top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-17

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931824

1 year ago

The Enterprise Experience

https://churchofturing.github.io/the-enterprise-experience.html

1 year ago

Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

https://claudiacode.com/

1 year ago

D4D4

https://www.nmichaels.org/musings/d4d4/d4d4/

1 year ago

Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity

https://www.elliotcsmith.com/linkedin-toxic-mediocrity/

1 year ago

Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932651

1 year ago

GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUgv6dpJc

1 year ago

Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.18.0

1 year ago

LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers

https://threedle.github.io/ll3m/

1 year ago

ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/goo-gl/

1 year ago

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5502671/electricity-bill-high-inflation-ai

1 year ago

When did AI take over Hacker News?

https://zachperk.com/blog/when-did-ai-take-over-hn

1 year ago

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

https://blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/derivatives-gradients-jacobians-and-hessians-oh-my/

1 year ago

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx

1 year ago

Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move

https://www.neowin.net/news/hyundai-wants-ioniq-5-customers-to-pay-for-cybersecurity-patch-in-baffling-move/

1 year ago

Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs

https://github.com/ngafar/llama-scan

1 year ago

Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2

1 year ago

IQ tests results for AI

https://www.trackingai.org/home

1 year ago

HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/248

1 year ago

AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery

https://playtechnique.io/blog/ai-doesnt-lighten-the-burden-of-mastery.html

1 year ago

Epson MX-80 Fonts

https://mw.rat.bz/MX-80/

1 year ago

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

https://www.finkelstein.fr/sqlite-sync-engine-with-reactivity

1 year ago

SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08-15/business/tech/Thanks-Nvidia-SK-hynix-dethrones-Samsung-as-worlds-top-DRAM-maker-for-first-time-in-over-30-years/2376834

1 year ago

Why Nim?

https://undefined.pyfy.ch/why-nim

1 year ago

Review of Anti-Aging Drugs

https://scienceblog.com/joshmitteldorf/2025/08/17/review-of-anti-aging-drugs/

1 year ago

Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_123_index_io/

1 year ago

Who does your assistant serve?

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/who-assistant-serve/

1 year ago

BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

https://retrogamecoders.com/bbc-micro-the-ancestor-to-a-device-you-are-guaranteed-to-own/

1 year ago

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/

1 year ago

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/gaza-children-visas-medical-care-laura-loomer

1 year ago

MS-DOS development resources

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOSDevelResources/blob/main/README.md

1 year ago

The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States

https://blog.waldrn.com/p/the-decline-of-high-tech-manufacturing

1 year ago

Passive Microwave Repeaters

https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html

1 year ago

Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF

https://aerial-toothpaste-34a.notion.site/How-OpenAI-Misled-You-on-RLHF-1f83f742d9dd80a68129d06503464aff

1 year ago

It’s OK to block ads (2015)

https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/

1 year ago

Israeli gov. official arrested in Nevada internet crimes against children sting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

1 year ago

I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-i-prefer-rst-to-markdown/

1 year ago

ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison

https://clickhouse.com/blog/update-performance-clickhouse-vs-postgresql

1 year ago

Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

https://nicksimulator.com/

1 year ago

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/baldwin-a-love-story-nicholas-boggs-book-review

1 year ago

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

http://www.righto.com/2025/08/static-latchup-metastability-386.html

1 year ago

AI vs. Professional Authors Results

http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-authors-results-part-2.html

1 year ago

You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/views-for-debugging

1 year ago

Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings

https://melonmars.github.io/LatentExplorer/embedding_viewer.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning

https://fallinorg.com/#

1 year ago

Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-4chan-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content

1 year ago

iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities

https://github.com/JGoyd/iOS-18.5-Bluetooth-Privacy-Vuln

1 year ago

Does OLAP Need an ORM

https://clickhouse.com/blog/moosestack-does-olap-need-an-orm

1 year ago

Sixteen bottles of wine riddle

https://chriskw.xyz/2025/08/11/Wine/

1 year ago

The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-music-ringtones

1 year ago