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It's the mathspocalypse apparently. It's also very odd timing considering my experience with LLM and higher order functions. I hate to sound like a broken record, but these fucking weird synchronicities just keep happening. news.ycombinator.com #

Yep schizophrenia is definitely trending now, funny and kinda dark piece from Saturday Night Live⁸. x.com #

Just brushing up on my schizophrenia, seing as it appears to be trending, luckily those lovely americans have plenty of prior art, they are always thinking ahead, real multi-generational mega brains. Just want to get ahead of things cause schizophrenia can be a real bitch. And very tedious. youtube.com #

Netanyahu calls everyone cowards at the UN. The world will always take what you do and say and immediatetly weaponise it against you in the most aggregious way imaginable. That has been my experience over and over and over and over. Life is infact just an escallating continuous stream of such events. Then it will get angry at you for pointing it out. theguardian.com #

A nice bite sized story, slightly nostaligc, about Sun Microsystems, and boredom. bcantrill.dtrace.org #

Colin Breck doesn't want to read what you didn't write. Makes some good points, a bit long winded though imho. Perhaps I have modern day impatience syndrome. blog.colinbreck.com #

Alice GG on attention, tetris and an intentional internet. alicegg.tech #

Just as I am starting to deploy betas of my publishing server, all the tech leaders are now saying that everything AI needs to slow down. Something feels very familiar about this pattern. cnbc.com #

Some super famous maths problem was solved by AI, humans everywhere are like whatever. latent.space #

People are freaking out about a securityappocalypse. We have one year apparently. jyn.dev #

Cloud in a Bottle - containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. cloudinabottle.org #

timgordontg/engrim - A local-first, project-scoped SQLite memory engine that allows developers to freely switch between models and environments, an episodic memory store. github.com #

How do you manage skills files? news.ycombinator.com #

Asahi Linux on M3 asahilinux.org #

Herdr - the agent runtime, run them anywhere, leave them running. herdr.dev #

Cloud in a Bottle - containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. cloudinabottle.org #

timgordontg/engrim - A local-first, project-scoped SQLite memory engine that allows developers to freely switch between models and environments, an episodic memory store. github.com #

How do you manage skills files? news.ycombinator.com #

Asahi Linux on M3 asahilinux.org #

Herdr - the agent runtime, run them anywhere, leave them running. herdr.dev #

Quentin Tarantino bought and runs a 1920s cinema in East Hollywood, LA. thevintagenews.com #

Vista - Video Archives Cinema Club, Los Angeles - I really like the idea of boutique cinemas. vistatheaterhollywood.com #

Pentagon's 3 million people get their own ChatGPT and Grok. techcrunch.com #

Polymarket raises $300 million from Trump Jr's investment fund. techcrunch.com #

After 15 years as Apple CEO, Tim Cook steps down. semafor.com #

OpenClaw 2.0 released openclaw.ai #

Zara launches Lefties in Liverpool, a low cost clothes store run by robots. theguardian.com #

Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prim and tons of other characters from Predator to Winnie the Pooh dies aged 85. theguardian.com #

Looks like Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face. businessinsider.com #

Open letter from 100 big tech companies waning about looming AI cyber threat problem. axios.com #

Amazon is now a member of the YouTube Shopping affiliate program. Good for content creators. engadget.com #

Big rise in cyberattacks seen on US infrastructure, including 100+ water systems in July. techcrunch.com #

Eric Weinstein on special science corner All-In Podcast episode. World keeps on worlding. podcastindex.org #

walgit — a git server that is one binary in front of an object store github.com #

Uk first customer to Ukraine's military industrial complex AI lemonade stand. implicator.ai #

Microsoft found to be embeding invisible watermark uuids into images created by MS Paint and Photos apps. xusheng.dev #

Always be selling. theguardian.com #

Iranian hackers shutdown UK power plant for 4 days. telegraph.co.uk #

Trump is making beautiful data centers. axios.com #

US and Canada are fighting again. bbc.com #

I thought this week‘s All-in Podcast was particularly good. youtube.com #

Material science papers still pulling out the most base abstracts after all these years. nature.com #

Instagram has a new logo theverge.com #

Under 15s social media ban blocked by courts in France theguardian.com #

Bluesky release Bluesky Protocol Services. atproto.com #

As much as I'm not a massive fan of intelligence agencies, I can't help but think Bond was a much better PR act for the UK than Bin Face. theguardian.com #

