news, !paper 2025-07-19

853 Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors” / twitter.com/_ZachGriff / 507

566 Death by AI / davebarry.substack.com / 214

519 Nobody knows how to build with AI yet / worksonmymachine.substack.com / 396

491 A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) / endtimes.dev / 309

475 OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 / twitter.com/alexwei_ / 698

435 The death of partying in the USA / derekthompson.org / 734

429 Fstrings.wtf / fstrings.wtf / 132

376 Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras / eff.org / 190

360 Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts / it-notes.dragas.net / 118

312 It's rude to show AI output to people / distantprovince.by / 245

306 Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia / evanhahn.com / 195

255 The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust / viralinstruction.com / 439

243 Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool / blog.documentfoundation.org / 127

219 YouTube No Translation / addons.mozilla.org / 102

207 What the Fuck Python / colab.research.google.com / 186

203 Beyond Meat fights for survival / foodinstitute.com / 608

201 Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI / notcheckmark.com / 85

195 TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology / taipeitimes.com / 161

195 Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation / npr.org / 30

191 Pimping My Casio: Part Deux / blog.jgc.org / 58

178 Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium / gojiberries.io / 86

172 I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer / lifehacky.net / 130

159 MCP security vulnerabilities and attack vectors / forgecode.dev / 19

158 I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well / goto10retro.com / 182

140 Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration / lwn.net / 3

134 Nasa’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft begins taxi tests / nasa.gov / 97

121 'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor / newatlas.com / 46

118 Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy / theinternational.at / 102

117 New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation / etany.org / 184

111 Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org / xn--gckvb8fzb.com / 145

100 The curious case of the Unix workstation layout / thejpster.org.uk / 44

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