news, !paper 2025-08-20

849 Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization / visualrambling.space / 132

815 Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? / lock.cmpxchg8b.com / 893

660 Try and / ygdp.yale.edu / 335

552 Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first / github.com/zedless-editor / 316

530 Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? / news.ycombinator.com / 247

447 An interactive guide to SVG paths / joshwcomeau.com / 43

445 Sequoia backs Zed / zed.dev / 321

434 Pixel 10 Phones / blog.google / 953

417 Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts / petapixel.com / 592

413 Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering / github.com/rasbt / 57

387 Code review can be better / tigerbeetle.com / 237

378 AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong / lastweekinaws.com / 277

371 LLMs aren't world models / yosefk.com / 236

295 Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix / tidewave.ai / 58

281 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015) / mashable.com / 111

228 A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes / statsignificant.com / 148

220 Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits / mattwie.se / 145

220 Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero / mindflash.org / 131

217 Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025 / gfw.report / 179

208 Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) / gregoryszorc.com / 198

208 The value of hitting the HN front page / mooreds.com / 104

196 An Update on Pytype / github.com/google / 66

193 Introduction to AT Protocol / mackuba.eu / 108

192 How Not to Buy a SSD / andrei.xyz / 174

192 French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells / arstechnica.com / 151

182 Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) / rudyrucker.com / 101

181 Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP / browser-use.com / 118

177 Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation / databricks.com / 204

170 How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method / yacinemahdid.com / 107

169 Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code / github.com/automazeio / 110

158 Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python / github.com/plutoprint / 48

157 MapLibre Tile: A next generation geospatial format optimized for rendering / arxiv.org / 15

146 Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler / github.com/luminal-ai / 60

145 Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet / news.ycombinator.com / 98

144 OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple / blog.openpolicyagent.org / 51

142 Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover / imperialcollegelondon.github.io / 103

135 The Block Stacking Problem / sites.pitt.edu / 36

122 We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism / democracyjournal.org / 286

121 Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash / latimes.com / 104

117 Digg.com is back / digg.com / 202

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