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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Ancient Statues Emerge from the Egypt's Coast, Where They'd Been for 1000 Years

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  2. How Japan is quietly showing the world how to grow without economic growth

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  3. Satellite Scanning

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  4. What Makes an Individual More Likely to Consent to Sex They Do Not Want?

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  5. In a World of Hype, GraphQL's Fundamental Advantages over tRPC Still Hold True

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  6. Altman: Graduates will get 'some new well-paid' job in space

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  7. The new American shopping mall is less Macy's, more church, bowling, bookstore

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  8. Feat: Add 'Proof of React' Challenge

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  9. macOS menu bar tool to track Cursor spending

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  10. Spain put up wealth taxes

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  11. Show HN: Q.js – Smaller than React/Vue, yet more powerful (40KB gzipped)

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  12. Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after cloudburst

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  13. Something weird is going on with Switch 2 game development

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  14. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our image model

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  15. Braille Vision: A Portable Text-to-Braille Device

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  16. The Boss Has Had It with All the Office Activists

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  17. AI is leading to thousands of job losses, report finds

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  18. The Four Stages of Objective-Smalltalk

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  19. The Cowboy of Generic Drugs

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  20. Terrence Tao Loses Funding

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  21. BLS and Our Age of Choose-Your-Own-Reality Governance

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  22. Why Should We Worry About Declining Birth Rates?

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  23. Proton Authenticator

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  24. Companies Are Pouring Billions into A.I. It Has yet to Pay Off

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  25. Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure to Save Democracy

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  26. Compiling Dinner

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  27. The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don't Belong to Us

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  28. Beyond Booleans

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  29. Linux 6.17 Will Correctly Map by Default F13 to F24 Keys on PS/2 Keyboards

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  30. Show HN: Structured Cooperation – A new way of building distributed apps & POC

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  31. Why the U.S. China Hawks Are Hurting the U.S.

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  32. Ask HN: Transition back to job market in 40s

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  33. One-size-fits-all pancreatic cancer vaccine showed promise in early trial

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  34. Trump, Apple to Announce New $100B Commitment to Manufacturing in US

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  35. We Are Headed Towards a System of National Capitalism

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  36. Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  37. Good Justifications Write Themselves

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  38. Grok's 'spicy' video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  39. I built a production app in a week by managing a swarm of 20 AI agents

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  40. Meta changes teen AI chatbot as Senate begins probe into romantic conversations

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  41. The Cybersecurity Psychology Framework: A Pre-Cognitive Vulnerability Assessment

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  42. MIT engineers develop DNA sensor to detect HIV and cancer at home for under $1

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  43. Nvidia releases open dataset, 2 models for multilingual speech AI

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  44. Europe doesn't have a startup problem, it has a storytelling problem

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  45. Who's Afraid of a Hard Page Load?

    9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  46. Ask HN: Will AI push more of us into freelancing?

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  47. The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  48. Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  49. Is Iran's water crisis fueled by military-backed illegal wells?

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  50. Building a Jeopardy Game for Laravel Live Denmark

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  51. Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  52. Is Universal Basic Income Effective? Not Really

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  53. Microsoft Office Lens getting the axe

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  54. How Does a Blind Model See the Earth?

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  55. Airbus Is About to Eclipse a Record That Boeing Held for Decades

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  56. Ask HN: Anyone using their own custom text editor?

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  57. Car Brands Running Curl

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  58. Shepard Tables

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  59. The Covid Vaccine Situation for the Fall Is a Complete Mess

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  60. Trump administration to vet all 55M foreigners with U.S. visas

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  61. China, Russia, and U.S. Race to Develop Lunar Nuclear Reactors

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  62. Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  63. AGI Overhyped?

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  64. Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  65. Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms(XVideos,BangBros,GirlsGoneWild)

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  66. Why Collaborate with XAI?

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  67. Swarm robotics could spell the end of the assembly line

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  68. Hacker News Alternativies

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  69. Still want to be a London cabbie?

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  70. Why you're going to see more swimming pools in strip malls

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  71. Indeed recruiter text scam: I responded to one of the "job" messages

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  72. Is this the moment when the Generative AI bubble deflates?

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  73. "Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  74. Arch-Router: Aligning LLM Routing with Human Preferences

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  75. Show HN: I built a service to run Claude Code in the Cloud

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  76. Using Dspy to Detect Document Boundaries

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  77. Green card holder, walking dog: deported

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  78. Show HN: Decentralized Bitcoin Incentives via QR Codes

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  79. Measuring Thinking Efficiency in Reasoning Models: The Missing Benchmark

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  80. Hotels in Europe to sue Booking.com over 'abusive' practices

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  81. How did a debate over housing become a call to end the anti-monopoly movement?

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  82. El Salvador allows Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite re-election

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  83. The Loop Is Back: Why HRM Is the Most Exciting AI Architecture in Years

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  84. Bidirectional Signals from the Emitter's Perspective in PHP

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  85. 36B solar masses: what may be the most massive black hole ever detected

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  86. Show HN: Okapi – a metrics engine based on open data formats

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  87. Italy gives final approval for longest suspension bridge to Sicily

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  88. The State of Python 2025

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  89. In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  90. Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  91. Tell HN: Gmail tampers with incoming email body content

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  92. Show HN: E-commerce data from 100k stores that is refreshed daily

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  93. The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  94. Problem with Payment Gateways

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  95. Nintendo patent potentially adds click wheel and crank accessories to Joy-Con

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  96. OpenAI Open Source Model Leaked on HF

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  97. GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career"

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  98. Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  99. Show HN: QuickShelf – Stop opening Finder just to drag files

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  100. Chrome and Firefox display the same Washington Post article differently

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2025