Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits

Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.

The Valley of Webhooks

I've built the same webhook consumer three times at three companies. The fourth time, I want a better primitive.,I've built the same webhook consumer three times at three companies. The fourth time, I want a better primitive.

Painting with Gaussians

Dmitri's blog about programming, Clojure, and software development

Discovery Loop

Discovery Loop is building AI systems that automate the experimental loops of science and engineering. Continuous Exploration.

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

A fabulously gay blind author.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

A more explicit example

Western Sahara

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

Explore Aristotle’s timeless insights on virtue, knowledge, and happiness. These 25 quotes offer wisdom for a thoughtful and fulfilling life.

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

Rich content: Supports input of up to 4.5k tokens and dense information layout with images-within-images, enabling complex layouts like newspapers, storyboards, menus, and exam papers to be generated in a single pass. Authentic detail: Supports precise rendering of text as small as 10px, and vividly reproduces fine details such as micro-expressions, pores, and individual strands of hair—approaching the quality of real photography. Deep knowledge: Supports native rendering of 12 languages and 20+ fonts, realistic simulation of mainstream interfaces such as web pages, games, and live streams, fully incorporating external knowledge. Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro isn't just pursuing

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine,Image,Image,Image,Image,Image,Image,Image,Image

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

The next chapter of our AI momentum

Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field. Located in the constellation Sextans, COSMOS is one of the most observed patches of the Universe — and Rubin’s new image adds a powerful new view of this well-known cosmic landmark.