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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam

    81 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  2. Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM

    81 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  3. Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata

    81 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  4. Death and What Comes Next (2002)

    81 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  5. Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction (1996)

    81 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  6. GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection

    81 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  7. Terminal sessions you can bookmark

    81 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  8. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

    81 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  9. The Amaranth hardware description language

    81 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  10. The use of LLM assistants for kernel development

    81 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  11. Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening

    81 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  12. NetBird Is Embracing the AGPLv3 License

    81 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  13. Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids

    81 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  14. Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car

    81 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  15. Compaq’s Rod Canion broke IBM's hold on the PC market

    81 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  16. Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why Load Balancing at Scale Is Hard

    81 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  17. Monday – A personality experiment

    81 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  18. The sisters “paradox” – counter-intuitive probability

    81 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  19. Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently

    80 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  20. The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

    80 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  21. UI vs. API. vs. UAI

    80 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  22. Zig 0.15.1

    80 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  23. The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation

    80 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  24. Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series (2018)

    80 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  25. Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database

    80 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  26. US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  27. Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  28. What Does Consulting Do?

    79 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  29. Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)

    79 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  30. IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture

    79 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  31. Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

    79 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  32. Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

    79 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  33. Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year

    79 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  34. Robert Wilson has died

    79 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  35. Exploring EXIF (2023)

    79 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  36. A Global Look at Teletext

    78 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  37. The militarization of Silicon Valley

    78 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  38. Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust

    78 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  39. Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  40. 79% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM

    78 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  41. ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies

    78 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  42. Web Bot Auth

    78 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  43. 40 Years of the Amiga

    78 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  44. MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

    78 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  45. Delphi in the Age of AI

    78 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  46. How to Not Build the Torment Nexus

    78 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  47. The theory and practice of selling the Aga cooker (1935) [pdf]

    78 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  48. Adventures in State Space [video]

    78 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  49. Fast and observable background job processing for .NET

    78 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  50. The Leverage Paradox in AI

    78 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  51. Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

    77 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  52. Jepsen: Capela dda5892

    77 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  53. Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right

    77 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  54. Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride

    77 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  55. Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements

    77 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  56. Show HN: Synchrotron, a real-time DSP engine in pure Python

    77 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  57. Show HN: Trayce – Burp Suite for developers

    77 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  58. GPT-5 System Card [pdf]

    77 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  59. Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails

    77 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  60. Drunken Bishop (2023)

    77 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  61. The AI age is the "age of no consent"

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  62. Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator

    77 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  63. Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

    77 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  64. Guile bindings for Sway window manager

    76 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  65. Passion over Profits

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  66. ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop

    76 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  67. OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub

    76 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  68. Das Problem mit German Strings

    76 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  69. The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

    76 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  70. Show HN: Anchor Relay – A faster, easier way to get Let's Encrypt certificates

    76 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  71. Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing math symbols

    76 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  72. Print, a one-line BASIC program

    76 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  73. Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days

    76 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  74. Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)

    76 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  75. A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types

    76 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  76. How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024)

    76 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  77. Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

    75 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  78. Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

    75 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  79. The History of F1 Design

    75 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  80. Unification (2018)

    75 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  81. Tiny, removable "mini SSD" could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

    75 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  82. R0ML's Ratio

    75 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  83. Explanation of the Linux-kernel memory consistency model (2017)

    75 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  84. Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

    75 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  85. This is my brain on leeches

    75 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  86. Apple lacks strategic vision

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  87. 'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  88. Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data

    75 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  89. A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping

    75 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  90. A24's Empire of Auteurs

    75 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  91. Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

    75 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  92. Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

    75 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  93. The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning

    75 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  94. All-In on Omarchy at 37signals

    74 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  95. Triangle Grids (2022)

    74 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  96. Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

    74 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  97. LinkedIn is the fakest platform of them all

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  98. Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

    74 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  99. Cline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  100. Tipping point in Gulf Stream may be reached as early as mid-century

    74 points • comment • aug 27, 2025