top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-09

Debian 13 “Trixie”

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

1 year ago

Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

https://sky.dlazaro.ca

1 year ago

How I code with AI on a budget/free

https://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html

1 year ago

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreemap-survived-100000-requests

1 year ago

My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/

1 year ago

MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems

https://julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disregard-for-40-years-of-rpc-best-practices-will-burn-enterprises-8ef85ce5bc9b

1 year ago

Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications

https://research.eye.security/consent-and-compromise/

1 year ago

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/long-term-exposure-to-outdoor-air-pollution-linked-to-increased-risk-of-dementia

1 year ago

A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

https://www.righto.com/2025/08/intel-386-package-ct-scan.html

1 year ago

Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

https://www.sdo.group/study

1 year ago

Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/07/09/secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-and-shuts-down-us-southern-border-ports-livestock-trade-due

1 year ago

Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

https://ch.at/

1 year ago

Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/08/08/stanford-to-continue-legacy-admissions-and-withdraw-from-cal-grants/

1 year ago

GPTs and Feeling Left Behind

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/08/06/gpts-and-feeling-left-behind/

1 year ago

The Article in the Most Languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-08-09/Disinformation_report

1 year ago

Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too

https://twitter.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164

1 year ago

Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2025/08/msg00038.html

1 year ago

Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes

https://graphite.rs/libraries/bezier-rs/

1 year ago

Let's properly analyze an AI article for once

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html

1 year ago

The current state of LLM-driven development

http://blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025/08-07-llms/

1 year ago

Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets

https://ratfactor.com/cards/fitted-sheets

1 year ago

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

1 year ago

Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm

https://www.thurrott.com/music-videos/324346/blender-is-native-on-windows-11-on-arm

1 year ago

Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI

https://github.com/menloresearch/jan

1 year ago

Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34033

1 year ago

An engineer's perspective on hiring

https://jyn.dev/an-engineers-perspective-on-hiring

1 year ago

A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

1 year ago

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right/

1 year ago

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

https://sandstorm.org/

1 year ago

What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called

1 year ago

PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

https://www.servethehome.com/pcie-8-0-announced-by-the-pci-sig-will-double-throughput-again/

1 year ago

ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol

https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate

1 year ago

A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union

https://laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-the-absurd/

1 year ago

Partially Matching Zig Enums

https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/08/partially-matching-zig-enums.html

1 year ago

Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

1 year ago

Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848058

1 year ago

An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3746223

1 year ago

Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car

https://electrek.co/2025/08/08/tesla-used-car-prices-keep-plumetting-now-literrally-cheaper-than-average-used-car/

1 year ago

Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight

https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024-082007

1 year ago

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

1 year ago

I prefer human-readable file formats

https://adele.pollux.casa/check-human.php?redirect=%2Fgemlog%2F2025-08-04_why_I_prefer_human-readble_file_formats.gmi

1 year ago

Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

http://www.tribblix.org/

1 year ago

Yet Another LLM Rant

https://overengineer.dev/txt/2025-08-09-another-llm-rant/

1 year ago

60% of medal of honor recipients are Irish or Irish-American

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish-American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

1 year ago

Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series (2018)

https://eater.net/quaternions

1 year ago

All-In on Omarchy at 37signals

https://world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-on-omarchy-at-37signals-68162450

1 year ago

R0ML's Ratio

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html

1 year ago

Fingerjigger

https://fingerjigger.com/play

1 year ago

The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAH7-u7t5k

1 year ago

Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

https://www.asawicki.info/news_1741_myths_about_floating-point_numbers

1 year ago