Discovery Loop

370 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:59:35 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 215

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

93 ahamez 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 23

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.

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

73 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC neon.com Llama Share 13

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.

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

216 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:59:35 UTC blog.google Llama Share 383

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.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

66 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:59:35 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 21

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.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

33 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:16:35 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 15

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.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

47 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:59:35 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 22

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.

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

53 calvinfo 2026-08-05 16:59:35 UTC github.com/denoland Llama Share 1

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.

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

11 triska 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC sagredo.dev Full Share 0

The Valley of Webhooks

81 weli 2026-08-05 15:59:35 UTC weli.dev Full Share 35

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

29 shailendraht 2026-08-05 16:59:35 UTC hyperprobe.co Llama Share 18

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.

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

26 lschueller 2026-08-05 17:59:35 UTC securelist.com Llama Share 6

Threat actors exploit legitimate cloud services to evade detection and deploy phishing infrastructure. They use platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, and GitHub Pages to host phishing sites due to inherent trust and generous free tiers.

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

368 speckx 2026-08-05 13:59:35 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 202

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.

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

76 _____k 2026-08-05 13:59:35 UTC science.org Full Share 27

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

6 abelsm 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC norbertkozsir.com Prefix Share 1

I built a prototype of a 2D canvas you can put all of your work on: real terminals, running apps and browsers side by side instead of a row of tabs. We, at FlutterFlow, got so obsessed with using it that we built a full product out of it, Campus. It's free and available for macOS now. Next comes the story of how we got here … Just a few years ago, development was organized in a pretty ...

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

75 surprisetalk 2026-08-05 14:59:35 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Full Share 3

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

9 pseudolus 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC cacm.acm.org Prefix Share 4

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Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

129 teleforce 2026-08-05 14:59:35 UTC campion.edu.au Llama Share 54

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.

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

60 lladnar 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC blog.fogus.me Llama Share 63

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.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

24 robin_reala 2026-08-05 18:59:35 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 8

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.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

9 malshe 2026-08-05 19:48:35 UTC wired.com Prefix Share 0

Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED. The ...

Western Sahara

83 brudgers 2026-08-05 15:59:35 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 56

Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-western Africa, claimed by Morocco and Polisario Front, with a surface area of 272,000 square kilometers and an estimated 600,000 inhabitants. The territory has been occupied by Morocco since 1976, with a 2,700 km-long wall separating the territory from the rest of Morocco.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

76 Anon84 2026-08-05 13:59:35 UTC data4sci.com Full Share 37

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

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

60 MarcoDewey 2026-08-05 14:59:35 UTC rubinobservatory.org Llama Share 8

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.

I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

42 devanshp 2026-08-05 16:59:35 UTC naomibashkansky.com Llama Share 74

The user resigned from OpenAI and joined Conduit as a Founding Researcher to work on building telepathy through thought-to-text models trained on non-invasive neural data. They believe Conduit's audacious vision of a future where humans interact with AIs through thoughts is highly plausible and optimistic, and they're excited to be part of a team working on this ambitious problem.

Painting with Gaussians

69 yogthos 2026-08-05 13:59:35 UTC yogthos.net Llama Share 13

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.

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

210 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 11:59:35 UTC openreview.net Full Share 141

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Stop sending me your errors

17 speckx 2026-08-05 16:59:35 UTC kramkow.ski Llama Share 0

You're upset about receiving error messages as text/plain parts in multipart/alternative emails. This can confuse users who prefer plain text and make their email client switch to HTML.

Faster Than Ninja

71 elasticdog 2026-08-05 13:59:35 UTC build2.org Llama Share 26

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 ...

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

407 dzdt 2026-08-05 11:59:35 UTC wired.com Llama Share 201

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.