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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  2. Repairing an HP 5370A Time Interval Counter

    28 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  3. Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed

    28 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  4. Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  5. Cars Are So Expensive That Buyers Need Seven-Year Loans

    27 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  6. A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification

    27 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  7. Using JWT to establish a trusted context for Row Level Security

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  8. Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

    27 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  9. What are the real numbers, really? (2024)

    27 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  10. A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property

    27 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  11. AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds

    27 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  12. Please Don't Promote Wayland

    27 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  13. A lightweight TypeScript library for assertion-based runtime data validation

    27 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  14. "AI hype" is the true AI product

    27 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  15. WeLib

    27 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  16. Show HN: Claudable – OpenSource Lovable that runs locally with Claude Code

    27 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  17. Reporters killed and foreigners barred in Israel's battle for Gaza narrative

    27 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  18. Tell HN: Charles Irby has passed away

    27 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  19. Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash

    27 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  20. Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  21. DOGE's "Efficiency" Theater: Wasted $21.7B While Destroying Life-Saving Programs

    27 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  22. 2020 Election denier named top official for 'Election Integrity'

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  23. RFK Jr. is waging a misguided war on mRNA vaccine technology

    27 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  24. What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?

    27 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  25. Thailand Is Using Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD)

    27 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  26. Work Offline with Fastmail

    27 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  27. Pausing Insect Activity

    27 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  28. Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60

    27 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  29. Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad

    27 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  30. Hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says

    27 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  31. SaaS Is Dead

    27 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  32. The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa

    27 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  33. Red teams jailbreak GPT-5 with ease, warn it's 'nearly unusable' for enterprise

    27 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  34. Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

    27 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  35. Nvidia: No Backdoors. No Kill Switches. No Spyware

    27 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  36. Converting existing users to systemd-homed managed users

    27 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  37. Sharp Hubble Images Confirm 3I/Atlas as Comet

    27 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  38. Doge accused of copying Social Security database to insecure cloud system

    27 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  39. Harper Evolves

    27 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  40. The Java type system is broken (2018)

    27 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  41. Fake accounts drove the DeepSeek AI hype and distorted markets

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  42. Instagram's new 'Friend Map' feature puts your privacy at risk

    27 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  43. The product design talent crisis

    27 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  44. Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

    27 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  45. Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, distros and NixOS

    27 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  46. Programming in the Age of Abundance

    27 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  47. After losing company stock Philz Coffee baristas get $525 'thank you' payments

    27 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  48. I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App

    26 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  49. European Censorship Accelerates

    26 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  50. OOMProf: Profiling on the Brink

    26 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  51. How to store weather forecast data for fast time-series APIs (2022)

    26 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  52. The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

    26 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  53. Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term'

    26 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  54. M-x spook (Emacs mail amusement)

    26 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  55. HTTP Is Not Simple

    26 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  56. Show HN: Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations

    26 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  57. Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

    26 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  58. Donald Trump's fantasy of home-grown chipmaking

    26 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  59. 4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US

    26 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  60. Colombian Black Hawk Downed by Drone Is a Glimpse of What's to Come

    26 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  61. Family Farm Wins Historic Case After Feds Violate Constitution and Ruin Business

    26 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  62. AI Models Need a Virtual Machine

    26 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  63. Lamport's Byzantine Generals Algorithm in Python

    26 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  64. Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

    26 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  65. Parsing without ASTs and Optimizing with Sea of Nodes [video]

    26 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  66. Employees spotting problems help the business, but leaders empower flatterers

    26 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  67. Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer's disease

    26 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  68. Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse (2009)

    26 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  69. Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

    26 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  70. The 'big church move': Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km

    26 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  71. Ask HN: Best foundation model for CLM fine-tuning?

    26 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  72. What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs?

    26 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  73. Federal court decision finds cellphone tower-dumping searches unconstitutional

    26 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  74. Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)

    26 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  75. As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit

    26 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  76. Show HN: ASCII Tree Editor

    26 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  77. Show HN: Regolith – Regex library that prevents ReDoS CVEs in TypeScript

    26 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  78. Self-driving cars begin testing on NYC streets

    26 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  79. Losing the War

    26 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  80. GLM-4.5V: An open-source multimodal large language model from Zhipu AI

    25 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  81. UK sought broad access to Apple customers' data, court filing shows

    25 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  82. Ask HN: Would you get a CS degree today?

    25 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  83. Show HN: Gmap: Explore Git Repos Visually from the CLI

    25 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  84. Zuckerberg Squandered His AI Talent. Now He's Spending Billions to Replace It

    25 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  85. Today's vehicles have bigger blind spots but not where you think

    25 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  86. Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020)

    25 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  87. U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry

    25 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  88. Investors lose billions on US penny stocks as 'pump and dump' scams multiply

    25 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  89. PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database

    25 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  90. Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work?

    25 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  91. Hardening Systemd Services

    25 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  92. When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks

    25 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  93. Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits

    25 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  94. CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation

    25 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  95. HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

    25 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  96. Meta dishes out $250M to lure 24-year-old AI whiz kid

    25 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  97. Accessibility and the agentic web

    25 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  98. How AI is upending the software development industry

    25 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  99. Show HN: Chat with Nano Banana Directly from WhatsApp

    25 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  100. Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

    25 points • comment • aug 11, 2025