news, !paper 2025-08-04

1252 Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives / blog.cloudflare.com / 729

1090 Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display / benholmen.com / 138

586 Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers / fortune.com / 852

578 Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down / pcgamer.com / 568

533 Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering / qwenlm.github.io / 154

489 Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash / electrek.co / 252

460 Objects should shut up / dustri.org / 347

442 How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast / v8.dev / 156

383 DrawAFish.com Postmortem / aldenhallak.com / 101

377 How we built Bluey’s world / itsnicethat.com / 171

329 Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? / news.ycombinator.com / 603

298 OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware / openipc.org / 140

289 Palantir is extending its reach even further into government / wired.com / 283

208 Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft / bl.ag / 42

188 Read your code / etsd.tech / 106

186 Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? / news.ycombinator.com / 248

184 PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming / deprogrammaticaipsum.com / 187

178 Content-Aware Spaced Repetition / giacomoran.com / 64

176 Customizing tmux / evgeniipendragon.com / 148

173 AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder / afterburnout.co / 145

157 Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised / isitreallyfoss.com / 65

154 I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023) / vogue.com / 109

154 NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills / jpl.nasa.gov / 52

153 Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager / danfabulich.medium.com / 196

148 A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability / notashes.me / 76

148 Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable / nytimes.com / 34

147 Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) / smithsonianmag.com / 60

144 KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland / neowin.net / 71

142 My Ideal Array Language / ashermancinelli.com / 71

141 Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] / lweb.cfa.harvard.edu / 222

141 HTMX is hard, so let's get it right / github.com/BookOfCooks / 135

141 New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials / phys.org / 24

134 Rising young worker despair in the United States / nber.org / 245

131 Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids / offline.kids / 71

117 Hiroshima (1946) / newyorker.com / 244

114 GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training / arxiv.org / 18

109 Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions / blog.pkh.me / 21

106 Scientists shine a laser through a human head / spectrum.ieee.org / 47

101 Europe is breaking its reliance on American science / reuters.com / 64

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