Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-16
- Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? www.josefprusa.com - 374 comments 609 points
- Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library www.openculture.com - 114 comments 290 points
- The beauty of a text only webpage albanbrooke.com - 162 comments 250 points
- Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account edka.io - 77 comments 243 points
- Do Things That Don’t Scale - 2013 paulgraham.com - 78 comments 229 points
- UK government states that ‘safety’ act is about influence over public discourse bsky.app - 273 comments 195 points
- Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org - 207 comments 183 points
- Fairness is what the powerful ‘can get away with’ study shows phys.org - 51 comments 180 points
- The electric fence stopped working years ago soonly.com - 81 comments 168 points
- Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects www.freewheeling.info - 144 comments 153 points
- White House loyalty rating for companies www.axios.com - 169 comments 148 points
- Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem blog.foletta.net - 58 comments 146 points
- Imagen 4 is now generally available developers.googleblog.com - 55 comments 144 points
- The Timmy Trap jenson.org - 126 comments 139 points
- Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect github.com - 76 comments 138 points
- Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations www.anthropic.com - 163 comments 128 points
- ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes www.bmj.com - 165 comments 120 points
- Steam can’t escape the fallout from its censorship controversy www.polygon.com - 141 comments 118 points
- Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org - 128 comments 117 points
- It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges social.anoxinon.de - 108 comments 105 points
- Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report www.theguardian.com - 13 comments 99 points
- With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear phys.org - 70 comments 96 points
- The Folk Economics of Housing www.aeaweb.org - 214 comments 93 points
- OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself flak.tedunangst.com - 66 comments 91 points
- Using AI to secure AI mattsayar.com - 26 comments 91 points
- When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun wisewolfmedia.substack.com - 42 comments 89 points
- The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over fortune.com - 106 comments 87 points
- US F-16s lose out as Thai Air Force seals US$600M deal for Swedish Gripen jets www.scmp.com - 80 comments 87 points
- AI-induced dehumanization - 2024 myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com - 76 comments 85 points
- Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power www.theregister.com - 24 comments 81 points
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