Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/essential-reading-august-2025

1•ghuntley•2m ago•0 comments

Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/aspiration-co-founder-to-plead-guilty-to-248m-fraud-scheme/

1•EhsanBTW•2m ago•0 comments

Anatomy of a Bearblog Toast Button

https://sylvia.bearblog.dev/toast-buttons/

1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Dyson Might Just Have Solved Vertical Farming [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9mLOzi-xlE

1•stevenjgarner•4m ago•0 comments

The First Detection of Shipborne Ozone Soundings in the South China Sea

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-025-5162-6

1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

Fast Cheap Image Captioning Model Trained on Video Frames

https://cliptagger.inference.net/

1•npmipg•6m ago•1 comments

A Family Project (2022)

https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/a-family-project

1•NaOH•8m ago•0 comments

Trump admin strips pollution monitoring from new weather satellites

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/weather/noaa-satellites-climate-trump

5•yodon•9m ago•0 comments

I made yet another session recording tool

https://scryspell.com

1•takkatakka•10m ago•1 comments

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/tesla_bid_to_become_a/

2•rntn•11m ago•0 comments

Were you laid off recently?

https://www.deeperlights.com/

1•jungyubl•13m ago•1 comments

Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578

2•protomolecool•13m ago•0 comments

China's Decarbonization Is So Fast Even New Coal Plants Aren't Stopping It

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/21/china-clean-renewable-energy-coal-plants-emissions/

2•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Is It Time to Move on from Dr. Seuss?

https://lithub.com/is-it-time-to-move-on-from-dr-seuss/

1•docdeek•14m ago•0 comments

The Future of Software Is Small

https://www.aparker.io/post/3lvjepuyf4q2w

3•jshchnz•14m ago•0 comments

The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support/

5•mooreds•14m ago•1 comments

CSF Firewall EOL

https://configserver.com/announcement/

1•indigodaddy•15m ago•0 comments

The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebIsKindOfFragile

2•ingve•15m ago•0 comments

Men's feminist theatrics in attempt to impress progressive women skewered online

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/aug/22/labubus-bell-jar-tampons-performative-male-attracts-attention

2•creer•20m ago•1 comments

Communication Is the Job

https://boz.com/articles/communication-is-the-job

2•kiyanwang•22m ago•0 comments

Geojob

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/geo-job

1•wefkjwnefknj•22m ago•0 comments

TrueTime Meets STDP

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-stdp-meets-truetime/

1•fintler•24m ago•0 comments

Sprinkling Self-Doubt on ChatGPT

https://justin.searls.co/posts/sprinkling-self-doubt-on-chatgpt/

2•ingve•24m ago•0 comments

Adding biochar to cement yields concrete that's stronger,environmentally friendl

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-adding-biochar-cement-yields-concrete.html

1•bikenaga•24m ago•1 comments

Intransitive operator precedence: we can do better

https://blog.adamant-lang.org/2019/operator-precedence/

1•fanf2•27m ago•0 comments

Electrification push is yet another source of SF housing tension

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/sf-housing-tension-emerges-in-city-electrification-push/article_c2c077e3-3658-49c4-bbab-245492cd622a.html

2•mikhael•27m ago•0 comments

Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

https://giuliomagnifico.blog/post/2025-08-18-leaving-gmail/

20•giuliomagnifico•27m ago•12 comments

Show HN: Gen Commit – AI generates your Git commit messages

https://github.com/raghavpillai/gen-commit

1•ragp•29m ago•0 comments

Fine-tuning Llama 8B to give it the ability to message you first

https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1958648685224743047

2•anyg•30m ago•0 comments

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582

48•colejohnson66•30m ago•14 comments

Open in hackernews

What Hugging Face reveals about the data economy of fine-tuning

https://research.portexai.com/what-hugging-face-reveals-about-the-future-of-model-fine-tuning/

4•kylewaters•2h ago

Comments

sephanas•1h ago

interesting that HF is becoming more of a datasets platform. that would align with their acquisition of XET and following in the footsteps of github.

sukhavati•47m ago

I wasn’t aware the provenance of fine tunes was available, it’s really interesting actually