news, !paper 2025-07-15

1714 LLM Inevitabilism / tomrenner.com / 1612

883 Local-first software (2019) / inkandswitch.com / 297

775 Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage / maalvika.substack.com / 210

734 Reflections on OpenAI / calv.info / 415

593 Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL / matthieulc.com / 107

545 Apple's MLX adding CUDA support / github.com/ml-explore / 203

506 Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" / news.ycombinator.com / 368

448 To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head / the-nerve-blog.ghost.io / 167

359 LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date / caltech.edu / 193

349 NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock / nist.gov / 120

328 Helix Editor 25.07 / helix-editor.com / 154

326 Blender 4.5 LTS / blender.org / 98

324 Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project / blenderstudio.itch.io / 55

323 Where's Firefox going next? / connect.mozilla.org / 533

276 My Family and the Flood / texasmonthly.com / 110

272 RFC: PHP license update / wiki.php.net / 86

267 GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical / gpuhammer.com / 104

256 Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance / research.trychroma.com / 59

239 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers / asia.nikkei.com / 143

231 Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users / torrentfreak.com / 255

230 The new literalism plaguing today’s movies / newyorker.com / 438

225 Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world / 100r.co / 71

219 OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure / requilence.any.org / 81

219 Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere / benbridle.com / 68

218 Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography / nubero.ch / 41

217 The Collapse of the FDA / nytimes.com / 203

213 Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department / cnbc.com / 136

208 Claude for Financial Services / anthropic.com / 109

205 NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks / neural-os.com / 55

200 Why are there no good dinosaur films? / briannazigler.substack.com / 460

196 Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival / amirsharif.com / 135

196 SQLite async connection pool for high-performance / github.com/slaily / 84

196 Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI / neowin.net / 71

195 The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module / go.dev / 71

184 Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process / eieio.games / 38

180 Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon / github.com/trymirai / 46

179 Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft / securelist.com / 155

155 Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit / lopespm.com / 43

149 Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models / mistral.ai / 25

146 Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding / reuters.com / 242

138 DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI / krebsonsecurity.com / 45

135 Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down / news.ycombinator.com / 71

132 Encrypting files with passkeys and age / words.filippo.io / 69

131 Encrypting files with passkeys and age / words.filippo.io / 2

119 A Rust shaped hole / mnvr.in / 308

117 The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE / propublica.org / 138

115 When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery / clickhouse.com / 33

114 What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? / derekthompson.org / 855

114 A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers / propublica.org / 50

113 AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf] / lyons-den.com / 100

108 The War on the Walkman / newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org / 110

108 Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts / ben-mini.com / 35

100 Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal / juliascope.com / 26

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