August 2025 Archive
1771.
Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws pushback (science.org)
1772.
Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services (github.com)
1773.
The CTO Was ChatGPT (ehandbook.com)
1774.
US Adds Surprise Gold Bar Tariff in Blow to Switzerland (bloomberg.com)
1775.
2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack (pcworld.com)
1776.
Show HN: NaturalCron – Human-Readable Scheduling for .NET (With Fluent Builder) (github.com)
1777.
Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs (rachelbythebay.com)
1778.
What I look for in typeface licenses (davesmyth.com)
1779.
GPT-5 Hot Take (garymarcus.substack.com)
1780.
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor (thepinknews.com)
1781.
A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020) (alexhwilliams.info)
1782.
Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy (items.gog.com)
1783.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad (theatlantic.com)
1784.
What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? (ft.com)
1785.
Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not (wired.com)
1786.
24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville (thedrive.com)
1787.
Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription (dexerto.com)
1788.
Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion (theglobeandmail.com)
1789.
Does the stock market know something we don't? (theatlantic.com)
1790.
EU kills Android bootloader unlock starting August 1 (xiaomitime.com)
1791.
Cognition CEO offers buyouts to let workers flee 'extreme' work culture (sfgate.com)
1792.
JSON is not a YAML subset (2022) (john-millikin.com)
1793.
I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe) (bobdahacker.com)
1794.
Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics
1795.
HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame (portswigger.net)
1796.
FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address (wired.com)
1797.
Alaska's Juneau orders evacuations as record glacier flood looms (theguardian.com)
1798.
Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025 (steipete.me)
1799.
Plain Text. With Lines (akkartik.name)
1800.
Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024) (dwf.dev)