Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-04
- If you’re remote, ramble stephango.com - 395 comments 775 points
- Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com - 233 comments 518 points
- Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models www.anthropic.com - 106 comments 329 points
- Writing a good design document grantslatton.com - 67 comments 292 points
- UN report finds UN reports are not widely read www.reuters.com - 109 comments 289 points
- Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com - 185 comments 278 points
- How to make almost anything - 2019 fab.cba.mit.edu - 24 comments 178 points
- The Dollar Is Dead mathmeetsmoney.substack.com - 245 comments 175 points
- So you want to parse a PDF? eliot-jones.com - 90 comments 167 points
- Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise news.asu.edu - 48 comments 134 points
- A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop oldvcr.blogspot.com - 28 comments 134 points
- Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding solmaz.io - 113 comments 130 points
- A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth - 2022 www.economist.com - 57 comments 114 points
- Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization theconversation.com - 58 comments 109 points
- Palantir: The Most Evil Company politicaleconomist.substack.com - 102 comments 101 points
- Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth www.ft.com - 106 comments 95 points
- How to grow almost anything howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site - 20 comments 88 points
- ChatGPT chats were indexed then removed from search but still remain online growtika.com - 63 comments 84 points
- Self-employed, self-exhausted theisolationjournals.substack.com - 56 comments 81 points
- This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series - 1996 archive.irixnet.org - 9 comments 80 points
- One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You’re Not Safe Either medium.com - 26 comments 71 points
- The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas bastian.rieck.me - 14 comments 66 points
- $83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight viewfromthewing.com - 100 comments 65 points
- Jobs data denialism won’t fool anyone www.natesilver.net - 5 comments 64 points
- Show HN: ArchAltect, AI to generate roadmaps in a clean UI www.archaltect.pro - 0 comments 63 points
- EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor’s office spectrum.ieee.org - 57 comments 61 points
- ‘A black hole’: New graduates discover a dismal job market www.nbcnews.com - 74 comments 60 points
- One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days lowendbox.com - 26 comments 58 points
- Tell HN: I’m tired of formulaic, “LLM house style” show HN submissions news.ycombinator.com - 24 comments 57 points
- Everything to know about UniFi OS Server deluisio.com - 4 comments 56 points
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