August 2025 Archive
1201.
The Inkhaven Blogging Residency (inkhaven.blog)
1202.
GPT-5: It just does stuff (oneusefulthing.org)
1203.
Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf] (research.vu.nl)
1204.
Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s (twitter.com)
1205.
How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust (bbc.com)
1206.
Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI
1207.
Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs (github.com)
1208.
Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI (github.com)
1209.
Sky Calendar (abramsplanetarium.org)
1210.
It's the Housing, Stupid (ofdollarsanddata.com)
1211.
United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown (allchronology.com)
1212.
JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language (infoworld.com)
1213.
Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture (brodzinski.com)
1214.
Sam Altman is in damage-control mode after latest ChatGPT release (cnn.com)
1215.
Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures (cnbc.com)
1216.
Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware (theregister.com)
1217.
Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement (flowingdata.com)
1218.
“The Hollow Men” at 100 (prufrock.substack.com)
1219.
ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system (github.com)
1220.
Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M (missionlocal.org)
1221.
AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study (bloomberg.com)
1222.
The Algebra Gatekeepers (educationprogress.org)
1223.
The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games (productpickle.online)
1224.
ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4
1225.
Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions
1226.
Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year (arstechnica.com)
1227.
SIMD Binary Heap Operations (0x80.pl)
1228.
VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams (victoriametrics.com)
1229.
Linear Types for Programmers (2023) (twey.io)
1230.
Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space (livescience.com)