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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (tawc) is an application that allows users to run Linux CLI and graphical programs on…

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

Voltair, a YC-funded startup building autonomous drones for earth observation, is hiring a Flight Test Engineer in San…

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

# Summary AI systems excel at solving complex mathematical problems not primarily through superior reasoning, but…

Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

Thunderbird's design team is undertaking a comprehensive redesign of the application's calendar feature to modernize its…

BriskDB

BriskDB is an open-source database system that transforms SQLite files into a sharded database with parallel write…

TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

TreasuryDirect will transition to ID.me for login authentication starting September 2026, with the new system becoming…

Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China

Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.

I Remain a Skeptic

The author argues that despite four years of hype around large language models (LLMs), there is little concrete evidence…

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

OpenAI Must Reassure Investors After a Wave of High-Profile Exits

OpenAI is losing its leaders in cascade as it approaches a public offering that could value the company at $1 trillion.

Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions

The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

Japan's 1978 JIS X 0208 character encoding standard contained several "ghost characters" with mysterious origins and no…

Printytron – Type it. 3D Print it

Printytron is an AI-powered 3D design tool that generates print-ready STL files from plain English descriptions without…

The AI Situation in Software Development

The article examines practical challenges of using AI in software development, focusing on three main issues: the effort…

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Secondhand booksellers worldwide have noticed an unusual surge in bulk orders, with suspicion that AI companies are…

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis

The author criticizes Cloudflare for losing its focus on core infrastructure excellence in pursuit of becoming a broader…

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

Zig's I/O interface underwent a major overhaul called "Writergate" (late 2023–August 2025), replacing generic types with…

Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

Hi! This is my little project introducing quasicrystals animations with some parameters.

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

Yadda 3.0.0, a BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) library for JavaScript, has been released with significant…

Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline

X has published the source code for an algorithm filter used in its For You timeline during Brazil's 2026 election,…

Reddit Joins The S&P 500 And Triggers Massive buys

Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18.

GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Xorshift Generators

Xorshift generators are a widely-adopted family of pseudorandom number algorithms based on XOR and bitshift operations,…

India Is Training 1 Crore Youth in AI: Could Web3 Get Left Behind?

India has put a hard number on its next technology-skilling push: one crore young people trained in artificial…

The Problem

Leading AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, warn that artificial superintelligence could be…

T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language

T3X/0 is a minimal, portable procedural programming language with Pascal-like syntax and BCPL-like semantics that runs…

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders.

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

A researcher achieved a 232x speedup over baseline in a GPU optimization contest by implementing an optimized batched QR…