August 2025 Archive
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children (wired.com)
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Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza (washingtonpost.com)
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The "cracked coder" fetish: Epistemic arrogance in Silicon Valley (maxread.substack.com)
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NSF suspends nearly 300 UCLA grants (Terence Tao, Plasma Science Facility, etc.) (grant-witness.us)
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza (thelancet.com)
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Trump seeks to fire official overseeing jobs data after weak report (denverpost.com)
127.
Tokens are getting more expensive (ethanding.substack.com)
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Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death (wired.com)
129.
Unikernel Guide: Build and Deploy Lightweight, Secure Apps (tallysolutions.com)
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Iceberg, the right idea – the wrong spec – Part 2 of 2: The spec (database-doctor.com)
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U.S. homes are not selling, and prices continue to rise (nytimes.com)
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Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash (nytimes.com)
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Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329M verdict (arstechnica.com)
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Facebook bought a VPN app for $120M and spied on 33M+ users' phones for years (twitter.com)
135.
Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (fermiquestions.org)
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European Censorship Accelerates (racket.news)
137.
Jujutsu for Busy Devs, Part 2: "How Do I?" (maddie.wtf)
138.
When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks (linuxjournal.com)
139.
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results (arstechnica.com)
140.
Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business (newsletter.anamariecox.com)
141.
Ask HN: Want to leave my job with nothing lined up
142.
Britain Is Losing Its Free Speech, and America Could Be Next (currentaffairs.org)
143.
VSCode extension for syntax highlighting multi-line YAML strings (github.com)
144.
Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil (theguardian.com)
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Meta dishes out $250M to lure 24-year-old AI whiz kid (nypost.com)
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German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software (dw.com)
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Reindexing Adult NSFW Content (itch.io)
148.
India approves 10 new nuclear reactors (asian-power.com)
149.
Onshape – Product Development Platform (onshape.com)
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Ask HN: Who Is Looking for a Cofounder?