August 2025 Archive
2161.
Eyecam (marcteyssier.com)
2162.
I'm an award winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding (newsletter.ofthebrave.org)
2163.
Debdelta (debdelta.debian.net)
2164.
Dependent Types: Universes, or types of types (jonmsterling.com)
2165.
Reusing Computation in Text-to-Image Diffusion for Efficient Image Generation (arxiv.org)
2166.
Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane (noahpinion.blog)
2167.
Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?
2168.
German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit (theguardian.com)
2169.
Why is choral music harder to appreciate? (marginalrevolution.com)
2170.
The Best Line Length (blog.glyph.im)
2171.
Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show (ingram.tech)
2172.
'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary (news.sky.com)
2173.
A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease (nytimes.com)
2174.
Don't use Redis as a rate limiter (medium.com)
2175.
Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws pushback (science.org)
2176.
The CTO Was ChatGPT (ehandbook.com)
2177.
Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services (github.com)
2178.
US Adds Surprise Gold Bar Tariff in Blow to Switzerland (bloomberg.com)
2179.
Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app (octarine.app)
2180.
2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack (pcworld.com)
2181.
Show HN: NaturalCron – Human-Readable Scheduling for .NET (With Fluent Builder) (github.com)
2182.
Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs (rachelbythebay.com)
2183.
What I look for in typeface licenses (davesmyth.com)
2184.
GPT-5 Hot Take (garymarcus.substack.com)
2185.
US Homeland Security chief reports breach at FEMA, fires 23 employees (reuters.com)
2186.
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor (thepinknews.com)
2187.
A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020) (alexhwilliams.info)
2188.
All the world’s polygons (sum.si)
2189.
Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy (items.gog.com)
2190.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad (theatlantic.com)