The Automated Daily - Hacker News Edition

Hacker News for Aug 25, 2025


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Today's topics:
-Walmart tech kickback scandal

-AI browser scam vulnerabilities

-Busy beaver Turing machine records

-Thermal energy storage innovation

-Modern color models in CSS

-Open source AI agent in C

-Git-annex for large file management

-SmallJS: Smalltalk for JavaScript

-Medieval water drinking myth

-UNIX-HATERS Handbook critique


-https://www.ctol.digital/news/walmart-fires-vp-kickbacks-terminates-1200-contractors/
-https://jakub.kr/components/oklch-colors
-https://austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html
-https://github.com/bravenewxyz/agent-c
-https://git-annex.branchable.com/
-https://small-js.org/Home/Home.html
-https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html
-https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed
-https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/
-https://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf


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