Scientists are studying agent turf wars. Kind of interesting. If you are into turf wars you will love this, otherwise if you are regular person quite worrying. techcrunch.com #

Solar eclipse above houses of parliament and Big Ben in London. theguardian.com #

Trump‘s board of peace issues first building contract. More US - EU passive aggressive geopolitics than you can shake a stick at. theguardian.com #

Just in case you haven‘t had your recommended dose of doom this week, scientists have discovered that black holes are exploding stars across the Milkyway galaxy. sciencedaily.com #

Another blog with 2 posts with the exact thing I have been researching the last few days, this time about the perils of webhooks weli.dev #

Runar writes about switching from Android to Linux on mobile runarcn.no #

In a presumably unreleated piece, Michael Lopp writes about how incredible the typography is in Blade Runner. randsinrepose.com #

There is an immortal jellyfish that can turn back into a baby and grow all over again. theguardian.com #

Bending Spoons well known for buy-to-renovate deals acquires Airtable. techcrunch.com #

Sebastian Pipping reports the City of Munich has contracted with him to work full time on XML parser library libexpat for up to 6 months. blog.hartwork.org #

Cloudflare release a stablecoin wallet for agents. blog.cloudflare.com #

Raymii got Linux and Windows running on his programmable calculator. raymii.org #

Amazon joins Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple in the $3 trillion dollar company club. cnbc.com #

Texas implements moratorium on approvals for the 1,800 data centre projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts. texastribune.org #

Whitehouse establishes voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. Is very economic with the details. axios.com #

Andros Fenollosa makes the case that modern CSS is better than Tailwinds CSS. en.andros.dev #

Apple Q3 revenue up 16%. businesswire.com #

Amazon Q2 revenue up 20%. businesswire.com #

SK Hynics and Samsung shares skyrocket after a dip. cnbc.com #

Reddit Q2 revenue up 60%. cnbc.com #

Google fixes more bugs in June than previous 2 years thanks to AI blog.google #

Jim Nielsen lists some AI Aesthetics he‘s noticed. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

Chris Coyier from the Shop Talk Show just released CodePen 2.0. chriscoyier.net #

SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon on wednesday. theguardian.com #

Almost every sensitive radiation detector built since 1945 relies on steel salvaged from ships that sank before the first nuclear test. spacedaily.com #

Johanna Larsson makes some interesting personal reflections vis-a-vis accountability and programming with LLMs. jola.dev #

Mark Zuckerberg: The AI Future Is for Everyone. wsj.com #

US diplomats stage walk out at France organised UN meeting. theguardian.com #

Apple $5 trillion company amid AI stock sell off. theguardian.com #

Buttons vs Links, and the Button Actions proposal. unplannedobsolescence.com #

FCC bans humanoid robots from China. theguardian.com #

Everyone is joining the Open Secure AI Alliance. thehackernews.com #

ChatGPT refuses to write in the style of a named author. arstechnica.com #

Amazon proposes a 5,105 satellite constallation for direct to device voice and data services, deployment beginning 2028 reuters.com #

AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation - simulate cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg. github.com #

Find out where particular fonts are used. fontsinuse.com #

The open vs closed debate in AI heats up. nytimes.com #

What Coding Felt Like in the 80s. comuniq.xyz #

Trump threatens EU with tariffs over fining US tech companies. theguardian.com #

Meshy that generates 3D assets from text and image AI prompts raises $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. techfundingnews.com #

Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter. wsj.com #

Layoffs at Patreon maybe a sign creator economy is in difficulties. variety.com #

An unbelievably long winded critique of AT proto in uses involving private data. lukekanies.com #

The new big bad is model distillation. x.com #

John C. Dvorak OG tech writer and co-host of the No Agenda Podcast has died. RIP. news.ycombinator.com #

X rebuilds their Android app from scratch. techcrunch.com #

Musk says they will open source the entire X codebase with 3rd party verification. thenewstack.io #

Polymarket banned in France. reuters.com #

Andros Fenollosa writeup of his IndieWeb voyage of discovery. en.andros.dev #

Scientists make cells using lab made DNA for the first time. theguardian.com #

Looks like Meta Web Services is on the horizon. techcrunch.com #

The cast of Jackass become true brits. (via the youtube distopian panopticon algorithm) youtube.com #

