top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-06

Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

a month ago

1003 upvotes – 361 comments

I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

https://grell.dev/blog/ai_rejection

a month ago

809 upvotes – 404 comments

Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el

4 weeks ago

782 upvotes – 266 comments

Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

a month ago

447 upvotes – 345 comments

How I use Tailscale

https://chameth.com/how-i-use-tailscale/

a month ago

382 upvotes – 101 comments

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

https://www.projecthyperion.org

4 weeks ago

369 upvotes – 319 comments

Litestar is worth a look

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/aug/06/litestar/

4 weeks ago

343 upvotes – 83 comments

Jules, our asynchronous coding agent

https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/jules-now-available/

4 weeks ago

339 upvotes – 227 comments

Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writing-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver-a-brief-introduction-on-how-gpu-drivers-work/

4 weeks ago

297 upvotes – 38 comments

Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0213

4 weeks ago

290 upvotes – 177 comments

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-just-because-it-used-usb-c/

a month ago

284 upvotes – 237 comments

Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

https://reddit.com/r/law/comments/1mj3ttx/constitution_of_the_united_states_website_has/

4 weeks ago

255 upvotes – 156 comments

Python performance myths and fairy tales

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1031707/73cb0cf917307a93/

a month ago

247 upvotes – 213 comments

EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum

https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-chat-control-plan-gains-support-threatens-encryption

4 weeks ago

241 upvotes – 217 comments

Rethinking DOM from first principles

https://acko.net/blog/html-is-dead-long-live-html/

a month ago

237 upvotes – 225 comments

I'm Archiving Picocrypt

https://github.com/Picocrypt/Picocrypt/issues/134

a month ago

233 upvotes – 154 comments

Software Rot

https://permacomputing.net/software_rot/

a month ago

232 upvotes – 243 comments

Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/1985-toyota-tercel-high-mileage-1.7597168

a month ago

230 upvotes – 266 comments

303Gen – 303 acid loops generator

https://303-gen-06a668.netlify.app/

a month ago

224 upvotes – 84 comments

A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/segment_array/

4 weeks ago

218 upvotes – 88 comments
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