top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-02

Telo MT1

https://www.telotrucks.com/

1 year ago

We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/ai-is-about-to-solve-loneliness-thats-a-problem

1 year ago

This Month in Ladybird

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-07-31/

1 year ago

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/lina-khan-points-to-figma-ipo-as-vindication-for-ma-scrutiny/

1 year ago

I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class

https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/

1 year ago

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

https://eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-multiprocessor-programming.html

1 year ago

A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technology/ai-researchers-nba-stars.html

1 year ago

Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840959338146

1 year ago

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766771

1 year ago

Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-sunday-morning-post-why-exercise

1 year ago

Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums

https://forums.anandtech.com/

1 year ago

At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

1 year ago

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

https://alexharri.com/blog/icelandic-name-declension-trie

1 year ago

Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-taking-steps-to-open-sourcing-windows-11-user-interface-framework/

1 year ago

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

1 year ago

HTML-in-Canvas

https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas

1 year ago

Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft

https://bl.ag/indian-sign-painting-a-typeface-designers-take-on-the-craft/

1 year ago

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

https://acoup.blog/2025/08/01/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiia-family-formation/

1 year ago

Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

https://github.com/andrewarrow/starchive

1 year ago

Welcome to url.town, population 465

https://url.town/

1 year ago

ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/

1 year ago

The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

https://jpcamara.com/2025/08/02/the-o-in-ruby-regex.html

1 year ago

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

https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/financial-lessons-father-long-term-care-insurance/

1 year ago

6 Weeks of Claude Code

https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/

1 year ago

Hardening mode for the compiler

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-hardening-mode-for-the-compiler/87660

1 year ago

Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat

https://andreinwald.github.io/browser-llm/

1 year ago

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/07/hiding-secret-codes-light-protects-against-fake-videos

1 year ago

Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766031

1 year ago

Hiroshima (1946)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

1 year ago

A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-pretended-be-doctor-ran-worlds-fair-attraction-saved-lives-thousands-premature-babies-180960200/

1 year ago

Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative

https://luxpdf.com

1 year ago

The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children

https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-widespread-cure-for-hiv-could-be-in-children/

1 year ago

North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15wk77zxngo

1 year ago

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble (2024)

https://www.solutionslookingforproblems.com/post/the-rubik-s-cube-perfect-scramble

1 year ago

Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight

https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-violated-privacy-law-jury-says-in-menstrual-data-fight/

1 year ago

The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone

https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/the-case-for-having-roommates-even

1 year ago

Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/politics/video/inv-musk-unpaid-bills

1 year ago

Robert Wilson has died

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/01/robert-wilson-playwright-director-artist-obituary

1 year ago

Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing math symbols

https://www.crowdsupply.com/summa-cogni/mathpad

1 year ago

The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

https://rickovercorpus.org/

1 year ago

Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

https://electrek.co/2025/07/30/peak-energy-us-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery/

1 year ago

Gigabyte removes PCIe 5.0 support from B650 motherboards in latest BIOS update

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-removes-unofficial-pcie-5-0-support-from-b650-motherboards-in-latest-bios-update

1 year ago

The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003)

https://www.awn.com/animationworld/disappearance-saturday-morning

1 year ago

The Crisis of Professional Skepticism

https://mitchhorowitz.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-professional-skepticism

1 year ago

Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

https://github.com/ClojureCivitas/clojurecivitas.github.io

1 year ago

At $250M, top AI salaries dwarf the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/

1 year ago

How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver

https://www.righto.com/2025/08/reverse-engineering-analog-TDA7000.html

1 year ago

Linear Types for Programmers (2023)

https://twey.io/for-programmers/linear-types/

1 year ago

Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/new-world-record-weather-satellites-detect-515-mile-long-lightning-flash

1 year ago

The X11 Security extension from the 1990s

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-08-02/0/POSTING-en.html

1 year ago

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831

1 year ago

Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella (2011)

http://itscheese.com/reviews/mozzarella

1 year ago

Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/gaza-war-destruction-aerial-airdrop/

1 year ago

The $21.7B Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by Doge [pdf]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/b256b202-ff01-48dc-a2d1-80b0e43fa87a.pdf

1 year ago