top 50% 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

ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs

https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-announces-arm-neural-technology

1 year ago

H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House

https://www.newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-changes-approved-white-house-report-2112216

1 year ago

Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity

https://osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler-bug/

1 year ago

Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot

https://jszym.com/blog/archiving_googl/

1 year ago

Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

https://mark.stosberg.com/universal-copy-paste/

1 year ago

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/

1 year ago

Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore

https://github.com/AndreRenaud/gore

1 year ago

The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/let-me-know/

1 year ago

Recto – A Truly 2D Language

https://masatohagiwara.net/recto.html

1 year ago

Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context

https://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-claude-sonnet-4-now-has-a-1-million-token-context-window

1 year ago

UK government advises deleting emails to save water

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

1 year ago

Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified

https://www.qodo.ai/blog/qodo-command-swe-bench-verified/

1 year ago

Weathering Software Winter (2022)

https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html

1 year ago

Syncthing 2.0 Released

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.0.0

1 year ago

Architecting large software projects [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSpULGNHyoI

1 year ago

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

https://webkit.org/blog/17240/a-gentle-introduction-to-anchor-positioning/

1 year ago

Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died

https://typo.social/@Hilary/114845913381245488

1 year ago

Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company

https://www.marcrand.com/p/lets-get-real-about-the-one-person

1 year ago

Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures

https://entropicthoughts.com/evaluating-llms-playing-text-adventures

1 year ago

Radicle 1.3.0

https://radicle.xyz/2025/08/12/radicle-1.3.0

1 year ago

ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

https://forgefed.org

1 year ago

Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/is-the-ai-boom-turning-into-an-ai-bubble

1 year ago

The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022)

https://mronline.org/2022/07/14/meet-the-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebooks-content-policy/

1 year ago

Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

https://clearsky.dev/blog/xr2000/

1 year ago

Outside of the top stocks, S&P 500 forward profits haven't grown in 3 years

https://insight-public.sgmarkets.com/quant-motion-pictures/outside-of-the-top-10-stocks-sp500-forward-profits-haven-t-grown-in-three-years

1 year ago

Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

1 year ago

Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

https://blog.opensecret.cloud/why-we-migrated-from-neon-to-planetscale/

1 year ago

Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/08/11/rerank-2-5/

1 year ago

Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability

https://nexusrouter.com/blog/introducing-nexus-the-open-source-ai-router

1 year ago

Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876289

1 year ago

Death and What Comes Next (2002)

https://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html

1 year ago

Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/ferdinand-mount/biff-bang

1 year ago

Print, a one-line BASIC program

https://10print.org

1 year ago

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/high-severity-winrar-0-day-exploited-for-weeks-by-2-groups/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878257

1 year ago

The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)

https://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html

1 year ago

US influencer stranded in Antarctica after landing plane without permission

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/antarctica-ethan-guo-teen-pilot-detained-b2805884.html

1 year ago

We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

https://denodell.com/blog/we-keep-reinventing-css

1 year ago

The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg

https://blog.dataengineerthings.org/the-equality-delete-problem-in-apache-iceberg-143dd451a974

1 year ago

Lessons learned from buying an open source repo

https://www.coplay.dev/blog/lessons-learned-from-buying-an-open-source-repo

1 year ago

Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

https://dodge.trickle.host

1 year ago

From Here?

https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/07/from-here/

1 year ago

Crypto founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges

https://www.ft.com/content/2e6fdc73-1083-48fb-b258-d22fc7ef8ad8

1 year ago

SIMD Binary Heap Operations

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2025-01-18-simd-heap.html

1 year ago