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Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression
DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic storage optimization, including garbage collection an
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Claude make Fable 5 permanent
An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and …
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Regressive JPEGs
One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off.
The Magic of ArenaAllocator, No Leak, No Grow, No What You Think
I got involved to multiple debates regarding recent events, then I realized that some people just came to this forum to watch this language development, and judge it by its cover, without actually using it. After judging, unfortunately, they joined the debates, and provided others with inaccurate...
Hashiwokakero (Hashi Bridges) - Playable Web Version + Zig First Impressions
Hashiwokakero ( Hashi Bridges ) Source Code Play the Web Version Here A zig implementation of the popular japanese game “Hashiwokakero”, using the raylib-zig binding for the graphics. This is my first project using zig, I’m much more familiar with C/C++, for example. I wanted something about e...
Scala on Go
Scala on Go. Sealed types, pattern matching, Option/Either/Try/Future, and immutable collections — transpiled to plain Go with full third-party interop, zero-reflection JSON, and a GoLand plugin. -...
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
From its humble beginnings as a project code-named
Classic console tech tricks
A series of videos explaining the tech behind classic consoles and how various effects were achieved in games.
Another Taste of Verse
Simon Peyton Jones presents a deep exploration of Verse, the experimental programming language being developed at Epic Games, and explains how its design cha...
Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B
How Haskell earned its place in H-E-B's supply chain.
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Lobsters Interview with matheusmoreira about Lone Lisp
A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach
Lots of articles about this. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, J...
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Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
I know. As if what the world needed was yet another blogpost about LLMs and AI tech. Yet there is a pile of things which have been on my mind, and I haven't seen them laid out elsewhere in the way I'm going to write them, and so here we go.
Tech builds on AI. Finance protects the margin.
- The challenge: In AI-native companies, agents now shape compute costs, usage pricing, and revenue recognition by the hour. Finance tools built on monthly extracts and spreadsheets surface what moved the margin weeks after it moved. - The solution: Genie One gives finance a data-smart AI coworke...
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The Protocol Wars in Factories, Nvidia's Thor Modules for Robotics and Edge AI, 'Mind of the Engineer' survey: Embedded Week Insights
This week’s roundup covers the challenges of using different protocols in factories, Nvidia’s latest Thor modules, AI-powered custom test design, and the Mind of the Engineer survey.
ZA/UM Studios to lay off up to 32 workers two months after releasing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies developer ZA/UM Studios has filed redundancy notices with 32 employees.
An edge case for Io.Dir.realpath*() functions
Hi everyone, This was the topic that finally motivated my first post here. Not to try and litigate it, but try and understand it, and perhaps ask what to do about an edge case if the long considered removal were to be accepted one day. I’m pretty new to Zig, but feel I’ve gotten pretty far. I’v...
Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on
Polymarket bettors have cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remain unresolved.
OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again…
Get $500 in Hyperagent credits to build agents that can ship real work - https://hyperagent.com/invite/FIRESHIP500 OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit, this time at the hands of Apple. In today's video, we'll take a look at exactly what they're being accused of and why Apple are only stepping i...
Following the questions where they lead
A profile of MIT Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan explores how she develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure
Acquisition strategies underscore a massive land grab to capture cross-border remittance flows and native stablecoin reserve economics ahead of tight regulation.
Engineering High Performance Parsers (with Zig)
Good breakdown of Data Oriented Design for parsers.
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)
The cost of saying yes has changed
The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.
GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft
Expel links CylindricalCanine to DigiCert's April 2026 breach, where stolen certificates were used to sign Zhong Stealer and 60 were revoked.
Todd Howard says 'the timing is right' for a collaboration with Obsidian
Fallout franchise director Todd Howard confirms a new Fallout game is in the works with sister studio Obsidian Entertainment.
Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
The move marks a major transition for the blockchain as independent engineering groups prepare to maintain the underlying software code through 2027.
