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Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S https://www.thedrive.com/news/budget-car-buyers-want-automakers-to-k-i-s-s (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825809)

SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation www.perl.com/article/suse... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4482...)

Lithium Reverses Alzheimer's in Mice https://hms.harvard.edu/news/could-lithium-explain-treat-alzheimers-disease (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825326)

Join Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Sebastien Bubeck, Mark Chen, Yann Dubois, Brian Fioca, Adi Ganesh, Oliver Godement, Saachi Jain, Christina Kaplan, Tina Kim, ... Introducing GPT-5

Live: GPT-5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826463)

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog I hate disqus too much.

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog natalie.sh/posts/bluesk... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4482...)

Global Trade Dynamics https://alhadaqa.github.io/globaltradedynamics/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824728)

Sweatshop Data Is Over https://www.mechanize.work/blog/sweatshop-data-is-over/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824560)

How to Sell if Your User is not the Buyer Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer

How to Sell if Your User is not the Buyer https://writings.founderlabs.io/p/how-to-sell-if-your-user-is-not-the (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825491)

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-restored-account-plot-twist/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825660)

Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity

Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824981)

Honesty Boxes in Scotland across Scotland, honesty boxes are a heartwarming tradition reflecting the trust and community spirit of rural life.

Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024) https://awayfromtheordinary.com/2024/07/29/honesty-boxes-in-scotland/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824684)

Breaking: Open AI announces $1.5 Million Bonus for Every Employee Source

Open AI Announces $1.5M Bonus for Every Employee https://medium.com/activated-thinker/breaking-open-ai-announces-1-5-million-bonus-for-every-employee-29d057b9d590 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825309)

proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2025-07.md at main · FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out ...

Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report from the FreeBSD Foundation github.com/FreeBSDFound... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4482...)

Windows XP Professional https://win32.run/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824539)

Arm Desktop: x86 Emulation

Arm Desktop: x86 Emulation https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/07/22/arm-desktop-emulation/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823580)

How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.

Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/how-baltimore-assessments-accidentally (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823672)

Outdated Software, Nationwide Chaos: United Airlines Grounds Flights After System Meltdown United Airlines passengers across the country found themselves stranded, confused, and angry on Wednesday as a massive technology failure triggered a nationwide grounding of flights. The culprit: U…

Outdated Software, Nationwide Chaos: United Grounds Flights After Meltdown https://allchronology.com/2025/08/07/outdated-software-nationwide-chaos-united-airlines-grounds-flights-after-system-meltdown/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824507)

Fastmail breaks UI in production https://twitter.com/licyeus/status/1953438985381974493 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824034)

Infinite Pixels In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.

Infinite Pixels https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/07/infinite-pixels/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824056)

The Whispering Earring (Scott Alexander) https://croissanthology.com/earring (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822684)

An LLM does not need to understand MCP https://hackteam.io/blog/your-llm-does-not-care-about-mcp/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823850)

Photographer Spends 9 Years on One Street Corner Capturing Same Commuters Every Day Street photographer Peter Funch's new book, "42nd and Vanderbilt," shows his documentation of the same street corner in New York City over 9 years.

Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017) https://mymodernmet.com/peter-funch-candid-photographs-commuters/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823123)

How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ Artificial intelligence is the biggest tech construction project in a century. Here's what that looks like.

How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-ai-conquered-the-us-economy-a (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822665)

GitHub - stasher-dev/stasher-cli: A CLI to stash secrets safely. No logins. No leaks. Just trust. A CLI to stash secrets safely. No logins. No leaks. Just trust. - stasher-dev/stasher-cli

Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust https://github.com/stasher-dev/stasher-cli (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823262)

Ultra-processed foods make up more than 60% of us kids' diets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/sugar-snacks-and-ultra-processed-foods-are-majority-of-us-diet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823288)

AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose - Just like privacy was A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.

AI ethics is being narrowed on purpose – just like privacy was https://nimishg.substack.com/p/ai-ethics-is-being-narrowed-on-purpose (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823094)

The Emperor’s New Trade Deal Tariffs are bad. A deluded president is worse.

The Emperor's New Trade Deal – Paul Krugman https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-trade-deal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823130)

Gaybreaking https://twitter.com/AlexReibman/status/1953229500973740058 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822954)

Meet your new AI coding teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions Today, we’re introducing Gemini CLI GitHub Actions. It’s a no-cost, powerful AI coding teammate for your repository. It acts both as an autonomous agent for critical rou…

New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-github-actions/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822389)

About AI My thoughts about AI and software engineering

About AI https://priver.dev/blog/ai/about-ai/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822258)