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Hacker News (Aug 2025)
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Prusa CEO declares "open hardware 3D printing is dead"
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Teens are increasingly turning to AI companions, and it could be harming them
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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AI Is Designing New Physics Experiments That Work
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Chinese state media calls U.S. a 'surveillance empire' over trackers in chips
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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FBI Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
8 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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eBay Stalking Scandal
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Ghost Calls: Abusing Web Conferencing for Covert Command and Control
8 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
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Anatomy of a Python Loop
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Hacker News Recap podcast is back
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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What happens the day after Superintelligence?
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Why Some Companies Scale Effortlessly While Others Hit Walls
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Gangs are using increasingly sophisticated kit to steal cars
8 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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I got people to pay me $50K in 3 days with NFTs (2021)
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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Why israel must hold itself to account and how it can be made to do so
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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HNI acquires Steelcase for $2.2B in another blow to west Michigan
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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Indigenous Runner Wins 63K Ultramarathon After Walking 14 Hours to Starting Line
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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In Defense of Car-Centered Society
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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Sorry, Billionaires–There's No Escape
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life
7 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Bloomberg DMCA'd gamersnexus GPU smuggling documentary for quoting the President [video]
7 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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GPT-5 Rollout Updates
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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MapYourGrid
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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Is this a real woman? AI model in Vogue raises concerns about beauty standards
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Grok's 'Spicy' Mode Makes NSFW Celebrity Deepfakes of Women (But Not Men)
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Volkswagen UK Is Locking Horsepower Behind a Subscription
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Ask HN: How is it possible to get -0.0 in a sum?
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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The top% largest US stocks now reflect a record 76% of the US equity market
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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Microschool Movement Grows in U.S., Raising Quality Concerns
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare program
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Moving to Omarchy
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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Aussie ISP iiNet confirms data breach impacting more than 200k customers
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Buttercup is now open-source
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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The Prodigal Techbro
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Nazi looted art discovered after 80 years thanks to real estate ad
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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LLMs as Parts of Systems
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Bulk Carrier Explosion Baltimore, MD
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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China's Genocide and the Eliticide of Uyghur Scholars
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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US banks lobby to block stablecoin interest over fears of deposit flight
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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You Can Build Better AI Agents in Java Than Python
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Weekend Warriors Are Prepping for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Unnumbered IPv4 Interfaces
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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Dollar Street – Photos from families with different incomes
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
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Why do software developers love complexity?
7 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Cricket, Fandom, and the Unspoken Price of Fantasy Gaming
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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GPT-5 AMA with OpenAI's Sam Altman
7 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
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6G Wireless Networks to Use Satellites as Base Stations
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy
7 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
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Heretic and Hexen Restored and Updated – Official Launch Trailer [video]
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Landrecords – cheap nationwide parcel dataset standardized using gemma3
7 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
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Intuitive Timezones Viewer
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Denmark zoo asks for people to donate their pets to feed its predators
7 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
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"Ratfucking" – American political sabotage
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Google: Was 1995 30 years ago?
7 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
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Silicon Valley Is in Its 'Hard Tech' Era
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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The catfishing scam putting fans and female golfers in danger
7 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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The trade in US body parts that's legal – but ripe for exploitation
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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Mel Brooks: 'Hitler was bad to every Jew in the world, but he was good to me'
7 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
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Warren Buffett Archive
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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An ex-Facebook exec said staff let Zuckerberg win at board games
7 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
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Single Sign on for Furries
7 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
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They Let Their Children Cross the Street, and Now They're Felons
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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I Don't Like "AI"
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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We Are Being Sludged
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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White House launches official TikTok account
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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Swiss Politicians Push to Cancel F-35 Fighter-Jet Deal After US Tariffs
7 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
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How the TI-99/4A Home Computer Worked [video]
7 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
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Trump-Putin Summit Documents Left in Hotel Printer
7 points • comment • aug 17, 2025
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It's okay to solve a problem twice
7 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
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Prompting GPT-5 is different
7 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
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Milan's expat 'explosion' brings new buzz to Italy's financial centre
7 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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v0.dev is now v0.app
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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New Hacker Residency in Da Nang, Vietnam
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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Perplexity Comet Browser Vulnerability Put Sensitive Data at Risk
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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Write "Freehold" Software
7 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
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The Epstein Files by Heather Marsh
7 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
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Jailbroken iDevices may be able to run macOS natively
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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I Scraped 4M Jobs
7 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
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California needs to pass zoning reform – and build new housing – to prosper
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Rising electric bills: How states are tackling Big Tech's energy demands
7 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
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Radio is back – Gen Z's listening habits are changing the face of media
7 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
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The Untold Story Behind Prince of Persia's Impressive SNES Port
7 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
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Underused Techniques for Effective Emails · Refactoring English
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Why Conspiracy Theories Never Die, Richard Hofstadter's Paranoid Style
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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Why Is Gov. Gavin Newsom Blocking Rooftop Solar in California?
7 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
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How Does a Firewall Work Step by Step
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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I Remember 'Plop!' Before It Flopped
7 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
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Tesla's Europe problem just got even worse
7 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
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Joyent ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook 10y before AWS
7 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
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The Americans Following in the Footsteps of the Knights Templar
7 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
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Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
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The Lifespan of News Stories
7 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
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Luhn algorithm – Credit card number verification
7 points • comment • aug 24, 2025