Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-19
- Anna’s Archive: An Update from the Team annas-archive.org - 398 comments 881 points
- Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com - 214 comments 603 points
- Obsidian Bases help.obsidian.md - 129 comments 450 points
- Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust github.com - 107 comments 341 points
- FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons github.com - 101 comments 340 points
- Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room www.nytimes.com - 240 comments 317 points
- T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree arstechnica.com - 74 comments 310 points
- Left to Right Programming graic.net - 220 comments 269 points
- Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery medicalxpress.com - 95 comments 228 points
- Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers www.fractionaljobs.io - 102 comments 214 points
- GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire www.theregister.com - 105 comments 202 points
- MCP doesn’t need tools, it needs code lucumr.pocoo.org - 124 comments 201 points
- Vibe coding tips and tricks github.com - 88 comments 194 points
- OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com - 41 comments 190 points
- LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare garymarcus.substack.com - 89 comments 184 points
- Who Invented Backpropagation? people.idsia.ch - 99 comments 181 points
- Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims apnews.com - 213 comments 171 points
- Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes divernet.com - 64 comments 163 points
- 95% of AI Pilots Failing fortune.com - 140 comments 160 points
- AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers www.axios.com - 209 comments 158 points
- When you’re asking AI chatbots for answers, they’re data-mining you www.theregister.com - 76 comments 157 points
- Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations www.npr.org - 44 comments 141 points
- Shamelessness as a strategy - 2019 nadia.xyz - 79 comments 139 points
- Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis www.utilitydive.com - 136 comments 138 points
- My Retro TVs www.myretrotvs.com - 22 comments 134 points
- Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit - TPU, inspired by Google’s TPU github.com - 2 comments 132 points
- Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad vim.gabornyeki.com - 21 comments 131 points
- Lab-grown salmon hits the menu www.smithsonianmag.com - 196 comments 129 points
- What could have been coppolaemilio.com - 112 comments 129 points
- The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed www.strongtowns.org - 141 comments 118 points
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