Discovery Loop

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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.

Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

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

591 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:25:14 UTC blog.google Llama Share 653

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.

Zed DeltaDB

366 ahamez 2026-08-05 19:25:14 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 198

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.

Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If

107 greyblake 2026-08-06 01:25:14 UTC greyblake.com Llama Share 24

Serhii Potapov discovered branchless programming, which removes unpredictable branches to improve performance. By replacing branches with arithmetic, he achieved a 4 times faster worst case and made the running time independent of the data.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

219 ExMachina73 2026-08-05 22:25:14 UTC randsinrepose.com Llama Share 96

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.

Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

14 rbanffy 2026-08-06 04:25:14 UTC quantego.org Llama Share 2

Quantego features three LEGO models of IBM Quantum Systems, with instructions and parts lists available, and an interactive 3D viewer. The models showcase quantum computing concepts, including superposition and entanglement, and a quantum circuit simulator is also available.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

228 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:25:14 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 132

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.

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

276 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:25:14 UTC neon.com Llama Share 68

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.

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

207 lladnar 2026-08-05 19:25:14 UTC blog.fogus.me Llama Share 191

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.

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

155 Xeophon 2026-08-05 21:25:14 UTC primeintellect.ai Llama Share 26

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.

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

528 speckx 2026-08-05 14:25:14 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 257

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.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

203 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:25:14 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 79

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.

Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

12 pradiptasarma 2026-08-06 04:25:14 UTC github.com/pradipta Llama Share 5

wallfacer is a terminal session manager for AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Kiro CLI, and Codex. It indexes sessions from various directories and agents, allowing users to name, tag, group, search, resume, or delete them.

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

113 pella 2026-08-05 22:25:14 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 17

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 ...

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

164 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:25:14 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 106

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.

Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer

6 ksec 2026-08-06 05:25:14 UTC github.com/bashalarmistalt Prefix Share 1

Send a file between two devices using nothing but a screen and a camera. One page displays the file as an endless stream of animated QR codes; another device points its camera at it and reconstructs the file. No network path between the devices, no app, no pairing, no permissions beyond the camera. The payload travels as light. Open it on both devices and go — nothing to install. Works ...

I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

188 calvinfo 2026-08-05 17:25:14 UTC github.com/denoland Llama Share 30

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.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

270 speckx 2026-08-05 20:25:14 UTC runarcn.no Llama Share 236

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.

Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents

5 asamassekou 2026-08-06 04:25:14 UTC github.com/asamassekou10 Prefix Share 2

Ship Safe is an AI security scanner for modern software teams. It runs locally in your repo, finds issues across application code, AI agents, MCP configs, prompts, dependencies, CI/CD, secrets, and cloud-adjacent configuration, then helps you review and apply safe fixes. No signup. No API key required for scanning. Works offline for core checks. AI-backed red-team modes use your configured ...

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

98 robin_reala 2026-08-05 18:25:14 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 62

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.

Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

50 oryx1729 2026-08-05 22:25:14 UTC github.com/morishuz Llama Share 7

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.

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

123 _____k 2026-08-05 14:25:14 UTC science.org Full Share 55

The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1

25 Michelangelo11 2026-08-05 23:25:14 UTC truegrittexturesupply.com Llama Share 2

The vintage comic book aesthetic was shaped by the newspaper industry's color printing technology, particularly the four-color rotary press and newsprint paper, which were used to print comics from the 1930s to the 1980s. The process of creating comics involved color separation, where four images were created for the four printing plates, and a color guide was painted to direct the color ...

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

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The Valley of Webhooks

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

51 shailendraht 2026-08-05 17:25:14 UTC hyperprobe.co Llama Share 40

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.