7.16.25 | Reflections on OpenAI, Shoggoth Mini robot powered by GPT-4o, write proofs to improve programming skills

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2025.Reflections on OpenAIhttps://calv.info/openai-reflectionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RLhttps://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-minihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your headhttps://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573409NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clockhttps://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-worldhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572499Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578490Where's Firefox going next?https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575794GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practicalhttps://gpuhammer.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577268My Family and the Floodhttps://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576352Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typographyhttps://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573887Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545050