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Stories from 2026-07-18

1. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)

2. GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (reddit.com)

3. Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)

4. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)

5. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (data.stackexchange.com)

6. Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)

7. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/badchemical)

8. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)

9. If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)

10. Gleam Is Now on Tangled (tangled.org)

11. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (ykdojo.github.io)

12. Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)

13. Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (github.com/moonshine-ai)

14. Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System (prathosh.in)

15. The Kimi K3 Moment (bochinski.dev)

16. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)

17. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)

18. I started a “dirt notebook” (pinewind.bearblog.dev)

19. A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (nytimes.com)

20. Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)

21. I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp (mssv.net)

22. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)

23. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)

24. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)

25. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)

26. An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)

27. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)

28. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day (neatnik.net)

29. Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds (acm.org)

30. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)

31. Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup (arxiv.org)

32. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025) (velvetshark.com)

33. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)

34. In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains (in-toto.io)

35. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)

36. GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend (lttlabs.com)

37. Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby (smallcultfollowing.com)

38. Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read (github.com/waaldev)

39. Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig (moonstone.sh)

40. Fake food delivery site for the dopamine (reddit.com)

41. Typing Speed Test, but for Developers (0s.is)

42. REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500 (reotrucks.com)

43. Shipping OpenStrike: A Counter-Strike-Shaped FPS on a 2004 Handheld (pocketjs.dev)

44. Judge a book by its first pages (uncovered.ink)

45. British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years (sky.com)

46. The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding (reactormag.com)

47. Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks (github.com/tucan9389)

48. What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately? (minimaxir.com)

49. Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week (boilingsteam.com)

50. Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders (rogerdickey.com)

51. Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm (30fps.net)

52. No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes (unc.edu)

53. Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves (macworld.com)

54. Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey (imaxxing.io)

55. "Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means (bombich.com)

56. From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (With Ronnen Harary) [audio] (econtalk.org)

57. Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js) (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

59. SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research (ft.com)

60. A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering (sutch.net)

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