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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/
462•theanonymousone•5h ago•220 comments

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-pa...
61•bookofjoe•2h ago•29 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
293•groomlake•7h ago•133 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
6•seg6•43m ago•0 comments

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
325•shaunpud•10h ago•128 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
64•MarcoDewey•3h ago•14 comments

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker
157•andrewpollack•6h ago•92 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/
141•gumby•7h ago•65 comments

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm
7•aboardRat4•5d ago•1 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
29•hakkikonu•3d ago•6 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
357•bhavansig•14h ago•110 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding
38•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
305•882542F3884314B•12h ago•306 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
29•robinpdev•1w ago•1 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
123•electricant•9h ago•23 comments

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/
41•skibz•5h ago•11 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
213•rbanffy•13h ago•336 comments

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
188•geox•6h ago•92 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
94•rfarley04•11h ago•71 comments

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
513•senko•9h ago•336 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
415•aanet•3d ago•97 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
754•tosh•1d ago•451 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
330•epestr•16h ago•93 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
200•ilamont•1d ago•151 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
40•mfiguiere•7h ago•22 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/
72•mmoogle•3d ago•10 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
72•rahen•10h ago•12 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments
65•kkgupta•4d ago•10 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%2...
14•pseudolus•2h ago•4 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
340•moelf•1d ago•143 comments