Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
Quanta Magazine
Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up.
New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.
Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder
Select
Select - Curated Finds for the Discerning Shopper
A collection of the best-designed products.
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
OpenAI
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
Krebs on Security
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a…
Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools https://prized.dev
Prized
Build internal tools with AI. Safely.
Prized lets ops, support, and finance teams build and ship secure internal tools with AI. Company data pre-connected and scoped, an audit trail on every access, one-click deploy behind your company sign-in.
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
The GitHub Blog
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview - GitHub Changelog
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…
We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses
Bottleneck Labs
GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447
If an agent had a wallet, a computer, and 24 hours, could it run a profitable startup?
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/
UEFA.com
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 https://obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/
obryant.dev
2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
Calibrate your enthusiasm
SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library https://github.com/n67094/sdl_gp
GitHub
GitHub - n67094/SDL_gp: Single header high-performance 2D graphics painter for SDL3
Single header high-performance 2D graphics painter for SDL3 - n67094/SDL_gp
Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost https://github.com/experientiallabs/world-model-optimizer
GitHub
GitHub - experientiallabs/world-model-optimizer: Build continually improving models on your agent traces by distilling frontier…
Build continually improving models on your agent traces by distilling frontier open models - experientiallabs/world-model-optimizer
Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cause-cancer-in-some-people-but-not-others
University of Cambridge
Study reveals why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays may cause cancer in some people but not others
The findings could explain why some people are more susceptible to cancer than others in the same environment and suggest that future cancer prevention and screening strategies may need to account more carefully for inherited genetics and population diversity.The…
So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ https://dynomight.net/plants/
DYNOMIGHT
So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
You face certain challenges
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
GitHub
GitHub - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop
Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer
www.ctgt.ai
What a Distilled Model Inherits From Its Teacher
DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 45 points more censored on China-sensitive questions than on matched controls. Every model trained on it stays at the level of the untouched American base.
Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite https://kedge.dev/