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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Two sizes fit most: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse (2022)

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  2. When Did Apple's Obsession with Design Stagnate?

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  3. Who Gives a Sheaf?

    13 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  4. Trump Family Cashes in on 'The Infinite Money Glitch'

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  5. The Troubling Decline in Conscientiousness

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  6. Computational Music Synthesis

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  7. ChatGPT users hate GPT-5's overworked secretary energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  8. Fractal drum machine plays any beat [video]

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  9. Show HN: A iOS Native Bluesky App

    13 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  10. Lessons learned from implementing SIMD-accelerated algorithms in pure Rust

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  11. Bird signs and cycles, February, 2024

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  12. North Korean hackers target open-source repositories in new espionage campaign

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  13. Electrically controlled heat transport in graphite films

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  14. California tech startup once worth $1B shuts down

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  15. The defense against slop and brainrot

    13 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  16. Corporate America's New Ploy to Trap Workers

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  17. Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  18. Don't like joining in? Why it could be your superpower

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  19. Microsoft Spends Billions, Creates Calculator That's Sometimes Wrong

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  20. You May Get Future Vaccines via Dental Floss

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  21. SSA whistleblower's resignation email mysteriously disappeared from inboxes

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  22. OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  23. Graphene capacitors achieve rapid, high-depth modulation of terahertz waves

    13 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  24. We beat GPT-4o's baseline with a simple re-prompting loop

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  25. Britain Is Losing Its Free Speech, and America Could Be Next

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  26. Why Metaflow?

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  27. Deploy Production-Ready Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  28. The Workday Never Ends When Leisure Becomes Labor

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  29. Delta Gets Blowback for Using AI to Set Airfares

    13 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  30. LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  31. Growing Up on Alcatraz

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  32. AWS vs. GCP VPC architecture deep dive

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  33. We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  34. RFK Halts mRNA vaccine research

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  35. Dropbox Passwords Discontinuation

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  36. US soldiers could be liable for war crimes in Gaza. Will they be prosecuted?

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  37. Viewcounts of top Twitch streamers drop after platform cracks down on view bots

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  38. Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  39. Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  40. Show HN: I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  41. UK Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  42. TreeStore: Endowing data with hierarchical structure

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  43. Model Collapse and the Need for Human-Generated Training Data

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  44. A continuous stream of vintage computing artifacts from the Internet Archive

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  45. Welcome to the World of Statecharts

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  46. 'Absolutely immense': the companies on the hook for the $3T AI building boom

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  47. Detecting toxic work culture early on

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  48. Kagi Is Down

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  49. US Military's squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  50. Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  51. VC deck: What's gone wrong in software and why we're optimistic

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  52. Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  53. US Administration is considering stake in Intel

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  54. Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  55. Ocean current 'collapse' could trigger 'profound cooling' in northern Europe

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  56. Lithium May Be the Key to Stopping Alzheimer's

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  57. KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  58. GitHub Copilot: Remote code execution via prompt injection (CVE-2025-53773)

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  59. Render any Git repo into a single static HTML page for humans or LLMs

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  60. Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  61. Physical Warp Drives (2021)

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  62. uses this

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  63. Red meat consumption within high-quality diets may support mental health

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  64. Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  65. Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  66. Greater Israel: Theology as Cartography – Cartography as Catastrophe

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  67. Perplexity makes bold $34.5B bid for Google's Chrome browser

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  68. Gabe Newell on AI, Gaming, and Success [video]

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  69. My ancestors fought in WWII. Hiroshima is plagued by shallow reading

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  70. Show HN: Bitcoin Challenge. Try to steal a plain text private key you can use

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  71. Volunteers fight to keep 'AI slop' off Wikipedia

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  72. Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  73. You Should Probably Leave Substack

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  74. American capitalism is being remade by state power

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  75. Technical issues of separation in function cells and value cells (1988)

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  76. Rust is a language for building foundational software

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  77. Show HN: SecretMemoryLocker – File Encryption Without Static Passwords

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  78. Show HN: My OSS P2P file transfer tool for learning Next.js (as a C++ dev)

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  79. Decades of Blunders Put a Lethal Wall at the End of a South Korean Runway

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  80. Fast or slow metabolisms are not a "lie"

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  81. Retry Loop Retry

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  82. Non-Consensual Technology

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  83. Trump to put 100% tariff on computers chips

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  84. It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  85. Apple's ChatGPT Rival from New 'Answers' Team

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  86. Go-away – Customizable, conditional challenges to incoming requests

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  87. Lobster found 250 miles from where it was tagged

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  88. Trump Announces 100% Tariff on Semiconductors, unless made in US

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  89. Brain cells learn faster than machine learning, research reveals

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  90. HTML Traits

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  91. Ultra Ethernet: Reinventing X.25

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  92. My Brainrot Demands Slop: Infinite Jest and GenAI

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  93. How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  94. Game math: precise control over numeric springing

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  95. Ex-Tesla employees start EV charging company after Elon Musk fired everyone

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  96. RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  97. Texas House Democrats flee state in bid to block GOP proposed congressional map

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  98. An 8085 Microprocessor based monitor system for a 750 cc Honda motorcycle (1988)

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  99. Why do we even need SIMD instructions?

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  100. Trump Just Militarized the Capital – What Comes Next?

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2025