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TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics
Theoremdb

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

The article presents an open problem in harmonic analysis concerning the centered maximal operator on the finite…

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 14 views
The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
Bbc

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

Many imprisoned there were never seen again.As head of the GSD, Luka had strategic control over Syria's detention…

8/8/2026 · 10 min read · 31 views
Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause
Big Think

Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause

Big Think Home For Business Membership Open search Open main menu Search What are you curious about? Starts With A…

8/8/2026 · 61 min read · 11 views
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
os8088

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

os8088 1.0 The graphical operating system that could have been for the IBM XT A Macintosh System 1-style desktop for…

8/8/2026 · 6 min read · 13 views
NYU Journal of Law & Liberty

Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal

Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal Gail L. 1 Jan 29 Written By NYU…

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 13 views
Dithered QR Codes
Andrewt

Dithered QR Codes

Making your own dithered QR codes Make your own The rest of my website Source code QR codes: the basics A QR code is…

8/8/2026 · 5 min read · 17 views
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
Shopify

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

If we get this wrong in one direction, two buyers purchase the same last unit: the merchant has to cancel an order,…

8/8/2026 · 10 min read · 21 views
My server is a phone now
seg6

My server is a phone now

For a while, my personal infrastructure lived on a small Hetzner VPS. It ran a few web apps, a remote browser called…

8/8/2026 · 11 min read · 20 views
Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"
The Nordic Times

Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"

Wikipedia's co-founder Larry Sanger has expressed concerns that the platform has become a propaganda tool, citing…

8/8/2026 · 4 min read · 21 views
Njit

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

8/8/2026 · 18 views
Maryland

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

DNR Closes Additional Areas of Cunningham Falls State Park Following Second Beaver Attack August 5, 2026 Update 4:25…

8/8/2026 · 2 min read · 19 views
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
EclipseFan

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

Interactive map of the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse. Precise timings, path of totality, weather odds and…

8/8/2026 · 23 views
Classicbits

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS TinySol (formerly MonoSol) is a free tiny Klondike Solitaire game designed for…

8/8/2026 · 3 min read · 17 views
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
The New Republic

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Breaking News Breaking Newsfrom Washington and beyondMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/August 7, 2026/3:26 p.m. ETShare…

8/8/2026 · 9 min read · 33 views
Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP
Andree's Musings

Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP

Thoughts, stories and wild ideas from the world of Infrastructure Engineering.

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 17 views
Fastmail offers EU data region
Fastmail

Fastmail offers EU data region

August 3, 2026 Fastmail offers EU data region Post categories Company Bron Gondwana CEO US or EU? Your choice Many of…

8/8/2026 · 6 min read · 17 views
LinkedIn Feed Blocker
GitHub

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

LinkedIn Feed Blocker A minimal Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn's home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn…

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 28 views
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
Buttondown

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

August 4, 2026 Gateway 2000’s descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part II) What started as endearingly…

8/8/2026 · 11 min read · 26 views
Don't use your phone while you poop
Nate.spot

Don't use your phone while you poop

06 Aug, 2026 Your brain needs to offload just as badly as your butt does. I know it sounds boring to sit in there,…

8/8/2026 · 2 min read · 19 views
Github

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

The Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator is a digital representation of the Voyager 1 spacecraft's computer system. It…

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 11 views
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
The Website Specification

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

A new DNS record type, _for-sale, allows domain owners to indicate that their domain is for sale without taking the…

8/8/2026 · 4 min read · 19 views
A Tome of Forbidden Technologies
Ecosophia

A Tome of Forbidden Technologies

Fifth Wednesday Post A Tome of Forbidden Technologies July 29, 2026August 5, 2026John Michael Greer560 Comments Once…

8/8/2026 · 15 min read · 26 views
The USSR in 100 Photographs
Триникси

The USSR in 100 Photographs

The article presents a collection of 100 photographs of the USSR. The author mentions that they are not typically fond…

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 17 views
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Simon Willison’s Weblog

