August 2025 Archive
1711.
What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?
1712.
NSA's Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist from Purge (nytimes.com)
1713.
Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App (apps.apple.com)
1714.
Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses (github.com)
1715.
Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions (github.com)
1716.
The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video] (youtube.com)
1717.
Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS (serverbuddy.app)
1718.
DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment (thezvi.wordpress.com)
1719.
Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join
1720.
Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months (twitter.com)
1721.
The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017) (periodictable.com)
1722.
Canada Gave Citizens the Right to Die. Doctors Are Struggling to Meet Demand (theatlantic.com)
1723.
Moreshell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell (alurm.github.io)
1724.
Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces (leftarcode.com)
1725.
Docker for Developers: Essential Commands in One Cheatsheet (jsdev.space)
1726.
Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020) (arxiv.org)
1727.
What would happen if USA started faking its economic data? Lessons from others (cnn.com)
1728.
The TTY Demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
1729.
I'm an award winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding (newsletter.ofthebrave.org)
1730.
Debdelta (debdelta.debian.net)
1731.
Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane (noahpinion.blog)
1732.
Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?
1733.
German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit (theguardian.com)
1734.
The Best Line Length (blog.glyph.im)
1735.
Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show (ingram.tech)
1736.
'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary (news.sky.com)
1737.
A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease (nytimes.com)
1738.
Don't use Redis as a rate limiter (medium.com)
1739.
Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws pushback (science.org)
1740.
Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services (github.com)