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Hacker News (Aug 2025)
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First edition copy of the Hobbit found in England
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Immigration officers smash car windows to speed up arrests
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Show HN: Hanaco Weather – A poetic weather SNS from the OS Yamato project
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Disk sampling on a sphere
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Why Developers Are Struggling on Apple's Increasingly Hostile Platforms
17 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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Lenin Was a Mushroom
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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When Disney Went Digital
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Optimizing My Disk Usage Program
17 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Bad Craziness
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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The Simple Vision Breakthrough That Might End Lasik
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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AI agents fail tasks 70% of the time
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Creating high quality electronics schematics
17 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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Novo Nordisk offers Ozempic at $499/month to eligible US cash-paying customers
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
17 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Canada's first commercial spaceport is under construction
17 points • comment • aug 17, 2025
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Performance Speed Limits (2019)
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Fed Gamble Risks Pushing Key Bond Rates Even Higher
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Programming for Cats
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study
16 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Show HN: I've made an easy to extend and flexible JavaScript logger
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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System Initiative Adds AI Agents to Infrastructure Automation Platform
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Is Universal Basic Income Effective? Not Really
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Americans Are Having Less Sex
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Decide Now; We Won't Know More Later Re UFOs
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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How to Lie with Statistics
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Community Update #35 Baldur's Gate 3 Turns Two
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Document.write
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Termagotchi – A terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation written in Go
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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A volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks
16 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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Dexter Cows and Kefir Cheese (2008)
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Intel exec quits to run Analog Devices' Oregon factory
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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Eaton fire could have been prevented, utils fought removal of old power lines
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Amazon's 'just walk out' checkout tech was powered by 1k Indian workers
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Elon Musk's Self-Driving Tesla Lies Are Finally Catching Up to Him
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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America by Design
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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FTC sues LA Fitness for making it exceedingly hard to cancel gym memberships
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Microsoft launch inquiry on Israel use of tech for surveillance of Palestinians
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome
16 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Show HN: HMPL – Small Template Language for Rendering UI from Server to Client
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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UK Court Ruling Leaves Wikipedia Years of Uncertainty Under Online Safety Act
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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America Should Assume the Worst About AI
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Through the Liquid Glass
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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Hubble catches sharpest image yet of 3I/ATLAS
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Yes, I Texted the Number on the Sign
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Do blogs need to be so lonely?
16 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Thousands of Company directors leave UK after Labour's tax changes
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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I trapped an LLM into a Raspberry Pi and it spiraled into an existential crisis
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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Instagram public accounts with less than 1k followers can no longer go live
16 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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My AI had fixed the code before I saw it
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn't released one
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Will data centers crash the economy?
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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New evidence strongly suggest AI is killing jobs for young programmers
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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Microsoft calls protest a 'destructive' act by outsiders
16 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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The Scroll Art (Animated ASCII) Museum
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Just 1% of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors died from radiation cancers, study
16 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Embedding Text Documents with Qwen3
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet; billionaires can sell you AI nudes
16 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Sharing Is Scaring: Linking Cloud File-Sharing to Programming Language Semantics
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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ShWiM: Peer-to-peer terminal sharing
16 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Why AI Isn't Ready to Be a Real Coder
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Is Today's Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Tinyrenderer second edition: software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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'1984' Hasn't Changed, but America Has
16 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Linux 6.16.1 Fixes a Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression – Up to 30%
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Why is it so hard for startups to compete with Cadence?
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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AI Is Slowing Down Tracker
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like chess.com but for debating)
15 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches
15 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
15 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Building a watch from scratch in a Brooklyn basement
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Anne Applebaum: 'the West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' [video]
15 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2018) [pdf]
15 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Schools are next for Flock Safety's automatic license place reader cameras
15 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Gleam v1.12.0 Released
15 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Partner with Product to pay down technical debt
15 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Go 1.25 Is Released
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring [video]
15 points • comment • aug 17, 2025
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Tax the Rich. They Won't Leave New York
15 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Living with 12 Strangers to Ease a Housing Crunch
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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A defense of learning Latin and Greek
15 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Termix – Self hosted web-based SSH terminal, reverse tunnels, and file editing
15 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they're victims, says Nick Clegg
15 points • comment • aug 23, 2025