news, !paper 2026-08-12

1206 Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug / tailscale.com / 234

1032 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 / openrouter.ai / 451

991 AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? / blog.florianherrengt.com / 926

717 uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook / digitalescapetools.com / 910

710 Qwen3.8-2.4T / huggingface.co / 170

676 Delta / zed.dev / 254

639 License plate reader searches should require a warrant / andrewpwheeler.com / 396

629 Grok 4.6 / x.ai / 614

510 2026 Eclipse Webcams / jonty.github.io / 142

478 Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta / abc.net.au / 337

475 LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 / cringebot3000.com / 204

363 llama.cpp / llama.app / 164

341 Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index / artificialanalysis.ai / 415

333 Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome / guillaumetech.github.io / 67

313 Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation / woxi.ad-si.com / 45

303 Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot / knownagents.com / 226

301 Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died / amiga-news.de / 39

276 Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful / okmij.org / 155

259 What sort of maths are LLMs good at? / gowers.wordpress.com / 160

254 HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript / en.andros.dev / 198

244 Shade Map / shademap.app / 60

225 CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York / cftc.gov / 204

210 US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers / cbsnews.com / 160

203 New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner / newbedfordlight.org / 93

201 Flutter 3.47 / flutter.dev / 214

196 Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI / 404media.co / 52

196 Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them / neowin.net / 4

195 The Human Is the Loop / brentfitzgerald.com / 90

192 U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’ / wsj.com / 550

190 Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf / corneroffifth.studio / 321

182 Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available / blogs.embarcadero.com / 147

175 Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today / worm.net / 55

172 Pixel Watch 5 / blog.google / 390

169 High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons / petapixel.com / 18

162 Lovable raises $400M Series C / lovable.dev / 201

160 Breaking the WAL / antithesis.com / 51

160 Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials / discoveredmaterials.com / 35

154 Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? / funcall.blogspot.com / 150

132 Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland / oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk / 205

132 Pixel 11 Pro Fold / blog.google / 201

131 My Agent Setup / chad.cm / 64

130 People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more / julienreszka.com / 178

125 Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin / 32bits.substack.com / 32

123 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe / severe-weather.eu / 177

121 Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT / sharktastica.co.uk / 52

120 In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace / popularmechanics.com / 80

118 German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses / reuters.com / 52

117 Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE / github.com/ArcadeMakerSources / 62

115 Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C / usehax.dev / 36

108 The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021) / jdh.hamkins.org / 27

108 Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard / climate.metoffice.cloud / 23

106 The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood / whdh.com / 31

105 Build Wide, Ship Narrow / adapt.com / 32

104 Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS / pascal.hansotten.com / 45

101 I hate packaging my software for Linux / getfresh.dev / 149

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