August 2025 Archive
1141.
Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century
(worldhistory.substack.com)
1142.
1143.
7 years later, Valve's Proton has been a game-changer for Linux
(gamingonlinux.com)
1144.
Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment
(probablydance.com)
1145.
EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy
(nytimes.com)
1146.
"This question has been retired"
(learn.microsoft.com)
1147.
The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022)
(mronline.org)
1148.
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
(cfr.org)
1149.
1150.
Hyrum's Law
(hyrumslaw.com)
1151.
About Containers and VMs
(linuxcontainers.org)
1152.
1153.
The enduring puzzle of static electricity
(pubs.aip.org)
1154.
That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll")
(troyhunt.com)
1155.
Why we still build with Ruby
(getlago.com)
1156.
In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip
(hitachi.com)
1157.
1158.
Bad UX
(google.com)
1159.
SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C
(github.com)
1160.
Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material
(energy-reporters.com)
1161.
1162.
The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters
(natesnewsletter.substack.com)
1163.
TextKit 2 – The Promised Land
(blog.krzyzanowskim.com)
1164.
TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux
(tuned-project.org)
1165.
Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser
(turtleware.eu)
1166.
Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent
(blog.langchain.com)
1167.
Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions
(blog.pkh.me)
1168.
1169.
A blog does not need “analytics”
(thisdaysportion.com)
1170.