Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-11.

Showing top 30 of 93 distinct stories after deduping (3 appeared in more than one source).

Chicken Scheme 6.0

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 119 points, 14 comments (discussion)

Fast Haskell Scripts on GitHub Actions

Sources: Bubbles (Abhinav Sarkar), Lobsters

Also linked: Lobsters

Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China

Sources: Slashdot, The Register

Also linked: The Register

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 442 points, 419 comments (discussion)

I think something that doesn't get said enough is Meta did, albeit intentionally kick off the origin of the open source race back in 2023 with the release of llama. I'm not a big fan of meta in general, but they've done enough good, and it's possible that it was intentional as well. I don't know, I ...

Bird photography is like real-life Pokémon

Sources: Bubbles (Antonio Santos)

A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets

Sources: Lobsters

A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond

Sources: Slashdot

DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection

Sources: The Register

A Keyboard with No Keys

Sources: Hackaday

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 255 points, 98 comments (discussion)

Retro Slide — A Fujifilm Recipe for 5th-Gen (X-Trans V) Cameras

Sources: Bubbles (FUJI X WEEKLY)

We're not done with point clouds

Sources: Lobsters

Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware

Sources: Slashdot

The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

Sources: The Register

The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps

Sources: Hackaday

Squeak 6.1

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 244 points, 123 comments (discussion)

My day as an "AI artist"

Sources: Bubbles (A Lovely Harmless Monster)

an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed

Sources: Lobsters

First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store

Sources: Slashdot

Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer

Sources: The Register

Cotton-Fiberglass Composite Makes Lightweight RV Countertops

Sources: Hackaday

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 209 points, 51 comments (discussion)

The University of Chicago Law School's Pushback on AI Kinda Rules

Sources: Bubbles (quailblog)

Remaking Party House

Sources: Lobsters

Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills

Sources: Slashdot

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

Sources: The Register

Building a bicycle dropper seat post

Sources: Hackaday

Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 198 points, 20 comments (discussion)

A Small Wooden Teardrop

Sources: Bubbles (My Garfunkel Library)

Breaking up (lines) is hard to do

Sources: Lobsters