July 2025 Archive
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The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million (calvin.sh)
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)
3.
Nvidia won, we all lost (blog.sebin-nyshkim.net)
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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)
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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com)
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Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)
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Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)
8.
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)
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Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com)
10.
Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck (ordep.dev)
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OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google (theverge.com)
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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (metr.org)
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Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)
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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (simonwillison.net)
16.
The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)
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At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says (nytimes.com)
18.
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)
19.
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)
20.
Tree Borrows (plf.inf.ethz.ch)
21.
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)
22.
Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) (blog.mgdproductions.com)
23.
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots (blog.cloudflare.com)
24.
Hidden interface controls that affect usability (interactions.acm.org)
25.
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (recall.ai)
26.
Linda Yaccarino is leaving X (nytimes.com)
27.
Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)
28.
I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com)
29.
ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral (techcrunch.com)
30.
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)