Weekly news | 2026-07-29
news
- Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
- John C. Dvorak has died
- Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
- Everyone should know SIMD
- Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
- Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
- So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
- Writing by hand is good for your brain
- Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
- AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
- OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
- Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
- What happened to TheNumbers.com
- Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
- Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
- Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
- DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
- Kill The Cookie Banner
- Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
- GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
- Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
- Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team
- Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]
- Design is compromise
- A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
- The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough
- Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
- Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
- US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
- French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
- Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room
- We have proof automation now
- Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
- Substack writers, you need a website
- New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
- 7.1 Earthquake in Japan
- Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
- Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
- Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
- How to survive boiling water
- Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
AI: - Our position on open-weights models
- AWS:
- Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate
- Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
- Billing and Cost Management new Cost Efficiency widget
- CloudFront Functions logging to CloudFront access logs
- CloudWatch Logs Insights +25 new query commands and functions
- CloudWatch Logs intelligent tiering for storage
- CloudWatch lookup processor for log enrichment
- Cognito importing users with password hashes
- Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs
- DocumentDB +46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1
- DocumentDB skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
- EC2 public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs
- EKS Auto Mode Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
- Elastic Disaster Recovery EBS volume initialization rate
- Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads
- GameLift Streams IAM role credentials for stream sessions
- GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
- IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification
- Lambda one-click setup prompt for coding agents
- Lambda self-managed code storage
- Managed Service for Apache Flink AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications
- MQ configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers
- MSK Express Brokers Kafka version 4.2
- OpenSearch Service Agent Toolkit curated skill
- OpenSearch UI one-click dashboard migration
- Partner Central Partner Lead Prospecting
- Partner Central subsidiary connections now support qualification sharing
- RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2
- RDS up to four storage modifications in 24 hours
- Redshift Serverless preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores
- S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags
- S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
- SageMaker HyperPod custom AMIs for Slurm clusters
- SageMaker HyperPod partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clusters
- SageMaker JumpStart Gemma-4-E2B-it
- SageMaker JumpStart OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking
- SageMaker JumpStart Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval
- SageMaker JumpStart Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription
- Security Hub AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets
- Storage Gateway copying file shares across gateways
- Sustainability water withdrawals data
- WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migration
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
- PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
- Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
- Codex Security