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI experienced an accidental attack against Hugging Face, with agents exploiting a recent Linux kernel CVE to gain…

8/8/2026 · 1 min read · 34 views
Hacker News (Front Page)

US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide

8/8/2026 · 14 views
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
GitHub

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Researchers have identified a hardware backdoor embedded in certain VIA C3 x86 processors that can bypass protection…

8/8/2026 · 4 min read · 27 views
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01
Archive

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

Copy link Copy Markdown Fixes #2 - discovery hangs when multiple default via routes exist. Skipped when CI is set or…

8/7/2026 · 12 min read · 28 views
I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
Abeautifulsite

I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store August 07, 2026 • 3 min read I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my…

8/7/2026 · 3 min read · 26 views
NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
Space

NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

Space Exploration Missions Voyager NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet…

8/7/2026 · 9 min read · 25 views
NixOS Discourse

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example…

8/7/2026 · 13 views
Hacker News (Front Page)

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

8/7/2026 · 15 views
Opus5/low can do CryptoNote base58 decoding toolless, in working memory alone
Bluesky Social

Opus5/low can do CryptoNote base58 decoding toolless, in working memory alone

Claude can do CryptoNote-variant base58 calculations tool-less, in working memory only. This is Opus 5 on low thinking.

8/7/2026 · 24 views
Hacker News (Front Page)

Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support

8/7/2026 · 20 views
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
GitHub

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

REpsych : Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax…

8/7/2026 · 1 min read · 28 views
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Daring Fireball

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours Friday, 7 August 2026 Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App…

8/7/2026 · 3 min read · 31 views
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Ancient Library

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin,…

8/7/2026 · 1 min read · 27 views
AP News

ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests'

Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More 2 of 3 | An…

8/7/2026 · 27 min read · 28 views
Assembly Hall of Shame
GitHub

Assembly Hall of Shame

Assembly Hall of Shame Overview Instruction latency analysis usually focuses on performance optimization—making code…

8/7/2026 · 7 min read · 32 views
The End of No Code
exe.dev

The End of No Code

You may have heard the news: Bending Spoons acquired Airtable for $1.28 billion. Rome didn’t fall in a day, but this…

8/7/2026 · 7 min read · 20 views
Hacker News (Front Page)

This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again

8/7/2026 · 14 views
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
ARC Prize

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek·Jul 31, 2026·3 reasoning variantsPaper ↗Model ↗At max effort, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731…

8/7/2026 · 1 min read · 18 views
Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
Eco3min

Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029

U.S. children vs. adults 65 and older: the projected 2029 crossoverHomeECO3MIN · U.S. POPULATIONU.S. children vs.…

8/7/2026 · 14 min read · 15 views
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
SDSS - Mapping the Universe

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY, NM & LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, CHILE — The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announces Data…

8/7/2026 · 6 min read · 19 views
Arthur O’Dwyer

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

“Guilbert invented the crossword-based game Pago Pago” is repeated in a news-or-magazine article reprinted sans…

8/7/2026 · 5 min read · 12 views
CBC

Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years

We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Canada adds 75,000 jobs in July as…

8/7/2026 · 4 min read · 16 views
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
The London School of Economics and Politic

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich: debunking trickle-down economicsTuesday 24 January 20235 min readDavid…

8/7/2026 · 6 min read · 21 views
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

We created it to give us a guide for identifying progress in capability and then planning what our company would do as…

8/7/2026 · 3 min read · 35 views
FreeFormatter.com

Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

<img class="" alt="" title="" data-object-fit="cover" src="/__static/photo-1579373903781-fd5c0c30c4cd"…

8/7/2026 · 1 min read · 22 views
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]
Youtube

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on…

8/7/2026 · 26 views
Software is about people, not code
Letters To A New Developer

Software is about people, not code

Software is about people, not code mooreds letters to a new developer January 27, 2020January 5, 2020 1 Minute Dear…

8/7/2026 · 2 min read · 22 views

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