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

192 speckx 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 102

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.

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

51 teleforce 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC campion.edu.au Llama Share 17

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.

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

39 rruxandra_l 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC writingruxandrabio.com Llama Share 18

The author argues that the San Francisco tech scene's focus on AI's transformative potential overlooks real-world bottlenecks like regulation and governance, which hinder medical progress. This monoculture of "AGI-pilled" individuals prioritizes hype over empirical truth, leading to misguided priorities and neglect of pressing problems.

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

27 surprisetalk 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Full Share 0

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

35 Anon84 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC data4sci.com Full Share 16

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

Painting with Gaussians

23 yogthos 2026-08-05 13:44:10 UTC yogthos.net Llama Share 0

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.

Faster Than Ninja

35 elasticdog 2026-08-05 13:44:10 UTC build2.org Llama Share 6

The author compared the build times of Ninja and build2 on a project called Xerces-C++ and found that build2 was able to match or exceed Ninja's speed by making different design decisions, such as being a native build system, multi-threaded, and performing explicit header dependency extraction. By disabling certain features and caching information, build2 was able to achieve a 2.2% faster ...

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

19 _____k 2026-08-05 13:44:10 UTC science.org Full Share 0

TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas

26 andrewjneumann 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC tson.io Llama Share 21

TSON is a schema system with immutable, hash-pinned schemas and a Unicode-first superset of JSON. It verifies data against schemas with a single hash, allowing for versioning and concurrent schema updates.

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

158 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 11:44:10 UTC openreview.net Full Share 104

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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

301 dzdt 2026-08-05 11:44:10 UTC wired.com Llama Share 141

A medevac plane crashed in New Mexico due to GPS jamming from a US military exercise, highlighting the growing risk of electronic warfare disrupting air travel. The incident is part of a larger trend of GPS jamming affecting commercial aviation, posing a safety risk to passengers and crew.

Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy

34 dilyevsky 2026-08-05 13:44:10 UTC apoxy.dev Llama Share 0

An Envoy upgrade to v1.34 caused a 15-25% CPU increase due to a regression in the HTTP/2 codec, which was later fixed by reverting to the original nghttp2 codec. The issue was caused by inefficient string plumbing in the oghttp2 codec, which was outperformed by nghttp2's precomputed finite-state machine for header decompression.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

23 cdrnsf 2026-08-05 15:22:10 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 1

Police in Wisconsin used Flock cameras to track a man's interstate travel, finding probable cause to search his car for marijuana. He was arrested on possession charges, raising concerns about police surveillance overreach and the potential for tracking individuals across state lines for minor crimes.

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

333 tosh 2026-08-05 02:44:10 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 187

The author is excited about the new stateless MCP 2.0 specification, which simplifies the protocol and reduces complexity. They've built several MCP tools, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp, and plan to integrate MCP into their LLM tool.

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

139 vincent_s 2026-08-05 12:44:10 UTC vincentschmalbach.com Llama Share 47

TIME.com serves two versions of its website: a full HTML version for humans and a stripped-down markdown version for AI crawlers with ads. The markdown version is used to log ad impressions and contains sponsored content not visible to humans.

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

15 Jimmc414 2026-08-05 13:44:10 UTC righto.com Llama Share 1

The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch was a programmable calculator introduced in 1948, using vacuum tubes and capable of processing 100 cards per minute. It was a significant innovation in computing, combining a vacuum tube and its circuitry into a pluggable module, allowing for easy replacement of faulty components.

Where was Mythos when WordPress fell?

3 patrikgrobs 2026-08-05 15:06:10 UTC patrik.re Prefix Share 0

I am by no means an AI expert, and I get annoyed quickly by people who claim to be experts in the field, because let’s face it, at the end of the day we prompt that API and hope something useful comes out of it. When Anthropic announced the infamous Mythos model in spring of 2026 my entire feed on X was full of experts who were damn sure the Messiah had arrived and that cybersecurity was ...

