news, !paper / hn digest   2025-08-21

1662 AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' / theregister.com / 734
1402 I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file / al3rez.com / 799
1109 Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act / bbc.com / 855
797 Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears / telegraph.co.uk / 892
763 DeepSeek-v3.1 / api-docs.deepseek.com / 261
707 AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions / github.com/ghostty-org / 450
489 Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems / blog.trailofbits.com / 131
474 D4D4 / nmichaels.org / 56
408 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend / thedailyadda.com / 414
397 Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever / mavericksforever.com / 195
360 Code formatting comes to uv experimentally / pydevtools.com / 245
313 I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform / old.reddit.com / 211
308 Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit / emersion.fr / 109
306 Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says / arstechnica.com / 123
289 How well does the money laundering control system work? / journals.uchicago.edu / 355
285 Burner Phone 101 / rebeccawilliams.info / 108
280 Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) / begaydocrime.com / 135
252 Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) / hillelwayne.com / 111
245 From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent / ssp.sh / 452
240 How does the US use water? / construction-physics.com / 185
229 AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders / theregister.com / 144
229 Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables / arxiv.org / 54
219 CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations / ips-dc.org / 245
216 Margin debt surges to record high / advisorperspectives.com / 296
216 The contrarian physics podcast subculture / timothynguyen.org / 253
213 Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license / unity.com / 118
196 Privately-Owned Rail Cars / amtrak.com / 309
193 The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off / wsj.com / 65
193 Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) / github.com/Growth-Kinetics / 44
189 Building AI products in the probabilistic era / giansegato.com / 104
188 My other email client is a daemon / feyor.sh / 28
169 The Core of Rust / jyn.dev / 165
158 Python f-string cheat sheets (2022) / fstring.help / 38
145 Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest / cnn.com / 47
145 Elegant mathematics bending the future of design / actu.epfl.ch / 18
133 Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms / abc.net.au / 170
133 The unbearable slowness of AI coding / joshuavaldez.com / 101
129 Why is D3 so Verbose? / theheasman.com / 68
128 Happy 100000th birthday, Debian / lists.debian.org / 22
125 From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] / fertrevino.com / 95
123 In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses / technologyreview.com / 171
112 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been a game-changer for Linux / gamingonlinux.com / 15
109 In the long run, LLMs make us dumber / desunit.com / 89
109 Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B / cnbc.com / 33
109 Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser / turtleware.eu / 31
102 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video] / youtube.com / 80
101 Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence / lumia.security / 22
100 Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum / timeextension.com / 11

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