news, !paper 2025-08-03

947 If you're remote, ramble / stephango.com / 451

843 Modern Node.js Patterns / kashw1n.com / 417

565 Writing a good design document / grantslatton.com / 142

405 Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models / anthropic.com / 136

402 So you want to parse a PDF? / eliot-jones.com / 225

361 Tokens are getting more expensive / ethanding.substack.com / 253

357 Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest / ioccc.org / 102

350 UN report finds UN reports are not widely read / reuters.com / 141

289 I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class / lithub.com / 278

273 Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding / solmaz.io / 226

254 The Dollar Is Dead / mathmeetsmoney.substack.com / 347

232 How to make almost anything (2019) / fab.cba.mit.edu / 25

212 Welcome to url.town, population 465 / url.town / 87

211 Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation / acoup.blog / 83

201 Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth / ft.com / 330

201 How to grow almost anything / howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site / 61

164 Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi / hegemon.substack.com / 80

153 Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS / jackharvest.com / 54

150 A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022) / economist.com / 104

148 Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise / news.asu.edu / 52

143 A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop / oldvcr.blogspot.com / 36

139 Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability / blocksandfiles.com / 104

122 How Python grew from a language to a community / thenewstack.io / 84

117 Why doctors hate their computers (2018) / newyorker.com / 216

115 Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization / theconversation.com / 61

114 Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative / luxpdf.com / 41

108 One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either / medium.com / 67

103 This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996) / archive.irixnet.org / 33

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