news, !paper 2025-08-25

2955 Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android / 9to5google.com / 2266

834 What are OKLCH colors? / jakub.kr / 183

676 Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS / menial.co.uk / 176

663 A visual introduction to big O notation / samwho.dev / 190

584 Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me / boston.conman.org / 466

444 Building the mouse Logitech won't make / samwilkinson.io / 317

421 Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? / news.ycombinator.com / 607

400 macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons / daringfireball.net / 186

393 Google's Liquid Cooling / chipsandcheese.com / 172

375 FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections / docs.fcc.gov / 266

346 An illustrated guide to OAuth / ducktyped.org / 62

343 Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States / post.japanpost.jp / 413

292 Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant / theguardian.com / 110

284 Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson / twitter.com/nealstephenson / 130

251 What is a color space? / makingsoftware.com / 47

243 Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries / austinvernon.site / 271

227 iOS 18.6.1 0-click RCE POC / github.com/b1n4r1b01 / 55

224 Git-Annex / git-annex.branchable.com / 60

215 Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar / newpublic.substack.com / 222

214 Omarchy Is Out / world.hey.com / 133

211 The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] / simson.net / 145

204 Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed / guard.io / 192

203 Japan's Creepiest Station / tokyocowboy.co / 81

203 A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation / b.43z.one / 67

203 The Annotated Transformer (2022) / nlp.seas.harvard.edu / 12

192 The MiniPC Revolution / jadarma.github.io / 252

181 The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years / sigwait.org / 134

169 The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux / scottstuff.net / 90

168 Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls / science.org / 43

154 How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure / blog.rubygems.org / 35

152 Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library / github.com/zserge / 52

149 SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript / small-js.org / 44

136 Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis / jeffgeerling.com / 39

132 How to make things slower so they go faster / gojiberries.io / 36

121 Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice / coloradosun.com / 206

121 WiFi-3D-Fusion – Real-time 3D motion sensing with Wi-Fi / github.com/MaliosDark / 31

119 Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera / caseyliss.com / 51

110 The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries / spectrum.ieee.org / 50

108 Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent / github.com/bravenewxyz / 84

102 Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool / github.com/bkdevs / 38

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