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Sunday, 24 August 2025

• Update on my Racket exit
  blog.winny.tech · Discuss

• People stuck using ancient Windows computers
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
  torrentfreak.com · Discuss

• SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings
  avi.im · Discuss

• US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2B in research grants
  nature.com · Discuss

• ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights
  jacobin.com · Discuss

• Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks
  heise.de · Discuss

• Show HN: Bicyclopedia
  bicyclopedia.lemoing.ca · Discuss

• A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
  lina.sh · Discuss

• Writing with LLM is not a shame
  reflexions.florianernotte.be · Discuss

• US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security
  npr.org · Discuss

• Turning Claude Code into my best design partner
  betweentheprompts.com · Discuss

• Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)
  cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com · Discuss

• How to Fix Your Context
  dbreunig.com · Discuss

Saturday, 23 August 2025

• It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
  blog.howardjohn.info · Discuss

• Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)
  equal-earth.com · Discuss

• Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations
  youaretheassistantnow.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• How to build a coding agent
  ghuntley.com · Discuss

• Programming People (2016)
  leftoversalad.com · Discuss

• Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
  brave.com · Discuss

• Not so prompt: Prompt optimization as model selection (2024)
  gojiberries.io · Discuss

• Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
  darkcoding.net · Discuss

• Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year
  electrek.co · Discuss

• AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem
  vincirufus.com · Discuss

• Debdelta
  debdelta.debian.net · Discuss

• The problems that accountability can't fix
  surfingcomplexity.blog · Discuss

• Actually Good Regulations
  actuallygoodregulations.eu · Discuss

• The cost of interrupted work (2023)
  blog.oberien.de · Discuss

• Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support
  gimp-print.sourceforge.io · Discuss

• Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Principal Software Engineers
  jobs.ashbyhq.com · Discuss

• The Amiga games and demo scene collection
  amiga.vision · Discuss

• Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available
  romhack.ing · Discuss

• A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt
  smithsonianmag.com · Discuss

• What makes Claude Code so damn good
  minusx.ai · Discuss

• Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• The F-35 Is Losing the (Trade) War
  jalopnik.com · Discuss

• Help flight radar with a RasPi and SDR
  flightradar24.com · Discuss

• RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no
  nature.com · Discuss

• Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring an Applied AI Engineer
  workatastartup.com · Discuss

• Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads
  libreantisocial.com · Discuss

• I hacked Monster Energy
  bobdahacker.com · Discuss

• Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane
  noahpinion.blog · Discuss

• Line scan camera image processing for train photography
  daniel.lawrence.lu · Discuss

• Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation
  a16z.com · Discuss

• Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
  mfbmina.dev · Discuss

• Using game theory to explain how institutions arise to manage limited resources
  phys.org · Discuss

• Robots can now learn to use tools just by watching us
  techxplore.com · Discuss

• The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929B to likely be a bare rock
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
  tbray.org · Discuss

• Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs
  lwn.net · Discuss

• Self-driving cars begin testing on NYC streets
  amny.com · Discuss

• Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf] (2023)
  nber.org · Discuss

• I made a floppy disk from scratch
  kottke.org · Discuss

• Developer's block
  underlap.org · Discuss

• Building a computer in the 90s (2019)
  dfarq.homeip.net · Discuss

• California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21
  sfgate.com · Discuss

• World Wide Lightning Location Network
  wwlln.net · Discuss

Friday, 22 August 2025

• I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
  openmymind.net · Discuss

• The ROI of Exercise
  herman.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems
  utcc.utoronto.ca · Discuss

• Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)
  malsmith.net · Discuss

• Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day
  english.kyodonews.net · Discuss

• Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders
  creao.ai · Discuss

• Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
  theatlantic.com · Discuss

• South Korea deploys hologram police officer
  scmp.com · Discuss

• Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN
  techdirt.com · Discuss

• Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems
  english.kyodonews.net · Discuss

• Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit
  currentaffairs.org · Discuss

• Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• The use of LLM assistants for kernel development
  lwn.net · Discuss

• Transcribe music in abc with syntax highlighting
  fugue-state.io · Discuss

• If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
  cacm.acm.org · Discuss

• Ejabberd 25.08
  process-one.net · Discuss

• Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law
  bsky.social · Discuss

• Why was Apache Kafka created?
  bigdata.2minutestreaming.com · Discuss

• Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  git.vuxu.org · Discuss

• Harper Evolves
  elijahpotter.dev · Discuss

• Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging
  sciencedaily.com · Discuss

• The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
  moq.dev · Discuss

• Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025
  steipete.me · Discuss

• A Family Project (2022)
  bittersoutherner.com · Discuss

• The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables
  insideclimatenews.org · Discuss

• Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT
  justin.searls.co · Discuss

• Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
  giuliomagnifico.blog · Discuss

• Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT
  meyerweb.com · Discuss