The CMMC Pause: The DoD Suspends Phase 2 Requirements
The DoD suspends the CMMC Phase 2 requirements, scheduled to take effect on November 10, 2026, and launches a 60-day reform review.
Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance
The company says its advantage lies in bringing retail customers onchain, but early activity remains dominated by memecoins, while its original tokenization pitch remains small.
“They’re dead if they don’t offer this”: DoorDash’s CLI for agents may be out of necessity
DoorDash announced a terminal tool to let AI agents order food — whether it's good for business is another question.
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Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Article URL: https://stateofopensource.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Points: 252 # Comments: 173
Building a Stabilized "Chase Camera" Rover
Quad-rotor drone shots taken low to the ground are difficult: GPS altitude is fairly rough on accuracy, and obstacle avoidance can get significantly more difficult versus just flying over the everything. Cinema rover drones are less common but do get around a number of these problems, especially...
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Noticing responses to problems; there’s a whole set. The consultant’s reaction to each of these as they arise.
Vector Photonics Develops New PCSEL Packaging Technology
Vector Photonics launches an accelerated manufacturing initiative to address a packaging barrier to the commercial adoption of PCSELs.
Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images
North Korean hackers hide a four-stage OtterCookie payload in SVG files inside fake coding tests to steal browser data and crypto wallets.
Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire
The latest acquisition adds to a string of investments aimed at connecting digital asset markets across Asia.
Kotlin Turns 15: Celebrate the Kotlin Effect
Kotlin turns 15! Create a birthday postcard, share your wish, and explore more ways to celebrate the Kotlin Effect with the community.
Fedichat - Comic Chat for the Fediverse
WELCOME TO FEDICHAT! WHO ARE YOU TODAY?
How to check two function type matches?
/// return true if /// a = b; // a: Afunc, b: Bfunc /// won’t cause a compile error fn match_function_type(Afunc: type, Bfunc: type) bool simply Afunc == Bfunc is not all the cases. by the way, is there a way to capture the compile error?
Why every AI agent decision needs a receipt
AI agents need more than raw data. Learn how structured evidence packets ensure trustworthy, auditable, and verifiable AI decision-making.
You've likely heard "fake it til you make it"...well, Mark has done that, and talks about it here.
You've probably heard the phrase "fake it 'til you make it", right? Well, Mark was once asked to teach a college course...that started the next day. He decided to go for it, and the students thought he'd been doing it for years. The lesson: sometimes you say yes and then figure out how to do it.
Securing the Silicon: The Seismic Shift to Hardware Security
My podcast guest this week is Jason Oberg from Arteris. Jason and I discuss this profound transition toward hardware security, explore how Cycuity’s integration into Arteris is changing the g…
AI frenzy losing steam leaves bitcoin less volatile than South Korean stocks
The day ahead in crypto: July 17, 2026
E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants
EU orders Google to open 11 Android 18 features to rival AI assistants by August 2027, while sharing anonymized Search data under DMA rules.
Labor unions challenge Xbox, GameStop CEO says physical game sales are 'irrelevant,' and Glen Schofield retires - Patch Notes #61
Plus: A free 'good practice guide' for video game writing contracts in the UK.
The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace?
Autonomous defense systems need trusted infrastructure to move telemetry, command data, and AI outputs across platforms, classifications, and allies.
Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing’s own handwriting, telling of his top-...
Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man
Armenia holds Aleksandr Yuryevich Ermakov on a U.S. REvil extradition request, while his lawyers say Washington is seeking a different namesake.
Live markets: Bitcoin slips to $63,000 as the chip rout goes global
A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 it reached on this week's soft inflation print.
LoRa radio communication devices for Raspberry Pi
Use these LoRa add-on boards to send data from Raspberry Pi projects located beyond your home Wi-Fi range.
Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto
Crypto approached the weekend broadly lower as AI stock fatigue and U.S.-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though an RSI near 42 hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.
