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Aug 30 02:32 UTC

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  1. Positorium: Database with features from RDBMS, graph, columnar, name-value DBs (github.com)

  2. 30% on AR-AGI-1 at $0.0007 per task (arxiv.org)

  3. Intoxication Culture (theanarchistlibrary.org)

  4. Alt text passes automated checks. That doesn't mean it's any good (github.blog)

  5. Show HN: Turn mineral collections into 3D virtual museums (news.ycombinator.com)

  6. I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life–and It's a Help (wsj.com)

  7. Ask AI buttons like social media links for webpages (llmcheck.app)

  8. Yap: A Particular Kind of Slop (mckayla.blog)

  9. StateUI (github.com)

  10. FOSDEM 2026 – Mainline kernel for Fairphones – 2026 update [video] (youtube.com)

  11. Godot Sandbox: The Answer is 42 (libriscv.no)

  12. Rig – Agentic Workflows in Rust (github.com)

  13. Cancer is a Quantum System (cuimc.columbia.edu)

  14. Show HN: The impact that made the Moon, 262k particles in a browser tab (gaploid.github.io)

  15. 7th Circuit Rules AI-Generated CSAM Is Protected Speach (media.ca7.uscourts.gov)

  16. For better or worse, Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms reshaped the world (cnn.com)

  17. Give Coding Agents Permission, Not Just Prompts (engineeringspec.org)

  18. One 'absolutely prolific' male bird is keeping his species alive in the U.K (cbc.ca)

  19. Building an LLM runtime in 700 lines of C (github.com)

  20. We made a new robot – Microduck [video] (youtube.com)

  21. E.V. Sales Are Rising After the Gulf Oil Shock. Here's Where. (nytimes.com)

  22. Study links listening to live metal improves tolerance for pain, cold (gizmodo.com)

  23. Stamping build info in constant memory (fzakaria.com)

  24. My answer to AI burnout: more AI (but context is king) (sycdan.wordpress.com)

  25. Being kicked out of the tech industry (jacky.wtf)

  26. Rational quantum mechanics: Testing quantum theory with quantum computers (pnas.org)

  27. Show HN: VT Code – a terminal coding agent with a human-reviewed WebMCP editor (vinhnx.github.io)

  28. Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages (bbc.com)

  29. LoRA Primer (tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai)

  30. Tech backlash reaches fever pitch as AI angst collides with social media fears (cnbc.com)