news, !paper 2025-07-20

609 XMLUI / blog.jonudell.net / 331

587 Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update / antirez.com / 409

561 New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes / dynomight.net / 173

419 The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production / utkarshkanwat.com / 254

414 LLM architecture comparison / magazine.sebastianraschka.com / 24

413 The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality / english.elpais.com / 788

403 FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code / tomshardware.com / 121

387 Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling / news.samsung.com / 316

334 Tough news for our UK users / blog.janitorai.com / 294

314 AI is killing the web – can anything save it? / economist.com / 439

254 Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US' / brusselssignal.eu / 179

248 Speeding up my ZSH shell / scottspence.com / 122

237 Log by time, not by count / johnscolaro.xyz / 106

224 Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once / conductor.build / 111

211 Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020) / mattlakeman.org / 99

207 A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006) / davidweiss.blogspot.com / 33

205 Async I/O on Linux in databases / blog.canoozie.net / 94

203 Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map / github.com/h2337 / 86

195 How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale / aol.com / 699

194 AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts / ft.com / 78

184 Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024) / automaton-media.com / 128

177 Agents built from alloys / xbow.com / 80

166 Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque / undeadly.org / 90

152 A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability / mathstodon.xyz / 31

151 Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language / blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app / 61

148 EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu / theguardian.com / 192

140 Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it / twitter.com/jasonlk / 53

132 Subreply – An open source text-only social network / github.com/lucianmarin / 76

130 Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption / borgbackup.org / 52

124 Lasagna Battery Cell / amazingribs.com / 23

117 The Minecraft game score unexpectedly became big business for its composer / billboard.com / 71

115 Hiding messages in a deck playing cards / asherfalcon.com / 38

105 Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker / blog.teufelaudio.com / 22

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