top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-25

Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

1 year ago

What are OKLCH colors?

https://jakub.kr/components/oklch-colors

1 year ago

Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

https://menial.co.uk/base/

1 year ago

Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1

1 year ago

Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45019483

1 year ago

Building the mouse Logitech won't make

https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2025-08-24-mx-ergo-mods

1 year ago

Google's Liquid Cooling

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/googles-liquid-cooling-at-hot-chips

1 year ago

FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-414073A1.txt

1 year ago

An illustrated guide to OAuth

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-oauth

1 year ago

Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2025/0825_01_en.html

1 year ago

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka

1 year ago

Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson

https://twitter.com/nealstephenson/status/1959759051732213812

1 year ago

What is a color space?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/color-spaces-models-and-gamuts

1 year ago

Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries

https://austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html

1 year ago

iOS 18.6.1 0-click RCE POC

https://github.com/b1n4r1b01/n-days/blob/main/CVE-2025-43300.md

1 year ago

Git-Annex

https://git-annex.branchable.com/

1 year ago

Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking

https://oxism.com/trystero/

1 year ago

Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of

1 year ago

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

https://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

1 year ago

A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

https://b.43z.one/2025-07-22/

1 year ago

Japan's Creepiest Station

https://www.tokyocowboy.co/articles/doai-eki-japans-creepiest-station

1 year ago

Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed

https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed

1 year ago

The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction

https://jsomers.net/blog/the-mcphee-method

1 year ago

The MiniPC Revolution

https://jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2025/08/the-minipc-revolution/

1 year ago

The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/08/25/zw6z4E.html

1 year ago

Areal, Are.na's new typeface

https://www.are.na/editorial/introducing-areal-are-nas-new-typeface

1 year ago

How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/08/25/rubygems-security-response.html

1 year ago

Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library

https://github.com/zserge/fenster

1 year ago

Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/reverse-engineering-all-raspberry-pis

1 year ago

Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice

https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/25/costilla-county-water-cutoff/

1 year ago

WiFi-3D-Fusion – Real-time 3D motion sensing with Wi-Fi

https://github.com/MaliosDark/wifi-3d-fusion

1 year ago

Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way

https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/08/19/prisons-outdated-technology-hurts-our-chances-at-freedom/

1 year ago

The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-battery-revival

1 year ago

About Containers and VMs

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/containers_and_vms/

1 year ago

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

https://tuned-project.org/

1 year ago

SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

https://github.com/antirez/sds

1 year ago

Google to require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/google-will-require-developer-verification-for-android-apps-outside-the-play-store/

1 year ago

Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent

https://github.com/bravenewxyz/agent-c

1 year ago

Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

https://github.com/bkdevs/async-server

1 year ago

Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models

https://llama.fund

1 year ago

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/overinflated_ai_balloon/

1 year ago

Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015230

1 year ago

The Lobster Programming Language

https://www.strlen.com/lobster/

1 year ago

Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidias-thor-t5000-robot-brain-chip.html

1 year ago

Walmart Fires VP in Tech for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K

https://www.ctol.digital/news/walmart-fires-vp-kickbacks-terminates-1200-contractors/

1 year ago

Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently

https://newatlas.com/computers/cornell-microwave-brain/

1 year ago

IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture

https://www.servethehome.com/ibms-power11-processor-architecture-at-hot-chips-2025/

1 year ago

The Leverage Paradox in AI

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/lifestyle/the-leverage-paradox-ksRiX6y6W7NzfBE57dzt

1 year ago

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/like-intel-before-it-amd-blames-motherboard-makers-for-burnt-out-cpus/

1 year ago

Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/study-finds-gaps-in-evidence-for-air-cleaning-technologies-designed-to-prevent-respiratory-infections

1 year ago

Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-pleasure-plummets.html

1 year ago

Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

https://bphilip.uk/blog/2025-08-25-the-cs2-server-browser-where-community-goes-to-die/

1 year ago

Show HN: Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support)

https://github.com/control-theory/gonzo

1 year ago

MCP Gateway and Registry

https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge

1 year ago

A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler

https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/arithmetic-bytecode-vm-compiler/

1 year ago

Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island

https://thepublicsradio.org/environment/trump-halts-construction-on-nearly-complete-wind-farm-off-rhode-island/

1 year ago

Teams Grow Organically

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-08-22-how-teams-grow-organically/

1 year ago

Nullable vs. Nullable in C#

https://einarwh.no/blog/2025/08/25/nullable-vs-nullable/

1 year ago

Teletext in North America

https://computer.rip/2025-08-25-teletext-in-north-america.html

1 year ago