The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2025

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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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Open models by OpenAI openai.com · lackoftactics · 5 Aug 2025

2.1k pts 876 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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GPT-5 openai.com · rd · 7 Aug 2025

2.1k pts 2.5k 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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Fight Chat Control fightchatcontrol.eu · tokai · 10 Aug 2025

1.5k pts 498 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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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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FFmpeg 8.0 ffmpeg.org · gyan · 22 Aug 2025

987 pts 200 comments

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If you're remote, ramble stephango.com · lawgimenez · 3 Aug 2025

976 pts 464 comments

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Debian 13 “Trixie” debian.org · ducktective · 9 Aug 2025

974 pts 407 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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Making Minecraft Spherical bowerbyte.com · iamwil · 28 Aug 2025

900 pts 123 comments

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Vibechart vibechart.net · datadrivenangel · 7 Aug 2025

879 pts 189 comments

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Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com · eustoria · 3 Aug 2025

869 pts 428 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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What are OKLCH colors? jakub.kr · tontonius · 25 Aug 2025

859 pts 183 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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Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic.com · meetpateltech · 5 Aug 2025

841 pts 328 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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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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Claude for Chrome anthropic.com · davidbarker · 26 Aug 2025

799 pts 406 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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Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com · kgwgk · 6 Aug 2025

782 pts 266 comments

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DeepSeek-v3.1 api-docs.deepseek.com · wertyk · 21 Aug 2025

778 pts 263 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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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