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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

    405 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  2. Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

    348 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  3. Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

    307 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  4. The untold impact of cancellation

    261 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  5. Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

    240 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  6. NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant

    216 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  7. Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

    199 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  8. FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime

    181 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  9. IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

    172 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  10. Our Farewell from Google Play

    164 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  11. Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

    158 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  12. Long Term Support

    140 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  13. OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

    120 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  14. How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)

    111 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  15. GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API

    106 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  16. At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

    104 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  17. OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  18. Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight

    86 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  19. Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

    78 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  20. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  21. Google Shifts goo.gl Policy: Inactive Links Deactivated, Active Links Preserved

    74 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  22. Fast (2019)

    63 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  23. Hyrum's Law

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  24. Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  25. LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

    60 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  26. Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  27. Design patterns you should unlearn in Python

    54 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  28. Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  29. Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits

    51 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  30. Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, jury says

    50 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  31. Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  32. Pride Versioning 0.3.0

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  33. Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

    44 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  34. How to Secure a Linux Server

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  35. I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

    39 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  36. Fair Access to Banking

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  37. Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  38. Online Safety Act: What went wrong?

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  39. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  40. Show HN: Pontoon – Open-source customer data syncs

    26 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  41. European Censorship Accelerates

    24 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  42. Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective

    23 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  43. Clarifying recent headlines on gaming content

    22 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  44. Reindexing Adult NSFW Content

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  45. The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

    20 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  46. Ask HN: Who Is Looking for a Cofounder?

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  47. Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  48. Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil

    18 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  49. Onshape – Product Development Platform

    18 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  50. Facebook bought a VPN app for $120M and spied on 33M+ users' phones for years

    18 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  51. Rate, Price Drops Won't Substantially Improve Affordability

    17 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  52. A memory safe C framework, RAII, I/O, coroutine and other concurrency primitives

    17 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  53. Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  54. Real Estate to Gold Ratio

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  55. Tesla's Sweden Sales Plunge 85.8% in July, Year to Date Decline Hits 63%

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  56. Britain Is Losing Its Free Speech, and America Could Be Next

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  57. NSF suspends nearly 300 UCLA grants (Terence Tao, Plasma Science Facility, etc.)

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  58. Detecting toxic work culture early on

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  59. Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  60. Why Does the Universe Exist? CERN Just Found a Clue

    11 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  61. Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  62. OpenAI Open Source Model Leaked on HF

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  63. Waymo car crashed into another Waymo car

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  64. El Salvador allows Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite re-election

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  65. Golden Literal Testing in UTest

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  66. We Asked 100 AI Models to Write Code

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  67. Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  68. AI Researchers Are Negotiating $250M Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  69. An ex-Facebook exec said staff let Zuckerberg win at board games

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  70. Show HN: V2.0 of Open SaaS, a free, open-source SaaS boilerplate starter is here

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  71. If you Google 'bad UX', all the results appear in Comic Sans

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  72. Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun: US Is Losing AI Race Due to Closed Models

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  73. Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  74. Covid's origins conspiracy theories hamper ability to prevent the next pandemic

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  75. Code with LLMs and a Plan

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  76. Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  77. Ask HN: Do you think society will collapse within 10 years?

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  78. How to build a ship for interstellar travel

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  79. NASA intern loses job after profanity-laced tweet to Space Council fellow

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  80. EXT4 Shows Wild Gains with Better Block Allocation Scalability in Linux 6.17

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  81. Senate: DOGE Wasted 10s of Billions Chainsawing Government in Name of Efficiency

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  82. Show HN: The platform making SEO simpler, cheaper, and more effective

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  83. Is dental amalgam safe for humans? (2011)

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  84. Full-body scans of 100k people could change medicine

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  85. Scientists Are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  86. In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  87. JSON is not a subset of YAML

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  88. Some practical challenges of access management in 'IAM' systems

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  89. Russia's earthquake was among biggest ever recorded, but damage was minimal

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2025