August 2025 Archive
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Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (9to5google.com)
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Open models by OpenAI (openai.com)
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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own (hugotunius.se)
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GPT-5 (openai.com)
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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (theregister.com)
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Cognitive load is what matters (github.com)
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Genie 3: A new frontier for world models (deepmind.google)
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Fight Chat Control (fightchatcontrol.eu)
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation (theverge.com)
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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file (al3rez.com)
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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context (anthropic.com)
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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (blog.cloudflare.com)
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uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari (apps.apple.com)
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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (instavm.io)
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Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
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Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (github.com)
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Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (theguardian.com)
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act (bbc.com)
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Do the simplest thing that could possibly work (seangoedecke.com)
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (developers.googleblog.com)
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Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team (annas-archive.org)
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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (code.ffmpeg.org)
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Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model (github.com)
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Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords (blog.danielh.cc)
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FFmpeg 8.0 (ffmpeg.org)
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Debian 13 “Trixie” (debian.org)
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If you're remote, ramble (stephango.com)
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Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness (yro.slashdot.org)
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Good system design (seangoedecke.com)