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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Richest Americans Die Earlier Than the Poorest Europeans

    23 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  2. If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them?

    22 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  3. Bell Laboratories Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  4. Happy Bees Make Delicious Honey

    22 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  5. Caracas on the Potomac

    22 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  6. How Flu Shots Prevent Heart Attacks

    22 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  7. End of low-value tariff exemption on packages is permanent, administration says

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  8. Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant to Prototype a CPU Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre

    22 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  9. ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

    22 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  10. CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  11. Men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

    22 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  12. India approves 10 new nuclear reactors

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  13. Facebook bought a VPN app for $120M and spied on 33M+ users' phones for years

    22 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  14. UR5 with Robotiq 85 Gripper: Object Grasping and Placement Simulation

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  15. Americans Are Getting Priced Out of Homeownership at Record Rates

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  16. 'Constantine Cavafy' Review: A Poet's Odyssey Within

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  17. Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  18. Cloudflare confirms downtime on August 23rd, silently posts it on status page

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  19. When Mark Zuckerberg Moved Next Door

    22 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  20. Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

    22 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  21. NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

    22 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  22. State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry 2025 [pdf]

    22 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  23. Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022)

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  24. Palantir CEO Alex Karp's Letter to Shareholders

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  25. Steam's Content Removal Could Be a Wider Consequence of Project 2025

    22 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  26. San Francisco's Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda

    22 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  27. ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

    22 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  28. LLM advises to delete the Linux dynamic linker during a troubleshooting session

    22 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  29. Is Proxmox pricing for home users st $133/socket justified in 2025?

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  30. Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  31. Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  32. Maybe we should do an updated Super Cars

    22 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  33. Don't ask to ask, just ask

    22 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  34. The Emperor's New Trade Deal – Paul Krugman

    22 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  35. Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia

    22 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  36. China develops first pregnancy robot, sparking ethical debate

    22 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  37. Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

    22 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  38. Echidna Enters a New Era of Symbolic Execution

    22 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  39. Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  40. The 10 Percent Is in a Fit of Rage over Airport Lounges

    22 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  41. $36.5M in Emergency Funding to Protect Public Media in Vulnerable Communities

    22 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  42. Inflammation predicts 25% higher mortality

    22 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  43. Google confirms it has been hacked

    22 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  44. The New York Times Mini Crossword Is No Longer Free to Play

    22 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  45. I sat down with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon

    22 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  46. Sheet0, a data agent transform webpages to structured spreadsheets

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  47. Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  48. Cupertino must stop calling Apple Watches 'carbon neutral,' German court rules

    22 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  49. Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not

    22 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  50. GPT 5 vs. Opus 4.1 for Vibe-Coded Apps

    22 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  51. Virtual 6NF

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  52. Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  53. Complex Iterators Are Slow

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  54. Modeling open-world cognition as on-demand synthesis of probabilistic models

    22 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  55. A subtle bug with Go's errgroup

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  56. Secret Messengers: Disseminating Sigint in the Second World War [pdf]

    21 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  57. The Omarchy Manual

    21 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  58. Map of Wales and Pronunciation from Wikipedia

    21 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  59. Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Semver

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  60. GPT-5 doubles performance in offensive security benchmark

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  61. Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD

    21 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  62. Show HN: Spoon-Bending – a framework for analyzing GPT-5 alignment behavior

    21 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  63. Humanloop Joins Anthrophic

    21 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  64. 'My teeth told me': What it was like aboard the Enola Gay

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  65. A Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Parser

    21 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  66. Synthetic gasoline

    21 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  67. Understanding Moravec's Paradox

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  68. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance

    21 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  69. Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation

    21 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  70. Apple Health lies to you about your six months sleep average

    21 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  71. Bitcoin miners say fee drought poses existential threat to network

    21 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  72. AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, 'This Is Existential.'

    21 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  73. Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  74. Naming Things: The Most Underrated Skill in Software Development

    21 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  75. Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers

    21 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  76. Onshape – Product Development Platform

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  77. People Who Live to 100 Have a Unique Relationship with Disease

    21 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  78. You Don't Need Monads

    21 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  79. Why I Procrastinate (2019)

    21 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  80. Printing Labels via SSH with Raspberry Pi Zero and Nix

    21 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  81. It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation

    21 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  82. Trello: How the project management app's update is causing customers to revolt

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  83. The ice cream truck's surprising history

    21 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  84. Drivers who appeal school speed zone camera fines almost guaranteed to lose

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  85. $3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE won't allow to retire

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  86. 25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UN

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  87. Building Agents for Small Language Models: A Deep Dive into Lightweight AI

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  88. U.K. 30-Year Yield Tops U.S. as Pressure Mounts on Government Borrowing

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  89. Must democracy "deliver the goods" to beat autocracy?

    21 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  90. Reindexing Adult NSFW Content

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  91. John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  92. AI is booming so are household utility bills

    21 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  93. Show HN: A private, flat monthly subscription for open-source LLMs

    21 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  94. Blast from the past: Facit A2400 terminal

    21 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  95. Japan should debate cap for foreign residents, government report says

    21 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  96. Angle brackets in a Nix flake world

    21 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  97. AI for data engineers with Simon Willison

    21 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  98. ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

    21 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  99. Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane

    21 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  100. Touch Mapper – open-source 3D printed tactile maps for the visually impaired

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2025