized Lego brick. Read full story

20:07 <Murphy> Hacker News | HN Simulator 2h ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

20:07 <Murphy> Shtetl-Optimized | The Mathocalypse 1h ago · 11 min read Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on … Read full story

20:36 <Murphy> Arie Bovenberg | Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed + operator in all of Python 1d ago · 11 min read Pendulum is a popular Python library for working with datetimes. Its + operator is unusual, even for a datetime library: when you add a timedelta to a Pendulum DateTime, it consults the call stack to decide which answer to give you. What? And why? The hack itself is on its way out, but the design behind it still matters for your code. Read full story

20:36 <Murphy> Hacker News | gtlds.fyi — New gTLD applications 43m ago ICANN Reveal Day 2026: the names and companies in the next gTLD round. Read full story

21:05 <Byte> WIRED | The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light Fernanda González · 25m ago · 4 min read Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga. Read full story

21:05 <Byte> WIRED | Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections Hugo Lowell · 5m ago · 3 min read America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats. Read full story

21:07 <Murphy> Shtetl-Optimized | Shtetl-Optimized 1h ago · 11 min read The Blog of Scott Aaronson Read full story

21:07 <Murphy> SpringerLink | Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology Sponsel, Alistair · 2d ago · 53 min read This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin failed to see the picture’s potential significance for interpreting the helical structure of DNA. Rather, Franklin decided to take Photograph 51 precisely be... Read full story

21:34 <Byte> Ars Technica | TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits Jon Brodkin · 1h ago · 5 min read TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban. Read full story

21:34 <Byte> Ars Technica | PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated Beth Mole · 1h ago · 3 min read Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday. Read full story

21:35 <Byte> Engadget | The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones Anna Washenko · 2m ago · 1 min read The agency is doubling down on direct-to-device service. Read full story

21:39 <Murphy> Hacker News | Brownian Motion Gregory Gundersen · 1d ago · 48 min read Comments Read full story

22:03 <Byte> WIRED | How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity Lily Hay Newman · 31m ago · 1 min read At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.” Read full story

22:09 <Murphy> MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Janine Liberty | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics · 53m ago · 8 min read Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. Read full story

22:30 <Byte> ZDNET | Managers are using AI to write performance reviews - and it shows Radhika Rajkumar · 42m ago · 4 min read Does AI use help or hurt feedback at work? Here's what one survey found. Read full story

22:33 <Byte> WIRED | The Atlantic’s Near-Record Hurricane Drought Is About to End Brian Kahn · 33m ago · 2 min read Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast. Read full story

22:39 <Murphy> Hacker News | I'm in love with a German film star 13m ago Comments Read full story

22:39 <Murphy> The Old New Thing | If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts? Raymond Chen · 2d ago · 3 min read Hot-patching is for Windows, not for you. Read full story

23:04 <Byte> Engadget | Rivian R2 owners can now put a live pet cam on their phone's lockscreen Anna Washenko · 13m ago · 1 min read Keep an eye on your furry, feathered or scaly friends when you leave the car. Read full story

23:41 <Murphy> TidesDB | TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26 Alex Gaetano Padula · 2d ago · 8 min read TidesDB becomes available under project TideSQL for MySQL. Read full story

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