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colinprince
20 hours ago
Felony Bench
Felony Bench is the most important benchmark of our time, some are saying, counting the number of questionable decisions made by AI agents. We might need a Pandemic Bench soon......
2 DAYS AGO
VISMIT2000
Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime
15 HOURS AGO
MACIEJSZ
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers
A DAY AGO
CIDER9986
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
5 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Using an old Android phone as a music player
19 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
What happens when a GPU reads memory
A DAY AGO
DARES2573
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
simonpure
2 hours ago
Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
Free, open source and performant multi-agent harness, works with your existing subscriptions (uses hourly limits). It wraps the CLI agents you already use — Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and 9 more — and runs an office of your clones on your own machine.
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aakil
21 hours ago
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
A Claude Code skill (/debuzz) that pipes Claude's answers through Gemini to remove the BuzzFeed voice - adnanakil/nobuzz...
speckx
a day ago
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news st...
albertpedersen
3 days ago
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers
In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, remote timers, achieving co-locat...
bobbiechen
18 hours ago
Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode
Posted on Friday 21 Aug 2026. 623 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb....
gmays
2 days ago
Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice
A mouse study finds changes to DNA packaging form a molecular memory of trauma, making the brain vulnerable to future stress....
mfranzon
5 days ago
ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes
Build ESP32 firmware with reproducible Docker environments and use Docker Sandboxes for isolated AI-assisted development and hardware testing....
thepoet
19 hours ago
Kobo can run apps now
A launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a capability-isolated runtime for the Kobo Clara BW. Install once over USB; everything after that arrives over Wi-Fi....
https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
ra7
2 days ago
A look under our trunk: what's in our compute
Compute is the brain of the Waymo Driver, translating raw sensor data into real-time driving commands. Operating demonstrably safe, physical AI on the road demands a fundamental shift toward...
cainxinth
a day ago
Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout
Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Tab...
jonemi
2 days ago
GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy
In yesterday’s post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn’t say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio si…...
jakelsaunders94
19 hours ago
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
I built an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory....
spankibalt
a day ago
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
A Pirates fan looks at 40....
pppone
a day ago
Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle
As well as obtaining beautiful images of the Universe, the Hubble Space Telescope's CCD detectors are sensitive radiation dosimeters that have been monitored in Low Earth Orbit for more than...