The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2025
We track 1,266 stories from August 2025, averaging 275 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 85 stories. Together they drew 215,016 comments, 170 per story on average.
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Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
9to5google.com · kotaKat · 25 Aug 2025
3.1k pts
2.3k comments
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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
hugotunius.se · K0nserv · 31 Aug 2025
2.1k pts
1.2k comments
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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
theregister.com · JustExAWS · 21 Aug 2025
1.7k pts
744 comments
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Cognitive load is what matters
github.com · nromiun · 30 Aug 2025
1.6k pts
522 comments
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Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
deepmind.google · bradleyg223 · 5 Aug 2025
1.5k pts
490 comments
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
theverge.com · Handy-Man · 11 Aug 2025
1.5k pts
1.1k comments
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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
al3rez.com · al3rez · 11 Aug 2025
1.4k pts
799 comments
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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
rickybule · 28 Aug 2025
1.3k pts
732 comments
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
anthropic.com · adocomplete · 12 Aug 2025
1.3k pts
692 comments
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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
blog.cloudflare.com · rrampage · 4 Aug 2025
1.3k pts
748 comments
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uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
apps.apple.com · Jiahang · 5 Aug 2025
1.2k pts
448 comments
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Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
benholmen.com · benholmen · 4 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
144 comments
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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
instavm.io · mkagenius · 8 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
286 comments
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Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
github.com · wompapumpum · 8 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
221 comments
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Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
theguardian.com · nemoniac · 14 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
919 comments
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Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
seangoedecke.com · dondraper36 · 29 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
387 comments
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
bbc.com · phlummox · 11 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
856 comments
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
developers.googleblog.com · meetpateltech · 26 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
475 comments
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Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
annas-archive.org · jerheinze · 18 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
534 comments
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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
code.ffmpeg.org · rilawa · 13 Aug 2025
1k pts
325 comments
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Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
github.com · divamgupta · 6 Aug 2025
1k pts
361 comments
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25
Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
blog.danielh.cc · max__dev · 7 Aug 2025
995 pts
789 comments
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If you're remote, ramble
stephango.com · lawgimenez · 3 Aug 2025
976 pts
464 comments
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Good system design
seangoedecke.com · dondraper36 · 16 Aug 2025
957 pts
390 comments
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Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
yro.slashdot.org · MilnerRoute · 14 Aug 2025
951 pts
623 comments
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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
colton.dev · coltonv · 5 Aug 2025
949 pts
649 comments
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32
Making Minecraft Spherical
bowerbyte.com · iamwil · 28 Aug 2025
900 pts
123 comments
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Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
visualrambling.space · damarberlari · 20 Aug 2025
865 pts
132 comments
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Why LLMs can't really build software
zed.dev · srid · 14 Aug 2025
862 pts
504 comments
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VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
_rkcg · 13 Aug 2025
854 pts
249 comments
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Claude Code is all you need
dwyer.co.za · sixhobbits · 11 Aug 2025
851 pts
504 comments
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
rosenzweig.io · alsetmusic · 27 Aug 2025
845 pts
224 comments
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Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
lock.cmpxchg8b.com · taviso · 20 Aug 2025
839 pts
908 comments
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AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
agents.md · ghuntley · 20 Aug 2025
837 pts
382 comments
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Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
developers.googleblog.com · meetpateltech · 14 Aug 2025
824 pts
317 comments
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Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
pistachioapp.com · Sayrus · 20 Aug 2025
821 pts
309 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
telegraph.co.uk · pera · 21 Aug 2025
817 pts
903 comments
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
blog.nginx.org · phickey · 13 Aug 2025
810 pts
298 comments
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48
A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
lina.sh · shaunpud · 24 Aug 2025
809 pts
440 comments
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I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
grell.dev · serhack_ · 6 Aug 2025
809 pts
404 comments
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Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
sky.dlazaro.ca · dnlzro · 9 Aug 2025
788 pts
160 comments
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52
Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
github.com · kgwgk · 6 Aug 2025
782 pts
266 comments
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“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”
history.stackexchange.com · azeemba · 31 Aug 2025
775 pts
135 comments
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Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
github.com · pr337h4m · 13 Aug 2025
773 pts
533 comments
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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
anthropic.com · porridgeraisin · 29 Aug 2025
756 pts
530 comments
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57
PYX: The next step in Python packaging
astral.sh · the_mitsuhiko · 13 Aug 2025
755 pts
464 comments
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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
github.com · freetonik · 21 Aug 2025
729 pts
464 comments
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Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
josefprusa.com · rcarmo · 15 Aug 2025
721 pts
440 comments
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Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings
blog.wilsonl.in · wilsonzlin · 12 Aug 2025
699 pts
118 comments
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