Digest — 2025-09-02:

Techno-pipe dreams

depression lingers: an update

A.N. | I love personal websites

september 2 etc

New theory: Could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?

Will AI create more jobs than it replaces?

Why today’s publishers fear Goodreads more than government

Africa wants its true size on the world map

The Cost of Comfort

The Joy of Small Markets

The New Economic Data Companies Need to Be Watching

Why Some Sales Teams Are Actually Growing Alongside AI

Is Your Enterprise Data Strategy Ready for the Age of Intelligence? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM RELTIO

Why It’s So Hard to Delegate — and How to Improve

Partnerships Power Highland Electric’s Expanding Fleet of School Buses

Eels Shouldn’t be Able to Exist

We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives. (Giving...

Alexander Chee: How Can I Write At A Time Like This? “We...

Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of Life. “The...

Hamnet

In tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, a choir of 7000+ people sang Black...

“New York City is marking its 400th birthday this year and almost...

We’re All in the Network of Time

This video features a number of scientists who were working on stuff...

Safari is holding the web back

Anthropic's leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists

The Cats are On To Something

Gradient routing is better than pretraining filtering

xAI's new safety framework is dreadful

Your LLM-assisted scientific breakthrough probably isn't real

%CPU Utilization Is A Lie

But Have They Engaged With The Arguments? [Linkpost]

Simulating the *rest* of the political disagreement

Which top authors did Said Achmiz drive away?

Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas

Compile Svelte 5 in your head

Kernel-hack-drill and a new approach to exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel

ClonOS: FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliances

Aperiodic Tilings V: the Refinable Frontier

Passkeys and Modern Authentication

Reflections on Haskell@Meta

Beware of Sorting Locales

Making XML human-readable without XSLT

Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust

Next.js Is Infuriating

why self-host 9front

Python has had async for 10 years -- why isn't it more popular?

IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat

Physically based rendering from first principles

Wikidata and Mundaneum - The Triumph of the Commons

matrix.org Major Outage - Database Incident (September 2nd 2025)

Debugging Rustler on illumos

Of Rats and Ratchets (2024)

Saturation and the Triumph of History: How most of the behavior of Tech Leaders since 2016 can be explained by smartphone market saturation

Greyhound

Saving a New Orleans Banksy

Museum of Color

The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

How big are our embeddings now and why?

All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time

Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

The Old Robots Web Site

Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption

Light Sleep: Waking VMs in 200ms with eBPF and snapshots

Removing Guix from Debian

Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger

Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

Anthropic raises $13B Series F

Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales

Take something you don’t like and try to like it

Indices, not Pointers

Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps

'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

The staff ate it later

Static sites enable a good time travel experience

Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

The Little Book of Linear Algebra