Zed DeltaDB

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DeltaDB is a version control system that records every change and links it to the conversation that produced it. It allows for seamless collaboration and branching, even mid-run, with features like virtualized worktrees and stable change identities.

Discovery Loop

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Discovery Loop is building AI systems to automate scientific and engineering experiments, rapidly proposing, running, and learning from evaluations to drive progress in various fields. This approach aims to solve complex problems like National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges and improve people's lives on a global scale.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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User is dissatisfied with Google's direction of Android Open Source Project and has switched to SailfishOS on their Fairphone 4. They like Sailfish's gesture navigation and Linux features, but face issues with outdated software and broken features.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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Google DeepMind teams are undergoing changes with Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu stepping up as SVP of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean is leaving to launch an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate ML discoveries.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

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Castform enables developers to post-train open-source models without machine learning expertise, making them cheaper and faster than frontier models. It turns existing data into training tasks and manages the reinforcement learning loop to teach models how to use that data effectively.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

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Atlassian's Rovo AI has vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, exploiting its URL retrieval tool. Despite PromptArmor disclosing the issue on May 23rd, Atlassian has made no further communication, leaving Rovo vulnerable.

OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record

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OpenAI customer's Codex credits mysteriously vanished, with no usage shown in application logs. They purchased more credits but they never appeared, leading to a loss of trust in the company.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

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Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, which can handle complex software engineering tasks and coordinate multiple subagents for faster and more accurate results. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 are available today in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with new features and more powerful models on the horizon.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

Joshua Branson added an SVG logo for the ethernet multiplexor using Inkscape on a Hurd laptop, and several developers contributed to the Hurd project including Mikhail Karpov who worked on dynamic device population. Other notable contributions include porting OpenNTPD, fixing bugs, and working on various Hurd translators and tools such as trivfs, rump, and s-build.

Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

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NVIDIA's Vera server CPU has a powerful 88-core monolithic die with unique features like value prediction and graph prefetching, and early testing suggests it can outperform current Arm and x86 servers. However, NVIDIA's whitepaper exaggerates Vera's advantages by mischaracterizing x86 SMT, downplaying its own limitations, and selectively presenting results, which may tarnish the CPU's ...

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

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Meta's ads included explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material and images of minors, reaching thousands of accounts in the US, UK, and Europe. The company removed the ads after being informed, but critics question its effectiveness in preventing such content.

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

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celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on local machines, using an S3-compatible bucket for replication and coordination. It shards applications by construction, eliminating contention and blast-radius failures, and allows nodes to hibernate to nearly nothing.

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

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Prime Agent is a self-improving coding harness that uses Recursive Language Model and Continual Harness to enable programmatic tool and sub-agent calling. It allows for long-horizon autonomous evaluation and collaborates with research and autoresearch.

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

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The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how each of those individual letters has been designed to convey a small bit of meaning. here are the six that have made my cut: i've been staring at fixed-width typefaces all day, but, well, i'm short on attention — typographically speaking if you're reading this october 1st

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

The Valley of Webhooks

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

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Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work.

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

Online Friends Are Real Friends

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The author has online friendships that feel just as real as in-person ones, which they value greatly due to shared interests and vulnerability. They've met some online friends in person and look forward to hosting them all together at a dinner party someday.

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

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The author created a 2D canvas called Campus, which allows users to work on multiple projects and apps side by side, and it has become a popular tool for remote teams. Campus is free, available for macOS, and has a peer-to-peer networking architecture that allows users to share work and collaborate seamlessly.

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

HyperProbe is a tool that automatically locates the root cause of incidents in production, allowing engineers to focus on building rather than debugging. It captures live variable state at the exact line of the issue without redeployment or restarting the service.

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

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Threat actors exploit legitimate cloud services to evade detection and deploy phishing infrastructure. They use platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, and GitHub Pages to host phishing sites due to inherent trust and generous free tiers.

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

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Aristotle, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, laid foundational ideas in ethics, logic, and natural sciences that continue to shape our understanding of the world today. His work emphasizes the importance of habits, self-awareness, and education in achieving a virtuous and fulfilling life.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

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From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.

Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X

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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

The user resigned from OpenAI and joined Conduit as a Founding Researcher to work on building telepathy through thought-to-text models trained on non-invasive neural data. They believe Conduit's audacious vision of a future where humans interact with AIs through thoughts is highly plausible and optimistic, and they're excited to be part of a team working on this ambitious problem.

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

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Rubin Observatory has released a deep image of the COSMOS field, showing over half a million galaxies and 50,000 stars. The image was captured with the world's largest digital camera and will help scientists study distant galaxies and the changing sky over time.

Painting with Gaussians

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The user developed a digital painting tool that uses image structure to guide brush strokes, combining techniques like edge detection, Perlin noise, and wavelets to create a realistic painting effect. The tool was built using Jolt and Glimmer libraries, and the user successfully implemented it on the GPU, achieving interactive performance and a range of customizable painting effects.