August 2025 Archive
1741.
GPT-5: It just does stuff (oneusefulthing.org)
1742.
Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1743.
Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now (quoththeraven.substack.com)
1744.
Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf] (research.vu.nl)
1745.
Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s (twitter.com)
1746.
Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes (blog.nitroqr.com)
1747.
How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust (bbc.com)
1748.
Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI
1749.
Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg (ffmpegs.pages.dev)
1750.
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
1751.
China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink (arstechnica.com)
1752.
Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island (thepublicsradio.org)
1753.
Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs (github.com)
1754.
Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI (github.com)
1755.
Capture Checking in Scala (nrinaudo.github.io)
1756.
Practical approach for streaming UI from LLMs (timetler.com)
1757.
Sky Calendar (abramsplanetarium.org)
1758.
It's the Housing, Stupid (ofdollarsanddata.com)
1759.
United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown (allchronology.com)
1760.
The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome (debramaymacleod.com)
1761.
JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language (infoworld.com)
1762.
How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024) (binaryigor.com)
1763.
Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25 (mfbmina.dev)
1764.
My original Palm IIIx (goto10retro.com)
1765.
The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world (openculture.com)
1766.
Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture (brodzinski.com)
1767.
Sam Altman is in damage-control mode after latest ChatGPT release (cnn.com)
1768.
Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures (cnbc.com)
1769.
Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware (theregister.com)
1770.
Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement (flowingdata.com)