news, !paper 2026-08-21

1262 Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results / kagi.com / 396

1103 Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border / nytimes.com / 1364

845 Felony Bench / felonybench.com / 345

709 Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera / san.com / 397

704 / news.ycombinator.com / 0

678 I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases / lina.sh / 85

655 Kobo can run apps now / bandarlabs.github.io / 206

502 I'm becoming AI-blind / cymerys.com / 502

496 DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp / api-docs.deepseek.com / 155

384 Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened / xda-developers.com / 225

358 Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article / github.com/adnanakil / 237

280 New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson / precastreinforced.co.uk / 185

274 The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates / remapradio.com / 147

264 Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe / newscenter.lbl.gov / 71

246 Small, native web tricks worth remembering / htmlcat.net / 62

242 A week of using Codex more than Claude / allaboutcoding.ghinda.com / 280

233 OTel isn’t going well / matduggan.com / 118

222 Three important steps in my maturation process / thomasdullien.github.io / 124

209 How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt / reuters.com / 125

193 Omacom Foundation launches with $8M / omarchy.org / 191

171 How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms / nari-labs.com / 44

171 People of ACM – Russ Cox / acm.org / 22

165 Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat / matklad.github.io / 95

151 I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip / pointinthecloud.com / 49

148 Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges / github.com/openai / 65

147 We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon / encore.dev / 84

139 A look under our trunk: what's in our compute / waymo.com / 109

136 How Thailand Resisted Colonization / worksinprogress.co / 52

130 Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise / investors.micron.com / 72

128 What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x / catalystneuro.com / 138

128 TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering / ixuvo.com / 41

121 I Just Want to Search / 0xsid.com / 52

119 Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory / blog.jakesaunders.dev / 66

116 What happens when a GPU reads memory / blog.doubleword.ai / 19

114 One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? / statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu / 30

113 c100 / caligra.com / 101

112 WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust / winonapost.com / 87

112 Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle / arxiv.org / 35

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