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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures

    53 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  2. How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver

    53 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  3. It's the Housing, Stupid

    53 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  4. Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet

    53 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  5. Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

    53 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  6. New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

    52 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  7. Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

    52 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  8. Philosophical Thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (2024)

    52 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  9. This Page Is a Quine (2021)

    52 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  10. Welcome to the IPv4 Games

    52 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  11. Integer continued fractions for complex numbers

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  12. How to run latest Vegas Pro 22 in Windows 7 x64

    52 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  13. Residents cheer as Tucson rejects data center campus

    52 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  14. Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work

    52 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  15. Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  16. Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

    52 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  17. Names are not type safety (2020)

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  18. What Is Popover=Hint?

    52 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  19. Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

    52 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  20. The X11 Security extension from the 1990s

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  21. Online Safety Act: What went wrong?

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  22. Qwen Image

    52 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  23. Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  24. GPT-5: It just does stuff

    52 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  25. The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  26. Emulating aarch64 in software using JIT compilation and Rust

    52 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  27. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

    52 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  28. Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)

    52 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  29. Image Fulgurator (2011)

    52 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  30. My AI-driven identity crisis

    52 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  31. MAID in Canada

    52 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  32. Perplexity Response to Cloudflare

    51 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  33. Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

    51 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  34. Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email

    51 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  35. SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

    51 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  36. Recreationally overengineering my location history

    51 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  37. Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  38. Learnable Programming (2012)

    51 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  39. People stuck using ancient Windows computers

    51 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  40. U.S. preparing IPO for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac later this year

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  41. My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video]

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  42. Fine-tuned small LLMs can beat large ones with programmatic data curation

    51 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  43. The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech

    51 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  44. Meta eavesdropped on period-tracker app's users, SF jury rules

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  45. Spectrum – catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time

    51 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  46. The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

    51 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  47. AWS's sudden removal of a 10-year account and all of its data: lessons learned

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  48. Consistency over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP theorem

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  49. Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

    51 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  50. Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  51. Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market

    51 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  52. Shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019)

    51 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  53. Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?

    50 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  54. The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)

    50 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  55. GPT-5 Demo Mistake About Bernoulli Effect

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  56. A 'Third Way' Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-Ops Say They've Found It

    50 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  57. Sweatshop Data Is Over

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  58. Why is this hard?

    50 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  59. Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now

    50 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  60. Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API

    50 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  61. Advice for Tech Non-Profits

    50 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  62. Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs

    50 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  63. Ex-Barclays VP who completed a PhD in prison: "All my former colleagues ignore"

    50 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  64. The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler

    50 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  65. Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?

    50 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  66. VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II

    50 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  67. Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats

    49 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  68. IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing

    49 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  69. What happens during startup?

    49 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  70. What Happened to Egghead Software

    49 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  71. Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat

    49 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  72. Writing is power transfer technology

    49 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  73. How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?

    49 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  74. The physics of parabolic microphones: Frequency dependence of gain (2023)

    49 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  75. Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease

    49 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  76. Build Log: Macintosh Classic

    49 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  77. Why Greptile just does code reviews and doesn't also generate code

    49 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  78. Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links

    49 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  79. For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules

    49 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  80. A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

    49 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  81. Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example

    49 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  82. Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes

    48 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  83. Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

    48 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  84. Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1

    48 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  85. Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

    48 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  86. Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder

    48 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  87. Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions

    48 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  88. The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak

    48 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  89. Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk

    48 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  90. Adults Are Going to Sleep-Away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Work

    48 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  91. The space race is transforming Southern California's economy again

    48 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  92. Is the A.I. Sell-Off the Start of Something Bigger?

    48 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  93. RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month

    48 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  94. JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language

    48 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  95. Ditching GitHub (2024)

    48 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  96. Git-fetch-file – Sync files from other repos with commit tracking and safety

    47 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  97. Carved stone mask – Pre-pottery, Neolithic B period

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  98. Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world

    47 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  99. Buypass discontinues issuance of TLS/SSL certificates

    47 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  100. Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2025