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American AI is locked down and proprietary. It’s losing.

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AI China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it. Link: China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance, by Robert Hart in The VergeAI models, as a product in themselves, have very little moat beyond what amounts to brand loyalty and superficial switching costs. Instead, the moat is in the enterprise services that sit around them: the deals and contracts, connectivity…

The US military says it is carrying out the tenth consecutive night of strikes on Iran

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✨ Check out this trending post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Bahrain,iran war,Pakistan,saudi arabia,yemen ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said late Monday that it had carried out a 10th straight night of strikes on Iran in an attempt to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The renewed bombings came in the wake of the killing of another American soldier, and came after Iran launched attacks on America's allies in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet. US Central Command said on social media that the…

Corners Don’t Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion Sean Barrett 2012-12-13 The real, physical Cornell box. From Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces, by Goral et al 1984 Please, feel free to gather better data yourself and prove me wrong. If you do so I'll link to it! Game developers are in love with screenspace ambient occlusion (SSAO). They're so in love with it that they do all sorts of crazy things. Amateur developers post…

Troy Jackson is emerging as a potential Senate candidate for Maine Democrats

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✨ Read this awesome post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: graham platner,maine,senate,susan collins,troy jackson ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Troy Jackson, a former Maine state representative and fifth-generation recorder from the North Maine Woods, has emerged as a potential new alternative to the state's Democratic Senate nominee after former candidate Graham Blatner dropped out of the high-stakes race less than two weeks ago. Blatner's departure came after a sexual assault allegation, which he denied but was forced out anyway. That has sparked a wave of potential candidates eager to prove to Mainers that they can take on…

Why I Stopped “Creating Content” · Refactoring English

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: by Michael Lynch, published July 20, 2026The first time I saw Michelangelo’s David in person, I wept. Never in my life have I witnessed a more beautiful piece of content.I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Museum patrons all around me were looking up from their phones to admire David as well. Despite it being legacy content, David was so scrollstoppingly captivating that it generated stronger engagement than TikTok and Instagram combined, despite those platforms offering fresher, more personally relevant content.My awe only…

“I’m in.” Darlene Graham said she will run for a full term in Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat

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💥 Check out this insightful post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Darline Graham,Donald Trump news,Lindsey Graham,South Carolina 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Darlene Graham said Monday she is running for a full term to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. "I've made a decision," Darlene Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity, in a clip from an interview scheduled to air later Monday. "I'm in." The entry of Darlene Graham — who was sworn in last week to serve out the remaining months of her late brother's term, which ends…

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks · unslop

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We scored the full text of 12,750 arXiv papers and found that about a third of new ones read as machine-written. Here is the method, the results, and an honest account of the limitations.Share of new arXiv papers flagged as machine-written, 2021 to 2026, at a threshold calibrated so pre-ChatGPT papers flag at 0.4%. The eight slate points are the pre-LLM control months; the band is a bootstrap 95% interval. Share of papers flagged as machine-written by field, over the 12 months to July 2026…

Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, due to disputes over cars, alcohol and cheese

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💥 Read this trending post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: canada,Donald Trump news,mark carney,tariffs 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada is unfairly discriminating against American cars, alcohol and dairy products. The move could unleash a new wave of economic chaos, with the risk of higher inflation and further deterioration of relations between the two countries that were closely woven before Trump returned to the White House. The administration official who reviewed the action said Canada was one of the only…

Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix. I enjoy these lofty goals to push Nix and the surrounding ecosystem forward. I am bold if not stupid. I left the last earlier post with one potential idea of how to get there: We could patch the Linux kernel so that $ORIGIN is supported in PT_INTERP and the shebang. I waded through the complexity of sending patches over email (turns out I actually enjoy this…

Tamara Keith and Yasmine Wright talk about the political ramifications of Trump’s rhetoric

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💥 Check out this trending post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Politics Monday 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Amna Nawaz: Arizona holds its primary elections tomorrow, where Republicans will choose a candidate to challenge the current Democratic governor next November.That's where we start tonight on this Politics Monday podcast with NPR's Tamara Keith and NOTUS' White House correspondent Yasmin Wright. Amy Walter is away.Great to see you both. Tamara Keith, NPR: It's good to be here. Jasmine Wright, NOTUS: Great to see you. Amna Nawaz: Let's start in Arizona. We've got a Republican primary there for governor.Actor…