ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

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Codex is a powerful coding tool that completes tasks end-to-end, powered by OpenAI's frontier models. It automates routine work and improves quality with thorough designs, testing, and code review.

The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich

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The power set lattice on natural numbers has many interesting properties, including being universal for all countable orders and having copies of the rational line and real continuum within it. Additionally, there are uncountable chains and antichains in this lattice, with infinite coinfinite sets playing a special role as automorphic images of one another.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

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This model is hosted by one provider and forwards requests directly, with prices often lower due to caching and discounts. It offers metrics such as throughput, latency, TTFT, scores on evaluations and real-world traffic signals for its suitability.

Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug

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Tailscale experienced six months of database corruption issues due to a rare bug in SQLite, which was eventually fixed by the developers. The team worked with SQLite experts to identify and resolve the issue, implementing new logging and recovery processes.

Qwen3.8-2.4T

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This repository contains model weights and configuration files for the post-trained Qwen3.8-Max model, a generation model with features like vision input and non-thinking support. The official Qwen API service provides managed, scalable inference without infrastructure maintenance.

Delta

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Delta is a multiplayer coding environment that connects code and conversations, allowing developers to work together with full context. It's the second half of our plan to build the best place for writing code and discussing it, built on principles from Zed.

Picking berries is my meditation

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The writer enjoys picking redcurrants alone, finding it a source of solitude and quietness to process life's tension. As they pick, they notice the birds and appreciate the simple beauty of nature, letting go of thoughts and worries.

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

Principia Mathematica by Whitehead and Russell introduced concepts like referential transparency, type, domain, alpha renaming, and free/bound variables in 1910.

Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

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The Antiqua-Fraktur dispute in 19th-20th century Germany was over the use of blackletter typefaces like Fraktur versus the Antiqua style, with each side gaining ideological connotations. The dispute ultimately led to the prevalence of Antiqua-style typefaces, particularly after Nazi Germany's preference for it.

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

The punched card tabulator

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Herman Hollerith invented the first electric-powered counting machine, revolutionizing data processing and laying the foundation for modern computers. His punched card tabulator was a critical success in the 1890 US census, leading to widespread adoption by governments and businesses worldwide.

2026 Eclipse Webcams

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Flutter 3.47

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Flutter 3.47 is released with new updates, including standalone material_ui and cupertino_ui packages, improved performance, and tooling enhancements. The release also prepares for iOS 27, macOS 27, and Xcode 27 updates.

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

Dr. Tim King, a key figure in Amiga's software history, passed away at the end of July after developing AmigaDOS and other operating systems. He studied computer science at Cambridge University before co-founding Perihelion and UK Online.

Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?

The author prefers targeting Common Lisp for code generation due to its high expressiveness and abstraction over implementation, allowing them to supervise the AI's output more effectively. This niche language provides a better fit for their expertise and workflow, enabling elite-level performance from the AI.

Grok 4.6

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Grok 4.6 is released with improved long-running agents and interactive/visual work capabilities, achieving frontier intelligence across several benchmarks. It's available now in Cursor and Grok Build with a free trial for the first week.

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

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The author presents an alternative approach to building Single-Page Applications (SPAs) using HTML over WebSockets, which eliminates the need for a JavaScript framework and API. This method involves sending pre-assembled HTML from the server to the client through a persistent WebSocket connection.

Come for Eniac, Stay for Univac and Skeduflo

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As you are reading this post, you are almost certainly looking at a computer … a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. As I look around my shared workspace, I can see, without moving from my desk, 6 computers besides my own as well as a slew of smartphones. This is simply the world in which we live. But the world in which John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert were living in the early ...

Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

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Researchers created a benchmark to measure AI models' ability to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry, testing 7 models and discovering over 500 previously unknown materials. The models were able to find novel, stable candidates that meet multiple properties but struggled with synthesizing them in a lab.

The Three-Stroke Problem

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The three-stroke problem in Penpot's WebGL renderer is chaotic due to various stroke styles, types, and shapes. The system requires careful management of multiple variables to achieve desired results.

Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

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US supermarkets face a shortage of canned sardines due to high demand and environmental issues. Ocean conditions have disrupted fish populations, forcing suppliers to struggle with limited catches and strict fishing limits.

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

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A Chrome logo appeared thinner on a colleague's computer due to JPEG decoding optimization, which uses partial IDCT scaling for small-scale images. This technique skips high-frequency details and only decodes lower frequencies, resulting in a thicker appearance when scaled down.

From rubber boots to Copa: When MicroProse Soccer revolutionized football

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User har spilt klassikeren MicroProse Soccer fra 1988 på Commodore 64, Amiga og DOS. Spillet er en teknisk triumf med bananskruende gameplay og ikoniske replikser. User var imponert over hvordan det ble til et perfekt utformet arkadespill på en 8-bit prosessor.

Breaking the WAL

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Carl, a database nerd, used Antithesis to track down the WAL-Reset bug in SQLite 3.51.3 after it was fixed for a longstanding issue that had been present since 2010. He successfully identified and verified the bug within an hour using his skills with Claude.

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

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AI bots scrape website content to train AI models, with some belonging to companies and others reselling data. Robots.txt can block unwanted scraping, but effectiveness varies among agents.

Pixel Watch 5

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Pixel Watch 5 builds upon its predecessor with proactive Gemini Intelligence, advanced fitness features and breakthrough Health Guardian capabilities. It offers improved GPS tracking, strength training workouts and enhanced sleep monitoring for a more comprehensive health experience.

Shade Map

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

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Engineers now plan before building, using AI to speed up design and decomposition into small PRs for review. This approach optimizes code reviews and product validation by allowing feedback on working software early on.