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Hacker News (Aug 2025)
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Goodbye, Six-Figure Tech Jobs. Young Coders Seek Work at Fast-Food Joints
60 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Crypto founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges
60 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
60 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust
59 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Capture Checking in Scala
59 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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From Hackathon to YC
59 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address
59 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Inside the World of "The Great British Bake Off"
59 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
59 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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I Wasn't Worried About the Fed. Now I Am
59 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack
59 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit
59 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity
59 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024)
59 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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The AI vibe shift is upon us
59 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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The Algebra Gatekeepers
59 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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AI Bubble 2027
59 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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The Anti-Pattern Game
59 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system
58 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI
58 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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The ABC Programming Language
58 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash
58 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems
58 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64
58 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs
58 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Dumb to managed switch conversion (2010)
58 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years
58 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties (2022) [pdf]
58 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'
58 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries
58 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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My original Palm IIIx
58 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs
58 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
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The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome
58 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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ChatGPT Agent – EU Launch
58 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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The billionaire developer closing London's pubs
58 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Circadian justice (2022)
58 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)
58 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
58 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams
58 points • comment • aug 17, 2025
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SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf]
57 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
57 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware
57 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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A Dark Money Group Is Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
57 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M
57 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
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Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space
57 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
57 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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A love letter to my future employer (2020)
57 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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ArduinoOS (2017)
57 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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At $250M, top AI salaries dwarf the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
57 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core
57 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement
57 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]
56 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? [pdf]
56 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games
56 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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A mini-book on AWS networking
56 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally
56 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban [video]
56 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s
56 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world
56 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved
56 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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Vim Macros for Beancount
55 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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C10kday
55 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth
55 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, and growing rapidly
55 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products
55 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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There Goes the American Muscle Car
55 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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SIMD Binary Heap Operations
55 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)
55 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Counting Words at SIMD Speed
55 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
54 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Google Debuts Device-Bound Session Credentials Against Session Hijacking
54 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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Titles matter
54 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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A short statistical reasoning test
54 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Ejabberd 25.08
54 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4
54 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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Isle FPGA Computer: creating a simple, open, modern computer
54 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture
54 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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America by Design Fail
54 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as "purchases" you "buy"
54 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?
54 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit
54 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail
54 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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Linear Types for Programmers (2023)
54 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft
54 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians
54 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
53 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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More than two hard disks in DOS
53 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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On the screen, Libyans learned about everything but themselves (2021)
53 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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It's the Housing, Stupid
53 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?
53 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella (2011)
53 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)
53 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl
53 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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China's Share in Global Display Capacity to Reach 75% in 2028
53 points • comment • aug 26, 2025