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Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

I dumped Google for Kagi https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798215)

Ollama Get up and running with large language models.

Ollama Turbo https://ollama.com/turbo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44802414)

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796526)

Desperate measures to save Intel: US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief for Taiwan A new report out of Taiwan has revealed that the current US administration is tying the reduction on trade of trade tariffs on Taiwan to significant TSMC investment in the US. This investment includes a 49% stake in Intel.

US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief https://www.notebookcheck.net/Desperate-measures-to-save-Intel-US-reportedly-forcing-TSMC-to-buy-49-stake-in-Intel-to-secure-tariff-relief-for-Taiwan.1079424.0.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44801486)

Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789068

GitHub - openai/harmony: Renderer for the harmony response format to be used with gpt-oss Renderer for the harmony response format to be used with gpt-oss - openai/harmony

OpenAI Harmony https://github.com/openai/harmony (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799869)

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Claude Opus 4.1 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800185)

OpenAI Open Models https://openai.com/open-models/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800746)

AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798189)

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798166)

PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/07/11/php-85-adds-pipe-operator/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794271)

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI https://frigate.video/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794508)

‎uBlock Origin Lite ‎uBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker. The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset: - uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists - EasyList - EasyPrivacy - Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list You can enable more rulesets by visiting the options page…

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825)

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786005)

DrawAFish.com Postmortem — Aug 3, 2025 Incident A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.

DrawAFish.com Postmortem https://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743)

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-im... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4478...)

Objects should shut up https://dustri.org/b/objects-should-shut-the-fuck-up.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786367)

I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902)

AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot Job-seekers tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783155)

Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787780)

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636)

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mastercard-deflects-blame-for-nsfw-games-being-taken-down-but-valve-says-payment-processors-specifically-cited-a-mastercard-rule-about-damaging-the-brand/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783566)

So you want to parse a PDF? https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780353)

tokens are getting more expensive "language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze

Tokens are getting more expensive https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775700)

UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read  A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: U.N. reports are not widely read.

UN report finds UN reports are not widely read https://www.reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777869)

Writing a good design document https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779428)

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777760)

Modern Node.js Patterns https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44778936)

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest https://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44774104)

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny | TechCrunch A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/lina-khan-points-to-figma-ipo-as-vindication-for-ma-scrutiny/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771808)