8.1.25 | Slow, Acknowledging personal craziness, Creation of Universal Pictures 1936 logo

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 1, 2025.Slowhttps://michaelnotebook.com/slow/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748934Face it: you're a crazy personhttps://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-personhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710651How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-createdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744454MacBook Pro Insomniahttps://manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2025-07-24-macbook-pro-insomniahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecidedhttps://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/114946559233051667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744715The anti-abundance critique on housing is wronghttps://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-abundance-critique-on-housinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750416Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hostinghttps://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/unifi-os-server/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Kreahttps://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-releasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745555QUIC for the kernelhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746948Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineeringhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-embedding-powering-rag-context-engineering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747457