How an Apple Engineer Pranked Billion-Dollar Lawyers (and Won)
Discover the wild story behind SOSUMI, the iconic Mac alert sound that started as a quiet act of rebellion inside Apple. This video breaks down how a frustrated engineer slipped a joke past Apple’s legal team during the company’s long-running dispute with The Beatles’ Apple Corps. It’s a fascinat...
PhpStorm 2026.2 is Now Out
Welcome to the PhpStorm 2026.2 release overview. This version advances PhpStorm as a platform for your preferred coding agents, models, and AI subscriptions, improves PHP and Laravel support, and deli
Unfolding trees breadth-first in Haskell (2025)
A blog about functional programming
QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves Beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals
QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring
Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization
Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".
How to retrieve function names via `@typeInfo` in zig 0.17.0?
I see some posts here example that older versions of zig allowed to retrieve function names via @typeInfo but I try to do it and there are only field names… const anon = struct { tte: u32, pub fn ttr() void {} }; const stripped = stripNamespace(anon); pub fn main() !void { stripped....
Key Takeaways From PHPverse 2026
On June 9, PHPverse 2026 brought together PHP developers from different backgrounds to watch talks by domain experts, exchange opinions, and even try to catch a running elePHPant. The five-hour live s
Microsoft just open-sourced the app that put Comic Sans on the map
Comic Chat was the '90s IRC client that turned typed chats into comic strips. It's also partly responsible for the digital world's most (in)famous font.
Ether falls twice as hard as bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% as the chip trade unwinds
Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.
This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos
A high-conviction ether straddle hit the tape this week, showing increasing interest in volatility as an asset class.
CISA Adds Exploited SharePoint RCE Zero-Day CVE-2026-58644 to KEV
CISA says SharePoint CVE-2026-58644 was exploited before Microsoft patched it, affecting all supported on-premises versions and enabling RCE.
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced alpha power supporting flexible audito...
Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.
The PHP Podcast 2026.07.16
🎙️ PHP Podcast - July 16, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Joe hosts with Sarah and Holly while running on no sleep. The PHP Tech 2027 CFP opens, a fake PHP 9 pitch appears, we crown Holly the accidental main character of internals, and everyone agrees dark mode flash...
Bitcoin under $64,000 after new U.S. strike on Iran. Trump's China comment adds to uncertainty
Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Pebble Mega Update - July 2026
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to better modern-day building materials
Spot birds not golf
Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to …
Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second
Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a...
Stop the GUARD Act and age verification laws worldwide — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
It always comes back to "protecting the children." It's one of the most convincing ways of getting people to sign on to (or simply support) a bill. But when a goal like this gets shouted about so widely by lawmakers who have a less than sterling record on these issues, we need to consider whether...
Representing GPU device pointers on the CPU host side
I’m making an abstraction over Vulkan based on No Graphics API and I’ve been debating how to represent gpu side pointers on cpu, here’s a small snippet of what it looks like right now in my user code so you get the idea: const Data = extern struct { particles: *anyopaque, // gpu pointer,...
Pride Meetup - Portland OR
I know there are a few of us in Portland, and pride is this weekend. Anyone want to meet up for lunch on Sunday after the parade? If nobody suggests an alternative, my default plan is Veggie Grill @ 1PM since it’s easy and near the festival/parade route. I’m open to suggestions though, I rarely...
The human-in-the-loop is tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Here's how I host my own AIM server
Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.
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Learning a few things about running SQLite
Learning a few things about running SQLite
New falsify release
Recently Martijn Bastiaan, QBayLogic’s COO, invited Well-Typed to come to QBayLogic HQ and give a one-day workshop on falsify, the new property based testing library that I developed for the Haskell Symposium back in 2023 (paper, presentation). QBayLogic is the company behind Clash: a purely func...
Plain-changes - An unique element permutation iterator
While doing Advent of code 2015 day 13 I realized I needed to make some combinations of people around a table. Turns out this concept is called a permutation and well, one thing led to the other until I made my first library ever. You can find it here: https://codeberg.org/T3kla/plain-changes A...
