top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-07

GPT-5

https://openai.com/gpt-5/

1 year ago

Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwords

1 year ago

Vibechart

https://www.vibechart.net/

1 year ago

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/

1 year ago

Historical Tech Tree

https://www.historicaltechtree.com/

1 year ago

Cursed Knowledge

https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge/

1 year ago

Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-darkweb-firmware-bypasses-rolling-code-security/

1 year ago

GPT-5 for Developers

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers

1 year ago

Windows XP Professional

https://win32.run/

1 year ago

OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

https://www.seangoedecke.com/gpt-oss-is-phi-5/

1 year ago

Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

https://eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-germany-before-your-business-gets-big/

1 year ago

Building Bluesky comments for my blog

https://natalie.sh/posts/bluesky-comments/

1 year ago

Cursor CLI

https://cursor.com/cli

1 year ago

Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault

https://cyata.ai/blog/cracking-the-vault-how-we-found-zero-day-flaws-in-authentication-identity-and-authorization-in-hashicorp-vault/

1 year ago

How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-ai-conquered-the-us-economy-a

1 year ago

Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-github-actions/

1 year ago

Infinite Pixels

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/07/infinite-pixels/

1 year ago

Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs

https://www.baseten.co/blog/sota-performance-for-gpt-oss-120b-on-nvidia-gpus/

1 year ago

Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup2.html

1 year ago

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/

1 year ago

Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

https://leonardo.chiariglione.org/

1 year ago

How to sell if your user is not the buyer

https://writings.founderlabs.io/p/how-to-sell-if-your-user-is-not-the

1 year ago

Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster

https://github.com/geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark/issues/21

1 year ago

AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

https://nimishg.substack.com/p/ai-ethics-is-being-narrowed-on-purpose

1 year ago

Live: GPT-5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo

1 year ago

Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/could-lithium-explain-treat-alzheimers-disease

1 year ago

Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels

https://research.google/blog/achieving-10000x-training-data-reduction-with-high-fidelity-labels/

1 year ago

Millau Viaduct

https://www.fosterandpartners.com/projects/millau-viaduct

1 year ago

Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-in-mac-operating.html

1 year ago

Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/

1 year ago

Open AI announces $1.5M bonus for every employee

https://medium.com/activated-thinker/breaking-open-ai-announces-1-5-million-bonus-for-every-employee-29d057b9d590

1 year ago

DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/

1 year ago

An LLM does not need to understand MCP

https://hackteam.io/blog/your-llm-does-not-care-about-mcp/

1 year ago

FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

https://newatlas.com/aging/age-related-near-sighted-drops-vizz/

1 year ago

The Whispering Earring

https://croissanthology.com/earring

1 year ago

A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814

1 year ago

SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation

https://www.perl.com/article/suse-donates-to-tprf/

1 year ago

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-restored-account-plot-twist/

1 year ago

Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude

https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend

1 year ago

Arm desktop: emulation

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/07/22/arm-desktop-emulation/

1 year ago

Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles

https://usebottles.com/

1 year ago

Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2025-07.md

1 year ago

PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/08/05/compile-generics/

1 year ago

Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices

https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery

1 year ago

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx23y2v1o

1 year ago

School AI surveillance can lead to false alarms, arrests

https://apnews.com/article/ai-school-surveillance-gaggle-goguardian-bark-8c531cde8f9aee0b1ef06cfce109724a

1 year ago

79% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=175313564329081

1 year ago

40 Years of the Amiga

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/40-years-of-the-amiga-from-commodore

1 year ago

Show HN: Trayce – Burp Suite for developers

https://trayce.dev?resubmit=hn

1 year ago

GPT-5 System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb52f/gpt5-system-card-aug7.pdf

1 year ago

Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction (1996)

https://eblong.com/zarf/zweb/lists/

1 year ago

Jepsen: Capela dda5892

https://jepsen.io/analyses/capela-dda5892

1 year ago

How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024)

https://benborgers.com/chatgpt-semester

1 year ago

OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub

https://www.theverge.com/news/752091/openai-gpt-5-model-announcement-github-leak

1 year ago

Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability

https://github.com/nottelabs/notte

1 year ago

Lightweight LSAT

https://lightweightlsat.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust

https://github.com/stasher-dev/stasher-cli

1 year ago

The Sunlight Budget of Earth

https://www.asimov.press/p/sunlight-budget

1 year ago

Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/how-baltimore-assessments-accidentally

1 year ago

About AI

https://priver.dev/blog/ai/about-ai/

1 year ago