Discovery Loop

584 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:27:34 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 370

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.

Zed DeltaDB

297 ahamez 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 147

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.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

130 ExMachina73 2026-08-05 22:27:34 UTC randsinrepose.com Llama Share 54

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.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

464 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:27:34 UTC blog.google Llama Share 585

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.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

220 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:27:34 UTC neon.com Llama Share 39

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.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

167 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 102

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.

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

100 Xeophon 2026-08-05 21:27:34 UTC primeintellect.ai Llama Share 18

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.

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

82 pella 2026-08-05 21:27:34 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 9

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 ...

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

165 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:27:34 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 67

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.

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

123 lladnar 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC blog.fogus.me Llama Share 137

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.

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

468 speckx 2026-08-05 14:27:34 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 231

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.

I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

53 DearAll 2026-08-05 21:27:34 UTC twitter.com/nikitabier Full Share 67

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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

200 speckx 2026-08-05 20:27:34 UTC runarcn.no Llama Share 165

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.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

121 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:27:34 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 89

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.

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

20 coconido 2026-08-05 23:27:34 UTC nicolo.xyz Llama Share 17

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.

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

141 calvinfo 2026-08-05 17:27:34 UTC github.com/denoland Llama Share 22

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.

Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

28 oryx1729 2026-08-05 22:27:34 UTC github.com/morishuz Llama Share 1

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.

Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation

22 shuklaayush 2026-08-05 22:27:34 UTC shuklaayu.sh Llama Share 5

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.

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

62 pseudolus 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC cacm.acm.org Llama Share 29

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

239 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 11:27:34 UTC openreview.net Full Share 164

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

42 shailendraht 2026-08-05 17:27:34 UTC hyperprobe.co Llama Share 28

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.

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

109 _____k 2026-08-05 14:27:34 UTC science.org Full Share 44

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

104 surprisetalk 2026-08-05 14:27:34 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Full Share 9

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

70 robin_reala 2026-08-05 18:27:34 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 50

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.

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

46 abelsm 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC norbertkozsir.com Llama Share 43

The author created a 2D canvas called Campus, which allows users to work on multiple projects and apps side by side, and it has become a popular tool for remote teams. Campus is free, available for macOS, and has a peer-to-peer networking architecture that allows users to share work and collaborate seamlessly.

The Valley of Webhooks

152 weli 2026-08-05 15:27:34 UTC weli.dev Full Share 70

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

43 triska 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC sagredo.dev Full Share 1

The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1

7 Michelangelo11 2026-08-05 23:27:34 UTC truegrittexturesupply.com Prefix Share 0

Just about every illustrator on the planet has a soft spot for the warm, nostalgic aesthetic of vintage comics. The visible dot patterns, uneven, mis-registered print and cheap newspaper stock offer a stark contrast to modern offset printed comics and graphic novels. For all the love the aesthetic gets, few of us know how vintage comics came to look this way, or what technologies were used to ...

Online Friends Are Real Friends

60 Tomte 2026-08-05 19:27:34 UTC toska.bearblog.dev Llama Share 44

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.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

107 Anon84 2026-08-05 14:27:34 UTC data4sci.com Full Share 41

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