top 20 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

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal-judges-disagree/

2 weeks ago

391 upvotes – 99 comments

Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-alternative-lasik-lasers.html

2 weeks ago

300 upvotes – 132 comments

Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-admits-anti-competitive-conduct-involving-google-search-in-australia

2 weeks ago

298 upvotes – 239 comments

SystemD Service Hardening

https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/systemd-hardening

2 weeks ago

297 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

https://www.fractionaljobs.io

2 weeks ago

281 upvotes – 130 comments

Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

https://github.com/tiny-tpu-v2/tiny-tpu

2 weeks ago

271 upvotes – 17 comments

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/

2 weeks ago

246 upvotes – 148 comments

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

https://nadia.xyz/shameless

2 weeks ago

233 upvotes – 165 comments

95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

2 weeks ago

230 upvotes – 167 comments

MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/18/code-mcps/

2 weeks ago

228 upvotes – 140 comments
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