top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-22

FFmpeg 8.0

https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

1 year ago

Go is still not good

https://blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go-is-still-not-good.html

1 year ago

U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel-goverment-equity-stake.html

1 year ago

Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo-permit-new-york-city-nyc-rides.html

1 year ago

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server

https://blog.habets.se/2025/04/io-uring-ktls-and-rust-for-zero-syscall-https-server.html

1 year ago

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o

1 year ago

What is going on right now?

https://catskull.net/what-the-hell-is-going-on-right-now.html

1 year ago

Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

https://giuliomagnifico.blog/post/2025-08-18-leaving-gmail/

1 year ago

All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/08/22/the-management-skill-nobody-talks-about/

1 year ago

The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

https://moq.dev/blog/first-cdn/

1 year ago

Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)

https://www.begaydocrime.com/

1 year ago

Everything is correlated (2014–23)

https://gwern.net/everything

1 year ago

LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

https://labplot.org/

1 year ago

Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

https://git.vuxu.org/nitro/about/

1 year ago

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-goes-dark-in-mississippi-age-verification/

1 year ago

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487804-trees-on-city-streets-cope-with-drought-by-drinking-from-leaky-pipes/

1 year ago

Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math

https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/

1 year ago

Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/21/y-combinator-epic-games-amicus-brief/

1 year ago

Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website

1 year ago

Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-august-21-2025/

1 year ago

Why was Apache Kafka created?

https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-apache-kafka-created

1 year ago

It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019)

https://hsivonen.fi/string-length/

1 year ago

The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support/

1 year ago

Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126

1 year ago

Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-texas-instruments-60-billion-us-project.html

1 year ago

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/tbpro-august-2025-update/

1 year ago

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

https://tulach.cc/the-issue-of-anti-cheat-on-linux/

1 year ago

Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/global-mail-services-halt-us-deliveries-ahead-of-de-minimis-end

1 year ago

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582

1 year ago

Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker

https://nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/static-python-uv-caddy-docker/

1 year ago

Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

https://promptql.io/blog/being-confidently-wrong-is-holding-ai-back

1 year ago

Optimizing our way through Metroid

https://antithesis.com/blog/2025/metroid/

1 year ago

Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/59689

1 year ago

Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT

https://justin.searls.co/posts/sprinkling-self-doubt-on-chatgpt/

1 year ago

Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging in mice

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250820000808.htm

1 year ago

Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578

1 year ago

Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12631

1 year ago

A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/a-guide-to-gen-ai-llm-vibecoding-for-expert-programmers/

1 year ago

Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/top-secret

1 year ago

From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5511182/aca-tax-credits-health-insurance-open-enrollment

1 year ago

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html

1 year ago

Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-not-unilaterally-decide-to-kill-xslt/

1 year ago

Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine

https://reprobate.site/

1 year ago

NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nasas-juno-probe-changed-everything-we-know-about-jupiter/

1 year ago

What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/what-about-using-relshare-url-to-expose-sharing-intents/

1 year ago

The use of LLM assistants for kernel development

https://lwn.net/Articles/1032612/

1 year ago

Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust

https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/08/22/closing-the-nix-gap-from-environments-to-packaged-applications-for-rust/

1 year ago

Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

https://github.com/murat-cileli/clyp

1 year ago

Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

https://github.com/mbuhot/glyn

1 year ago

Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare

https://marketsaintefficient.substack.com/p/vibe-debugging-enterprises-up-and

1 year ago

Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-the-internet-is-turning-to-shit

1 year ago

Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moq/

1 year ago

The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2LeXwJOyI

1 year ago

The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/20/ai-report-triggering-panic-and-fear-on-wall-street/

1 year ago

Does MHz Still Matter?

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/does-mhz-still-matter

1 year ago

Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44986809

1 year ago

Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/coinbase-ceo-explains-why-he-fired-engineers-who-didnt-try-ai-immediately/

1 year ago

SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4295-haas.pdf

1 year ago