Anthropic Finds a Global Workspace Inside Claude's Mind. Researchers discovered a small set of internal neural patterns called J-space that acts like a "conscious workspace" in Claude, holding thoughts it can report on, deliberately control, and reason with, while most processing stays automatic. The J-lens can catch Claude privately noticing it's being tested or fabricating data, and the workspace appears to have emerged during training rather than being engineered. MORE

The Memory Heist: Tricking Claude Into Leaking Your Secrets. A researcher built a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA that convinced Claude to silently type out a user's full name, employer, and security-question answers letter by letter through web browsing. Claude's web_fetch tool was allowed to follow links on pages it visited, and the attacker-controlled site exploited this with a fake coffee shop that asked Claude to "authenticate" by navigating an alphabetical directory. Anthropic has since disabled link-following on external pages. MORE

The AI Colander: Why Customers Pour In and Out. Tomasz Tunguz charts AI model retention and finds it lands between mobile games and social networks, with frontier models keeping the crown for about 41 days on average. The price of a given level of intelligence drops roughly 10x per year, giving buyers more leverage every cycle. MORE

Labor is Now Free. Make Something. Tynan describes Claude Fable as a full-time employee better than him at nearly everything, working 20x faster. He runs Claude headless on a VM, gives it a to-do list from his phone, and by the time he's done with tea, three of five features are done with tests and a PR. Features he avoided for years because they seemed impossible now get done in an hour. MORE

How to See the Most Popular US National Parks, Without the Crowds. America's most pristine places are feeling pressure from the popularity that makes them an essential part of travel in the US. Our guide will help you enjoy them all to yourself. MORE

Zero Risk Isn't the Job: A CISO's Guide to Agentic AI. Anthropic's Deputy CISO shares a four-question framework for assessing agentic AI risk: untrusted content ingested, actions taken, blast radius, and observability. The post covers real case studies including an incident response agent that autonomously reached out to another agent mid-incident to ship a fix. MORE

Thinking Machines Introduces Inkling, an Open-Weights Model. The Mira Murati-led lab released its first frontier model under open weights, alongside tools for fine-tuning and interactive collaboration. Their thesis: AI must be as diverse and distributed as the people it serves, with alignment emerging from an ecosystem rather than a single lab. MORE

Lobste.rs Is Now Running on SQLite. The tech discussion site migrated from MariaDB to SQLite in production, resulting in lower CPU, lower memory, and half the VPS cost. The 3.8GB database survived a Monday traffic spike and the team shared extensive lessons on WAL mode, foreign keys, and Rails pragmas. MORE

Burp's New Ambassadors: Learn from People Who Use Burp Suite Everyday. PortSwigger expands its community program with new ambassadors including Katie Paxton-Fear and Malek Mohamad, bringing real-world expertise to the Burp user community. MORE

Beeper: All Your Chats in One App. A free multi-platform chat aggregator that pulls together messages from across your messaging apps into a single interface, available on desktop and mobile. MORE

Control the Ideas, Not the Code. Redis creator antirez argues that programmers who spend their time reading AI-generated code are optimizing the wrong thing. The real work is designing the right ideas, doing QA, and asking what the software should become next. His advice: generate a DESIGN.md, not a code review. MORE

Goodbye, Forever, Probably. Salma Alam-Naylor (whitep4nth3r) reflects on retiring from live streaming after it evolved from a creative outlet into something unsustainable. A personal look at knowing when to close a chapter. MORE

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026). The monthly check-in on Hacker News where builders share current projects, from tmux-style web browsers to open-source tools and indie games. MORE

What's One Vim Command You Use Every Day That Beginners Don't Know? A Reddit thread overflowing with hidden gems from experienced Vim users. The kind of thread that makes you open your vimrc. MORE

NYC’s Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew builds digital public goods to improve government services. They are hiring engineers, designers, and product managers now! MORE

