news, !paper 2025-07-31

964 Slow / michaelnotebook.com / 227

733 Face it: you're a crazy person / experimental-history.com / 369

529 How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? / movies.stackexchange.com / 72

503 The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong / derekthompson.org / 789

500 MacBook Pro Insomnia / manuel.bernhardt.io / 227

470 Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided / digitalcourage.social / 345

390 Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting / lazyadmin.nl / 312

387 PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor / pixieditor.net / 44

365 AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser / elroy.bot / 207

361 Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea / krea.ai / 99

354 I tried Servo / spacebar.news / 243

350 I know when you're vibe coding / alexkondov.com / 170

331 QUIC for the kernel / lwn.net / 226

307 Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market / denverite.com / 367

298 “No tax on tips” is an industry plant / newyorker.com / 572

293 Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry / cryonceaweek.com / 234

278 Introduction to Computer Music / cmtext.com / 83

277 Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering / developers.googleblog.com / 91

265 U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD" / torrentfreak.com / 246

257 So you're a manager now / scottkosman.com / 184

210 Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video] / youtube.com / 178

210 Microsoft became incompetent in IT / mikekaganski.wordpress.com / 152

191 Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban / cbsnews.com / 181

188 2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals / bbc.com / 52

172 Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler / mayhul.com / 92

153 Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP / github.com/mcp-use / 69

153 Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility / eclipse.dev / 30

152 Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ / docs.carbon-lang.dev / 188

139 Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you / mjg59.dreamwidth.org / 108

136 150 years of Hans Christian Andersen / newstatesman.com / 51

123 What is gVisor? / blog.yelinaung.com / 59

120 Dark patterns / nsw.gov.au / 58

118 Orion Browser / kagi.com / 98

117 Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators / radiantnuclear.com / 177

116 Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents / chat.agentmail.to / 68

105 Stargate Norway / openai.com / 118

103 The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender / docuseal.com / 78

101 Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase / github.com/sourcebot-dev / 27

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