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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Git-Annex

    220 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  2. DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

    219 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  3. OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

    219 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  4. Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

    219 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  5. I used to know how to write in Japanese

    219 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  6. One person was able to claim 20M IPs

    219 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  7. Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

    218 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  8. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

    217 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  9. HTML-in-Canvas

    217 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  10. US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices

    217 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  11. Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras

    217 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  12. What to do with C++ modules?

    216 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  13. Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

    216 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  14. LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords

    216 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

    216 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  16. 303Gen – 303 acid loops generator

    216 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  17. The current state of LLM-driven development

    215 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  18. Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math

    215 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  19. Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs

    214 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  20. Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

    214 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  21. China is eating the world

    214 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  22. Vibe coding tips and tricks

    214 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  23. IQ tests results for AI

    213 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  24. Booting 5000 Erlangs on Ampere One 192-core

    213 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  25. Margin debt surges to record high

    213 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  26. Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

    213 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  27. Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license

    213 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  28. Diffusion language models are super data learners

    211 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  29. Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

    211 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  30. Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

    211 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  31. Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups

    210 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  32. Welcome to url.town, population 465

    210 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  33. Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft

    210 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  34. Clojure Async Flow Guide

    210 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  35. Imagen 4 is now generally available

    209 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  36. A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C

    209 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  37. Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

    209 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  38. New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

    209 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  39. Happy BuyNothing Day

    209 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  40. Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts

    209 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  41. Turning Claude Code into my best design partner

    209 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  42. The contrarian physics podcast subculture

    208 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  43. How attention sinks keep language models stable

    208 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  44. Fairness is what the powerful 'can get away with' study shows

    207 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  45. 500 days of math

    207 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  46. Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?

    207 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  47. Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

    207 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  48. The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

    207 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  49. Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero

    207 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  50. Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

    207 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  51. Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

    207 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  52. Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

    206 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  53. VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]

    206 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  54. Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets

    206 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  55. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

    205 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  56. The Bluesky Dictionary

    205 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  57. Atlassian terminates 150 staff

    205 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  58. Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm

    205 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  59. In Search of AI Psychosis

    205 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  60. How do I get into the game industry

    205 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  61. OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

    205 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  62. When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army

    204 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  63. Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

    204 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  64. How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

    204 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  65. EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum

    204 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  66. The Annotated Transformer (2022)

    203 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  67. The value of hitting the HN front page

    203 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  68. Omarchy Is Out

    203 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  69. Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed

    202 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  70. Study: Social media probably can't be fixed

    202 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  71. WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]

    202 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  72. Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python

    202 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  73. Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

    201 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  74. CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations

    201 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  75. US to rewrite its past national climate reports

    201 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  76. Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

    201 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  77. Eleven Music

    200 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  78. The two versions of Parquet

    199 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  79. Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets

    199 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  80. GitHub pull requests are down

    199 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  81. I made a floppy disk from scratch

    199 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  82. How to grow almost anything

    198 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  83. How Not to Buy a SSD

    198 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  84. Hermes 4

    198 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  85. Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

    198 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  86. Basic Social Skills Guide

    197 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  87. Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

    197 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  88. ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

    196 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  89. Who Invented Backpropagation?

    196 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  90. FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime

    196 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  91. Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

    196 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  92. NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform

    196 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  93. Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor

    196 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  94. Privately-Owned Rail Cars

    196 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  95. A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

    196 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  96. Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world

    195 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  97. Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations

    195 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  98. HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

    195 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  99. Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda

    195 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  100. Japan's Creepiest Station

    194 points • comment • aug 25, 2025