'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout https://www.ft.com/content/06ec1b03-d4af-40cf-b12a-4ba5a410f6d2
Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/02/europe-ev-sales-report-bevs-jump-50-reach-26-market-share/
CleanTechnica
Europe EV Sales Report: BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share! - CleanTechnica
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management
Unattributed
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...
My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw” https://frogs.vaguespac.es/
Frogs
FROGS_ — the Habsburg-jaw SVG benchmark
One prompt, every model: generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw. Each model gets three tries a month.
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
Linuxiac
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
The EU’s age verification project confirms hardware-bound attestation is mandatory, raising concerns over Linux, custom ROMs, and open-source access.
AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest https://www.ohiostatefair.com/p/get-involved/arts/poster-contest
Ohiostatefair
Ohio State Fair Poster Contest
Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/californians-data-deletion-requests-drop-become-enforceable-aug-1/4054771/
NBC 7 San Diego
Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1
Starting Aug. 1, registered California data brokers must honor requests to stop selling consumers' personal information.
Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours https://github.com/pg83/shitty
GitHub
GitHub - pg83/shitty: A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name
A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name. Contribute to pg83/shitty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Read the novels and forget everything else https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/read-the-novels-and-forget-everything-else
THR Web Features
Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else
Patrick O’Brian’s life may have been one of dissimulation but his Aubrey-Maturin novels still offer the nutmeg of consolation for thousands of readers.
Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor https://mattbeton.com/blog/bitnet-6502.html
Mattbeton
Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor - Matt Beton
A language model on a 1975 MOS 6502 processor, using a tiny Mamba-based language model and custom 8-bit ternary inference engine, used to generate text on a BBC Micro from the 1980s.
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12
GitHub
GitHub - ArcaEge/creakwork12: make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too)
make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too) - ArcaEge/creakwork12
Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF https://sf.isopolis.city/
ISOPOLIS
ISOPOLIS — San Francisco
San Francisco as one giant isometric pixel painting. Pan the city, open the tours, send a postcard.
Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/why-book-corners-wont-sync-contributions-back-to-openstreetmap/
Andrea Grandi
Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
I wanted Book Corners to contribute newly submitted public bookcases back to OpenStreetMap. After researching the operational and community requirements, I decided not to implement it.
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-apple-engineer-says-he-was-fired-after-refusing-to-send-customer-devic
RuntimeWire
EXCLUSIVE: Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send customer device IDs to AT&T
A former Apple engineer alleges he was fired after refusing AT&T requests for device identifiers without customer releases. Apple denies wrongdoing.
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K https://github.com/johnsonjh/cpm386
GitHub
GitHub - johnsonjh/cpm386: CP/M-386: CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M-68K
CP/M-386: CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M-68K - johnsonjh/cpm386
OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the-reporters-at-this-news-site-are-ai-bots.-openai%E2%80%99s-super-pac-appears-to-be-using-it-to-advance-its-political-agenda
www.modelrepublic.org
The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic
An interview request from a bot posing as a reporter revealed an AI-generated news site with articles attacking AI industry critics. For the second time this month, we found links to Targeted Victory, the firm at the center of OpenAI's $125 million political…