news, !paper 2025-07-29

1102 Study mode / openai.com / 798

857 M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued / earthquake.usgs.gov / 241

569 My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) / simonwillison.net / 395

509 iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras / candid9.com / 501

483 Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300% / science.org / 257

421 RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession / JapaneseNostalgicCar.com / 88

393 Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations / wikimediafoundation.org / 184

391 ACM Transitions to Full Open Access / acm.org / 58

356 Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds” / blog.kilocode.ai / 342

318 Learning basic electronics by building fireflies / a64.in / 79

298 URL-Driven State in HTMX / lorenstew.art / 179

284 Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language / ponylang.io / 270

278 Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game / kathaaverse.com / 108

261 Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC / maruos.com / 207

258 Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker / news.ycombinator.com / 179

255 The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 / techradar.com / 244

232 The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake / computerenhance.com / 180

232 Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview / observablehq.com / 57

229 More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves / news.uoguelph.ca / 159

224 USB-C for Lightning iPhones / obsoless.com / 129

223 Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal / neowin.net / 100

221 FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video] / youtube.com / 55

184 UK Online Safety Act sends VPN use soaring / wired.com / 3

179 Linux Performance Analysis (2015) / netflixtechblog.com / 40

161 How the brain increases blood flow on demand / hms.harvard.edu / 85

160 Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support / zdnet.com / 49

155 Elements of System Design / github.com/jarulraj / 37

151 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK / docs.flightsimulator.com / 115

140 Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters / nothing-to-watch.port80.ch / 75

138 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft begins taxi tests / nasa.gov / 133

135 A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023) / neilzone.co.uk / 95

127 The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe / theguardian.com / 150

125 The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken / tushardadlani.com / 92

124 Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL / github.com/Danau5tin / 12

118 Learning Is Slower Than You Think / nisheethvishnoi.substack.com / 100

117 Webflow Down for >31 Hours / status.webflow.com / 70

112 Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware / blog.trailofbits.com / 35

104 Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform / wirelesspi.com / 26

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