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DeepSeek Harness
It uses an architecture where everything is a plugin, and is powered by Cordis, whose design is described in A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability.
DeepSeek Harness is currently in developer preview and is iterating rapidly. THERE WILL BE COMPATIBILITY-BREAKING CHANGES.
Run
Run from npm
Install Node.js, then run:
npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web
The command starts the Web UI, served at http://127.0.0.1:3080 by default. See Web UI guide.
Run from source
To run from a repository…
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Spaghettifying DRAM
Unlocking everything on the CPU with DRAM scrambling — PSP, C6, microcode, SMM, and anything else the specs left out.
&x == &x.
Usually.
Poke the DRAM controller and an address can be made to land wherever you want in memory. skitter-creek-bath-salts reaches into the deepest level of the memory hierarchy and rewires the physical DRAM address translations, to scramble platform memory and release its most guarded secrets — the specialized carveouts invisible even to the kernel. When the transla…
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AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
BARBED WIRE held a strange interest for the late Alan Greenspan, a lifelong urbanite. Sure, the former Federal Reserve chairman admired the railways, gold diggers and “lonesome cowboys” that helped open the frontier at the dawn of American capitalism. But he also had a soft spot in his economist’s heart for barbed wire, which, he argued, boosted productivity by allowing the settlers who came in their wake to safeguard their properties.
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Gloomberb
Quotes, charts, financials, filings, holders, insiders, options, analyst ratings, events, and relative valuation.
Ranked stories, breaking news, sector feeds, global indices, FX, macro events, yield curves, movers, and sentiment.
Portfolios, watchlists, broker connections, alerts, notes, AI screens, prediction markets, and Gloom Cloud chat.
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Heart Aerospace Completes First Flight of Largest Electric Aircraft
PLATTSBURGH, NY, and LOS ANGELES, CA, August 13, 2026 – Heart Aerospace today announced the successful first flight of the company’s X1 demonstrator aircraft. Spanning 106 feet, measuring 76 feet nose to tail, and weighing more than 25,000 pounds at takeoff, X1 is the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown.
The flight took place on Wednesday, August 12th, 2026, at Heart’s X1 flight-test base at Plattsburgh International Airport, a regional commercial airport serving a community of 20,000…
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Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index
A core hope for managing AI risks is that AIs will help us understand our situation, plan for what lies ahead, and develop risk mitigations. Many tasks AIs would have to do for this purpose lack practical empirical feedback loops and require models to engage in the kinds of argumentation used in philosophy, AI futurism, and similar domains. To evaluate these capabilities, we develop a suite of three conceptual reasoning benchmarks. You can request access to our primary conceptual dataset, LMCA,…
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Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5
MCP-Memory is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that equips AI agents (such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf, or Codex) with persistent, long-term memory capabilities.
Memory records are formatted using the Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.2) standard and indexed with a local SQLite instance (supporting FTS5 full-text search) for fast key-value lookups, tag filtering, and content search.
Fast Track: Jump directly to Quick Start
Persistent State Across Sessions: Enables AI age…
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We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images
Last week we announced Echo's partnership with NanoClaw, designed to extend the vision and security of the open source project. In this post, we want to pull back the curtain and show you exactly how Echo's agentic hardening process works.
How do we detect CVEs?
Before we can fix anything, we need a complete, trustworthy picture of what's actually in the image. We scan and analyze the upstream NanoClaw container using several independent vulnerability scanners, including Trivy, Grype, and Wiz.…
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My Rules for Using Spreadsheets
August 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM by Dr. Drang
My fundamental rule is Don’t, but a single word wouldn’t make for much of a blog post.
In what follows, I hope to explain how I’ve come to that rule and the exceptions I make to it. I’ve been thinking about how I use and don’t use spreadsheets quite a bit lately. This introspection was inspired in part by Allison Sheridan’s presentation at Macstock (which you can see on her site along with a couple of other recent spreadsheet posts) and in part by my rec…
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Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags
SQL is the database community's success story in terms of language design. The key reason for its success is its declarativeness: it gives rise to optimizability, reducing the programmer's burden significantly. However, given the evolving complexity of problems to solve with query languages, our community needs to re-think some of the fundamental early query language design decisions.
