8.12.25 | GitHub loses independence post-CEO resignation, todo app experiment leads to .txt file, Wikipedia fails against Online Safety Act

Hacker News Highlights

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 resignation
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560

I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866208

Claude Code is all you need
https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864185

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography
https://www.openssh.com/pq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44863242

GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871337

Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867374

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872313

AOL to discontinue dial-up internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-internet.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861521

The value of institutional memory
https://timharford.com/2025/05/the-value-of-institutional-memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866500