top 50% 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

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

https://lwn.net/Articles/1030818/

1 year ago

SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy

1 year ago

RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9

1 year ago

Light pollution prolongs avian activity

https://gizmodo.com/birds-across-the-world-are-singing-all-day-for-a-disturbing-reason-2000646257

1 year ago

Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/59582

1 year ago

Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads

https://libreantisocial.com

1 year ago

Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV

https://austinvernon.substack.com/p/building-ultra-cheap-energy-storage

1 year ago

World Wide Lightning Location Network

https://wwlln.net/

1 year ago

Cascata delle Marmore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascata_delle_Marmore

1 year ago

Delphi in the Age of AI

https://learndelphi.org/delphi-ai-ultimate-guide/

1 year ago

The Amiga games and demo scene collection

https://amiga.vision/

1 year ago

The West is bored to death

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/the-west-is-bored-to-death

1 year ago

Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/developer-gets-4-years-for-activating-network-kill-switch-to-avenge-his-firing/

1 year ago

The F-35 is losing the trade war

https://www.jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35-fighter-jet-losing-trade-war/

1 year ago

YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/youtube-shorts-ai-upscaling/683946/

1 year ago

Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25

https://mfbmina.dev/en/posts/waitgroups/

1 year ago

Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebsitesDontCareAboutClients

1 year ago

Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/21/will-at-centre-of-legal-battle-over-shakespeares-home-unearthed-after-150-years

1 year ago

A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

http://www.malsmith.net/blog/visual-c-visual-history/

1 year ago

Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

https://a16z.com/building-a16zs-personal-ai-workstation-with-four-nvidia-rtx-6000-pro-blackwell-max-q-gpus/

1 year ago

The problems that accountability can't fix

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/08/23/the-problems-that-accountability-cant-fix/

1 year ago

Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket-the-hardest-focus-app/id6746587044

1 year ago

Europe's Free-Speech Problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/europe-free-speech-republicans/683915/

1 year ago

Debdelta

https://debdelta.debian.net/

1 year ago

Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support

https://gimp-print.sourceforge.io/p_FAQ_OS_X.php

1 year ago

Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/europes-crusade-against-air-conditioning

1 year ago

Eyecam

https://marcteyssier.com/projects/eyecam/

1 year ago