August 2025 Archive
2191.
What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? (ft.com)
2192.
Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower Than the Old Ones (wsj.com)
2193.
Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not (wired.com)
2194.
24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville (thedrive.com)
2195.
Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription (dexerto.com)
2196.
Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion (theglobeandmail.com)
2197.
We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative (cloudlife.io)
2198.
Does the stock market know something we don't? (theatlantic.com)
2199.
Why did dlclose not unload the library? (2023) (kishoreganesh.com)
2200.
EU kills Android bootloader unlock starting August 1 (xiaomitime.com)
2201.
Cognition CEO offers buyouts to let workers flee 'extreme' work culture (sfgate.com)
2202.
The "996" schedule of working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week comes to Silicon Valley (fortune.com)
2203.
JSON is not a YAML subset (2022) (john-millikin.com)
2204.
I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe) (bobdahacker.com)
2205.
Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics
2206.
HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame (portswigger.net)
2207.
FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address (wired.com)
2208.
Seeing infrared: contact lenses that grant 'super-vision' (theguardian.com)
2209.
What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021) (systems-souls-society.com)
2210.
Alaska's Juneau orders evacuations as record glacier flood looms (theguardian.com)
2211.
Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025 (steipete.me)
2212.
Plain Text. With Lines (akkartik.name)
2213.
iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats (msuiche.com)
2214.
Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024) (dwf.dev)
2215.
How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023) (justus.pw)
2216.
Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector (fiatjaf.com)
2217.
Reproducing prospect theory with 'differentiable decision theories' (science.org)
2218.
3D printing a building with 756 windows (jero.zone)
2219.
You're loading fonts wrong (and it's crippling your performance) (jonoalderson.com)
2220.
Show HN: Auto-Match – How We Built Receipt-to-Transaction Matching (Open Source) (midday.ai)