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Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

Biggest thing for me is that tree-sitter's ABI is being bumped to 15 -- fixes compatibility issues with several upstream grammars. For the impatient, RC1 has been posted: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-08/msg00599.html Comments
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Every Model Cheats

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21763 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374635 Points: 75 # Comments: 56
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Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch

Article URL: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374772 Points: 79 # Comments: 44
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SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

Article URL: https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378933 Points: 50 # Comments: 10
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The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis

Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-wonders-of-the-male-human-pelvis-1283947 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380226 Points: 28 # Comments: 7
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Code as an Artifact

Article URL: https://pradeeproark.com/posts/code-as-an-artifact-means-to-an-end/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380482 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
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Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

Article URL: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380671 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
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Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

Article URL: https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381311 Points: 8 # Comments: 4
🌍 TheVerge

Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops

Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released back in July and still available on Framework's site at the time of this writing. Upon […]
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FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download […]
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Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem

Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn't been in compliance with Australia's Online Safety Act, including "allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16." While […]