top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-12

Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context

1 year ago

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/

1 year ago

What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp/

1 year ago

Why are there so many rationalist cults?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/why-are-there-so-many-rationalist-cults

1 year ago

Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack

https://twitter.com/p3b7_/status/1955173413992984988

1 year ago

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/

1 year ago

GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471

1 year ago

Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/12/australian-court-finds-apple-google-guilty-of-being-anticompetitive/

1 year ago

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919

1 year ago

GitHub was having issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/9rfydl2xdqqj

1 year ago

Ashet Home Computer

https://ashet.computer/

1 year ago

Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/business/kodak-survival-warning

1 year ago

Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara

1 year ago

Go 1.25 Release Notes

https://go.dev/doc/go1.25

1 year ago

500 days of math

https://gmays.com/500-days-of-math/

1 year ago

WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-9-how-to-become-your-own-isp

1 year ago

Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

https://tangled.sh/@oppi.li/journal

1 year ago

Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-largest-newspaper-yomiuri-shimbun-sues-perplexity-for-copyright-violations/

1 year ago

Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome

https://www.wsj.com/tech/perplexity-makes-longshot-34-5-billion-offer-for-chrome-5ddb7a22

1 year ago

That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake

1 year ago