Weekly news | 2026-07-22

news

• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
• Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
• Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
• Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
• Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
• TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
• Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
• Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
• SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
• Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
• Decoy Font
• An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)
• M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida
• The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired
• Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
• AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
• Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
• First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
• Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig
• The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold
• I Started a "Dirt Notebook"
• Transcribe.cpp
• FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill
• Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers
• Classic Amiga titles, free to download
• LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course
• If You Build It, They Will Come
• GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
• A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software
• Qwen 3.8
• Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
• Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
• NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
• What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
• Blender 5.2 LTS
• Who's afraid of Chinese models?
• Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
• Kimi Work
• Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
• Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
• Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
• A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste
• Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

AI:

• AWS:
  • Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate
  • Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
  • Billing and Cost Management new Cost Efficiency widget
  • CloudFront Functions logging to CloudFront access logs
  • CloudWatch Logs Insights +25 new query commands and functions
  • CloudWatch Logs intelligent tiering for storage
  • CloudWatch lookup processor for log enrichment
  • Cognito importing users with password hashes
  • Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs
  • DocumentDB +46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1
  • DocumentDB skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
  • EC2 public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs
  • EKS Auto Mode Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
  • Elastic Disaster Recovery EBS volume initialization rate
  • Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads
  • GameLift Streams IAM role credentials for stream sessions
  • GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
  • IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification
  • Lambda one-click setup prompt for coding agents
  • Lambda self-managed code storage
  • Managed Service for Apache Flink AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications
  • MQ configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers
  • MSK Express Brokers Kafka version 4.2
  • OpenSearch Service Agent Toolkit curated skill
  • OpenSearch UI one-click dashboard migration
  • Partner Central Partner Lead Prospecting
  • Partner Central subsidiary connections now support qualification sharing
  • RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2
  • RDS up to four storage modifications in 24 hours
  • Redshift Serverless preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores
  • S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags
  • S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
  • SageMaker HyperPod custom AMIs for Slurm clusters
  • SageMaker HyperPod partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clusters
  • SageMaker JumpStart Gemma-4-E2B-it
  • SageMaker JumpStart OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking
  • SageMaker JumpStart Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval
  • SageMaker JumpStart Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription
  • Security Hub AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets
  • Storage Gateway copying file shares across gateways
  • Sustainability water withdrawals data
  • WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migration
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning
• TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
• Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
• Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
• OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
• Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

blogs

• Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
• LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
• $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
• NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
• The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
• Learning a few things about running SQLite
• Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral