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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Theft is not fair use

    38 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  2. German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  3. The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017)

    38 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  4. Chronicle – Idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go

    38 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

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

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  6. Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed

    38 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  7. We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial

    38 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  8. iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats

    38 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  9. You're loading fonts wrong (and it's crippling your performance)

    38 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  10. Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun: US Is Losing AI Race Due to Closed Models

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  11. U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

    38 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  12. DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  13. Britain Drops Request That Apple Create a Back Door

    38 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

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

    38 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  15. 3D printing a building with 756 windows

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  16. Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  17. Show HN: Auto-Match – How We Built Receipt-to-Transaction Matching (Open Source)

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  18. How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023)

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  19. Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

    37 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  20. How Does a Blind Model See the Earth?

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  21. Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  22. Jen Pawol becomes first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  23. America's stock-market dominance is an emergency for Europe

    37 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  24. Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  25. Reproducing prospect theory with 'differentiable decision theories'

    37 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  26. I don't read your email threads

    37 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  27. Docker for Developers: Essential Commands in One Cheatsheet

    37 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  28. Why is choral music harder to appreciate?

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  29. Seeing infrared: contact lenses that grant 'super-vision'

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  30. Belgium's Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment

    37 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  31. Show HN: Strudel Flow, a pattern sequencer built with Strudel and React Flow

    37 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  32. Tech, chip stock sell-off continues as AI bubble fears mount

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  33. The Best Line Length

    37 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  34. Google is asking the court for an emergency stay following Epic’s big win

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  35. A short proof of the Hairy Ball theorem (2016) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  36. We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  37. Meta's AI rules let bots hold sensual chats with kids, offer false medical info

    37 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  38. Fair Access to Banking

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  39. 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary

    36 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  40. Giving people money helped less than I thought it would

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  41. Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  42. An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  43. Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws pushback

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  44. Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  45. TREAD: Token Routing for Efficient Architecture-Agnostic Diffusion Training

    36 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  46. ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the Militaries

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  47. Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  48. The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  49. Gaybreaking

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  50. Alaska's Juneau orders evacuations as record glacier flood looms

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  51. CRLite in Firefox. Fast, private and secure (pick three)

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  52. Fmllm: 4mb training data, 100mb model, Fibonacci embeddings, near-coherent. WTF?

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  53. Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  54. Moreshell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  55. Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  56. Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show

    36 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  57. As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  58. Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  59. What is the average length of a queue of cars? (2023)

    36 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  60. Show HN: PgHook – Docker image that streams PostgreSQL row changes to webhooks

    36 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  61. 9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  62. What would happen if USA started faking its economic data? Lessons from others

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  63. The Quiet Disappearance of Skeptics in the AI Gold Rush

    35 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  64. Can You Develop Film in a Jägerbomb?

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  65. "Email is Easy" email address quiz

    35 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  66. I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe)

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  67. Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  68. PastVu: Historical Photographs on Current Maps

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  69. Bypass PostgreSQL catalog overhead with direct partition hash calculations

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  70. Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders, massive study finds

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  71. NASA's Juno Mission Leaves Legacy of Science at Jupiter

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  72. Show HN: Stagewise – frontend coding agent for real codebases

    35 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  73. What I look for in typeface licenses

    35 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  74. Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle

    35 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  75. How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  76. Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join

    35 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  77. A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  78. A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  79. Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  80. Nobody cares about decentralization until they do (2024)

    35 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  81. What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021)

    35 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  82. Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  83. Building a computer in the 90s (2019)

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  84. Type-machine

    34 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  85. Save, Don't Bookmark (2024)

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  86. The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing – but the planes are harder to track

    34 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  87. Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

    34 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  88. Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archaeologists

    34 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  89. Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB

    34 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  90. Whistleblower Warns of Possible Risks to Americans' Social Security Information

    34 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  91. 'Safety Today Is a Luxury,' Giorgetto Giugiaro Says After His Crash

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  92. Solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  93. Wikipedia ordered by Portuguese courts to censor articles and provide user data

    34 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  94. Administration seeking $1B settlement from UCLA

    34 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  95. Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

    34 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  96. Tesla Disbands Dojo Supercomputer Team in Blow to AI Effort

    34 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  97. Josef Bacik Leaving Meta and Stepping Back from Kernel Development

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  98. The Extraordinary Rise in the Wealth of Older American Households

    34 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  99. Plain Text. With Lines

    34 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  100. Canada Gave Citizens the Right to Die. Doctors Are Struggling to Meet Demand

    34 points • comment • aug 11, 2025