Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-09
- Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation github.com - 188 comments 931 points
- I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io - 170 comments 609 points
- Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died www.nasa.gov - 92 comments 453 points
- Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole bytemash.net - 198 comments 423 points
- Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can’t run one GPT-4 locally? news.ycombinator.com - 247 comments 368 points
- The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers simonwillison.net - 317 comments 336 points
- Getting good results from Claude Code www.dzombak.com - 124 comments 306 points
- Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people apnorc.org - 509 comments 291 points
- Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy thereader.mitpress.mit.edu - 137 comments 290 points
- US to rewrite its past national climate reports www.france24.com - 173 comments 238 points
- How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB radar.com - 56 comments 219 points
- AI is impressive because we’ve failed at personal computing rakhim.exotext.com - 177 comments 197 points
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist www.rmg.co.uk - 28 comments 197 points
- Google’s Genie is more impressive than GPT5 theahura.substack.com - 71 comments 194 points
- How attention sinks keep language models stable hanlab.mit.edu - 27 comments 174 points
- GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev - 136 comments 160 points
- Dial-up Internet to be discontinued help.aol.com - 74 comments 151 points
- A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees newsroom.intel.com - 199 comments 143 points
- AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators passo.uno - 65 comments 137 points
- Build durable workflows with Postgres www.dbos.dev - 41 comments 114 points
- Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs github.com - 16 comments 106 points
- Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man’s 1958 Cessna www.latimes.com - 115 comments 101 points
- M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025 www.macrumors.com - 130 comments 96 points
- The BLS can’t be replaced by the private sector www.bloomberg.com - 93 comments 94 points
- HRT’s Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports www.hudsonrivertrading.com - 87 comments 82 points
- Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent blog.langchain.com - 19 comments 81 points
- The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning blog.charliemeyer.co - 88 comments 79 points
- What Does Consulting Do? www.nber.org - 60 comments 79 points
- Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car electrek.co - 96 comments 77 points
- Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% - 2022 www.embrapa.br - 46 comments 77 points
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