Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-07-29.

Showing top 30 of 104 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).

Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 67 points, 40 comments (discussion)

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

Sources: Bubbles (datagubbe), Hacker News

HN: 16 points, 2 comments (discussion)

Substack writers, you need a website

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 476 points, 225 comments (discussion)

I just have website.com and my Substack is subdomain.website.com. If I ever wanted to move off (I definitely don't!) I could keep all the urls exactly the same with self-hosting. But substack solved distribution (and community, and bookkeeping, un-distribution etc) and it solved getting paid for my ...

A computer can never be held accountable

Sources: Bubbles (jola.dev)

Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification

Sources: Lobsters

Workplaces Look For Cheaper AI As 'Tokenmaxxing' Fades As a Corporate Fad

Sources: Slashdot

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks

Sources: The Register

DOOM Using Regular Expressions

Sources: Hackaday

Codex Security

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 431 points, 134 comments (discussion)

Drawing Resources

Sources: Bubbles (Robb Knight • Posts • Atom Feed)

The mean means nothing

Sources: Lobsters

Apple Retires iPhone Upgrade Program For Klarna-Backed Leases

Sources: Slashdot

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch

Sources: The Register

How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling

Sources: Hackaday

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 357 points, 60 comments (discussion)

Why Are We Taught to Memorise and Not Learn?

Sources: Bubbles (ÇAKi's SERIES OF TANGENTS)

Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman (Software Should Work Conf 2026)

Sources: Lobsters

eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019

Sources: Slashdot

MCP gets an enterprise makeover

Sources: The Register

Improving the Microcontroller Gaming Performance with PicoGame

Sources: Hackaday

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 265 points, 151 comments (discussion)

One thing that has really frustrated me with "mainstream media" in the last few years is that the level of effort being put into journalism seems to be on decline. I feel like half of the news articles are just a collection of quotes from officials or politicians in public statements, being regurgit...

What Happens When Every Wine Region Wants to Be Premium?

Sources: Bubbles (Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Win…)

Parallel JSON parsing on the GPU with compute shaders

Sources: Lobsters

Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms

Sources: Slashdot

Looks like JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face

Sources: The Register

Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?

Sources: Hackaday

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 213 points, 90 comments (discussion)

note - co-working ftw

Sources: Bubbles (PRETEND TYPEWRITER)

Where are the third places for learners?

Sources: Lobsters

Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives

Sources: The Register