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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

    2938 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  2. Open models by OpenAI

    2106 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  3. GPT-5

    2018 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  4. We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

    1980 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  5. AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

    1633 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  6. Cognitive load is what matters

    1513 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  7. Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

    1478 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  8. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

    1404 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  9. Fight Chat Control

    1388 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  10. I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

    1340 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  11. Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

    1307 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  12. Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

    1305 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  13. Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

    1263 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  14. uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

    1118 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  15. Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

    1106 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  16. Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

    1099 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  17. I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

    1094 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  18. Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act

    1080 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  19. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

    1075 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  20. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

    1072 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  21. Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

    1042 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  22. Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

    1036 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  23. FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

    1004 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  24. Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

    995 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  25. If you're remote, ramble

    941 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  26. Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords

    929 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  27. FFmpeg 8.0

    927 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  28. Debian 13 “Trixie”

    921 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  29. Good system design

    902 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  30. Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

    896 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  31. Making Minecraft Spherical

    888 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  32. Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

    884 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  33. Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

    848 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  34. Vibechart

    845 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  35. Modern Node.js Patterns

    838 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  36. Why LLMs can't really build software

    828 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  37. What are OKLCH colors?

    825 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  38. Claude Code is all you need

    815 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  39. AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

    815 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  40. Claude Opus 4.1

    813 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  41. Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

    812 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  42. VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project

    809 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  43. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

    804 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  44. Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

    800 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  45. I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

    790 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  46. Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

    788 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  47. Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol

    786 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  48. Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers

    786 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  49. Claude for Chrome

    783 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  50. Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

    781 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  51. A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

    769 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  52. “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”

    753 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  53. Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

    750 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  54. DeepSeek-v3.1

    743 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  55. Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

    743 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  56. PYX: The next step in Python packaging

    738 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  57. Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

    737 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  58. Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?

    698 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  59. AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

    698 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  60. How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos

    676 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  61. Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

    670 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  62. Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

    670 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  63. How I code with AI on a budget/free

    668 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  64. Obsidian Bases

    666 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  65. Eternal Struggle

    656 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  66. A visual introduction to big O notation

    652 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  67. Try and

    644 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  68. Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

    633 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  69. I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer

    626 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  70. Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

    625 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  71. GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card

    625 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  72. This website is for humans

    621 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  73. Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account

    620 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  74. Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

    615 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  75. Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

    614 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  76. Telo MT1

    613 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  77. Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

    594 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  78. OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

    590 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  79. Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

    587 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  80. Go is still not good

    587 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  81. Monodraw

    586 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  82. We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

    583 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  83. Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger

    583 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  84. OpenMower – An open source lawn mower

    580 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  85. Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

    573 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  86. Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

    572 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  87. Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

    571 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  88. Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

    568 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  89. Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

    568 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  90. U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

    567 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  91. Notes on Managing ADHD

    566 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  92. Search all text in New York City

    566 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  93. Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

    565 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  94. Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

    560 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  95. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?

    556 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  96. Writing a good design document

    555 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  97. How to Draw a Space Invader

    543 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  98. Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment

    543 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  99. Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

    543 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  100. The future of large files in Git is Git

    540 points • comment • aug 15, 2025