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Hacker News (Aug 2025)
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Comparing baseball greats across eras, who comes out on top?
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Dagger and opencode and agnostic agents and SSH app = most portable dev kit
9 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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OpenAI returns old models to ChatGPT
9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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Ask HN: Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else?
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Gwynne Dyer: The AI Crash Is on the Way
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Lessons from writing a Kubernetes Security book
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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WordPress Login Security with Fail2ban
9 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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CBS caved to Trump–now he's seeking punishments for ABC and NBC
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Waymo car crashed into another Waymo car
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
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NZ1: A minimalist, dependency-free data compression algorithm
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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The peculiar case of Japanese web design
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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The 1970s Gave Us Industrial Decline. A.I. Could Bring Something Worse.
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Possible GPL Violation by Banana Pi RiscV
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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DeepSeek-v3.1
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Gaza and the End of History
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Run Whisper audio transcriptions with one FFmpeg command
9 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Jeffrey Epstein's and Peter Thiel (Ehud Barak leaked Emails)
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Why it's a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Burning Man co-founder on why he hates the festival now
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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SpaceX to start sending Dragon capsules to Mars in 2 years
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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US to publish economic data on blockchain, Commerce chief Lutnick says
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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Laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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8080 – a short story of 4-digit number and EU regulations in pratice
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder (2024)
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Significant Layoffs at Oracle
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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'It's a Mess': A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory's 100th Birthday Party
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive?
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Australia once the gold standard for gun safety: Experts say it's losing control
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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McDonald's is cutting prices to convince customers it's affordable again
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Lego Transformers Soundwave
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DoD Cloud Systems
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Ask HN: What options do I have for self-hosted end to end encrypted group chat?
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Perfect pesticide? RNA kills crop-destroying beetles with unprecedented accuracy
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Digital Foundry is going independent
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Last Photos Taken by Gaza Journalists Before They Were Killed in Israeli Strikes
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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AST-Driven Python Testing
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Time Theft at the Terminal
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Trump Administration Threatens to Take over Harvard's Patents
9 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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Why suppressing all wildfires has made today's megafires worse
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Bluesky and Enshittification
9 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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Health Secretary cancels $500M in mRNA vaccine research
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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Foreclosures rocket by 32% in Las Vegas
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Goiânia Accident
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek's Next-Gen R2 Model
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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It's Time for Americans to Start Talking About "Soft Secession"
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Vannevar Bush: As We May Think (1945) [pdf]
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Australian bank gives out customer phone to another customer by asking ChatGPT
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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The Myths of Chinese Exceptionalism
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Are We Teaching Rust Effectively?
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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AI hallucinations will be solvable within a year (2024)
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman's iris-scanning Orb to verify users
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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YORO Increases VR Frame Rates by Rendering One Eye and Synthesizing the Other
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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DINOV3: Self-supervised learning for vision at unprecedented scale
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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She owes a private school $27,000. Her daughter never attended
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Why Americans Under 30 Are So Miserable
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2025
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Researcher Exposes 0-Day Clickjacking Vulnerabilities in Major Password Managers
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Golden Literal Testing in UTest
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
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US senators call for Meta probe after Reuters report on its AI policies
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Ukraine Creates Reusable Interceptor Drone Equipped with Automated Shotgun
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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AI Startup Caught Cheating on Benchmark Papers
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This scan says otherwise
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Banned The 20 books they didn't want you to read
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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US Admin Forced to Resume $5B EV Charger Funding After Losing 14-State Lawsuit
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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A Danish zoo is asking owners of pets nearing life’s end to donate them as food
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Open Source Maintenance Fee business model example from WiX Toolset
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Do You Need to Own a House? Many Older Americans Decide They Don't
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Lasik Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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What Happens When You Register a Domain (and Why Owning a TLD Is So Hard)
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Paying attention to feature distribution alignment
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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The Dawn of Automated Warfare
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Skived Heat Sinks
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Hollywood's Newest Formula for Success: Rereleasing Old Movies
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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Framework Desktop Hands On: First Impressions (Benchmarks, Gaming, AI Models)
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Kioxia's 5TB, 64 GB/s flash module puts NAND toward the memory bus for AI GPU
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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What if technology is our weakness?
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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Few Americans Read for Pleasure
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Show HN: Minimal Counter
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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How Apple could send democracy to the spam folder
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Starship Was Doomed from the Beginning
8 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
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Anatomy of the (known) health damage caused by plastics
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Small Objects, Big Gains: Benchmarking Tigris Against AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Curl Turns 10k Days
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Testosterone Didn't Rapidly Decline
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
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Houston, you've got a space shuttle only NASA won't say which one
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Our Paint – A Natural Painting Program
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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ICE Recruitment Drive Reaches over 100k Applications
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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The Incompleteness of Ethics
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2025