August 2025 Archive
2281.
Should you take creatine? (economist.com)
2282.
Amtrak NextGen Acela Debuts on August 28 (media.amtrak.com)
2283.
SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes (nytimes.com)
2284.
Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed? (tandfonline.com)
2285.
Nuvistor Valves (r-type.org)
2286.
How and Why to Ditch GitHub (taggart-tech.com)
2287.
Caligra Workbench (caligra.com)
2288.
OpenAI Burns the Boats (ethanding.substack.com)
2289.
GPT-5 System Prompt? (github.com)
2290.
Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB (github.com)
2291.
Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks (narrator.sh)
2292.
An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance (nature.com)
2293.
ChatGPT Will Apologize for Anything (aiweirdness.com)
2294.
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991) (archive.org)
2295.
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software (dw.com)
2296.
The "cracked coder" fetish: Epistemic arrogance in Silicon Valley (maxread.substack.com)
2297.
HTTP Is Not Simple (daniel.haxx.se)
2298.
What is the go proxy even doing? (flak.tedunangst.com)
2299.
Vibe-coded vulns inserted into 5 LTS kernels still aren't fixed 22 days later (twitter.com)
2300.
Sqlite3 will also read and write ZIP archives (mastodon.social)
2301.
Solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US (apnews.com)
2302.
Tesla drivers can pursue class action over self-driving claims, judge rules (reuters.com)
2303.
Save, Don't Bookmark (2024) (ckpinnegar.xyz)
2304.
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction (nature.com)
2305.
NSF suspends nearly 300 UCLA grants (Terence Tao, Plasma Science Facility, etc.) (grant-witness.us)
2306.
AI, layoffs, productivity and The Klarna Effect (garymarcus.substack.com)
2307.
Josef Bacik Leaving Meta and Stepping Back from Kernel Development (phoronix.com)
2308.
Hire People Who Care (2020) (alexw.substack.com)
2309.
Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (fermiquestions.org)
2310.
Which colors are primary? (jamesgurney.substack.com)