top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-01

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding

1 year ago

Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

https://hadid.dev/posts/living-coding/

1 year ago

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

https://www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah-cairo-solved-a-major-math-mystery-20250801/

1 year ago

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-deep-think/

1 year ago

Cerebras Code

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code

1 year ago

The untold impact of cancellation

https://pretty.direct/impact

1 year ago

How we built Bluey’s world

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/how-we-built-bluey-s-world-cartoon-background-scenery-art-director-catriona-drummond-animation-090725

1 year ago

Our Farewell from Google Play

https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/2809.php

1 year ago

I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

https://www.skeptrune.com/posts/doing-the-little-things/

1 year ago

Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

https://bower.sh/you-might-not-need-tmux

1 year ago

OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

https://openipc.org/à

1 year ago

Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/

1 year ago

Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/coffeematic-pc.html

1 year ago

NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant

https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lvc7ldavhk2o

1 year ago

Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

https://dewesoft.com/blog/every-satellite-orbiting-earth-and-who-owns-them

1 year ago

Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved

https://blog.google/technology/developers/googl-link-shortening-update/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757794

1 year ago

Atlassian terminates 150 staff

https://www.cyberdaily.au/digital-transformation/12441-atlassian-terminates-150-staff-with-pre-recorded-video-will-be-largely-replaced-by-ai

1 year ago

FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime

https://reason.com/2025/07/28/the-fbi-took-her-40000-without-explaining-why-she-fought-back-and-lost/

1 year ago

OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/dealbook/openai-ai-mega-funding-deal.html

1 year ago

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

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/tesla-must-pay-329-million-in-damages-in-fatal-autopilot-case.html

1 year ago

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

https://www.theverge.com/news/717308/irs-direct-file-gone-billy-long-trump-administration

1 year ago

Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/

1 year ago

Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/01/does-the-bitter-lesson-have-limits.html

1 year ago

U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/01/trump-firing-bureau-labor-statistics-chief-jobs-report-00488960

1 year ago

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

https://hegemon.substack.com/p/facts-will-not-save-you

1 year ago

Long Term Support

https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html

1 year ago

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-quantum-state-interface-exotic-materials.html

1 year ago

OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face

https://twitter.com/main_horse/status/1951201925778776530

1 year ago

Native Sparse Attention

https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1126/

1 year ago

How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)

https://haxrob.net/onavo-facebook-ssl-mitm-technical-analysis/

1 year ago

Deep Agents

https://blog.langchain.com/deep-agents/

1 year ago

Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective

https://twey.io/hci/svalboard/

1 year ago

GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1mettre/gpt5_is_already_ostensibly_available_via_api/

1 year ago

Self-Signed JWTs

https://www.selfref.com/self-signed-jwts

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757792

1 year ago

Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/researchers-map-where-solar-energy-delivers-biggest-climate-payoff

1 year ago

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755654

1 year ago

Hyrum's Law

https://www.hyrumslaw.com

1 year ago

Bad UX

https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+UX

1 year ago

Design patterns you should unlearn in Python

https://www.lihil.cc/blog/design-patterns-you-should-unlearn-in-python-part1/

1 year ago

Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

https://www.filfre.net/2025/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-or-microproses-last-hurrah/

1 year ago

Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report

https://www.ft.com/content/023b5ad5-b946-486d-a55f-36a9a9f62443

1 year ago

Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/apple-ceo-tells-staff-ai-is-ours-to-grab-in-hourlong-pep-talk

1 year ago

Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/supporting-the-beam-community-with-free-ci-cd-security-audits/

1 year ago

Fast (2019)

https://patrickcollison.com/fast

1 year ago

Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight

https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/Navy-demonstrates-multi-day-solar-UAS-flight/Tue-07292025-1554

1 year ago

Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices

https://me.pcmag.com/en/networking/31452/spacexs-cellular-starlink-expands-to-support-iot-devices

1 year ago

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

1 year ago

Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/31/palantir-army-contract-10bn/

1 year ago

Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/microsoft_recall_captures_credit_card_info/

1 year ago

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1951239132950204439

1 year ago

LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

1 year ago

Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge

1 year ago

Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html

1 year ago

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M

https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/philz-coffee-private-equity-sell/

1 year ago

Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/ukraine-rescues-soldier-via-drone-delivery-of-complete-e-bike/

1 year ago

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-rule-of-law-is-dead-in-the-us/

1 year ago

Online Safety Act: What went wrong?

https://therectangle.substack.com/p/online-safety-act-what-went-wrong

1 year ago

Trump orders firing of labor stats chief after data showed jobs growth slowed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-fires-erika-mcentarfer-labor-statistics

1 year ago

The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)

https://www.perl.com/article/the-history-of-the-schwartzian-transform/

1 year ago

Clarifying recent headlines on gaming content

https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/press/2025/august/clarifying-recent-headlines-on-gaming-content.html

1 year ago

Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering

https://pdelboca.me/writings/2025/08/01/vibe-coding-fast-fashion.html

1 year ago

Pride Versioning 0.3.0

https://pridever.org/

1 year ago