2026-08-01
Bringing together a few different economic ideas.
Hi, I write a fair bit on my blog and usually post to hackernews, where some of my works have been well received. I thought this one would also fit...
Forget China’s J-20 or J-35A: The US Air Force’s New F-47 NGAD Fighter Is Coming Soon (Being Built Outside of Saint Louis)
The F-47 now has a date. Gen. Dale White said on July 29 that the fighter entered development with unprecedented maturity and would fly before January 2029, and Defense News...
4 Surprising Ways AI Is Helping Ordinary Businesses Reach $1 Million Faster
Turn your expertise into leverage before your competitors do.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above...
Russia Promised 50 New Tu-160M Bombers in 2015. Ten Years Later It Has Delivered Two, and Its Whole Fleet Is 15
Rebuilding the Tu-160 line meant recovering things Russia had lost. Tupolev digitized design documentation that existed on paper, restored the vacuum welding needed for the bomber's titanium center section, and...
We've seen a lot of malfunctioning robots this year, but this is my favorite fail yet
Plus a bot that can chase you underwater, a mech that can knock down walls, and a teacherbot gets kicked out of class.
57,000 Ton USS New Jersey: One US Navy Battleship, Four Wars, Four Commissions, and Forty Years Between Her First Shot and Her Last.
USS New Jersey fired in combat across four conflicts separated by forty years. She screened the fast carriers through the Pacific war, came out of reserve to duel shore batteries...
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the...
llm-mcp-client 0.1a0
Release: llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 See this blog entry. Tags: llm, model-context-protocol
On The Set Pic: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’
Tom Holland with director Destin Daniel Cretton. The post On The Set Pic: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ appeared first on befores & afters.
A Complex Way to Push a Button
We’ve likely all looked at a simple problem in our lives and thought that it would be an easy fix, only to realize that the project is enormously more complicated...
China Wants Nine Aircraft Carriers. Getting from Dreams to Taking on the US Navy Is Another Story
China had three carriers in commission at the end of July and, according to the Pentagon, wants nine by 2035. The hulls are the easy part. Naval News counted two...
10 new movies to watch this weekend on Peacock, HBO Max, and Hulu (July 31 - August 2)
Superhero movies, video game adaptations, and more
Spider-Man: Brand New Day streaming release date window: When will it be on Netflix, Disney Plus, Blu-ray, and DVD?
When will the latest Marvel film be coming to streaming (Netflix), Blu-ray, and DVD? Here's what we know.
The Talk Show: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’
Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored...
The US Navy Sold Two Aircraft Carriers for a Penny Each. The Buyer Was Not Getting a Deal.
A penny does not sound like the price of an aircraft carrier, and it isn't. What the buyer acquired for a cent apiece when Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy...
Endra Expands To The US With $50m Firepower As Data Center Boom Outruns Engineering Workforce
Endra opens New York, San Francisco and London offices after its $50M Series A led by a16z, scaling AI that cuts building engineering from two months to a day.
Basedash Audit Logs
Every action in your BI tool, on the record. Discussion | Link
Sailors on a 65,000 Ton British Aircraft Carrier Went Months Without Reliable Hot Water. Some Had to Live Ashore.
The Royal Navy's two aircraft carriers cost billions and displace 65,000 tons each. Aboard one of them, sailors spent months without dependable hot water in Portsmouth — showers that had...
Xbox is officially getting 5 brand-new must-play games in August
Xbox Series X is getting a bunch of promising third-party games this August to cap off a rough summer for the console.
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