top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-08-18

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html

2 weeks ago

1087 upvotes – 534 comments

Obsidian Bases

https://help.obsidian.md/bases

2 weeks ago

695 upvotes – 255 comments

Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

https://hyperclay.com/

2 weeks ago

646 upvotes – 233 comments

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering

2 weeks ago

591 upvotes – 152 comments

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-life-minh-le.html

2 weeks ago

533 upvotes – 463 comments

An interactive guide to SVG paths

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths/

2 weeks ago

455 upvotes – 44 comments

Left to Right Programming

https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming

2 weeks ago

447 upvotes – 357 comments

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

2 weeks ago

422 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

https://mavericksforever.com/

2 weeks ago

402 upvotes – 196 comments

How to Think About GPUs

https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/gpus/

2 weeks ago

395 upvotes – 122 comments
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