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Stack Overflow has seen a dramatic collapse in question volume, falling from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014 to just 1.4k in July 2026, signaling a major shift in developer Q&A usage.
Soar is a fast, modern, bloat-free Linux package manager written in Rust, supporting static binaries, AppImages, and portable packages without requiring root, with distro-independent installation and secure builds.
A discussion on whether AI can accelerate medical science, potentially treating or curing chronic conditions in the coming decades, and whether a golden age of medicine is realistic.
A non-mathematician used ChatGPT to identify a normalization error in two recently published Riemann Hypothesis papers, and the author confirmed the issue after being contacted. The story highlights AI's growing role in assisting mathematical research.
Sam Altman explains how massive inference demand will finance OpenAI's frontier model training without requiring high margins, and predicts intelligence becoming fungible with advantage shifting to the largest cheapest compute fleets.
The US Commerce Department is circulating a proposal to stop collecting census data on race and sexual orientation, and to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count for the 2030 census, which could reshape federal funding and political representation.
Elon Musk highlights that Grok Imagine's image editing capabilities have been greatly improved, with precise segment editing tools that let users target specific parts of an image instead of regenerating the whole thing.
Claude Code now supports cross-session messaging, allowing Claude agents to send messages between independent sessions to coordinate work, share findings, and warn about breaking changes.
A tweet outlining a weekend guide for shorting Nebius (NBIS) by reading hyperscaler AI cloud earnings, and going long Lululemon (LULU) as a hedge.
Kent C. Dodds announces his first sale for Kody Koala from an early access user, with the official launch coming in weeks.
Claims that the market is in a bubble and advises selling everything.
Andree Toonk releases Wireblast, a 100 Gbps packet generator written in Go using AF_XDP for line-rate packet transmission.
Fastmail launches an EU data region, letting users choose to store their data on company-owned servers in Amsterdam, with details on data flow, redundancy, and fallback options.
Job Hunter Team is an open-source desktop app that uses a team of AI agents to search job boards, score postings against your profile, and draft tailored CVs and cover letters. The app is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with pluggable AI providers like Claude, Codex, or Kimi, and is open to contributors.
A new visible-light photograph of the Sun has captured tiny plasma vortices for the first time, confirming a long-predicted solar phenomenon.
Forbes reports that US AI data vendors Surge AI, Mercor, AfterQuery, and Turing are selling ~$500M/year in training data to Chinese labs Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance, despite also serving OpenAI and Anthropic.
Triton is a new Windows driver for QEMU that, together with the Neptune layer, brings full DirectX 11 graphics acceleration to Windows virtual machines by implementing the DirectX DDI instead of API interception.
TinySol is a tiny Klondike Solitaire game for DOS, designed for vintage computers with monochrome screens. It is written in x86 Assembly, fits in 3KB, and supports various video modes.
Simon Willison analyzes the timeline of OpenAI's accidental attack on Hugging Face, suggesting that RLVR training of a new model explains the lack of safety behaviors and lax monitoring.
Elon Musk reacts to a report that OpenAI HR cited a security warning memo as a major reason for firing Leopold, highlighting ongoing concerns about OpenAI's security practices.