news, !paper 2025-08-01

616 Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations / cpb.org / 601

505 Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills / hadid.dev / 504

463 At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery / quantamagazine.org / 178

458 Gemini 2.5 Deep Think / blog.google / 245

447 Cerebras Code / cerebras.ai / 169

386 The untold impact of cancellation / pretty.direct / 472

334 Our Farewell from Google Play / secuso.aifb.kit.edu / 126

325 I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself / skeptrune.com / 214

308 Replacing tmux in my dev workflow / bower.sh / 353

292 Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude / wired.com / 121

277 Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU / dougmacdowell.com / 87

267 NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant / bsky.app / 335

264 Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) / dewesoft.com / 109

256 Weather Model based on ADS-B / obrhubr.org / 44

252 Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved / blog.google / 186

226 Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025) / news.ycombinator.com / 321

219 Atlassian terminates 150 staff / cyberdaily.au / 165

218 FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime / reason.com / 108

214 OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation / nytimes.com / 275

213 Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says / cnbc.com / 275

203 IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' / theverge.com / 198

191 Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ / torrentfreak.com / 92

190 Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files / github.com/ethersync / 34

179 Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? / dbreunig.com / 86

171 U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report / politico.com / 100

160 Long Term Support / sqlite.org / 55

155 Hardening mode for the compiler / discourse.llvm.org / 54

153 JavaScript retro sound effects generator / github.grumdrig.com / 24

139 OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face / twitter.com/main_horse / 77

138 Native Sparse Attention / aclanthology.org / 31

136 OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery / resobscura.substack.com / 145

133 How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024) / haxrob.net / 54

130 Deep Agents / blog.langchain.com / 40

124 Mountain of Ink / mountainofink.com / 96

124 How Hyper built a 1M-accurate indoor GPS / andrewhart.me / 73

123 GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API / old.reddit.com / 38

122 Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold / it-notes.dragas.net / 5

121 Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective / twey.io / 62

117 Self-Signed JWTs / selfref.com / 83

114 Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff / rutgers.edu / 73

111 Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025) / news.ycombinator.com / 301

110 Hyrum's Law / hyrumslaw.com / 65

110 Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience / news.ycombinator.com / 56

110 Bad UX / google.com / 55

103 Design patterns you should unlearn in Python / lihil.cc / 103

101 Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah) / filfre.net / 45

101 Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report / ft.com / 22

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