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Article URL: https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885295

Points: 188

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https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

Article URL: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2025a/factory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885761

Points: 13

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/758218/perplexity-google-chrome-bid-unsolicited-offer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885991

Points: 8

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Hi HN, I’ve been working on Gore – a port of the classic Doom engine written in pure Go, based on a ccgo C-to-Go translation of Doom Generic. It loads original WAD files, uses a software renderer (no SDL or CGO, or Go dependencies outside the standard library). Still has a bit of unsafe code that I'm trying to get rid of, and various other caveats.

In the examples is a terminal-based renderer, which is entertaining, even though it's very hard to play with terminal-style input/output.

The

Article URL: https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=856

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884393

Points: 36

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On August 7, 2025, a new build problem started hitting many Android apps on F-Droid. Many Android apps on F-Droid have been unable to publish updates if they use Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 8.12.0 or Gradle 9.0.

The root cause: Google’s new aapt2 binary in AGP 8.12.0 started requiring CPU instructions (SSE4.1, SSSE3) that F-Droid’s build farm hardware doesn’t support. This is similar to a 2021 AGP 4.1.0 issue, but it has returned, and now affects hundreds of apps.

As an example, my open-

Article URL: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/08/12/why-does-ai-feel-so-different/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884825

Points: 27

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https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/08/12/why-does-ai-feel-so-different/

Article URL: https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/blender-on-ipad-is-finally-happening-and-it-could-be-the-app-every-artist-needs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883987

Points: 47

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https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/blender-on-ipad-is-finally-happening-and-

Article URL: https://yosefk.com/blog/llms-arent-world-models.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854518

Points: 266

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07407

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884091

Points: 13

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07407