Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184190

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996

Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed https://this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why-ad-blockers-are-necessary/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170001

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174407

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166874

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-scams-surge-interpol/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel https://twitter.com/gwern/status/2084739205071343837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192

Waymo in Dallas https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170479

U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164896

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653

FFmpeg 9.0 https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158333

Apple is getting this wrong https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164649

Twenty Years of Pandoc https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750