957
390
Good system design
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-design/
2 weeks ago
690
305
Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
https://scrollguard.app/
516
207
Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
https://derwiki.medium.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-and-then-don-t-scale-9fd2cd7e2156
506
282
PuTTY has a new website
https://putty.software/
434
209
Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste-made-from-hair-provides-natural-root-to-repair-teeth
391
349
OpenAI Progress
https://progress.openai.com
359
148
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
https://pudding.cool/2025/08/onions/
339
77
Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
https://cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/candle-flame-oscillations-as-a-clock/
324
87
Pfeilstorch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch
268
174
Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/
256
106
Traps to Developers
https://qouteall.fun/qouteall-blog/2025/Traps%20to%20Developers
224
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One person was able to claim 20M IPs
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS/#MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS
211
110
Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz
https://treeform.github.io/devcompas/
200
69
Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
https://goose.icu/lambda/
186
113
Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/15/woz-on-slashdot
312
Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/367566/forget-netflix-volkswagen-locks-horsepower-behind-paid-subscription
185
204
Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/16/microsoft_windows_features_help_productivity/
183
68
Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems
https://userjot.com/blog/best-practices-building-agentic-ai-systems
182
125
Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AON
180
70
Guid Smash
https://www.guidsmash.com
176
54
How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/
168
X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls
https://www.popsci.com/technology/tibetan-prayer-scroll-scans/
163
21
Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning
https://dyna.org/
146
48
Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
https://victorwynne.com/processor-trace-instrument/
131
12
Tversky Neural Networks
https://gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-neural-networks
128
108
Oil states thwart agreement on plastics
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/global-plastics-treaty
124
26
An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)
https://jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/users/jotun/lawnmower/
116
102
Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-26888280
111
34
Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material
https://www.energy-reporters.com/environment/97-battery-recycling-breakthrough-princeton-nuenergy-opens-first-u-s-commercial-facility-cutting-costs-38-and-slashing-environmental-impact/
57
Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagate-spins-up-a-raid-on-a-counterfeit-hard-drive-workshop-authorities-read-criminals-writes-while-they-spill-the-beans
61
Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-library-operator-arrested-study-canceled-for-330k-members-250814/
A Lisp in 99LOC
https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp
Office on HP-UX and Unix
https://www.openpa.net/hp-ux_office.html
99
23
Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
https://github.com/superstarryeyes/lue
98
107
Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/03/10/rust-2025-intro/
92
Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/08/netflix-tudum-cqrs-raw-hollow/
90
11
The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)
https://5wgraphicsblog.com/2016/10/24/the-cutaway-illustrations-of-fred-freeman/
1
A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019)
https://distill.pub/2019/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/
52
Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi
http://unsafehttp.benren.au
85
When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross
https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/it-cant-happen-here-sinclair-lewis
141
Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44925438
83
95
Monday – A personality experiment
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b78892481918c89067962526695-monday
81
79
Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD
https://floustate.com/blog/open-office-secondhand-adhd
Flock Reports to Police If It Thinks Car Movement Patterns "Suspicious"
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=pm&utm_medium=pm&initms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nat-dig-pm-awr-int&utm_content=fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=pm&ms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&utm_term=pm-6748111603595-6838690309595&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAAAGOEHIQhsBHntU-vN-zAj7VllTEkKZxwc7W3NxYS6d6L4_XI4idiZnhTYsnLyqFCbuQ6Mo_aem_dWflVIAJNk7sTdRRfrq5mg&utm_id=6544987402995
78
109
Tiny, removable "mini SSD" could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/tiny-removable-mini-ssd-could-eventually-be-a-big-deal-for-gaming-handhelds/
9
Guile bindings for Sway window manager
https://github.com/ebeem/guile-swayer