The Daily Index — Monday, August 25, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT GOOD API DESIGN

APIs are public interfaces for communicating with a program. Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs. APIs are hard to build because they're inflexible, but must be easy to adopt. This is a guide on good API design that covers how to change APIs without breaking userspace, how APIs are affected by products, authentication, retries, safety, rate limiting, and much more.

seangoedecke.com · 23 min

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META TO UNVEIL HYPERNOVA SMART GLASSES WITH A DISPLAY, WRISTBAND AT CONNECT NEXT MONTH

Meta plans to launch its first consumer-ready glasses with a display at its annual Connect conference next month. The company will also launch a wristband that will allow users to control the glasses with hand gestures. The glasses, which will feature a small digital display in the right lens, are expected to cost about $800. They will be solid in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, with which Meta has been in partnership since 2021, when the two companies released the first-generation Ray-Ban Stories.

cnbc.com · 8 min

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COINBASE CEO EXPLAINS WHY HE FIRED ENGINEERS WHO DIDN'T TRY AI IMMEDIATELY

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently fired engineers for not signing up for and testing the AI assistants the company purchased licenses for. The firings sent a clear message that AI isn't optional at the company. Armstrong has since leaned even further into AI training. The company hosts monthly meetings where teams that have mastered creative ways to use AI share what they have learned.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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app.factory.ai

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AIRPODS PRO 3 EXPECTED TO LAUNCH THIS YEAR WITH KEY NEW FEATURE

The AirPods Pro 3 are rumored to launch this year with heart rate monitoring, a feature Apple already introduced on the Powerbeats Pro 2 earlier this year.

macrumors.com · 2 min

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YOU SHOULD BUY A FASTER CPU

Today's top-end CPUs are about three times faster than comparable top-end models from three years ago.

blog.howardjohn.info · 2 min

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THE AIRBNB COFOUNDER WHO JUST BECAME THE US' CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER IS USING THE APPLE STORE'S STYLE AS HIS NORTH STAR

Donald Trump recently appointed Joe Gebbia, a cofounder and former chief product officer of Airbnb, as the US' first chief design officer.

aol.com · 3 min

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EVALUATING LLMS FOR MY PERSONAL USE CASE

There seems to be no overall winner with current AI models, so the best option is to query several at once.

darkcoding.net · 13 min

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THERE'S NO GOLD IN REMOVING SIGNALING COSTS

Signal collapsers aim to lower transaction costs in markets that rely heavily on signaling, but this dilutes the signals that allowed the market to operate in the first place.

liorbd.me · 6 min

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DESIGNING FOR EPHEMERALITY

Make your designs beautiful, functional, and human, even if they won't last forever.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min