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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge

    47 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

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

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  3. Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  4. Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust

    47 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  5. Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code

    47 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  6. Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers

    47 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  7. Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  8. Ford and the Birth of the Model T

    47 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  9. Json2dir: a JSON-to-directory converter, a fast alternative to home-manager

    47 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  10. Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity

    47 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  11. Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

    47 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

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

    47 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  13. Best Options for Using AI in Chip Design

    47 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  14. Germany at it again: now trying to reopen the "adblockers are illegal" debate

    47 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  15. Accelerating life sciences research

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  16. Physically Based Rendering in Filament

    46 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  17. Anonymous structavaganza in Zig

    46 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  18. Trump's Global Tariffs Found Illegal by US Appeals Court

    46 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  19. Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  20. Pride Versioning 0.3.0

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  21. Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

    46 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  22. Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  23. Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  24. Why does AI feel so different?

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  25. Nvidia results show spending on A.I. infrastructure remains robust

    46 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  26. Show HN: Reactive: A React Book for the Reluctant (written by Claude)

    46 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  27. Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

    46 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  28. Cache of WW2 bombs found under a playground in Northumberland

    46 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  29. Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing

    46 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  30. Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers

    46 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  31. How to Use Snprintf

    46 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  32. White Mountain Direttissima

    46 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  33. $160M VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  34. DeepKit Story: how $160M company killed EU trademark for a small OSS project

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  35. Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  36. VIN: The 17-character code that runs the automotive world

    45 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  37. Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans

    45 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  38. Game theory at work: When to talk and when to shut up (2024)

    45 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  39. Show HN: Spotilyrics – See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code

    45 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  40. Scapegoating the Algorithm

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  41. Fun with Finite State Transducers

    45 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  42. Children of the Geissler Tube (2023)

    45 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  43. Global Trade Dynamics

    45 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  44. Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  45. Children's movie leads art historian to long-lost Hungarian masterpiece (2014)

    45 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  46. Man declares country in unclaimed pocket of land between Serbia and Croatia

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  47. The $21.7B Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by Doge [pdf]

    45 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  48. Linear scan register allocation on SSA

    45 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  49. Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  50. White House prepares order targeting banks for "unbanking" for political reasons

    45 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  51. The F-35 is losing the trade war

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  52. Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

    45 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  53. Cordoomceps – Replacing an Amiga’s brain with DOOM

    44 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  54. Out-Fibbing CPython with the Plush Interpreter

    44 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  55. GPT-4o is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate

    44 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  56. Lord of the Io_uring (2020)

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  57. Next.js 15 Markdown Boilerplate

    44 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  58. Meta investigated over AI having 'sensual' chats with children

    44 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  59. Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  60. How Stock Options Work

    44 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  61. Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  62. His psychosis was a mystery–until doctors learned about ChatGPT's health advice

    44 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  63. Sam Altman is in damage-control mode after latest ChatGPT release

    44 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  64. Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines

    44 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  65. Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  66. Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

    44 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  67. Over 10k hotels join mass claim against Booking.com

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  68. Cadence Guilty, Pays $140M for Exporting Semi Design Tools to PRC Military Uni

    44 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  69. Why Aren't People Going to Local and Regional In-Person Events Anymore?

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  70. TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data

    44 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  71. Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

    44 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  72. CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  73. Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists

    43 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  74. Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters (2010)

    43 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  75. Show HN: Aha Domain Search

    43 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  76. What Does will-change In CSS Do?

    43 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  77. Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame

    43 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  78. Apple Blocks iTorrent App from EU Alternative App Marketplace

    43 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  79. Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017)

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  80. When a Street Kills a Child, We Put the Parents on Trial

    43 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  81. Fuse is 95% cheaper and 10x faster than NFS

    43 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  82. Porting to OS/2 (1987)

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  83. Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

    43 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  84. Twentyseven 1.0

    43 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  85. Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus from the Constitution on Its Website

    43 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  86. I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs

    43 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  87. Mouthguards that flash red with head impacts to be used at Rugby World Cup

    43 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  88. An adventure in writing compatible systems

    43 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  89. China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers

    43 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  90. Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

    42 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  91. Comparison of different C libraries providing generic containers capabilities

    42 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  92. Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying lightweight, secure applications

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  93. NetSurf on ReMarkable 2

    42 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  94. What kids told us about how to get them off their phones

    42 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  95. Show HN: Zig-DbC – A design by contract library for Zig

    42 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  96. Small changes that made our daily stand-ups more useful

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  97. German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional

    42 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  98. Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles

    42 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  99. The White House and the Agreement Between Nvidia and AMD

    42 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  100. Bash Strict Mode (2014)

    42 points • comment • aug 22, 2025