Discovery Loop

552 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:36:15 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 341

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

279 ahamez 2026-08-05 19:36:15 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 140

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

118 ExMachina73 2026-08-05 21:36:15 UTC randsinrepose.com Llama Share 39

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

437 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:36:15 UTC blog.google Llama Share 561

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.

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

72 pella 2026-08-05 21:36:15 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 ...

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

201 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:36:15 UTC neon.com Llama Share 36

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.

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

80 Xeophon 2026-08-05 21:36:15 UTC primeintellect.ai Llama Share 12

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.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

156 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:36:15 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 63

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

153 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:36:15 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 89

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.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

182 speckx 2026-08-05 20:36:15 UTC runarcn.no Llama Share 152

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.

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

133 calvinfo 2026-08-05 17:36:15 UTC github.com/denoland Llama Share 19

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.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

115 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:36:15 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 79

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

10 coconido 2026-08-05 23:36:15 UTC nicolo.xyz Llama Share 3

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.

Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

25 oryx1729 2026-08-05 22:36:15 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

13 shuklaayush 2026-08-05 22:36:15 UTC shuklaayu.sh Llama Share 1

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.

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

39 shailendraht 2026-08-05 17:36:15 UTC hyperprobe.co Llama Share 26

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.

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

54 pseudolus 2026-08-05 18:36:15 UTC cacm.acm.org Llama Share 26

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.

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

452 speckx 2026-08-05 14:36:15 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 228

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

108 _____k 2026-08-05 13:36:15 UTC science.org Full Share 40

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

100 surprisetalk 2026-08-05 14:36:15 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Full Share 9

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

41 abelsm 2026-08-05 19:36:15 UTC norbertkozsir.com Llama Share 38

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

148 weli 2026-08-05 15:36:15 UTC weli.dev Full Share 70

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

42 triska 2026-08-05 19:36:15 UTC sagredo.dev Full Share 1

DHS Wants Protesters' Signal Group Chats

9 sbulaev 2026-08-06 00:08:15 UTC wired.com Prefix Share 1

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking neighborhood “rapid response” Signal group chats as it defends itself in a lawsuit accusing it of violating protesters’ First Amendment rights, according to recent court filings. Attorneys for protesters in the case argue that the move itself is a First Amendment violation. The case, Hilton v. Noem, was filed in federal court in Maine earlier ...

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

104 Anon84 2026-08-05 14:36:15 UTC data4sci.com Full Share 40

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

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

154 teleforce 2026-08-05 14:36:15 UTC campion.edu.au Llama Share 69

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.

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

90 MarcoDewey 2026-08-05 14:36:15 UTC rubinobservatory.org Llama Share 13

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.

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

234 malshe 2026-08-05 20:36:15 UTC wired.com Llama Share 191

Meta's ads included explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material and images of minors, reaching thousands of accounts in the US, UK, and Europe. The company removed the ads after being informed, but critics question its effectiveness in preventing such content.

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

44 lschueller 2026-08-05 17:36:15 UTC securelist.com Llama Share 13

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.

Painting with Gaussians

88 yogthos 2026-08-05 13:36:15 UTC yogthos.net Llama Share 14

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.