How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance? - https://www.economist.com/business/2023/08/07/how-real-is-americas-chipmaking-renaissance

Banks Hit with Millions in Fines for Using Signal and WhatsApp - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/regulators-hit-wall-street-banks-with-549-million-in-penalties-for-record-keeping-failures-.html

Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048758

Amazon Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, but Hired Firms to Prevent Them from Unionizing - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3yp/amazon-says-it-doesnt-employ-drivers-but-records-show-it-hired-firms-to-prevent-them-from-unionizing

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/bram-moolenaar-creator-of-the-beloved-vim-text-editor-has-passed-away/

Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299536/

Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB - https://www.ory.dev/global-identity-and-access-management-multi-region/

More Than Half of Earth's Species Live Underground - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-than-half-of-earths-species-live-underground/

ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37047797

Vector Similarity Beyond Search - https://qdrant.tech/articles/vector-similarity-beyond-search/

Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data - https://www.magicearth.com/crowd-sourced-traffic/

TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build fab in Germany - https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/3049

“we now believe that the game is over. LK99 is NOT a superconductor” - https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1688747919866814464

A Creepy Question We'll All Have to Answer Soon - https://jasonpargin.substack.com/p/a-creepy-question-well-all-have-to

Terminal Support for Emoji - https://darrenburns.net/posts/emoji-in-the-terminal/

Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China - https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2023/0711

Jailer, a unique open-source database tool - https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer

Can Toilet Paper Cause Impotence? - https://spy.com/articles/grooming/hygiene/toilet-paper-forever-chemicals-1202971286/

Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/07/norway-meta-fine-user-privacy-breach-targeted-ads

UK man bitten by cat contracts unknown and ‘extensive’ bacterial infection - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cat-bite-nhs-infection-b2389244.html