#Favorites
Buttondown - the last email platform you'll migrate to
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LLM Inevitabilism
//tomrenner.com comments→
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
//blog.decryption.net.au comments→
Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
//maalvika.substack.com comments→
Ten years of running every day, visualized
//nodaysoff.run comments→
Reflections on OpenAI
//calv.info comments→
How does a screen work?
//makingsoftware.com comments→
ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
//openai.com comments→
Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
//drew.silcock.dev comments→
Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
//craigmod.com comments→
Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations
//bleuje.com comments→
#Ask HN
Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?
#Show HN
Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL //matthieulc.com comments→
OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative //github.com comments→
Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly //refine.sh comments→
Hand: open-source Robot Hand //github.com comments→
Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service //github.com comments→
I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language //menerdu.vercel.app comments→
Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms //ikiform.com comments→
#Code
I'm switching to Python and actually liking it //cesarsotovalero.net comments→
How I build software quickly //evanhahn.com comments→
Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language //flix.dev comments→
Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents //github.com comments→
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs //newsletter.vickiboykis.com comments→
#Data
Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" //simonwillison.net comments→
Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension //github.com comments→
SQLite async connection pool for high-performance //github.com comments→
Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods //americansunlight.substack.com comments→
Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data //dolthub.com comments→
#Design
Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography //nubero.ch comments→
Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils //sarahrenaeclark.com comments→
Blue Pencil no. 18–Some history about Arial //paulshawletterdesign.com comments→
The Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic //theguardian.com comments→
#Books
Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 //mbh4h.substack.com comments→
LLM Inference Handbook //bentoml.com comments→
“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps //smithsonianmag.com comments→
A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode //tendollaradventure.com comments→
Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide //stylepedia.net comments→
I Wrote a 680-Page Interactive Book on Data Structures and Algorithms //cartesian.app comments→
#Working
Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity //metr.org comments→
Self-taught engineers often outperform //michaelbastos.com comments→
From engineer to manager: A practical guide to your first months in leadership //humansinsystems.com comments→
Junior Roles Aren't Going Away //iamcharliegraham.substack.com comments→
#Learn
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? //quuxplusone.github.io comments→
How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir //quantamagazine.org comments→
Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper //science.org comments→
Tandy Corporation, Part 3 //abortretry.fail comments→
#Watching
The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake //youtube.com comments→
Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened – Alan Kay and Anjan Katta //youtube.com comments→
China's Mini PC Production //youtube.com comments→
#Startup News
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google //theverge.com comments→
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 //blog.cloudflare.com comments→
Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf //cognition.ai comments→
Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction //techcrunch.com comments→
#Fun
Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project //blenderstudio.itch.io comments→
OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser //openfront.io comments→
Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo //replicube.xyz comments→
Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit //lopespm.com comments→
Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn //vice.com comments→
Cobble – A hard daily word game //wilf.live comments→
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