top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-20

Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/

1 year ago

Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

1 year ago

AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

https://agents.md/

1 year ago

Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers

https://pistachioapp.com/blog/copilot-broke-your-audit-log

1 year ago

Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

https://github.com/zedless-editor/zed

1 year ago

Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44959073

1 year ago

Sequoia backs Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed

1 year ago

Pixel 10 Phones

https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-10-pro-xl/

1 year ago

Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

https://petapixel.com/2025/08/20/home-depot-sued-for-secretly-using-facial-recognition-technology-on-self-checkout-cameras/

1 year ago

Burner Phone 101

https://rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101/

1 year ago

Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering

https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/12_gemma3

1 year ago

Code review can be better

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08-04-code-review-can-be-better/

1 year ago

AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you-think-you-know-thats-now-wrong/

1 year ago

Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-web-phoenix-rails

1 year ago

Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics

https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1958198661139009862

1 year ago

Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

https://shaderacademy.com/

1 year ago

Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditional_rst_20250820/en/

1 year ago

Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero

https://www.mindflash.org/coding/ai/ai-and-the-bus-factor-of-0-1608

1 year ago

Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/07/modern-ci-is-too-complex-and-misdirected/

1 year ago

The value of hitting the HN front page

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3530

1 year ago