top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-03

If you're remote, ramble

https://stephango.com/ramblings

1 year ago

Modern Node.js Patterns

https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/

1 year ago

Writing a good design document

https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document

1 year ago

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors

1 year ago

So you want to parse a PDF?

https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref

1 year ago

Tokens are getting more expensive

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed

1 year ago

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

https://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.html

1 year ago

UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

https://www.reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01/

1 year ago

Automerge 3.0

https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/

1 year ago

Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

https://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecoding

1 year ago

The Dollar Is Dead

https://mathmeetsmoney.substack.com/p/the-dollar-is-dead

1 year ago

How to make almost anything (2019)

https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html

1 year ago

How to grow almost anything

https://howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/htgaa25

1 year ago

A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-of-lights-at-night-suggests-dictators-lie-about-economic-growth

1 year ago

Comptime.ts: compile-time expressions for TypeScript

https://comptime.js.org/

1 year ago

Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

https://news.asu.edu/20250725-environment-and-sustainability-new-global-study-shows-freshwater-disappearing-alarming

1 year ago

A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html

1 year ago

Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo

https://thenumb.at/QMC/

1 year ago

C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

https://www.reachablecode.com/2025/07/31/c26-reflections-adventures-compile-time-uml/

1 year ago

How Python grew from a language to a community

https://thenewstack.io/how-python-grew-from-a-language-to-a-community/

1 year ago