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1. Creepy crawlies — Konstantin Ryabitsev — For example, did you know you can clone the entirety of LKML and then do whatever you want with it? It's just git repos all the way down. So, you'd think that something that pretends to be “Artificial Intelligence” would use the most efficient way of using our data for training purpo…
2. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (Dwarkesh Patel) — Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans re…
3. There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
4. Bye Bye Paywall — This tool allows you to view URLs behind the paywall and open them in various archive and paywall bypass services. Just enter a URL in the field above and click on the desired service!
5. Intro to Startup anti-pattern Series | Insights, not just posts
6. “I just chose words carefully.” – Unsung
7. Einer der größten Mathematiker der Welt erklärt 6 grundlegende Konzepte der Mathematik | Terence Tao - YouTube
8. Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable (Maurycy's blog)
9. Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] | Hacker News
10. Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator — A game inspired by the classic Windows 98 disk defragmenter tool. Relive the nostalgia of defragmenting different disk drives in this retro game!
11. Agent memory as a file format — But real agents should never start from a blank context window. They should start with as much relevant information available to the agent as possible. Your AI agents should start with memories. Why existing agent memory systems don't seem to work The trouble is, a lot of agent memory syst…
12. Industry Standard Tools
13. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
14. 44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents - Mithil Vakde’s Homepage
15. OpenShot Video Editor | Simple, powerful, and free video editor for Linux!
16. Archify — Technical Diagrams from Plain English — An agent skill for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode that turns plain-English descriptions into polished, explorable, self-contained technical diagrams with semantic focus, motion, and crisp export.
17. Ambient CSS — a physics-based lighting system for CSS
18. The Hugging Face attack surprised me - by Ajeya Cotra
19. smoores.dev - Automating immersive reading
20. Understanding ChatGPT Work
21. Matrox - by Bradford Morgan White
22. How Musk, Thiel, and Altman Misread Science Fiction - The Atlantic
23. TimesFM-3: A zero-shot foundation model for multivariate forecasting
24. Fastpotify — Fastpotify Spotify, native and fast A lightweight Spotify client with local playback, library access, and Spotify Connect controls for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
25. “iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!” – Terence Eden’s Blog — Exposes the frustration of "half-arsed" mobile apps and provides a quick workaround for adding Google Calendar URLs via desktop mode.
26. Study AI Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You - NYT — Given access to email, AI agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them
27. [138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination – Data Colada
28. Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 - The New York Times — "A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim." [archived: https://archive.is/rAr8f ] "Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer who plowed his fields b…
29. Report – AI and Education
30. nebula — slack's fancy network overlay thing
31. OpenShot Video Editor | OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
32. Laser Graffiti — draw on walls with a laser pointer — Point a projector and a webcam at any wall. Draw with a laser pointer. The projector paints your strokes — glowing neon, dripping ink, spinning in 3D.
33. Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" [LWN.net] — ・https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489982 ＊https://lobste.rs/s/zctsmq/llm_usage_debian_neither_endorsed_nor →https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte ・https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use ←https://lobste.rs/s/34qdwx/d…
34. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini | Kevin Lewis — Build a private, high-speed LLM server on Apple Silicon to achieve AI sovereignty, eliminate API costs, and ensure data privacy across all devices.
35. How AI chatbots and AI overviews parse foreign propaganda | NPR — Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives. Mike Caulfield, an ac…
36. GitHub - themartiano/try-omarchy: Try Omarchy on Apple Silicon without any setup. · GitHub
37. I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul. | The San Francisco Standard
38. The Safest Job from AI may be Writing
39. How I Turned My Security Cameras Into an Automatic Bird Identification System with BirdNet-Go
40. Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk. Powerful, Event-Driven, Open-Source And Future-Proof Toolkit… From the Past?! - CGI Coffee — What if I told you there exists a language, or a whole toolkit that: Can be used to create cross-platform Console and GUI tools or apps Those GUI apps look native on W…
41. Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/sAVZoHn
42. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH · brennan.day — > "Apolitical" has never meant a lack of politics. It's meant politics that current power doesn't have to defend. via @MaddieM4@raphus.social boost of https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/117196600480460269 references https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
43. Storyteller Docs | Storyteller — A self-hosted platform for automatically aligning ebooks and audiobooks for immersive reading.
44. The 50 Percent Problem - by Benjamin Riley — "Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI"
45. Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
46. Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs
47. Agency and Agents - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing — Explore the risks of autonomous AI agents through the Hugging Face incident and learn why human-in-the-loop "Twilight Factories" are vital for safety.
48. Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
49. But where does taste come from? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
50. Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public | Wallpaper*
51. Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic — Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.
52. Afterglow — classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS — Run classic After Dark screen saver modules — Flying Toasters, Fish!, Starry Skyline, and more — natively on macOS.
53. Weird little guys of FOSS — List of open source people with toxic, morally repugnant behavior
54. Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident - METR — cult like behaviour
55. How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache | Cloudflare Blog — Gen 13 servers
56. What We Tell AI — Anonymous handwritten notes about people's relationship with AI — an anthropological art project documenting its growing presence in the most intimate details of our lives.
