top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-08-23

What makes Claude Code so damn good

https://minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code/

1 year ago

Line scan camera image processing for train photography

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2025m09d21/

1 year ago

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

https://github.com/3b1b/manim

1 year ago

Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line

https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-is-recycling-old-ev-batteries-to-help-power-mazdas-production-line

1 year ago

The cost of interrupted work (2023)

https://blog.oberien.de/2023/11/05/23-minutes-15-seconds.html

1 year ago

LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine

https://github.com/lunarengine/lunar-test

1 year ago

RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839

1 year ago

Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/22/investigators-used-terrible-computer-fraud-laws-to-ensure-people-were-punished-for-leaking-air-crash-footage-to-cnn/

1 year ago

I made a floppy disk from scratch

https://kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a-floppy-disk-from-scratch

1 year ago

I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

https://www.openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dumb-For-Zigs-New-IO-Interface/

1 year ago

Developer's block

https://underlap.org/developers-block/

1 year ago

I hacked Monster Energy

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/monster-energy

1 year ago

My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)

https://efitz-thoughts.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-experience-creating-software-with_22.html

1 year ago

A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-2000-year-old-sun-hat-worn-by-a-roman-soldier-in-egypt-goes-on-view-after-a-century-in-storage-180987192/

1 year ago

Materialized views are obviously useful

https://sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/materialized-views-are-obviously-useful

1 year ago

Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available

https://romhack.ing/database/news/entry/DW8BKnRHSEqaGDwXTiKjMw

1 year ago

Good EU regulations

https://www.actuallygoodregulations.eu/

1 year ago

Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++

https://gau-nernst.github.io/fa-5090/

1 year ago

Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-the-energy-cost-of-ai-queries-by-33x-in-one-year/

1 year ago

The ROI of Exercise

https://herman.bearblog.dev/exercise/

1 year ago