top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-14

Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy

1 year ago

Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466

1 year ago

Why LLMs can't really build software

https://zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software

1 year ago

Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/

1 year ago

Blurry rendering of games on Mac

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/your-mac-game-is-probably-rendering-blurry/

1 year ago

Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/an-update-on-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch-in-the-us/

1 year ago

We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-gtk-rewrite

1 year ago

I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/syscall-build-snooping/

1 year ago

Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/08/meta-accessed-womens-health-data-from-flo-app-without-consent-says-court

1 year ago

Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032604/73596e0c3ed1945a/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer

https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer

1 year ago

"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill

https://bookriot.com/penguin-random-house-florida-lawsuit/

1 year ago

US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/us-producer-prices-rise-by-most-in-three-years-on-services

1 year ago

Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy

https://www.kodak.com/en/company/blog-post/statement-regarding-misleading-media-reports/

1 year ago

Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

https://docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/what-is-this

1 year ago

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure

1 year ago

Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

https://zenobiapay.com/blog/open-source-payments

1 year ago

"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

1 year ago

New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning

https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/news/2025/new-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html

1 year ago

Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/real-reasoning/

1 year ago