2026-08-10
The Moon Is Not a Detour From Mars: It Is the Only Place a Mars Program Can Afford to Fail
A crew on the Moon is roughly three days from Earth and can abort home. A crew bound for Mars is seven to nine months out, with no rescue, no...
The Royal Navy Had 990 Major Combat Units at the End of WWII — Today It Has 11 Destroyers and Frigates
In August 1945 the Royal Navy counted 990 major combat units — frigates and larger, including submarines. In August 2026 the surface escort force is six Type 45 destroyers and...
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Control your Mac via camera & train gestures, local & FOSS Discussion | Link
The US Navy’s 57,000 Ton Iowa-Class Battleships Cost $1,700,000,000 To Bring Back to Life — They Fired 1,083 16-Inch Shells At Saddam Hussein
GAO put the cost of reactivating and modernizing all four Iowa-class battleships at about $1.7 billion. Only two reached the Persian Gulf. USS Missouri opened fire with her main battery...
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of...
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of...
tash
The investment platform for trading cards Discussion | Link
Attyn
Bringing intelligence to your cursor Discussion | Link
Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026
Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and...
GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable...
GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable...
AI-amplified democratic backsliding: an exploration
What we did, in a sentence: we built an index that attempts to score countries by their current vulnerability to AI-amplified democratic backsliding. It’s an early pilot with several points...
Official ‘Fallout’ s2 video showcases Death Claw VFX
Go behind the scenes of the puppetry and CG work. The post Official ‘Fallout’ s2 video showcases Death Claw VFX appeared first on befores & afters.
Overthinking: Amplifying reasoning weights makes models reveal their secrets
If you take the weight difference between a reasoning model and its non-reasoning instruct counterpart, and then apply more of that difference to the reasoning model, you get what we...
SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about...
SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about...
The Best Games Like Dungeon Crawler Carl
From Lethal Company to Antichamber, these eight games capture the same survive-and-strategize energy that makes Dungeon Crawler Carl such a wild ride.
2026-08-09
Freshist Earns a 58.28 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Subscription-Free, Native macOS Cleaner
Freshist earned a 58.28 Proof of Usefulness score for its 3.7 MB native macOS cleaner built around safe cleanup, privacy, and one-time pricing.
The Apocalyptic Arrival of Truth
C: Babe, whatever happens, I really appreciate you doing this for me.J: Okay. I still don’t think it’s a good idea.C: Look, it’s a one-time thing. I’ll just feel better...
The designer of Diamond City, Little Lamplight, and Starfield's Neon thinks Bethesda's galaxy was just too big: 'I would have done a handful of planets with bespoke layouts'
Nate Purkeypile worked on Starfield for a year before leaving Bethesda.
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