August 19, 2025, marks the birthday of Computer Pioneer Gordon Bell and several notable satellite launches. The newsletter features discussions led by Y Combinator's youngest solo founder, Kirill Avery, on digital identity issues, AI threats, and privacy. A tutorial on creating a Go dependency scanner emphasizes parsing requirements and vulnerability checks. Techniques for enhancing agentic workflows include step-cutting and caching. Also included is an initiative focused on digitizing Kurdish archives with Tesseract OCR to safeguard cultural heritage amid various challenges.
Y Combinators youngest solo founder Kirill Avery discusses digital identity crisis, AI bot threats, privacy concerns, and decentralized solutions.
Building a Go dependency scanner involves parsing go.mod, querying OSV for vulnerabilities, and analyzing licenses.
Optimizing agentic workflows can be enhanced with smart step-cutting, parallelization, caching, and model right-sizing.
Digitizing fragile Kurdish archives using Tesseract OCR includes challenges, dataset creation, and a new tool to preserve Kurdish heritage.
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