Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-05
- Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com - 582 comments 1056 points
- Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display benholmen.com - 122 comments 881 points
- Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com - 798 comments 549 points
- Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down www.pcgamer.com - 534 comments 545 points
- Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash electrek.co - 224 comments 460 points
- Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io - 101 comments 388 points
- Objects should shut up dustri.org - 263 comments 360 points
- DrawAFish.com Postmortem aldenhallak.com - 72 comments 305 points
- How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast v8.dev - 77 comments 283 points
- Palantir is extending its reach even further into government www.wired.com - 227 comments 249 points
- Show HN: I’ve been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years github.com - 64 comments 194 points
- PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming deprogrammaticaipsum.com - 173 comments 171 points
- Read your code etsd.tech - 99 comments 169 points
- AI promised efficiency. Instead, it’s making us work harder afterburnout.co - 136 comments 164 points
- Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? news.ycombinator.com - 246 comments 154 points
- I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking - 2023 www.vogue.com - 97 comments 147 points
- Projects evaluated to see if they’re as free and open source as advertised isitreallyfoss.com - 52 comments 143 points
- A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability notashes.me - 69 comments 140 points
- Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan’s coastline - 2015 www.smithsonianmag.com - 52 comments 140 points
- Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager danfabulich.medium.com - 107 comments 135 points
- KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland www.neowin.net - 66 comments 134 points
- My Ideal Array Language www.ashermancinelli.com - 55 comments 131 points
- Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable www.nytimes.com - 18 comments 130 points
- HTMX is hard, so let’s get it right github.com - 124 comments 129 points
- Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids offline.kids - 65 comments 129 points
- Content-Aware Spaced Repetition www.giacomoran.com - 25 comments 126 points
- Customizing tmux evgeniipendragon.com - 98 comments 122 points
- NASA’s Curiosity picks up new skills www.jpl.nasa.gov - 39 comments 121 points
- Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras thingino.com - 18 comments 113 points
- GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training arxiv.org - 17 comments 111 points
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