August 2025 Archive
751.
PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued (social.treehouse.systems)
752.
The Core of Rust (jyn.dev)
753.
U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report (politico.com)
754.
What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem (ethanding.substack.com)
755.
Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs (marginalia.nu)
756.
Lab-grown salmon hits the menu (smithsonianmag.com)
757.
Who does your assistant serve? (xeiaso.net)
758.
How can AI ID a cat? (quantamagazine.org)
759.
The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015) (raft.github.io)
760.
PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again (servethehome.com)
761.
GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding (elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev)
762.
The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux (scottstuff.net)
763.
Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (osec.io)
764.
Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi (hegemon.substack.com)
765.
Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls (science.org)
766.
Live: GPT-5 (youtube.com)
767.
Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs (fossjobs.net)
768.
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance (nature.com)
769.
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges (social.anoxinon.de)
770.
Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot (jszym.com)
771.
Don't “let it crash”, let it heal (zachdaniel.dev)
772.
MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System (worksonmymachine.ai)
773.
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says (nytimes.com)
774.
Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising (tj401.com)
775.
X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls (popsci.com)
776.
What medieval people got right about learning (2019) (scotthyoung.com)
777.
Gleam v1.12 (github.com)
778.
Gartner's grift is about to unravel (dx.tips)
779.
Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update (blog.thunderbird.net)
780.
Positron, a New Data Science IDE (posit.co)