top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-10

Fight Chat Control

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

1 year ago

Try and

https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-and

1 year ago

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/from-gpt-2-to-gpt-oss-analyzing-the

1 year ago

Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

https://engineering.fyi/

1 year ago

LLMs aren't world models

https://yosefk.com/blog/llms-arent-world-models.html

1 year ago

1910: The year the modern world lost its mind

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-year-the-modern-world-lost

1 year ago

Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen

1 year ago

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming

1 year ago

1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)

https://mashable.com/archive/soviet-hobbit

1 year ago

One Million Screenshots

https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=random

1 year ago

Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

https://mill-build.org/blog/14-bash-zsh-completion.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

https://github.com/Beariish/bolt

1 year ago

Zig's Lovely Syntax

https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/09/zigs-lovely-syntax.html

1 year ago

Booting 5000 Erlangs on Ampere One 192-core

https://underjord.io/booting-5000-erlangs-on-ampere-one.html

1 year ago

Diffusion language models are super data learners

https://jinjieni.notion.site/Diffusion-Language-Models-are-Super-Data-Learners-239d8f03a866800ab196e49928c019ac

1 year ago

Happy BuyNothing Day

https://justbuynothing.com/

1 year ago

Open Lovable

https://github.com/mendableai/open-lovable

1 year ago

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin

1 year ago

Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-12/

1 year ago

AOL closes its dial up internet service

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/08/after-34-years-aol-finally-closes-its-dial-up-internet-service.html

1 year ago

The History of Windows XP

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-xp

1 year ago

Melonking Website

https://melonking.net/

1 year ago

I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid

https://thomasorus.com/i-tried-coding-with-ai-i-became-lazy-and-stupid

1 year ago

Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

https://github.com/AdoPi/wlgblock

1 year ago

Inside OS/2 (1987)

https://gitpi.us/article-archive/inside-os2/

1 year ago

QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo

https://archive.org/details/QNX_incredible_1.44m_demo_v4.0

1 year ago

POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

https://github.com/microsoft/poml

1 year ago

How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

https://bscholl.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-dont-break-safety-critical

1 year ago

Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/adult-sites-use-malicious-svg-files-to-rack-up-likes-on-facebook/

1 year ago

Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/conversations-remotely-detected-cell-phone-vibrations-researchers-report

1 year ago

Anti-competitive practices masquerading as security is a dangerous pattern

https://blog.alinelerner.com/i-posted-some-interview-prep-materials-on-linkedin-then-they-deleted-me/

1 year ago

Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd

https://github.com/liquidmetal-dev/flintlock

1 year ago

Goodbye, Six-Figure Tech Jobs. Young Coders Seek Work at Fast-Food Joints

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html

1 year ago

Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-sunlight-material-pfas-harmless-fluoride.html

1 year ago

Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

https://hypr.land/

1 year ago

Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/10/prominent-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-gaza

1 year ago

The Anti-Pattern Game

https://hakon.gylterud.net/antipattern/

1 year ago

Events

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Scripting/Events

1 year ago

GPT-5: It just does stuff

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-just-does-stuff

1 year ago