top 50% 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

An Update on Pytype

https://github.com/google/pytype

1 year ago

Introduction to AT Protocol

https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/

1 year ago

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)

https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/HTML/

1 year ago

How can AI ID a cat?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-id-a-cat-an-illustrated-guide-20250430/

1 year ago

Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raising-series-k-investment-100-billion-valuation

1 year ago

Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP

https://browser-use.com/posts/playwright-to-cdp

1 year ago

Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/blog/why-you-cant-grow-cool-climate-plants-in-hot-climates

1 year ago

Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code

https://github.com/automazeio/ccpm

1 year ago

Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

https://github.com/plutoprint/plutoprint

1 year ago

Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

https://github.com/luminal-ai/luminal

1 year ago

Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/acronis-true-image-costs-performance-when-not-used/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962881

1 year ago

Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/FLT/

1 year ago

OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple

https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/note-from-teemu-tim-and-torin-to-the-open-policy-agent-community-2dbbfe494371

1 year ago

We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/were-not-so-special/

1 year ago

Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-20/say-farewell-to-the-ai-bubble-and-get-ready-for-the-crash

1 year ago

Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/physics-of-badmintons-new-killer-spin-serve/

1 year ago

Digg.com is back

https://www.digg.com/

1 year ago

Zig 0.15.1

https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html

1 year ago

SimpleIDE

https://github.com/jamesplotts/simpleide

1 year ago

Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine

https://tarides.com/blog/2025-08-20-internship-report-refactoring-tools-coming-to-merlin/

1 year ago

Phone searches at the US border hit a record high

https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/

1 year ago

Calling Their Bluff

https://anguscheng.com/post/2025-08-13-calling-their-bluff/

1 year ago

Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?

https://zed.dev/blog/windows-progress-report

1 year ago

The theory and practice of selling the Aga cooker (1935) [pdf]

https://comeadwithus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/the-theory-and-practice-of-selling-the-aga-cooker.pdf

1 year ago

Show HN: Anchor Relay – A faster, easier way to get Let's Encrypt certificates

https://anchor.dev/relay

1 year ago

Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leascope/id6608979884

1 year ago

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

https://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/

1 year ago

The Fancy Rug Dilemma

https://epan.land/essays/2025-8_FancyRugDilemma

1 year ago

Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

1 year ago

Show HN: Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations

https://www.startpinch.com/

1 year ago

My original Palm IIIx

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/taking-a-look-at-my-old-palm-iiix

1 year ago

Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links

https://nestable.dev/about

1 year ago