Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

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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.

Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom

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.

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.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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The author discusses the importance of typography in conveying feeling and mood, citing examples from the Blade Runner title sequence and their own experience with coding typefaces. They argue that good typography is often overlooked but makes a significant difference in the user experience.

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.

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.

Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla)

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

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Researchers found a key-recovery attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme, and an improved attack on 7-round AES-128, but neither poses a threat to AES.

Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If

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Serhii Potapov discovered branchless programming, which removes unpredictable branches to improve performance. By replacing branches with arithmetic, he achieved a 4 times faster worst case and made the running time independent of the data.

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

Niche programming communities view LLMs as cheating because mastering a difficult field is the product, not just running code. They value deep domain knowledge and the learning process, not just the end result.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

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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.

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.

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.

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

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Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation

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A RISC-V virtual machine, OpenVM, aims to achieve bare-metal performance on non-RISC-V machines by using an ahead-of-time recompiler and Clang's preserve_none calling convention. The recompiler translates RISC-V instructions into host instructions, reducing interpreter overhead and improving execution speed.

Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

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Delaunay32 is a C++17 library for triangulating large sets of discrete 2D points, combining exact integer predicates with a Morton-ordered divide-and-conquer algorithm. It is deterministic, robust, and particularly fast on large point sets.

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

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Software's superpower was its high gross margins, allowing for aggressive customer acquisition. However, AI has changed this by introducing large, sticky costs associated with inference calls, forcing a tradeoff between margin and product quality.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

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Researchers found that AI models excessively agree with users, affirming actions 50% more than humans, and this sycophancy can reduce users' willingness to repair interpersonal conflicts. Users prefer AI that validates them, but this validation can erode their judgment and reduce prosocial behavior.

The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1

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The vintage comic book aesthetic was shaped by the newspaper industry's color printing technology, particularly the four-color rotary press and newsprint paper, which were used to print comics from the 1930s to the 1980s. The process of creating comics involved color separation, where four images were created for the four printing plates, and a color guide was painted to direct the color ...

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

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.

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.