Our experience in having worked on the design of Rel (a language for end-to-end relational programming) tells u…
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More leucovorin prescribed to kids after federal officials touted its unproven benefits for autism. The weekly number of children with filled leucovorin prescriptions rose from 734 to 5,858 children between the beginning and end of 2025 – a 700% jump.
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NASA rover unexpectedly finds ruby- and sapphire-forming mineral in Martian rocks. Analysis by Perseverance detected chromium-bearing corundum—the first evidence of the gemstone-forming mineral on Mars.
When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale rocks lying around in Jezero Crater in 2025, scientists did not expect anything out of the ordinary.
Little did they know what was in store.
The rocks contained something never before found on Mars – a mineral that, here on Earth, can constitute literal treasure.
The mineral was corundum, the crystalline material that forms rubies and sapphires. And there was even a whiff of chromium, which gives rubies their distinctive r…
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Neuroscientists have vastly underestimated brain cells’ computing power. A new study shows that each neuron can do multiple computations at once thanks to hundreds of sprawling branches
A new study shows that each neuron can do multiple computations at once thanks to hundreds of sprawling branches
By Ajdina Halilovic edited by Allison Parshall
Neurons have hundreds of treelike branches that receive signals from neighboring cells.
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One of the central mysteries of the brain is how it achieves so much with so little. At any given moment, it processes an entire world of input, pilots a body and generates conscious experience—all with relatively modest energy…
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Men are less likely than women to seek help after experiencing intimate partner violence, and new research found that the main barriers include viewing it as a private matter, fear of retaliation, shame, and concerns about not being believed.
Across racial and ethnic groups, the main barriers to men seeking help for intimate partner violence are viewing it as a private matter, fear of retaliation, shame, and concerns about not being believed.
This study is among the first large-scale (nearly 2,000 men) U.S. studies to compare help-seeking barriers among non-Latino Black, Latino, and non-Latino White men victims of intimate partner violence.
By identifying the challenges that may prevent men from accessing intimate partner violence su…
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Researchers use synchrotron X-ray nanodiffraction to map contact stresses under 80 nm, revealing how amorphous ZrCu/ZrN interlayers dissipate 30% more elastic energy and prevent cracks
Mechanical contact between dissimilar materials is a fundamental phenomenon with wide-ranging implications in both natural and engineering systems. Such contact rarely occurs between two perfectly oriented flat materials, but mostly takes place along single or multiple asperities, inducing highly localized, large multiaxial deformations on the materials in contact1,2,3,4. This observation fuels the field of contact mechanics, which is critical across many areas of materials science, including bu…
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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct
Nine PBS is afraid that it will lose over 70 years of archival materials and programming after its contracted cloud storage vendor has apparently gone out of business. According to Current, the channel used Open Source Storage, or OSS, for storing over 50TB of data — but it suddenly lost access to its data earlier this year. Nine PBS has been working with OSS and its predecessor since 2019 and intended to renew its contract on March 6 of this year. The company never responded and abruptly cut of…
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Cargo thieves are staging car crashes to steal AI data center hardware
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TL;DR: Cargo thieves are targeting equipment used in AI data centers, from server switches to cooling systems and networking hardware. In two recent California cases, criminals appear to have used car crashes to separate trucks from their security escorts before the shipments vanished. The incidents highlight how organized groups are using carrier-identity fraud, GPS manipulation and, increasingly…
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U.S boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas | Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
With the landowner’s permission, the drone teams arrived shortly after sunrise to survey both livestock and wildlife on the ranch. That is because the early morning work hours made it easier for the drone’s infrared sensors to detect warm-blooded animals against the relatively cooler ground.
The USDA is currently researching ways to use AI to “analyze drone imagery to detect wounds, identify animals and prioritize inspections,” according to the department.
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Feeling stressed and overworked? Don't worry - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that we just love to work, and that's why AI won't result in a four-day working week
Good news everyone - it seems that the reason AI hasn't yet resulted in less work and more leisure time, as promised by multiple "evangelists" and AI "experts" is that we just love working too darn much.
That's according to OpenAI CEO and America's next top (AI) model whisperer Sam Altman, who has declared that people are just really big fans of grinding away and competing with others.
