Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

353 speckx 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC kagi.com Llama Share 128

Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

490 darccio 2026-08-21 10:41:33 UTC annas-archive.pk Llama Share 329

AI companies are secretly buying and destroying physical books to train their models, threatening human knowledge. Anna's Archive is calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article

49 aakil 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC github.com/adnanakil Llama Share 35

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

311 dares2573 2026-08-21 10:41:33 UTC api-docs.deepseek.com Llama Share 101

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text and supports three methods to provide an image: base64 data URL, external http(s) URL, or Files API file_id. The model can analyze charts, describe pictures, read text from screenshots.

What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

36 speckx 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC blog.8ball.space Llama Share 16

Search results have become less accurate due to the rise of AI-generated content, prioritizing length and keyword density over usefulness. This shift is eroding the skill of research itself by reducing users' need to critically evaluate sources.

c100

18 tosh 2026-08-21 15:16:33 UTC caligra.com Full Share 6

Meet the Caligra c100: the developer terminal that blends a precision keyboard with a compact performance workstation.

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

74 gavide 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC lina.sh Llama Share 6

The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

323 throw7 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC san.com Llama Share 171

A grand jury in Ohio declined to indict a man accused of vandalizing an automatic license plate reader camera, dismissing charges. The incident is part of growing backlash against Flock cameras used by law enforcement across the US.

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

68 bkd9 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC catalystneuro.com Llama Share 51

Large language models' progress is reported as what the best model can now do, but a second direction focuses on how cheaply a given level of capability can be bought. The cost per task has decreased significantly over the past six months, with some models costing 56 times less than before.

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

51 speckx 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC precastreinforced.co.uk Llama Share 14

The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

36 pppone 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 12

The Hubble Space Telescope's CCD detectors have been exposed to varying levels of radiation damage over 24 years, with fits to time series data showing both accurate and physically absurd results. These findings highlight the complexity of Low Earth Orbit and motivate continued monitoring of radiation damage for future spacecraft missions.

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

98 ksec 2026-08-21 12:41:33 UTC ixuvo.com Llama Share 35

TigerBeetle, a financial ledger database, prioritizes extreme mechanical sympathy by eliminating dynamic memory allocation and using zero-copy direct I/O to achieve high throughput rates with predictable tail latencies.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

168 marcomezzavilla 2026-08-21 10:41:33 UTC htmlcat.net Full Share 43

A small, opinionated collection of compact notes about useful HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features.

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

43 ankitg12 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC martin.kleppmann.com Llama Share 27

This article discusses the problems with using "Yes/No/Cancel" buttons in computer programs, which can cause confusion and frustration for users. The author argues that these labels are often ambiguous and don't clearly convey what each button does, leading to unnecessary complexity and user annoyance.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

204 spankibalt 2026-08-21 07:41:33 UTC remapradio.com Llama Share 118

Sid Meier's Pirates! was a groundbreaking game released in 1987 that defied genre conventions, combining elements of action-adventure, strategy, and role-playing games. The game's unique design has been praised for its innovative mechanics and thematic depth, which have influenced many other games since its release.

Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout

15 cainxinth 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC invertingvision.com Llama Share 0

NASA sent five robotic spacecraft into orbit around the Moon in 1966 and 1967, utilizing a camera system developed by Eastman Kodak. The Lunar Orbiter's camera was originally designed for satellite surveillance programs like SAMOS and Corona, but its technology was adapted for lunar exploration after NASA expressed interest in using it.

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

47 ksec 2026-08-21 11:41:33 UTC github.com/yaroslav Llama Share 9

Kino is a Ruby server that uses Rust's Ractors to run Rack apps in parallel, improving performance and reducing memory usage compared to traditional Ruby servers like Puma. Kino achieves this by dispatching requests to multiple Ractors, each running the app in its own small process.

The B-right/V R2 Operating System

3 Bluestein 2026-08-21 15:23:33 UTC tronweb.super-nova.co.jp Prefix Share 0

Although it may not seem like it, what can broadly be termed "personal computing devices" are based on only three conceptual models. In order of their historical appearance, they are: the "stand alone computer model," which first came into being as the batch processing mainframe with a command line interpreter; the "networked stand alone computer model," which saw its ...

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

23 eatonphil 2026-08-21 12:41:33 UTC theconsensus.dev Full Share 0

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

22 karma_daemon 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC duckdb.org Llama Share 1

DuckDB v2.0 replaces its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with a PEG-based parser for easier evolution and runtime extensibility, allowing users to add new syntax without modifying the existing grammar. The new parser supports all DuckSQL dialects and preserves existing AST structures while improving performance on malformed inputs.

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

90 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 08:41:33 UTC toxel.com Llama Share 28

A flat-pack chair with fiberglass panels is designed for efficient manufacturing and compact transportation, reducing shipping costs. It uses curves and interlocking components to form strength without excessive material use.

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

133 signa11 2026-08-21 07:41:33 UTC encore.dev Llama Share 72

To run microVMs on Apple's hypervisor, developers built a custom tool called "Crackling" that allows them to boot the same images on both Linux and macOS. The Crackling tool uses vsock for communication between the host and guest, allowing agents to build and validate features with real infrastructure in the dev loop.

Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3]

8 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC blog.coredump.cx LocalLLM Share 0

Forward declarations in C help minimize compile-time errors by informing the compiler of function existence before use. The && operator has higher precedence than & in C, affecting expression evaluation order.

John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography

7 prismatic 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC theguardian.com LocalLLM Share 0

John Berger's archive offers insight into his life and work, revealing a complex figure who challenged art's political dimensions. Tom Overton's biography captures Berger's legacy, blending admiration with personal fascination and critique.

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

56 dsrtslnd23 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC twitter.com/nvidiaai Full Share 23

NVIDIA AVO continuously inspects, plans, implements, and evaluates, using memory, tools, and execution feedback to build on what it learns along the way. This allows the system to sustain progress across long-running tasks rather than starting over with each model context. Read

The August 17 outage

610 0xedb 2026-08-20 19:41:33 UTC github.blog Llama Share 706

GitHub experienced a 7-hour and 47-minute outage on August 17, affecting multiple services due to capacity failure. The company is accelerating work to improve reliability after two significant incidents in August.

Nothing Doing

11 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 13:41:33 UTC futilitycloset.com Llama Share 7

The quotes describe towns with uneventful histories, while Jára Cimrman narrowly missed a historically significant event in Míšov. These places are marked by their mundane pasts and lack of notable events.

Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support

6 gdcbe 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC plabayo.tech LocalLLM Share 3

Rama 0.4 includes system proxy support, PAC scripts via JavaScript in WASM, and improved HAR export for HTTP/WS data. New crates add ttrpc, gRPC macros, and better protocol inspection with faster peekers.

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

3 chilipepperhott 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC matklad.github.io Prefix Share 0

std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig’s new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring “just use threads” impl. I personally find it neat though — it does this weird thing that I wanted to do for ages, that to my knowledge no one else is doing properly, and implements it better than I thought to be possible. I think this definition is correct, but doesn’t provide ...

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

4 erikschoster 2026-08-21 14:41:33 UTC winonapost.com Prefix Share 0

Following a public outcry over the use of the surveillance, the city of Winona announced on Wednesday that it will not replace its stolen Flock cameras, saying that although the cameras helped solve crimes and prevent harm, the community’s trust in police was more important. The Winona Police Department (WPD) used these automated license plate reader cameras to monitor all of the highways ...