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Ancient shipwreck cargo reveals surprising global trade secrets of the 1600s

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/ancient-shipwreck-cargo-reveals-surprising-global-trade-secrets-of-the-1600s/
2•gmays•52m ago

We are surprisingly close to prompt-to-model in computer vision

http://stefano.petrilli.xyz/prompt-to-model/
1•stefanopetrilli•2m ago•0 comments

'Financial Times' Issues 103-Year-Old Correction (2017)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/08/542238978/-financial-times-issues-103-year-old...
2•downbad_•3m ago•0 comments

Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/03/russias-svr-borks-public-wi-fis-for-digital-surve...
1•JeremyPatMartin•3m ago•0 comments

Pentagon asks soldiers for 'creative' ideas to punish Iran

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/03/pentagon-asks-soldiers-for-creative-ideas-to-pu...
1•prmph•5m ago•0 comments

History of Backwards Compatibility

https://huguesjohnson.com/features/backwards/
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

now-playing.el, an Emacs interface to the macOS Music app

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-now-playing-el.html
1•kickingvegas•6m ago•0 comments

Fable Denies Hacking Intrusion Response

https://twitter.com/greghunkins/status/2084372241169453389
1•hunkins•9m ago•0 comments

The college earnings gap isn't one number

https://blog.waldrn.com/p/the-college-earnings-gap-isnt-one
1•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

Israeli court halts Ben Gvir's crocodile prison plan over animal rights

https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/israeli-court-halts-ben-gvirs-crocodile-prison-plan-ove...
2•vrganj•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirall – Secure large (terabyte) file transfer. No cloud. No middleman

https://github.com/ok/mirall-app
2•gokohl•13m ago•0 comments

Has the Bitcoin Moved?

https://hasthebitcoinmoved.com/
4•distalx•14m ago•0 comments

Why it's impossible to get relevant news on Google News

https://elgan.com/why-its-impossible-to-get-relevant-news-on-google-news
1•mikelgan•15m ago•2 comments

Author of Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/democrats-autopsy-2024-election-dnc.html
1•brandonb•16m ago•0 comments

I built a page showing every used car priced below market value

https://meshum.com/insights/best-deals
2•loreshpersad•16m ago•0 comments

Context Engineering for Agents: A Practical Guide

https://blog.malt.engineering/dont-take-this-out-of-context-feeding-your-llm-exactly-what-it-need...
1•adunk•17m ago•0 comments

Faster floating point math with Rust's new API

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-float-math-rust/
1•jmintz•18m ago•0 comments

We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here's What I'd Call It

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/we-keep-renaming-ai-coding-heres-what-id-call-it/
1•BerislavLopac•21m ago•1 comments

Deontic Scorekeeping, Commitment Laundering, and the Ring of Gyges

https://elliotmilco.substack.com/p/deontic-scorekeeping-commitment-laundering
1•RGS1811•22m ago•0 comments

The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/02/ai-model-competition-us-china.html
6•yogthos•23m ago•2 comments

Low-Latency Serving of High-Resolution Aerial Imagery at National Scale

https://www.earthscale.ai/research/naip-at-national-scale
1•noahgolmant•24m ago•0 comments

Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/publication/bitterli2026taming/
1•ibobev•24m ago•0 comments

Volumetric FX for the 2D world of The Bad Guys 2

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3799818.3812084
1•ibobev•25m ago•0 comments

AI Trivia Tavern – realtime multiplayer trivia with AI-generated questions

https://ai-trivia-tavern.onrender.com/
1•jbtruats•25m ago•0 comments

How to Read Mathematics [pdf]

https://web.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/media/How_To_Read_Math_88bf1d2d47.pdf
1•ibobev•26m ago•0 comments

Apple's iCloud File Sharing Left Ex-Employees with Access to Secret Documents

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/03/apple-icloud-sharing-ex-employees/
3•speckx•26m ago•0 comments

AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T

https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-capital-spending-hidden-borrowing-bond-i...
3•mapping365•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Polars-fastjson (parse billion of JSON rows in polars)

https://guywaldman.com/posts/polars-dataframe-contributions
1•guywald•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Golars (Go Equivalent of Polars)

https://guywaldman.com/posts/polars-dataframe-contributions
2•guywald•29m ago•0 comments

Ieepa Tariff Refund Process

https://www.ups.com/us/en/shipping/international-shipping/tariffs/tariff-refunds
3•thanhhaimai•30m ago•0 comments

Is Kentucky About to Give Billions in Tax Breaks to Data Centers?

https://kypolicy.org/kentucky-data-center-tax-breaks/
8•petethomas•32m ago•0 comments