1697
744
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/
1 year ago
817
903
Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/
778
263
DeepSeek-v3.1
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821
729
461
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8289
494
131
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/
418
415
95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend
https://thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/
365
245
Code formatting comes to uv experimentally
https://pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-to-uv-experimentally/
324
212
I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform
https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1mw5yfg/forced_every_engineer_to_take_sales_calls_they/
311
110
Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/using-podman-compose-and-buildkit/
308
124
Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/
294
356
How well does the money laundering control system work?
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665
255
113
Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/
241
195
How does the US use water?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water
234
151
A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes
https://www.statsignificant.com/p/is-rotten-tomatoes-still-reliable
231
144
AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic/
230
54
Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191
223
246
CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations
https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2025/
219
298
Margin debt surges to record high
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2025/07/23/margin-debt-surges-record-high-june-2025
218
256
The contrarian physics podcast subculture
https://timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/physics-grifters-eric-weinstein-sabine-hossenfelder-and-a-crisis-of-credibility/
214
120
Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
https://unity.com/products/unity-industry
206
50
The two versions of Parquet
https://www.jeronimo.dev/the-two-versions-of-parquet/
199
182
Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icaf127/8196180?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
198
45
Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)
https://github.com/Growth-Kinetics/DiffMem
197
318
Privately-Owned Rail Cars
https://www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars
194
65
The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-onion-print-subscribers-6c24649c
192
104
Building AI products in the probabilistic era
https://giansegato.com/essays/probabilistic-era
188
29
My other email client is a daemon
https://feyor.sh/blog/my-other-email-client-is-a-mail-daemon/
174
108
How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method
https://www.yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to-stop-feeling-lost-in-tech
172
170
The Core of Rust
https://jyn.dev/the-core-of-rust/
160
38
Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)
https://fstring.help/cheat/
146
175
Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/australia-post-suspends-transit-shipping-parcels-us-trump-tariff/105680456
145
129
Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations
https://apnews.com/article/trump-visas-deportations-068ad6cd5724e7248577f17592327ca4
31
Rolling the dice with CSS random()
https://webkit.org/blog/17285/rolling-the-dice-with-css-random/
137
102
The unbearable slowness of AI coding
https://joshuavaldez.com/the-unbearable-slowness-of-ai-coding/
68
Why is D3 so Verbose?
https://theheasman.com/short_stories/why-is-d3-code-so-long-and-complicated-or-why-is-it-so-verbose/
127
96
From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
https://www.fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_medhelm.pdf
125
173
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemini-ai-energy/
122
34
Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs
https://blog.brixit.nl/dont-pick-weird-subnets-for-embedded-networks/
15
7 years later, Valve's Proton has been a game-changer for Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/7-years-later-valves-proton-has-been-an-incredible-game-changer-for-linux/
111
Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser
https://turtleware.eu/posts/Using-Common-Lisp-from-inside-the-Browser.html
109
89
In the long run, LLMs make us dumber
https://desunit.com/blog/in-the-long-run-llms-make-us-dumber/
103
83
1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHG_I-9a7FY
101
23
Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence
https://www.lumia.security/blog/applestorm
13
Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams
https://app.chartdb.io
100
11
Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/08/dev-reveals-secrets-behind-stunning-new-3d-platformer-for-the-zx-spectrum
97
52
Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)
https://www.tedinski.com/2018/01/23/data-objects-and-being-railroaded-into-misdesign.html
91
71
The AI Job Title Decoder Ring
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a-guide-to-ai-titles.html
20
Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies
https://splice-cad.com
85
105
What if every city had a London Overground?
https://www.dwell.com/article/what-if-every-city-had-a-london-overground-ac7a7ff9
12
Exploring EXIF (2023)
https://hturan.com/writing/exploring-exif
79
28
I've never had a real adversary
https://inoticeiamconfused.substack.com/p/ive-never-had-a-real-adversary
56
The Open-Office Trap (2014)
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap
74
Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference
https://mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder
72
59
'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0820/1529397-denmark-book-tax/
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetition-in-art-pleases-the-brain/
67
33
My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/you
66
I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/anki-is-already-dead
62
43
The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/the-oldest-unopened-bottle-of-wine-in-the-world.html