Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-03.

Showing top 30 of 90 distinct stories after deduping (1 appeared in more than one source).

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 51 points, 14 comments (discussion)

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 284 points, 108 comments (discussion)

How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity?

Sources: Bubbles (Jamie Tanna)

Faster floating point math with Rust’s new API

Sources: Lobsters

Hollywood Fights AI In Public While Quietly Building It Into Movies

Sources: Slashdot

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

Sources: The Register

Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch

Sources: Hackaday

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 200 points, 45 comments (discussion)

Estimating a cumulative sum

Sources: Bubbles (John D. Cook)

Your JSON Is Lying to You

Sources: Lobsters

Rogue Police Officers Have Turned Flock's Nationwide Camera Network Into a Stalking Tool

Sources: Slashdot

Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine

Sources: The Register

Easy Theremin Uses ESP32

Sources: Hackaday

How the words we teach English language learners changed

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 198 points, 151 comments (discussion)

I tried to organize vocab by difficulty level for an English language-learning app once. It shocked me how there is absolutely no "right" answer. If you are teaching English for travel, then you're prioritizing a lot of stuff around bathrooms, transportation, menu items, etc. If it's for understandi...

Books that have weight

Sources: Bubbles (Ratika Deshpande)

Getting Started with Google Wave (2010)

Sources: Lobsters

GOG Officially Expands Linux Support With Native Galaxy Client In Development

Sources: Slashdot

Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026

Sources: Hackaday

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 183 points, 95 comments (discussion)

My favorite PDF reader on Android: MJ PDF

Sources: Bubbles (Jan-Lukas Else)

How fast is C++26’s std::hive?

Sources: Lobsters

IT Teams are Spending 11 Hours a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems

Sources: Slashdot

Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one

Sources: The Register

An Automated Water Tank Controller

Sources: Hackaday

Folding Paper Globes

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 166 points, 33 comments (discussion)

Art-hitecture.

Sources: Bubbles (shojiwax.com)

Guarded methods in OCaml

Sources: Lobsters

New Spinning Drone Hides In Plain Sight

Sources: Slashdot

Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees

Sources: The Register