Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

655 speckx 2026-08-21 14:41:26 UTC kagi.com Llama Share 234

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 Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows

156 Edymilson 2026-08-21 15:41:26 UTC canews24.online Llama Share 101

A new study in China found that students using AI tools scored higher on homework but lower on exams without AI assistance. The research suggests a trade-off between short-term benefits and long-term learning outcomes when relying heavily on AI.

I Just Want to Search

53 ssiddharth 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 11

The author laments the decline of search functionality on various platforms, feeling that it has shifted from literal matching to relevance and recommendation. They yearn for a "literal match only" toggle to regain control over their searches.

Kobo can run apps now

42 thepoet 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC bandarlabs.github.io Llama Share 8

Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

375 dares2573 2026-08-21 10:41:26 UTC api-docs.deepseek.com Llama Share 123

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.

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

196 gavide 2026-08-21 13:41:26 UTC lina.sh Llama Share 28

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.

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

0 2026-08-21 17:01:26 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Llama Share

A highly experienced Rust expert will lead the migration of LiteLLM from Python to Rust, focusing on performance and stability. The goal is to create the fastest AI gateway ever built with a gradual rollout at 1B+ requests/mo.

Felony Bench

85 colinprince 2026-08-21 15:41:26 UTC felonybench.com Llama Share 34

Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

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

75 erikschoster 2026-08-21 14:41:26 UTC winonapost.com Llama Share 40

The city of Winona will not replace its stolen Flock cameras, citing community trust as a priority over crime prevention. The decision comes after public outcry and concerns about the potential misuse of surveillance systems.

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

114 speckx 2026-08-21 13:41:26 UTC precastreinforced.co.uk Llama Share 64

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.

Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M

107 djfergus 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC omarchy.org Llama Share 72

The Omarchy Quattro project aims to make a future with malleable computers widely available, prompting the creation of the Omacom Foundation. The foundation will fund and support this mission, ensuring its long-term sustainability and accelerating progress towards making Linux on the desktop a reality.

What happens when a GPU reads memory

16 ibobev 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC blog.doubleword.ai Llama Share 1

The authors of the post are performing a reverse engineering analysis of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU's memory access patterns, specifically for a vector-add kernel. They measure various latency and throughput metrics to understand how the GPU handles global loads and stores.

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

507 throw7 2026-08-21 13:41:26 UTC san.com Llama Share 274

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 We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

73 speckx 2026-08-21 14:41:26 UTC blog.8ball.space Llama Share 42

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.

Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants

55 jader201 2026-08-21 15:41:26 UTC jamanetwork.com Full Share 44

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

73 pppone 2026-08-21 13:41:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 23

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.

Another Better Lower Bound for N=17 Square Packing

5 gus_massa 2026-08-21 16:51:26 UTC gus-massa.blogspot.com LocalLLM Share 0

Google's systems detected unusual traffic from your network, possibly due to automated requests or malicious software. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow you to continue using their services until the issue is resolved.

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

3 arguiot 2026-08-21 17:34:26 UTC circleback.ai Prefix Share 0

Our desktop app captures meetings without a bot and streams them to the cloud. For months, the recording engine was the hardest part of the product to make reliable. We'd fix one class of edge case, ship it, and a new one would surface the next week. Different root causes, same pattern. The engine ran in the render process of our Electron app. We tried the obvious fixes: tighter lifecycle ...

I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport

22 baruchel 2026-08-21 15:41:26 UTC lawrencecpaulson.github.io Llama Share 6

Leslie Lamport's thesis on untyped formalism in specification languages was debated and later revised by the author, who introduced type systems to improve flexibility and detection of errors. The debate 27 years later shows that types have proven their worth, but set-theoretic notations still face challenges with overloading notation and verification costs.

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

17 fbrusch 2026-08-21 15:41:26 UTC vitalik.eth.limo Llama Share 0

Local mixing is a new approach to cryptographic obfuscation that uses a series of transformations to make it difficult for attackers to distinguish between the original circuit and its obfuscated version. The process involves adding reversibility, hardening, gadgetization, mixing, and splitting steps. Gadgetization replaces each gate in the circuit with a more complex representation that ...

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

120 ksec 2026-08-21 12:41:26 UTC ixuvo.com Llama Share 39

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.

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

392 Cider9986 2026-08-21 02:41:26 UTC annas-archive.gl Llama Share 749

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.

A self hosted AI software factory

10 jakelsaunders94 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC blog.jakesaunders.dev Llama Share 5

The author created a fully remote agentic development environment using OpenAI's LLM, Claude, and self-hosted tools like Coolify and Forgejo. They isolated the LLM on its own metal with network bombproofing measures to prevent unauthorized access.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

225 spankibalt 2026-08-21 07:41:26 UTC remapradio.com Llama Share 126

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.

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

11 theletterf 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC passo.uno Llama Share 0

The author tested whether addressing agents directly in documentation improves their understanding, finding that explicit recommendations and clear instructions are more effective than labeling content as "For agents". This suggests that treating humans and agents similarly can be beneficial for both.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

187 marcomezzavilla 2026-08-21 10:41:26 UTC htmlcat.net Full Share 50

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

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

26 cainxinth 2026-08-21 14:41:26 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

62 ksec 2026-08-21 11:41:26 UTC github.com/yaroslav Llama Share 11

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.

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

44 karma_daemon 2026-08-21 13:41:26 UTC duckdb.org Llama Share 4

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.

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

5 unprovable 2026-08-21 16:41:26 UTC github.com/aravpanwar LocalLLM Share 0

A file format that corrupts itself each time it's opened, with the rate determined by a parameter in the filename. The corruption is irreversible and affects the file on disk before it's displayed.