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Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-...

How Thailand Resisted Colonization

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-thailand-resi...

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html

Right-Sized Language Model

https://joecooper.me/blog/cpuhaiku/

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

https://decodingvibes.com/blog/a-kantian-critique-...

80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-cant-stop-80-of-de...

Show HN: Tblue – 614 passive security scanners for any website, runs locally

https://github.com/taylannuhogluofficial-png/Tblue

Thinking in Python

https://thinkinginpython.com/

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/20...

The Government Report That Made Me Stop Trusting Our Statistical Agencies

https://econjared.substack.com/p/the-government-re...

Creating under 256 byte 32-bit x86 based Linux binaries

http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Linux

JSON evolution in Go: from v1 to v2

https://antonz.org/go-json-v2/

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/

Qwen 3.6 is now much easier to run locally on your Mac, thanks to JetBrains

https://www.neowin.net/news/qwen-36-is-now-much-ea...

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-t...

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-bl...

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-f...

AI is supercharging hacks of everyday utilities

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/ai-critical-infra...

Three Generations in E7

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/th...

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-bl...

Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/161441

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

https://larsfaye.com/articles/ai-coding-will-preve...

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-cu...

Complete list of U.S. products subject to counter tariffs

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/progra...

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214

I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG-np0S0ZQ

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/