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Thursday, July 23, 2026
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Twitter▲ 676

John C. Dvorak has died

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John C. Dvorak, our beloved husband, father, and cherished host of the No Agenda Show at the age of 74. More to follow.

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OpenAI▲ 744

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

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Codeberg▲ 209

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

Context: - https://forum.codeberg.org/d/82-taking-a-stance-against-cryptocurrency - https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/794 - https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2184

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Mitchell Hashimoto▲ 339

Everyone should know SIMD

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arXiv▲ 14

Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) play a crucial role in agriculture and ecosystem stability as key pollinators of crops and wild plants. As such, monitoring hive strength remotely with Internet…

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Cable News Network (CNN)▲ 102

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.

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Yummymelon▲ 87

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would…

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GitHub▲ 30

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience.

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GitHub28d ago

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

Hey HN, Henry & Roman here from Cactus.A small, on-device model is fast and private, but sometimes wrong, but frontier models are getting expensive pretty fast. So, we post-trained Gemma 4…

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HN — Best of the Week

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ChatGPT▲ 729

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

Here's a chat someone thought you'd want to see.

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X (formerly Twitter)▲ 669

John C. Dvorak has died

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John C. Dvorak, our beloved husband, father, and cherished host of the No Agenda Show at the age of 74. More to follow.

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X (formerly Twitter)▲ 479

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

@iamjasonlevin Passkeys were invented by security engineers with zero understanding of the consumer brain. We had no way to argue its merits since no one understood what they are. As a result, we are now all asked to produce the magic fairy dust to login to apps. It may be on your phone, in

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Dylan Castillo▲ 446

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.

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GitHub▲ 424

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Language model tokenization at GB/s. Contribute to marcelroed/gigatoken development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Overpaid▲ 649

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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DYNOMIGHT▲ 281

Does creatine make you smarter?

And why does the brain use creatine anyway?

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Citizendot▲ 332

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

Appaji, a Computer Science graduate from IIT Patna and former intern at Arista Networks, is a Software Engineer at Infinite Reality. Passionate about building innovative web experiences,…

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Bento29d ago

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude Code, but a common complaint is to make even…

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