2026-08-12 刊号

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT ↗

Flutter 3.47 ↗

Build Wide, Ship Narrow ↗

Apple Leasing Program ↗

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful ↗

deepseek v4 pro 正式版发了 ↗

Show HN: A marketplace where AI agents buy services from AI agents ↗

How art invented humanity ↗

I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers ↗

The Indo-European Family Tree ↗

Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) ↗

DLLM: Minimal, clean coding agent built directly on llama.cpp without overhead ↗

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes ↗

AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO ↗

I stopped caring about programming terms ↗

I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf) ↗

Process as a Proxy for Motivation ↗

Intriguing stories in computer science ↗

Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf ↗

Pixel 11 event live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah introduce Google’s new phones

It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy Fallon. If the 2025 show was any indication, today's broadcast might be something of a cringefest. […]

This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off

If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard with Dual Super Buttons on sale for $69.99, one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for the bundle. The styling on this keyboard is thorough, with blocky retro legends on the rounded […]

ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks ↗

My Ten Years in No Man's Sky ↗

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tuesday, with users across Reddit reporting that their smart feeders, litter boxes, and water fountains have gone offline. Though Petlibro maintains that "existing settings and schedules stored locally on your device will […]

Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer ↗

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? ↗

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out ↗

Breaking the WAL ↗

Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim ↗

The next big indie game publisher is taking some exciting swings

Kinetic Publishing, a new indie publisher from the development team behind the co-op horror game Phasmophobia, just hosted its first games showcase, and it includes five ambitious new titles set to release in 2027 and 2028. Perhaps the most significant announcement from Kinetic's show is that it's publishing the next game from Telling Lies and […]

Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary ↗

It looks like Apple’s iPhone 18 really will skip the fall launch this year

According to an Economic Daily News report spotted by MacRumors, executives for Apple supplier Pegatron confirmed during an earnings call that the iPhone 18 Pro series phones will launch this fall, but the base iPhone 18 won't arrive until the first quarter of next year. The more affordable iPhone 18e and a new iPhone Air […]

Learning 10000 pictures (1973) [pdf] ↗

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane ↗

Grubhub’s $24M FTC settlement is finally reaching diners and drivers ↗

Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions) ↗

Delta ↗

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation ↗

People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more ↗

Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing ↗

A Planet Position Widget ↗

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open ↗

Google’s Pixel 11 phone preorders come with up to $350 in gift cards

Looking to get your hands on the latest Pixel devices? After weeks of leaks and rumors, Google has officially announced its next generation of Pixel phones and watches. The base Pixel 11 starts at $899, the Pro and Pro XL are $1,099 and $1,299 respectively, and the Pro Fold starts at $1,899. The watch comes […]

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise ↗

Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras ↗

Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, […]

Not sure where I am going with this garbage collection rabbit hole ↗

Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach ↗

How Google’s new Pixel 11 phones compare to last year’s models

Google just added four new phones to the Pixel family: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They're slightly more expensive than their predecessors, but they come with some notable upgrades, including improved cameras and a new Tensor G6 chip that should deliver faster performance. The […]

ICE wants to give agents electrified gloves that shock people into compliance

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is aiming to spend up to $20 million on equipping officers and agents with specialized gloves that deliver painful electric shocks. These plans were outlined in a notice published by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, with an unspecified quantity of the devices set to be delivered by March […]

Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android ↗

Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index ↗

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript ↗

Amazon gets out of the MMO game

Amazon is fully stepping back from MMOs. After saying last year that it would be halting "a significant amount" of its work on first-party AAA games, "specifically around MMOs," Amazon will be handing over live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark in the West to other companies, according to announcements on Wednesday. Throne […]

Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice ↗

Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard ↗

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released ↗

Qwen3.8-2.4T ↗

Incident with Pull Requests and Issues – Resolved ↗

Lovable raises $400M Series C ↗