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Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
https://julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disregard-for-40-years-of-rpc-best-practices-will-burn-enterprises-8ef85ce5bc9b

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846871

My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t …

Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta Talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846922

Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/07/09/secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-and-shuts-down-us-southern-border-ports-livestock-trade-due

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846758

Dead need right to delete their data against AI, lawyer says : Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

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/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846323

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia An analysis of studies incorporating data from almost 30 million people has highlighted the role that air pollution – including that coming from car exhaust

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846164

GitHub - menloresearch/jan: Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer - menloresearch/jan

Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI
https://github.com/menloresearch/jan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845272

Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop
https://quickshell.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800048

Mexico to US Livestock Trade halted due to Screwworm spread
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/07/09/secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-and-shuts-down-us-southern-border-ports-livestock-trade-due

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846758

This car has more than 1.2 million km on it — and it's still going strong | CBC News Andy Campbell's 1985 Toyota Tercel has travelled the equivalent of 1.5 round trips to the moon.

Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/1985-toyota-tercel-high-mileage-1.7597168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806422

OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second Sorry Wplace.live

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreemap-survived-100000-requests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846318

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite
https://sandstorm.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844394

Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
https://sky.dlazaro.ca

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846281

Partially Matching Zig Enums
https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/08/partially-matching-zig-enums.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845017

Let's properly analyze an AI article for once Recently the CEO of Github wrote a blog post called Developers reinvented . It was reposted with various clickbait headings like  GitHub CEO...

Let's properly analyze an AI article for once
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843605

Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
https://www.matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798624

The internet just got better: our European search index goes live We’ve started delivering independent search results from our European-based index. This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair internet we believe in.

Our European search index goes live
https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44841741

What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843801

What the windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843801

M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025 Apple does not plan to refresh any Macs with updated M5 chips in 2025, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro...

M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/10/no-m5-macbook-pro-2025/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840281

An engineer restores pay phones for free public use In a rural Vermont county, spotty cellphone coverage is the norm. But a local tinkerer is using old technology to help his community stay connected free of charge.

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5484013/engineer-restores-pay-phones-for-free-public-use

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806537

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours. My idiocy is a quest to make sure all my portable electronics can recharge using USB-C. Modern smartwatches are tiny and they do a lot. As a consequence, their battery life is generally poor. The industry's…

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/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810916

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this California man's plane. But why? Someone has stolen Jason Hong's 1958 Cessna Skyhawk plane at least four times, taking the red single-engine plane for a joyride, and then returned it at airports in Southern California. Hong, and police, are baffled as to who, and why?

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/mystery-plane-thief

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839681

GitHub - steveyegge/efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs. Contribute to steveyegge/efrit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840654

Why Postgres is a Good Choice for Durable Workflow Execution | DBOS In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build DBOS durable workflow execution on the PostgreSQL DBMS.

Build durable workflows with Postgres
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/why-postgres-durable-execution

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840693

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843369

My commitment to you and our company A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.

A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839705

Getting Good Results from Claude Code I've been experimenting with LLM programming agents over the past few months. Claude Code has become my favorite. It is not without issues, but it's allowed me to write ~12 programs/projects in relatively little time, and I feel I would not have been able to do all this in

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836879

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS.

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44788972

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell - NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840582