HN blogs - 18/8/25
Aaron Wallis survived GDPR killing half his revenue
Agents are search over action space https://shabie.github.io/2025/08/18/agents-are-search-over-action-space.html (HN source)
Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency https://fsantanna.github.io/sc.html (HN source)
Put Names and Dates on Documents https://infrequently.org/2025/08/names-and-dates-on-docs-every-time/ (HN source)
Just People in a Room https://www.bonnycode.com/posts/just-people-in-a-room/ (HN source)
How I Made ChatGPT Run on My Terminal Without an API Key? https://ahmedhosssam.github.io/posts/chatbang/ (HN source)
VPS on Your Home Network https://eliebaier.ch/blog/vps-on-your-lan (HN source)
The ESP-Rainbow: Flatter Than a Speccy https://nicole.express/2025/zxtra-sensory-perception.html (HN source)
LLM from scratch, part 18 – residuals, shortcut connections, and the Talmud https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/08/llm-from-scratch-18-residuals-shortcut-connections-and-the-talmud (HN source)
Soon we won't have a 2nd degree "connection" to the 18th century https://shub.club/writings/2025/august/end-of-an-era/ (HN source)
Naming cloud resources doesn't have to be hard https://brunoluiz.net/blog/2025/aug/naming-cloud-resources-doesnt-have-to-be-hard/ (HN source)
How to Think About GPUs https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/gpus/ (HN source)
GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming https://www.omerba.dev/blog/gpt-5-evtx-zig-parser (HN source)
New Text Emphasis Methods for the Web https://alexanderbass.com/posts/new-text-emphasis/ (HN source)
Interleaving for Retrieval Augmented Generation https://maxirwin.com/articles/interleaving-rag/ (HN source)
When 'When' Went Wonky https://kerrigan.dev/blog/kotlin-when (HN source)
Building Multiplayer Browsers https://www.jimmyliu.net/blog/building-browsers (HN source)
Every Public Facing Organisation Should Run a Provenance Service https://djoker.dev/posts/on-public-asset-provenance/ (HN source)
Models are smart enough, your process isn't https://sibylline.dev/articles/2025-08-17-process-intelligence-automation-bottleneck/ (HN source)
Lessons from a Shitty Gardener
Local-First Development for the Cloud https://iamdan.me/local-cloud/ (HN source)
Does your website even have an iPod? https://ryanfeigenbaum.com/does-your-website-even-have-an-ipod/ (HN source)
Build for joy, not just for work https://svenning.io/build-for-joy-not-work (HN source)
Those who stay will be champions https://tombrady.com/posts/those-who-stay-will-be-champions (HN source)
Customizing Lisp REPLs https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html (HN source)
How I Made Ruby Faster Than Ruby https://noteflakes.com/articles/2025-08-18-how-to-make-ruby-faster (HN source)
We accidentally built the wrong internet https://karimjedda.com/we-accidentally-built-the-wrong-internet/ (HN source)
When the Plumbing Fights Back: A Spam Bot Tragedy in Three Acts https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2025/2025-08-15-when-the-plumbing-fights-back (HN source)
Ruby gems still broken after 15 years https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/ruby-gems-still-broken/ (HN source)
A Case for Digital National Parks https://michellepellon.com/blog/2025-08-18-a-case-for-digital-national-parks (HN source)
From Peak to Valley: My First Startup Failure and the Summer Hackathon https://guliwa.com/blogs/peak-to-valley-startup-failure (HN source)