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Zed DeltaDB
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Mario Meets Pareto
Mario Meets Pareto
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
<a href="https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768</a><p><a href="https://gwern.net/guardian-angel" rel="nofollow">https://gwern.net/guardian-angel</a>
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Discovery Loop
Discovery Loop
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa...</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leadership-deepmind-chief-shifts-role-2026-08-05/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders...</a><p><a href="https://www.discoveryloop.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.discoveryloop.com/</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724</a>
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa...</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leadership-deepmind-chief-shifts-role-2026-08-05/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders...</a><p><a href="https://www.discoveryloop.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.discoveryloop.com/</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724</a>
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Hello HN!<p>I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy.<p>I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has.<p>The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out.
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