Speaking on the Relentless podcast, Altman told host Ti Morse that in fact, he doesn't expect a change in soc…
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AI giants stay quiet on climate as California prepares to force disclosure
In a few short years, artificial intelligence startups have grown into some of the most powerful and influential businesses in the world, reaching near-trillion-dollar valuations. As two of them, Anthropic and OpenAI, prepare for initial public offerings, there’s a notable absence: The companies haven’t disclosed their greenhouse gas emissions, made net-zero pledges or published sustainability reports.
Not too long ago, investors would have cried foul. Even fossil-fuel stalwarts like ExxonMobil…
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Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’
This study was originally published in 2024 and was criticized as being misleading by other scientists at the time
A pharmacist prepares to administer COVID vaccine booster shots during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center in Chicago on September 9, 2022.
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A controversial 2024 study that some vaccine skeptics used to argue that millions of people likely died as a result of COVID vaccines has been retracted over misin…
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Poland says it thwarted Russian plot to kill an American citizen in a NATO country
WARSAW (AP) — A Russian plot to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister said Thursday, marking the first time in decades that a Western leader has publicly accused Moscow of plotting to kill a U.S. citizen.
Western officials have previously warned that Russia has stepped up a campaign of targeted killings since President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, saying they have disrupted several plots across…
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Ukrainian submarine captain who defected to Russia dies in blast. The suspected traitor was killed when an explosive device detonated in a trash can in Sevastopol
The suspected traitor was killed when an explosive device detonated in a trash can in Sevastopol.
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Settler siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank a ‘horrific act of terror,’ US ambassador says
QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank for several days, including one owned by a Palestinian American, in what the U.S. ambassador called a “horrific act of terror” on Thursday.
Mike Huckabee’s remarks on X represented an unusually sharp rebuke from the Trump administration of the latest episode in a surge of settler violencein the region.
Settlers have targeted three homes for days
Starting Sunday, settlers gathered around three houses i…
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Zelensky Warns Land Concessions Could Give Putin Time to Prepare Another Invasion
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has submitted new proposals aimed at ending Russia’s war and called for greater US involvement.
Ukraine has delivered the proposals to American negotiators, although their contents have not been made public. Zelensky said stronger US participation was necessary because the current pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin remained insufficient.
Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.
“We need more involvement from the American sid…
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python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
python has 6 pre-declared "constants": True, False, None, __debug__, Ellipsis (or equivalently ...), and NotImplemented. but they all behave slightly differently, for some reason.
True, False, and None are keywords. they aren't identifiers, they're just straight up their own lexical tokens. which is really weird; nothing else is like this in python. usually stuff is resolved during regular name resolution, not in the lexer itself.
an interesting side effect of this is that expressions like x.T…
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GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
GitHub released it’s stacked pull request (PR) feature into public preview on 2026-07-30. It mainly targets git users but has documented support for other, git-compatible version control systems like Jujutsu (jj).
This is a primer for using GitHub stacks with jj.
You need the git (instructions) and jj (instructions) CLIs installed.
You need the gh GitHub CLI installed (instructions).
Install the stacking extension with gh extension install github/gh-stack
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I hate packaging my software for Linux
All I wanted was, to make Fresh easy to install, for everybody, everywhere - how hard can it be?!
Windows and macOS aren't so bad, because they're relatively uniform. For Windows, I use winget - ugly, but works (once I got past the initial headache). For macOS, I'm using homebrew for now, which isn't ideal, but it wasn't hard to set up. I'll probably move to a more native signed mac app once I take the time to package it correctly. Both solutions work ok for modern Windows and macOS users.
Lin…
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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
I got a nice shout-out from Ben Dicken over the weekend on an old article I’d written on managing database connections. (This guy is apparently the Mick Jagger of databases, because I can’t remember having gotten so many inbound LinkedIn invitations in one day before.)
Something that hit hard is that I wrote this article almost ten years ago.
Just as striking is that as I was reading back through it, I realized that despite being a decade old, it’s still pretty much up to date. Postgres is sti…
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How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
Previously, the SQLite release fixing this bug.
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My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
Welp. My Forgejo instance got popped with an RCE two days ago by CVE-2026-60004. Luckily, I noticed the following morning and had the day free to figure out what happened. Let's dive in!
