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11:53

8.25.25 | Ghrc.io is malicious, Game development in...

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2025/08/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Ghrc.io appears to be malicious (01:24) - Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs (02:35) - Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me (03:43) - Everything I know about good API design (04:56) - Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? (06:12) - We put a coding agent in a while loop (07:19) - What are OKLCH colors? (08:30) - Uncle Sam

11:55

8.24.25 | Line scan camera for train photography,...

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2025/08/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - Line scan camera image processing for train photography (01:27) - What makes Claude Code so damn good (02:31) - RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode (03:40) - How to build a coding agent (04:45) - The cost of interrupted work (2023) (05:54) - Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips (07:04) - How can AI ID a cat? (08:16) - Why was Apache Kafka created? (09:35) - A 2k-year-old sun hat

12:18

8.23.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 released, Switching from Gmail...

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2025/08/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - FFmpeg 8.0 (01:31) - Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org (02:36) - The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare (03:50) - LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis (05:04) - Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor (06:11) - Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (07:29) - Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age

12:22

8.22.25 | AWS CEO criticizes AI replacing juniors, AI...

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2025/08/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (01:37) - AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (02:49) - DeepSeek-v3.1 (03:50) - Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems (05:08) - Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever (06:17) - An interactive guide to SVG paths (07:20) - Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit (08:36) - Code formatting comes to uv

11:57

8.21.25 | Spherical helix visualization, anime...

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2025/08/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization (01:25) - Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? (02:43) - Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first (03:46) - Sequoia backs Zed (05:03) - Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering (06:10) - Code review can be better (07:14) - An Update on Pytype (08:19) -

12:16

8.20.25 | Exploited CodeRabbit for RCE, AGENTS.md for...

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2025/08/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (01:40) - AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents (02:58) - Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers (04:15) - How to Draw a Space Invader (05:13) - D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders (06:09) - Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock (07:12) - Custom telescope mount using

11:28

8.19.25 | Anna's Archive update, app to block Shorts...

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2025/08/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team (01:27) - Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels (02:32) - Obsidian Bases (03:38) - Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust (04:37) - FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons (05:44) - Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room (06:50) - Left to Right Programming (08:00) - OpenMower – An open source lawn

12:36

8.18.25 | Claudia assists Claude coding, NextDNS...

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2025/08/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code (01:29) - Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" (02:40) - The Enterprise Experience (03:53) - ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links (05:05) - Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea (06:20) - Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians (07:39) - Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating,

11:36

8.17.25 | Compiler bug affects Solidity, OpenBSD's...

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2025/08/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (01:36) - OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself (02:44) - When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun (03:47) - US F-16s lose out as Thai Air Force seals US$600M deal for Swedish Gripen jets (04:54) - Bullfrog in the Dungeon (06:04) - The Future of Large Files in Git Is

12:08

8.16.25 | Open hardware 3D printing decline,...

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2025/08/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2025.Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911423Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Libraryhttps://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914061Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner

12:37

8.15.25 | Strongest AI model on a laptop, Gemma 3...

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2025/08/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2025.What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?https://www.seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875848Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AIhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902148Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about

12:41

8.14.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper, Nginx supports...

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2025/08/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2025.FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper supporthttps://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocolhttps://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889941PYX: The next step in Python

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8.13.25 | Claude Sonnet 4 supports 1M tokens,...

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2025/08/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2025.Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of contexthttps://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-contexthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878147Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddingshttps://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878151Search all text in New York Cityhttps://www.alltext.nyc/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883304Training language models to be

11:42

8.12.25 | GitHub loses independence post-CEO...

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2025/08/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2025.GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationhttps://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transitionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt filehttps://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journeyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety

11:45

8.11.25 | Fight Chat Control, Coding with AI...

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2025/08/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2025.Fight Chat Controlhttps://fightchatcontrol.eu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426How I code with AI on a budget/freehttps://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850913Try andhttps://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-andhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855079GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since

12:15

8.9.25 | Ultrathin business card simulates fluid,...

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2025/08/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2025.Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulationhttps://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-cardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835879I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspacehttps://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840013Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has

10:58

8.8.25 | GPT-5, Vibechart, GPT-5 features and pricing

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2025/08/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 8, 2025.GPT-5https://openai.com/gpt-5/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826997Vibecharthttps://www.vibechart.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44830684GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system cardhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827794GPT-5 for Developershttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827101Historical

12:59

8.7.25 | Claude Code integrates with Emacs, passwords...

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2025/08/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2025.Claude Code IDE integration for Emacshttps://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.elhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811567We replaced passwords with something worsehttps://blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwordshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917Automerge 3.0https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777086Jules, our asynchronous coding

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8.6.25 | OpenAI's open models, Genie 3 advances world...

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2025/08/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 6, 2025.Open models by OpenAIhttps://openai.com/open-models/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800746Genie 3: A new frontier for world modelshttps://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798166uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safarihttps://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825Things that helped me

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8.5.25 | Perplexity evades no-crawl directives, Show...

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2025/08/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2025.Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directiveshttps://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel displayhttps://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text

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