top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-08

I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace

1 year ago

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card

1 year ago

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728

1 year ago

The Framework Desktop is a beast

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-framework-desktop-is-a-beast-636fb4ff

1 year ago

Getting good results from Claude Code

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code/

1 year ago

Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

https://bytemash.net/posts/i-went-down-the-linear-rabbit-hole/

1 year ago

The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/

1 year ago

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy/

1 year ago

GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"

https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226

1 year ago

Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor

1 year ago

Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people

https://apnorc.org/projects/food-housing-and-health-care-costs-are-a-source-of-major-stress-for-many-people/

1 year ago

GPT-5 leaked system prompt?

https://gist.github.com/maoxiaoke/f6d5b28f9104cd856a2622a084f46fd7

1 year ago

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust

1 year ago

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist

https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist

1 year ago

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports

1 year ago

Our European search index goes live

https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/

1 year ago

New executive order puts all grants under political control

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

1 year ago

How attention sinks keep language models stable

https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm

1 year ago

Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5

https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-genies-lamp-openai-cant

1 year ago