How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

247 pudgywalsh 2026-08-01 18:34:42 UTC openrss.org Llama Share 63

Google has a history of building products with RSS support, then removing it, which has led to a decline in RSS adoption. This behavior poses a threat to the freedom and openness of the internet, as users lose trust in RSS feeds due to Google's inconsistent support.

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

160 Kaizeras 2026-08-01 20:34:42 UTC zaksa.zip Llama Share 95

A friend, Jim, went from being a struggling bartender and bootcamp attendee to a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, but his lavish lifestyle and reckless spending led to his downfall, including a nervous breakdown and disappearance. His story serves as a cautionary tale about the startup community in Silicon Valley, where many people like Jim are drawn in but ultimately fail, highlighting ...

Diátaxis

77 ryanseys 2026-08-01 21:34:42 UTC diataxis.fr Llama Share 10

Diátaxis is a systematic approach to documentation that identifies four needs and forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. It helps maintainers think effectively about their work and has been successfully adopted in hundreds of documentation projects.

Seedance 2.5

40 njaremko 2026-08-01 21:34:42 UTC seed.bytedance.com Llama Share 10

Seedance 2.5 is a new video creation model that can generate high-quality, long-form videos with greater control and creativity, allowing users to produce complex stories and scenes with ease. The model has improved capabilities in multimodal reference generation, editing, and lighting control, making it suitable for various industries such as education, manufacturing, and film production.

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

91 juhopitk 2026-08-01 18:34:42 UTC leodemoura.github.io Llama Share 33

A soundness bug in Lean's kernel was reported and fixed on July 27, allowing a proof of False to be accepted. The bug was only reachable through metaprogramming and has been fixed along with other related bugs found by nanoda and an AI.

From MIT: AI financial advice is surprisingly good

6 foxtrot8672 2026-08-01 22:27:42 UTC mitsloan.mit.edu Prefix Share 1

People are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for financial advice, but will following it improve their financial standing? “Half of Americans say they are using AI to get financial advice, but we know very little about what kind of advice they’re getting and whether they’re acting on it,” said Taha Choukhmane, an assistant professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of ...

But can your calculator run Linux?

40 jandeboevrie 2026-08-01 20:34:42 UTC raymii.org Llama Share 4

The user is interested in running Linux on the HP Prime G2 calculator, which has a powerful ARM Cortex A7 CPU and 256 MB RAM, and has successfully updated an old Linux port to work with the calculator's newer touchscreen controller and keyboard. The user has made a pre-built download available for the calculator, which can be run without compiling the entire Linux system, and has also added ...

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future

59 rbanffy 2026-08-01 17:34:42 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 43

DoesItPlay found that 27% of physical game releases require downloads to function, with 34% of PS5 and 50% of Xbox Series X games needing them. This trend is seen as a disregard for physical games by larger companies.

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

164 0x54MUR41 2026-08-01 14:34:42 UTC nostarch.com Llama Share 74

The book covers advanced programming topics including macros, Unicode strings, and object-oriented programming. It also covers concurrent programming, exception handling, and advanced parameter implementation.

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

34 speckx 2026-08-01 19:34:42 UTC censys.com Llama Share 20

CISA issued an alert warning of increased threat actor targeting of internet-exposed PLCs in Water and Wastewater Systems, causing boil-water notices and manual operations. Exposed hosts include 4,148 Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, 4,117 Siemens, and 2,072 Schneider Electric devices.

YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview

72 theanonymousone 2026-08-01 21:34:42 UTC sfstandard.com Llama Share 27

LemonLime's CEO apologized for offering job interviews in exchange for permanent tattoos, claiming participants chose their own designs. The startup, a YC graduate, has faced criticism for its marketing ploy, which some see as desperate.

NetBSD 11.0

177 jaypatelani 2026-08-01 18:34:42 UTC blog.netbsd.org Llama Share 74

NetBSD 11.0 is released with various ISO images, including CD-ROM and DVD options, and users are advised to check installation notes for their architecture. The release includes fixes for security issues, such as hdaudio and ipfilter vulnerabilities, and open pullup requests will be committed to the stable branch for the upcoming 11.1 release.

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

233 throwaway2037 2026-08-01 13:34:42 UTC github.com/burntsushi Llama Share 158

Ripgrep occasionally crashes with a SIGSEGV when searching very-large trees at high concurrency due to a heap metadata assertion failure in MUSL's mallocng. The bug can be reproduced by running a generated tree of 1.8M files with 20GiB of data and searching for an arbitrary string in a loop.

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

66 DSemba 2026-08-01 15:34:42 UTC alexiglad.github.io Llama Share 21

Explorative Modeling is a new paradigm for generative modeling that increases generative expressivity by exploring multiple possible answers during training, improving existing models across images, video, and language. This approach enables end-to-end generation and scales generalization, with gains growing with model and data scale.

