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Reading List 08/01/26

Reading List 08/01/26

Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.

Terence Eden’s Blog
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Gadget Review: HIKMICRO D02 Thermal Camera ★★★★★

The good folks at Hikmicro have sent me their D02 Infrared Camera to review. It's part of their "Eco" series of thermal imagers - designed to be easy to use around the home and relatively cheap. Despite the no-fills appearance, it packs in a lot of features which put some more expensive models to shame. It even works with Linux. Shove in a USB-C cable to grab the photos or even use it as a…

Andrew Nesbitt Valid
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This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

The Old New Thing
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 10

What failure of the context callback means.

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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMa...

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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first launched, and has also served to reignite my pers...

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Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier ones,...

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smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses

smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models. The result is smeval...

John D. Cook
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Solving the RK4 design equations

I was digging into the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations and a line from [1] piqued my curiosity. These calculations, which are not reproduced in Kutta’s paper (they are however in Huen (1900)), are very tedious. The calculations are a set of eight constraints that the parameters of a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method must satisfy. […]

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The Digital Antiquarian
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Y2K Will Be Quite Okay

Hi, folks… I’ll have the last article in the series on Maxis Software for you next week. Today, I’m happy to say that the new ebook, covering the historical year 1999, is available, and on a far more timely basis than the last one at that. My thanks go to Richard Lindner, for developing the […]

Evan Hahn (dot com)
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Notes from July 2026

July! What a month! Things I did this July Gave a talk, for ClimateAction.tech’s “Responsible AI Series”, “What I know about local language models”. “Responsible AI” can feel like a bit of an oxymoron at times, but I hope I shared something useful. Participated in the Ze...

Marcus on AI
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Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologia

Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologia

I wish I could say I was comforted

lcamtuf’s thing
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Severance

Severance

» Mark has joined the call.

lcamtuf’s thing
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Severance

Severance

» Mark has joined the call.

Ken Shirriff's blog
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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. It was not quite a computer, but was programmed by plugging wires into a plugboard. This machine read numbers from a punch card,...

Jeff Geerling
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Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio

Mac Studio with all ports plugged in Ethernet 10G

I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec.

But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my main workstation, too.

Andrew Nesbitt Valid
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The AI Phrasebook

We have autonomous agents at home.

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)

Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Poul Anderson; P2P at PC Forum; Waitress handed her own stolen ID by carded diner; PDX bans fixies; ...

The Silicon Underground
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Windows NT 4.0: Released to Manufacturing July 31, 1996

Windows NT 4.0: Released to Manufacturing July 31, 1996
Windows NT 4.0: Released to Manufacturing July 31, 1996

It was 30 years ago this week, on July 31, 1996, that Microsoft released Windows NT 4.0 to manufacturing. The workstation version appeared on store shelves a month later, with the server version following in September. In many ways, version

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AI models need moral support to make discoveries

One recent development in AI is its ability to solve some long-standing problems in mathematics. In 2024 and 2025, this was a trickle: once or twice a year somebody would say that an LLM came up with a proof, and then everyone would argue over whether that counted as “real” ...