Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-02.

14 new stories since Lunch.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 119 points, 20 comments (discussion)

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 47 points, 6 comments (discussion)

Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster.

Sources: Slashdot

Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant

Sources: Hackaday

Does Eating Less Protein Produce Healthier Aging and Metabolism?

Sources: Slashdot

A KVM Without the V (Or the M)

Sources: Hackaday

Karpathy’s Pelican

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 188 points, 150 comments (discussion)

A lot of people are posting here about how bad the end product is, but that is kind of the point. Models have moved beyond generating images to a new kind of benchmark that better exposes understanding of the physical world, and we can use benchmarks like this to measure future progress. (Of course,...

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

Sources: Lobsters

In a First, 'Super-Earth' Planet Shows It Could Have an Atmosphere

Sources: Slashdot

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 147 points, 13 comments (discussion)

I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence

Sources: Lobsters

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

Sources: Slashdot

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 146 points, 19 comments (discussion)

Where's your website?

Sources: Lobsters