top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-11

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

1 year ago

I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey

1 year ago

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo

1 year ago

Claude Code is all you need

https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html

1 year ago

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/

1 year ago

Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta

https://archive.org/details/meta_leaks_part_1

1 year ago

The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/412578726

1 year ago

Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news

1 year ago

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography

https://www.openssh.com/pq.html

1 year ago

Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/offnet.html

1 year ago

Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki

1 year ago

GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mke7ef/120b_runs_awesome_on_just_8gb_vram/

1 year ago

Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs

https://pricingpages.design/

1 year ago

Basic Social Skills Guide

https://www.improveyoursocialskills.com/basic-social-skills-guide

1 year ago

AOL to discontinue dial-up internet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-internet.html

1 year ago

Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

https://fortune.com/2025/08/11/starbucks-south-korea-policy-desktop-computer-printer-ban-cagongjok/

1 year ago

Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?

https://www.threads.com/@brittainforsenate/post/DNMcEZ9yOxk

1 year ago

Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

https://mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-agi

1 year ago

Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts

https://aman.ai/primers/ai/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python

https://github.com/danterolle/tilf

1 year ago

The value of institutional memory

https://timharford.com/2025/05/the-value-of-institutional-memory/

1 year ago

Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig

https://aarol.dev/posts/zig-simd-substr/

1 year ago

Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/future-ai-spend-100k-per-dev

1 year ago

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/

1 year ago

Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer

https://middlelayer.substack.com/p/i-claude-is-the-drug-cursor-is-the

1 year ago

Ollama and gguf

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/11714

1 year ago

36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/2853/8213862?login=false

1 year ago

What does it mean to be thirsty?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-thirsty-20250811/

1 year ago

Going faster than memcpy

https://squadrick.dev/journal/going-faster-than-memcpy

1 year ago

Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

https://lwn.net/Articles/1001773/

1 year ago

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

1 year ago

Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

https://opuslabs.substack.com/p/learn-reflect-apply-prepare

1 year ago

I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI

https://twitter.com/KeithSakata/status/1954884361695719474

1 year ago

Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

1 year ago

The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/custom-elements-markdown/

1 year ago

The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf]

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

1 year ago

Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2025-08-10.html

1 year ago

Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/trump-washington-crime-fed-national-guard-homeless.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860731

1 year ago

Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

1 year ago

Designing Software in the Large

https://dafoster.net/articles/2025/07/22/designing-software-in-the-large/

1 year ago

Mistral Integration Improved in Llama.cpp

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14737

1 year ago

CPS investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside

https://reason.com/2025/08/09/child-protective-services-investigated-her-4-times-because-she-let-her-kids-play-outside/

1 year ago

Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-13-arrives-with-major-updates-for-linux-users-whats-new-in-trixie/

1 year ago

UI vs. API. vs. UAI

https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/ui-vs-api-vs-uai

1 year ago

Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/whats-new-in-iceberg-v3.html

1 year ago

Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/fighting-with-youtube-to-show-a-preview-image/

1 year ago

Al Jazeera condemns the assassination of its journalists by the IOF

https://network.aljazeera.net/en/press-releases/al-jazeera-condemns-assassination-its-journalists-israeli-occupation-forces

1 year ago

Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why Load Balancing at Scale Is Hard

https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2025/08/08/ReverseProxy-Deep-Dive-Part4.html

1 year ago

A Global Look at Teletext

https://text-mode.org/?p=23643

1 year ago

AP to end its weekly book reviews

https://dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/the-associated-press-tells-its-book-critics-that-its-ending-weekly-reviews/

1 year ago

Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap"

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/former-google-exec-even-ceo-on-tech-chopping-block

1 year ago

Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44859761

1 year ago

A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data

https://ourworldindata.org/new-international-poverty-line-3-dollars-per-day

1 year ago

Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)

https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/hbo-maxs-raised-by-wolves-is-original-sci-fi-at-its-most-polarizing

1 year ago

Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865290

1 year ago

Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/apple-brings-openais-gpt-5-to-ios-and-macos/

1 year ago

TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

http://sgros.blogspot.com/2013/08/tcp-client-self-connect.html

1 year ago