HN Daily Digest episodes:

• August 31, 2025Hacker News – 31 Aug 2025

  Table of Contents

  Programming Paradigms and Tools

  Git Diagramming "The Weave"

  My Foray into Vlang

  Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

  Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

  Design and Cognitive Load

  Cognitive load is what matters

  Terminal sessions you can bookmark

  Reading and Longevity

  My phone is an ereader now

  New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

  Creative Insights and Copyright Issues

  You Have to Feel It

  Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes

  Society and Decentralization

  Are we decentralized yet?

  Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

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• August 30, 2025Hacker News – 30 Aug 2025

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  Simplicity and Design

  Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

  Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

  AI and Machine Learning

  SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

  Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

  Grok Code Fast 1

  Programming Insights

  Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right

  Emulating aarch64 in software using JIT compilation and Rust

  Technology and Innovation

  15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

  Wikipedia as a Graph

  Cultural Reflections

  Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

  I’m working on implementing a programming language all my own

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• August 29, 2025Hacker News – 29 Aug 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI Innovations and Challenges

  Show HN: Vectorless RAG

  AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

  Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

  Tech Tools and Trends

  Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking

  Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos

  Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

  Hardware and Software Updates

  The Synology End Game

  Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

  Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

  Community Insights and Reflections

  My startup banking story (2023)

  The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

  Uncertain

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• August 28, 2025Hacker News – 28 Aug 2025

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  Software Security Alerts

  The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

  Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

  Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures

  Innovations in Energy and Development

  Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line

  Nvidia DGX Spark

  Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone

  Exploring the Digital Experience

  What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021)

  Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files

  The GitHub website is slow on Safari

  Cultural Insights and Learning

  Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

  VIM Master

  Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

  Research and Development Opportunities

  Certificates for Onion Services

  The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring a Software Engineer

  Sci-Hub has been blocked in India

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• August 27, 2025Hacker News – 27 Aug 2025

  Table of Contents

  Critical Software Failures

  The Therac-25 Incident

  Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him

  Innovative Tools and Frameworks

  Claude for Chrome

  Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

  Emerging Technologies

  Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space

  Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

  Sustainability and Ecology

  Light pollution prolongs avian activity

  One universal antiviral to rule them all?

  Tech Development and Reverse Engineering

  Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

  Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

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• August 26, 2025Hacker News – 26 Aug 2025

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  Android App Security

  Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

  Google's Liquid Cooling

  Programming Reflections

  Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)

  A visual introduction to big O notation

  Software Engineering Insights

  Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers

  Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs

  Innovative Projects

  Show HN: I integrated my from-scratch TCP/IP stack into the xv6-riscv OS

  Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

  Nature's Wonders

  Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls

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• August 25, 2025Hacker News – 25 Aug 2025

  Table of Contents

  Color Innovations

  What are OKLCH colors?

  The two versions of Parquet

  Development Tools and Techniques

  Git-Annex

  In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

  AI and Automation

  We put a coding agent in a while loop

  Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

  Industry Movements

  Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates

  Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock

  Miscellaneous

  SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

  Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

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• August 24, 2025Hacker News – 24 Aug 2025

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  Corporate Culture and Employee Insights

  Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf]

  Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

  Tech Innovations and Tools

  Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

  Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

  Revolutionizing Web Design

  Rolling the dice with CSS random()

  ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

  Insights into AI and Data

  How can AI ID a cat?

  The cost of interrupted work (2023)

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• August 23, 2025Hacker News – 23 Aug 2025

  Table of Contents

  Overcoming Developer Challenges

  Developer's block

  I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

  My tips for using LLM agents to create software

  Innovations in Data and Media

  Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

  Show HN: OctaneDB – Fast, Open-Source Vector Database for Python

  The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

  Environmental Insights and Technology

  Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

  Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

  Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

  Tech History and Learning Platforms

  Building a computer in the 90s (2019)

  Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

  FFmpeg 8.0

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• August 22, 2025Hacker News – 22 Aug 2025

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  Web Technologies on the Rise

  Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server

  Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

  AI Innovations and Insights

  DeepSeek-v3.1

  From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM

  Statistical Perspectives and Critiques

  Everything Is Correlated

  Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching

  Emerging Technologies and Future Trends

  Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

  Building AI products in the probabilistic era

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