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Issue #754 // 2025-07-18 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Buttondown - the last email platform you'll migrate to
//buttondown.com sponsored

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