Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will wind down operations after federal funding was excluded in the FY 2026 appropriations bill. CPB will close most staff positions by September 30, 2025, with a small team remaining to ensure a responsible closeout.

Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

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A senior engineer may struggle with live coding due to stress, which impairs working memory and fluid intelligence. Live coding tests are unfair as they measure cortisol levels under stress rather than actual coding skills.

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

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Hannah Cairo, a 17-year-old homeschooler, solved a 40-year-old math mystery, the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, by showing it's false. Her proof defies mathematicians' intuitions and has energized the math community.

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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Google released Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, a significant improvement over previous versions. It uses parallel thinking techniques to generate creative solutions to complex problems, enhancing capabilities in areas like iterative development, scientific discovery, and algorithmic development.

Cerebras Code

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Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month) offer instant code generation with Qwen3-Coder, a 480B model. Both plans support up to 1,000 daily messages and no proprietary IDE lock-in.

The untold impact of cancellation

A software developer was publicly accused of sexual misconduct in 2021, leading to immediate social and professional ostracism, financial ruin, and health problems, and he eventually became homeless. He advocates awareness of cancellation's severe consequences and urges caution when participating in public condemnation due to its profound impact on individuals' mental health and livelihoods.

How we built Bluey’s world

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Catriona walks us through the creation of the beloved cartoon’s scenery and backgrounds, from its dollhouse proportions and subtle doggy details, to its distinctly Brisbanite atmosphere.

Our Farewell from Google Play

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Our project started in 2016 offering privacy-friendly alternatives to apps demanding unnecessary permissions. Due to increased maintenance costs, we're shifting our apps to F-Droid Store for continued updates and support.

I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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User experienced a search quirk on Mintlify for over a year, which they later fixed as a team member by adding an AbortController. This fix improved search results relevance and user experience.

Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

User had issues with tmux, including complexity, color rendering, and mouse select problems. They found an alternative in shpool, a tool that provides session persistence and window management.

OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

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OpenIPC is an open source OS for IP cameras replacing closed firmware with security risks. It offers freedom and control over camera behavior with features like cloud storage and streaming to YouTube and Telegram.

Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude

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Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to its models due to violating terms of service. OpenAI used Anthropic's Claude to test its own AI model GPT-5, which is reportedly better at coding.

Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

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The user built a retro gaming computer called Coffeematic PC by repurposing a 1970s General Electric coffee maker and combining it with mid-2000s computer hardware and a unique hot Java cooling system. Coffeematic PC is part of a lineage of coffee maker computers that spans 22 years, with a 15-year gap in the middle, and inspired an art exhibition called Sparklines that explores the history ...

NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant

For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2347850&HistoricalAwards=false

Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

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There are thousands of satellites in space, with over 4,550 currently orbiting Earth, serving various purposes such as communication, navigation, and Earth observation. SpaceX owns the most satellites, with 36% of the total, aiming to deliver high-speed broadband Internet access worldwide through its Starlink program.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, without exceeding 200 characters:

Atlassian terminates 150 staff

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Atlassian terminated 150 staff via a pre-recorded video, citing a need for restructuring due to AI-embedded customer contact solutions. Affected staff will receive six months' pay and the company claims the jobs are not being replaced by AI.

FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime

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Linda Martin's life savings were seized by the FBI without explanation, violating her due process rights. A court dismissed her lawsuit, allowing the federal government to continue seizing assets without justification.

OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

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Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

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A Florida jury held Tesla partly liable for a 2019 Autopilot crash, ordering the company to pay $329 million in damages. The verdict includes $129 million in compensatory and $200 million in punitive damages against Tesla.

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

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The IRS Direct File program may be eliminated due to the Trump administration's Big Beautiful Bill, which aims to replace it with a task force. Lawmakers are frustrated by the potential elimination, citing benefits for taxpayers and criticism of tax prep companies.

Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

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A Belgian court issued a provisional order to block access to several pirate sites, including the Internet Archive's Open Library, citing copyright infringement. The order targets a broad range of intermediaries, including ISPs, DNS providers, and search engines, to restrict access to the sites.

Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

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The bitter lesson states that general methods leveraging computation are most effective, but this lesson is bitter because it often requires abandoning human-centric approaches. The lesson is being rediscovered in business, but its application is complicated by the difficulty of defining clear objectives and measuring complex processes.

U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report

President Donald Trump fired Labor Department's statistical arm head Erika McEntarfer after a jobs report came in under expectations. Trump claims the report was "RIGGED" and McEntarfer will be replaced with someone more competent.

Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

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Microsoft listed translators and historians as jobs likely to be replaced by AI, but the author argues that AI can't replace their interpretive work, which involves understanding context and cultural nuances. AI can aid in translation and history, but it won't replace human judgment and interpretation.

Long Term Support

SQLite developers plan to support the database until 2050, ensuring long-term viability and accessibility. They achieve this through extensive testing, detailed documentation, and a commitment to backwards compatibility.

