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

169 speckx 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 90

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.

Citigroup, Idaho, and Build-a-Bear Launched a Coordinated Attack on Me

14 djkurlander 2026-08-05 15:02:58 UTC knock-knock.net Llama Share 1

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.

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

38 teleforce 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC campion.edu.au Llama Share 13

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

24 rruxandra_l 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC writingruxandrabio.com Llama Share 6

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.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

29 Anon84 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC data4sci.com Full Share 15

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

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

22 surprisetalk 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Full Share 0

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Cloudflare OS

6 coloneltcb 2026-08-05 15:13:58 UTC os.cloudflare.app Full Share 4

Cloudflare OS is the open source AI operating system companies can shape around their own context, tools, and rules.

Faster Than Ninja

28 elasticdog 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC build2.org Llama Share 4

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 ...

Painting with Gaussians

15 yogthos 2026-08-05 14:29:58 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.

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

24 andrewjneumann 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC tson.io Llama Share 17

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.

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

288 dzdt 2026-08-05 11:29:58 UTC wired.com Llama Share 133

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.

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

15 _____k 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC science.org Full Share 0

Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet

11 Bluestein 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC koreajoongangdaily.com Llama Share 0

An SK hynix employee jacket is being sold on a secondhand market for 40,000 won, touted as perfect for a blind date due to the company's recent success. SK hynix's logo has become a marker of success in Korea, with employees jokingly referred to as "gods" due to record earnings and expected bonuses.

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

87 pseudolus 2026-08-05 12:29:58 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 69

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 ...

Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy

27 dilyevsky 2026-08-05 13:29:58 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.

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

332 tosh 2026-08-05 02:29:58 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

134 vincent_s 2026-08-05 13:29:58 UTC vincentschmalbach.com Llama Share 45

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.

Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment

21 berlianta 2026-08-05 13:29:58 UTC github.com/cloudflare Llama Share 3

Cloudflare OS is an operating system for AI productivity that allows users to run their own copy of productivity apps securely. It features a sandboxed environment, Gatekeepers for secure access to external services, and a coding agent that can build apps with AI.

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

13 MarcoDewey 2026-08-05 14:29:58 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.

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

66 ngoldbaum 2026-08-05 09:29:58 UTC labs.quansight.org Full Share 11

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

48 gpi 2026-08-05 14:29:58 UTC franciscotrindade.me Llama Share 51

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”

171 nozzlegear 2026-08-05 05:29:58 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.

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

479 luispa 2026-08-04 22:29:58 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 250

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.

Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices

12 franze 2026-08-05 15:10:58 UTC images.seroundtable.com Full Share 2

Bubble Memory

56 jacquesm 2026-08-05 07:29:58 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.

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

462 riadsila 2026-08-04 17:29:58 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 124

Shieldstral is a 3B multimodal safety classifier that adapts to context with a policy-adaptive approach, answering questions like content safety and harm. It matches larger models on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation with a single interface for text and images.

KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs

5 dghez 2026-08-05 13:29:58 UTC ktxconverter.robertborghesi.is Full Share 1

Convert images to KTX2 ETC1S or UASTC with full parameter control, by Robert Borghesi. Built for Three.js, WebGL, and WebGPU workflows.

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

39 austinallegro 2026-08-05 08:29:58 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.

BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

15 signa11 2026-08-05 12:29:58 UTC github.com/b-aaz Llama Share 1

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.