Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-19.

10 new stories since Morning.

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 131 points, 82 comments (discussion)

The death and rebirth of my home server

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 14 points, 4 comments (discussion)

More emulation goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows

Sources: Lobsters

Are There Cybersecurity Risks in Over-the-Air Tech Used in Autos?

Sources: Slashdot

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Sources: The Register

QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer

Sources: Hackaday

New Study Links Teen Boys' ADHD Symptoms To Addictive Social Media Use

Sources: Slashdot

A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less

Sources: Hackaday

The Kimi K3 Moment

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 465 points, 475 comments (discussion)

Regardless of whether they achieved parity via distillation, or whether they got here via independently constructing a model from scratch, it was always going to end this way for the frontier American labs. Distillation “attacks” are not attacks. The frontier labs “distilled” all existing human writ...

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 260 points, 134 comments (discussion)