news, !paper 2025-08-23

1033 FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support / code.ffmpeg.org / 325

810 Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol / blog.nginx.org / 298

456 What makes Claude Code so damn good / minusx.ai / 296

443 Line scan camera image processing for train photography / daniel.lawrence.lu / 81

425 Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos / github.com/3b1b / 68

378 What does Palantir actually do? / wired.com / 363

279 LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine / github.com/lunarengine / 98

278 The cost of interrupted work (2023) / blog.oberien.de / 203

265 RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode / tbray.org / 148

228 Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes / newscientist.com / 125

218 Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math / quantamagazine.org / 86

215 500 days of math / gmays.com / 97

213 When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army / jackpoulson.substack.com / 298

208 I made a floppy disk from scratch / kottke.org / 77

207 Study: Social media probably can't be fixed / arstechnica.com / 201

205 I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface / openmymind.net / 298

199 Developer's block / underlap.org / 103

198 Why was Apache Kafka created? / bigdata.2minutestreaming.com / 211

194 I hacked Monster Energy / bobdahacker.com / 166

192 AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem / vincirufus.com / 413

177 Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates / crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com / 153

175 A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt / smithsonianmag.com / 60

173 Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips / cnbc.com / 186

170 How can AI ID a cat? / quantamagazine.org / 67

168 Materialized views are obviously useful / sophiebits.com / 78

165 What medieval people got right about learning (2019) / scotthyoung.com / 118

161 Good EU regulations / actuallygoodregulations.eu / 227

160 Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available / romhack.ing / 38

158 Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++ / gau-nernst.github.io / 34

156 Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference / arstechnica.com / 104

155 Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker / nkantar.com / 87

148 The ROI of Exercise / herman.bearblog.dev / 253

146 Acronis True Image costs performance when not used / randomascii.wordpress.com / 36

144 Rolling the dice with CSS random() / webkit.org / 31

140 WebR – R in the Browser / docs.r-wasm.org / 34

137 Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs / lwn.net / 48

121 RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no / nature.com / 137

120 450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown / readyset.io / 57

119 Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve / arstechnica.com / 16

118 Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case / darkcoding.net / 45

116 Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos / video.golpoai.com / 93

110 Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year / electrek.co / 101

100 Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine / reprobate.site / 53

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