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

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Scientists discovered a new quantum state called quantum liquid crystal at the interface of two exotic materials. This state offers unique characteristics that could lead to advanced technological applications and ultra-sensitive quantum sensors.

OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face

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Native Sparse Attention

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Researchers propose Native Sparse Attention (NSA) to improve efficiency in long-context modeling. NSA achieves substantial speedups and maintains or exceeds Full Attention models in various tasks.

How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)

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Facebook's Onavo Protect app intercepted user traffic using a MITM attack called "ssl bump" to gather competitor intelligence, but it's unclear if all users were affected. The app used a self-signed certificate to decrypt TLS traffic, which was installed on devices with older Android versions, but was blocked by newer Android releases.

Deep Agents

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Creating a general-purpose agent requires more than just a loop of tool calls, it needs a combination of planning tools, sub-agents, file system access, and detailed prompts to achieve deeper tasks. A new open-source package called deepagents attempts to create a customizable general-purpose deep agent that can be tailored to specific verticals with a simple installation and configuration process.

GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective

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The author is a heavy computer user who has been using the Dvorak keyboard layout for 17 years due to experiencing RSI symptoms. They have tried various keyboards, including the Ergodox EZ, and are now using the Svalboard, a keyboard with a unique layout and features such as split halves, tenting, and thumb clusters.

Self-Signed JWTs

The user criticizes a complex API setup and proposes a simpler alternative using JSON Web Keys (JWKs) and JWTs. This allows for unified client and server SDKs and eliminates the need for separate keys and accounts.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

I am a software engineer with 10 years of experience in writing complex logics beneath a simple UI/UX, proficient in various programming languages and technologies, and seeking a full-time role as a senior frontend developer. I have a strong passion for design-oriented mindset and keen eye for detail, with successful delivery of products like Zillow, Airbnb, and Walmart+.

Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff

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Researchers found that increasing US solar power by 15% could reduce 8.54 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. The study highlights regional climate benefits and spillover effects of solar power adoption in the US.

Bad UX

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

Patrick and James from Artificial Societies created a platform to simulate target audiences for marketing and messaging testing. Their tool uses AI personas and social network graphs to run rapid and cheap experiments, with promising accuracy and a free trial available.

Hyrum's Law

A system's interface is not as abstract as it seems, as users rely on implementation details exposed through it, creating an implicit interface that constrains changes to the system. This phenomenon, known as "Hyrum's Law," results in "bug-for-bug compatibility" and makes the implementation the actual interface.

Design patterns you should unlearn in Python

The Singleton and Builder design patterns are often misused in Python due to their origins in languages like Java and C++, where they were necessary to work around language limitations. In Python, these patterns can be replaced with simpler solutions like using modules for singletons and default arguments or keyword arguments for builders.

Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

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Rollercoaster Tycoon, a game about building and managing amusement parks, became a huge hit in 1999, selling over 4 million copies in the US alone and justifying Hasbro's $70 million purchase of MicroProse. The game's success was largely due to its unique blend of creativity and management, as well as its accessibility to a broad range of players, but it also marked the beginning of the end ...

Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

Apple CEO Tim Cook rallied employees around AI prospects and a product pipeline, calling it as big as the internet and smartphones. He emphasized Apple's investment in AI, saying it's "ours to grab."

Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits

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Erlang Solutions offers free CI/CD security audits for open-source Erlang and Elixir projects using SAFE. These audits help maintainers identify and fix vulnerabilities early in their development pipeline.

Fast (2019)

Many projects were completed quickly in the past, such as the Eiffel Tower in 2 years and 2 months, and the Alaska Highway in 234 days. However, recent projects have taken much longer, such as the Van Ness bus lane project in San Francisco, which took around 7,600 days.
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SpaceX's Starlink system now covers IoT devices in New Zealand, starting with beehive monitoring. One NZ and SpaceX plan to increase capacity for satellite connectivity using additional radio spectrum.

Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

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The top AI models ranked by intelligence are Grok 4 and o3-pro, while the fastest output speed is held by Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) at 637 tokens per second.

Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

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KubeForge is a visual toolkit for building and managing Kubernetes deployment configurations with an intuitive interface. It keeps definitions up to date and enables direct YAML hosting for stable URL references.

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M

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Freeman Spogli & Co is buying Philz Coffee for $145 million, canceling common stock and making employee investments worthless. Current stockholders have until Aug 5 to request an appraisal of their shares.

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

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The US Supreme Court has allowed Donald Trump to operate outside the rule of law, making it impossible to predict what actions are legal or not. This has led to a lawless society where Trump's whims dictate what is allowed, and the rule of law no longer functions.

Online Safety Act: What went wrong?

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The UK's Online Safety Act is a poorly considered law that's easily bypassed and raises privacy concerns. It's a technical solution to a societal problem, failing to address the root causes of online harm.

Clarifying recent headlines on gaming content

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Mastercard denies evaluating games or restricting activities on creator sites, following lawful purchase standards. It requires merchants to have controls to prevent Mastercard cards from being used for unlawful purchases.

Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering

The author fears AI-generated code will flood the market with low-quality products, causing ecological and noise pollution. They argue for formal definitions of code quality and professional standards to combat this issue.

The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)

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Randal Schwartz introduced the Schwartzian Transform in a 1994 Usenet post, a cached-key sorting algorithm. It combines a key with the original value in a tuple for sorting.

Pride Versioning 0.3.0

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Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the PROUD.DEFAULT.SHAME format. Increasing the Proud Version on 1.2.3 by 1 would yield 2.0.0, so you can fully show the proudness of your new version.

How to Secure a Linux Server

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This guide aims to provide a comprehensive and easy-to-follow tutorial on securing a Linux server, covering topics such as SSH configuration, two-factor authentication, password policies, and firewall management. By following this guide, users can learn how to protect their server from unauthorized access, brute-force attacks, and other security threats, and ensure the integrity and ...

Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

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Researchers at Texas A&M University developed CLARKE, a tool using AI and drone imagery to quickly assess damage after disasters. CLARKE can classify building and road damage in minutes, saving lives and resources.

Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)

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Amazon's return to office policy may signal a shift away from remote work as unemployment rises in high-remote occupations. The unemployment rate in these occupations could be a key indicator of remote work's future.

Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

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Schematra is a minimal web framework for CHICKEN Scheme inspired by Sinatra, designed for learning and exploration. It supports middleware, sessions, and modern web development tools like Tailwind CSS and htmx.

Fair Access to Banking

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The Fair Access to Banking Act (S.401) aims to prevent financial institutions from denying services based on political or reputational risk. However, it lacks teeth for payment networks and processors, allowing them to continue censoring businesses with impunity.

Show HN: Pontoon – Open-source customer data syncs

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Pontoon is an open source data export platform for shipping data products to enterprise customers. It simplifies data syncing to customers' data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery.

Twentyseven 1.0

Twentyseven is a Rubik's cube solver written in Haskell, first released in 2016, and updated to version 1.0.0 to compile with GHC 9.12. It uses an iterative deepening A* search algorithm with precomputed tables for faster solving.

Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying lightweight, secure applications

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Unikernels are compact, single-application virtual machines that provide a lightweight and secure environment for applications to run without the overhead of traditional operating systems. They are well-suited for modern environments that require fast boot times, low resource consumption, and efficient data processing, but come with challenges such as complexity in development and ...

Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

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TraceRoot is an open-source debugging platform combining structured traces, logs, and AI analysis for faster issue resolution. It provides a community-driven framework for debugging, tracing, and root cause analysis with AI agents.

JSON is not a YAML subset (2022)

JSON is not a subset of YAML, and parsing JSON with a YAML parser can lead to incorrect results due to differences in syntax handling. YAML parsers may treat JSON numbers or strings as strings, causing semantic differences.

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

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The author implemented deterministic simulation testing (DST) in a new Rust database, using a state machine architecture to control concurrency, time, randomness, and failure injection. This approach provides powerful and comprehensive failure injection while avoiding complexity, but requires careful consideration of system design and dependencies.

How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023)

The user discusses using BorgBackup on macOS, comparing it to systemd and launchctl, and provides tips for configuring and running BorgBackup with launchctl. They also share their experience using both BorgBackup and Time Machine for backups.

NSF suspends nearly 300 UCLA grants (Terence Tao, Plasma Science Facility, etc.)

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CloudGazing

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Cloudflare is experiencing a connection issue with the origin web server, preventing page display. Submitting error logs from the web server with the Ray ID will aid in the investigation.

When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks

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Flatpak's sandbox model is robust but imperfect, with vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-32462 and symlink exploits allowing apps to escape. Users must stay alert, apply patches, and minimize granted permissions to ensure secure app isolation.

Show HN: Gmap: Explore Git Repos Visually from the CLI

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gmap visualizes Git repository activity in the terminal, showing changes over time and contributor dynamics. It helps understand codebase changes, spotting churn-heavy files and contributor patterns.

Onshape – Product Development Platform

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Onshape auto-saves designs, eliminates PDM hassles, and empowers teams to work together instantly. It provides version control, peace of mind, and cost savings through its cloud-based CAD and PDM software.

Survival at High Altitudes: Wheel-Well Passengers (1996)

Survival at High Altitudes: Wheel-Well Passengers documents 10 stowaway flights, with 5 survivors and 6 fatalities. The study describes the unpressurized flight environment and physiology that enabled human survival under extreme conditions.

Rate, price drops won't substantially improve affordability

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Mortgage rates need to drop to 4.43% for a typical home to be affordable to a buyer, but this decline is unrealistic. Home prices and mortgage rates must significantly drop for a median-income family to afford a typical home.

A memory safe C framework, RAII, I/O, coroutine and other concurrency primitives

This library, c-asio, provides a high-level interface for working with libuv, a C library for building scalable network servers, and includes features such as coroutine support and a simplified API for common tasks. The library is designed to be easy to use and provides a lot of functionality out of the box, including support for file I/O, networking, and process management.