1087
534
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html
1 year ago
695
255
Obsidian Bases
https://help.obsidian.md/bases
646
233
Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
https://hyperclay.com/
591
152
Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering
533
463
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
455
44
An interactive guide to SVG paths
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths/
447
357
Left to Right Programming
https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming
422
160
FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
402
196
Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
https://mavericksforever.com/
395
122
How to Think About GPUs
https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/gpus/
391
99
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/
300
132
Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-alternative-lasik-lasers.html
298
239
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
297
116
SystemD Service Hardening
https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/systemd-hardening
281
130
Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers
https://www.fractionaljobs.io
271
17
Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU
https://github.com/tiny-tpu-v2/tiny-tpu
246
148
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/
165
Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)
https://nadia.xyz/shameless
230
167
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/
228
140
MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/18/code-mcps/
227
93
Vibe coding tips and tricks
https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/main/VIBE_CODING_TIPS_TRICKS.md
213
VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWHeBhYbM
89
Clojure Async Flow Guide
https://clojure.github.io/core.async/flow-guide.html
202
181
How Not to Buy a SSD
https://andrei.xyz/post/how-not-to-buy-a-ssd/
200
115
Who Invented Backpropagation?
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-backpropagation.html
195
French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/gouach-wants-you-to-insert-and-pluck-the-cells-from-its-infinite-e-bike-battery/
194
96
LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
293
Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef
173
235
AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-jobs-layoffs
171
328
Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lab-grown-salmon-hits-the-menu-at-an-oregon-restaurant-as-the-fda-greenlights-the-cell-cultured-product-180986769/
164
82
When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_ai_surveillance/
32
Phrack 72
https://phrack.org/issues/72/1
157
16
MapLibre Tile: A next generation geospatial format optimized for rendering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10791
156
76
Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c
153
119
What could have been
https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/what-could-have-been/
149
22
My Retro TVs
https://www.myretrotvs.com/
147
18
Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/elegant-mathematics-bending-the-future-of-design/
146
47
Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel/budapest-diving-molnar-janos-cave
24
Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry
https://3d.ameo.design/geotoy
144
48
Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit
143
Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-law-gives-grid-operator-power-to-disconnect-data-centers-during-crisi/751587/
141
331
The End of Handwriting
https://www.wired.com/story/the-end-of-handwriting/
139
25
Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad
https://vim.gabornyeki.com/
136
36
The Block Stacking Problem
https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/block_stacking/block_stacking.html
135
64
The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work
https://nearlyright.com/how-ai-researchers-accidentally-discovered-that-everything-they-thought-about-learning-was-wrong/
276
How much do electric car batteries degrade?
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-car-battery-degradation
134
Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem
https://www.tinytpu.com
105
Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-foundry-demos-deer-creek-falls-reference-soc
128
Happy 100000th birthday, Debian
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html
121
155
The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/8/18/the-road-that-killed-legend-jenkins-was-working-exactly-as-designed
111
91
Why we still build with Ruby
https://www.getlago.com/blog/why-we-still-build-with-ruby-in-2025
110
45
Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1542140
26
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/
103
19
Mangle – a language for deductive database programming
https://github.com/google/mangle
73
Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner
https://simpleflying.com/airbus-a320-overtake-boeing-737-most-delivered-commercial-airliner/
The new geography of stolen goods
https://www.economist.com/interactive/britain/2025/08/17/the-new-geography-of-stolen-goods
102
15
Show HN: Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps
https://github.com/usestrix/strix
98
34
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement
https://codemia.io/blog/path/NUMA-Is-the-New-Network-How-Per-Socket-Memory-Models-Are-Reshaping-Microservice-Placement
40
Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI
https://trychroma.com/cloud
92
20
The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS
https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2025/joy-of-immutable-data-recursion-pure-functions-javascript-mazes/
Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection
https://www.realitydefender.com/platform/api
35
Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers
https://github.com/cvilsmeier/go-sqlite-bench
33
The Weight of a Cell
https://www.asimov.press/p/cell-weight
90
84
AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/aws_updated_kiro_pricing/
White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-us-government-stake-22a7f987
Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile
https://gmays.com/the-biggest-bet-in-tech/
88
75
Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Robots.txt
87
28
How I Made Ruby Faster Than Ruby
https://noteflakes.com/articles/2025-08-18-how-to-make-ruby-faster
6
Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache
https://github.com/railsjazz/rails_charts
86
LinkedIn is the fakest platform of them all
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/70741/linkedin-is-the-fakest-platform-of-them-all
83
71
Google is watching
https://not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/google-is-watching/
Fast and observable background job processing for .NET
https://github.com/mikasjp/BusyBee
81
59
Sütterlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin
79
12
Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-pro-into-the-ultimate-classic-macintosh/
78
Unification (2018)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/unification/
Workday suffered a data breach
https://gizmodo.com/hr-giant-workday-got-hacked-2000644474
Customizing Lisp REPLs
https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html
66
Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
https://github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/python-utcp
14
MCP tools with dependent types
https://vlaaad.github.io/mcp-tools-with-dependent-types
72
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) [pdf]
https://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/RW.pdf