The End of an Era

52 harscoat 2026-07-31 11:51:58 UTC hughhowey.com Llama Share 25

The author discusses the impact of AI on the writing industry, predicting a future where AI-generated books will coexist with human-written ones, and readers will have varying opinions on the authenticity of books. The author advises aspiring and established writers to focus on writing for the love of it, rather than seeking external validation, and believes that the personal connection ...

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

107 theanonymousone 2026-07-31 08:41:58 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Full Share 33

The session you cannot take with you

494 apitman 2026-07-31 04:41:58 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 128

Inference APIs are moving away from a simple, user-controlled model where sessions can be inspected, archived, and replayed, instead returning a mixture of text and provider-bound state that is non-portable. The authors propose a set of rules for inference providers and agent builders to adopt, including making local event logs canonical, storing data explicitly, and providing readable ...

JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master

157 mfiguiere 2026-07-31 04:41:58 UTC github.com/openjdk Llama Share 81

User is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request queue. The suggestion cannot be applied at this time due to these restrictions.

IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats

26 ksec 2026-07-31 09:41:58 UTC engadget.com Full Share 20

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

387 dnhkng 2026-07-31 06:41:58 UTC api-docs.deepseek.com Llama Share 196

The DeepSeek-V4-Flash API is now in public beta with enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark results exceeding V4-Pro-Preview. It supports Responses API format and is adapted for Codex, with unchanged API calling method.

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

0 2026-07-31 12:01:58 UTC tasklet.ai Llama Share

Tasklet is hiring a customer-facing owner to handle support, automate workflows, and improve internal tooling. The ideal candidate is a tech-savvy, charismatic communicator with 1-5 years of experience in a high-agency role.

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

166 Garbage 2026-07-31 07:41:58 UTC blog.google Llama Share 184

The Chrome Security team is using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability discovery and fix hundreds of security bugs faster than ever, aiming for greater resilience and comprehensive remediation. By combining AI-powered vulnerability detection with traditional security testing and mitigation strategies, Chrome is driving towards a browser that is continuously protected without ...

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

692 tomzorz 2026-07-30 16:41:58 UTC github.blog Llama Share 240

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pieces, allowing independent review and merge of each layer. They're built into GitHub, working with existing reviews, checks, and merge requirements.

How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

15 chirau 2026-07-31 09:41:58 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 5

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

581 ai2027 2026-07-30 15:41:58 UTC deepmind.google Llama Share 465

Gemini Robotics 2 is a major advance in robotics, enabling intelligent whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration. It unlocks a broad range of tasks, from cleaning up a cluttered room to complex workflows, and can run locally on-device while adapting to new robotic bodies.

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

228 volumes94 2026-07-30 22:41:58 UTC geospatialml.com Full Share 105

Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all

103 mokshablr 2026-07-31 06:41:58 UTC github.com/mokshablr Llama Share 50

Gander is a tiny, open source Android app that opens various file types offline without permissions or ads. It offers features like search, share, and locate, with automatic updates available through Obtainium.

The Religion of Speed

199 MobiusHorizons 2026-07-31 00:41:58 UTC graybeard.ing Llama Share 90

The pursuit of speed has become a moral position, where moving fast is seen as proof of seriousness, but real speed requires understanding, clear constraints, and well-made decisions. Slowing down means refusing to skip the part where work becomes legible, asking boring questions that ensure progress, not just motion.

The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem

60 fanf2 2026-07-31 05:41:58 UTC fzakaria.com Llama Share 13

The user encountered a frustrating situation where performance improvements in benchmarks did not translate to live-production dashboards due to noisy data, but leveraging a cumulative distribution function (CDF) helped visualize the data and reveal the story behind it. By using various visualizations, including CDFs, ridgelines, and jointplots, the user was able to understand the complex ...

