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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

    98 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  2. 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]

    98 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  3. NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter

    98 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  4. Reddit will block the Internet Archive

    98 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  5. How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

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

    98 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  7. The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

    98 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  8. Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  9. Byte Buddy is a code generation and manipulation library for Java

    97 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  10. Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

    97 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  11. Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT

    97 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  12. Using AI to secure AI

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  13. Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  14. Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams

    97 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  15. Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude

    97 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  16. Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  17. Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

    97 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  18. Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

    97 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  19. Design patterns you should unlearn in Python

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  20. Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads

    96 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  21. Bayes, Bits and Brains

    96 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  22. Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

    96 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  23. PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

    96 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  24. Kiwi.com flight search MCP server

    96 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  25. DeepConf: Scaling LLM reasoning with confidence, not just compute

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  26. Outside of the top stocks, S&P 500 forward profits haven't grown in 3 years

    96 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  27. Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar

    96 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  28. Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV

    96 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

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

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  30. Writing a basic service for GNU Guix

    95 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  31. Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material

    95 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  32. Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine

    95 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  33. Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report

    95 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  34. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement

    95 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  35. SimpleIDE

    95 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  36. 29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release

    95 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  37. Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]

    95 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  38. Europe is breaking its reliance on American science

    95 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  39. Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models

    95 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  40. With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear

    95 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  41. Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2

    95 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  42. Slopsquatting

    95 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  43. Arm desktop: emulation

    94 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  44. In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

    94 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  45. Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum

    94 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  46. South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause

    94 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  47. Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

    94 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  48. The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge

    94 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  49. Trade in War

    94 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  50. Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

    94 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  51. Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

    94 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  52. Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024)

    94 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  53. Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"

    94 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  54. Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech

    93 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  55. Apple announces American Manufacturing Program

    93 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  56. A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

    93 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  57. C++: Strongly Happens Before?

    93 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  58. Show HN: Xbow raised $117M to build AI hackers, I open-sourced it for free

    93 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  59. Israeli gov. official arrested in Nevada internet crimes against children sting

    93 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  60. Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

    93 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  61. Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

    93 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  62. A SPARC makes a little fire

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  63. Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

    93 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  64. Show HN: An ncurses CUDA-based fluid simulation

    93 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  65. Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  66. People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

    93 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  67. Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

    93 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  68. Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  69. Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language

    93 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  70. Mistral Integration Improved in Llama.cpp

    93 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  71. David Klein's TWA Posters (2018)

    93 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  72. Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page

    93 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  73. Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  74. Proton begins moving hardware out of Switzerland due to proposed legislation

    92 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  75. I prefer human-readable file formats

    92 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  76. Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices

    92 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  77. The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector

    92 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  78. Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

    92 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  79. Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

    92 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  80. Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  81. Digg.com is back

    92 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  82. Teenage Engineering's free computer case

    92 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  83. HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports

    92 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  84. Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor

    92 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  85. Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

    92 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  86. The TTY Demystified (2008)

    92 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  87. Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022)

    92 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  88. OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution

    92 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  89. Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles

    91 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  90. White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

    91 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  91. Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

    91 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  92. Google to require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

    91 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  93. Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

    91 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  94. The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals

    91 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  95. Efficient Array Programming

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  96. Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability

    91 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  97. Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash

    90 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  98. Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files

    90 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  99. AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

    90 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  100. Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast

    90 points • comment • aug 27, 2025