August 2025 Archive
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Airbrush art of the 80s (2015) (coolandcollected.com)
482.
Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy (polygon.com)
483.
The internet wants to check your ID (newyorker.com)
484.
Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California (phys.org)
485.
Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos (news.cornell.edu)
486.
Knuth on ChatGPT (2023) (cs.stanford.edu)
487.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive (theverge.com)
488.
Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge (matthewnewton.com)
489.
States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option (pew.org)
490.
How Python grew from a language to a community (thenewstack.io)
491.
Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session (github.com)
492.
GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API (old.reddit.com)
493.
Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription (autoexpress.co.uk)
494.
Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective (twey.io)
495.
Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
496.
Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company (marcrand.com)
497.
Inside OS/2 (1987) (gitpi.us)
498.
Open music foundation models for full-song generation (map-yue.github.io)
499.
Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
500.
Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook (marinecorpstimes.com)
501.
Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? (blog.mozilla.org)
502.
I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI (twitter.com)
503.
Where to find ideas (howtogrow.substack.com)
504.
Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live (opuslabs.substack.com)
505.
Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died (typo.social)
506.
A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it (tomkranz.com)
507.
The Whispering Earring (croissanthology.com)
508.
Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
509.
How Potatoes Evolved (nhm.ac.uk)
510.
A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)