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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

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

    60 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  2. Crypto founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges

    60 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

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

    60 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  4. Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  5. How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust

    59 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  6. Capture Checking in Scala

    59 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  7. From Hackathon to YC

    59 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  8. Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address

    59 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  9. Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  10. Inside the World of "The Great British Bake Off"

    59 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  11. China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

    59 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  12. I Wasn't Worried About the Fed. Now I Am

    59 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  13. Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

    59 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  14. Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit

    59 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  15. Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

    59 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  16. How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024)

    59 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  17. The AI vibe shift is upon us

    59 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  18. The Algebra Gatekeepers

    59 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  19. Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  20. AI Bubble 2027

    59 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  21. The Anti-Pattern Game

    59 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  22. ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

    58 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  23. Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

    58 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  24. The ABC Programming Language

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  25. Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

    58 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  26. Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  27. Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64

    58 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  28. End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

    58 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  29. Dumb to managed switch conversion (2010)

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  30. Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  31. Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties (2022) [pdf]

    58 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  32. YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  33. A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries

    58 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  34. My original Palm IIIx

    58 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  35. Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

    58 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  36. The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  37. ChatGPT Agent – EU Launch

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  38. The billionaire developer closing London's pubs

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  39. Circadian justice (2022)

    58 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  40. Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)

    58 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  41. Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  42. VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  43. SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf]

    57 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  44. A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

    57 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  45. Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

    57 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  46. Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware

    57 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  47. A Dark Money Group Is Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

    57 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  48. Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  49. Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space

    57 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  50. Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

    57 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  51. A love letter to my future employer (2020)

    57 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  52. ArduinoOS (2017)

    57 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  53. At $250M, top AI salaries dwarf the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

    57 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  54. SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core

    57 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  55. Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement

    57 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  56. A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]

    56 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  57. Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? [pdf]

    56 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  58. The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games

    56 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  59. A mini-book on AWS networking

    56 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  60. AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

    56 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  61. Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban [video]

    56 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  62. Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s

    56 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  63. The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world

    56 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  64. The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved

    56 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  65. Vim Macros for Beancount

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  66. C10kday

    55 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  67. Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth

    55 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  68. Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, and growing rapidly

    55 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  69. Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products

    55 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  70. There Goes the American Muscle Car

    55 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  71. SIMD Binary Heap Operations

    55 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  72. Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

    55 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  73. Counting Words at SIMD Speed

    55 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  74. I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead

    54 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  75. Google Debuts Device-Bound Session Credentials Against Session Hijacking

    54 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  76. Titles matter

    54 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  77. A short statistical reasoning test

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  78. Ejabberd 25.08

    54 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  79. ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  80. Isle FPGA Computer: creating a simple, open, modern computer

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  81. Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture

    54 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  82. America by Design Fail

    54 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  83. The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as "purchases" you "buy"

    54 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  84. Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?

    54 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  85. United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  86. Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit

    54 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  87. Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail

    54 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  88. Linear Types for Programmers (2023)

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  89. RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  90. Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians

    54 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  91. Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C

    53 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  92. More than two hard disks in DOS

    53 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  93. Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

    53 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  94. On the screen, Libyans learned about everything but themselves (2021)

    53 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  95. It's the Housing, Stupid

    53 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  96. Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  97. Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella (2011)

    53 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  98. EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)

    53 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  99. Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl

    53 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  100. China's Share in Global Display Capacity to Reach 75% in 2028

    53 points • comment • aug 26, 2025