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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

    258 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  2. Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums

    258 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  3. Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

    258 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  4. FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself criticizing vaccines

    257 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  5. Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

    257 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  6. Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

    257 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  7. So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?

    257 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  8. How to Give a Good Talk

    256 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  9. TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process

    256 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  10. Go 1.25 Release Notes

    256 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  11. It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

    256 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  12. Everything is correlated (2014–23)

    255 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  13. GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme

    255 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  14. Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations

    254 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  15. Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

    254 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  16. Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

    254 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  17. Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

    253 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  18. Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

    253 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  19. Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics

    253 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  20. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable

    251 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  21. Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved

    249 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  22. Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

    249 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  23. Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist

    247 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  24. What is a color space?

    245 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  25. Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

    245 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  26. LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

    245 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  27. Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)

    245 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  28. NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant

    244 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  29. Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

    244 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  30. Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs

    244 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  31. Infinite Pixels

    243 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  32. Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

    243 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  33. Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development

    243 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  34. Traps to Developers

    243 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  35. Wikipedia as a Graph

    243 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  36. GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM

    242 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  37. GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?

    242 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  38. GPTs and Feeling Left Behind

    241 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  39. AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

    240 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  40. Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

    239 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  41. Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store

    238 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  42. Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too

    238 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  43. Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug

    237 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  44. Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

    237 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  45. At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)

    237 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  46. GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

    237 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  47. The Dollar Is Dead

    237 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  48. The Article in the Most Languages

    236 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  49. Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

    236 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  50. Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries

    236 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  51. Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)

    236 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  52. GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire

    236 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  53. Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)

    236 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  54. Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

    235 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  55. Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives

    234 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  56. Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

    234 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  57. Notion releases offline mode

    234 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  58. Python performance myths and fairy tales

    233 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  59. Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move

    233 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  60. How does the US use water?

    233 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  61. How to Build a Medieval Castle

    233 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  62. Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

    233 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  63. Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

    232 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  64. Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs

    231 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  65. What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness

    231 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  66. From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

    230 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  67. Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants

    230 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  68. "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit

    230 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  69. I'm Archiving Picocrypt

    228 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  70. Expert: LSP for Elixir

    228 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  71. How to make almost anything (2019)

    228 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  72. Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables

    228 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  73. A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code

    228 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  74. Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

    228 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  75. The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful

    227 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  76. iOS 18.6.1 0-click RCE POC

    226 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  77. Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

    226 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  78. Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

    226 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  79. Rethinking DOM from first principles

    226 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  80. Let's properly analyze an AI article for once

    225 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  81. Our European search index goes live

    224 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  82. Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

    224 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  83. Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

    224 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  84. MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

    224 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  85. Software Rot

    224 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  86. Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

    223 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  87. AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

    223 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  88. A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

    223 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  89. New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning

    223 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  90. I Don't Have Spotify

    222 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  91. Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes

    222 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  92. Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

    221 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  93. Window Activation

    221 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  94. Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

    221 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  95. AI models need a virtual machine

    221 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  96. When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

    221 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  97. AOL to discontinue dial-up internet

    221 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  98. Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking

    221 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  99. Git-Annex

    220 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  100. Zig's Lovely Syntax

    220 points • comment • aug 10, 2025