Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-05.

Showing top 30 of 103 distinct stories after deduping (3 appeared in more than one source).

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 94 points, 84 comments (discussion)

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 61 points, 23 comments (discussion)

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage

Sources: Bubbles (Send More Paramedics), Lobsters

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 1168 points, 67 comments (discussion)

Why I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi for browsing

Sources: Bubbles (Michael Harley)

Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly

Sources: Lobsters

Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand

Sources: Slashdot

AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project

Sources: The Register

A Full Motion Video Codec For the Atari ST

Sources: Hackaday

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 359 points, 87 comments (discussion)

No, "AI" will never become conscious

Sources: Bubbles (A Lovely Harmless Monster)

Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs

Sources: Lobsters

EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned

Sources: Slashdot

AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets

Sources: The Register

Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help

Sources: Hackaday

Waymo in Dallas

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 277 points, 449 comments (discussion)

As someone who works in commercial real estate, involved in about $300M of housing development, some of it affordable, i will say without any doubt that driverless cars are a very effective affordable housing policy that is not being considered or discussed by anyone. Any public dollar that gets con...

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 13

Sources: Bubbles (with words, wonder)

irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client

Sources: Lobsters

Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop

Sources: Slashdot

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Sources: The Register

Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics

Sources: Hackaday

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 235 points, 144 comments (discussion)

The TownSquare Census: 65,289 Visits, 29 Ghost Towns, and a Serious Case of Clerk’s Cramp

Sources: Bubbles (The Town Square Gazette)

The Nix sandbox is a hidden input

Sources: Lobsters

Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable For $1.28 Billion

Sources: Slashdot

OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

Sources: The Register

Strengthening 3D Prints with a Carbon-Fiber Epidermis

Sources: Hackaday

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 230 points, 29 comments (discussion)

My son’s Internet

Sources: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)

Also linked: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)

designing a query system

Sources: Lobsters