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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

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

    42 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  3. Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks (2021)

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  4. Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography

    42 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  5. Clarifying recent headlines on gaming content

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  6. Show HN: Rust framework for advanced file recognition and identification

    42 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  7. Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record

    42 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

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

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  9. Show HN: I built a text-based birthday reminder app

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  10. New research finds that ivermectin could help control malaria transmission

    42 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  11. AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

    42 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  12. Finding a Successor to the FHS

    42 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  13. CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew over CSAM Allegations Without Evidence

    42 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  14. Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

    42 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  15. The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month

    41 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  16. AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  17. Books will soon be obsolete in school

    41 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  18. Qwen3 Coder 480B is Live on Cerebras

    41 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  19. Cybertruck deactivated on road after a cease and desist for using it in a song

    41 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  20. Ask HN: Is the rise of AI tools going to be the next 'dot com' bust?

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  21. Reusing Computation in Text-to-Image Diffusion for Efficient Image Generation

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  22. AI accounts impersonating doctors on social media [video]

    41 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  23. Robin Lakoff has died

    41 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  24. Blackwater's Erik Prince Muscles Back into the Mercenary Business

    41 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  25. Why Building Billing Systems Is So Painful (2024)

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  26. Spacing Over Cards

    41 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  27. SQLite offline sync for Android quick start

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  28. Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  29. Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  30. Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)

    41 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  31. Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  32. 'My Life Became a Living Hell': One Woman's Career in Delta Force

    41 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  33. Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  34. Steve Wozniak's Perforated Pads of $2 Bills (2015)

    41 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  35. One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  36. Court decides "Pay or Okay" on DerStandard.at is illegal

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  37. Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  38. We are all mercantilists now

    41 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  39. With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  40. Ask HN: Tell me about the best programmer you worked with

    40 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  41. Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  42. Show HN: NaturalCron – Human-Readable Scheduling for .NET (With Fluent Builder)

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  43. Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]

    40 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  44. To Infinity but Not Beyond

    40 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  45. My development team costs $41.73 a month

    40 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  46. How to Secure a Linux Server

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  47. A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease

    40 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  48. Linux is 34 years old today

    40 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  49. All the world’s polygons

    40 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  50. Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  51. Show HN: Pontoon – Open-source customer data syncs

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  52. They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose

    40 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  53. A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

    40 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  54. AI is the natural next step in making computers more accessible and useful

    40 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  55. Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash

    40 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  56. F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference

    40 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  57. Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose

    40 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  58. Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

    40 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  59. Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

    40 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  60. Don't use Redis as a rate limiter

    40 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  61. Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  62. Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  63. Show HN: Vaultrice – A real-time key-value store with a localStorage API

    40 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  64. I spent over $31k on Whiteout Survival

    40 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  65. Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

    40 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  66. Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000)

    40 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  67. Europe's Free-Speech Problem

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  68. Sloppy AI defenses take cybersecurity back to the 1990s, researchers say

    40 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  69. Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

    40 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  70. Sniffly – Claude Code Analytics Dashboard

    40 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  71. Btrfs Has Saved Meta "Billions of Dollars" in Infrastructure Costs

    40 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  72. Eyecam

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  73. Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning

    39 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  74. The CTO Was ChatGPT

    39 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  75. Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes

    39 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  76. The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World

    39 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  77. Show HN: FFlags – Feature flags as code, served from the edge

    39 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  78. I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You (2021)

    39 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

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

    39 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  80. 24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville

    39 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  81. Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020)

    39 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  82. Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  83. Adafruit Fruit Jam – An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh

    39 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  84. Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

    39 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  85. The fundamentals still matter

    39 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  86. Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  87. Man-eating' screw worm turns hospital into horror show

    39 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  88. Forced software updates just make everything worse

    39 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  89. OpenRouter is down

    39 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  90. Show HN: When is the next Caltrain? (minimal webapp)

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  91. JSON is not a YAML subset (2022)

    39 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  92. Ultra-processed foods make up more than 60% of us kids' diets

    39 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  93. Dependent Types: Universes, or types of types

    39 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  94. Debdelta

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  95. Why did dlclose not unload the library? (2023)

    39 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  96. Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  97. Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses

    38 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  98. Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

    38 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  99. PlayReady DRM leak triggers Microsoft takedown and Amazon account suspensions

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  100. Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024)

    38 points • comment • aug 21, 2025