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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities

    67 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  2. The power of two random choices (2012)

    67 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  3. F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK

    67 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  4. Australia Post halts most parcels to US as tariff chaos hits global carriers

    67 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  5. Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine

    67 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  6. 1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”

    67 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  7. Tariff's found illegal, but will stay for now

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  8. The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

    66 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  9. Forklifts require training

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  10. The Amiga games and demo scene collection

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  11. Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

    66 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  12. Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

    66 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  13. What If A.I. Doesn't Get Better Than This?

    66 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  14. The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003)

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  15. Google Pixel 10 series review

    65 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  16. 'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  17. Show HN: Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations

    65 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  18. Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  19. Sixteen bottles of wine riddle

    65 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  20. EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office

    65 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  21. DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to 'vulnerable' cloud server

    65 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  22. Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

    64 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  23. Teletext in North America

    64 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  24. Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification

    64 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  25. Nullable vs. Nullable in C#

    64 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  26. My Failures Onboarding at Splunk

    64 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  27. My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

    64 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  28. Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  29. When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross

    64 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  30. The Grammar According to West

    64 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  31. Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  32. Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD

    64 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  33. Whitehouse Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  34. US influencer stranded in Antarctica after landing plane without permission

    64 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  35. Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

    64 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  36. The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? [video]

    64 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  37. Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  38. The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg

    64 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  39. Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  40. CPS investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside

    64 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  41. We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

    63 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  42. AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  43. Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  44. Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s

    63 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  45. $83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight

    63 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  46. The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

    63 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  47. Bash Prompts Collection

    63 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  48. Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

    63 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  49. What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  50. Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords

    63 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  51. Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  52. What's wrong with the JSON gem API?

    63 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  53. The SD Association has an official SD card format utility [Win/OS X/Linux]

    63 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  54. TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

    63 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  55. Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow

    63 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  56. Palantir: The Most Evil Company

    63 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  57. Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing

    62 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  58. Events

    62 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  59. Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

    62 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  60. Teams Grow Organically

    62 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  61. CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  62. How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL

    62 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  63. Self-Guaranteeing Promises

    62 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  64. Sky Calendar

    62 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  65. GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

    62 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  66. AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

    62 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  67. Fennel libraries as single files (2023)

    62 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  68. Meta Leaks Part 2: How to Kill a Social Movement

    62 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  69. Lessons learned from buying an open source repo

    61 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  70. The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

    61 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  71. Does MHz Still Matter?

    61 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  72. How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase

    61 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  73. Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

    61 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  74. Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

    61 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  75. Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  76. The Inkhaven Blogging Residency

    61 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  77. Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf]

    61 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  78. Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

    61 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  79. Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

    61 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  80. VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power

    61 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  81. “The Hollow Men” at 100

    61 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  82. BBC witnesses settlers attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank

    61 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  83. Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

    61 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  84. Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

    61 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  85. The Sunlight Budget of Earth

    61 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  86. Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls

    61 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  87. Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  88. LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  89. A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

    61 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  90. The Crisis of Professional Skepticism

    60 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  91. About AI

    60 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  92. Practical approach for streaming UI from LLMs

    60 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  93. OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good

    60 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  94. eBPF 101: Your First Step into Kernel Programming

    60 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  95. Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

    60 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  96. Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

    60 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  97. From Here?

    60 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  98. Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable

    60 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  99. Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It

    60 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  100. Goodbye, Six-Figure Tech Jobs. Young Coders Seek Work at Fast-Food Joints

    60 points • comment • aug 10, 2025