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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Recto – A Truly 2D Language

    137 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  2. Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

    137 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  3. Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems

    136 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  4. Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified

    136 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  5. Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT

    136 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  6. KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland

    136 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  7. U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report

    136 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  8. The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

    135 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  9. Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism

    135 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  10. DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)

    135 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  11. A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

    135 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  12. BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

    135 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  13. Partially Matching Zig Enums

    134 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  14. Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

    134 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  15. ASCIIFlow

    134 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  16. Weathering Software Winter (2022)

    134 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  17. Rising young worker despair in the United States

    134 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  18. Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons

    133 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  19. PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks

    133 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  20. An LLM does not need to understand MCP

    133 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  21. C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

    133 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  22. PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs

    133 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  23. Why tail-recursive functions are loops

    133 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  24. Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

    133 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  25. The End of Handwriting

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  26. Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations

    132 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  27. US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

    132 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  28. Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

    132 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  29. What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

    132 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  30. The Block Stacking Problem

    132 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  31. A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

    131 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  32. Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad

    131 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  33. No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search

    131 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  34. Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

    131 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  35. Multics

    131 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  36. Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling

    131 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  37. Service members deserve the right to repair

    131 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  38. Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff

    130 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  39. Dangerous advice for software engineers

    130 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  40. SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

    130 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  41. God created the real numbers

    130 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  42. The ROI of Exercise

    129 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  43. About the BLOBs in Ventoy

    129 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  44. Tversky Neural Networks

    129 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  45. OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face

    129 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  46. The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

    129 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

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

    129 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  48. Architecting large software projects [video]

    129 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  49. Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?

    128 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  50. Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second

    128 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  51. GitHub pull requests were down

    128 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  52. Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node

    128 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  53. Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown

    128 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  54. How much do electric car batteries degrade?

    128 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  55. Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

    127 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  56. Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem

    127 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  57. Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

    127 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  58. HTMX is hard, so let's get it right

    127 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  59. A bubble that knows it's a bubble

    127 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  60. Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq

    127 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  61. Airbrush art of the 80s (2015)

    127 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  62. Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser

    127 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  63. The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

    127 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  64. Certificates for Onion Services

    126 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  65. Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing

    126 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  66. How to make things slower so they go faster

    126 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  67. Jujutsu and Radicle

    126 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  68. Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging in mice

    126 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  69. Deep Agents

    126 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  70. Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game

    126 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  71. Happy 100000th birthday, Debian

    125 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  72. From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]

    125 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  73. Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers

    125 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  74. Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer

    125 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  75. The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping

    125 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  76. Why is D3 so Verbose?

    125 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  77. The unbearable slowness of AI coding

    124 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  78. Pig lung transplanted into a human

    124 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  79. Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply

    124 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  80. Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids

    124 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  81. Sometimes CPU cores are odd

    124 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  82. Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge

    124 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  83. MS-DOS development resources

    124 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  84. Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

    123 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  85. UK government advises deleting emails to save water

    123 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  86. FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

    123 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  87. Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

    123 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  88. In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

    122 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  89. The internet wants to check your ID

    122 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  90. Offline-First Landscape – 2025

    122 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  91. How Python grew from a language to a community

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  92. A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

    122 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  93. Delete tests

    121 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  94. Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California

    121 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  95. An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)

    121 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  96. Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data

    121 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  97. Passive Microwave Repeaters

    120 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  98. TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

    120 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  99. The new science of “emergent misalignment”

    120 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  100. Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display

    120 points • comment • aug 06, 2025