top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-06

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

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

1 year ago

I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

https://grell.dev/blog/ai_rejection

1 year ago

Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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

1 year ago

Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December

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

1 year ago

How I use Tailscale

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

1 year ago

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

https://www.projecthyperion.org

1 year ago

Litestar is worth a look

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

1 year ago

Jules, our asynchronous coding agent

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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

1 year ago

Python performance myths and fairy tales

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

1 year ago

EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum

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

1 year ago

Rethinking DOM from first principles

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

1 year ago

I'm Archiving Picocrypt

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

1 year ago

Software Rot

https://permacomputing.net/software_rot/

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

303Gen – 303 acid loops generator

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

1 year ago

A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C

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

1 year ago

The Bluesky Dictionary

https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/

1 year ago

NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform

https://nautilustrader.io/

1 year ago

Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-suffers-data-breach-in-ongoing-salesforce-data-theft-attacks/

1 year ago

Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507

1 year ago

Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes-20250806/

1 year ago

Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model

https://algogist.com/kitten-tts-the-25mb-ai-voice-model-thats-about-to-change-everything-runs-on-a-potato/

1 year ago

LLM Inflation

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/llm_inflation.html

1 year ago

Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1mhntjh/unpopular_opinion_teacher_ai_use_is_already_out/

1 year ago

We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html

1 year ago

Dotfiles feel too personal to share

https://hamatti.org/posts/dotfiles-feel-too-intimate-and-personal-to-share/

1 year ago

Don't “let it crash”, let it heal

https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/elixir-misconceptions-1

1 year ago

Gleam v1.12

https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/changelog/v1.12.md

1 year ago

Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum/

1 year ago

Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH

https://omarchy.org/

1 year ago

Zig Error Patterns

https://glfmn.io/posts/zig-error-patterns/

1 year ago

We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

https://tonsky.me/blog/lockfiles/

1 year ago

Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff

https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250601021212/20250806023110/https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

1 year ago

Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

https://openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-entire-us-federal-workforce/

1 year ago

Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-next-election

1 year ago

Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud

1 year ago

Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display

https://www.airgradient.com/blog/wired-review-of-airgradient-one-not-recommended/

1 year ago

Multics

https://www.multicians.org/multics.html

1 year ago

About the BLOBs in Ventoy

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224

1 year ago

Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wild-pigs-flesh-neon-blue.html

1 year ago

The internet wants to check your ID

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internet-wants-to-check-your-id

1 year ago

States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2025/07/how-states-and-cities-decimated-americans-lowest-cost-housing-option

1 year ago

Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2025/08/04/the-marines-now-have-an-official-drone-fighting-handbook/

1 year ago

How Potatoes Evolved

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/july/we-finally-solved-the-mystery-of-how-potatoes-evolved.html

1 year ago

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5484013/engineer-restores-pay-phones-for-free-public-use

1 year ago

The importance of offtopic

https://blog.tadzik.net/the-importance-of-offtopic.html

1 year ago

19% of California houses are owned by investors

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/07/21/19-of-california-houses-are-owned-by-investors/

1 year ago

Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment

https://probablydance.com/2025/08/04/installing-a-mini-split-ac-in-a-brooklyn-apartment/

1 year ago

"This question has been retired"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/009ae104-47ff-475c-adc1-d5f9604927de/can-i-open-16-bit-application-in-windows-8?forum=windows-all&referrer=answers

1 year ago

Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells

https://wiki.why2025.org/Badge/Fire_hazard

1 year ago

Testing Bitchat at the music festival

https://primal.net/saunter/testing-bitchat-at-the-music-festival

1 year ago

Slopsquatting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsquatting

1 year ago

The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

https://mixxx.org/news/2025-08-06-qml-project/

1 year ago

Apple announces American Manufacturing Program

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/apple-increases-us-commitment-to-600-billion-usd-announces-ambitious-program/

1 year ago

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

https://stackdiver.com/posts/vibe-coding-the-mit-course-catalog/

1 year ago

Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

https://github.com/berbyte/sinkzone

1 year ago

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

https://blog.google/products/search/ai-search-driving-more-queries-higher-quality-clicks/

1 year ago

US tech rules the European market

https://proton.me/blog/us-tech-rules-europe

1 year ago

Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cognitive-decline-can-be-slowed-down-with-lifestyle-changes-from-diet-to-exercise-and-social-time-new-study-suggests-180987077/

1 year ago

301party.com: Intentionally open redirect

https://301party.com/

1 year ago

The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/the-arcane-alphabets-of-black-sabbath

1 year ago

NetBird Is Embracing the AGPLv3 License

https://netbird.io/knowledge-hub/netbird-agpl-announcement

1 year ago

The militarization of Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html

1 year ago

A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021)

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2021/unlimited-register-machine-game-of-life.html

1 year ago

Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM

https://github.com/shutootaki/bookwith

1 year ago

The Amaranth hardware description language

https://amaranth-lang.org/docs/amaranth/latest/intro.html#the-amaranth-language

1 year ago

The History of F1 Design

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026

1 year ago

Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/grok-generates-fake-taylor-swift-nudes-without-being-asked/

1 year ago

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-sections-of-the-us-constitution-deleted-from-governments-website/

1 year ago

Whitehouse Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases

https://gizmodo.com/trump-administration-moves-to-destroy-satellite-that-monitors-greenhouse-gases-2000639234

1 year ago

Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/08/some-thoughts-on-journals-refereeing.html

1 year ago

My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf3BxNq1cp4

1 year ago

Meta eavesdropped on period-tracker app's users, SF jury rules

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/meta-eavesdropped-period-tracker-app-20803399.php

1 year ago

Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

https://johnjianwang.medium.com/why-blocking-llms-from-your-website-is-dumb-3dc7c3c9097d

1 year ago

Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier

https://www.polygon.com/visa-mastercard-steam-censorship-valve-itchio-gta/

1 year ago

Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus from the Constitution on Its Website

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/congress-just-deleted-habeas-corpus-from-the-constitution-on-its-website/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811457

1 year ago