2026-08-03
US Navy Battleship USS Idaho: 36,157 Tons, 12 14-Inch Guns and Came Close to Fighting the Biggest Battleship Ever Built
USS Idaho entered service in 1919 with twelve 14-inch guns and a 32,000-ton displacement. A major rebuild pushed her above 36,000 tons before she earned seven battle stars from Attu...
US Navy Battleship USS Pennsylvania: 34,000 Horsepower, 12 14-Inch Guns, and She Survived Pearl Harbor and Two Nuclear Bombs
USS Pennsylvania entered service with twelve 14-inch guns, 34,000 horsepower and a completed cost near $15 million. The battleship served through two world wars, survived Pearl Harbor and a late-war...
Forget the B-21 or B-52: The ‘Super’ B-1B Lancer Bomber Is Being Designed to Possibly Attack with Hypersonic Missiles
Built for low-altitude nuclear attack, the B-1B became a precision bomber, close-air-support platform and long-range anti-ship missile carrier. New external pylons, digital cockpit systems and structural repairs are preparing the...
The ‘Boneyard’ Outside of Tucson, Arizona is a US Air Force Graveyard: Some Old Bombers Like the B-1B Lancer Get ‘Reborn’
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100 engines, and nearly 300,000 items of...
Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026
About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were...
10 best games like Halo: Campaign Evolved
There are numerous games on a variety of platforms through the years that offer experiences similar to Halo: Campaign Evolved, including these 10.
The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life
On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while next to me a grown man in a VR headset spent six...
Single Forward Pass Evals on Fable, Opus 5, and GPT-5.6-Sol
This is a research update for an on-going replication of single-forward-pass evals done as part of the Second Look Fellowship. In following posts, we will run more comprehensive replications of...
Pause, at least after unipolarity
I think it’s likely that the world will enter military unipolarity within our lifetime.[1] I think the creation of such unipolarity is an alarming prospect, but at least once it...
condense-json 1.0
Release: condense-json 1.0 I'm trying to get braver at releasing 1.0 versions. This little library is a year and a half old now - I've applied some sensible and non-disruptive...
Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer
At this point, I think I trust the process.
The Millisecond Conundrum: Balancing Latency, Freshness, and Intelligence at Scale
Discover why modern AI serving systems optimize for system utility using latency budgets, ML inference, tail latency control, & graceful degradation.
48 years later, anime’s most beautiful sci-fi space epic is officially making a comeback
With the news of a new Galaxy Express 999 featured film in development, there's no better time to revisit the space opera masterpiece.
2026-08-02
Crypto Exchanges Are Quietly Becoming Financial Operating Systems
Crypto exchanges are expanding into stocks, derivatives, and tokenized assets. The real challenge is building reliable infrastructure to connect them safely.
Dashboard Trust Is a Data Governance Problem, Not a BI Tool Problem
Learn why dashboard trust is a data governance issue, not a BI tool problem, and how governance practices create reliable, decision-ready analytics.
Beyond Simple Prompts: Engineering Self-Reflection & Actor-Critic Loops in AI Agents
Move past fragile one-shot prompting. Discover how to build deterministic runtime checks, autonomous repair loops, and actor-critic agent architectures.
Five Prediction Markets, Five Definitions of Price: The Normalization Problem Nobody Talks About
Kalshi, Polymarket, and other prediction markets expose similar-looking prices that can represent different quotes, fees, contracts, and timestamps.
Industrializing a small field: Lessons from Vannevar
Crossposted from canaryinstitute.ai/blog/lessons-from-vannevar. Related LW pieces on AI Safety field-building and the push-vs-pull question. Related posts A system overview for near-term, low-trust AI compute verification — Naci Cankaya. A concrete...
Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video, he...
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