1315
748
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
1145
144
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/
607
882
Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/
594
580
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/
544
159
Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/
519
273
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/
490
362
Objects should shut up
https://dustri.org/b/objects-should-shut-the-fuck-up.html
458
168
How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
390
104
DrawAFish.com Postmortem
https://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html
387
670
Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789068
322
158
Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years
https://github.com/crbnos/carbon
24
3D Line Drawings
https://amritkwatra.com/experiments/3d-line-drawings
302
297
Palantir is extending its reach even further into government
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/
278
49
Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
https://thingino.com/
253
186
Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab/
228
138
Window Activation
https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/
201
333
Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth
https://www.ft.com/content/cfb77a53-fef8-4382-b102-c217e0aa4b25
190
108
Read your code
https://etsd.tech/posts/rtfc/
188
193
PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-toyota-corolla-of-programming/
185
152
Customizing tmux
https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/customizing-tmux-and-making-it-less-dreadful/
183
65
Content-Aware Spaced Repetition
https://www.giacomoran.com/blog/content-aware-sr/
173
148
AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder
https://afterburnout.co/p/ai-promised-to-make-us-more-efficient
160
52
NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/marking-13-years-on-mars-nasas-curiosity-picks-up-new-skills/
66
Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised
https://isitreallyfoss.com/
31
Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
https://www.spacebar.news/apple-history-hiding-in-mac-font/
157
137
You know more Finnish than you think
https://dannybate.com/2025/08/03/you-know-more-finnish-than-you-think/
156
219
Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager
https://danfabulich.medium.com/passkeys-are-just-passwords-that-require-a-password-manager-ebb7f2fdcadf
155
112
I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)
https://www.vogue.com/article/reconnecting-with-ex-friends
154
79
A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
https://notashes.me/blog/part-1-memory-management/
153
76
KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland
https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-prepares-crackdown-on-focus-stealing-window-behavior-under-wayland/
101
Debounce
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Debounce
151
36
Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/well/cardiac-amyloidosis.html
64
Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/
71
My Ideal Array Language
https://www.ashermancinelli.com/csblog/2025-7-20-Ideal-Array-Language.html
142
HTMX is hard, so let's get it right
https://github.com/BookOfCooks/blog/blob/master/htmx-is-hard-so-lets-get-it-right.md
143
244
Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/HCL25.pdf
139
259
Rising young worker despair in the United States
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34071
131
72
Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids
https://offline.kids/
121
Why doctors hate their computers (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers
74
Open music foundation models for full-song generation
https://map-yue.github.io/
115
18
GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14272
111
21
Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions
https://blog.pkh.me/p/44-perfecting-anti-aliasing-on-signed-distance-functions.html
47
Scientists shine a laser through a human head
https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-brain-imaging
107
37
Telefon Hírmondó
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3
106
35
Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor
https://www.trykimu.com/
102
Europe is breaking its reliance on American science
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/europe-is-breaking-its-reliance-american-science-2025-08-01/
100
11
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)
https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023-11-01-postgres-table-access-methods.html
96
85
Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4032921/microsoft-tops-4t-in-valuation-great-news-for-the-company-not-so-great-for-its-workers.html
92
The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)
https://www.tcracs.org/tcrwp/1origin-of-cisco/
89
29
Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database
https://docs.sidequestjs.com/quick-start
45
Why is it worth spending time on type theory? (2013)
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/567265/why-is-it-worth-spending-time-on-type-theory
88
34
FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/04/the-rise-of-opinionated-models.html
87
Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids
https://quizmathgenius.com/
86
ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
https://www.theverge.com/reviews/717491/lenovo-thinkbook-plus-gen-6-rollable-laptop-review
39
Compaq’s Rod Canion broke IBM's hold on the PC market
https://every.to/feeds/b0e329f3048258e8eeb7/the-man-who-beat-ibm
84
28
The Q Programming Language
https://git.urbach.dev/cli/q
82
51
EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens
https://econteen.com/
53
How we enforce .NET coding standards to improve productivity
https://anthonysimmon.com/workleap-dotnet-coding-standards/
78
94
What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?
https://whatdoesonebilliondollarslooklike.website/
81
The US military’s on-base slot machines
https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-on-base-slot-machines-gambling-addiction/
77
A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types
https://github.com/easrng/tsints
Every visual workflow tool is just Excel for developers who gave up
https://medium.com/@mohamedalibenothmen1/every-visual-workflow-tool-is-just-excel-for-developers-who-gave-up-f7261090fbc8
75
32
Belgium's Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/belgium-israeli-soldiers-arrest-gaza
AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens
https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens
69
7
A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07284
55
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html
Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls
https://nhgranit.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=25930044fe2b4d8fb5cab3ec07565e83
8
Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data
https://kartproject.org/
63
25
Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/mozilla_add_on_phishing/
62
15
ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system
https://github.com/leigest519/ScreenCoder
59
Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf]
https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/127420931/Genetic_correlates_of_social_stratification_in_Great_Britain.pdf
61
6
Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/lightning-on-earth-is-sparked-by-a-powerful-chain-reaction-from-outer-space-simulations-show