I woke up on Saturday morning to several Pushover notifications from Komodo warning me that my server's CPU usage was quickly spiking to 95%, then dropping back to 80%. That machine has an i5-10600K that normally idles at ~4% usage. I checked Komodo and found that it'd been at a sustained 50% CPU usage since 9:…
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Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
Attached: 4 images i love seeing creative qr code designs, so i made this guide explaining what tricks you can (and can't!) do with qr codes while still keeping them very much readable have fun and make cool stuff!!
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Newly Analyzed Skull Fragments Suggest Ancient Human Species Had a “Mosaic” Anatomy
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New Ice Age Toad Species Discovered in La Brea Tar Pits Fossil Collection
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The HMS Tiger Broke into Two Sections and Sank 118 Years Ago — Today, Divers Place a Wreath on Its Tiller
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The 2026 Solar Eclipse Is Just the Beginning — How to Plan for the 2027 'Eclipse of the Century'
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When a Total Solar Eclipse Darkened an Empty Zoo, Macaques Climbed and Zebras Ran
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Why Some Eclipse Maps May Miss the True Edge of Totality During the 2026 Solar Eclipse
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Track the 2026 Solar Eclipse Hour-by-Hour as Totality Sweeps Across Europe
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This Week’s books in Programming
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Fried spider - Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fried spiders for sale at a market in Skuon ("Spiderville")
Fried spider (Khmer: រពីងបំពង) is a regional snack in Cambodia. In the Cambodian town of Skuon, Cheung Prey, Kampong Cham, the vending of fried spiders as a specialty snack is a popular attraction for tourists. Spiders are also available elsewhere in Cambodia – in Phnom Penh for instance – but Skuon, a market town on the highway 75 kilometres (47 mi) from the capital, is the centre of their popular…
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The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign was an advertising sign for a podiatry clinic in Los Angeles, known locally as a fortune-telling device and neighborhood landmark. Authors of novels and other creative works have incorporated the sign into stories, including Jonathan Lethem and David Foster Wallace.
"Sad Foot" side of the sign
Location Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California
Intersection Sunset Blvd / Benton Wy
Interactive map of Happy Foot Sad Foot sign
Coordinates: 34°4′50.685″N 118°16′13.298″W / 34.08074583°N 118.27036056°W
Sign relocated to Y Que Trading Post, 1770 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles
"Happy Foot" side of the sign
The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign (also written Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign) was an advertising sign for a podiatry clinic in Los Angeles, California, United States. Known local…
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American Me is a fictionalized film account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia from the 1950s into the 1980s. Segments of the Mexican Mafia were enraged by the film. Actor Danny Trejo said that he was aware of 10 people having been murdered for their involvement in the film.
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Goat tower - Wikipedia
A goat tower is a multi-story decorative goat house, modeled on a European garden folly, an early example of which was built in Portugal in the 19th century. The first goat tower was built at Aveleda, a winery in Portugal's Vinho Verde region. Since 1981, several other goat towers have been built in South Africa, Norway, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Argentina; these include three at other wineries. The towers typically are multi-story with climbing ramps spiralling the exte…
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Operation Freshman - Allied attempt to prevent the Nazis from building an atomic bomb
The Vemork hydroelectric plant, circa 1947.
Type Sabotage
Location
Telemark, Norway
59°52′16″N 8°29′29″E / 59.87111°N 8.49139°E
Planned by Combined Operations Headquarters
SOE
Objective Destroy German heavy water production at Vemork
Date 19 November 1942
Executed by 34 glider borne commandos
Outcome Failure
Casualties 41 killed, 2 Horsa gliders and 1 Halifax bomber lost
Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II.…
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Tough Love: My Son Got a Girlfriend—and Shut Me Out
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Rod Dreher on Evan Barker’s warning for the GOP. A high schooler on why antisemitism is spreading am…
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Why Democrats Said No to Francesca Hong
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Rod Dreher: Identity Politics Destroyed the Democrats. Republicans Are Next.
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Caitlin Flanagan: Must Egg Freezing Be ‘Normalized’ by AOC?
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How My Generation Became Antisemitic
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I Went No Contact with My Parents. I Regret It.
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Anthropic’s Watermarking, How It (Probably) Works, Worse Than It Seems
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Nvidia’s Risky Business
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Apple Earnings, More on Amazon’s Earnings
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2026.32: Earnings and Learnings
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Base Power Company: Chapter 3
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Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
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8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #205
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