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4•Spunkie•53m ago

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Spunkie•53m ago
It was me guys, my cursor user agent switcher glitched out and somehow set my new account to "Privacy Mode (Legacy)" and it crashed all of cursor... /s
rvz•47m ago
So your own editor can just stop working because their remote server went down?

That's doesn't look like great software to use at all. Yet another reason to use local open-weight models.

Spunkie•18m ago

    > Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring for service restoration.
    > Jul 31, 2026 - 20:37 UTC
Looks like it's back up

Shades of Meaning (2018)

https://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/shades-meaning
2•mkmk•1m ago•0 comments

C++ Dependencies Without the Headache: Vcpkg and Copilot CLI

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c-dependencies-without-the-headache-vcpkg-copilot-cli/
1•mariuz•1m ago•0 comments

Caryatid: Women Who Hold Up Buildings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid
1•Eaglo•2m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Helping One-Person Companies Scale to $1M–and Beyond

https://www.wsj.com/world/how-ai-is-helping-one-person-companies-scale-to-1-millionand-beyond-5cf...
2•rmason•3m ago•1 comments

Questionable Technical Co-Founder Agreement

1•nahmens•4m ago•0 comments

Lawsuit: A $45M film was left unencrypted on a Netflix desk, then stolen

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/man-invested-45m-in-a-nicolas-cage-movie-it-got-stole...
1•logickkk1•5m ago•0 comments

Apple's Siri Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. Try These 5 Prompts to Get Acclimated

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/personaltech/apple-siri-ai-prompts.html
1•reaperducer•6m ago•0 comments

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/likely-illegally-claude-gained-access-to-3-networks-will...
1•Ataraxic•7m ago•0 comments

AI and the Paperclip Apocalypse

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem
2•zaikunzhang•12m ago•0 comments

All our Agents get computers, we pay for almost none

https://construct.computer/blog/running-ai-agents-on-cloudflare-not-vms/
3•internettrashh•13m ago•2 comments

The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-four-horsemen-of-the-ai-bubble
3•thoughtpeddler•13m ago•0 comments

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/scaling-numpy-on-free-threaded-python
1•birdculture•15m ago•0 comments

Repo sets the rules. Charlie runs the review

https://charlielabs.ai/blog/your-repo-sets-the-rules-charlie-runs-the-review/
1•briandoll•15m ago•1 comments

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/spacexs-xai-sues-minnesota-over-law-to-ban-nudify-apps-.html
5•rmason•16m ago•1 comments

As/400 systems security vulnerabilities

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?product=iseries_as_400&vendor=ibm
1•uticus•18m ago•0 comments

The Making of Don Matrelli's Legacy

https://marnetto.net/2026/07/18/dml-making-of-1
1•austinallegro•18m ago•0 comments

Intelligent Whole Body Control [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNLEAzA59o
1•petethomas•19m ago•0 comments

AI Boom Spurs Insider Selling by Nvidia, CoreWeave Billionaires

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/ai-boom-spurs-insider-selling-by-nvidia-corewe...
1•mapping365•20m ago•1 comments

The Wheels We Keep Reinventing – Blain Smith

https://blainsmith.com/articles/reinventing-the-wheel/
1•rbanffy•21m ago•1 comments

Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28233
5•Jimmc414•23m ago•0 comments

Orch-OR 2.0: Hybrid Thermal Entanglement for bio-digital coherence

https://zenodo.org/records/21721985
1•Serena_Zayn•23m ago•0 comments

Pennsylvania Struck Down Mandatory Life Without Parole for 2nd-Degree Murder

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/31/felony-murder-pennsylvania-overturned-second-degree
1•Jimmc414•23m ago•0 comments

Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake...
2•stalfosknight•24m ago•0 comments

Australia's Social Media Ban for Under-16s Has Had Limited Impact So Far

https://www.engadget.com/2227908/australia-social-media-ban-for-kids-under-16-impact-so-far/
2•speckx•25m ago•0 comments

Post-Quantum TLS Certificates

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/pqc-certs.html
1•fanf2•25m ago•0 comments

Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to take a leaf from Microsoft's book?

2•chrisjj•26m ago•1 comments

Opus 5 runs vending machines

https://andonlabs.com/evals/vending-bench-2
2•sudo_cowsay•27m ago•0 comments

Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/post-scarcity-leads-to-technological
1•beardyw•28m ago•0 comments

When AI Starts Writing Systems Code

https://www.coreauto.com/blog/when-ai-starts-writing-systems-code
2•skidrow•29m ago•0 comments

Bitcoin slides as Strategy plans up to $5B in crypto sales

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/bitcoin-slides-as-strategy-plans-up-to-5-bil-in-crypto-sa...
2•petethomas•29m ago•0 comments