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A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/

217•aanet•2d ago•43 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge

101•epestr•3h ago•28 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731

643•tosh•16h ago•386 comments

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

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/

237•moelf•12h ago•84 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/

686•RickJWagner•21h ago•763 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame

347•piotrgrabowski•16h ago•88 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486

22•csmantle•6d ago•2 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...

242•wglb•8h ago•45 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer

111•zdw•6d ago•23 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/

210•aagha•15h ago•68 comments

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html

13•sbulaev•30m ago•1 comments

Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Abu_Hureyra

7•dieselgate•4d ago•0 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413

305•Meleagris•9h ago•148 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...

377•inigyou•1d ago•346 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale

241•moonikakiss•16h ago•204 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...

5•01-_-•38m ago•0 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...

92•yk•3d ago•34 comments

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html

4•Korwell•21m ago•0 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html

17•denismenace•3d ago•0 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/

169•MarcoDewey•19h ago•38 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/

185•artninja1988•17h ago•176 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...

5•rbanffy•33m ago•0 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/

173•cckolon•6d ago•22 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...

474•delduca•17h ago•339 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice

151•jnord•21h ago•102 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/

290•poly2it•23h ago•141 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/

193•m3h•23h ago•52 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych

70•theanonymousone•15h ago•4 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html

71•birdculture•4d ago•7 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...

201•Bender•13h ago•133 comments