August 2025 Archive
1831.
Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately (techcrunch.com)
1832.
AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally (blog.google)
1833.
My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video] (youtube.com)
1834.
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified (arstechnica.com)
1835.
A visual history of Visual C++ (2017) (malsmith.net)
1836.
A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf] (jonathanadams.pro)
1837.
Vim Macros for Beancount (tangled.sh)
1838.
C10kday (daniel.haxx.se)
1839.
The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved (bbc.com)
1840.
There Goes the American Muscle Car (thedispatch.com)
1841.
AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? (politico.com)
1842.
Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban [video] (nbcnews.com)
1843.
Names are not type safety (2020) (lexi-lambda.github.io)
1844.
Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (bbc.com)
1845.
Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?
1846.
Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world (pcgamer.com)
1847.
China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers (bloomberg.com)
1848.
Titles matter (joshcollinsworth.com)
1849.
IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing (newsroom.ibm.com)
1850.
It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation (paulkrugman.substack.com)
1851.
A short statistical reasoning test (emiruz.com)
1852.
Sweatshop Data Is Over (mechanize.work)
1853.
Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats (support.google.com)
1854.
Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, and growing rapidly (pnas.org)
1855.
JD Vance's team had water level of Ohio river raised for family's boating trip (theguardian.com)
1856.
AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge (irisvanrooijcogsci.com)
1857.
Germany at it again: now trying to reopen the "adblockers are illegal" debate (theregister.com)
1858.
Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C (nicholas.carlini.com)
1859.
Ejabberd 25.08 (process-one.net)
1860.
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike (arstechnica.com)