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Saturday, 02 August 2025

• Modeling open-world cognition as on-demand synthesis of probabilistic models
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Chilling warnings from 1930s Europe: "Reality is stronger than all our wishes"
  doomsdayscenario.co · Discuss

• AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
  seuros.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions
  fermiquestions.org · Discuss

• Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering (Remote)
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The unreasonable likelihood of being: origin of life, terraforming, and AI
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Linear Types for Programmers (2023)
  twey.io · Discuss

• Telo MT1
  telotrucks.com · Discuss

• Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
  derekthompson.org · Discuss

• How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver
  righto.com · Discuss

• Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos
  news.cornell.edu · Discuss

• Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business
  newsletter.anamariecox.com · Discuss

• The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "
  jpcamara.com · Discuss

• Unikernel Guide: Build and Deploy Lightweight, Secure Apps
  tallysolutions.com · Discuss

• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble (2024)
  solutionslookingforproblems.com · Discuss

• Iceberg, the right idea – the wrong spec – Part 2 of 2: The spec
  database-doctor.com · Discuss

• Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance
  whitecoatinvestor.com · Discuss

• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
  eatonphil.com · Discuss

• Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001
  masswerk.at · Discuss

• Cadence Guilty, Pays $140M for Exporting Semi Design Tools to PRC Military Uni
  justice.gov · Discuss

• Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
  forums.anandtech.com · Discuss

• ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models
  theregister.com · Discuss

• 6 Weeks of Claude Code
  blog.puzzmo.com · Discuss

• At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
  apmreports.org · Discuss

• New research finds that ivermectin could help control malaria transmission
  ndm.ox.ac · Discuss

• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  alexharri.com · Discuss

• We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker
  bbc.com · Discuss

• EU kills Android bootloader unlock starting August 1
  xiaomitime.com · Discuss

• Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework
  neowin.net · Discuss

Friday, 01 August 2025

• This Month in Ladybird
  ladybird.org · Discuss

• Terence Tao weighs in on the suspension of UCLA grants
  mathstodon.xyz · Discuss

• At $250M, top AI salaries dwarf the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Robert Wilson has died
  theartnewspaper.com · Discuss

• Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery
  electrek.co · Discuss

• Hardening mode for the compiler
  discourse.llvm.org · Discuss

• The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos
  rickovercorpus.org · Discuss

• Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws pushback
  science.org · Discuss

• Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight
  courthousenews.com · Discuss

• Twentyseven 1.0
  blog.poisson.chat · Discuss

• Cerebras Code
  cerebras.ai · Discuss

• Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU
  dougmacdowell.com · Discuss

• JSON is not a YAML subset (2022)
  john-millikin.com · Discuss

• Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff
  rutgers.edu · Discuss

• Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?
  dbreunig.com · Discuss

• When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks
  linuxjournal.com · Discuss

• Native Sparse Attention
  aclanthology.org · Discuss

• Deep Agents
  blog.langchain.com · Discuss

• Atlassian terminates 150 staff
  cyberdaily.au · Discuss

• Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M
  missionlocal.org · Discuss

• Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)
  jedkolko.com · Discuss

• I Created a Pop Star Using AI, and She's Dropping an Album in 2065
  lumavemusic.com · Discuss

• Self-Signed JWTs
  selfref.com · Discuss

• Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
  blog.google · Discuss

• Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer
  coveragecat.com · Discuss

• I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
  skeptrune.com · Discuss

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
  cpb.org · Discuss

• Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
  twey.io · Discuss

• At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery
  quantamagazine.org · Discuss

• Design patterns you should unlearn in Python
  lihil.cc · Discuss

• Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits
  erlang-solutions.com · Discuss

• Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)
  filfre.net · Discuss

• FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime
  reason.com · Discuss

• Fast (2019)
  patrickcollison.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Hyrum's Law
  hyrumslaw.com · Discuss

• Long Term Support
  sqlite.org · Discuss

• Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying lightweight, secure applications
  tallysolutions.com · Discuss

• GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
  hadid.dev · Discuss

• Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The untold impact of cancellation
  pretty.direct · Discuss

• Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight
  navair.navy.mil · Discuss

• How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)
  haxrob.net · Discuss

• Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’
  torrentfreak.com · Discuss

• Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended
  bsky.app · Discuss

• Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
  blog.google · Discuss

• Onshape – Product Development Platform
  onshape.com · Discuss

• Pride Versioning 0.3.0
  pridever.org · Discuss

• Vibe Coding Is the Fast Fashion Industry of Software Engineering
  pdelboca.me · Discuss

• Our Farewell from Google Play
  secuso.aifb.kit.edu · Discuss

• Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
  bower.sh · Discuss

• Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army
  washingtonpost.com · Discuss

Thursday, 31 July 2025

• Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
  dewesoft.com · Discuss

• LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• Fair Access to Banking
  usips.org · Discuss

• Golden Literal Testing in UTest
  lihaoyi.com · Discuss

• British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system
  needtoknow.co.uk · Discuss

• Understanding the Complete Identity Management Ecosystem
  guptadeepak.com · Discuss

• Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023)
  fly.io · Discuss

• Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun
  soatok.blog · Discuss

• “No tax on tips” is an industry plant
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• Benchmarking MicroPython
  blog.miguelgrinberg.com · Discuss

• The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
  derekthompson.org · Discuss

• A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble
  fluxus.io · Discuss

• Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market
  denverite.com · Discuss