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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Lively Linear Lisp (1992) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  2. Sütterlin

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  3. A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

    74 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  4. Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

    74 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

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

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  6. No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance

    74 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  7. Border Patrol agents show up outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom's press conference

    73 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  8. The Open-Office Trap (2014)

    73 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  9. Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  10. Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference

    73 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  11. Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  12. Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime

    73 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  13. Replacing a cache service with a database

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  14. Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  15. I've never had a real adversary

    73 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  16. Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

    72 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  17. Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header

    72 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  18. LibreOffice says Microsoft Office exploits you, offers free ODF migration guide

    72 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  19. Lightweight LSAT

    72 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  20. As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  21. MCP tools with dependent types

    72 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  22. High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

    72 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  23. Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

    72 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  24. Flock Reports to Police If It Thinks Car Movement Patterns "Suspicious"

    72 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  25. The great medieval water myth (2013)

    72 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  26. A simple way to generate random points on a sphere

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  27. Self-employed, self-exhausted

    72 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  28. Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability

    72 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  29. Everything to know about UniFi OS Server

    72 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  30. Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

    72 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  31. Programming People (2016)

    72 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  32. White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake

    72 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  33. Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?

    72 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  34. Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  35. Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

    72 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  36. Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)

    72 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  37. The Fancy Rug Dilemma

    71 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  38. 8x19 Text Mode Font Origins

    71 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  39. Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video]

    71 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  40. Phone searches at the US border hit a record high

    71 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  41. Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps

    71 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  42. Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying

    71 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  43. Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

    71 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  44. The West is bored to death

    71 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  45. Customizing Lisp REPLs

    71 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  46. MCP Gateway and Registry

    71 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  47. Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

    71 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  48. How we enforce .NET coding standards to improve productivity

    71 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  49. Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

    71 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  50. US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2B in research grants

    71 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  51. How well do coding agents use your library?

    71 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  52. Does OLAP Need an ORM

    71 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  53. New Huawei 96GB GPU

    70 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  54. Google feedback form for Android developer verification requirements

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  55. A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data

    70 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  56. Fingerjigger

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  57. Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  58. Google is watching

    70 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  59. Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

    70 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  60. Italy's pizza detectives

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  61. The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over

    70 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  62. How randomness improves algorithms (2023)

    70 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  63. Coursera’s Preview Mode

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  64. Every visual workflow tool is just Excel for developers who gave up

    70 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  65. The US military’s on-base slot machines

    70 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  66. A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler

    70 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  67. Jobs data denialism won't fool anyone

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  68. No Comment (2010)

    70 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  69. I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked

    70 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  70. Eca: Editor Code Assistant – AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor

    70 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  71. Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  72. Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)

    70 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  73. Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025

    70 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  74. Ripple – A TypeScript UI framework that takes the best of React, Solid, Svelte

    69 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  75. Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?

    69 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  76. Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester

    69 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  77. What the interns have wrought, 2025

    69 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  78. Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why

    69 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  79. Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews

    69 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  80. Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight

    69 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  81. ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

    69 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  82. Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

    69 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  83. Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare

    69 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  84. Walmart Fires VP in Tech for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K

    69 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  85. Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap"

    69 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  86. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)

    69 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  87. The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas

    68 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  88. Show HN: Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support)

    68 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  89. The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)

    68 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  90. Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight

    68 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  91. What we find in the sewers

    68 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  92. Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

    68 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  93. Growing the Java Language [video]

    68 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  94. Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe

    68 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  95. Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

    68 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  96. RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no

    68 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  97. Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023)

    68 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  98. Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  99. Workday suffered a data breach

    68 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  100. A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2025