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Oxide Computer raises $445M to push its on-prem 'cloud computer' at hyperscalers
Oxide Computer has reported a $445 million raise in an SEC Form D, the notice companies file when selling securities under an exemption from full registration.
Stateless MCP 2.0 revives the protocol — simpler servers, safer agents
The July 28, 2026 Model Context Protocol spec — informally MCP 2.0 — drops the two-request handshake that legacy MCP required, where a client first initialized
The div is centered — the window isn't: fighting browser sidebars with pointer math
Centering an element in CSS, once a `position: absolute` / `translate(-50%, -50%)` incantation, is now a one-liner with `display: grid` and `place-items: center
The Harness, Not the Weights: Where Recursive Self-Improvement Actually Starts
Lilian Weng argues that the near-term path to recursive self-improvement (RSI) won't run through a model literally rewriting its own weights. Instead, the lever
The 'zero-one-infinity' problem: why one ad, or one menu fork, never stays one
Riffing on John Gruber's commentary about ads spreading across Apple's surfaces — the App Store, Apple News, and possibly Apple Maps — the author extends a prog
Thieves saw down and steal every Flock camera in a Minnesota city
In a single coordinated operation on August 1, someone cut down and hauled off all eight of the Winona, Minnesota Police Department's Flock automated license pl
Three WebKit Features Leak Real IP and DNS, Breaking iOS Proxy Browsers and Private Relay
Researchers at Mysk found that three WebKit features silently sidestep the app-level proxy configuration (WKWebsiteDataStore.proxyConfigurations) that every iOS
Unofficial Hacker News Meetup Runs Coffee Mornings in Central Helsinki
A grassroots meetup gathers Hacker News users in Helsinki roughly every six to eight weeks, typically on Sunday mornings in a central coffee shop and occasional
Waymo opens its driverless robotaxi service to everyone in Dallas
Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its Dallas robotaxi service, letting anyone in the city hail a fully autonomous ride through its app as of August 4, 2026. Th
When Legit Beats Phishy: A Real FedEx Bill That Failed Every Smell Test
Troy Hunt received an SMS demanding payment of duty and taxes on a FedEx parcel, and it tripped nearly every phishing alarm: a misspelled sender name, artificia
Xbox Outage Locks Players Out of Disc Games They Own
An extended Xbox outage that started Sunday evening didn't just knock out digital games — it also stopped players from launching titles they own on physical dis
200 Milliseconds: An Interactive Trace of an HTTP Request's Full Lifecycle
"200 Milliseconds" is an interactive visualization rather than a written article. It follows a single HTTP request through the roughly 200-millisecond journey i