August 2025 Archive
691.
Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? (newyorker.com)
692.
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma (cfr.org)
693.
XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images (binarly.io)
694.
Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent (blog.langchain.com)
695.
Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions (blog.pkh.me)
696.
Israeli gov. official arrested in Nevada internet crimes against children sting (theguardian.com)
697.
We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism (democracyjournal.org)
698.
EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy (nytimes.com)
699.
The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022) (mronline.org)
700.
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths (scientificamerican.com)
701.
Hyrum's Law (hyrumslaw.com)
702.
In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip (hitachi.com)
703.
Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop (tomshardware.com)
704.
Bad UX (google.com)
705.
Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge (clearsky.dev)
706.
TextKit 2 – The Promised Land (blog.krzyzanowskim.com)
707.
An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language (queue.acm.org)
708.
Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025 (newgrounds.com)
709.
Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node (hothardware.com)
710.
An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024) (jeclark.net)
711.
POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language (github.com)
712.
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor (thepinknews.com)
713.
A Lisp in 99LOC (github.com)
714.
Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
715.
How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development (bscholl.substack.com)
716.
Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells (wiki.why2025.org)
717.
One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either (medium.com)
718.
Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members (torrentfreak.com)
719.
Scientists shine a laser through a human head (spectrum.ieee.org)
720.
SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation (perl.com)