Apple increases prices, Micron reports non-constructive market dynamics. wsj.com #

Blogger Om Malik has died. Was very popular in tech from the early 2000s. hn thread. om.co #

OpenKnowledge - Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor and LLM Wiki. github.com #

SpaceSail is China's answer to Starlink. theguardian.com #

Doctorow in the Guardian. theguardian.com #

South Korean memory giant SK Hynixs to list in US at $29 billion. taipeitimes.com #

Jim Nielsen and John Gruber on stating the obvious. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

OpenAI and Broadcom have a new inference chip called Jalapeño. Best name for a chip in quite a while imho. openai.com #

Micron and Scandisk apear to be the AI barometer at the minute. Big sell-off just happened. marketwatch.com #

Chinese giant Tencent is grtting out of japanese game studios. thenextweb.com #

Nuclear renaissance in Canada, 10 reactors by 2040. cbc.ca #

John Ternus plans to try and refocus Apple back to it's design roots. thenextweb.com #

Brandur looks at the zone of viability for saleable software in the age of LLMs. brandur.org #

Now everyone is talking about everything being doomy. Which of source is quite doomy. theguardian.com #

Cloudflare release temporary accounts for agents, so they can vibe unbounded. blog.cloudflare.com #

Matt Mullenweg writes about Midjourney's new ultrasonic full body scanner tech. ma.tt #

Norway to ban generative AI schools. thenextweb.com #

Spain attempts to refocus tourism on offbeat locations. theguardian.com #

Will the memory shortage result in devs optimising their code? news.ycombinator.com #

Protocols for agent use in enterpise - Enterprise managed authorisation for MCP. Sound good but also complicated. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io #

Greg Boone has no regrets switching to linux. greg.harmsboone.org #

There are actually 3 levels of gitignore. nelson.cloud #

Tim Cook says Apple prices will need to increase due to soaring memory prices. wsj.com #

Github adds capacity using AWS. runtimewire.com #

SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion. implicator.ai #

Running local models is good now. vickiboykis.com #

Bubbles - Hacker News but for blogs. bubbles.town #

Appreciation for the small web. jola.dev #

Miniflux 2 - a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install. github.com #

My page on bubbles.town. bubbles.town #

There's a movie about Anthony Bourdain coming out in August. thedailymeal.com #

SpaceX IPO goes well, Elon becomes first trillionaire. theguardian.com #

How much is a trillion dollars? g.co #

SpaceX is biggest IPO of all time @ $135 per share, raises $75 billion. nypost.com #

Coinbase launches agent that can trade on behalf of humans, uses the open x402 payment protocol. techcrunch.com #

Teardown of the gold Trump phone. ifixit.com #

DoorDash introduces AI to order food via photos and prompts. cnbc.com #

London is hot again: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Google, Databricks, Salesforce, Rivian and Palantir announce plans for new offices. cnbc.com #

Xiaomi says it's open source AI agent harness MiMo Code beats Claude in the 200+ multi-step tasks category. venturebeat.com #

Citi Group launches blockchain based tockenized private shares trading platform. cryptonews.com #

The British food scene is going bust. theguardian.com #

Apple settles on 2 local models alongside 3 private cloud models. machinelearning.apple.com #

Apple‘s new AI architecture powered by Gemini models. macrumors.com #

Nvidia announce DGX Station, a windows supercomputers you can put under your desk. interestingengineering.com #

The Pierre Computer Company have some cool looking libraries for file tree rendering and diff rendering. pierre.computer #

Kyle Daigle (COO @ Github) interview on Latent Space Podcast. latent.space #

Pope Leo checks out the new Ferrari. theguardian.com #

SpaceX goes after the AI compute market. datacenterdynamics.com #

April 2025: When X Web services? markjgsmith.com #

Marc Andreesen on AI Vampires. x.com #

Trump to speak with Taiwan. theguardian.com #

Vitalik Buterin says that formal verification tech might be in Etherium's future. decrypt.co #

Amazon Alexa can now create on demand AI generated talking heads podcasts on any topic. variety.com #

More limits to free X accounts. engadget.com #

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes. simonwillison.net #

Claude, Gemini and Grok all tried to be radio hosts. Things got weird. theverge.com #

