1033
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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b
1 year ago
854
249
VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883634
810
298
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
773
533
Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3382
755
464
PYX: The next step in Python packaging
https://astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx
657
355
This website is for humans
https://localghost.dev/blog/this-website-is-for-humans/
587
116
Search all text in New York City
https://www.alltext.nyc/
499
887
AI is different
https://www.antirez.com/news/155
442
297
F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709
428
603
Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-vans-to-be-rolled-out-across-police-forces-in-england-13410613
396
241
Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/12/illinois-ai-therapy-ban/
384
285
OCaml as my primary language
https://xvw.lol/en/articles/why-ocaml.html
378
363
What does Palantir actually do?
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/
364
353
FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
346
163
New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients
https://news.keckmedicine.org/new-treatment-eliminates-bladder-cancer-in-82-of-patients/
318
72
We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/12/we-caught-companies-making-it-harder-to-delete-your-data
288
236
Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzmDePH3E
284
302
Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
261
83
So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?
https://lostpixels.io/writings/the-difference-between-plotted-and-printed-artwork
213
When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/when-counterculture-and-empire-merge
207
201
Study: Social media probably can't be fixed
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/
189
24
SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
https://marnetto.net/2025/02/20/broderbund-stunts-1
188
185
Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band
https://astrobites.org/2025/08/12/starlink-ska-low/
183
67
Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
https://github.com/tanrax/org-social
179
1
Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal
https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-time-2-design-reveal/
178
231
I'm worried it might get bad
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/im-worried-it-might-get-bad
173
121
NIST Finalizes 'Lightweight Cryptography' Standard to Protect Small Devices
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/08/nist-finalizes-lightweight-cryptography-standard-protect-small-devices
171
45
The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)
https://raft.github.io/
166
79
Gartner's grift is about to unravel
https://dx.tips/gartner
156
30
Cross-Site Request Forgery
https://words.filippo.io/csrf/
UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/uk_expands_police_facial_recognition/
155
92
Open Banking and Payments Competition
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/open-banking-and-payments-competition/
154
158
US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports
https://apnews.com/article/treasury-debt-spending-trump-obbb-6f807c4aae78dcc96f29ff07a3c926f4
149
108
Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply
https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-jobs-now-american-workers-green-cards-2041404
140
145
LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
https://danfabulich.medium.com/llms-tell-bad-jokes-because-they-avoid-surprises-7f111aac4f96
51
Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer
https://enda.sh/primegrid/
138
78
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company/
8
Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2
https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/writing-bzip2-encoder-in-ada-from.html
120
95
A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it
https://www.tomkranz.com/blog1/a-case-study-in-bad-hiring-practice-and-how-to-fix-it
118
26
April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014)
https://testing.googleblog.com/2014/04/the-real-test-driven-development.html
117
39
Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser
https://abacusnoir.com/2025/08/12/coalton-playground-type-safe-lisp-in-your-browser/
93
Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos
https://video.golpoai.com/
115
205
U.S. alcohol consumption drops to a 90-year low, new poll finds
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/drink-alcohol-americans-poll-20812180.php
112
12
That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll")
https://www.troyhunt.com/that-16-billion-password-story-aka-data-troll/
110
75
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-sea-desalination-pulls-drinking-water-from-the-depths/
Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/geneva-makes-public-transport-temporarily-free-combat-pollution-spike-2025-08-13/
52
An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)
https://jeclark.net/articles/tcp-initcwnd/?tag=performance
104
86
Google Play Store bans wallets that don't have banking license
https://www.therage.co/google-play-store-ban-wallets/
102
56
The Factory Timezone
https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2025a/factory
101
32
29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release
https://gamingretro.co.uk/29-years-later-settlers-ii-finally-gets-amiga-release/
98
DoubleAgents: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls
https://pub.aimind.so/doubleagents-fine-tuning-llms-for-covert-malicious-tool-calls-b8ff00bf513e
54
Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2
https://nikodunk.com/2025-06-10-diy-serverless-(coreos-+-dokploy)
96
OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
https://www.openindiana.org/
94
29
A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07407
123
Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B
https://www.theverge.com/news/758218/perplexity-google-chrome-bid-unsolicited-offer
90
What if A.I. doesn't get better than this?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this
44
Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening
https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/blender-on-ipad-is-finally-happening-and-it-could-be-the-app-every-artist-needs
84
41
All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/all-souls-exam-questions-and-the
22
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number
81
3
Eca: Editor Code Assistant – AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor
https://github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca
80
14
The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2025/05/Mary-Queen-of-Scots-Channel-Anamorphosis-A-3D-Simulation.html
76
61
How well do coding agents use your library?
https://stackbench.ai/
Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178
71
43
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html#wannacry
141
1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”
https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=856
50
The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing – but the planes are harder to track
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/politics/ice-flights-locations-tracking-maps
