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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

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

    34 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  2. NSF suspends nearly 300 UCLA grants (Terence Tao, Plasma Science Facility, etc.)

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  3. The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System

    34 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  4. 2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  5. Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks

    34 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

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

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  7. Trump seeks to fire official overseeing jobs data after weak report

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  8. Math Not Required (2023)

    33 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  9. Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

    33 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  10. GPT-5 System Prompt?

    33 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  11. A Suicide Cult's Surviving Members Still Maintain Its 90s Website (2016)

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  12. Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  13. TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing

    33 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  14. Monoid-Augmented FIFOs, Deamortised

    33 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  15. Unikernel Guide: Build and Deploy Lightweight, Secure Apps

    33 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  16. Nuvistor Valves

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  17. Update on my Racket exit

    33 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  18. How many paths of length K are there between A and B? (2021)

    33 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  19. What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?

    33 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  20. Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024)

    33 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  21. P-fast trie, but smaller

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  22. UMichigan study: EVs are cleaner than ICEs over average vehicle life

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  23. Show HN: Free SVG Icons – Browse, customize, and grab icons

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  24. Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  25. NSA's Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist from Purge

    33 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  26. Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  27. Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy

    33 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  28. Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  29. Which colors are primary?

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  30. It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  31. Time travel is self-suppressing

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  32. GPT-5 Hot Take

    33 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  33. James Baldwin's Apotheosis

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  34. Caligra Workbench

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  35. 'Stagflation is coming to the U.S.'

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  36. Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991)

    33 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  37. Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  38. PFP: A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006)

    33 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  39. Nova Scotia bans hiking and use of vehicles in woods due to wildfire fears

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  40. No One Is Working

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  41. Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months

    32 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  42. A summary of recent AI research (2016)

    32 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  43. Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf] (2023)

    32 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  44. Submerged Roman bathhouse in Baiae may be part of Cicero's villa

    32 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  45. Voice Controlled Swarms

    32 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  46. Lurk – A Turing-complete programming language for ZK-SNARKs

    32 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  47. Trump Fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook

    32 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  48. How to design a DBMS for Telco requirements

    32 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  49. Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project

    32 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  50. My DIY modular charging station

    32 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  51. US Homeland Security chief reports breach at FEMA, fires 23 employees

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  52. New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Involve Domains

    32 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  53. The "996" schedule of working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week comes to Silicon Valley

    32 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  54. AI: Great Expectations

    32 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  55. If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor?

    32 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  56. CDC Implosion Continues as Staff Stage Unprecedented Walk Out

    32 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  57. UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures

    32 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  58. "McKinsey in a Box": The End of Strategic Consulting?

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  59. AI, layoffs, productivity and The Klarna Effect

    32 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  60. Iceberg, the right idea – the wrong spec – Part 2 of 2: The spec

    32 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  61. Two mystery customers alone responsible for ~40% of Nvidia's quarterly revenue

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  62. Fastmail breaks UI in production

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  63. Hire People Who Care

    32 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  64. Cognition CEO offers buyouts to let workers flee 'extreme' work culture

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  65. A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a full-fledged service?

    32 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  66. Dollar Drops as Trump Says He's Firing Fed Governor Cook

    31 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  67. The Delusion Machine – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM

    31 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  68. 4chan Sues UK Ofcom over Online Safety Act

    31 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  69. In Praise of Quitting

    31 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  70. Linear Scan with Lifetime Holes

    31 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  71. Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  72. New Nationwide Campaign to Stop Warrantless Use of License Plate Reader Cameras

    31 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  73. Computing simplified coverage polygons

    31 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  74. Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)

    31 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  75. How and Why to Ditch GitHub

    31 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  76. Robots can now learn to use tools just by watching us

    31 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  77. Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)

    31 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  78. The mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndrome

    31 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  79. Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

    31 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  80. U.S. homes are not selling, and prices continue to rise

    31 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  81. Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks

    31 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  82. The Middle Earth

    31 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  83. Reserve First

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  84. What is the go proxy even doing?

    31 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  85. Agentic commerce is here; add shopping to your agent

    31 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  86. God created the real numbers

    31 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  87. Show HN: Ultra-fast, embedded KV store in pure Rust

    31 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  88. Sqlite3 will also read and write ZIP archives

    31 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  89. Turn your dumb messages into cuneiform tablets

    31 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  90. Claude Code Output Styles

    31 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  91. US Adds Surprise Gold Bar Tariff in Blow to Switzerland

    31 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  92. Show HN: OctaneDB – Fast, Open-Source Vector Database for Python

    30 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  93. Reloading Classes in Python

    30 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  94. Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles (2016)

    30 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  95. Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them

    30 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  96. Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust

    30 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  97. Every company has the same hiring criteria

    30 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  98. How VMware's Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source

    30 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  99. Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

    30 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  100. Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

    30 points • comment • aug 04, 2025