Substack writers, you need a website

170 speckx 2026-07-28 17:15:25 UTC elizabethtai.com Llama Share 117

Writers should not make Substack their digital home, as it's short-sighted and can derail long-term visibility on the internet. Instead, they should treat their website as the definitive source of truth and use platforms like Substack as distribution pipes.

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

263 AnhTho_FR 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC blog.doubleword.ai GoogleT5 Share 108

Modern linear attention variants are complex, and it is not easy to see what they are designed to achieve. a state kernel performs the only inter-chunk scan, producing the state entering each chunk and resolving its delta errors. the resulting matrices can be used to construct the causal akkakkakk interaction matrix, which is used for decoding if only one new token is available at the time. ...

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

111 tmtvl 2026-07-28 17:15:25 UTC sbcl.org Llama Share 36

SBCL has released new versions with various bug fixes, optimizations, and minor incompatible changes. The updates include improvements to the compiler, documentation, and platform support, as well as fixes for issues related to type checking, memory management, and foreign function calls.

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

155 ModelForge 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC sebastianraschka.com Llama Share 17

Kimi K3 is a scaled-up version of Kimi Linear with a new LatentMoE component and attention residuals. It improves inference efficiency and validation loss, but adds 4% training and 2% inference cost.

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

158 speerer 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC slow-journalism.com Full Share 82

A beautiful quarterly publication which revisits the events of the last three months to offer in-depth, independent journalism in an increasingly frantic world. Read more about DG. Subscribe Slow Journalism in your inbox, plus infographics, offers and more: sign up for the DG newsletter Sign up

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

98 gslin 2026-07-28 18:15:25 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 44

Researchers at Anthropic used Claude Mythos Preview to discover improved attacks on cryptographic algorithms, including HAWK and AES. These attacks significantly weaken HAWK and improve the speed of AES attacks, but do not currently affect production systems.

The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade

55 lkurtz 2026-07-28 18:15:25 UTC apple.com Full Share 104

There’s more than one way to get your next iPhone. You can lease with our new program, Apple Upgrade; shop the latest carrier deals; finance with Apple, or buy with a one-time payment. Have questions about what’s best for you? Chat with a Specialist (Opens in a new window) online or in a store.

MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless

35 Eldodi 2026-07-28 19:15:25 UTC blog.modelcontextprotocol.io Llama Share 14

The MCP protocol has released a new version with a stateless protocol core, improving scalability and reliability for agentic workflows. This release includes breaking changes, new extensions, and security hardening, making MCP a more mature and production-ready protocol for enterprise AI applications.

How Do I Profile eBPF Code?

87 snaveen 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC naveensrinivasan.com Llama Share 6

To measure the performance impact of eBPF code, a simple C test harness is created to measure file open performance, discarding the first 10% of results as a warmup period. The perf tool is used to profile the eBPF code, resolving symbols to analyze where the issue is and pinpointing where optimizations are required.

Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

78 apetuskey 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC github.com/reflex-dev Llama Share 24

XY is a fast, interactive, and customizable Python charting library for web, notebooks, and static exports. It supports large datasets and offers features like hover, pan, and zoom.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

438 codebyaditya 2026-07-28 13:15:25 UTC lji.org Llama Share 205

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology and Scripps Research developed an HIV vaccine that trains immune cells to see past HIV's defenses by prompting the body to make broadly neutralizing antibodies. The vaccine resulted in the best HIV-fighting antibody response ever seen in primates and human trials have now started.

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

43 hn_acker 2026-07-28 17:15:25 UTC w3.org Llama Share 1

W3C's Web Fonts technology, starting with WOFF in 2010, revolutionized web typography by allowing custom fonts without DRM. The technology has evolved with WOFF 2.0 and now Incremental Font Transfer aims to improve font loading efficiency and support for complex scripts.

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

128 garyhtou 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC mlugg.co.uk Llama Share 81

The Zig compiler's incremental compilation feature allows for fast rebuilds by detecting changed code and recompiling only that, patching the resulting bytes into the output binary. The feature involves caching source files' generated ZIR, tracking dependencies between analysis units, and using a linked file abstraction to handle incremental linking.

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)

240 ronfriedhaber 2026-07-28 11:15:25 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 103

Kimi Linear outperforms full attention in various scenarios with superior performance and efficiency, reducing KV cache usage by up to 75% and achieving up to 6 times decoding throughput. It can be a drop-in replacement for full attention architectures with a pre-trained model and open-source code available.

Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library

76 rbanffy 2026-07-28 15:15:25 UTC cacm.acm.org Llama Share 37

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.

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

69 surprisetalk 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 50

A music theory book is rewritten to present harmony as a scientific theory, considering physical and computational phenomena. The book derives three fundamental music phenomena: the Major Scale, the Standard Chord Dictionary, and the difference between Major and Minor Triads.

The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)

13 jxub 2026-07-28 19:15:25 UTC aramcoworld.com Full Share 4

Uv 0.12.0

34 hallvard 2026-07-28 19:43:25 UTC github.com/astral-sh Llama Share 12

uv 0.12.0 improves correctness, safety, and compatibility with specifications, but may break some workflows. It includes changes to build systems, lockfiles, and dependencies, and removes support for legacy compression methods and SSL_CERT_FILE/DIR overrides.

Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

107 bookofjoe 2026-07-28 15:15:25 UTC anthropeum.com Llama Share 31

Players guess the origin and time period of 10 Met artifacts daily, with points awarded for proximity in both dimensions. Scores are then ranked on a distribution curve with other players who participated that day.

How to survive boiling water

391 cainxinth 2026-07-28 07:15:25 UTC taxa.substack.com Llama Share 86

A college student's abandoned milk carton became a 27-year dorm tradition, sparking a story about the value of discarded items. A scientist investigates a probiotic tea, discovering that its bacteria can survive boiling water due to spore-forming properties.

DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it

155 adulion 2026-07-28 11:15:25 UTC ciphercue.com Llama Share 95

DMARC adoption is low, with 68.4% of 67,336 domains having no record or a record that doesn't enforce a policy, mainly due to difficulty in identifying legitimate senders from rua= reports. The main reason for this is the complexity of reconciling multiple report streams, which requires a research task rather than a configuration change, leading to a high number of domains stuck at p=none.

Donate to GrapheneOS

171 charliebwrites 2026-07-28 19:15:25 UTC grapheneos.org Llama Share 34

GrapheneOS is supported through donations, which are used for developer payments, hardware, infrastructure, and legal fees. Donations can be made via GitHub Sponsors, Bech32m address, BIP47 payment code, Wise, local bank transfers, PayPal, or Interac e-Transfer.

Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux

5 ghaziwali 2026-07-28 19:56:25 UTC github.com/ghaziwali Prefix Share 0

Hulios is an eBPF-powered, transparent Tor VPN gateway for Linux. It secures outbound network traffic by redirecting TCP sockets and DNS queries through an embedded Arti (Tor client) instance and a localized Hickory-based DNS resolver. By operating at the kernel socket level via cgroup hooks and policy routing, Hulios implements robust leak-resistant boundaries without modifying runtime ...

Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification

317 doener 2026-07-28 15:15:25 UTC citizens-initiative.europa.eu Full Share 101

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Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

66 pimterry 2026-07-28 15:15:25 UTC unawatch.com Full Share 56

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So, you want to make a game engine (2023)

42 kugurerdem 2026-07-28 16:15:25 UTC lisyarus.github.io Llama Share 26

The user discusses the pros and cons of creating a custom game engine, including the benefits of freedom from corporate decisions, optimization for specific needs, and learning opportunities, but also notes the challenges of engine development, such as lack of features and potential burnout. The user proposes a definition of a game engine as a set of tools and libraries designed to help make ...

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

742 krembo 2026-07-28 08:15:25 UTC data.jma.go.jp Full Share 193

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The most advanced robotic servicing satellite–that we know about

18 GlenTheMachine 2026-07-28 18:15:25 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 1

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Mission Robotic Vehicle, a satellite servicing spacecraft with two flexible robotic arms, into geosynchronous orbit. The MRV will perform life extension, inspection, and upgrade services for satellites in orbit.

Deflock Casa Grande

210 mooreds 2026-07-28 19:15:25 UTC deflockcg.com Llama Share 71

Casa Grande residents are concerned about Flock cameras being used for mass surveillance, not just license plate tracking, and want clear rules, public oversight, and accountability. They demand stronger contract language, warrants for sensitive searches, and consequences for staff misuse.

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

185 andor 2026-07-28 10:15:25 UTC support.apple.com Llama Share 130

Apple has released patches for several security vulnerabilities in its software, including CVE-2026-39875 and CVE-2026-64691, which could allow remote attackers to cause system termination or corrupt kernel memory.