Year: 2026

‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,Culture,Booksellers,Retail industry,Shops and shopping πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Matt Haig, bestselling author of books including Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, is opening a bookshop in Brighton.The writer plans to open the store, called Golden, by Christmas. It is located in the Seven Dials neighborhood, a part of the coastal city that currently does not have a library.β€œMy belief, as someone who grew up in a town without a library, is that all communities should have a library, because libraries save civilization and make life interesting,”…
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Anatomy of a Misfeature Β· Olaf Alders

Anatomy of a Misfeature Β· Olaf Alders

πŸ”₯ Explore this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: "Mechanical egg timer" by Hustvedt is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 . Padded to a wider frame; this adaptation is likewise licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising β€œeaster egg” to users of Claude Code: 2.1.198 includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human. You essentially get a 60 second timer after Claude Code asks for input. If you miss the window, Claude Code helpfully does what it thinks…
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Chastity, gesture and enlarged pores: will women also love Nolan’s epic? | Odyssey

Chastity, gesture and enlarged pores: will women also love Nolan’s epic? | Odyssey

πŸš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: The Odyssey,Film,Culture,Christopher Nolan,Zendaya,Charlize Theron,Matt Damon,Samantha Morton πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: toA long time ago, almost as long ago as Homer wrote The Odyssey, I was a film critic for the Sunday Telegraph. People sometimes ask me how sexist the scene was at that time Bronze age In the mid-2000s, when male critics outnumbered female critics by about eight to one. Well, there was no sexism. It was really good and everyone was really nice.They were nice in Soho, anyway. Further, less than that. Especially some readers, when…
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The State of Open Source AI β€” V1.0 Β· July 2026

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Γ— The opening letter Build with us. A letter from our CTO, Raffi Krikorian In New Zealand's far north, a Māori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo β€” a language too small for any market β€” under a license that keeps the data with its people. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, fine-tuned an open model on the language of finance and runs it today for hundreds of clients, on its own hardware, with no per-token meter running. Researchers in…
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Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies at 81 Movie

Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies at 81 Movie

πŸ”₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Ireland,Culture,Europe,World news,Coronation Street,Soap opera,Drama,Television,Television & radio,Comedy films,Comedy πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish woman to win an Oscar for My Left Foot, has died at the age of 81. Her agent, Phil Belfield, told the BBC in a statement: β€œWe will never see her like her again and the world is made less and less important by missing her... It was an honor to know, love and work with her, and she will always have a place in my heart and in…
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AI meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s zkVM

AI meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s zkVM

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: This is the second post in the series. In case you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL, it has more context on why we run these experiments and how our pipeline is set up. In this post, we pointed zkao, our AI auditor, at OpenVM's zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug in its guest library openvm-pairing that lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. Note that this is not a soundness bug in the zkVM's proving system itself; it…
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The Hairdresser Mysteries review – Sally Phillips brings us the biggest daytime TV show ever | TV and radio

The Hairdresser Mysteries review – Sally Phillips brings us the biggest daytime TV show ever | TV and radio

πŸ”₯ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Sally Phillips,TV crime drama,TV comedy βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: gPick up your rosebuds and pinch your cheeks, because there will be gurgles in the Crimean countryside. A hairdresser arrives in the fictional village of Blossom Vale armed with a blow-dry backstory (he's worked with posh types in London but now seems to want peace and quiet and "a place of my own") and the keys to a rundown salon on the high street. Lily Petal (Sally Phillips) is obsessed with buying it. β€œIt's like a…
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Manufact

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Manufact

πŸš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: About us Manufact is Vercel for MCP.We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month. We're the team behind mcp-use SDK (next.js for MCP), the open-source framework for building MCP Apps with 10k Github stars and 8M+ downloads across python and typescript. Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies. We raised…
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The Hunt for Gollum has been criticized for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer film

The Hunt for Gollum has been criticized for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer film

✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Andy Serkis,Race,JRR Tolkien,Lord of the Rings,Books,Culture,Science fiction and fantasy films,World news πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: CAsting has come a long way since the early 1980s when it was still somehow acceptable to sign Max von Sydow to play Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon in 1980, or to cast Peter Ustinov in the title role in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981 (despite protests at the time). These days, filmmakers would have to defend an all-white cast in a medieval fantasy film,…
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Pushinka – Wikipedia

Pushinka – Wikipedia

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Dog given to John F. Kennedy by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Pushinka (Russian: ΠŸΡƒΡˆΠΈΠ½ΠΊΠ°, lit. 'Fluffy') was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.[3] Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka's puppies, and one was subsequently sent by…
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