top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-26

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/

1 year ago

Claude for Chrome

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome

1 year ago

We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/we-regret-but-have-to-temporary-suspend-the-shipments-to-usa/

1 year ago

Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment

https://reclaimthenet.org/michigan-supreme-court-rules-phone-search-warrants-must-be-specific

1 year ago

US Intel

https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/

1 year ago

Framework Laptop 16

https://frame.work/ro/en/laptop16?tab=whats-new

1 year ago

Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-worker-was-frustrated-with-ghost-jobs-now-hes-trying-to-pass-a-national-ban.html

1 year ago

A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html

1 year ago

Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

https://byte.tsundoku.io

1 year ago

macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/macos_26_tahoes_dead_canary_utility_app_icons

1 year ago

Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines

https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/

1 year ago

Starship's Tenth Flight Test

https://www.spacex.com/

1 year ago

Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

https://andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/rv-a-new-kind-of-ruby-management-tool/

1 year ago

One universal antiviral to rule them all?

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-universal-antiviral-rule-them-all

1 year ago

macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support

https://becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotfiles/

1 year ago

GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme

https://artanis.dev/index.html

1 year ago

Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/object-oriented-design-patterns-in-osdev

1 year ago

Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)

https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-076902

1 year ago

The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful

https://www.iflscience.com/the-wow-signal-was-likely-from-an-extraterrestrial-source-and-more-powerful-than-we-thought-80561

1 year ago

In Search of AI Psychosis

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis

1 year ago

Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

https://markdown-ui.com/

1 year ago

Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world

https://www.intofarlands.com/map-of-pauls-journeys

1 year ago

SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious

https://www.chrislockard.net/posts/ssl-cert-requirements-obnoxious/

1 year ago

Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?

https://www.righto.com/2025/08/Cr2Ge2Te6-not-Cr2Gr2Te6.html

1 year ago

US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-25/us-retail-giants-raise-prices-and-seek-new-import-sources-due-to-tariffs.html

1 year ago

The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

https://scottstuff.net/posts/2025/05/19/ntp-limits/

1 year ago

Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls

https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-climbing-catfish-filmed-scaling-waterfalls

1 year ago

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

1 year ago

15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-025-01916-9

1 year ago

Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)

https://sgt.hootr.club/molten-matter/maybe-i-like-python-now/

1 year ago

Show HN: I integrated my from-scratch TCP/IP stack into the xv6-riscv OS

https://github.com/pandax381/xv6-riscv-net

1 year ago

Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/silicon-valley-is-pouring-millions-into-pro-ai-pacs-to-sway-midterms/

1 year ago

Dangerous advice for software engineers

https://www.seangoedecke.com/dangerous-advice/

1 year ago

What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/93401/what-happens-when-ambassadors-are-summoned-by-the-foreign-ministry-of-their-host

1 year ago

US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/trump_tech_tax_threat/

1 year ago

Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center

https://fortune.com/2025/08/24/meta-data-center-rural-louisiana-framework-ai-power-boom/

1 year ago

Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

https://maintainable.fm/episodes/taylor-otwell-what-14-years-of-laravel-taught-me-about-maintainability

1 year ago

Why I'm declining your AI generated MR

https://blog.stuartspence.ca/2025-08-declining-ai-slop-mr.html

1 year ago

"Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)

https://www.righto.com/2019/10/how-special-register-groups-invaded.html

1 year ago

Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page

https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/windows-7-power-256-threads-192-gb-ram

1 year ago

The Relativity of Wrong (1988)

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

1 year ago

DSLRoot, proxies, and the threat of 'legal botnets'

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/dslroot-proxies-and-the-threat-of-legal-botnets/

1 year ago

The TTY Demystified (2008)

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

1 year ago

'Ten Martini' Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ten-martini-proof-uses-number-theory-to-explain-quantum-fractals-20250825/

1 year ago

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to 'vulnerable' cloud server

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/doge-uploaded-live-copy-of-social-security-database-to-vulnerable-cloud-server-says-whistleblower/

1 year ago

No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16872

1 year ago

Das Problem mit German Strings

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/08/26/das-problem-mit-german-strings

1 year ago

AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/ai-entry-level-job-impact-5c687c84

1 year ago

Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/error-handling-in-iroh

1 year ago

Google feedback form for Android developer verification requirements

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITkdzMxv81rJDEGGjO-UIDDY28Rz_GEVA/viewform

1 year ago

A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

https://www.xml.com/articles/2017/02/14/why-you-should-be-using-xslt-30/

1 year ago

Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-abaris-aicdh-00.html

1 year ago

Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/

1 year ago

Australia Post halts most parcels to US as tariff chaos hits global carriers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/australia-post-commercial-shipping-suspension-us-tariffs/105696336

1 year ago

America by Design Fail

https://americabydesign.fail/

1 year ago

My Failures Onboarding at Splunk

https://people-work.io/blog/my-failures-onboarding-at-splunk/

1 year ago

MAID in Canada

https://nathansnelgrove.com/2025/08/maid-in-canada

1 year ago

Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email

https://unfuck.email

1 year ago

Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/16233096?hl=en

1 year ago

China's Share in Global Display Capacity to Reach 75% in 2028

https://display.counterpointresearch.com/press-release/chinas-share-in-global-display-capacity-to-reach-75-in-2028

1 year ago

Titles matter

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/titles-matter

1 year ago