When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them) (ministryoftesting.com)

The only thing preventing technology from replacing our current education system is accreditation. Hopefully, AI will succeed where other online platforms have fallen short. In my view, secondary school through university should be replaced with an AI-centric system that lowers costs and enhances the student experience.

Matrix.org Homeserver Terms (beginning 7-Aug-2025) (matrix.org)

BrewDog's 'Equity for Punks' may have contributed to its struggles (theconversation.com)

Major Data Breach Exposes Five Million Jobseekers (cybersecurityintelligence.com)

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern reach $85B merger deal (trains.com)

Is Pydantic as safe as it is popular? (nocomplexity.substack.com)

Show HN: Open-Source AI Code Review Agent for Teams (github.com)

Ask HN: How will the OSA affect small Mastadon instances?

Trump's AI Action Plan [pdf] (whitehouse.gov)

Ferroelectric Helps Break Transistor Limits (spectrum.ieee.org)

Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck (salon.com)

We built a simple text-to-image AI. Curious what HN thinks about it

The Guide to MCP Auth: Identity, Consent, and Agent Security (permit.io)

The first company to complete a successful lunar landing is going public (arstechnica.com)

Farage 'on the side of predators' with Online Safety Act criticism, says Labour (politics.co.uk)

When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them) (ministryoftesting.com)

Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal (cnbc.com)

Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing? (honest-broker.com)

In-exercise caffeine improves performance in the heat, study finds (medicalxpress.com)

KernelScript eBPF-centric programming language (github.com)

Code Execution Through Deception: Gemini AI CLI Hijack (tracebit.com)

Tesla and Samsung, Customer Service and Intel, the U.S. Semi Supply Chain (stratechery.com)

Why AI is making us worse thinkers (and how to avoid it) (buttondown.com)

Things I Wish I Knew Before Vibe Coding (saastr.com)

PiPhone – home-made Raspberry Pi smartphone (2014) (raspberrypi.com)

Glue teams vs. back-office teams (matloka.com)

Basic equations of semiconductor device physics [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)

Munich-bound United Airlines Boeing 787-8 declares 'mayday' after engine failure (travelandtourworld.com)

thispersondoesnotexist.com (2019) (thispersondoesnotexist.com)

Inference-Time Techniques for High-Quality, Low-Latency Speech Generation (medium.com)

To Post or Not to Post: AI Ethics in the Age of Big Tech (cacm.acm.org)

India overtakes China in smartphone exports to U.S. as manufacturing jumps 240% (cnbc.com)

Local LLM Agents – Do they work? (hexeditreality.com)

Iron Law of Oligarchy (en.wikipedia.org)

The Bitter Lesson versus the Garbage Can (oneusefulthing.org)

'I knew it would happen for Bruce': David Sancious (theguardian.com)

New long-period radio transient discovered (phys.org)

Ref uses MCP to build documentation search that minimizes token use (ref.tools)

Stackit – The German Business Cloud (stackit.de)

I'm never going back to Matrix (shkspr.mobi)

Google Search AI Mode (search.google)

Show HN: Monitrix –Lightweight, real-time server monitor using FastAPI (github.com)

A cheatsheet of animation-ranges for your next scroll-driven animation (webkit.org)

Bing Search APIs will be retired on 11 August 2025

Show HN: I built a tool that reduces 40% of packaging volume in deliveries

Portrait of a Young Doge Coder Dismantling America's Institutions (bloomberg.com)

Deleting GB of useless dev files – npkill goes beyond node_modules (imzaldih.com)

Determinants of Anxiety, Depression and Subjective Wellbeing Among Musicians (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

ChatRCX – Encrypted. Peer-to-Peer. Zero Logs (github.com)

Meta Quest's New Boundary System Is a Dangerous Safety Regression (uploadvr.com)

Ask HN: Creative Tool Use in Programming

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

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