news, !paper 2025-08-27

1690 AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' / theregister.com / 742

837 Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? / lock.cmpxchg8b.com / 906

812 Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears / telegraph.co.uk / 903

770 DeepSeek-v3.1 / api-docs.deepseek.com / 262

722 AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions / github.com/ghostty-org / 460

555 Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first / github.com/zedless-editor / 322

550 Monodraw / monodraw.helftone.com / 173

503 Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him / electrek.co / 263

490 Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems / blog.trailofbits.com / 131

481 Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem / semgrep.dev / 38

442 Pixel 10 Phones / blog.google / 965

425 Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts / petapixel.com / 600

418 Burner Phone 101 / rebeccawilliams.info / 189

402 The Therac-25 Incident (2021) / thedailywtf.com / 240

388 Code review can be better / tigerbeetle.com / 241

385 AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong / lastweekinaws.com / 279

381 Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification / commonsware.com / 288

363 Code formatting comes to uv experimentally / pydevtools.com / 245

323 Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published / github.com/nrwl / 375

317 I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform / old.reddit.com / 212

309 Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit / emersion.fr / 109

295 Unexpected productivity boost of Rust / lubeno.dev / 295

295 Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year / cnbc.com / 126

290 How well does the money laundering control system work? / journals.uchicago.edu / 355

288 F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash / cnn.com / 396

288 The GitHub website is slow on Safari / github.com/orgs / 229

282 Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) / begaydocrime.com / 142

279 SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight / space.com / 301

278 Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward / ghacks.net / 252

268 QEMU 10.1.0 / wiki.qemu.org / 47

255 Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics / twitter.com/SebastienBubeck / 151

255 Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) / hillelwayne.com / 113

240 How does the US use water? / construction-physics.com / 193

231 A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes / statsignificant.com / 151

231 AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders / theregister.com / 144

230 Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables / arxiv.org / 54

222 VIM Master / github.com/renzorlive / 79

218 Margin debt surges to record high / advisorperspectives.com / 299

218 The contrarian physics podcast subculture / timothynguyen.org / 256

217 Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups / macrumors.com / 230

216 A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks / nordbayern.de / 150

215 Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store / torrentfreak.com / 163

199 An Update on Pytype / github.com/google / 66

198 Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) / github.com/Growth-Kinetics / 45

197 Privately-Owned Rail Cars / amtrak.com / 312

196 Introduction to AT Protocol / mackuba.eu / 110

193 The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off / wsj.com / 65

192 Building AI products in the probabilistic era / giansegato.com / 104

188 My other email client is a daemon / feyor.sh / 28

182 Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP / browser-use.com / 118

174 How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method / yacinemahdid.com / 108

172 The Core of Rust / jyn.dev / 169

163 GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? / gmplib.org / 120

161 Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python / github.com/plutoprint / 48

161 The National Design Studio is a scam / chrbutler.com / 36

160 Python f-string cheat sheets (2022) / fstring.help / 38

157 Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers / climatedevlab.brown.edu / 60

156 Typepad is shutting down / everything.typepad.com / 69

152 Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler / github.com/luminal-ai / 60

147 Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs / dw-news.dreamwidth.org / 169

147 Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet / news.ycombinator.com / 98

146 Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover / imperialcollegelondon.github.io / 107

146 OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple / blog.openpolicyagent.org / 52

145 Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line / yamanot.es / 44

141 Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation / bbc.com / 171

139 House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias / thehill.com / 149

136 How to slow down a program and why it can be useful / stefan-marr.de / 48

135 Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI / zed.dev / 38

135 Implementing Forth in Go and C / eli.thegreenplace.net / 17

134 ASCIIFlow / asciiflow.com / 32

132 CDC officials’ resignation emails / insidemedicine.substack.com / 33

130 Why is D3 so Verbose? / theheasman.com / 68

127 From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] / fertrevino.com / 96

121 Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com / firefox.com / 62

120 Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs / blog.brixit.nl / 34

116 Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone / news.ycombinator.com / 82

111 Light pollution prolongs avian activity / gizmodo.com / 27

110 Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser / turtleware.eu / 31

108 WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser / docs.weblibre.eu / 79

107 SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C / github.com/antirez / 38

105 Areal, Are.na's new typeface / are.na / 76

103 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video] / youtube.com / 83

103 Zig 0.15.1 / ziglang.org / 16

101 Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams / app.chartdb.io / 13

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