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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things | 57

simonwillison.net

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

Beware the Permanent Periphery | 10

asteriskmag.com

Beware the Permanent Periphery—Asterisk

Most countries will never have frontier AI. They’re the ones who should be worrying.

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” | 42

rvembedded.com

A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing | 77

daringfireball.net

Daring Fireball: Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

Linear algebra done right | 17

Linear algebra done right

linear.axler.net

Linear Algebra Done Right

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network | 12

reticulum.network

Reticulum Network

Claude: System Prompts | 67

Claude: System Prompts

System Prompts
platform.claude.com

System Prompts - Claude Platform Docs

See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).

The continuing "Q collar" scandal | 0

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Just a moment...

HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons | 8

duti.dev

HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons - Insomniac's Log

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 | 6

meanhamster.com

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 — Mean Hamster Software

A long-awaited AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64 is in production. Space Quest 1 is completely playable at roughly 75% complete, and AGI-64 will be a free download when it is ready.

Gakutensoku | 1

en.wikipedia.org

Gakutensoku

Rhombus 1.1 is now available | 7

blog.racket-lang.org

Rhombus v1.1

Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable._ As of this release:: A...

GIMP Development Update | 12

GIMP Development Update

gimp.org

Development Update, August 2026 - GIMP

Development Update, August 2026

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter | 14

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

wiki.lowtechlab.org

Ceramic water filter — Low-tech Lab

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device | 15

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

I make audio tools, and this one came out of the clip-pulling loop: scrub to find the right line, set the in point, set the out point, name the file, repeat.

Vocal Slice transcribes your audio, then you can simply highlight the passage you want and the waveform jumps to exactly that span. Fine-tune with the handles, export a named clip.

Windows and macOS.

https://vocalslice.com wesley@vocalslice.com

Happy to answer anything in replies, please get in touch! [terranivium]

Vocal Slice — cut audio by selecting text.
vocalslice.com

Vocal Slice — cut audio by selecting text

Cut voice recordings by selecting text. Vocal Slice transcribes podcasts, interviews and voiceover locally — word-accurate, source-quality, fully offline.

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) | 18

support.google.com

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop-up-prompt-to-backup-my-photos-i?hl=en

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX | 12

pikuma.com

Pikuma: SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs.

Design 3D-printable parts by talking | 8

nurb.dev

nurb · describe the part, print the part

Describe the part in plain words. Your AI models it live in your browser, nurb checks it against print physics, and you download a file your printer understands. No CAD software.

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” | 2

science.org

Just a moment...

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013) | 7

breakintochat.com

Amit Patel, creator of "Solar Realms Elite" - Break Into Chat

In 1990, Amit Patel created the BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite." In his other life he has worked with programming languages, scientific equipment, data analysis, visualization, geological exploration, simulation of complex systems, economic modeling, maps, trend analysis, artificial intelligence, and web software. He's now working on interactive reference materials for game developers.

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) | 5

community.wolfram.com

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence - Online Technical Discussion Groups—Wolfram Community

Wolfram Community forum discussion about Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence. Stay on top of important topics and build connections by joining Wolfram Community groups relevant to your interests.

The AI Credit Resale Economy | 36

The AI Credit Resale Economy

vectoral.com

Who Are the Token Brokers? | Vectoral

A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees | 4

Prolly is a content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees. It gives applications immutable snapshots, cheap branching, structural sharing, efficient diffs and merges, sync primitives, and ver...
crabbuild/prolly

GitHub - crabbuild/prolly: Prolly is a content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees. It gives applications immutable snapshots, cheap branching, structural sharing, efficient diffs and merges, sync primitives, and verifiable key/range proofs. · GitHub

Prolly is a content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees. It gives applications immutable snapshots, cheap branching, structural sharing, efficient diffs and merges, sync primitives, and verifiable key/range proofs. - crabbuild/prolly

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI | 11

cst.cam.ac.uk

The Red Queen hypothesis - a new way forward for self-improving AI | Department of Computer Science and Technology

At a time when there's widespread interest in self-improving AI, researchers here have tackled one of the central challenges affecting its development by using an approach adapted from evolutionary biology.

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers 40

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc — I had to go to the Analytics dashboard, Add the site to the analytics and then disable the snippet. I find this approach entirely invasive, you should opt-in to features like that not have to opt-out. Just a warning out there to folks who might not be aware of this. [stagas]

news.ycombinator.com

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc — I had to go to the Analytics dashboard, Add the site to the analytics and <i>then</i> disable the snippet. I find this approach entirely invasive, you should opt-in to features like that not have to opt-out. Just a warning out there to folks who might not be aware of this.

Protobuf has LSP support | 17

Protobuf has LSP support

buf.build

Protobuf finally has LSP support. You’re welcome. · Buf

Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code completion, finding references, and semantics-aware syntax highlighting.

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent | 12

math-ai-org.github.io

MathCode — A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent

MathCode is a terminal AI coding agent with a built-in math formalization engine: describe a problem in plain language and it converts it into a Lean 4 theorem and attempts a formal proof.

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ | 45

techcrunch.com

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] 14

ischool.berkeley.edu

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]