Firefox in WebAssembly
This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser. Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in Chrome: …
Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom’s RE ENGINE team set out to bring path tracing into two shipping titles at once, Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA, each with a different visual identity. Over two years, the RE ENGINE team…
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Your AI is ready. Your data foundation probably isn’t
* Cushman & Wakefield built its enterprise AI core over four years by embedding technologists directly into business units under a product operating model — prioritizing trust and human behavior over the "AI pilot craze." * A capital investment model that requires technology initiatives to be co...
Using AI to build your own software
A few years ago, a friend of mine was stuck. He needed to quickly process over a hundred high-quality images according to a complicated sequence. He was using Photoshop, but it was going to take him days. Initially, he asked for my help, could I do the manual labor? I spent 15 minutes writing a …...
Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for free
This blog post, originally published in April 2024, has been updated to reflect the most modern and convenient ways to install a Tailscale app in Home Assistant and use it for remote access, to accompany a newer video tutorial. You can see the original video here.
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
This CNC hot wire cutter was created specifically for making airplane wings
If you want to build RC airplanes, you’ll need a way to make lightweight wings. 3D printing can work with foaming filament, but most 3D printers have limited build volume. A better method is to use a hot wire cutter to shape foam. Michael Rechtin’s CNC hot wire cutter automates that process acros...
Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms
For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms.
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.
Xcode 27 runner image now in public preview
You can now build and test your Apple applications against Xcode 27 on GitHub-hosted macOS runners. This is now available in public preview. With early access to the latest Xcode…
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.
Unified context: The missing layer for enterprise AI coworkers
* Unified context makes AI decision-ready. Generic assistants stall on real decisions because context is scattered; a shared, governed layer lets AI coworkers work from the same view of the business as leaders and frontline teams. * Genie One is the AI coworker for real work. Genie One uses unif...
From the Captain’s Chair: Mohammad-Ali A’râbi
In this edition of From the Captain’s Chair, we’re interviewing Mohammad-Ali A'râbi, author, public speaker, and software engineer.
Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack
Two TfL hackers get 5.5 years each for the £29 million 2024 attack, which disabled 148 systems, exposed customer data, and disrupted travel services.
Announcing .NET Modernization for Beginners
A free, open-source, hands-on course that walks you through modernizing a real legacy ASP.NET application all the way to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization agent, step by step.
ObservabilityCON 2026: Register today and preview this year's agenda
It’s time to reserve your spot at ObservabilityCON 2025, our flagship observability event, taking place 7-9 October in London.
Godot Community Poll 2026
We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.
The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?
To a sceptic, spending $165K to migrate Bun from Zig to Rust sounds very expensive. But to a realist, shortening a 1-2 year migration down to 11 days opens amazing new opportunities for devs. However, a thoroughly-tested project is required to pull it off.
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
clj-refactor.el 4.0
Hot on the heels of CIDER 2.0, clj-refactor.el 4.0 is out! It’s the first major release of the project in almost five years, and this time around the version bump is not just ceremonial - 4.0 is the biggest batch of user-facing improvements clj-refactor has seen in ages, plus a healthy dose of lo...
Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the the next generation of digital payments.
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.
Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox layoffs
CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth claims the company 'unlawfully fired people without giving notice to or discussing it with the union.'
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.
What’s New in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2
IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 is here! This version brings updates designed to streamline your workflows and help you confidently adopt the latest innovations across the Java ecosystem.
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates
Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Connect more of your apps to Search
You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.
What 10 autonomous film crews taught us about agent teamwork
As part of an internal Google generative media hackathon (for humans), we put this question to the test – specifically, to uncover whether AI agents could work collaboratively in a domain less innately familiar than software development.
Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades
In this blog, we’ll show you our approach and three lessons you can apply to accelerate your own foundation model upgrades using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Google Antigravity,
What’s fixed in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2
This release brings more than 1,300 bug fixes and usability improvements, and it addresses 140 freezes and other performance issues. Learn more in this blog post.
