HN Daily Digest episodes:

• August 03, 2025Hacker News – 03 Aug 2025

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  Obfuscation & Coding Culture

  Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

  Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS: A Comprehensive Guide

  C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

  Urban Safety Innovations

  Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

  Remote hosting for your telescope

  Tech Innovations and Challenges

  Telo MT1

  Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability

  6 weeks of Claude Code

  Legacy and Nostalgia in Tech

  Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums

  Online Collection of Keygen Music

  Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

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• July 31, 2025Hacker News – 31 Jul 2025

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  The Future of Coding and AI

  Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

  Vibe code is legacy code

  I know when you're vibe coding

  Innovations in User Experience

  Ollama's new app

  AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget

  Breakthroughs in Science and Technology

  A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup

  Early universe's 'little red dots' may be black hole stars

  Reviving Classics

  Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD

  Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

  Industry Updates

  Figma will IPO on July 31

  Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management

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• July 30, 2025Hacker News – 30 Jul 2025

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  Natural Disasters and Human Response

  M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

  Tech in Education

  Study mode

  Innovations in AI and Open Source

  Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

  Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL

  Science and Technology

  Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria

  How the brain increases blood flow on demand

  Cultural Reflections in Tech

  RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

  Analoguediehard

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• July 29, 2025Hacker News – 29 Jul 2025

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  Programming Innovations

  Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

  SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit

  Gaming and Streaming Technologies

  I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

  Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

  User Experiences and Concerns

  Sign in with Google in Chrome

  The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025

  Fun and Quirky Projects

  Built a rickroll machine that rickrolls you with microservices

  Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

  Miscellaneous Insights

  Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children

  Different Clocks

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• July 28, 2025Hacker News – 28 Jul 2025

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  AI and User Experience

  LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide

  Enough AI Copilots, We Need AI HUDs

  Claude Code Router

  Web Development Insights

  How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy

  Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode Fork

  Creative Hacks and Innovations

  I Hacked My Washing Machine

  Making Postgres Slower

  Mobile BESS Powers Remote Heavy Equipment

  Nostalgic Tech and New Tools

  ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

  Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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• July 27, 2025Hacker News – 27 Jul 2025

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  Corporate Transformations

  When We Get Komooted

  Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

  Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

  Tech Innovations

  Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

  Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

  Smallest particulate matter sensor revolutionizes air quality measurement

  AI Developments

  Sapients paper on the concept of Hierarchical Reasoning Model

  How we rooted Copilot

  Rust running on every GPU

  Programming and Development

  Resizable structs in Zig

  Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

  Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp

  Cultural and Philosophical Insights

  Purple Earth hypothesis

  Beyond Food and People

  16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

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• July 26, 2025Hacker News – 26 Jul 2025

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  The App vs. Web Debate

  Do not download the app, use the website

  It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

  Innovations in Research and Technology

  CCTV Footage Captures the First-Ever Video of an Earthquake Fault in Motion

  Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

  Tools and Techniques for Developers

  Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing

  Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

  Reflections on Programming and History

  Why I Do Programming

  The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

  Hardware and Performance Insights

  Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?

  Never write your own date parsing library

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• July 25, 2025Hacker News – 25 Jul 2025

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  Security and Privacy

  Google spoofed via DKIM replay attack: A technical breakdown

  Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

  AI and Evaluation

  Terence Tao: Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation

  There is no memory safety without thread safety

  Development Tools and IDEs

  Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE

  Positron – A next-generation data science IDE

  Gaming and Graphics

  Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping

  A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use

  Celebrating Achievements

  Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

  Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

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• July 24, 2025Hacker News – 24 Jul 2025

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  Robotics Revolution

  CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

  Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars

  Navigating the Internet Landscape

  BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

  AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

  Cybersecurity Concerns

  Shattering the Rotation Illusion: The Attacker View & AWSKeyLockdown

  Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

  Innovations in AI and Programming

  Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper

  Parsing Protobuf like never before

  Nostalgia and Creative Quirks

  Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win

  I drank every cocktail

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• July 23, 2025Hacker News – 23 Jul 2025

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  Innovative Programming Models

  Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world

  Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)

  WebAssembly and the Future of Coding

  When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

  Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures

  Data Quality in AI

  AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts

  We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries

  Nostalgic Tech and New Tools

  Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)

  Show HN: WTFfmpeg – Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator

  Exploring New Frontiers

  Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning

  YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers

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