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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks (2023)

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  2. Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  3. Is this blatant corruption by Tim Cook?

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  4. Show HN: Llmswap – Python package to reduce LLM API costs by 50-90% with caching

    11 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  5. A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley's 'Hard Tech' Era

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  6. FDA approves new Covid-19 vaccines in US but limits who can get them

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  7. "Stop children using VPNs to watch porn", UK politicians told

    11 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  8. The Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

    11 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  9. Google announces Tennessee as site for small modular nuclear reactor

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  10. New high-speed Amtrak trains are moving slower than the old ones

    11 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  11. Show HN: Voltpeek – Vim-inspired oscilloscope software

    11 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  12. Are you in a mid-career to senior job? Don't fear AI

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  13. Stylish Bugs

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  14. Data Labeling Is the Hot New Thing in AI

    11 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  15. Mar-a-Lago Face

    11 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  16. British backpacker pleads guilty to killing man while drunk on e-scooter

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  17. Character.ai Gave Up on AGI. Now It's Selling Stories

    11 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  18. Trump puts Washington police under federal control, National Guard to be deployd

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  19. Sudden West Point firing: US Army SEC appears to fold under far-right pressure

    11 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  20. Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

    11 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  21. UK Royal Society adopts 'subscribe to open' publishing model

    11 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  22. Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  23. OpenAI scores gold in one of the top programming competitions

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  24. Not so prompt: Prompt optimization as model selection (2024)

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  25. DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  26. New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  27. "Magic" Cleaning Sponges Found to Release Trillions of Microplastic Fibers

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  28. Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections

    11 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  29. Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  30. Europe's Free-Speech Problem

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  31. LLMs Are Letter-Blind and Here's Why Enterprises Should Care

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  32. Rosetta 2 support discontinuation notice

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  33. Show HN: Envoy – Command Logger

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  34. PyG 2.0: Scalable Learning on Real World Graphs

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  35. SQLite-HTTP-cache: SQLite Extension to cache HTTP requests

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  36. I Don't Like Imports

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  37. Hospital food proven bad scientifically – and may undermine health

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  38. The Epochalypse: It's Y2K, but 38 Years Later

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  39. ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  40. Scale: Natively compile CUDA applications for AMD GPUs

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  41. 2026, Year of Reinforcement Learning?

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  42. The unreasonable likelihood of being: origin of life, terraforming, and AI

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  43. Why Perplexity is going after Google Chrome – and yes, it's serious

    10 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  44. CA man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  45. A book that belonged to Grace Hopper

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  46. C++26 Reflections adventures and compile time UML

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  47. Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  48. AT&T Long Lines Map and Information

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  49. Show HN: Turn impulse buys into dream investments

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  50. AI might worsen diagnostics for physicians

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  51. 1848 painting has uncanny insight into American conspiracy thinking

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  52. What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  53. GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  54. The Crypto Crises Are Coming

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  55. Libgit2 – The Git Linkable Library

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  56. Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 released

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  57. Cisco announces mass layoffs just after soaring revenue report

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  58. After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide–and suffers psychosis

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  59. Reuters reports that the entry-level software eng job market has collapsed

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  60. Arrays in Practice (2024)

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  61. Snapchat open source cross-platform mobile framework. Looking for beta testers

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  62. Show HN: Komposer, AI image editor where the LLM writes the prompts

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  63. An Investigation into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  64. Coinbase Mandates In-Person Orientation to Stop North Korean Hackers

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  65. Show HN: An endless feed with history, science, tech., business

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  66. Time to upgrade my laptop – need advice please

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  67. Texas Tribune experiment: learning ways to engage with "news avoiders"

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  68. Body clock keeps 24-hour rhythm by distorting gene activity in the heat

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  69. Figma IPO was so underpriced VCs lost out on $20B+

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  70. 'Sneakflation': how tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  71. Ronnie Rondell, Stuntman Set on Fire for Pink Floyd Cover, Dies at 88

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  72. 10-year-old becomes youngest female chess player to defeat grandmaster

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  73. Using game theory to explain how institutions arise to manage limited resources

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  74. Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  75. Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  76. Show HN: Code-snippets for developing eBPF Programs

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  77. Alex Kladov's Blog Links

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  78. Greystar Makes Deal with DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case

    10 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  79. Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to Your IP CCTV cameras in a minute

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  80. Stop Using MVVM

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  81. Ask HN: Is true democracy possible in online tech communities?

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  82. Giant satellite VHF antenna for space-based air traffic service

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  83. FBI's undercover $250 Bitcoin payment helps take down alleged corporate hacker

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  84. Wan2.2-S2V-14B – audio-driven cinematic video generation model

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  85. New research shows promise for restoring vision for people with glaucoma

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  86. Light-based AI image generator uses almost no power

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  87. Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here's What It Would Mean

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  88. 8M patients: the only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  89. Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains

    10 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  90. Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  91. US immigrant population down by more than a million people amid Trump crackdown

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  92. Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  93. Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  94. The USAID Fire Sale

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  95. Bloomberg DMCA strikes gamersnexus smuggling documentary

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  96. awesome-claude-code-subagents: Production-ready Claude subagents collection

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  97. Doge wasted $21.7B in taxpayer funds, according to Senate report

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  98. Extending Kafka the Hard Way (Part 1) – Middle of Nowhere

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  99. Cursor charges me $10.67 for a single sonnet call, a mod on X removed my post

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  100. Treasury Announces Federal Govt Will Phase Out Paper Checks on September 30th

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2025