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Airtable Acquisition Is 'Kick in the Gut' for Unicorns and Their Backers

https://www.wsj.com/tech/airtable-acquisition-is-kick-in-the-gut-for-software-unicorns-and-their-...
1•donohoe•1m ago•0 comments

TV's 25 best true-crime shows

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/06/best-true-crime-tv-shows-ever
1•andsoitis•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: QWERTY MIDI – Isomorphic Layout MIDI Controller

https://beijaflor.io/blog/07-2026/querymidi/
1•yamadapc•2m ago•0 comments

Agent Plugins

https://agent-plugins.org
1•rochansinha•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Startup ideas from customer complaints, in seconds instead of months

https://blink-ideas-web.onrender.com/
1•drewgallagher•15m ago•0 comments

Disney+ Cracks Open the Door to TikTok Creator Videos

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/business/media/disney-tiktok-videos.html
1•bookofjoe•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: VS Code Extension – Semantic Code Search (Semble)

https://github.com/SeanPedersen/vscode-semble
1•sean_pedersen•18m ago•0 comments

The Moon is Down; I have not heard the clock (2021)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7nAvPLfidGG54XquJ/the-moon-is-down-i-have-not-heard-the-clock
2•Ariarule•19m ago•0 comments

OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages

https://github.com/Pr1nted/Open-Doctrines
2•Pr1nted•24m ago•1 comments

I built fingerprint unlock for Mac (no Magic Keyboard) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3lk-PNA6I
1•Timothee•30m ago•0 comments

How much faster could racehorses get?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-horses-have-stopped-getting-faster
1•jprs•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Plan Review – independent review for Claude Code plans

https://github.com/dachev/plan-review
1•blago•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BlazeRules – YAML rule engine for streaming data, upto 5M records/SEC

1•jspuri•34m ago•0 comments

What it takes to build agent infrastructure yourself

https://twitter.com/harsehaj/status/2079593790814527998
1•gmays•38m ago•0 comments

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging
3•herbertl•38m ago•1 comments

Open source Cloud AI agents

https://www.krowoc.com/
1•nikonruslan7•42m ago•0 comments

The following is a valid DOS COM executable

https://oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow/117045701876951834
1•birdculture•43m ago•0 comments

PLS Try My OS

https://sites.google.com/view/taco-so-test/home
3•TACOCODER•48m ago•1 comments

New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-...
23•champagnepapi•52m ago•22 comments

Equity Is Worth More Than Cash Because of Optionality

https://peter.website/equity-beats-cash
1•shachaf•52m ago•0 comments

The Investors Whose SpaceX Shares Vanished Before They Could Cash In

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/spacex-ipo-spv-investors-2698a174
3•chirau•52m ago•2 comments

Space to cook: notes on engineering leadership

https://ianmccrystal.com/posts/notes-on-engineering-leadership/
1•ogundipeore•57m ago•0 comments

Hardware Devices That Support GNU/Linux

https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/
2•Vanessaroulette•57m ago•0 comments

Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/
3•petethomas•58m ago•0 comments

Dictionary Compression in Materialize

https://materialize.com/blog/dictionary-compression-in-materialize/
1•nate_stewart•58m ago•0 comments

I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11

https://trevmex.com/post/824245295374303232/my-son-found-a-world-atlas-in-a-thrift-store-so-i
1•ilimllza•59m ago•0 comments

Meta fined $567M in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lz3wr2rlo
5•tartoran•59m ago•0 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567M over harms to children's mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
3•devonnull•59m ago•0 comments

Curating Crime and Punishment: What 10 Images Reveal About American Justice

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/06/crime-punishment-america-photos-archive
1•greenie_beans•1h ago•0 comments

European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/08/06/european-firms-afraid-of-us-tech-kill-switch-but-...
1•gpi•1h ago•0 comments
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Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging
3•herbertl•38m ago

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jdw64•20m ago
>really missed having a corner of the internet that was all my own.

Starting a blog because I missed having my own space turned out to be a pretty good choice. Tending to a digital garden is surprisingly calming for the mind.