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Hacker News (Aug 2025)

  1. Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

    172 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  2. Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye

    172 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  3. IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

    172 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  4. Review of Anti-Aging Drugs

    172 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  5. Pong Clock

    172 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  6. Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal

    172 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  7. RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros

    172 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  8. Dotfiles feel too personal to share

    172 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  9. Open Lovable

    171 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  10. The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years

    171 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  11. Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome

    171 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  12. Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription

    171 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  13. Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips

    171 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  14. Is air travel getting worse?

    171 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  15. Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok

    170 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  16. Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

    170 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  17. Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

    170 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  18. The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

    170 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  19. Introducing gpt-oss

    170 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  20. When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

    170 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  21. How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

    170 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  22. The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables

    169 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  23. Lab-grown salmon hits the menu

    169 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  24. A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt

    169 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  25. Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance

    169 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  26. Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

    169 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  27. I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can

    169 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  28. The Core of Rust

    169 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  29. AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers

    169 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  30. From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms

    168 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  31. How can AI ID a cat?

    167 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  32. Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

    167 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  33. What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem

    166 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  34. PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

    166 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  35. NIST Finalizes 'Lightweight Cryptography' Standard to Protect Small Devices

    166 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  36. The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

    166 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  37. Ollama and gguf

    166 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  38. Typepad is shutting down

    165 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  39. Don't “let it crash”, let it heal

    165 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  40. Who does your assistant serve?

    164 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  41. Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

    164 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  42. Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code

    164 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  43. A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees

    164 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  44. Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising

    164 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  45. Materialized views are obviously useful

    164 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  46. Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot

    164 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  47. Google is killing the open web

    164 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  48. X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

    164 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  49. Live: GPT-5

    163 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  50. Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

    163 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  51. 15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

    163 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  52. Areal, Are.na's new typeface

    163 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  53. How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method

    162 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  54. Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity

    162 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  55. MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

    162 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  56. PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

    162 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  57. 6 Weeks of Claude Code

    162 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  58. TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

    162 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  59. Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

    162 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  60. Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls

    162 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  61. 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens

    161 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  62. It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

    161 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  63. Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

    161 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  64. H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House

    161 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  65. US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

    161 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  66. Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

    161 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  67. Positron, a New Data Science IDE

    161 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  68. What medieval people got right about learning (2019)

    160 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  69. NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem

    160 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  70. Implementing Forth in Go and C

    160 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  71. Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting

    160 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  72. AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

    159 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  73. A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

    159 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  74. The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

    159 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  75. Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths

    159 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  76. Bullfrog in the Dungeon

    158 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  77. Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?

    158 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

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

    158 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  79. Gleam v1.12

    158 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  80. AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

    158 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  81. Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

    158 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  82. Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available

    157 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  83. Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses

    157 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  84. Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

    157 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  85. When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you

    157 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  86. GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding

    157 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  87. ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol

    156 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  88. Gartner's grift is about to unravel

    156 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  89. Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font

    156 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  90. Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

    155 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  91. Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

    155 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  92. Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

    155 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  93. Phrack 72

    155 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  94. Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)

    155 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  95. Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

    155 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  96. Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

    155 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  97. Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion

    154 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  98. NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills

    154 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  99. Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++

    153 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  100. What does it mean to be thirsty?

    153 points • comment • aug 11, 2025