news, !paper 2025-07-14

1037 Kiro: A new agentic IDE / kiro.dev / 450

571 Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds / sfstandard.com / 523

536 Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE / eff.org / 286

512 Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA / open-web-advocacy.org / 368

497 Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf / cognition.ai / 431

454 Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip / jeffgeerling.com / 250

403 Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly / refine.sh / 208

373 Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain / sailhealth.substack.com / 230

373 How I build software quickly / evanhahn.com / 206

366 Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP / arstechnica.com / 248

360 AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why / johnwhiles.com / 211

351 Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions / assemblingamerica.substack.com / 299

325 Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) / mymodernmet.com / 85

257 Death by a Thousand Slops / daniel.haxx.se / 137

216 East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming / nature.com / 255

181 Kepler.gl / kepler.gl / 20

180 Strategies for Fast Lexers / xnacly.me / 80

180 Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines / panasiti.me / 46

177 What's happening to reading? / newyorker.com / 305

172 Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo / replicube.xyz / 28

170 MARS.EXE → COM (2021) / chaos.if.uj.edu.pl / 47

145 You Are in a Box / jyn.dev / 135

144 Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet / datafusion.apache.org / 23

142 Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers / asia.nikkei.com / 68

125 A Century of Quantum Mechanics / home.cern / 94

118 Happy 20th Birthday Django / djangoproject.com / 2

116 Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles / jstor.org / 253

116 Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability / boilingsteam.com / 103

109 Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes / 0xdeadtype.theden.sh / 26

107 Lightning Detector Circuits / techlib.com / 44

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