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

14 MarcoDewey 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC rubinobservatory.org Llama Share 1

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.

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

88 pseudolus 2026-08-05 12:44:10 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 74

OpenAI's internal AI model solved the unit distance problem, a 1946 conjecture by Paul Erdős, and other major tech companies have since used publicly available AI models to solve Erdős problems. The increasing capability of AI has boosted productivity and collaboration in mathematics, but also raised concerns about the role of human mathematicians and the potential for AI-generated papers ...

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

3 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 14:55:10 UTC qwencloud.com Prefix Share 0

Rich content: Supports input of up to 4.5k tokens and dense information layout with images-within-images, enabling complex layouts like newspapers, storyboards, menus, and exam papers to be generated in a single pass. Authentic detail: Supports precise rendering of text as small as 10px, and vividly reproduces fine details such as micro-expressions, pores, and individual strands of ...

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

66 ngoldbaum 2026-08-05 09:44:10 UTC labs.quansight.org Full Share 11

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International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF)

46 djkurlander 2026-08-05 15:03:10 UTC knock-knock.net Llama Share 10

A multinational bank, a US state, and a custom teddy-bear workshop unknowingly joined a phone-fraud botnet. A free API allows users to check if their network was compromised by searching historic data from a honeypot that has recorded over 11.5 million protocol attacks.

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

52 gpi 2026-08-05 14:44:10 UTC franciscotrindade.me Llama Share 56

The article argues that the question of whether to hire junior engineers is misguided due to flawed assumptions about talent retention, industry change, and the role of engineers in an AI-driven world. It suggests that junior engineers are still needed and will continue to be needed, and that companies should focus on creating a collaborative product development process that values engineers ...

“Gravity is worth asking about”

172 nozzlegear 2026-08-05 05:44:10 UTC unsung.aresluna.org Llama Share 104

John Gruber compared ads on Apple surfaces to stickers on laptops, referencing a Steve Jobs joke about Apple not using Intel Inside stickers. Gruber argues that once one ad is added, it's hard to stop the trend, leading to a slippery slope of increasing ads and complexity in digital interfaces.

Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up

7 mapping365 2026-08-05 15:26:10 UTC cnbc.com Prefix Share 0

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari told CNBC on Wednesday that he thinks the central bank should "start slowly moving up" interest rates. Kashkari was one of three dissenters at last week's policy meeting who voted against the decision to hold benchmark rates steady. The policymaker noted that Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh told him, "Do what you think is the right thing to do ...

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

481 luispa 2026-08-04 22:44:10 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 252

Pi is a coding harness that chooses minimalism, coming with only 4 tools and a system prompt under 1,000 tokens, making it cheaper and more performant. Its design allows for extensibility and self-editability, producing industry-leading results even before adding extensions, as seen in case studies with Databricks and Shopify.

BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

16 signa11 2026-08-05 12:44:10 UTC github.com/b-aaz Llama Share 2

A user created a Mandelbrot set renderer using pure BSD make without calling any binaries, pushing make to its limits. The renderer is computationally intensive and inefficient, but allows for unique patterns due to its simple decimal arithmetic implementation.

Bubble Memory

58 jacquesm 2026-08-05 07:44:10 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 20

Andrew Bobeck developed bubble memory, a non-volatile memory technology, at Bell Labs in the 1960s. The technology used magnetic bubbles that could be moved and stored on a substrate, allowing for high-density memory storage.

Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices

14 franze 2026-08-05 15:11:10 UTC images.seroundtable.com Full Share 9

Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds

40 austinallegro 2026-08-05 08:44:10 UTC hannahilea.com Llama Share 7

The user built a Birduino, a device that plays bird sounds when a card is tapped, using a TonUINO audio player, NFC cards, and a deck of bird cards. The project involved setting up the TonUINO, designing a clear acrylic housing, and programming the NFC tags to match the bird cards to their corresponding audio recordings.