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The art of chunkiness

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shot-scraper 1.11

Release: shot-scraper 1.11 Some minor improvements, mainly around command option consistency and making the server: mechanism used by both shot-scraper video and shot-scraper multi work if the server takes longer...

Restaking’s Dirty Secret: Nobody Understands What They’re Signing

Restaking promises shared security and extra yield, but its UX is broken. Here’s why users can’t see the risk they’re actually taking on.

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Passed Within 2,864 Miles of Mars, Gained 1,000 MPH Without Using Onboard Propellant, and Is Now Headed for a Metal World That May Be an Early Planet’s Exposed Core

On May 15, 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft skimmed past Mars and came away a thousand miles per hour faster without burning a drop of its own fuel. The maneuver, a...

Pax Americana, Debt, and the Problem of Preserving Capital

A reflection on Pax Americana, U.S. debt, inflation, and the challenge of preserving capital across generations.

Generative Engine Optimization: A Technical Framework for AI Search Visibility

Generative Engine Optimization, RAG, Embedding, Machine Readability, AI Visibility, Citation Authority, Semantic Trust.

This Tech CEO Is Building the “Linux of AI”

The next big AI battle isn’t about who has the biggest model. It’s about where the AI actually runs. @qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told me the future of AI is...

Hackaday Links: July 12, 2026

Although we’d rather bring you news of clever modifications and repairs down on the farm, more often than not, the name “John Deere” has appeared on the pages of Hackaday...

The US Government may find it difficult to seize control during takeoff

Epistemic status: conditioning on things I consider unlikely, many undiscussed considerations, not the whole story, etc. I'm not trying to advance any claims about whether this is good or bad,...

I Built an AI SRE Agent That Diagnoses Incidents Before I Open My Laptop

How an AI SRE agent uses LLM signal correlation and the Model Context Protocol to find root causes in minutes — with humans on the merge button.

The U.S. Army Studied China’s New Type 100 Tank and Published Where It Breaks. It Is Building Almost the Same Tank Anyway

China's Type 100 stunned analysts at Beijing's Victory Day parade last September, an unmanned-turret, hybrid-electric tank built for the drone age. Ten months later it is in service, and the...

Playground

Earn $100K+ in weekly rewards for hacking AI agents. Discussion | Link

WorkOS Pipes

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there...

Dutch consumer group suing PlayStation argues the end of physical discs just proves its point: 'Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it'

Sony's facing a challenge Steam is better poised to handle.

+ Whatever happened to the replication crisis?

My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2026 so far

We're just over halfway through 2026, and by my count, I've see 15 2026 releases so far. Here's a from-the-hip ranking what I liked the most to least.Nirvanna the Band...

Fable gets another bump

One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude...

Paulo Andrade: ‘A WWDC 26 Update on Building a Mac-Assed App With SwiftUI’

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times, included in...

Christopher Nolan's first movie is waiting to be rediscovered (and for free)

Before Memento made him a star, Christopher Nolan directed Following. The acclaimed microbudget thriller is now free to stream on Kanopy.

sqlite-utils 4.1.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.1.1 Mainly a fix for an edge case that regular Claude chat spotted while experimenting with the 4.1 release to answer a question about ON DELETE. table.transform() now...