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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"

    323 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  2. Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

    322 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  3. I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

    319 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  4. My phone is an ereader now

    319 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  5. Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos

    319 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  6. Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

    317 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  7. Pfeilstorch

    316 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  8. Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font

    313 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  9. AI is propping up the US economy

    312 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  10. A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

    311 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  11. US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

    310 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  12. I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

    308 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  13. The beauty of a text only webpage

    308 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  14. Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

    307 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  15. Ashet Home Computer

    307 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  16. Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32

    305 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  17. Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]

    305 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  18. Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years

    305 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  19. "None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill

    303 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  20. 3D Line Drawings

    303 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  21. We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online

    302 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  22. Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

    301 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  23. Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

    300 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  24. Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy

    299 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  25. Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

    299 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  26. Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line

    298 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  27. OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

    296 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  28. Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere

    295 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  29. Without the futex, it's futile

    295 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  30. Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

    295 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  31. Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

    294 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  32. F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

    293 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  33. When did AI take over Hacker News?

    293 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  34. RSS is awesome

    293 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  35. QEMU 10.1.0

    293 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  36. Important machine learning equations

    292 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  37. Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant

    292 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  38. Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

    292 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  39. I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class

    291 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  40. Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

    291 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  41. I Am An AI Hater

    291 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  42. Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

    290 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  43. Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space

    290 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  44. Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

    290 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  45. Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

    290 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  46. SystemD Service Hardening

    290 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  47. Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude

    288 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  48. Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

    287 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  49. Prime Number Grid

    286 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  50. Python: The Documentary [video]

    285 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  51. Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people

    285 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  52. All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair

    285 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  53. Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

    285 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  54. Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

    284 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  55. A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages

    283 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  56. Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public

    283 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  57. How well does the money laundering control system work?

    283 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  58. SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight

    283 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  59. Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

    282 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  60. The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

    281 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  61. FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

    281 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  62. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

    281 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  63. Emacs as your video-trimming tool

    280 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  64. How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ

    279 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  65. Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)

    278 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  66. I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

    277 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  67. GPT-5 leaked system prompt?

    277 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  68. Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

    277 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  69. Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault

    276 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  70. Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature

    276 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  71. Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

    275 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  72. LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine

    275 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  73. Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)

    275 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  74. YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

    274 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  75. 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)

    274 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  76. The cost of interrupted work (2023)

    273 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  77. Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

    272 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  78. Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

    271 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  79. Sci-Hub has been blocked in India

    271 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  80. Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

    270 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  81. Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

    270 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  82. Apache ECharts 6

    270 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  83. Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

    270 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  84. Git Diagramming "The Weave"

    269 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  85. Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson

    269 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  86. Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread

    268 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  87. A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks

    267 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  88. California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters

    267 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  89. macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support

    267 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  90. Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks

    266 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  91. One Million Screenshots

    266 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  92. Build Your Own Lisp

    264 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  93. Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

    263 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  94. Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

    263 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  95. Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

    261 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  96. How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

    261 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  97. Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

    261 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  98. Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year

    260 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  99. Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

    260 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  100. RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

    259 points • comment • aug 23, 2025