August 2025 Archive
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations (cpb.org)
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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills (hadid.dev)
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Gemini 2.5 Deep Think (blog.google)
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The untold impact of cancellation (pretty.direct)
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Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) (dewesoft.com)
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NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant (bsky.app)
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Replacing tmux in my dev workflow (bower.sh)
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Our Farewell from Google Play (secuso.aifb.kit.edu)
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FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime (reason.com)
10.
At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery (quantamagazine.org)
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Atlassian terminates 150 staff (cyberdaily.au)
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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' (theverge.com)
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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself (skeptrune.com)
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Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved (blog.google)
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OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation (nytimes.com)
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Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says (cnbc.com)
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Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ (torrentfreak.com)
18.
Long Term Support (sqlite.org)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
20.
Cerebras Code (cerebras.ai)
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How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024) (haxrob.net)
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OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face (twitter.com)
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GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API (old.reddit.com)
24.
Hyrum's Law (hyrumslaw.com)
25.
U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report (politico.com)
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Deep Agents (blog.langchain.com)
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Bad UX (google.com)
28.
Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah) (filfre.net)
29.
Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight (navair.navy.mil)
30.
Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU (dougmacdowell.com)