August 2025 Archive
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Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option (pew.org)
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Where to find ideas (howtogrow.substack.com)
184.
A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
185.
Self-Signed JWTs (selfref.com)
186.
Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook (marinecorpstimes.com)
187.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
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Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization (theconversation.com)
189.
GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training (arxiv.org)
190.
Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
191.
Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff (rutgers.edu)
192.
Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative (luxpdf.com)
193.
We shouldn't have needed lockfiles (tonsky.me)
194.
The internet wants to check your ID (newyorker.com)
195.
North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker (bbc.com)
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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience
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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions (blog.pkh.me)
198.
EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy (nytimes.com)
199.
Hyrum's Law (hyrumslaw.com)
200.
Bad UX (google.com)
201.
The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children (wired.com)
202.
Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California (phys.org)
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One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either (medium.com)
204.
Scientists shine a laser through a human head (spectrum.ieee.org)
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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite (futurism.com)
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Palantir: The Most Evil Company (politicaleconomist.substack.com)
207.
Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material (rockpapershotgun.com)
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Design patterns you should unlearn in Python (lihil.cc)
209.
This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996) (archive.irixnet.org)
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19% of California houses are owned by investors (ocregister.com)