2026-08-03

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan’s next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more!

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The Case Against Treating Outcomes as the Only Good Key Results

The Case Against Treating Outcomes as the Only Good Key Results

Should key results measure outcomes or outputs? This essay argues that outcome-only OKRs can hide the work, weaken learning, and reduce shared understanding.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day may have just set up a major Avengers: Doomsday threat

Spider-Man: Brand New Day may have just set up a major Avengers: Doomsday threat

Peter Parker's created tech to control his own mutations that could be used by the Sentinels to subdue the X-Men.

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You Cannot Filter Your Way Out of Prompt Injection

You Cannot Filter Your Way Out of Prompt Injection

Filters don't stop prompt injection; architecture does. A field guide to the lethal trifecta, the rule of two, Dual-LLM and CaMeL, with working code.

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What 9 Years in Business Taught Me: Movement Is the Most Underrated Productivity Tool

After nine years of building a wellness company, I've realized the biggest driver of my team's output isn't a tool, a policy or a hire — it's something most leaders...

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Dissociation as Neurological Injury

[This paragraph added for context, stolen from the comment]:For context, since I think a lot of readers might wonder why this is on the site, Scott Alexander reviewed this psychiatric...

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Book Review: On What Matters, volume 3

Book Review: On What Matters, volume 3

davidad has said, referring to the selection of books on the Library of EA:I want to put in a strong bid to replace Parfit’s On What Matters Volume One with...

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US Navy Battleship USS Idaho: 36,157 Tons, 12 14-Inch Guns and Came Close to Fighting the Biggest Battleship Ever Built

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...

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US Navy Battleship USS Pennsylvania: 34,000 Horsepower, 12 14-Inch Guns, and She Survived Pearl Harbor and Two Nuclear Bombs

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...

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Forget the B-21 or B-52: The ‘Super’ B-1B Lancer Bomber Is Being Designed to Possibly Attack with Hypersonic Missiles

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...

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The ‘Boneyard’ Outside of Tucson, Arizona is a US Air Force Graveyard: Some Old Bombers Like the B-1B Lancer Get ‘Reborn’

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...

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2 months ago

Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026

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...

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10 best games like Halo: Campaign Evolved

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.

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The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life

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...

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Single Forward Pass Evals on Fable, Opus 5, and GPT-5.6-Sol

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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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