top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-08-04

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

1 year ago

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/

1 year ago

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/

1 year ago

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mastercard-deflects-blame-for-nsfw-games-being-taken-down-but-valve-says-payment-processors-specifically-cited-a-mastercard-rule-about-damaging-the-brand/

1 year ago

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/

1 year ago

Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/

1 year ago

Objects should shut up

https://dustri.org/b/objects-should-shut-the-fuck-up.html

1 year ago

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify

1 year ago

DrawAFish.com Postmortem

https://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789068

1 year ago