8.12.25 | GitHub loses independence post-CEO resignation, todo app experiment leads to .txt file, Wikipedia fails against Online Safety Act
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2025.GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationhttps://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transitionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt filehttps://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journeyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Acthttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866208Claude Code is all you needhttps://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864185OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptographyhttps://www.openssh.com/pq.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44863242GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871337Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitesshttps://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-nekihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867374StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servershttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872313AOL to discontinue dial-up internethttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-internet.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861521The value of institutional memoryhttps://timharford.com/2025/05/the-value-of-institutional-memory/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866500