top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-15

Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?

https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/

1 year ago

I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer

https://drobinin.com/posts/how-i-accidentally-became-puregyms-unofficial-apple-wallet-developer/

1 year ago

Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger

https://lazybrush.dulnan.net

1 year ago

The future of large files in Git is Git

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/

1 year ago

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

https://edka.io

1 year ago

A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/a-gigantic-jet-caught-on-camera-a-spritacular-moment-for-nasa-astronaut-nicole-ayers/

1 year ago

Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)

https://paulgraham.com/ds.html

1 year ago

The electric fence stopped working years ago

https://soonly.com/electric-fences/

1 year ago

ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2024-083658

1 year ago

The beauty of a text only webpage

https://albanbrooke.com/the-beauty-of-a-text-only-webpage/

1 year ago

California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/unemployment-rate-rises-tech-20819276.php

1 year ago

Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations

https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

1 year ago

I used to know how to write in Japanese

https://aethermug.com/posts/i-used-to-know-how-to-write-in-japanese

1 year ago

OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux

1 year ago

Fairness is what the powerful 'can get away with' study shows

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fairness-powerful.html

1 year ago

Imagen 4 is now generally available

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/announcing-imagen-4-fast-and-imagen-4-family-generally-available-in-the-gemini-api/

1 year ago

Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3320828/us-f-16s-lose-out-thai-air-force-seals-us600-million-deal-swedish-gripen-jets

1 year ago

UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse

https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy222

1 year ago

Typechecker Zoo

https://sdiehl.github.io/typechecker-zoo/

1 year ago

Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years

https://smokinggun.org/court-records-reveal-sig-sauer-knew-of-pistol-risks-for-years/

1 year ago

Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/3899

1 year ago

★ 59.3k Rust AGPL-3.0

The Timmy Trap

https://jenson.org/timmy/

1 year ago

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033790447125787

1 year ago

When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-investigation-that-should-have

1 year ago

Is air travel getting worse?

https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/is-air-travel-getting-worse

1 year ago

White House loyalty rating for companies

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/white-house-rating-big-beautiful-bill

1 year ago

Bullfrog in the Dungeon

https://www.filfre.net/2025/08/bullfrog-in-the-dungeon/

1 year ago

Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

https://blog.foletta.net/post/2025-07-14-clt/

1 year ago

Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas

1 year ago

Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects

https://www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2

1 year ago

Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling

https://www.wsj.com/economy/american-job-housing-economic-dynamism-d56ef8fc

1 year ago

A privacy VPN you can verify

https://vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%27t-Trust-Verify

1 year ago

Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/

1 year ago

Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy

https://www.polygon.com/steam-paypal-issues-censorship-visa-mastercard/

1 year ago

Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

https://latentintent.substack.com/p/model-intelligence-is-no-longer-the

1 year ago

The Folk Economics of Housing

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20241428

1 year ago

Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915206

1 year ago

Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

https://www.cfr.org/blog/time-end-roundtripping-big-pharma

1 year ago

In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/060206.html

1 year ago

TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

https://blog.krzyzanowskim.com/2025/08/14/textkit-2-the-promised-land/

1 year ago

Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation and exercise capacity in healthy volunteers

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/46/17/1634/8023896?login=false

1 year ago

With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-32c-mediterranean-tropicalization-shifts-high.html

1 year ago

Using AI to secure AI

https://mattsayar.com/letting-inmates-run-the-asylum-using-ai-to-secure-ai/

1 year ago

South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause

https://www.readtrung.com/p/south-park-and-the-greatest-tv-contract

1 year ago

Proton begins moving hardware out of Switzerland due to proposed legislation

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/is-proton-leaving-switzerland-legal-uncertainty-of-proposed-surveillance-laws-is-pushing-them-to-make-several-changes

1 year ago

The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over

https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure/

1 year ago

Teaching GPT-5 to Use a Computer

https://prava.co/archon/

1 year ago

Teenage Engineering's free computer case

https://teenage.engineering/store/computer-2

1 year ago

Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot

https://blog.3mdeb.com/2025/2025-08-07-gigabyte_mz33_ar1_part1/

1 year ago

AI-induced dehumanization (2024)

https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1441

1 year ago

The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cia-kryptos-sculpture-code-auction-2677451

1 year ago

What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44910589

1 year ago

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/

1 year ago

An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions

https://quaternion.cafe/

1 year ago

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/mark-zuckerberg-never-more-dangerous-20819500.php

1 year ago

LibreOffice says Microsoft Office exploits you, offers free ODF migration guide

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-says-microsoft-exploits-you-via-vendor-lock-in-offers-free-odf-migration-guide/

1 year ago

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

1 year ago

★ 9.2k HTML

I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked

https://overbring.com/blog/2025-08-13-writing-an-elixir-nif-with-genai/

1 year ago

Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/08/viking-age-hoard-reveals-trade-between-england-and-the-islamic-world/155786

1 year ago

Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/croatia-digital-nomad-visa.html

1 year ago

Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/are_you_willing_to_pay/

1 year ago

A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02589-5

1 year ago

Sky Calendar

https://abramsplanetarium.org/SkyCalendar/index.html

1 year ago

They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose

https://www.chronicle.com/article/theyre-killing-the-humanities-on-purpose

1 year ago

What kids told us about how to get them off their phones

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/kids-smartphones-play-freedom/683742/

1 year ago

German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional

https://harici.com.tr/en/german-court-declares-karl-marxs-teachings-unconstitutional/

1 year ago

Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, and growing rapidly

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

1 year ago

Show HN: JMAP MCP – Email for your agents

https://github.com/wyattjoh/jmap-mcp

1 year ago

★ 170 TypeScript MIT