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

743 speckx 2026-07-30 17:41:58 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 447

Security experts warn that generic TV boxes secretly rent users' Internet connections and participate in ad fraud networks. These devices, often marketed as streaming devices, also install residential proxy software that rents users' addresses to anonymous customers.

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

6 4d66ba06 2026-07-31 12:10:58 UTC andre.arko.net Prefix Share 2

At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler and RubyGems been resolved? 3) what has Ruby Central said about the dispute? and 4) what can ...

Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013)

67 jacquesm 2026-07-31 04:41:58 UTC bunniestudios.com Llama Share 3

The author visited a factory that manufactured USB memory sticks and received a raw chip-on-flex to take home. The factory uses manual die placement and automated wirebonding to assemble the sticks, which are then overmolded with epoxy.

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

250 javaeeeee 2026-07-30 15:41:58 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 109

A developer used a generative AI tool to refactor a 150,000-line codebase, reducing input tokens for a specific task by 83% from 159,564 to 27,360. The refactoring process involved breaking down a large file into smaller ones, reducing code duplication and improving the agent's ability to identify the smallest subset of files necessary to read.

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

309 arto 2026-07-30 12:41:58 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 353

The GCC steering committee has accepted a policy against AI-generated contributions over 15 lines of code or text. However, LLMs can be used for research, analysis, and bug discovery as long as the output is not included in contributions.

Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM

36 dilyevsky 2026-07-31 05:41:58 UTC ccsim.fly.dev Full Share 1

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

135 jssfr 2026-07-30 20:41:58 UTC jssfr.de Llama Share 43

The user demonstrated how to inject fake hops into traceroute output using nftables and a python script to generate ICMPv6 responses. This was used to create a hacked display of the Bad Apple music video on a character LCD, similar to the benchmark for hacked displays.

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

87 sciences44 2026-07-30 19:41:58 UTC github.com/memoiremorte Llama Share 12

The Memo-1 is a 65C02 based computer for learning and fun, consisting of a 1Mhz CPU, 32K RAM, 16K ROM, and a 6551 ACIA. It can be linked to a Minitel 1b as a terminal and has options to run code from an external ROM or execute BASIC.

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

186 facundo_olano 2026-07-30 14:41:58 UTC thereader.mitpress.mit.edu Full Share 242

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Premier league bans gambling sponsors

55 paoliniluis 2026-07-30 23:41:58 UTC footyheadlines.com Llama Share 9

The Premier League's front-of-shirt gambling sponsorship ban took effect for the 2026-27 season, eliminating betting companies from jerseys and shifting the commercial landscape. Finance and other sectors now dominate, with three clubs (Sunderland, Nottingham Forest, and Chelsea) without a front-of-shirt sponsor.

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

1101 dickfickling 2026-07-30 18:41:58 UTC uefa.com Full Share 595

CodePen 2.0

174 robin_reala 2026-07-30 18:41:58 UTC chriscoyier.net Llama Share 49

User launched CodePen 2.0, a major update with more work than the original. They showcased new features like live collaboration, block-based email building, and easy deployment of small websites.

The AI Aesthetic

329 montroser 2026-07-30 23:41:58 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 149

New design idioms emerge with each zeitgeist, some becoming permanent while others fade as fads change. AI has introduced unique patterns like streaming text, shimmering text, and tiny icons that may spread to other software interaction paradigms.

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

140 cgorlla 2026-07-30 18:41:58 UTC ctgt.ai Llama Share 68

Researchers trained an American model on the outputs of a censored Chinese model and found that the student model did not learn the teacher's censorship behavior. The study also showed that distilling a strong teacher can provide domain-specific gains, and a well-taught 120B model can outperform frontier open releases at realistic token budgets.

Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

89 ernestrc 2026-07-30 22:41:58 UTC rune.build Full Share 39

Rune 1.1 makes Rune free for personal use and adds a perpetual commercial license, a workspace symbol index, first-class Python support, an Emacs editor, and substantial improvements to SSH workspaces.