Discovery Loop

130 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:36:31 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 51

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.

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

132 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC qwencloud.com Llama Share 36

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro supports complex layouts and precise text rendering, enabling realistic image generation. It offers native rendering of 12 languages, 20+ fonts, and external knowledge incorporation for deployable productivity.

The next chapter of our AI momentum

51 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:36:31 UTC blog.google Llama Share 32

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.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

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Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits

89 iplaypc 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC cnelecar.com Llama Share 64

Oracle is cutting its "Always Free" ARM allowance in half, limiting instances to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of RAM. If you're over the new limit, you must resize or terminate excess instances by August 18, 2026, to avoid automatic termination.

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

87 calcifer 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC sightlessscribbles.com Llama Share 53

The author criticizes the "Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex" where expensive, flashy technology is marketed as a solution to disability, but fails to address the actual problem. They argue that true accessibility requires fixing infrastructure, not upgrading the disabled body.

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

307 speckx 2026-08-05 14:36:31 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 168

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.

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

211 louiereederson 2026-08-05 16:36:31 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 46

Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving the company to form a start-up called Discovery Loop with other AI researchers. They aim to create AI that can improve itself with little human help, accelerating scientific discovery and innovation.

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

101 teleforce 2026-08-05 14:36:31 UTC campion.edu.au Llama Share 29

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.

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

243 cdrnsf 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 123

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.

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

8 shailendraht 2026-08-05 16:48:31 UTC hyperprobe.co Prefix Share 4

Every hour they spend in a war room is an hour they're not building. HyperProbe works the incident for them, alert to confirmed root cause before they've opened their laptop. Node.js · TypeScript · Java · Python · Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Opencode 01 Incidents don't just break production. They break your roadmap. Your best engineers become your on-call team, every ...

Western Sahara

38 brudgers 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 14

Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-western Africa, claimed by Morocco and Polisario Front, with a surface area of 272,000 square kilometers and an estimated 600,000 inhabitants. The territory has been occupied by Morocco since 1976, with a 2,700 km-long wall separating the territory from the rest of Morocco.

The Valley of Webhooks

27 weli 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC weli.dev Full Share 12

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

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Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

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Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

58 Anon84 2026-08-05 14:36:31 UTC data4sci.com Full Share 27

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

Painting with Gaussians

45 yogthos 2026-08-05 13:36:31 UTC yogthos.net Llama Share 4

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.

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

92 rruxandra_l 2026-08-05 14:36:31 UTC writingruxandrabio.com Llama Share 64

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.

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

49 bifftastic 2026-08-05 16:36:31 UTC twitter.com/jeffdean Llama Share 3

Four tech experts, including Sanjay_Ghemawat and OriolVinyalsML, founded Discovery Loop to automate machine learning and accelerate discoveries. The Public Benefit Corporation aims to leverage AI to drive progress in science and engineering.

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

40 MarcoDewey 2026-08-05 14:36:31 UTC rubinobservatory.org Llama Share 3

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.

When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think

4 sahan 2026-08-05 16:36:31 UTC sahansera.dev Prefix Share 0

Then you open the dashboards and find… almost nothing. CPU is low. No pods have crashed. The last deployment was hours ago. By the time you refresh the page, the service has recovered by itself. That was the scene a few weeks ago when I started chasing an intermittent failure in a search backend. The eventual fix was only a few lines. The interesting part was getting there. We already had a ...

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

346 dzdt 2026-08-05 11:36:31 UTC wired.com Llama Share 167

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.

Faster Than Ninja

51 elasticdog 2026-08-05 13:36:31 UTC build2.org Llama Share 17

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 ...

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

44 andrewjneumann 2026-08-05 14:36:31 UTC tson.io Llama Share 39

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.

The Law of Jante (2015)

12 NaOH 2026-08-05 15:36:31 UTC theparisreview.org Llama Share 1

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.

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

178 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 11:36:31 UTC openreview.net Full Share 126

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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

348 tosh 2026-08-05 02:36:31 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 200

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

177 vincent_s 2026-08-05 13:36:31 UTC vincentschmalbach.com Llama Share 72

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

26 Jimmc414 2026-08-05 13:36:31 UTC righto.com Llama Share 3

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.

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

112 pseudolus 2026-08-05 12:36:31 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 103

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 ...