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Hacker News (Front Page)
No Data Centers in My Backyard
🌻 no data centers in my backyardmoney, power, and populism in the AI buildoutJasmine SunAug 03, 202654677139ShareDriving in Wisconsin feels like cruising through Eden. It is unimaginably green given the heat-wave…
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An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3
This text was written with the assistance of an AI. Careful: assistance doesn't mean the AI wrote it. It means it…
Bbc
Saudi-led group completes $55B purchase of gaming giant EA
Saudi-led group completes $55bn purchase of gaming giant EA6 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLaura…
The Asia Business Daily
After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
After the government raised the investment barrier for domestic single-stock leverage products, a surge of funds has…
Flowiseai
Flowise Is Shutting Down
Flowise, a platform for building AI apps, is shutting down due to a shift in how people build and the increasing…
Securityfocus
Bugtraq Is Back
Bugtraq was founded in 1993 by Scott Chasin as a full‑disclosure mailing list for security researchers. After more…
arXiv.org
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
The paper compares Zigbee and Matter over Thread, two leading low‑power wireless protocols for smart‑home IoT…
Earendil
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Pi, Minimal and Performant Date:Tue, 04 Aug 2026 From:Earendil <[email protected]> To:You Subject:Pi, Minimal and…
GitHub
Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust
Supports any rate from 1/2 to 1/8 and any order from k=4 to k=16. On nightly Rust, the simd feature enables a Viterbi…
808bits
FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it
FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it2026-08-05 · 14 minA sales engineer at one of the major…
Unit 42
Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication
The article examines new attack vectors targeting Google’s synced passkey system and Cloud Authenticator, showing how…
Mysk Blog – In-Depth Cybersecurity & Mobil
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and Apple iCloud Private Relay 2026-08-04by Talal Haj Bakry and…
Hartwork
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months 2026-08-04 20:04 For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a…
seg6
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
The process of centering a div has become simpler with modern browsers, but issues can arise when sidebars are…
X (formerly Twitter)
Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc
Techascent
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
2023-09-02DuckDB - Data power tools for your laptop, now in ClojureEstablishing the NeedOur in-memory column-major…
Website-files
Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]
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OpenAI
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
The incidents underscore the importance of collaborating across the industry and with third party evaluators to evolve…
Troy Hunt
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human…
Hacker News (Front Page)
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
Electrek
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short
But camera-only is Tesla’s entire bet, and this was a direct shot at it. The sensor debate, from someone with 220…
Hacker News (Front Page)
Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
Waymo
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
From the road — August 4, 2026Back to blogThe Waymo TeamAugust 4, 2026Share on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on…
Hacker News (Front Page)
What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?
Not-Ship
Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
July 29, 2026 Not-Ship is taking a short summer hiatus! Amanda Shendruk A big hello to all the new followers who just…
GitHub
MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt
Copy link Copy Markdown Contributor Description Ask users to give MariaDB a star by having an extra line in the…
Mistral AI
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Unlike traditional guardrail models, it accepts plain-language policies at inference time, unifying text and image…
Jg
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story August 4, 2026August 4, 2026Jackson Gabbard In my day to day…
https://www.valleynewslive.com
All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolenLost cameras valued at about $24,000By Devin…
Warp
The Warp Agent CLI
It’s the same multi-model agent that’s built into Warp Terminal, now available in Ghostty, iTerm 2, VSCode, the…
E.env
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
E.envMarket-derived RL environments01About02Why Markets03Team04Blog05NewsMARKET MICROSTRUCTUREPOLICY ROLLOUT / 096H…
The Pudding
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Why some people mow a lawn better than others By Russell Samora, Florina Sutanto, Arjun Kakkar, and Sushant Karki…
Gwern
Blackmail Fail (2013)
Blackmail fail Bitcoin, cryptography, personal In which the author receives surprising offers from kind strangers…
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Security Is Hard, Y'all
Web Security is Too Hard Posted byericlaw2026-08-042026-08-04Posted inbrowsers, security, storytelling,…
Paulgraham
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Shannph
The Judgment Reservoir
The Judgment Reservoir Sustaining Judgment When Execution No Longer Builds It July 24, 2026 Execution built judgment…
The New York Review of Books
Gaza's Deadly Soil
Opens External Webpage .st0{fill:currentColor;} Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage Mail to Print page Long…
Hacker News (Front Page)
How to Get More Customers Without Paying for Ads – Playistry
Small business marketing strategies that actually work—even if your budget is $0. Running a small business is…
Mentalium
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields
Research Dataset: 542 dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields AuthorPavel Trubetskov…
vlt /vōlt/
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
All Postsannouncementregistryclientvlt 1.0 & Hosted Package RegistriesStable client release and general availability…
Hop
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game
Hop.Earth - Play the World!
Outdoor Life
First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires
Conservation Climate & Environment First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires A former wildland firefighter and…
Y Combinator
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
Join truemetrics - Build technology to navigate the world truemetrics helps organizations to navigate the world more…
Hacker News (Front Page)
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons
GitHub
Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI
Chiaro methodology This is the complete Chiaro methodology for SOC 2 readiness and audit: the control library we test…
SolarQuarter
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
The IWR noted that the actual volume of solar power generated was even higher, as electricity consumed directly…
~this week in security~
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, resulting in the serving of malicious ads that could steal a victim's…
toneyalexander.github.io
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
The goal of this project was to define a color space that makes it easier to build inclusive color tools for a variety…
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
FFmpeg 9.0
04 AUG 2026 VIDEOLAN 13 min read FFmpeg 9.0 FFmpeg 9.0: swscale, Vulkan, WebP, asm and a big cleanup FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei”…
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