top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-21

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

1 year ago

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/

1 year ago

DeepSeek-v3.1

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821

1 year ago

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8289

1 year ago

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/

1 year ago

95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

https://thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/

1 year ago

Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

https://pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-to-uv-experimentally/

1 year ago

I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1mw5yfg/forced_every_engineer_to_take_sales_calls_they/

1 year ago

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/using-podman-compose-and-buildkit/

1 year ago

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/

1 year ago

How well does the money laundering control system work?

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665

1 year ago

Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/

1 year ago

How does the US use water?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water

1 year ago

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/is-rotten-tomatoes-still-reliable

1 year ago

AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic/

1 year ago

Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191

1 year ago

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations

https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2025/

1 year ago

Margin debt surges to record high

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2025/07/23/margin-debt-surges-record-high-june-2025

1 year ago

The contrarian physics podcast subculture

https://timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/physics-grifters-eric-weinstein-sabine-hossenfelder-and-a-crisis-of-credibility/

1 year ago

Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license

https://unity.com/products/unity-industry

1 year ago