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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. The new science of “emergent misalignment”

    120 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

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

    120 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  3. Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity

    120 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  4. Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

    119 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  5. Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs

    119 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  6. Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

    119 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  7. Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux

    119 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  8. WiFi-3D-Fusion – Real-time 3D motion sensing with Wi-Fi

    119 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  9. Hiroshima (1946)

    119 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  10. House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias

    119 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  11. How is Ultrassembler so fast?

    118 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  12. We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

    118 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  13. 450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown

    118 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  14. Seedbox Lite: A lightweight torrent streaming app with instant playback

    118 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  15. Where to find ideas

    118 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  16. Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2

    118 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  17. Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling

    118 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  18. States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

    118 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  19. HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

    118 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  20. Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve

    117 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  21. Oil states thwart agreement on plastics

    117 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  22. A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers

    117 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  23. Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

    117 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  24. A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016)

    117 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  25. Open music foundation models for full-song generation

    117 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  26. Inside OS/2 (1987)

    116 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  27. Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy

    116 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  28. Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

    116 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  29. Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

    116 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  30. India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

    116 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  31. How Potatoes Evolved

    116 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  32. Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

    116 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  33. Self-Signed JWTs

    116 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  34. Quirks of Common Lisp Types

    116 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  35. ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

    115 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  36. Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died

    115 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  37. A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it

    115 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  38. FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs

    115 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  39. Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management

    115 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  40. Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

    115 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  41. WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

    115 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  42. Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines

    115 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  43. Using information theory to solve Mastermind

    115 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  44. Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms

    115 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  45. Starship's Tenth Flight Test

    115 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  46. Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

    114 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  47. Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center

    114 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  48. April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014)

    114 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  49. 'Rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites

    114 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  50. GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training

    114 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  51. Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

    114 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  52. Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

    114 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  53. Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser

    114 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  54. Light pollution prolongs avian activity

    114 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  55. Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures

    114 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  56. Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way

    114 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  57. A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A

    113 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  58. What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?

    113 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  59. Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company

    113 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  60. De minimis exemption ends

    113 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  61. A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)

    113 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

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

    113 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  63. Show HN: Bicyclopedia

    113 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  64. Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

    113 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  65. Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

    112 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  66. Code Is Debt

    112 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  67. Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

    112 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  68. The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States

    112 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  69. Rendering a game in real time with AI

    112 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  70. Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos

    112 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  71. Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

    112 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  72. QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo

    112 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  73. Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization

    112 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  74. Malleable Software

    112 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  75. That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll")

    112 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  76. I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid

    112 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  77. I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)

    111 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  78. Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

    111 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  79. Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN

    111 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  80. A Crack in the Cosmos

    111 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  81. 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court

    111 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  82. The importance of offtopic

    111 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  83. Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  84. Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff

    111 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  85. Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

    111 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  86. SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

    111 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  87. Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

    110 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  88. In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

    110 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  89. The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

    110 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  90. The Whispering Earring

    110 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

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

    110 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  92. Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected

    110 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  93. The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown

    110 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  94. Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

    110 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  95. It’s OK to block ads (2015)

    109 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  96. US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs

    109 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

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

    109 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  98. The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf]

    109 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  99. SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

    109 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  100. US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care

    109 points • comment • aug 17, 2025