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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. It’s OK to block ads (2015)

    109 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

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

    109 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  3. US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs

    109 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  4. Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent

    108 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  5. Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

    108 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  6. Syncthing 2.0 Released

    108 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  7. Bad UX

    108 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  8. Radicle 1.3.0

    108 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  9. Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser

    108 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  10. Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment

    108 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  11. XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images

    108 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  12. Why we still build with Ruby

    108 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  13. I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI

    108 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  14. Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

    108 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  15. Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

    108 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  16. Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

    108 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  17. TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

    107 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  18. Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

    107 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  19. Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator

    107 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  20. A Lisp in 99LOC

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  21. Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine

    107 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  22. Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent

    107 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  23. The enduring puzzle of static electricity

    107 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  24. Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

    107 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  25. The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working as Designed

    107 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  26. The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children

    107 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  27. Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  28. U.S. alcohol consumption drops to a 90-year low, new poll finds

    106 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  29. White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign

    106 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  30. Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice

    106 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  31. An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)

    106 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  32. Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

    106 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  33. The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries

    106 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  34. How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?

    106 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  35. I'm Worried It Might Get Bad

    106 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  36. White House loyalty rating for companies

    106 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  37. Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

    106 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  38. Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop

    106 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  39. TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

    106 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  40. About Containers and VMs

    105 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  41. Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

    105 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  42. Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths

    105 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  43. "Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)

    105 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  44. Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

    105 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  45. Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York

    105 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  46. M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025

    105 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  47. A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

    105 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  48. Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative

    105 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  49. Scientists shine a laser through a human head

    105 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  50. The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022)

    105 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  51. Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells

    104 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  52. Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

    104 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  53. A blog does not need “analytics”

    104 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  54. Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation

    104 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  55. SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

    104 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  56. "This question has been retired"

    104 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  57. An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language

    104 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  58. With AI Boom, Dell's Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz

    103 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  59. How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

    103 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  60. Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

    103 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  61. Writing with LLM is not a shame

    103 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  62. Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?

    103 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  63. This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)

    103 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  64. Telefon Hírmondó

    103 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  65. Why I'm declining your AI generated MR

    103 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  66. Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation and exercise capacity in healthy volunteers

    102 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  67. Office on HP-UX and Unix

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  68. Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  69. ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison

    102 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  70. Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows

    102 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  71. Turn any website into an API

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  72. Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

    102 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  73. Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent

    102 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  74. Data engineering and software engineering are converging

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  75. In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

    102 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  76. SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation

    102 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  77. The Qweremin

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  78. Testing Bitchat at the music festival

    102 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  79. Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

    101 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  80. 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been a game-changer for Linux

    101 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  81. Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

    101 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  82. From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year

    101 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  83. Thrashing

    101 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  84. The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

    101 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  85. Open AI Announces $1.5M Bonus for Every Employee

    101 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  86. That boolean should probably be something else

    101 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  87. The new geography of stolen goods

    101 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  88. The Relativity of Wrong (1988)

    100 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  89. The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

    100 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  90. POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

    100 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  91. Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

    100 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  92. EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

    100 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  93. Acoustic Panels as Wall Coverings in Star Trek: The Next Generation

    99 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  94. ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights

    99 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  95. Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine

    99 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  96. Google Play Store bans wallets that don't have banking license

    99 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  97. Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence

    99 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  98. University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

    98 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  99. 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]

    98 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  100. One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either

    98 points • comment • aug 03, 2025