ThreatsDay: Game Cheat Spyware, 24-Hour Ransomware, Chrome Sync Stalking + 12 More Stories
This week’s ThreatsDay Bulletin covers spyware-laced game cheats, fake installers, infostealer, ransomware, phishing kits, actively exploited flaws.
'The goal of design is to efficiently communicate ideas'
Revisiting Stone Librande's classic one page designs GDC talk, for a dose of the good stuff.
ZeniMax Online Studios leadership included in Xbox mass layoffs
The studio head, studio operations director, and studio game director of ZeniMax Online Studios join dozens of senior and lead positions cut.
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Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)
A few words about this book.
Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business
The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to walk away from Linux, or go fork it
Linus Torvalds says Linux welcomes AI tools, telling critics to fork the kernel or walk away - a sharp reversal from his 2024 skepticism.
The Clarity Act is the most important consumer protection effort in years
Consumers should not have to wait for another crisis to get the protections they deserve, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.
30 to 70 PRs a Day: How We Managed to Not Wreck Our Systems
The Honeycomb engineering team set out to double our productivity in a year. This is how we did it, what we did to keep things stable, what it cost us, and what we’re still figuring out.
AI Amplifies Your Existing Practices: Lessons from Our Shift to an AI-First Strategy
In this two-part blog series, I give a detailed report-out on how our Honeycomb engineering team 2. 5x-ed our throughput using AI without breaking everything or lowering our standards for quality.
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
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Pokemon Go owner Scopely 'reorganizes' Stumble Guys team
Pokemon go owner Scopely has decided to 'reorganize' its steam supporting Stumble Guys, affecting a 'small number of employees.'
GPS Hidden Messages - Computerphile
Something odd was going on with the signals broadcast by the GPS satellites. Steven Murdoch of University College London explains how he used statistical analysis to work out what might be going on. To read more about Steven's findings: https://sjmurdoch.github.io/gps-special-messages/ Comp...
Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure
The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.
The Protocol Wars: The Factory Floor's Fragmentation Problem
Instead of replacing legacy OT on the factory floor, the path forward is unified visibility—reading Modbus, OPC UA, and MQTT alongside IT protocols like SNMP in one view.
EMIS Advanced Single Phase and Three Phase Common Mode Facility Power Line Filters
Global EMC solutions provider EMIS introduces the SMF911 and TMF911 series of Single Phase and Three Phase Common Mode Facility Power Line Filters, engineered to provide exceptional electromagneti…
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.
Quoting Linus Torvalds
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one …
What "Memory Compiler" Actually Means: From Bitcells to GDS Tiling
What does a memory compiler actually do? From T-diagrams and 6T bitcells to GDS tiling, LVS, and the symmetry between memory compiler tiling and ML compiler tiling.
Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.
The Developer Has Changed. So Should Developer Conferences
Discover why Docker is co-hosting WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America and how AI agents are transforming software development and developer communities.
New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands
New TELEPUZ malware spreads through ClickFix, then steals browser cookies, logs keystrokes, runs commands, and installs itself as a Windows service.
WHOOP 4.0 without a subscription
An app that makes a WHOOP 4.0 useful without a WHOOP subscription — pairs over Bluetooth, computes everything on your phone, no cloud required. - OpenStrap/edge
New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password
ClickLock Stealer kills macOS apps every 210 milliseconds until victims enter a password, then steals browser credentials, cookies, wallets, and Keych
Code in Space: Redefining Tech Creation with AI and XR
The main message Advances in AI are already single-handedly changing how we interact with technologies. This moment might become the first interaction revolution in roughly 60 years, since the mous
SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
SpaceX shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.
Issue 533
News about the Haskell programming language from 2026-07-16.
Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.
How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going
For the past year and a half, the team building Roc's compiler has been rewriting our 300,000 lines of Rust code into Zig, for reasons I'll recap below. We recently passed an exciting milestone: feature parity with the original compiler!
