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How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html
71•tomlockwood•1h ago•34 comments

Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
490•nateb2022•6h ago•230 comments

The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar

https://www.harpguitars.net/history/grunewald/12-string.htm
20•bilegeek•1h ago•8 comments

If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2026-05-09-digital-consciousness.html
23•eatitraw•1h ago•17 comments

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/
696•jonbaer•12h ago•67 comments

VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-unity
42•martz•3h ago•7 comments

Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees

https://mymodernmet.com/magnolia-ancient-flowers-beetles/
92•speckx•4d ago•35 comments

Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

https://blackhole.plav.in
368•aplavin•3d ago•111 comments

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64
26•klaussilveira•2h ago•7 comments

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

https://status.claude.com/incidents/mfdtrknpxghq
7•croemer•50m ago•6 comments

Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch

https://blog.jaysmito.dev/blog/04-fast-lockfree-queues/
13•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity

https://misago-project.org/t/removing-reactjs-from-the-codebase-and-adapting-htmx-for-ui-interact...
14•Ralfp•2h ago•2 comments

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

https://status.claude.com/incidents/lhqp09kxq7pb
23•flyaway123•4h ago•8 comments

Shay Locomotives

https://www.shaylocomotives.com/
15•Rygian•2h ago•1 comments

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc
213•maxloh•13h ago•107 comments

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q9w3x9qn2o
95•pingou•3h ago•81 comments

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts

https://en.andros.dev/blog/d7ed8b07/modern-email-can-be-built-from-borrowed-parts/
30•andros•3h ago•6 comments

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

https://beyondloom.com/decker/
332•tosh•17h ago•76 comments

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html
894•eecc•14h ago•690 comments

We have proof automation now

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2026/07/26/zstd-lean.html
187•zdw•15h ago•71 comments

I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated/
133•lee_ars•4d ago•111 comments

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/introduction-to-data-oriented-design.pdf
193•tosh•18h ago•53 comments

How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram
49•donw•3h ago•3 comments

Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used

https://fontsinuse.com/
86•open_•12h ago•10 comments

Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4

https://getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-with-the-dx-core-4/
27•saikatsg•3d ago•23 comments

Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg

https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation
146•xterminal•16h ago•60 comments

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

https://faculty.lsu.edu/kharms/files/flexner_1939.pdf
95•jxmorris12•3d ago•4 comments

8086 Emulator Inside Scratch

https://turbowarp.org/1248315967?size=640x400
13•rickcarlino•4d ago•1 comments

Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/chrome-arm64-linux-available
7•twapi•1h ago•2 comments

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-firs...
410•saaaaaam•18h ago•287 comments
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Why I Left Google DeepMind

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left-google-deepmind
67•eatitraw•2h ago

Comments

fuadnafiz98•43m ago
Someone send this to Tucker Carlson
negamax•43m ago
You (the org) brought fire to the masses. How that fire is used (to build or burn the cities) is not for you do decide

Stand by and share your ethics concern. But this isn't misalignment. A lot of AI use cases will be constraint/reigned in through governance evolution at every scale

tw04•24m ago
Comparing it to fire isn’t really an apt comparison.

You developed the nuclear bomb. Would you give free access to every human on the planet to do with it as they see fit? Or would you demand responsible guardrails from the start?

AI companies want it both ways. This will both redefine humanity as we know it, but also nobody should try to enforce any guardrails. Why? Because it might hurt profits.

Either it’s snake oil and not as revolutionary as claimed, or people should be facing prison time for trying to claim “I just invented it and gave everyone access, I can’t be held responsible for what happens next”.

negamax•6m ago
Nuclear wasn't governed until the destruction was seen. There's no reason to believe AI wouldn't follow a similar path
vintagedave•43m ago
Very long to read, but highly principled. I feel his desperation. Powerful people can too easily do little, and ignore their consciousness. I appreciate he named those he spoke to; it came across as fair, and makes them accountable for what they did or did not do.
readthenotes1•41m ago
I am outraged to find gambling in this casino!

What sort of ethics bubble was the author living in to believe that Google was anything but solely focused on achieving shareholder value?

pjmlp•35m ago
The same that believes in HR marketing like Do No Evil.
Ygg2•31m ago
Pretty sure they ditched that motto long time ago.
pjmlp•29m ago
They did, still doesn't change the kind of bubble we are talking about.
andriy_koval•26m ago
Still there:

And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

Ygg2•32m ago
I wonder if in a few years, there'll be heads of Google paraphrasing the old skit "You know, in hindsight, allowing autonomous AI drones to carry fusion bombs was a bad move, but for that one quarter we really earned a lot of shareholder value"
aleph_minus_one•35m ago
Primary source: https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind
fragmede•31m ago
more comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925271
gyanchawdhary•27m ago
painfully entitled and arrogant
hmokiguess•7m ago
However way people that are deep into the cog wake up I support it. Once the truth was seen you didn't bend and stood by your principles, it must have been very challenging to navigate that from the inside with your entire identity tied to and associated to the thing you ended up growing out from. Appreciate you, welcome to your new life. May you find peace and continue to do good work next.
skew-aberration•21m ago
Not only that but his outrage is narrowly focused on contemporary US politics. Billions of people access food, shelter, medicine, education, etc, only by the rapidly diminishing leverage their labor provides (or doesn't provide) them. These people presumably never so much as picked up a book, or evenly briefly entertained a thought about a person outside their own immediate social circle.