1130
919
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
951
623
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466
862
504
Why LLMs can't really build software
https://zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software
824
317
Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/
453
314
Blurry rendering of games on Mac
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/your-mac-game-is-probably-rendering-blurry/
445
345
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/
428
224
We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-gtk-rewrite
417
89
I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/syscall-build-snooping/
387
129
Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032604/73596e0c3ed1945a/
219
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
357
95
Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer
https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer
321
478
"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill
https://bookriot.com/penguin-random-house-florida-lawsuit/
320
386
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
310
134
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/
289
75
Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text
https://docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/what-is-this
265
144
Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure
263
272
Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks
https://zenobiapay.com/blog/open-source-payments
252
228
"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/
227
57
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
213
179
Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
https://www.seangoedecke.com/real-reasoning/
196
128
How to rig elections [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections
195
59
Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ASI-Lower-Overhead
191
65
Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism
https://aeplay.org/citybound
31
DINOv3
https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3
165
118
What medieval people got right about learning (2019)
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/06/07/apprenticeships/
46
Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs
https://github.com/trvon/yams
163
91
NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem
https://allenai.org/blog/nsf-nvidia
159
1
Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
https://github.com/tanrax/org-social
143
135
iPhone DevOps (2023)
https://clearsky.dev/blog/iphone-devops-ssh/
142
97
The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5242171
137
85
Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/
132
96
Jujutsu and Radicle
https://radicle.xyz/2025/08/14/jujutsu-with-radicle
130
Airbrush art of the 80s (2015)
https://www.coolandcollected.com/airbrush-art-of-the-80s-was-chrome-tastic/
126
67
The new science of “emergent misalignment”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813/
117
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/14/meta-robby-starbuck-ai/
115
110
Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/14/ppi-inflation-report-july-2025-.html
106
18
Border Patrol agents show up outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom's press conference
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/border-patrol-gov-gavin-newsom-news-conference-los-angeles/
102
156
Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-14-2025-updated-terms-and-policies
94
48
Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language
https://github.com/NVIDIA/tilus
47
Modifying other people's software
https://natkr.com/2025-08-14-modifying-other-peoples-software/
84
16
Meta Leaks Part 2: How to Kill a Social Movement
https://archive.org/details/meta_leaks_part_2
81
22
Meta's AI rules let bots hold sensual chats with kids, offer false medical info
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/
79
A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping
https://www.science.org/content/article/single-lock-hair-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-inca-record-keeping
78
Passion over Profits
https://dillonshook.com/passion-over-profits/
77
41
Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime
https://learn.convo-lang.ai/
23
How randomness improves algorithms (2023)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-randomness-improves-algorithms-20230403/
73
62
Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901528
38
Sam Altman is in damage-control mode after latest ChatGPT release
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/business/chatgpt-rollout-problems
66
119
Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901387
44
Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html
63
70
JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4029053/jetbrains-working-on-higher-abstraction-programming-language.html