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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Japan's Creepiest Station

    194 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  2. An Update on Pytype

    194 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  3. Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures

    194 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  4. How to sell if your user is not the buyer

    193 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  5. Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?

    193 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  6. I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

    192 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  7. Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

    192 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  8. Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

    192 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  9. Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

    192 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  10. CDC officials’ resignation emails

    192 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  11. Epson MX-80 Fonts

    192 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  12. Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI

    191 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  13. The value of institutional memory

    191 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  14. The National Design Studio is a scam

    191 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  15. Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)

    191 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  16. Introduction to AT Protocol

    191 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  17. Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster

    191 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  18. How to rig elections [video]

    190 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  19. AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

    190 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  20. French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells

    190 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  21. New executive order puts all grants under political control

    190 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  22. Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig

    190 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  23. Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit

    189 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  24. Why was Apache Kafka created?

    189 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  25. Developer's block

    189 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  26. LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

    189 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  27. Typechecker Zoo

    189 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  28. It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019)

    189 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  29. Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

    188 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  30. Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507

    188 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  31. Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

    188 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  32. A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

    187 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  33. Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

    187 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  34. The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction

    187 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  35. Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years

    187 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  36. Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

    187 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  37. SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

    186 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  38. An engineer's perspective on hiring

    186 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  39. Show HN: PageIndex – Vectorless RAG

    186 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  40. My other email client is a daemon

    186 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  41. AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery

    186 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  42. Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism

    186 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  43. Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

    186 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  44. Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?

    185 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  45. The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off

    185 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  46. 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report

    185 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  47. I hacked Monster Energy

    185 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  48. SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious

    184 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  49. Read your code

    184 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  50. The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

    183 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  51. Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band

    183 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  52. Building AI products in the probabilistic era

    183 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  53. SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"

    183 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  54. Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone

    183 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  55. Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition

    183 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  56. That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake

    182 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  57. Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect

    182 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  58. Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

    181 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  59. Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck

    181 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  60. LLM Inflation

    181 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  61. Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

    180 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  62. Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

    180 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  63. My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)

    180 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  64. UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse

    180 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  65. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)

    180 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  66. PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming

    180 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  67. The MiniPC Revolution

    180 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  68. AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

    179 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  69. Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP

    179 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  70. Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released

    179 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  71. We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

    179 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  72. Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

    179 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  73. Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting

    179 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  74. Content-Aware Spaced Repetition

    179 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  75. Nvidia DGX Spark

    179 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  76. Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky

    178 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  77. Claude Code Checkpoints

    178 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  78. Customizing tmux

    178 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  79. Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files

    178 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  80. The Timmy Trap

    178 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  81. Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

    178 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  82. Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

    177 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  83. The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

    177 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  84. Guid Smash

    177 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  85. Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (2021)

    177 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  86. Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

    177 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  87. AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

    177 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  88. Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

    177 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  89. Why Nim?

    176 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  90. Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

    175 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  91. Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers

    175 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  92. DINOv3

    175 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  93. Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model

    175 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  94. Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

    174 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  95. Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer

    174 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  96. Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'

    174 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  97. Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]

    174 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  98. ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs

    173 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  99. Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code

    173 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  100. Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

    173 points • comment • aug 16, 2025