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A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
https://www.righto.com/2025/08/intel-386-package-ct-scan.html
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Cordoomceps – replacing an Amiga's brain with Doom
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73001.html
[comments] [20 points]

Testing Bitchat at the music festival
https://primal.net/saunter/testing-bitchat-at-the-music-festival
[comments] [3 points]

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right/
[comments] [68 points]

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/long-term-exposure-to-outdoor-air-pollution-linked-to-increased-risk-of-dementia
[comments] [24 points]

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite
https://sandstorm.org/
[comments] [89 points]

I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace
[comments] [822 points]

What's wrong with the JSON gem API?
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/08/02/whats-wrong-with-the-json-gem-api.html
[comments] [47 points]

A SPARC makes a little fire
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html
[comments] [22 points]

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/
[comments] [488 points]

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-just-because-it-used-usb-c/
[comments] [126 points]

Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs
https://marimo.io/blog/dataflow
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Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)
https://www.embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60
[comments] [76 points]

How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements
https://sirre.al/2025/08/06/safe-json-in-script-tags-how-not-to-break-a-site/
[comments] [18 points]

The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/
[comments] [315 points]

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
https://www.biographic.com/unmasking-the-sea-star-killer/
[comments] [34 points]

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
https://www.spacebar.news/apple-history-hiding-in-mac-font/
[comments] [121 points]

Getting good results from Claude Code
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code/
[comments] [226 points]

Build durable workflows with Postgres
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/why-postgres-durable-execution
[comments] [79 points]

HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports
https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/inside-hrts-python-fork/
[comments] [57 points]

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit
[comments] [39 points]

Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250807-the-radical-film-that-became-a-disaster-for-disney
[comments] [12 points]

Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab/
[comments] [144 points]

Programming with AI: You're Probably Doing It Wrong
https://www.devroom.io/2025/08/08/programming-with-ai-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/
[comments] [18 points]

Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
https://apnorc.org/projects/food-housing-and-health-care-costs-are-a-source-of-major-stress-for-many-people/
[comments] [255 points]

Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy/
[comments] [22 points]

Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5
https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-genies-lamp-openai-cant
[comments] [10 points]

FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/04/the-rise-of-opinionated-models.html
[comments] [42 points]

Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)
https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023-11-01-postgres-table-access-methods.html
[comments] [83 points]

Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
https://eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-germany-before-your-business-gets-big/
[comments] [269 points]