Cyprus Hill: Insane in the Brain. youtu.be #

British youtuber Shady goes for a walkabout at the "far right" rally in London. Seems a lot more chill than what the MSM is reporting. youtu.be #

Swatch watches are trending. theguardian.com #

Drum & Bass: The Movement - A D&B Documentary. youtube.com #

The teams behind ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft co-ordinate to observe both sides of 3I/Atlas interstellar comet at the same time. sci.news #

Just another water cooler discussion about AI psychosis engulfing entire companies in tech. news.ycombinator.com #

Epic - "Issue tracking for terminal dwellers". TUI based on git, vim-inspired. Looks pretty cool. ljtn.github.io #

Jason Scott has been digitizing a collection of 25000 manuals. Very retro geek. Interesting designs. ascii.textfiles.com #

Trump and the Nasdaq dreamtime visit and "pay respects" to president Xi in China. theguardian.com #

In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. bbc.com #

40 million Kenyans get a bitcoin lightning address. Very cool. x.com #

Jorijn Schrijvershof is not happy with Github. I'm hearing this a lot recently. He is moving to self hosted Forgejo. jorijn.com #

Simon Willison has been using LLM in script shebang lines. til.simonwillison.net #

Mecha robots are here. Probably nothing to worry about. youtube.com #

Wondering if there will be a surge in rocket launcher company sales fueled by anti-mecha robot preppers. en.wikipedia.org #

Anthropic signs deal with SpaceXAI to use their Colossus 1 supercomputer, and interested to partener in developing "AI Orbital Compute". x.ai #

Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #

The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. wsj.com #

Multi-stroke text effects in CSS are kind of trippy. yuanchuan.dev #

Boston Dynamics C-Suite exodus. semafor.com #

Blackberry are still making software, for cars. wsj.com #

Chinese courts are baring companies from laying off employees to replace thyem with AIs. techinasia.com #

Maryland bands surveillance pricing in grocery stores theguardian.com #

People in China, according to the Guardian are Starmermaxxing. theguardian.com #

Jim Nielsen on Little HTML pages losely joined. Very interesting. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

Dave Rupert on small language models (SMLs) in the browser. daverupert.com #

2024: LLMs in the browser - I wonder how long it will take until someone tries to integrate one of these directly into a web browser. markjgsmith.com #

Protests against Japan PM Takaichi changing pacifist constitution. theguardian.com #

The Musk vs Altman trial begins. thenextweb.com #

YouTube Multiview - Watch 4 live streams at once. support.google.com #

The missing US scientists conspiracy has hit the mainstream. Also, aliens. theguardian.com #

Nigel Farage billionaire backer Christopher Harborne is a crypto tycoon. theguardian.com #

I watched Scratch the HipHop DJ Documentary earlier. Really great. youtube.com #

US government stake in Intel has tripled in value in 8 months. thenextweb.com #

TSMC also doing quite well at the minute. techinasia.com #

Brazil bans prediction markets. reuters.com #

Martin Fowler on tech debt in an agentic world and the importance of verification systems. martinfowler.com #

Google release TPU 8t and TPU 8i, their new training and inference focussed powerhouse AI chips. blog.google #

Polymarket launches perps, perpetual futures contract trading. cnbc.com #

John Gruber on Cook standing down as Apple CEO. daringfireball.net #

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an AI frontend client for self-hosted AI infrastructure, aimed at the enterprise market. arstechnica.com #

SpaceX in $60 billion deal with AI focussed code editor company Cursor. nytimes.com #

Robots are beating elite table tennis players now. theguardian.com #

Tim Cake to be replaced as Apple CEO by John Ternus. cnbc.com #

levels.io just vibe coded replacements for all his browser extensions, was concerned about security, better to control the code. x.com #

Popular hosting and serverless provider Vercel gets hacked. bleepingcomputer.com #

Elon: "You can access the X API via OpenClaw" - I use Github Actions :( x.com #

Humanoid robots beat humans in Beijing marathan. theguardian.com #

Tesla robotaxis service opens in Dallas and Houston. techcrunch.com #

There‘s a mac mini shortage cause of vibe coding wsj.com #

MDN‘s new markdown in git repo‘s frontend architecture developer.mozilla.org #

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