Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-31.

Showing top 30 of 97 distinct stories after deduping (1 appeared in more than one source).

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

Sources: Bubbles (Ken Shirriff's blog), Hacker News

HN: 94 points, 16 comments (discussion)

“I just chose words carefully”

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 488 points, 127 comments (discussion)

Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964

Sources: Bubbles (Nibble Stew)

Interview with oofoe about REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFx Industry

Sources: Lobsters

Amazon's HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded

Sources: Slashdot

Debian votes to let contributors code with AI

Sources: The Register

Making a Robot to Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks

Sources: Hackaday

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 280 points, 84 comments (discussion)

We Bought Art

Sources: Bubbles (Whatever)

Small and reasonably fast QOI decoder written in zig

Sources: Lobsters

Multikernel Linux Tree Released: Runs Multiple Kernels On Bare Metal Without a Hypervisor

Sources: Slashdot

Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood

Sources: The Register

Get Your Monitor Transmitting VHF with a Browser Tool

Sources: Hackaday

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 216 points, 88 comments (discussion)

Optimism isn't naive – pessimism is just the easy option

Sources: Bubbles (MattCASmith)

One flake to rule them all

Sources: Lobsters

Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen

Sources: Slashdot

Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Links: August 30, 2026

Sources: Hackaday

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 200 points, 58 comments (discussion)

On Anarchism

Sources: Bubbles (ÇAKi's SERIES OF TANGENTS)

Repeating Ourselves Less with M4

Sources: Lobsters

AI's 'Creepy' Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT Infrastructure Director

Sources: Slashdot

AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks

Sources: The Register

Dissecting a Lethal Universal Travel Adapter

Sources: Hackaday

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 142 points, 45 comments (discussion)

The shy barista

Sources: Bubbles (Writing at Large)

Prompt Injection in Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Sources: Lobsters

Chess.com Launches New Poker Site, Plans More Classic Game Sites with Player Ratings - Thanks to AI Protyping

Sources: Slashdot

Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages

Sources: The Register