Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-21
- Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization visualrambling.space - 122 comments 717 points
- Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? news.ycombinator.com - 230 comments 500 points
- Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com - 259 comments 458 points
- Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com - 428 comments 413 points
- Pixel 10 Phones blog.google - 756 comments 386 points
- Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev - 218 comments 355 points
- Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering github.com - 51 comments 348 points
- AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that’s now wrong www.lastweekinaws.com - 204 comments 313 points
- Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix tidewave.ai - 52 comments 278 points
- Code review can be better tigerbeetle.com - 95 comments 204 points
- Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero www.mindflash.org - 102 comments 182 points
- Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology - 1986 www.rudyrucker.com - 86 comments 163 points
- An Update on Pytype github.com - 55 comments 163 points
- Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation www.databricks.com - 181 comments 160 points
- Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP browser-use.com - 107 comments 160 points
- Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code github.com - 100 comments 157 points
- Introduction to AT Protocol mackuba.eu - 79 comments 154 points
- OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple blog.openpolicyagent.org - 42 comments 123 points
- Digg.com is back www.digg.com - 175 comments 110 points
- Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python github.com - 21 comments 110 points
- Launch HN: Channel3 - YC S25 – A database of every product on the internet news.ycombinator.com - 63 comments 109 points
- Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler github.com - 50 comments 105 points
- Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash www.latimes.com - 92 comments 103 points
- Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover imperialcollegelondon.github.io - 71 comments 100 points
- How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method www.yacinemahdid.com - 58 comments 100 points
- A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes www.statsignificant.com - 38 comments 95 points
- Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine tarides.com - 18 comments 93 points
- Home Depot sued for ‘secretly’ using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com - 79 comments 88 points
- Phone searches at the US border hit a record high www.wired.com - 120 comments 84 points
- Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain - 2010 www.jakepoz.com - 36 comments 77 points
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