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Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up

2026-08-05T07:26:32+00:00

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari thinks the central bank should start slowly raising interest rates to combat inflation. He believes a gradual approach is needed now to avoid more drastic increases later. [summary] [comments]

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

2026-08-05T07:22:32+00:00

Police in Wisconsin used Flock cameras to track a man's interstate travel, finding probable cause to search his car for marijuana. He was arrested on possession charges, raising concerns about police surveillance overreach and the potential for tracking individuals across state lines for minor crimes. [summary] [comments]

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro supports complex layouts and precise text rendering, enabling realistic image generation. It offers native rendering of 12 languages, 20+ fonts, and external knowledge incorporation for deployable productivity. [summary] [comments]

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

The author argues that the San Francisco tech scene's focus on AI's transformative potential overlooks real-world bottlenecks like regulation and governance, which hinder medical progress. This monoculture of "AGI-pilled" individuals prioritizes hype over empirical truth, leading to misguided priorities and neglect of pressing problems. [summary] [comments]

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

Aristotle, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, laid foundational ideas in ethics, logic, and natural sciences that continue to shape our understanding of the world today. His work emphasizes the importance of habits, self-awareness, and education in achieving a virtuous and fulfilling life. [summary] [comments]

TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

TSON is a schema system with immutable, hash-pinned schemas and a Unicode-first superset of JSON. It verifies data against schemas with a single hash, allowing for versioning and concurrent schema updates. [summary] [comments]

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

Rubin Observatory has released a deep image of the COSMOS field, showing over half a million galaxies and 50,000 stars. The image was captured with the world's largest digital camera and will help scientists study distant galaxies and the changing sky over time. [summary] [comments]

International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF)

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

A multinational bank, a US state, and a custom teddy-bear workshop unknowingly joined a phone-fraud botnet. A free API allows users to check if their network was compromised by searching historic data from a honeypot that has recorded over 11.5 million protocol attacks. [summary] [comments]

Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11

2026-08-05T07:04:32+00:00

Microsoft is removing 32 GB RAM recommendations from its website and materials, instead emphasizing 8 GB devices for smooth Windows 11 performance. The company has optimized Windows 11 for lower-spec PCs with less RAM, reducing memory overhead and latency. [summary] [comments]

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work. [summary] [comments]

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

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Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents. [summary] [comments]

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

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Painting with Gaussians

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

The user developed a digital painting tool that uses image structure to guide brush strokes, combining techniques like edge detection, Perlin noise, and wavelets to create a realistic painting effect. The tool was built using Jolt and Glimmer libraries, and the user successfully implemented it on the GPU, achieving interactive performance and a range of customizable painting effects. [summary] [comments]

Faster Than Ninja

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

The author compared the build times of Ninja and build2 on a project called Xerces-C++ and found that build2 was able to match or exceed Ninja's speed by making different design decisions, such as being a native build system, multi-threaded, and performing explicit header dependency extraction. By disabling certain features and caching information, build2 was able to achieve a 2.2% faster ... [summary] [comments]

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

The article argues that the question of whether to hire junior engineers is misguided due to flawed assumptions about talent retention, industry change, and the role of engineers in an AI-driven world. It suggests that junior engineers are still needed and will continue to be needed, and that companies should focus on creating a collaborative product development process that values engineers ... [summary] [comments]

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

2026-08-05T06:04:32+00:00

The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch was a programmable calculator introduced in 1948, using vacuum tubes and capable of processing 100 cards per minute. It was a significant innovation in computing, combining a vacuum tube and its circuitry into a pluggable module, allowing for easy replacement of faulty components. [summary] [comments]

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

2026-08-05T05:04:32+00:00

TIME.com serves two versions of its website: a full HTML version for humans and a stripped-down markdown version for AI crawlers with ads. The markdown version is used to log ad impressions and contains sponsored content not visible to humans. [summary] [comments]

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

2026-08-05T04:04:32+00:00

A medevac plane crashed in New Mexico due to GPS jamming from a US military exercise, highlighting the growing risk of electronic warfare disrupting air travel. The incident is part of a larger trend of GPS jamming affecting commercial aviation, posing a safety risk to passengers and crew. [summary] [comments]

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

2026-08-05T04:04:32+00:00

OpenAI's internal AI model solved the unit distance problem, a 1946 conjecture by Paul Erdős, and other major tech companies have since used publicly available AI models to solve Erdős problems. The increasing capability of AI has boosted productivity and collaboration in mathematics, but also raised concerns about the role of human mathematicians and the potential for AI-generated papers ... [summary] [comments]