Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-08-26.

14 new stories since Morning.

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 9 points, 1 comments (discussion)

Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot

Sources: Slashdot

SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast

Sources: The Register

Claude Plays DOOM

Sources: Hackaday

Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026

Sources: Lobsters

SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana

Sources: Slashdot

Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR

Sources: The Register

New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive

Sources: Hackaday

mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

Sources: Lobsters

UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers

Sources: The Register

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 328 points, 171 comments (discussion)

I'm a scuba diver here in Thailand and you can still see blast fishing damage from decades ago that never fully recovered. It's truly as terrible as the article makes it out to be. What is interesting is that both Indonesia and Thailand have strong and similar anti blast fishing laws since early 00s...

Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose

Sources: The Register

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 262 points, 188 comments (discussion)

Should be pointed out that this is a critique of common popsci journalism tropes and not a fancy new research result. Anyone who has taken a graduate level class in General Relativity would have been able to tell you the same.

What's in a tag name? JavaScript, apparently

Sources: Lobsters