top 20 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

Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years

https://github.com/crbnos/carbon

1 year ago

3D Line Drawings

https://amritkwatra.com/experiments/3d-line-drawings

1 year ago

Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/

1 year ago

Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

https://thingino.com/

1 year ago

Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab/

1 year ago

Window Activation

https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/

1 year ago

Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

https://www.ft.com/content/cfb77a53-fef8-4382-b102-c217e0aa4b25

1 year ago

Read your code

https://etsd.tech/posts/rtfc/

1 year ago

PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-toyota-corolla-of-programming/

1 year ago

Customizing tmux

https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/customizing-tmux-and-making-it-less-dreadful/

1 year ago