2026-08-20 刊号

Ox Alpha ↗

Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B ↗

许多外行 vibe coder 缺少的能力：主动降噪 ↗

Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves ↗

Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour ↗

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates ↗

ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in ↗

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your […]

Pursuit of AGI ↗

The Citizen Developer ↗

Code as an Artifact ↗

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice ↗

The Enhanced Games — tech’s steroid extravaganza — didn’t pay off, as company posts $60 million loss ↗

The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis ↗

Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing ↗

OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee? ↗

Ameliorate ↗

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data ↗

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence ↗

Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure ↗

Riot is ending development on its League of Legends fighting game

Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year after its initial launch. Riot says "active development" will conclude at the end of 2026 because the company hasn't "seen enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability." Servers will […]

Mark buys a castle ↗

The Genesis GV90 blows the bloody doors off what’s possible in EV design

Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. And arguably it has some of the wildest designs and features in the auto market today. Right off the bat, the coach-style doors signal that things aren't what they seem with the GV90. When the front and […]

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos ↗

How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin ↗

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy ↗

The August 17 outage ↗

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns ↗

SpacetimeDB: a short technical review ↗

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses ↗

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders ↗

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI ↗

Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles ↗

Seeking God in Science Part 10.5: The Mind-Body Problem (Take 2) ↗

Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study ↗

Mark Zuckerberg bought an Irish castle

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland "several weeks ago," according to The Irish Times. While the exact price of the purchase is unclear, the family could have paid "anywhere between €20 million and €30 million" for the […]

Joint Statement from FR, DE, IT, UK, NL, NO, CA on E1 West Bank Settlement Plan ↗

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) ↗

TrueForge – The open-source agent harness ↗

Subscriber Rot ↗

What Is Reasoning ↗

Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser ↗

Consumer Rights Wiki ↗

Bitflash: A Tor-native revival of Bitcoin 0.1.0, mined on CPUs with RandomX ↗

Show HN: WaveHouse – Supabase for ClickHouse ↗

Optimizing things in the USSR (2016) ↗

I should have loved biology (2020) ↗

Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem

Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn't been in compliance with Australia's Online Safety Act, including "allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16." While […]

Project Cybersyn (2022) ↗

FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download […]

Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it ↗

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users ↗

URL shortener links stored in your ATProto PDS ↗

A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds ↗

Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops

Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released back in July and still available on Framework's site at the time of this writing. Upon […]

Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree ↗

Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner ↗

The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation ↗

The Depth of Wiles's Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem ↗

AI at Home Part 2: Multi-GPU Drifting ↗