The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html

106•geox•3h ago•123 comments

Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/

64•Dachande663•2h ago•33 comments

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/14/ai-is-killing-the-web-can-anything-save-it

30•edward•1h ago•39 comments

Async I/O on Linux in databases

https://blog.canoozie.net/async-i-o-on-linux-and-durability/

73•jtregunna•4h ago•20 comments

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-llm-architecture-comparison

70•mdp2021•4h ago•2 comments

Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go

https://github.com/bmf-san/ggc

12•bmf-san•3d ago•4 comments

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetles

130•smollett•3d ago•15 comments

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/

278•Bogdanp•15h ago•90 comments

Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language

https://blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app/

31•prono•5h ago•8 comments

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai

393•Stwerner•19h ago•316 comments

I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/vibe-coding-in-basic

104•ibobev•4d ago•113 comments

Death by AI

https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai

349•ano-ther•20h ago•136 comments

Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia

https://evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia/

264•EvanHahn•18h ago•149 comments

Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

https://www.borgbackup.org/

66•rubyn00bie•8h ago•23 comments

Roman Roads Research Association (UK)

https://www.romanroads.org/index.html

13•countrymile•4h ago•2 comments

Beyond Meat fights for survival

https://foodinstitute.com/focus/beyond-meat-fights-for-survival/

93•airstrike•11h ago•200 comments

How to run an Arduino for years on a battery (2021)

https://makecademy.com/arduino-battery

59•thunderbong•3d ago•17 comments

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2610411.html

128•Anon84•3d ago•35 comments

How the 'Minecraft' Score Became Big Business for Its Composer

https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-minecraft-score-became-big-business-for-composer/

3•tunapizza•3d ago•1 comments

Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently?

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/06/will-the-fear-of-being-confused-for-ai-mean-that-we-will-now-write-differently.html

13•bryanrasmussen•5h ago•22 comments

Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=SZSV6vjcf4L

42•uticus•3d ago•27 comments

What were the earliest laws like?

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/what-were-the-earliest-laws-really

83•crescit_eundo•4d ago•31 comments

Open-Source BCI Platform with Mobile SDK for Rapid Neurotech Prototyping

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202507.1198/v1

12•GaredFagsss•3d ago•1 comments

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

282•xoa•12h ago•131 comments

Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/

169•Bogdanp•18h ago•74 comments

The curious case of the Unix workstation layout

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-07-19/

93•ingve•18h ago•39 comments

“Bypassing” specialization in Rust

https://oakchris1955.eu/posts/bypassing_specialization/

33•todsacerdoti•3d ago•16 comments

A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

https://simurgh-beau.github.io/

8•simurgh_beau•3d ago•3 comments

Piano Keys

https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath043.htm

57•gametorch•4d ago•57 comments

How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/go-memory-regression/

171•gandem•2d ago•9 comments