2026-07-17
Your Vibe-Coded Prototype Passed the Demo. Now What?
A working demo proves the concept, not the system.
A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light
In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, just above the mercury. As the mercury sloshed and splashed across...
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen
Build a Business Case for Sustainability Investments
A strong sustainability proposal can still stall if leaders don’t see a clear connection between the investment and business value. To build support, start by framing your idea in terms...
Spot birds not golf
Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to...
Scribble Party
A local-first whiteboard studio for teachers and creators Discussion | Link
Kimi K3
The world's first open 3T-class model Discussion | Link
I don't think Claude is misaligned in 'Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026 - Motivated Mislabeling'
Anthropic recently published Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026The "whistleblowing" scenario has already been examined and found problematic. I started taking a look at the transcripts for some others. As far as...
European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules
The European Commission: The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable...
309 Blog Posts To Learn About Clean Code
Learn everything you need to know about Clean Code via these 309 free HackerNoon blog posts.
White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one...
South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results
Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I...
Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results
Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I...
Firefox in WebAssembly
Firefox in WebAssembly This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser. Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly,...
81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to destroy itself — and in the eight decades since, no two nuclear-armed powers have ever fought a full-scale conventional war against each other
On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium device code-named Gadget. Some had theorized...
Dithering: ‘Apple Sues OpenAI’
Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web. (We don’t (yet?)...
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
A USB Port by Any Other Color…
[Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest hub will have some IC in it that...
Can You Ethically Moonlight In Tech? Yes — Here’s How to Hold Down Multiple Jobs.
Moonlighting is one of the most contested topics in tech right now. Here's how to navigate it without compromising your integrity.
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