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

48 TheWiggles 2026-08-01 17:34:42 UTC kaisel.dev Llama Share 6

The guide provides a quick setup for navigation with typed routes, using sealed classes and exhaustive switches for error-free routing. It uses a List of route objects for history management, with operations like push, pop, and set.

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

28 nanna 2026-08-01 18:34:42 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 1

Lewis Carroll invented Nyctography, a substitution cipher, and the Nyctograph device in 1891 to write in the dark. It uses a system of dots and strokes on a gridded card with 16 square holes to represent an alphabet and record thoughts without light.

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

55 brandur 2026-08-01 16:34:42 UTC brandur.org Llama Share 35

The user compared pgtestdb, a Go/Postgres testing package, to River's schema-based testing approach and found both to have similar setup times around 100 ms. However, River's approach is faster overall due to its optimization of reusing test schemas.

Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem

3 tobr 2026-08-01 21:34:42 UTC blog.gingerbeardman.com Prefix Share 0

2026-07-30 14 mins read true Last week I shared a look at an arcade-faithful version of Asteroids to demonstrate the totally new way of making games that I’ve been working on. It’s called Jinks and it’s a lightweight game-engine, interactive development environment, and a language of sorts. This post is a game design postmortem for BELTRUNNER, an original game built from the same bones of ...

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

61 stasomatic 2026-08-01 16:34:42 UTC seriouseats.com Full Share 42

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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

238 iamnothere 2026-08-01 14:34:42 UTC michaelgeist.ca Llama Share 129

Canada signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, a treaty that critics say enables cross-border surveillance and electronic evidence sharing. The decision raises concerns about human rights and state surveillance powers, despite Canada's previous opposition to the treaty.

Linux on ESP32

84 boveyking 2026-08-01 12:34:42 UTC github.com/grieferpig Llama Share 32

A custom CLIC driver is needed for S31 due to Linux expecting PLIC. OpenSBI was modified for XIP in flash and internal SRAM to save PSRAM memory.

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

272 EugeneOZ 2026-08-01 15:34:42 UTC forum.cursor.com Llama Share 121

Cursor updated its Usage window to display token amount instead of dollar signs. You're not alone in experiencing issues, as some users report increased bugs, including auto-selecting sub-agents despite default settings.

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

32 microflash 2026-08-01 17:34:42 UTC glyphsapp.com Llama Share 7

Glyphs 4 is a leading Mac font editor that allows users to draw quickly, manage efficiently, and release with confidence. It offers various features such as customizable shapes, blending modes, and opacities, as well as a powerful left sidebar and kerning assistant.

Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring

0 2026-08-01 12:34:42 UTC ycombinator.com Full Share

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success" You gotta be in founder mode. Next.js web / React Native app. / Supabase, firebase, and Prisma. / Nest.js for WhatsApp / Open AI and Anthropic APIs for agents / Solidity and web3.js for Smart contracts. / A lot of Typescript.

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

34 wglb 2026-08-01 16:34:42 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 16

Researchers Tara E Brendle and others prove the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n = 4. This result also implies the Jones representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4.

Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity

22 surprisetalk 2026-08-01 15:34:42 UTC rjp.io Llama Share 4

Researchers measured the effect of reserving registers on kernel performance. Reserving registers increases spills and slows down eight of nine kernels, with the ninth kernel showing no slowdown despite a 23 spill increase.

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

241 vinhnx 2026-08-01 03:34:42 UTC microsoft.github.io Full Share 66

RamenHaus

205 oler 2026-08-01 09:34:42 UTC ramen.haus Full Share 102

Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen. So far, 114 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted. Start with the latest entry, click a bowl to continue, or browse the complete index. Inspired by Lauren's Rotating Sandwiches and everyone at Naive Yearly. Ideas, collaborations, and questions: [email protected].

Manual: •.,:;…!?·

107 behnamoh 2026-08-01 10:34:42 UTC type.today Llama Share 22

The article discusses basic punctuation characters, including the period, comma, ellipsis, bullet, and interpunct, and their various uses in different languages and contexts. The Unicode table contains several items related to bullets and interpuncts, which can be used for separating parts in a sentence or indicating omissions.

Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets

23 882542F3884314B 2026-08-01 18:34:42 UTC trufflesecurity.com Llama Share 4

A massive scan of public AI training data found 221,303 live credentials across 6,003 datasets, including keys to cloud accounts, hosted databases, and software. The leak is widespread, with 44% of keys appearing in multiple datasets, and rotation is the only fix to prevent damage from compromised credentials.