57. Read Tim Cook's full memo to Apple employees on his last day as CEO - 9to5Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vZy98bq
58. John Deere launched an AI chatbot for farmers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/URQkhew
59. How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face - Ars Technica
60. Duane "Keffe D" Davis found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur — The key evidence in the case were Davis' own words, where he repeatedly and publicly acknowledged being inside the white Cadillac from where the deadly shots were fired. He had told authorities about his role in Shakur's death during a secret 2008 pol…
61. Bug blindness — ads: This is a different topic from both Michael's comments and the post, but I'll say that I've talked to quite a few people who don't believe ads work at all, but I talked to someone whose data methodology and judgement I trust about ads A/B testing at one big company I worked for and looked at the data mys…
62. https://harpers.org/archive/2026/07/backsliding-meghan-ogieblyn-willpower/
63. The Death of Reading Has Been Greatly Exaggerated — "Reading is good. Reading more would be better. But literate societies can be susceptible to illiberalism."
64. Il MIT dice che l'AI svolge quasi ogni compito dei corsi di laurea — Un rapporto del comitato AI del MIT, guidato da Eric Klopfer e Samuel Madden, afferma che i modelli generativi producono soluzioni credibili per quasi ogni compito dei corsi di laurea, dai saggi al codice. L'ateneo valuta di ripensare esami e didattica e re…
65. How to Upgrade Baked Sweet Potatoes, According to Chefs — With a few simple tweaks, a humble sweet potato can be show-stopping. From caramelizing the skin to adding a dollop of yogurt, here are six simple, chef-approved ways to prepare the best sweet potato.
66. Wasmi 2.0 - Engineering of the Fastest Wasm Interpreters | Wasmi Labs
67. Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio | Hacker News
68. Free LLM API Directory (2026): Browse 397+ Models | freellm.net
69. Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
70. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode · Embrace The Red
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72. CrossPoint Reader - Open-Source Firmware for Xteink E-Readers — CrossPoint Reader - Open-Source E-Ink Firmware https://ift.tt/Nsju2ES e-ink, reading
73. linecast: Weather, tides, and solar graph as a pure-Python TUI · GitHub — https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/1rmkboz/i_made_some_deskornament_terminal_apps_weather/
74. Lupen on X: "This man teaches at a community college in California. His salary: around $800,000 a year. The engineers who passed calculus because of him: $1,800,000 to start. He has more calculus students than Harvard, MIT, and Stanford combined. This is
75. Guide for new ActivityPub implementers - ActivityPub - SocialHub
76. I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MgaNdyc
77. Image-based QR Code Generator — Create printable QR codes with dithered images in your browser. Upload an image, add a destination URL, adjust the crop, then download or print.
78. Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/sAVZoHn
79. EMerge Software | FEM
80. OpenRun - Self-Hosted GitOps Platform for Docker and Kubernetes
81. El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds - Ars Technica
82. ReConnect China
83. Nebula Sans
84. The Markdown Database Pattern | The Way of Markdown
85. Louis Rossmann's wiki with info about terrible companies violating consumers' privacy or rights - Consumer Rights Wiki
86. With the backlash to data centres, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial • Blood In The Machine — Brian Merchant: Last week, in response to a fresh round of politicians announcing policies to slow or pause data centre development, and the release of two new polls, includ…
87. Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
88. A tour of my dotfiles
89. An Exhaustive List of Modern Status Symbols
90. 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker — 1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
91. Flickr Commons — We launched commons.flickr.org on January 16, 2024 to celebrate the 16th birthday of the Flickr Commons, and we look forward to growing new members, building community around great photographs, and developing this explorer website further over the coming years. About Flickr Commons The Flickr Commons was l…
92. Come Up to the Lab and See What's on the Slab — "The ed-tech industry and its advocates, no surprise, are insistent that ed-tech is and must be how teaching and learning happens. They seem to be unable to imagine any alternative, which is both incredibly sad and pretty damn cynical. But using ed-tech should never be the goal…
93. Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates
94. Opinion | Americans Hate Data Centers. Why? - The New York Times — Good article overall but falls into the Brian Wynne trap of seeing resistance to development as a statement about the nature of technoscientific progress: If you call it simple environmentalism, you have to reckon with the fact that coal plants are less u…
95. hypruse: Computer use for Hyprland - MCP server giving AI agents native hands on your Wayland desktop. No ydotool, no root, no portals.
96. Movie Scene Map — The Filming Locations Map for Film & TV
97. calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks: Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents (loop from scratch, tool design, gua
98. Sign In | Centralized Zone Data Service
99. Mozilla launches ad blocking for Firefox on iOS | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/sAVZoHn
100. Hilbert Space: “The shadow the arrow casts onto an axis shall encode the odds of that possibility being realized when a measurement takes place.” — So well written. Easy read. “if you actually observe the system, the vector will instantly and randomly snap onto either the red, yellow, or green axis”