August 2025 Archive
1291.
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
1292.
A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf] (jonathanadams.pro)
1293.
Vim Macros for Beancount (tangled.sh)
1294.
C10kday (daniel.haxx.se)
1295.
The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved (bbc.com)
1296.
Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban [video] (nbcnews.com)
1297.
Names are not type safety (2020) (lexi-lambda.github.io)
1298.
AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally (blog.google)
1299.
Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world (pcgamer.com)
1300.
China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers (bloomberg.com)
1301.
A visual history of Visual C++ (2017) (malsmith.net)
1302.
It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation (paulkrugman.substack.com)
1303.
A short statistical reasoning test (emiruz.com)
1304.
Sweatshop Data Is Over (mechanize.work)
1305.
Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, and growing rapidly (pnas.org)
1306.
JD Vance's team had water level of Ohio river raised for family's boating trip (theguardian.com)
1307.
AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge (irisvanrooijcogsci.com)
1308.
Germany at it again: now trying to reopen the "adblockers are illegal" debate (theregister.com)
1309.
Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C (nicholas.carlini.com)
1310.
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike (arstechnica.com)
1311.
Online Safety Act: What went wrong? (therectangle.substack.com)
1312.
Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? (github.com)
1313.
German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional (harici.com.tr)
1314.
Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?
1315.
No One Is Working (humaninvariant.com)
1316.
Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products
1317.
Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market (cnn.com)
1318.
The X11 Security extension from the 1990s (uninformativ.de)
1319.
Ex-Barclays VP who completed a PhD in prison: "All my former colleagues ignore" (efinancialcareers.com)
1320.
White House prepares order targeting banks for "unbanking" for political reasons (reuters.com)