top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-24

A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

https://lina.sh/blog/telefonica-sabotages-me

1 year ago

A visual introduction to big O notation

https://samwho.dev/big-o/

1 year ago

Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account

https://twitter.com/zack_overflow/status/1959308058200551721

1 year ago

How to build a coding agent

https://ghuntley.com/agent/

1 year ago

Everything I know about good API design

https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/

1 year ago

We put a coding agent in a while loop

https://github.com/repomirrorhq/repomirror/blob/main/repomirror.md

1 year ago

Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

https://bmitch.net/blog/2025-08-22-ghrc-appears-malicious/

1 year ago

A bug saved the company

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2025/08/21/when-a-bug-saved-the-company/

1 year ago

Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

https://torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-finds-ideal-pirate-bay-poster-boy-to-sell-blocking-of-non-pirate-sites-250824/

1 year ago

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

https://fortune.com/2025/08/23/neuralink-participant-1-noland-arbaugh-18-months-post-surgery-life-changed-elon-musk/

1 year ago

Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

https://marianogappa.github.io/software/2025/08/24/i-made-two-card-games-in-go/

1 year ago

Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam-shouldnt-own-intel-stock-ccd6986d

1 year ago

Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/chinese-astronauts-make-rocket-fuel-and-oxygen-in-space-using-1st-of-its-kind-artificial-photosynthesis

1 year ago

YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

1 year ago

It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/buy-a-cpu/

1 year ago

Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

1 year ago

US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar-wind-renewable-trump-tariff-utility-tax-credit-itc-ptc-obbb-electricity-price.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras

https://github.com/roryclear/clearcam

1 year ago

DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

https://www.aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki

1 year ago

Turning Claude Code into my best design partner

https://betweentheprompts.com/design-partner/

1 year ago

Omarchy Is Out

https://world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy-is-out-4666dd31

1 year ago

The Annotated Transformer (2022)

https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/

1 year ago

AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

https://www.vincirufus.com/posts/agi-is-engineering-problem/

1 year ago

Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition

https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/deaf116/8234396

1 year ago

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (2021)

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

1 year ago

Nvidia DGX Spark

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/

1 year ago

Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye

https://dseltzer.gitlab.io/sping/docs/

1 year ago

Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

https://ericmjl.github.io/blog/2025/8/23/wicked-python-trickery-dynamically-patch-a-python-functions-source-code-at-runtime/

1 year ago

SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

https://small-js.org/Home/Home.html

1 year ago

Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/08/internet-access-providers-arent-bound-by-dmca-unmasking-subpoenas-in-re-cox.htm

1 year ago

ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/ice-uses-celebrities-loophole-to-hide-deportation-flights/

1 year ago

A bubble that knows it's a bubble

https://craigmccaskill.com/ai-bubble-history

1 year ago

How to make things slower so they go faster

https://www.gojiberries.io/how-to-make-things-slower-so-they-go-faster-a-jitter-design-manual/

1 year ago

Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

https://github.com/kagehq/port-kill

1 year ago

Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux

https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-looking-back-windows-to-linux/

1 year ago

Starship's Tenth Flight Test

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10

1 year ago

In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

https://andre.arko.net/2025/08/18/in-memory-filesystems-in-rust/

1 year ago

Show HN: Bicyclopedia

https://bicyclopedia.lemoing.ca/

1 year ago

Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

https://www.caseyliss.com/2025/8/15/a-rube-goldberg-camera

1 year ago

Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

https://github.com/phantomics/seed

1 year ago

Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

https://darkcoding.net/software/personal-ai-evals-aug-2025/

1 year ago

'Rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250819-why-italys-beloved-ancient-monolith-is-falling

1 year ago

Using information theory to solve Mastermind

https://www.goranssongaspar.com/mastermind

1 year ago

US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/23/nx-s1-5513919/trump-stops-offshore-wind-renewable-energy

1 year ago

Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

https://vgr.land/content/posts/20250821.xml

1 year ago

Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year

https://electrek.co/2025/08/18/tesla-tsla-insiders-have-sold-more-than-50-of-their-shares-in-the-last-year/

1 year ago

Writing with LLM is not a shame

https://reflexions.florianernotte.be/post/ai-transparency/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001551

1 year ago

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

https://avi.im/blag/2025/sqlite-fsync/

1 year ago

How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/21/how-to-check-if-your-apple-silicon-mac-is-booting-securely/

1 year ago

DeepConf: Scaling LLM reasoning with confidence, not just compute

https://arxiviq.substack.com/p/deep-think-with-confidence

1 year ago

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

1 year ago

A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf62f

1 year ago

How to Fix Your Context

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.html

1 year ago

Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

https://github.com/schlae/cm5-reveng

1 year ago

Spending too much time at airports

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/spending-too-much-time-at-airports

1 year ago

You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bloodsuckers-1.5361074

1 year ago

Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations

https://youaretheassistantnow.com/

1 year ago

Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam

https://www.chronicle.com/article/bring-back-the-blue-book-exam

1 year ago

Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata

https://www.nets-vs-automata.net/

1 year ago

US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2B in research grants

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5

1 year ago

Adventures in State Space [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLNyHd2w10

1 year ago

Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Copyright-clearing-house-Committee-for-website-blocking-to-rely-on-judiciary-10490128.html

1 year ago

Explanation of the Linux-kernel memory consistency model (2017)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/refs/heads/master/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt

1 year ago

Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data

https://github.com/adamhl8/filterql

1 year ago

Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

https://equal-earth.com/index.html

1 year ago

The great medieval water myth (2013)

https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html

1 year ago

The AI vibe shift is upon us

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/business/ai-vibe-shift-nightcap

1 year ago

ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

https://github.com/martianlantern/ThinkMesh

1 year ago

Programming People (2016)

https://leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople/

1 year ago