The most popular bitcoin call option has slipped by $10,000
The day ahead in crypto: July 18, 2026
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.44.0
what is new for perl v5.44.0
Rebooting the internet: inside the open-source project to let AI programs pay each other
The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor
Daxin resurfaces at a Taiwan manufacturer alongside Stupig, a new backdoor that runs SYSTEM commands before sign-in through Windows' logon process.
Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want
A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, mak
Ente – Opening Our Books
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
Bitcoin pulls back to $64,000 after hitting monthly high as bears take control
Profit-taking after bitcoin's $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.
OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push
Ualá’s CEO clarified Tether is acting solely as a financial investor, citing current regional regulations preventing any immediate USDT integration.
U.S. adds four Iran central bank crypto wallets to sanctions, Tether freezes $131 million of contents
The freeze targets TRON-based addresses that previously held over $165 million, preventing those specific funds from being transferred or redeemed.
Forgejo v16.0 is available
Forgejo version 16.0 was released on 16 July 2026. Forgejo is a lightweight, community-developed, self-hosted platform for code collaboration.
The Archaeologist’s Copilot
Lessons from modernizing a Java 1.5 codebase with AI, a stable Docker environment, and test-guided incremental refactoring.
Bring modern package management to Meson's native wrap ecosystem
Modern package management for Meson's wrap ecosystem.
At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.
It’s time to rethink how we measure engineering productivity
The metrics used to measure engineering productivity are obsolete in the AI era. Shifting from velocity to validation fixes roadmaps that keep slipping.
Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover
Zoom fixes CVE-2026-53412, a 9.8-rated Windows flaw that could enable account takeover via network access, plus three privilege escalation bugs.
Introducing Apache Spark 4.2
* Define trusted context for analytics and AI: Metric views create governed business definitions, while vector retrieval, geospatial types, and richer SQL primitives bring AI-native analytics into Spark. * Reach Spark from more applications: Spark Connect, Arrow-first Python execution, improved...
Unified Logs is now in open beta
One searchable view for logs across every Supabase service, with live tail, filtering, and a timeline.
Live updates: ZachXBT calls hardware wallets complete garbage; BTC steady after Korea rate hike
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea's rate hike.
U.S. Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
The nonbinding resolution passed without objection after Bankman-Fried asked for clemency, months after Trump pardoned other major crypto figures, including Changpeng Zhao and Ross Ulbricht.
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A bitcoin wallet dormant since the 2017 peak just moved $383 million
The coins went to a fresh address rather than an exchange, so nothing has been sold yet.
Ether outruns bitcoin as ETF money returns, almost all of from BlackRock's fund
This is not a broad rally as bitcoin is up 4% over the same stretch, and solana, TRON and hyperliquid are all lower.
The lost joy of music piracy
What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.
Two Groups of bitcoin Investors sell on the rise as U.S. inflation lifts prices to nearly $65,000
Two distinct groups of on-chain holders are selling into BTC’s price bounce.
1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
A small nitpicking inconsistency in Zig
// The two are less consistent. const v = T{.x = 1, .y = true}; // why not T.{.x = 1, .y = true} ? const v: T = .{.x = 1, .y = true}; // The two are more consistent. const v = T.declOrTag; const v: T = .declOrTag;
The dailyprog puzzle safety net
dailyprog needs a new puzzle every day. I wrote the first few drafts by hand, then built a generator that writes them with an LLM and validates the output against real sandbox execution. The generator works, but it still needs someone to run it. Pick a pattern, kick off the script, review the res...
G# — A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics
G# is a modern .NET language that brings Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics to the CLR.
The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE
Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I’ve certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been working on building out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Activity…
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The Java Story | The Official Documentary
From its humble beginnings as a project code-named
When a version bump breaks your build, GitLab fixes it
Dependency Scanning Auto-Remediation automatically upgrades dependencies, adapts code for breaking changes, and routes changes for approval.
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