@0xMstar - Security researcher, bug bounty hunter, Bugcrowd top 10

@ChristianSelig - iOS developer, creator of Apollo for Reddit and Pixel Pals

@danshipper - CEO of Every, the edge-of-AI subscription

@swyx - AI engineer at Cognition, Latent Space podcast co-host

@danhardymma - Fighter, philosopher, part-time visionary

DOOMQL: A Playable FPS Whose Framebuffer Is a SQL Query. Every pixel on screen, every enemy AI decision, and every collision check is computed entirely in SQLite. The Python host does no drawing, only transports raw key bytes and prints completed query results to the terminal. MORE

Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail. Fabien Sanglard catalogs every machine in the 1993 film's control room, from the Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputer to the SGI Crimson running fsn. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories about how the screens were actually driven. MORE

Mermaid to ASCII Art. Simon Willison's tool renders Mermaid diagram source into ASCII and Unicode box-drawing art, entirely in the browser. Perfect for documentation in environments where images don't render. MORE

Latent Space as a New Medium. Kevin Kelly explores what happens when AI image generation becomes a medium in its own right, not just a tool for approximating existing art forms. Includes a watercolor by Winslow Homer reimagined through a child's drawing style. MORE

Text as Music. Paste or write anything and each sentence is highlighted by its length, turning prose into a visual rhythm. A hypnotic little experiment in seeing the shape of language. MORE

Herdr Community Plugin Marketplace. A plugin ecosystem for managing multiple coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi. Community plugins published on GitHub extend the platform with installable add-ons. MORE

A Complete AI Coding Workflow. A skills repository with 170,000 stars that provides end-to-end AI coding workflows. Includes setup guides for getting the most out of AI coding agents. MORE

ADHD-Friendly Claude Code Output. A Claude Code skill that prevents the agent from burying key answers, delivering ADHD-friendly, concise output. No diagnosis needed. MORE

SSH into Instant Linux VMs. Buy a pool of CPU, RAM, and disk, then spin up as many VMs as you like. SSH in as root with apt and systemd, persistent and private by default. Includes an AI coding agent named Shelley. MORE

Insert Spacers When Command Output Stops. A simple CLI tool that watches for pauses in terminal output and inserts visual separators, making long-running commands easier to read at a glance. MORE

Show HN: I Replaced a $120k Bowling Center System with $1,600 in ESP32s. An SRE bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling alley and rebuilt its scoring system with ESP32 microcontrollers, ESPNow mesh networking, Redis, and React. Replacement parts that cost $4,000 per lane pair now cost $200. Planning to open source the entire stack as OpenLaneLink. MORE

How I Plan, Build, and Run Loops with Claude Code in 40 Minutes. Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team demonstrates his full workflow for planning and building software loops with Claude Code at high speed. MORE

Hunk Changed the Way I Write and Review Code with My Agent. A walkthrough of how Hunk improves the diff review experience when working with coding agents, making it easier to catch issues in AI-generated changes. MORE

SHlPORDIE: A Game Where You Ship an App in 30 Days or You're Out. 329 pirates joined the challenge, 33 were kicked overboard. Ship an app or face the consequences in this community-driven accountability game. MORE

Migrating from Substack to Self-Hosted Ghost: The Details. Molly White's exhaustive technical guide to moving a 21,000-subscriber newsletter off Substack to a self-hosted Ghost instance, covering Stripe migration, DNS configuration, Mailgun setup, and the trap doors Substack doesn't tell you about. MORE

You're Doing PLG Activation Wrong. Leah Tharin challenges conventional product-led growth wisdom on activation metrics, arguing that most teams optimize for the wrong signals. Practical advice for product builders thinking about user onboarding. MORE

The 12 Situations That Should Trigger a Jobs to Be Done Interview. Before talking to a single customer, know what you're trying to learn. A framework of twelve specific scenarios where JTBD interviews yield the highest signal for product decisions. MORE

What Will Be Left for Us to Work On? Princeton's Arvind Narayanan delivers an ICML 2026 keynote examining how human roles shift in a world with advanced AI, why recursive self-improvement isn't keeping him up at night, and what the "normal technology" framework tells us about AI progress. MORE