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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

    412 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  2. We put a coding agent in a while loop

    412 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  3. Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering

    410 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  4. FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

    408 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  5. GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]

    408 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  6. Burner Phone 101

    407 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  7. I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

    406 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  8. Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

    405 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  9. ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

    405 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  10. Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

    404 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  11. Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

    403 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  12. Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

    403 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  13. Everything I know about good API design

    399 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  14. Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

    397 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  15. Windows XP Professional

    397 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  16. So you want to parse a PDF?

    397 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  17. MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems

    392 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  18. 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

    392 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  19. Google's Liquid Cooling

    391 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  20. macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

    391 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  21. Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

    391 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  22. Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

    391 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  23. OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

    390 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  24. OpenAI Progress

    386 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  25. A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

    386 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  26. Code review can be better

    385 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  27. Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

    384 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  28. Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

    384 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  29. How to Think About GPUs

    381 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  30. Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

    379 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  31. How I use Tailscale

    379 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  32. DrawAFish.com Postmortem

    379 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  33. OCaml as my primary language

    375 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  34. A bug saved the company

    373 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  35. Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

    372 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  36. How we built Bluey’s world

    372 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  37. "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"

    372 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  38. The untold impact of cancellation

    371 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  39. Cursor CLI

    371 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  40. T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree

    370 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  41. FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections

    370 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  42. Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

    368 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  43. 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

    368 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  44. Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive

    367 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  45. Building Bluesky comments for my blog

    366 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  46. Harmony: OpenAI's response format for its open-weight model series

    366 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  47. You Have to Feel It

    365 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  48. LLMs aren't world models

    365 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  49. Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

    365 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  50. AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong

    363 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  51. Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition

    363 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  52. What does Palantir actually do?

    361 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  53. Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court

    361 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  54. Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)

    359 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  55. Flunking my Anthropic interview again

    357 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  56. Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

    356 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  57. VIM Master

    355 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  58. The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood

    355 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  59. What is going on right now?

    355 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  60. Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

    355 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  61. Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

    353 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  62. FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

    353 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  63. Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

    353 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  64. Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

    352 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  65. Tokens are getting more expensive

    352 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  66. The electric fence stopped working years ago

    351 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  67. ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

    350 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  68. Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

    350 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  69. Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable

    349 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  70. Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

    349 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  71. Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

    349 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  72. UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

    347 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  73. Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

    346 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  74. Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications

    346 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  75. Starship's Tenth Flight Test

    346 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  76. Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines

    346 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  77. 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind

    344 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  78. Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

    343 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  79. Automerge 3.0

    343 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  80. The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

    342 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  81. Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer

    342 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  82. Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

    337 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  83. GitHub was having issues

    336 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  84. New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients

    335 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  85. Jules, our asynchronous coding agent

    335 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  86. Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

    335 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  87. I dumped Google for Kagi

    335 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  88. An illustrated guide to OAuth

    333 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  89. Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

    333 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  90. Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock

    332 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  91. Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

    331 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  92. One universal antiviral to rule them all?

    328 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  93. Litestar is worth a look

    328 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  94. The day Return became Enter (2023)

    327 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  95. My startup banking story (2023)

    327 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  96. Use One Big Server (2022)

    327 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  97. Our Farewell from Google Play

    326 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  98. Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

    326 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  99. Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

    324 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  100. Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock

    324 points • comment • aug 24, 2025