top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-05

Open models by OpenAI

https://openai.com/open-models/

1 year ago

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/

1 year ago

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698

1 year ago

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/

1 year ago

Claude Opus 4.1

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1

1 year ago

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

https://frigate.video/

1 year ago

US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Desperate-measures-to-save-Intel-US-reportedly-forcing-TSMC-to-buy-49-stake-in-Intel-to-secure-tariff-relief-for-Taiwan.1079424.0.html

1 year ago

PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/07/11/php-85-adds-pipe-operator/

1 year ago

Ollama Turbo

https://ollama.com/turbo

1 year ago

Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

https://trial.medpath.com/news/5c43f09ebb6d0f8e/ozempic-shows-anti-aging-effects-in-first-clinical-trial-reversing-biological-age-by-3-1-years

1 year ago

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds

1 year ago

Harmony: OpenAI's response format for its open-weight model series

https://github.com/openai/harmony

1 year ago

Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

https://quickshell.org/

1 year ago

I dumped Google for Kagi

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/

1 year ago

Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

https://ergaster.org/til/base64-encoded-json/

1 year ago

AI is propping up the US economy

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-so-big-its-propping

1 year ago

Apache ECharts 6

https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/basics/release-note/v6-feature/

1 year ago

Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793446

1 year ago

Build Your Own Lisp

https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

1 year ago

FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/trump-fcc-abandons-efforts-to-make-u-s-broadband-fast-and-affordable/

1 year ago

TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/05/tsmc-says-employees-tried-to-steal-trade-secrets-on-iphone-18-chip-process/

1 year ago

Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

https://yoyo-code.com/why-is-github-ui-getting-so-much-slower/

1 year ago

Eleven Music

https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-music-is-here

1 year ago

GitHub pull requests are down

https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582

1 year ago

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

https://blog.google/products/gemini/storybooks/

1 year ago

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/39

1 year ago

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-0

1 year ago

Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-08-04_artifical_inanity/

1 year ago

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4265651/coast-guard-marine-board-of-investigation-releases-report-on-titan-submersible/

1 year ago

Introducing gpt-oss

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/

1 year ago

Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game

https://playwhittle.com/

1 year ago

A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

https://journalism.berkeley.edu/police-records-access/

1 year ago

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-winds-down-mrna-development-under-barda.html

1 year ago

Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/dynamics-of-dynamic-imaging

1 year ago

GitHub pull requests were down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/6swp0zf7lk8h

1 year ago

Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge

https://www.matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion

1 year ago

Where to find ideas

https://howtogrow.substack.com/p/where-to-find-ideas

1 year ago

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite

1 year ago

EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/climate/epa-cancels-solar-energy-grants.html

1 year ago

Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

https://marimo.io/blog/dataflow

1 year ago

Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-payment-processors-who-are-more-comfortable-with-adult-material

1 year ago

Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/05/germany-trains-delays-broken-railroad/

1 year ago

A SPARC makes a little fire

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html

1 year ago

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

https://www.biographic.com/unmasking-the-sea-star-killer/

1 year ago

Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/japan-new-painkiller-comparable-to-morphine/

1 year ago

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2025/

1 year ago

Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester

https://canyoublockit.com/

1 year ago

No Comment (2010)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/57.html

1 year ago

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/

1 year ago